Can I have a brief roll-call of who will/may be attending the Convention this month? I was thinking of a party.Also — would the existence of said party influence your decision to come?
Can I have a brief roll-call of who will/may be attending the Convention this month? I was thinking of a party.Also — would the existence of said party influence your decision to come?
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geez, sorry, I meant to say Drive By Truckers. I was reading CowboyJeans and Debbie’s comments and really wonder when reasonable christians will show up. I feel less and less like the nurturing religion I was brought up with will show up again. It’s frustrating.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Alfred Adler
Spanders
Speaking od music. Check out Blue Mountain if you don’t know them already. They have a MySpace presence now and they are gig’n again.
Also check out Maxeen. I recently found them on MySpace and was impressed. Sort of a amalgam of The Police, Jane’s Addiction and Michael Jackson. I know. But way cool!
I just found them on Napster. I’ll check ‘em out. Thanks!
Debbie I knew you would sooner or later bring up Jesus– are you trying to suggest to us Atheists that Jesus was a perfect God? If so, you need to read the Gospels again. The man who spoke the Sermon on the Mount and delivered the whore from stoning also said “I came not to send peace on earth,but a sword”.He said you must hate and desert your family to be his follower and he came to set family members against each other. In a parable he speaks favorably of slavery and beating slaves. In another parable he speaks favorably of killing one’s enemies. He wrecked legitimate commerce in the Temple. He cursed a fig tree to death for not bearing figs out-of-season and he dissed his mother. Jesus was a classic cult leader who taught that the end of the world was coming within a generation.Yes, Jesus was a seriously flawed man. When I was in my 20s (I’m 51 now) I read a good book on the life and ministry of Jesus and it made a confirmed Atheist of me. Jesus is dead– Hail Caesar! Back on topic: Sorry,Dave I can’t make it to Minneapolis.
This is the funniest shit I’ve read in a long time. The guy that made this website is an idiot, my dot on that little point in infinite knowledge thing is like way bigger than that…. his dot is definantly way smaller than that. That X-thingy doesn’t even exist unless you are delusional! lol
http://www.yourgoingtohell.com/
Spanders,
Thanks for the kind words. You ALWAYS seem to know the right thing to say. You are inded a wise one. Perhaps 51% Spock, and 49% Flanders?
Quantum_flux, wow, atheists are near the bottom of the hate list on the left of that webpage (hom0sexuals being first).
love and peace,
“What, me worry?”
Alfred E. Newman
Quantum,
What an ultra maroon! Here’s my favorite quote(s) from that page.
Quantum,
Just to make some comments…
No we didn’t. Chimpanzees and modern humans share a common ancestor five to eight million years ago. We didn’t evolve from chimps.
Huh?
I disagree. I think worship (in its most accepted definition) is a solely human trait.
That behavior is not clearly universal in the animal kingdom. Especially since the VAST MAJORITY of the animal kingdom never gets the opportunity to interact with a television so we can observe them and draw conclusions based upon their behavior.
How did you arrive at the conclusion that superstition comes out of “behavior learning”? From the information I’ve read, most researchers in the field of evolutionary psychology believe that the prevalence of superstition among all cultures is a product of our pattern-seeking minds. And that the specifics of the varying superstitions are largely cultural.
Making determinations as to what your dog thinks is a really big leap of assumption. It is just as likely that your dog is extremely intelligent, and is showing so by reacting to the television as you described. Whereas dogs that don’t react to a T.V. like yours aren’t even grasping the concept enough to react to it.
Just checked seeker’s long comment in a word window, and it was seven pages long.
funny though.
1) I could be wrong about my conjectures, they are my educated and/or extrapolated opinions from my own experiences. Anyhow, learning is the very act of reacting to external stimuli, if that external stimuli follows a pattern, then we learn to react in a counter-pattern so as to achieve a desired outcome. The more clear the signal is, and the less variables there are, the easier it is to learn something new. I’d say that is strictly behaviorial acting on evolutionary machinery.
2) I guess I got mixed up there, chimps are our closest living evolutionary relatives though, right?
3) One of my religious pals emailed me a video of a chimp wizzin’ in its own mouth. (I think it’s sickening to keep our closest living relatives locked up in a cage at a zoo, and I can see why the chimp did it … to get attention from the zoo visitors, that’s why)
4) Anyhow, worshipping and desire are one and the same. Animals desire stuff every bit as much as people do, they just don’t make a worship service out of it because they don’t know how and they lack the attention span.
Did someone say “party”? Count me in!