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"*nemo*" |
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28 Dec 2005 05:07:42 AM |
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aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for December 2005 |
Well, here we are... another monthly deadline missed, but this time only
by a day. Since I have Jan 2 off, that'll be the deadline for voting.
Thanks for all the fun in 2005. Here's to a load of cool quotes in 2006.
Cheers!
Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for December
2005. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jan 2, 2006. See rules below. Questions?
Comments?
Email me.
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1) In response to:
dumb idiots who KNOW there is god, but don't like him. that's atheism.
Right. We all KNOW that we are being watched, 24/7, by an infallible,
omnipotent, omnipresent, jealous Being who can hear our deepest
thoughts, can never be deceived, and who will gladly punish us with
eternal torment for disobedience, and we decide to diss Him.
How much of a fucking idiot do you have to be to make such a statement?
By: MarkA
Nominated: Robibnikoff
Seconded: Hannele Huigens
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2) In response to:
Explain the "proof" for evolution. Stop attacking the faith of other
people.
Simple. Look at the world around you. Look at the trees. How do you
think they got there? They are perfectly adapted to absorb nutrients
from the soil. How do you think that happened? Look at fish. They live
in the water... and they can breathe in the water! What luck! Look at
your own body, and how perfectly all the parts fit and work together.
Surely all of this ordered complexity could not have instantly popped
into existence by mere chance. Clearly, it must have evolved.
By: William T. Goat
Nominated: skyeyes
Seconded: Jimmy B.
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3) In response to:
Some more Mormons are trying to get legal recognition for their
plural marriages... while exercising their hatred of homosexuals, I would bet.
Because, you know, since the dawn of time, marriage has been defined as
between one man one several different women (and young girls).
By: pluther
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: Hannele Huigens
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4) In response to:
Why DO atheists want to kill Christmas?
For the insurance money.
By: Malibu Skipper
Nominated: Douglas Berry
Seconded: Jimmy B.
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5) It's amazing the number of things that religious folk believe based
on their inability to learn.
By: David Jensen
Nominated: Fred Stone
Seconded: John Hachmann
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6) In response to:
Now, because Atheists hijacked America's public schools
and America's justice system some decades ago
Argument from persecution:
1. Jebus said believers will be persecuted
2. I am an idiot
3. People often point this out
4. Therefore the babble is true
By: Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian
Nominated: satyr
Seconded: Liz
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7) In response to:
BECAUSE ATHEISM IS properly defined as a "belief", e.g.,
quoting from Webster's New World Dictionary & Thesaurus:
Most dictionaries are written by theists. Theists don't understand the
difference between believing in a god and presupposing the existence of
a god.
By: Uncle Vic
Nominated: Gregory Gadow
Seconded: Sanity's little helper
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8) You believe that you are at the beck and call of an inscrutable,
omnipotent being, who has some "Plan" that we are a part of, but we have
no idea what the "Plan" is, or even why He has one in the first place.
He knows everything we are going to do before we do it, but we still
have "free will". When we die, if He so chooses, we will get to spend
eternity sitting at his feet, just enjoying being in the same room with
Him. Eternity. Not a trillion trillion trillion years, or even a
trillion trillion trillion times longer than that. Eternity. Otherwise,
we will be sent to be tortured forever, because we tried to be good but
weren't good enough, or we didn't believe in the correct prophet, based
on the say-so of a bunch of goat herders thousands of years ago. Of
course, if you DON'T try to be good, and spend your life mugging little
old ladies, or kidnapping, raping and murdering 10-year old girls, but
REPENT and accept JESUS as your LORD and SAVIOUR before you die, you
WILL get to go to Heaven and hang with the MAN.
.....and you think that WE are the robots. I really get tired of asking,
why do some theists have to be so fucking stupid?
By: MarkA
Nominated: Uncle Vic
Seconded: zamboni30000
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9) Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when I
see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics.
This 'theory' generates no predictions; has no contribution to make
beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks
the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological
credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and
fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of attacking
decades of discomfiting scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing
up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS
IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry, squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Nominated: Carl Kaufmann
Seconded: John Baker
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10) In response to:
I don't believe in God but I was wondering 'what if I am wrong'?
