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- Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: Dear ajax, For your reading pleasure. Or not.
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4840
Re: Dear ajax, For your reading pleasure. Or not.
Can you tell me exactly what Hunter, Jim, and all the Bidens were giving CCP, Romania, Ukraine, and others in exchange for the millions upon millions of dollars they were paid? All the Bidens? Silly Russian dupe. You may feel like addressing ajax in that manner, but I suggest it may be better to st...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:03 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Science is wrong sometimes, therefore anything is possible
- Replies: 31
- Views: 2293
Re: Science is wrong sometimes, therefore anything is possible
Harris is right that the switching from one kind of answer to another has all been in from religion to science. He is wrong, though, if he argues that religious answers are all bound to be inferior to scientific ones, just because the switches from one kind of answer to the other have all been in t...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 6:18 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: A Billionaire Who Makes Sense
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2264
Re: A Billionaire Who Makes Sense
Yes you definitely have a point. It's not the same thing but this is more along the lines of what I was trying to express about the unintended consequences of taxing the rich or any other form of socialism or nonglobal environmental regulations for that matter. Thanks for playing fair. But rich peo...
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:58 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: A Billionaire Who Makes Sense
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2264
Re: A Billionaire Who Makes Sense
Jeff Bezos' move to Miami shows just how hard it is to tax the rich. But your point was: Investors [in fossil fuel extraction] can just go find oil shale in a different country with lower taxes and cheaper labor. What Bezos owns is shares. Miami has lower taxes so he can just move there, since shar...
- Fri Feb 09, 2024 6:20 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Bushman Delivers Another Devastating Blow
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1345
Re: Bushman Delivers Another Devastating Blow
Honestly, the single most insightful modern interpretation of Mormonism is the Book of Mormon musical. I saw it on Smithmas, and suddenly the brilliance of the whole thing was clear as day. Book of Mormon the musical casts a young missionary in the role of Joseph Smith. He is the one making up stor...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 6:03 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Harris Reputation - Who do you believe?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2017
Re: Harris Reputation - Who do you believe?
But it appears that his wife who knew him best concluded he was easily fooled, and his finances needed to be watched closely. As the South Park version repeatedly put it: "Joseph Smith was called a prophet - (dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb!)" But when it came to Mrs. Harris's (shall we say) skeptical att...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: Harris Reputation - Who do you believe?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2017
Re: Harris Reputation - Who do you believe?
How anyone would believe ... just boggles the mind. The key to all this nonsense taking on a permanent existence is that it lasted long enough to be passed on to the children of the first believers. A religion taught to you by your parents is a much more permanent feature of the mind than a religio...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:16 pm
- Forum: Spirit Paradise
- Topic: A Billionaire Who Makes Sense
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2264
Re: A Billionaire Who Makes Sense
Excuse me? Companies that extract coal, oil and gas from US soil and rocks can leave "and take their wealth with them"? How can they do that? It would be extremely easy to ensure that anybody who extracted fossil fuel resources in the US had to pay tax on what they extracted, wherever their corpora...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:58 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: On being alone
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1852
Re: On being alone
To many atheists, the idea of not existing after death is just as peaceful as not existing before birth. You and I were in oblivion for billions of years. It caused none of us one bit of inconvenience or pain. It’s a natural thing to want the end to dovetail nicely into that beginning. Didn't Mark ...
- Tue Feb 06, 2024 1:28 pm
- Forum: Terrestrial Forum
- Topic: DCP goes all-in on pseudo scientific quackery
- Replies: 60
- Views: 6959
Re: DCP goes all-in on pseudo scientific quackery
He was probably pretty desperate to get off the farm. I think a lot of people were in those days. Most of them sighed and got on with the miserable job, but maybe that was as much because they lacked Smith's talent as because he lacked their virtue. Maybe Smith wasn't really more unscrupulous than ...