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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 06/25/2009 :  17:40:16   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Valiant Dancer's Homepage Send Valiant Dancer a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Bob Larson
Oral Roberts
Fred Phelps
Kim Il Jung

Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils

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filthy
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Posted - 06/26/2009 :  02:03:02   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Mark "Pampas Prowler" Sanford




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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


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Landrew
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Posted - 06/30/2009 :  16:16:41   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Landrew a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by R.Wreck

1. Saint Peter...

...265. Benedict XXVI

I'm not sure I understand this posting. Are they "idiots" because they are theists? For most of them, I don't think science existed to a degree that you could base atheism upon it. I'm certainly not a theist myself, but I don't think anyone living in a christianized society in those times had much of a choice any other than theism. If it's a character judgment, fair enough, but I'd like to see the biographical evidence.

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Edited by - Landrew on 06/30/2009 16:21:32
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filthy
SFN Die Hard

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Posted - 06/30/2009 :  17:16:03   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Landrew

Originally posted by R.Wreck

1. Saint Peter...

...265. Benedict XXVI

I'm not sure I understand this posting. Are they "idiots" because they are theists? For most of them, I don't think science existed to a degree that you could base atheism upon it. I'm certainly not a theist myself, but I don't think anyone living in a christianized society in those times had much of a choice any other than theism. If it's a character judgment, fair enough, but I'd like to see the biographical evidence.
Nah; just fuckin' around. We try not to be serious all the time. It's bad for the digestion.

Maximilien Robespierre, who became shorter by a head in the French Revolution.






"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

Edited by - filthy on 06/30/2009 17:18:27
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Dave W.
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Posted - 06/30/2009 :  19:05:47   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Landrew

Originally posted by R.Wreck

1. Saint Peter...

...265. Benedict XXVI
I'm not sure I understand this posting. Are they "idiots" because they are theists?
That was a list of all the Popes.

Edited to say: a list of all the Popes with a typo in it. Benedict the 26th? An extra X got in there.

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 06/30/2009 :  21:05:58   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Please excuse the diversion, but I'm old enough to remember when "idiot" and "moron" were actual clinically acceptable terms for various levels of intelligence. I Read It In a Book.

(I imagine that if one went back far enough, "asshole" also may have been a scientific term for a person with very little social sensitivity.)


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.
Edited by - HalfMooner on 06/30/2009 21:06:42
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filthy
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Posted - 07/01/2009 :  01:50:38   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Dan "Spuds" Quayle. He was fun......

Erich von Dännikin, whilst we're on the subject.

Jack van Impe

James Inhofe & Sally Kern

Randall Terry

Sarah Palin

Edited to add Cary Cash

Edited further to add Pat Buchanan




"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

Edited by - filthy on 07/01/2009 03:29:27
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Simon
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Posted - 07/01/2009 :  07:46:33   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Simon a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by filthy
Erich von Dännikin, whilst we're on the subject.



Playing with your new umläut toy, are you?



I dunno if I will described däniken as an idiot. His ideas have little merit but they are not stupid (not very smart either but not absolutely idiotic).
Watching an interview of him (on the (pseudo)History channel) it seemed to me very arrogant, but not necessarily dumb. Maybe I missed some information...

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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The Rat
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Michael Savage

Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.

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filthy
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Posted - 07/01/2009 :  08:08:51   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Simon

Originally posted by filthy
Erich von Dännikin, whilst we're on the subject.



Playing with your new umläut toy, are you?


I dunno if I will described däniken as an idiot. His ideas have little merit but they are not stupid (not very smart either but not absolutely idiotic).
Watching an interview of him (on the (pseudo)History channel) it seemed to me very arrogant, but not necessarily dumb. Maybe I missed some information...
Yeäh.....

I've been half-assed keeping track of him ever since Chariots came out. I never said he wasn't smart, only an idiot. It's a matter of definition, I suppose.

Here's another one; a scumbag as well as an idiot: Michael Scheuer




"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

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Simon
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Posted - 07/01/2009 :  08:50:35   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Simon a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Fuck; that's bad.

He is not only hoping a terrorist attack, he precise: 'a major weapon'. He is rooting for an A-bomb attack on the US.


Once again, I reserving my judgement about his intellectual capacities. His sanity and moral, however, I feel pretty confident to evaluate and call him a crazy asshole.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard

USA
14408 Posts

Posted - 07/01/2009 :  10:15:57   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Simon

Fuck; that's bad.

He is not only hoping a terrorist attack, he precise: 'a major weapon'. He is rooting for an A-bomb attack on the US.


Once again, I reserving my judgement about his intellectual capacities. His sanity and moral, however, I feel pretty confident to evaluate and call him a crazy asshole.
You don't have to be stupid to do stupid.

Pyrrhus of Epirus who gave us the term "pyrrhic victory."




"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

Edited by - filthy on 07/01/2009 10:17:25
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Landrew
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Posted - 07/04/2009 :  09:51:51   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Landrew a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Pejoratives don't actually prove anything, that's why they aren't allowed in most respectable debating forums.

Richard Dawkins caught a fair measure of flack from the scientific community for attacking religion directly instead of merely arguing it into irrelevance, and leaving it there.

God bless women, for without them there would be no cookies.
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Dave W.
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Posted - 07/04/2009 :  10:01:25   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Landrew

Richard Dawkins caught a fair measure of flack from the scientific community for attacking religion directly instead of merely arguing it into irrelevance, and leaving it there.
He still catches flack for that, but it's one of the defining characteristics of "new atheists," and those who would toss flack about it can bite our big white butts. Arguing religion into irrelevance hasn't worked. The ridiculous should be ridiculed.

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Landrew
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Posted - 07/04/2009 :  10:20:34   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Landrew a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dave W.

Originally posted by Landrew

Richard Dawkins caught a fair measure of flack from the scientific community for attacking religion directly instead of merely arguing it into irrelevance, and leaving it there.
He still catches flack for that, but it's one of the defining characteristics of "new atheists," and those who would toss flack about it can bite our big white butts. Arguing religion into irrelevance hasn't worked. The ridiculous should be ridiculed.

It seems to me that 2 wrongs don't make a right. If the first tool is broken, another broken tool won't fix it.

God bless women, for without them there would be no cookies.
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