That you don't believe in God? How could you be wrong about that?
By: Santolina chamaecyparissus
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: satyr
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11) As I've said before, if you want the eternal verities, wonder, awe
and a sense of who, where and what you are, the sciences really can't be
beaten! My first glimmerings of understanding of time dilation, the
curve of space-time due to a mass, chaos theory and strange attractors
and a thousand other beautiful products of science give me immense
personal satisfaction and pride in belonging to a race that can produce
such people that can tease understanding out of this very beautiful
universe we inhabit. And not clutter life up with tawdry little fictions
that hide the true beauty of it all....
By: Les Hemmings
Nominated: JPG
Seconded: Enkidu
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12) In response to :
More importantly, how did we manage to kill God? And how do we wash
the blood off our hands?
Use "Confession®" brand soap.
Used by the Vatican to ethnically cleanse entire populations.
Price: 1 soul, plus tax (or nails).
By: Michael Gray
Nominated: Olrik
Seconded: Hannele Huigens
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Here are the rules for the Quote of the Month Contests.
RULES
1. Only atheists and agnostics may participate in the contests.
2. A quote is a valid entry for the contests if:
a. The quote is a brief piece of text
b. The quote has recently been written in alt.atheism (verifiable),
and is original (no quotes by famous authors, for instance)
c. Nomination of the quote is made by an atheist or agnostic
in alt.atheism
d. Nomination of the quote is supported by at least one other
atheist or agnostic in alt.atheism;
e. The quote is not nominated or seconded by the person who wrote it
in the first place (no one is allowed to nominate him- or herself,
but a person can vote for the quote he or she wrote.)
3. There will be two categories: 'Atheist Quote of the Month'
and 'Theist Quote of the Month'. The category for which a
quote must be nominated must be mentioned by the atheist or
agnostic who wants to nominate it.
If a quote is miscategorized (e.g. an atheist quote is mistakenly
nominated in the Theist QOTM category), the quote will be re-directed
to appear in the correct category, with approriate notification.
4. Nominations can be made until five days before the first of the
next month. If quotes are nominated after this period, they will be
considered as entries for the contest of the next month.
* When making a nomination, please use this format for the subject
line:
"aa - <A or T as applicable>QOTM Nomination (was: <original thread
name>)"
5. Each atheist or agnostic who visits alt.atheism has one vote to
cast for each category (two votes total).
6. Voting starts 5 days before the end of the month. During the month,
votes will be ignored. This way, all nominees will have equal chance of
winning.
7. The two winning quotes will be published in the QOTM Archive.
SUMMARY
A nomination must contain the following information:
1. The lines of the quote.
2. Who wrote it.
3. Who nominates or seconds the nomination of this quote (that's you!)
4. Which category this nomination is for.
5. The word "nomination" MUST appear somewhere in the subject line!
6. The original thread title must appear in the subject line.
Publish the nomination or support for a nomination in a designated
thread, preferably called "[T/A]QoTM Nomination for [month]." You can
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VOTING
1. In the last five days of the month you can cast your vote in both
categories.
2. Votes must be placed in the designated thread.
--
Nemo - EAC Commissioner for Bible Belt Underwater Operations.
Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
Quotemeister since March 2002
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| User: "G-Ride" |
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| Title: Re: aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for December 2005 |
30 Dec 2005 12:15:16 PM |
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"*nemo*" <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:nemo0037-8069EE.06054228122005@news1.west.earthlink.net...
1) In response to:
dumb idiots who KNOW there is god, but don't like him. that's atheism.
Right. We all KNOW that we are being watched, 24/7, by an infallible,
omnipotent, omnipresent, jealous Being who can hear our deepest
thoughts, can never be deceived, and who will gladly punish us with
eternal torment for disobedience, and we decide to diss Him.
How much of a fucking idiot do you have to be to make such a statement?
By: MarkA
Nominated: Robibnikoff
Seconded: Hannele Huigens
I'll vote for this one.
