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	<description>Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal</description>
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		<title>Comment on In which I master German by Gnumann</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gnumann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;What would you eat with bread that would clash with fennel or caraway?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

It&#039;s more the every day part. I&#039;m Scandinavian, we eat bread with basically everything that&#039;s not accompanied by potatoes (and most things that&#039;s accompanied by potatoes). And I got a twice-a-week policy towards caraway (and one dose has to be reserved in case of aquavit)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>What would you eat with bread that would clash with fennel or caraway?</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s more the every day part. I&#8217;m Scandinavian, we eat bread with basically everything that&#8217;s not accompanied by potatoes (and most things that&#8217;s accompanied by potatoes). And I got a twice-a-week policy towards caraway (and one dose has to be reserved in case of aquavit)</p>
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		<title>Comment on There is no blacklist by Jen</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/24/there-is-no-blacklist/comment-page-1/#comment-344024</link>
		<dc:creator>Jen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, I don&#039;t really appreciate it when the first thing I read in the morning is insinuations about how I&#039;m cruising through grad school based off my looks (is that supposed to mean  I&#039;m getting special treatment, or I&#039;m sleeping with profs, or what?) when I&#039;m about to spend my day working my fucking ass off in preparation for my qualifying exam.

Anyway, thanks you guys. You keep me sane. Been chuckling at the various comments about how I&#039;m simultaneously too pretty for work and too ugly to be sexually assaulted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, I don&#8217;t really appreciate it when the first thing I read in the morning is insinuations about how I&#8217;m cruising through grad school based off my looks (is that supposed to mean  I&#8217;m getting special treatment, or I&#8217;m sleeping with profs, or what?) when I&#8217;m about to spend my day working my fucking ass off in preparation for my qualifying exam.</p>
<p>Anyway, thanks you guys. You keep me sane. Been chuckling at the various comments about how I&#8217;m simultaneously too pretty for work and too ugly to be sexually assaulted.</p>
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		<title>Comment on A little light entertainment by consciousness razor</title>
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		<dc:creator>consciousness razor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;… something mentally handicapped people do. Stop being retarded.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

This sort of shit is not acceptable. Go fuck yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>… something mentally handicapped people do. Stop being retarded.</p></blockquote>
<p>This sort of shit is not acceptable. Go fuck yourself.</p>
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		<title>Comment on A little light entertainment by Janine: History’s Greatest Monster</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/21/a-little-light-entertainment/comment-page-1/#comment-344022</link>
		<dc:creator>Janine: History’s Greatest Monster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote cite=&quot;creationist&quot;&gt;I have the proof of it, and im laughing at you since youre so adamant to dismiss this stuff since i wont give you evidence.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Dew, you are truly one of the most fucking self deluded jackasses to have taken a shit in the middle of this blog.

And fucking stop using &quot;retarded&quot; as as insult.

In fact, delete this blog from your memory.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote cite="creationist"><p>I have the proof of it, and im laughing at you since youre so adamant to dismiss this stuff since i wont give you evidence.</p></blockquote>
<p>Dew, you are truly one of the most fucking self deluded jackasses to have taken a shit in the middle of this blog.</p>
<p>And fucking stop using &#8220;retarded&#8221; as as insult.</p>
<p>In fact, delete this blog from your memory.</p>
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		<title>Comment on There is no blacklist by nooneinparticular</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/24/there-is-no-blacklist/comment-page-1/#comment-344021</link>
		<dc:creator>nooneinparticular</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>KG @130 

*massive eyeroll* ....there are no words that can adequately describe the idiocy of that statement. The only thing I can figure is that there weren&#039;t any chew toys nearby and you decided to see if you could provoke a response.

