February 2012
135 posts
The perfect wine glass
relright:
sharapwna:
I accept
“All who doubted or denied would be lost. To live a moral and
honest life...”
– Robert Ingersoll
I realized that I eat like a hobbit
I usually have breakfast before 6AM
Then I have second breakfast at 9AM
Then lunch around 2PM
Then dinner around 5PM
Small snacks possibly throughout the day.
It baffles me how liberals really think using the...
entitledwhitegayboy:
“But the poor!”
“Dying in the streets!”
“Nobody can afford health care!”
“I DESERVE TO HAVE A JOB!!!!!”
You can say this over and over and over as much as you want, but it’s still going to make an invalid and not sound argument. A fallacy is a fallacy.
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Random Thoughts on Original Sin and Creationism
I’m sure everyone has a basic idea of what Original Sin is, but if you don’t, here’s a quick overview: Way back at the beginning of the world, life, and everything Adam (the first man) was young, dumb, and full of cum. He didn’t have any friends other than the animals and God, so God knocked him out, took out one of his ribs, and made a woman….pretty much to be his “helper”. Take that...
“Or is it your reputation that’s bothering you? But look at how soon we’re all...”
– Marcus Aurelius (via totallydarius)
My boyfriend
Has all of our books and some of our kitchen stuff moved into our new house. I want to leave right now with all my things, but I won’t be leaving this gods-forsaken city until Monday. Worst. Wait. Ever.
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joeheywood asked: Hey so what did you give up for Lent?
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Shit
I just agreed to go to church with my grandmaw this Sunday. I’m not even sure how she got me to agree to this. Well played, Mawmaw. Well played.
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We All Make Assumptions Part 2
doubtingmarcus:
*Part 1 - an explanation of my epistemology
Is there a real difference between the assumptions made by atheists like myself and Christians who accept Van Tillian presuppositionalism? One might argue that ultimately all epistemologies have to start with some assumptions so one is just as circular as another. This, I believe, could hardly be more incorrect. Suppose I begin my...
“You may believe through faith [a] completely beneficial thing but if it’s no...”
– JT Eberhard - on the problem of justifying beliefs through faith (via doubtingmarcus)
Watchanarchei:
The Philosophy Of Liberty: Legal Plunder
Link: The Philosophy Of Liberty: Property
I don’t completely agree with this video but it is a useful stepping-stone in the right direction for people unacquainted with the ideas it discusses. There is a contradiction in stating that government must protect property rights while at the same time criticising the government for stealing money...
Watchanarchei:
The Philosophy Of Liberty: Property
Link: The Philosophy Of Liberty: Legal Plunder
I don’t completely agree with this video but it is a useful stepping-stone in the right direction for people unacquainted with the ideas it discusses.
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God Exists, Therefore God Exists: Van Tillian...
doubtingmarcus:
No matter how absurd the title sounds this is the fundamental claim of Van Tillian Christian presuppositional apologetics. Presuppositionalists first presume the existence of God and the truth of scripture as their epistemology. Then they claim that Christianity, by necessity of its god, is the only possible standard for truth as man does not possess ‘autonomous intellectual...
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We All Make Assumptions Part 1
doubtingmarcus:
How do we know what’s real? What counts as evidence? Philosophers have been asking these questions for thousands of years and since none were available I’ve been asked to explain how I answer these questions. There are certain assumptions that underlie my epistemology, as they are with all epistemologies, but I was particularly asked how mine differ or are less circular than the...
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Propounding Intellectual Dalliances: Last entry in... →
ponderanew:
To say that justice is served ‘in eternity’ is unverifiable and, therefore, dismissed.
That’s part of my definition of what it means for God to be just. If you think another definition of God’s justice is superior, I’d like to hear an argument for that. Even if justice has to be served in time…
Evidence and reason are the most objective ways of determining truth. Faith is...
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“Or let’s take another possibility. Suppose a new prophet arises who claims a...”
– Carl Sagan discussing the implausibility of religious belief in The God Hypothesis. Belief without evidence is useless at best, and scary at it’s worst. (via chrisgiveblood)
Yet more blog debate! →
To say that justice is served ‘in eternity’ is unverifiable and, therefore, dismissed.
According to the Wiki you linked to, Jesus gave up the divine attributes to become human. This would make him decidedly not-divine. Or at most semi-divine or the progeny of a deity. This brings up the question of polytheism. One cannot maintain that Jesus is fully divine and fully human, as you...
coworker
Coworker: You believe in evolution?
Me: It's scientific fact. My beliefs about it are irrelevant.
Coworker: Oh, so you're a Scientologist then?
Me: No....
Coworker: Scientologists believe in all that evolution stuff.
Me: .....
“Libertarianism is ‘cultish,’ say the sophisticates. Of course, there’s nothing...”
– Tom Woods (via laliberty)
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“”He can be a hustla fo all I care, as long as he a go-getter. I...”
– The actual word for word conversation that my neighbor is very loudly having outside right now.
themusingstranger:
The Church has always enjoyed a privilege others and other institutions lack. When one looks back at the mass and systemic rape of children, and the seemingly non-existent quest for justice by the state on behalf of victims, one is reminded of just how privileged its princes and men of the cloth truly are.