--
Aloha, G-Ride
"I love songs about horses, railroads, land, judgement day, family, hard
times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war,
prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety,
rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness,
heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God. 'Rusty Cage' must fit in some of
these categories." - J. Cash
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| User: "Ron Baker, Pluralitas!" |
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| Title: Re: aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for December 2005 |
28 Dec 2005 10:45:33 PM |
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"*nemo*" <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:nemo0037-8069EE.06054228122005@news1.west.earthlink.net...
Wow, good crop this month.
Honorable mention to 4, 5, 6, and 8 but
I gotta go with 9. Quite a clever and creative work that is.
9) Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when I
see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics.
This 'theory' generates no predictions; has no contribution to make
beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks
the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological
credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and
fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of attacking
decades of discomfiting scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing
up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS
IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry, squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Nominated: Carl Kaufmann
Seconded: John Baker
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28 Dec 2005 08:50:09 AM |
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*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in
news:nemo0037-8069EE.06054228122005@news1.west.earthlink.net:
#6 gets my vote this month.
6) In response to:
Now, because Atheists hijacked America's public schools
and America's justice system some decades ago
Argument from persecution:
1. Jebus said believers will be persecuted
2. I am an idiot
3. People often point this out
4. Therefore the babble is true
By: Thurisaz, Germanic barbarian
Nominated: satyr
Seconded: Liz
--
Woden
"religion is a socio-political system for controlling people's thoughts,
lives and actions based on ancient myths and superstitions, perpetrated
through generations of subtle yet pervasive brainwashing."
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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31 Dec 2005 09:13:48 AM |
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*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in
news:nemo0037-8069EE.06054228122005@news1.west.earthlink.net:
11) As I've said before, if you want the eternal verities, wonder,
awe and a sense of who, where and what you are, the sciences really
can't be beaten! My first glimmerings of understanding of time
dilation, the curve of space-time due to a mass, chaos theory and
strange attractors and a thousand other beautiful products of science
give me immense personal satisfaction and pride in belonging to a race
that can produce such people that can tease understanding out of this
very beautiful universe we inhabit. And not clutter life up with
tawdry little fictions that hide the true beauty of it all....
By: Les Hemmings
This one.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.thoughts.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them."
* Louis Nizer
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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28 Dec 2005 07:32:53 AM |
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*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote in news:nemo0037-
8069EE.06054228122005@news1.west.earthlink.net:
5) It's amazing the number of things that religious folk believe based
on their inability to learn.
By: David Jensen
Nominated: Fred Stone
Seconded: John Hachmann
I think I'll stick with this one.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
"Never ask a guy who's in a bubble if he's in a bubble. He can't answer.
To continue reading this article, you must be a subscriber to TimesSelect."
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| User: "Pat Kiewicz" |
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| Title: Re: aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for December 2005 |
28 Dec 2005 06:37:11 AM |
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*nemo* said:
Fits my mood:
4) In response to:
Why DO atheists want to kill Christmas?
For the insurance money.
By: Malibu Skipper
Nominated: Douglas Berry
Seconded: Jimmy B.
--
Pat K. aa#1154 ('someplace.net' is comcast)
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)
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| User: "" |
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28 Dec 2005 07:14:36 AM |
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*nemo* wrote:
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9) Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when I
see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics.
This 'theory' generates no predictions; has no contribution to make
beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks
the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological
credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and
fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of attacking
decades of discomfiting scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing
up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS
IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry, squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Nominated: Carl Kaufmann
Seconded: John Baker
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Hmph. Show off. Vote.
"I didn't want to be a quotemeister," Nemo said.
"I wanted to be...A LUMBERJACK!"
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
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"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,
it's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
- George W. Bush, US President
From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow
more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30
populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable
regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries,
caused the end of life for several million people, and
condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.
- William Blum
"The best thing about the Left Behind books is the way the
non-Christians get their guts pulled out by God."
- 15-year-old fundamentalist fan of the books
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30 Dec 2005 09:20:18 PM |
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In article <1135775676.324524.296960@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
wrote:
"I didn't want to be a quotemeister," Nemo said.
"I wanted to be...A LUMBERJACK!"