Ooops. I guess it worked. Oh well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>KG @130 </p>
<p>*massive eyeroll* &#8230;.there are no words that can adequately describe the idiocy of that statement. The only thing I can figure is that there weren&#8217;t any chew toys nearby and you decided to see if you could provoke a response.</p>
<p>Ooops. I guess it worked. Oh well.</p>
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		<title>Comment on There is no blacklist by Beatrice, anormalement indécente</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/24/there-is-no-blacklist/comment-page-1/#comment-344020</link>
		<dc:creator>Beatrice, anormalement indécente</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>*sniffs #183*

Is that the smell of dirty socks?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*sniffs #183*</p>
<p>Is that the smell of dirty socks?</p>
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		<title>Comment on Why I am an atheist &#8211; Tim &#8220;Santiago&#8221; Converse by stonyground</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/24/why-i-am-an-atheist-tim-santiago-converse/comment-page-1/#comment-344019</link>
		<dc:creator>stonyground</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Magic tricks are helpful for raising sceptical children. When my daughter was small I taught her some simple magic tricks that I found on the internet, ones that needed very little actual skill. First I amused her by doing the tricks for her, then I taught her how to do them and she went on to perform them for her grandparents. Great fun and educational too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Magic tricks are helpful for raising sceptical children. When my daughter was small I taught her some simple magic tricks that I found on the internet, ones that needed very little actual skill. First I amused her by doing the tricks for her, then I taught her how to do them and she went on to perform them for her grandparents. Great fun and educational too.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Episode CCCXXIX: Centered by Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/22/episode-cccxxix-centered/comment-page-1/#comment-344018</link>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Lorraine, Chaton de la Mort</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Louis:

I have to keep my boobs in a case that&#039;s how dangerous they are! (also the case is designed to hold them and keep them from getting damaged...)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Louis:</p>
<p>I have to keep my boobs in a case that&#8217;s how dangerous they are! (also the case is designed to hold them and keep them from getting damaged&#8230;)</p>
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		<title>Comment on Episode CCCXXIX: Centered by Pteryxx</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/22/episode-cccxxix-centered/comment-page-1/#comment-344017</link>
		<dc:creator>Pteryxx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...We have a *booze* emote?  WHY WASN&#039;T I NOTIFIED

Crip Dyke, acres and acres of glitter-toga&#039;d conga rats, with fireworks doubled in the reflecting pool!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;We have a *booze* emote?  WHY WASN&#8217;T I NOTIFIED</p>
<p>Crip Dyke, acres and acres of glitter-toga&#8217;d conga rats, with fireworks doubled in the reflecting pool!</p>
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		<title>Comment on Episode CCCXXIX: Centered by Beatrice, anormalement indécente</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/22/episode-cccxxix-centered/comment-page-1/#comment-344016</link>
		<dc:creator>Beatrice, anormalement indécente</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I saw a news story awhile back about some religious-thug group that has issued a statement to the effect that women should not wear bras, because it makes their breasts more noticeable.&lt;/blockquote&gt;Huh, I thought nipples were the Source of All Evil and any glimpse of their shape through a shirt will turn men into wild beasts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I saw a news story awhile back about some religious-thug group that has issued a statement to the effect that women should not wear bras, because it makes their breasts more noticeable.</p></blockquote>
<p>Huh, I thought nipples were the Source of All Evil and any glimpse of their shape through a shirt will turn men into wild beasts.</p>
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		<title>Comment on The great renovation by life is like a pitbull with lipstick ॐ</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/21/the-great-renovation/comment-page-2/#comment-344015</link>
		<dc:creator>life is like a pitbull with lipstick ॐ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you would please address it, I think it would help me understand what you&#039;re saying.

The impression I&#039;m getting is that you do believe people should be mocked specifically for hearing voices --- although not for “having schizophrenia” or “being psychotic” --- that somehow mocking people for hearing voices would help make the world a better place.

This surprises me, but I can find no other clear reading of what you&#039;ve said. 

