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The game is officially over! Harold Camping has released a statement claiming the October 21st date as the actual date. The correct option was #3! I am afraid that nobody wins.

I tried to access the FamilyRadio website and it won't open. I don't know if it's the site or my computer but i'm pretty sure it's the site because everything else works fine. However, their live stream is still up but I can't hear a word they're saying.

Okay, let's play a little game where we try and PREDICT HAROLD CAMPING'S EXCUSE! Here are some options that one could take: 1. First option: Don't be quick to joke about this! It is still May 21st in some parts of the world and the rapture will occur and nobody will be laughing once all of...

Craig's 8 minute rebuttal was sufficiently retarded so as to make me stop wanting to watch the debate. All of the things he hastily labelled as "irrelevant" were in fact *incredibly* relevant. His response to the accusation of semantic gymnastics is a silly joke. His 5 minute rebuttal was...

Re: Atheists that hate homosexuals (a very peculiar phenomen I'm seeing a surprising amount of support here for my "closet-theist" conjecture (i.e the "atheist" who later attended Brigham Young). I should monitor them a little to see how many of them are still professing themselves "atheist"...

At my school there are very few atheists. I live in a relatively religious conservative area, and as a result almost everybody cringes at homosexuality. However, I found it disconcerting that this is true of *atheists* just as much and possibly more than it is true of the hardcore...

Your first question is actually a pretty good one. When talking about anarchistic theories, one should first and foremost know the difference between a general conglomeration of humans (such as a commune or firm or any other human run groups) and a state. A state is not the general term for a...

Wait... I am still trying to decipher whether Aught's response to this question makes any sense. Is he REALLY asking for an example of a tax that is violently enforced? I don't think that Aught gets the gist of what is meant by violently enforced. It doesn't mean that law enforcement is sent...

Faulty analogies and misunderstandings abound in Hytegia's most recent post: You see, in order to make an analogy as drastic as the lopsided relationship between young earth creationism and actual science, then you are going to have to qualify it with more detail. I disagree with the analogy...

More on this "Faux News" nonsense? If you think a news station spouts silly bullshit, then don't watch it. First of all, everybody on these boards already knows that Fox is thoroughly unimpressive as an objective, rational piece of news media. Second, as bad as Fox is, almost all other news...

Commander Eagle, now that I've heard you qualify your views with precision, I do realized I have committed the strawman fallacy in a few of the areas of discussion, but not in the way you would think. Let's go through your statements and responses to them more precisely. The first statement...

Wait... so... what... WHAT!?? So the thread was supposed to be a... joke? ???????????

I'm sorry I got so angry during my last post (although I still agree with all of it's content), and I understand (as well as hold) the "thunderf00t-esque" attitude toward the blinding light of scientific discovery and it's positive effect towards the world. However, FORCED knowledge is not...

I am extremely skeptical of the notion of ownership rights when it comes to data. Can anybody supply a cogent argument that: 1) Justifies the notion of intellectual property rights or 2) Demonstrates that piracy is similar in any way to theft (or, if not "similar", just as "bad"?)

1) No, I didn't make the Courtier's Reply. I pointed out a genuinely fallacious assertion ("Anarchy implies that people are allowed to do whatever they want!") I did not, however, take this deduction (lack of reading) and then utilize it to justify the dismissal of his ideas. That, not what I...

I cannot tell if Yfelsung is actually serious or not. I hope not. Yfelsung is a moralizing fascist who is dangerously authoritarian. HIs prospects of genetic engineering are absolutely absurd and guided by his insane preferences for an "archetypal" perfect human. Forcing people to learn...

I have been thinking of this sort of thing as well. It would seem that moral relativism is not possible to realize as an everyday application (as it is simply not possible for humans not make absolute judgements about things). Rather, moral relativism seems to me like a descriptive theory...

Mine is a little bit different with the economics. I don't believe that I am far enough downward for anti-authoritarianism.

For some contrasting views, I would recommend the following books: -The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins which is slightly opposed by: -The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould The latter is over 1300 pages of material and is an incredibly detailed analysis of the modern...

It says in the article that the predictions were obtained via a particular unification called the "ADD" model. Is string theory in general different from this model or are the predictions in this area uniform throughout all variants of string theory?