I didn't want to be a programmer... but if I could make a living as
quotemeister, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
Fucking e-commerce assignments......
Sorry. I ruined a perfectly good lumberjack song, but it was a tough day
today.
--
Nemo - EAC Commissioner for Bible Belt Underwater Operations.
Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
Quotemeister since March 2002
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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30 Dec 2005 11:54:40 PM |
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On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 03:20:18 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
In article <1135775676.324524.296960@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
bg12345@apexmail.com wrote:
"I didn't want to be a quotemeister," Nemo said.
"I wanted to be...A LUMBERJACK!"
I didn't want to be a programmer... but if I could make a living as
quotemeister, I'd switch in a heartbeat.
Fucking e-commerce assignments......
Sorry. I ruined a perfectly good lumberjack song, but it was a tough day
today.
Perhaps we could vote automatically?
Some sort of modern steam-powered electronic brain, perhaps.
SMS a # to this mailbox, or something like that.
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| User: "Olrik" |
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28 Dec 2005 11:19:11 PM |
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*nemo* wrote:
12) In response to :
More importantly, how did we manage to kill God? And how do we wash
the blood off our hands?
Use "Confession®" brand soap.
Used by the Vatican to ethnically cleanse entire populations.
Price: 1 soul, plus tax (or nails).
By: Michael Gray
Nominated: Olrik
Seconded: Hannele Huigens
I guess I'll go with that one!
Thanks.
--
Olrik
aa #1981
Qualified SMASH member
EAC Chief Food Inspector, Bacon Division
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| User: "Panama Floyd" |
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31 Dec 2005 12:25:53 AM |
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*nemo* wrote:
Well, here we are... another monthly deadline missed, but this time only
by a day. Since I have Jan 2 off, that'll be the deadline for voting.
Thanks for all the fun in 2005. Here's to a load of cool quotes in 2006.
Cheers!
Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for December
2005. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jan 2, 2006. See rules below. Questions?
Comments?
Email me.
I like this one.
4) In response to:
Why DO atheists want to kill Christmas?
For the insurance money.
By: Malibu Skipper
Nominated: Douglas Berry
Seconded: Jimmy B.
I really liked #6, but I think Thuriaz is a theist. #9 was good..since
we all parody Python bits so often, perhaps we should start an archive
just for that?
-Panama Floyd, Atl.
aa#2015, Member Knights of BAAWA!
"..the prayer cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next."
-Mark Twain
Religious societies are *less* moral than secular ones:
http://moses.creighton.edu/JRS/2005/2005-11.html
Numbers of people discarding religion on the rise in the US:
http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=163
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/3344680/detail.html
http://www.religioustolerance.org/amer_intol.htm
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28 Dec 2005 05:35:15 AM |
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1) In response to:
dumb idiots who KNOW there is god, but don't like him. that's atheism.
Right. We all KNOW that we are being watched, 24/7, by an infallible,
omnipotent, omnipresent, jealous Being who can hear our deepest
thoughts, can never be deceived, and who will gladly punish us with
eternal torment for disobedience, and we decide to diss Him.
How much of a fucking idiot do you have to be to make such a statement?
By: MarkA
Nominated: Robibnikoff
Seconded: Hannele Huigens
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
Science doesn't burn people at the stake for disagreeing - Vic Sagerquist
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| User: "George Dance" |
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30 Dec 2005 08:15:15 AM |
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Decline my ballot.
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| User: "*nemo*" |
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30 Dec 2005 09:10:05 PM |
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In article <1135952115.022523.236850@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"George Dance" <georgedance04@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Decline my ballot.
You know, there was an easier way to do this. Less effort for you and me.
Sheesh!
--
Nemo - EAC Commissioner for Bible Belt Underwater Operations.
Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
Quotemeister since March 2002
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| User: "George Dance" |
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31 Dec 2005 09:20:55 AM |
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*nemo* wrote:
In article <1135952115.022523.236850@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"George Dance" <georgedance04@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Decline my ballot.
You know, there was an easier way to do this. Less effort for you and me.
Sheesh!
You mean, not posting anything? What point would that have made?