If you just clarify that you think it is unkind to mock people for hearing voices, and doing so would not make the world a better place, I would be happy to --- indeed I am obviously eager --- to resolve my cognitive dissonance by figuring that anything you said which &lt;i&gt;seemed&lt;/i&gt; to encourage such mockery must just not have been meant that way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you would please address it, I think it would help me understand what you&#8217;re saying.</p>
<p>The impression I&#8217;m getting is that you do believe people should be mocked specifically for hearing voices &#8212; although not for “having schizophrenia” or “being psychotic” &#8212; that somehow mocking people for hearing voices would help make the world a better place.</p>
<p>This surprises me, but I can find no other clear reading of what you&#8217;ve said. </p>
<p>If you just clarify that you think it is unkind to mock people for hearing voices, and doing so would not make the world a better place, I would be happy to &#8212; indeed I am obviously eager &#8212; to resolve my cognitive dissonance by figuring that anything you said which <i>seemed</i> to encourage such mockery must just not have been meant that way.</p>
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		<title>Comment on A little light entertainment by erodinbladewin</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/21/a-little-light-entertainment/comment-page-1/#comment-344014</link>
		<dc:creator>erodinbladewin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Redhead, your version of &quot;science&quot; is a joke. Expecting evidence is one thing, but completely dismissing a claim because theres no evidence to support it is ... wait ... something mentally handicapped people do. Stop being retarded. 

Your version of science says theres no such thing as precognition, yet ive done it so many times for situations ranging to mundane to complex. I have the proof of it, and im laughing at you since youre so adamant to dismiss this stuff since i wont give you evidence. This is funny. Stop being an assumptive ass and you might get somewhere with me. You want evidence, i told you how to act.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Redhead, your version of &#8220;science&#8221; is a joke. Expecting evidence is one thing, but completely dismissing a claim because theres no evidence to support it is &#8230; wait &#8230; something mentally handicapped people do. Stop being retarded. </p>
<p>Your version of science says theres no such thing as precognition, yet ive done it so many times for situations ranging to mundane to complex. I have the proof of it, and im laughing at you since youre so adamant to dismiss this stuff since i wont give you evidence. This is funny. Stop being an assumptive ass and you might get somewhere with me. You want evidence, i told you how to act.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Do we have to read the Bible? by myeck waters</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/22/do-we-have-to-read-the-bible/comment-page-1/#comment-344013</link>
		<dc:creator>myeck waters</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry, Christopher, but you&#039;re not using Raymond&#039;s &lt;i&gt;Sophistimicated Math&lt;/i&gt;™, which proves that his &quot;faith&quot; in a deity - for which there is not one iota of evidence that it even exists, let alone is good for anything - is exactly like the &quot;faith&quot; we show when we have confidence in a class of machines which have compiled a long and impressive safety record.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, Christopher, but you&#8217;re not using Raymond&#8217;s <i>Sophistimicated Math</i>™, which proves that his &#8220;faith&#8221; in a deity &#8211; for which there is not one iota of evidence that it even exists, let alone is good for anything &#8211; is exactly like the &#8220;faith&#8221; we show when we have confidence in a class of machines which have compiled a long and impressive safety record.</p>
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		<title>Comment on A little light entertainment by Janine: History’s Greatest Monster</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/21/a-little-light-entertainment/comment-page-1/#comment-344012</link>
		<dc:creator>Janine: History’s Greatest Monster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bliss ninny, please note that I have shortened your moniker to &quot;dew&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bliss ninny, please note that I have shortened your moniker to &#8220;dew&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Comment on There is no blacklist by Janine: History’s Greatest Monster</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/24/there-is-no-blacklist/comment-page-1/#comment-344011</link>
		<dc:creator>Janine: History’s Greatest Monster</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Louis, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jmnspyj-eY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;you made me link to the story of Doug and Dinsdale Piranha.&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evj24bXakqg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Part Two&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Louis, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jmnspyj-eY" rel="nofollow">you made me link to the story of Doug and Dinsdale Piranha.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evj24bXakqg" rel="nofollow">Part Two</a></p>
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		<title>Comment on There is no blacklist by ab</title>
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		<dc:creator>ab</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, this post seems both bullying and ironic.  It seems doubly so that PZ has started to lay down the ban hammer on someone dissenting.

