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Recent content by jmvizanko

  1. jmvizanko

    Christians out here I have a question...

    Some Christians are educated enough about how evolution works and why it is both explained by, and explains, countless observations, that they are forced to reconcile it with their religious beliefs. And personally, even though I am not a Christian, I don't necessarily see why that...
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    Speed of light is constant?

    In addition, there is no way to determine that the speed of light had decreased in speed over any measurable amount of time. The only accurate ways to measure the speed didn't exist until the 20th century. The old estimates are exactly that.
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    Post a quote or two from a great thinker and add your comment.

    I would subtract taxes. If you were to live as a hermit on say a deserted island, no taxes. And who knows if we will be able to cheat death some day?
  4. jmvizanko

    Speed of light is constant?

    These numbers are a complete and deliberate lie: In 1676 Christaan Hugens estimated 220,000 km/s. In 1862 Leon Foucault estimated 298,000 km/s.
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    Post a quote or two from a great thinker and add your comment.

    I love it. I never understood why he thought science needs religion in even the slightest way necessary to justify that quote of his. And clearly most religion is not interested in science, as it usually has more to provably say about why it has something wrong than anything else.
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    Post a quote or two from a great thinker and add your comment.

    "The legitimate powers of government extend only to such acts as are injurious to others." - Thomas Jefferson Here you see the largest author of America displaying his Libertarianism by arguing that people should be allowed to do whatever they want as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else. It...
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    Prayers of thanks seem egotistical and pointless to me.

    The point is that if there is a god, he could be doing something about it. That many people, especially children, undergo seemingly random torture is a testament to the fact that if there is an all powerful god, he doesn't give a crap about us. I agree with the former, but how is the latter a...
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    Prayers of thanks seem egotistical and pointless to me.

    Well then why are they directed at god? Shouldn't the people around the table say "let us not take this food for granted" instead of "thank you god for giving us this food?"
  9. jmvizanko

    Prayers of thanks seem egotistical and pointless to me.

    You really can't see a super intelligent being saying that? And no, I'm expressing my mind on the subject. Why don't you tell me what I have wrong, and what this grand purpose of prayer is that I'm missing?
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    Prayers of thanks seem egotistical and pointless to me.

    Whatever there is to "figure out and understand what it is all about" is completely trumped by the fact that it is inherently pointless to pray to a being that knows everything and can do everything, so he knows if you are thankful or what you need without you actually physically doing anything...
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    Prayers of thanks seem egotistical and pointless to me.

    I won't hold my breath for that one, but it would be refreshing.
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    Prayers of thanks seem egotistical and pointless to me.

    No. Just why rejoice in the favors of an unfair god? I am thankful for what I have because I have no control over it. Being thankful to a being that could make it better for those that are struggling is another matter. No its not. Clearly (G)od does play favorites. Yes, actually...
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    Prayers of thanks seem egotistical and pointless to me.

    Did I say I was attacking the other prayers of these people? Nope.
  14. jmvizanko

    Prayers of thanks seem egotistical and pointless to me.

    I don't know what millions of people all think individually, but I know what they do (at least the ones that apply at dinner time, which I am assuming is in the millions), which makes me ask the question why they haven't thought what I do about what they are doing. I'm not ridiculously saying...
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    Prayers of thanks seem egotistical and pointless to me.

    Where's the strawman? They are thankful they have food perdiod, I agree. But the reason they are thanking their god, without being able to think about why they ought not to, is what blows my mind. It just looks to me like they can't see the big picture. Its just their stupid little tradition...
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