There are good reason for allowing options like DMB and NOTA in
elections. (If you don't want to count them, of course you don't have
to.)
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31 Dec 2005 05:36:04 PM |
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In article <1136042455.408772.38080@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"George Dance" <georgedance04@yahoo.ca> wrote:
*nemo* wrote:
In article <1135952115.022523.236850@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"George Dance" <georgedance04@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Decline my ballot.
You know, there was an easier way to do this. Less effort for you and me.
Sheesh!
You mean, not posting anything? What point would that have made?
Well, if you really NEEDED to make a point, I suppose....
--
Nemo - EAC Commissioner for Bible Belt Underwater Operations.
Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
Quotemeister since March 2002
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| User: "Ian Braidwood" |
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29 Dec 2005 02:34:29 AM |
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Definitely number nine.
Thanks
(-: Ian :-)
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| User: "Mot" |
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28 Dec 2005 09:55:10 AM |
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I choose #9, although I was tempted by #1.
9) Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when I
see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics.
This 'theory' generates no predictions; has no contribution to make
beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks
the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological
credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and
fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of attacking
decades of discomfiting scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing
up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS
IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry, squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Nominated: Carl Kaufmann
Seconded: John Baker
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| User: "DCinON" |
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28 Dec 2005 11:13:55 AM |
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I'll vote for #8.
Thanks.
Doug
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| User: "johac" |
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29 Dec 2005 01:55:06 AM |
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In article <nemo0037-8069EE.06054228122005@news1.west.earthlink.net>,
*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
Well, here we are... another monthly deadline missed, but this time only
by a day. Since I have Jan 2 off, that'll be the deadline for voting.
Thanks for all the fun in 2005. Here's to a load of cool quotes in 2006.
Cheers!
Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for December
2005. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jan 2, 2006. See rules below. Questions?
Comments?
Email me.
2) In response to:
Explain the "proof" for evolution. Stop attacking the faith of other
people.
Simple. Look at the world around you. Look at the trees. How do you
think they got there? They are perfectly adapted to absorb nutrients
from the soil. How do you think that happened? Look at fish. They live
in the water... and they can breathe in the water! What luck! Look at
your own body, and how perfectly all the parts fit and work together.
Surely all of this ordered complexity could not have instantly popped
into existence by mere chance. Clearly, it must have evolved.
By: William T. Goat
Nominated: skyeyes
Seconded: Jimmy B.
Tough choices, but I'll take No. 2
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John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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28 Dec 2005 08:56:41 AM |
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Lots of good ones, but I'll have to go with #9.
"Well, there's egg and bacon, egg sausage and bacon, egg and intelligent design, egg
bacon and intelligent design, egg bacon sausage and intelligent design, intelligent
design bacon sausage and intelligent design, intelligent design, intelligent design,
baked beans and intelligent design, a theory of evolution backed up with hard facts
drawn from dozens of fields of scientific inquiry served with brandy, an egg and
intelligent design..."
"Have you got anything without intelligent design?"
"Well, there's intelligent design egg sausuage and intelligent design, that's not got
much intelligent design in it.
"I don't want ANY intelligent design!"
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"Without faith we might relapse into scientific or rational thinking,
which leads by a slippery slope toward constitutional democracy."
- Robert Anton Wilson
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| User: "Hannele Huigens" |
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29 Dec 2005 07:43:47 AM |
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Number 1 for me, please.
1) In response to:
dumb idiots who KNOW there is god, but don't like him. that's atheism.
Right. We all KNOW that we are being watched, 24/7, by an infallible,
omnipotent, omnipresent, jealous Being who can hear our deepest
thoughts, can never be deceived, and who will gladly punish us with
eternal torment for disobedience, and we decide to diss Him.
How much of a fucking idiot do you have to be to make such a statement?
By: MarkA
Nominated: Robibnikoff
Seconded: Hannele Huigens
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Hannele
aa #2221
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| User: "nJb" |
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28 Dec 2005 09:29:25 PM |
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Number 8... Number 8.