Yeah, I know, here come the &quot;lying sack of shit&quot; and &quot;fuckwit&quot; comments.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, this post seems both bullying and ironic.  It seems doubly so that PZ has started to lay down the ban hammer on someone dissenting.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know, here come the &#8220;lying sack of shit&#8221; and &#8220;fuckwit&#8221; comments.</p>
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		<title>Comment on A little light entertainment by Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls</title>
		<link>http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/05/21/a-little-light-entertainment/comment-page-1/#comment-344009</link>
		<dc:creator>Nerd of Redhead, Dances OM Trolls</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt; why have i proven this to others?&lt;/blockquote&gt;Unevidenced assertion, *POOF* dismissed as bullshit.  You must provide third party evidence to back up every claim you make, or you continue lying and bullshitting...Welcome to real science, done by real scientists and skeptics...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p> why have i proven this to others?</p></blockquote>
<p>Unevidenced assertion, *POOF* dismissed as bullshit.  You must provide third party evidence to back up every claim you make, or you continue lying and bullshitting&#8230;Welcome to real science, done by real scientists and skeptics&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Comment on A little light entertainment by erodinbladewin</title>
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		<dc:creator>erodinbladewin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Apparently you missed the part where i shortened the name to Redhead. i havent even attempted to discern any believed differences in identities of the users here.

There is no disporving my claims, because they are true. Im sorry your &quot;science&quot; says you cant think like a mature adult, but you have to adopt a &quot;mine mine MINE&quot; attitude when it comes to what is acceptable and not acceptable to consider. Listen, you dont run shit, you dont dictate shit, get off your high horses. The scientific method was made to rule out bias and eliminate as many errors inexperiments as they could. It wasnt mean to turn people into assholes. If any of you are in fact scientists, you disgrace your fields with your poor attitudes, and completely misunderstanding the scientific method.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Apparently you missed the part where i shortened the name to Redhead. i havent even attempted to discern any believed differences in identities of the users here.</p>
<p>There is no disporving my claims, because they are true. Im sorry your &#8220;science&#8221; says you cant think like a mature adult, but you have to adopt a &#8220;mine mine MINE&#8221; attitude when it comes to what is acceptable and not acceptable to consider. Listen, you dont run shit, you dont dictate shit, get off your high horses. The scientific method was made to rule out bias and eliminate as many errors inexperiments as they could. It wasnt mean to turn people into assholes. If any of you are in fact scientists, you disgrace your fields with your poor attitudes, and completely misunderstanding the scientific method.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Episode CCCXXIX: Centered by cicely. Just cicely.</title>
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		<dc:creator>cicely. Just cicely.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi, sometimes quirky; welcome in.  I think you&#039;ll find that restraint is in short supply, hereabouts.

(Except by mutual consent.)
;)
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&lt;blockquote&gt;Also, if you need a windshield wiper and suddenly don’t have one, that is also bad (visibility).&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;i&gt;That&#039;s&lt;/i&gt; certainly true; and having &lt;i&gt;both&lt;/i&gt; fly off while driving the interstate during a Vertical Torrential Downpour is even &lt;i&gt;more&lt;/i&gt; fun!

For semi-suicidal definitions of &quot;fun&quot;.
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Crip Dyke, congrats! &lt;i&gt;*booze*&lt;/i&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi, sometimes quirky; welcome in.  I think you&#8217;ll find that restraint is in short supply, hereabouts.</p>
<p>(Except by mutual consent.)<br />
;)<br />
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<blockquote><p>Also, if you need a windshield wiper and suddenly don’t have one, that is also bad (visibility).</p></blockquote>
<p><i>That&#8217;s</i> certainly true; and having <i>both</i> fly off while driving the interstate during a Vertical Torrential Downpour is even <i>more</i> fun!</p>
<p>For semi-suicidal definitions of &#8220;fun&#8221;.<br />
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Crip Dyke, congrats! <i>*booze*</i><br />
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		<title>Comment on Episode CCCXXIX: Centered by opposablethumbs</title>
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		<dc:creator>opposablethumbs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ms Daisy Cutter, Chemistry Cat is perfect, thanks!</description>
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		<title>Comment on The great renovation by Pierce R. Butler</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pierce R. Butler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>life ... @ # (5)11 &amp; Esteleth ... @ # (5)12 - thanks for the clue: otherwise I&#039;d&#039;ve wandered around all day without one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>life &#8230; @ # (5)11 &amp; Esteleth &#8230; @ # (5)12 &#8211; thanks for the clue: otherwise I&#8217;d've wandered around all day without one.</p>
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		<title>Comment on There is no blacklist by Louis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Louis</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brownian, #179,

