nightspirit

I'm not robust, I'm just angr^H^H^H^H victimized by people who try to make me feel bad for their emotional issues.

I try to explain that a) most people have little reason to feel consistently victimized, besides just a bad habit and b) this way of communicating isn't really productive.

"Safe-spaces" are practical application of the principle, accidentally unearthed by xyz-equality movements of the 20th century, that people generally don't like hurting others and hence you can control them by appearing to be hurt, whether you are or not.

People modeling victim behaviors to remove everything that causes them discomfort aren't something to be afraid of, but also their cries for attention aren't something to be treated too seriously. Allowing them to get their way just reinforces further learning of this silly strategy.

This looks like they are actually jettisoning Biblical Creationism and trying to explain the act of "Creation" in terms of evolutionary processes.

I'm under impression that such is also the official stance of the major "mainstream" churches today.

The beauty of Internet flamewars is that half of the people who voted this comment to the top voted out of agreement with the literal interpretation and the other half voted because they read "you missed /s" and took it for sarcastic.

What the original poster intended you never know...

This is what you get following link in the article:

An ICM poll on behalf of the Russian news agency Rossiya Segodnya tested the awareness of the group ISIS (previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant), in three European nations; Great Britain, France and Germany. The poll revealed that overall 2% and 7% say they are very favourable and somewhat favourable towards ISIS but a greater 26% and 43% are somewhat unfavourable and very unfavourable towards ISIS.

Not only they didn't break it down betwene religions, but I'm not even sure how NYT themselves extracted their "1/4 youths support ISIS" claim from this data.

OTOH, have a look at this link originally posted by imaginenore in some other thread:

http://www.pewresearch.org/files/old-assets/pdf/muslim-ameri...

> The fact that the EU’s replacement rate is 1.59 children per couple and the continent needs substantial levels of immigration to maintain a productive workforce

> The idea here is that all people are the same, and all you need to do is shoehorn enough to keep the economy going.

Maybe it's time to start thinking why people who end up living in the West are unwilling to reproduce, despite having the highest standard of living ever available to humans.

Solving the underpopulation problem by constant import of uneducated masses from all over the world is going to cost more and more, both in terms of the peta-man-hours needed to teach them functioning in new reality (language barrier for a start) and in terms of things going wrong when the former fails.

I mean, what are these guys supposed to do here? Join the rat race, stop reproducing and replace themselves with who-knows-whom 100 years down the line? Despise this culcure and blow stuff up? Something else?

For Hollywood. You said that associating pyramids with Biblical events was their idea, so I thought that maybe there was some particular movie which spawned this meme.

Are you suggesting a CNC mill was involved?

What's your point? Neither the article nor anybody here mentioned chisels...

> The pyramids having anything whatsoever to do with the Exodus is a myth created by Hollywood, it is not a Jewish belief at all.

Any source? Google only returns articles about Carson, so it looks like it may be his idea.

edit: It seems to be an old story, easily predating both Carson and Hollywood.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/secret-chambers-grain-s...

I'm not sure if this shows he is really serious or exactly the opposite.

In Poland there is a guy, Janusz Palikot, who in 2005 owned a "Christian", anti-(many things including LGBT) newspaper but later sold it and founded a pro-LGBT, anti-religion political party.

... in modern times :)

Was he being serious or just trying to score some sympathy of Jews and Christians?

Nobody has ever found any evidence of Exodus and it isn't like people aren't trying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus

I believe the discussion was about founders' beliefs and their influence.

As for the second part, I'm hardly a theist, so what I'm doing is not walking around and telling gullible people that they have been created by some god who now wants them to hunt infidels. Sometimes encouraging others to do the same.

No, it's "police was able to enter our neighborhoods because we were (sufficiently) law abiding".

Equivalently, "police being unable to enter their neighborhoods shows that they are insufficiently law abiding".

There is a difference between prediction of future violence and explicit call for violence.

Which of these you think can be easier used to "justify" violence?

What semantics of "inherently violent religion" do you propose such that "our founders told us to kill infidels" still doesn't cut it?

A problem with religions which I see is that their screw people's sense of truth and reality by requiring them to proclaim beliefs in dubious magic and jump through bullshit hoops, all under threats ranging from constant nagging to death. People just get used to doing bullshit if somebody tells them "because God".

No matter what Islamic scholars say (and, honestly, what are they supposed to say if they want to be treated seriously?), what they are doing is creating an army of robots who just wait to be programmed - by whomever, for whatever.

Starting counting one year earlier and see whose "score" now is higher and how much higher.

Go read the Gospel of Thomas. Seriously.

I believe that these words have a deep and nonobvious meaning, provided all the gospels weren't totally made up.

Well, the Catholic Church for centuries was a serious part of European political machinery and our politics weren't always peaceful.

One could argue that nowadays some religions play similar role, btw.

Technically, this comment is factually correct and also it is spot on. Some people trying to defend some ethnic groups in this thread are hypocrites.