--
Jack
bobo1148atxmissiondotcom
http://www.glassartguild.com/gallery/jack_bowman
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| User: "Martin Crisp" |
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28 Dec 2005 06:45:33 AM |
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On Dec 28, 2005, nemo* sent message
<nemo0037-8069EE.06054228122005@news1.west.earthlink.net>, which allegedly
said:
10) In response to:
I don't believe in God but I was wondering 'what if I am wrong'?
That you don't believe in God? How could you be wrong about that?
By: Santolina chamaecyparissus
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: satyr
This one with the intelligently designed parrot sketch a close second
Have Fun
Martin
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to send me email:
martincrisp at ozemail dot com dot au
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| User: "Harry F. Leopold" |
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28 Dec 2005 07:42:17 AM |
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 05:07:42 -0600, nemo* wrote
(in article <nemo0037-8069EE.06054228122005@news1.west.earthlink.net>):
Well, here we are... another monthly deadline missed, but this time only
by a day. Since I have Jan 2 off, that'll be the deadline for voting.
Thanks for all the fun in 2005. Here's to a load of cool quotes in 2006.
Cheers!
Here are the nominations for Atheist Quote of the Month for December
2005. Vote for your favorite by responding to this thread. Votes will be
accepted until midnight, Jan 2, 2006. See rules below. Questions?
Comments?
Email me.
This one, though it was a hard choice, lots of very good ones this month.
One complaint though, number 6 should have been in the TQOTM section. Our
Germanic barbarian has stated a number of times that he is a believer and not
an atheist.
9) Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when I
see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics.
This 'theory' generates no predictions; has no contribution to make
beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks
the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological
credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and
fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of attacking
decades of discomfiting scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing
up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS
IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry, squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Nominated: Carl Kaufmann
Seconded: John Baker
--
Harry F. Leopold
aa #2076
AA/Vet #4
The Prints of Darkness
(remove gene to email)
³It's all very simple : you believe in a god, I don't. Theists first invented
the concept of god or gods, and the sceptical people said : "Huh?". It's been
downhill from there. ;-)³ - Olrik
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| User: "*nemo*" |
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30 Dec 2005 09:17:43 PM |
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In article <0001HW.BFD7F25900C91420F0284550@news.central.cox.net>,
Harry F. Leopold <hleopold@coxyx.net> wrote:
One complaint though, number 6 should have been in the TQOTM section. Our
Germanic barbarian has stated a number of times that he is a believer and not
an atheist.
I'll look into this. In the unlikely event 6 wins, I'll deal with it.
Otherwise, I'll move it after the voting and try to be a little more on
top of things in the future...
--
Nemo - EAC Commissioner for Bible Belt Underwater Operations.
Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
Quotemeister since March 2002
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| User: "Liz" |
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28 Dec 2005 06:18:41 AM |
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:07:42 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> in news message
<nemo0037-8069EE.06054228122005@news1.west.earthlink.net> wrote:
While attracted to the pithy humor of #4, #5, and #6, I vote for the
entry in the One Act Play category #9. Brava!
9) Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when I
see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics.
This 'theory' generates no predictions; has no contribution to make
beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks
the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological
credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and
fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of attacking
decades of discomfiting scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing
up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS
IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry, squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Nominated: Carl Kaufmann
Seconded: John Baker
Überwench #658 Now a *real* atheist!
Dame Liz the Undaunted Ath.D BAAWA
Charter Member of SMASH
and Queen of the known universe
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| User: "Kate " |
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02 Jan 2006 06:45:08 PM |
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:18:41 GMT, Liz <ehuth1@donotspam.com> wrote:
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:07:42 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> in news message
<nemo0037-8069EE.06054228122005@news1.west.earthlink.net> wrote:
While attracted to the pithy humor of #4, #5, and #6, I vote for the
entry in the One Act Play category #9. Brava!
9) Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when I
see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics.
This 'theory' generates no predictions; has no contribution to make
beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks
the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological
credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and
fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of attacking
decades of discomfiting scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing
up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS
IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry, squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Nominated: Carl Kaufmann
Seconded: John Baker
Überwench #658 Now a *real* atheist!