Understandable. I have many similar incidents to relate. However I shall remain humble and merely provide &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_call&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; as context for people not familiar with the great sport of Rugby Union and it&#039;s attitude of cheery violence.

Louis</description>
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<p>Understandable. I have many similar incidents to relate. However I shall remain humble and merely provide <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_call" rel="nofollow">this</a> as context for people not familiar with the great sport of Rugby Union and it&#8217;s attitude of cheery violence.</p>
<p>Louis</p>
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		<title>Comment on A little light entertainment by consciousness razor</title>
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		<dc:creator>consciousness razor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Redhead, if im lying and bullshitting, why have i proven this to others?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

It could be that they&#039;re credulous idiots just like you, who fall for lying and bullshitting.

&lt;blockquote&gt;You want evidence of my reasoning for not proving my abilities to some people, but doing so with others? Why dont you go to MYTK and ask them about my requirements to get evidence from me. Then ask the people in my IM lists what ive proven to them.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Why do I need to slog through some website full of cranks to search for &lt;i&gt;your&lt;/i&gt; evidence? Just give it to us, if you can do that, O powerful one. Or get some of your buddies to comment here and give their testimonials. If they give a fuck about you and believe any of your nonsense, they might be willing to do that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Redhead, if im lying and bullshitting, why have i proven this to others?</p></blockquote>
<p>It could be that they&#8217;re credulous idiots just like you, who fall for lying and bullshitting.</p>
<blockquote><p>You want evidence of my reasoning for not proving my abilities to some people, but doing so with others? Why dont you go to MYTK and ask them about my requirements to get evidence from me. Then ask the people in my IM lists what ive proven to them.</p></blockquote>
<p>Why do I need to slog through some website full of cranks to search for <i>your</i> evidence? Just give it to us, if you can do that, O powerful one. Or get some of your buddies to comment here and give their testimonials. If they give a fuck about you and believe any of your nonsense, they might be willing to do that.</p>
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		<title>Comment on A little light entertainment by Gnumann</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gnumann</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;24 May 2012 at 12:22 pm

My last comment here, since you “inevitables” dont know what the words “correct” and “inevitable” mean.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;24 May 2012 at 12:34 pm

Alright, for the purpose of giving you all a shot at learning, ill reply once more.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Twelve minutes? That has to be a new record! (and a bonus re-lapse of only 14 to follow).</description>
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<p>My last comment here, since you “inevitables” dont know what the words “correct” and “inevitable” mean.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>24 May 2012 at 12:34 pm</p>
<p>Alright, for the purpose of giving you all a shot at learning, ill reply once more.</p></blockquote>
<p>Twelve minutes? That has to be a new record! (and a bonus re-lapse of only 14 to follow).</p>
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		<title>Comment on Why I am an atheist &#8211; Jacob Davis by Jamie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jamie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I love seeing atheism make such a visible positive impact. I&#039;m glad you&#039;re godless and happy. Being godless didn&#039;t have such a huge effect on me, and I&#039;ve never had the experience of having to justify my belief. Though that might be because I live in a (comparatively) hyper liberal/progressive part of the U.S. where most people don&#039;t care if you&#039;re atheist/Christian/Buddhist/Muslim. (If you&#039;re interested, it&#039;s the SF Bay Area in California.)

@antigodless: So how do you tell the difference between &quot;no&quot; and a really long &quot;wait.&quot; It seems like Christians always assume that the answer is &quot;yes&quot; or &quot;wait.&quot; (Here&#039;s a video on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ILZAaAMI) What&#039;s the difference between &quot;no&quot;/&quot;wait&quot; and no answer? If god is unknowable, why do you assume that he will provide an answer?  If there&#039;s no answer, how does one know what to do? 

