Wow, I don't remember that at all. Not saying it didn't happen. Just that I don't remember.
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I didn’t at first, so I went and looked it up. Yeah, it was ugly. I understand the idea that the other person was trying to convey, but wishing harm upon Steinman’s children to teach him a lesson or some such was a step too far.
@Emrys theres a stereotype/internet running joke about the law libertarians care most about removing being age of consent laws.
You know, its funny. I remembered that I was the one who scared him off, but I didn't think I wished his kids would get cancer so I looked it up. That is such a phenomenally dumb way to interpret what I said and nobody would've given it a second thought if he didn't leave over it. It was literally just pointing his support for policies that hurt vaguely distant people that don't matter to him and pointing out how he would feel if it effected people close to him. Find another excuse to justify his bigotry in the name of civility.
Also a fair point.
Totally get people misunderstanding your posts in the worst way
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And that was a good line lol
2022: We're going to institute a draft for flipping burgers
figmentPez
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figmentPez
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I see this argument from time to time and it makes no sense to me. Every other configuration of the "heavens and Earth" are equally as unlikely. We had to land on something and this is it. We evolved to fit in this world because that is how evolution works. If it was set up differently, some other form of life may have evolved to fit in that setup and could claim it was just as unlikely.
If you roll a die 2,000 times, you have to come up with some outcome. Sitting at the end and looking back saying "Wow! What are the odds we got THIS set of numbers?" is looking at it from the wrong end.
There was a comic made by a creationist showing a Coca-Cola can being formed over millions of years by complete random chance, it was obviously mocking the idea that something as intricate as life (or more specifically, humanity) could be random. They never seem to really get it because they don't understand biology and don't really want to understand it.
They also don't understand the law of large numbers and the sheer immensity of the number of dice being rolled again and again over an unfathomable length of time.
Using the phrase "random chance" like it's some kind of synonym for "impossible" discounts the literally unimaginable number of times those dice have been rolled since the beginning of time.
--Patrick
Who made the dicemaker?
I'm absolutely sure that given enough time and space, nature will eventually throw up a rock looking 100% exactly identical to a coke bottle. it's not even that weird a shape, with curved sides and all, I could see a rock that shape forming in a river flow.
Throw dice long enough, and eventually you'll have a streak of 10.000 sixes in a row, on a fair die. It's possible, it's just not going to happen in your life span.
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No, Who's on second.
figmentPez
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Even Santa is a layabout who would rather collect unemployment!
Maybe what we need is a Santa that appeals more to today's young people.
Hang on, I think I may have a solution...
--Patrick
Sometimes it feels like we're still fighting the cold war
Now I'm curious what people thought of all our sacred american christmas traditions back when they were brand new and obviously commercials
figmentPez
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Lot of good ones in this gallery.
What concerns me most about this... Is that I'd already seen most of them... In clergy groups that I'm part of (presented as either funny or theology discussion fodder or both)!
That doesn’t concern me at all. That gives me hope.