Dame Liz the Undaunted Ath.D BAAWA
Charter Member of SMASH
and Queen of the known universe
A lot of good ones this month - I too vote for #9
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01 Jan 2006 11:39:18 PM |
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:07:42 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
9) Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when I
see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics.
This 'theory' generates no predictions; has no contribution to make
beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks
the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological
credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and
fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of attacking
decades of discomfiting scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing
up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS
IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry, squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Nominated: Carl Kaufmann
Seconded: John Baker
A bit long, but this one.
--
Ed. Stoebenau
a #143
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28 Dec 2005 05:19:07 PM |
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:07:42 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
10) In response to:
I don't believe in God but I was wondering 'what if I am wrong'?
That you don't believe in God? How could you be wrong about that?
By: Santolina chamaecyparissus
Nominated: stoney
Seconded: satyr
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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28 Dec 2005 03:58:22 PM |
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:07:42 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
A tad long, but I'm a big Monty Python fan, so I can't help but vote
for this one, Bruce. Smurfette's a clever Sheila, innt she?
9) Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when I
see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics.
This 'theory' generates no predictions; has no contribution to make
beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks
the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological
credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and
fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of attacking
decades of discomfiting scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing
up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS
IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry, squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Nominated: Carl Kaufmann
Seconded: John Baker
--
"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
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28 Dec 2005 11:48:16 AM |
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:07:42 GMT, *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
Thisone....
9) Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when I
see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics.
This 'theory' generates no predictions; has no contribution to make
beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks
the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological
credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and
fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of attacking
decades of discomfiting scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing
up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS
IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry, squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Nominated: Carl Kaufmann
Seconded: John Baker
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| Title: Re: aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for December 2005 |
28 Dec 2005 05:31:14 AM |
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On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 11:07:42 GMT, *nemo* wrote:
9) .....
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Still ROTFLMAO.
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Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow, we eat, drink and be merry.
D Silverman FLAHN, SMLAHN
AA #2208
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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| Title: Re: aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for December 2005 |
28 Dec 2005 09:10:33 AM |
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Once upon a time in alt.atheism, dear sweet *nemo*
(nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net) made the light shine upon us with this:
8) You believe that you are at the beck and call of an inscrutable,
omnipotent being, who has some "Plan" that we are a part of, but we
have no idea what the "Plan" is, or even why He has one in the first
place. He knows everything we are going to do before we do it, but we
still have "free will". When we die, if He so chooses, we will get to
spend eternity sitting at his feet, just enjoying being in the same
room with Him. Eternity. Not a trillion trillion trillion years, or
even a trillion trillion trillion times longer than that. Eternity.
Otherwise, we will be sent to be tortured forever, because we tried to
be good but weren't good enough, or we didn't believe in the correct
prophet, based on the say-so of a bunch of goat herders thousands of
years ago. Of course, if you DON'T try to be good, and spend your
life mugging little old ladies, or kidnapping, raping and murdering
10-year old girls, but REPENT and accept JESUS as your LORD and
SAVIOUR before you die, you WILL get to go to Heaven and hang with the
MAN.
....and you think that WE are the robots. I really get tired of
asking, why do some theists have to be so fucking stupid?
By: MarkA
Nominated: Uncle Vic
Seconded: zamboni30000
I still like this one.
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Uncle Vic
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
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Only the atheist realizes how morally objectionable it is for survivors
of a catastrophe to believe themselves spared by a loving God while this
same God drowned infants in their cribs. - Sam Harris
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| User: "Douglas Berry" |
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| Title: Re: aa - The polls are open! AQOTM for December 2005 |
28 Dec 2005 06:54:52 AM |
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What's so funny about peace, love and *nemo*
<nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> posting the following on Wed, 28 Dec
2005 11:07:42 GMT iin alt.atheism?
#4 for me.
4) In response to:
Why DO atheists want to kill Christmas?
For the insurance money.
By: Malibu Skipper
Nominated: Douglas Berry
Seconded: Jimmy B.
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Douglas E. Berry Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail
Atheist #2147, Atheist Vet #5
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as
when they do it from religious conviction."
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), Pense'es, #894.
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