It seems that Jacob didn&#039;t lose belief because he didn&#039;t get what he wanted, but because there was no evidence that prayer was being answered. With you and your child, your child gets a definite &quot;no&quot; answer, while the answer Jacob received was nothing. 

And it&#039;s not like atheists &quot;wish away&quot; gods. It&#039;s more like we accept the idea that nothing&#039;s there. I personally don&#039;t hate nonexistent entities. But isn&#039;t it funny how the ability of a god to answer prayer is related to the abilities of humans? Doesn&#039;t sound very omnipotent to me. Sound more like people doing things for themselves and each other. 

If gods exist, our disbelief must not be an offence worth punishing. Or if you believe in an afterlife, then I guess you think we&#039;ll be punished after we die. But if your child said to you, &quot;I don&#039;t believe in you,&quot; after you rejected her request, would you then subject her to a life of torture? Because that&#039;s what you believe your god would do. Is that fair or does it even make sense? Why does your god care more about our belief in him *more* than how we behave ourselves?

I&#039;ve had neutral to positive personal experiences with Christians/Christianity, but good feelings have no bearing on whether something is true or not. It just takes one lie to unravel something that is considered The Truth (TM). If we&#039;re told that there&#039;s a god that loves everyone and metes out justice, and we see suffering and injustice in the world, it kinda invalidates that claim. It seems to me that those negative experiences with religion in childhood shocks the person into opening their eyes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love seeing atheism make such a visible positive impact. I&#8217;m glad you&#8217;re godless and happy. Being godless didn&#8217;t have such a huge effect on me, and I&#8217;ve never had the experience of having to justify my belief. Though that might be because I live in a (comparatively) hyper liberal/progressive part of the U.S. where most people don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re atheist/Christian/Buddhist/Muslim. (If you&#8217;re interested, it&#8217;s the SF Bay Area in California.)</p>
<p>@antigodless: So how do you tell the difference between &#8220;no&#8221; and a really long &#8220;wait.&#8221; It seems like Christians always assume that the answer is &#8220;yes&#8221; or &#8220;wait.&#8221; (Here&#8217;s a video on it: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ILZAaAMI" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jk6ILZAaAMI</a>) What&#8217;s the difference between &#8220;no&#8221;/&#8221;wait&#8221; and no answer? If god is unknowable, why do you assume that he will provide an answer?  If there&#8217;s no answer, how does one know what to do? </p>
<p>It seems that Jacob didn&#8217;t lose belief because he didn&#8217;t get what he wanted, but because there was no evidence that prayer was being answered. With you and your child, your child gets a definite &#8220;no&#8221; answer, while the answer Jacob received was nothing. </p>
<p>And it&#8217;s not like atheists &#8220;wish away&#8221; gods. It&#8217;s more like we accept the idea that nothing&#8217;s there. I personally don&#8217;t hate nonexistent entities. But isn&#8217;t it funny how the ability of a god to answer prayer is related to the abilities of humans? Doesn&#8217;t sound very omnipotent to me. Sound more like people doing things for themselves and each other. </p>
<p>If gods exist, our disbelief must not be an offence worth punishing. Or if you believe in an afterlife, then I guess you think we&#8217;ll be punished after we die. But if your child said to you, &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe in you,&#8221; after you rejected her request, would you then subject her to a life of torture? Because that&#8217;s what you believe your god would do. Is that fair or does it even make sense? Why does your god care more about our belief in him *more* than how we behave ourselves?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve had neutral to positive personal experiences with Christians/Christianity, but good feelings have no bearing on whether something is true or not. It just takes one lie to unravel something that is considered The Truth (TM). If we&#8217;re told that there&#8217;s a god that loves everyone and metes out justice, and we see suffering and injustice in the world, it kinda invalidates that claim. It seems to me that those negative experiences with religion in childhood shocks the person into opening their eyes.</p>
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