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Post by Retrograde on Apr 19, 2007 23:11:12 GMT -4
Bill Thompson, do not send me PMs until your maturity level has improved by a factor of at least ten.
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Post by Retrograde on Apr 19, 2007 16:17:59 GMT -4
How about just dropping the mocking entirely? If his track record elsewhere is any indication, he will keep testing the limits until he finds them.
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Post by Retrograde on Jan 3, 2007 17:43:40 GMT -4
This sounds like fun, can I make a prediction?
In 2007, Chinese soldiers will not emerge from tunnels in New York City, but the prediction that Chinese soldiers will emerge from tunnels in New York City in 2007 will remain correct.
How's that?
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Post by Retrograde on Dec 23, 2006 19:09:37 GMT -4
It's one of the biggest conspiracies of history, with millions in on it. Apologists for this conspiracy refer to the conspirators as "customers," but that doesn't change the fact that it was they who suppressed the electric car by buying gasoline powered cars instead.
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Post by Retrograde on Jan 2, 2007 18:31:30 GMT -4
The Chinese are still underground and waiting... As are we. Well, waiting, that is, not underground. Or perhaps some of us are underground, I wouldn't really know. . .
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Post by Retrograde on Jan 2, 2007 1:58:01 GMT -4
#34 is a good one. It was rather unlikely that 2006 would be the first year in history in which nobody famous died. . .
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Post by Retrograde on Jan 31, 2006 9:26:51 GMT -4
Nixon faked Canada? You mean its existence? Absolutely! Just another in a long line of distractions to keep the American public from paying attention to what was really going on. Wow. Sure had me fooled. So what was the place I visited? N
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Post by Retrograde on Jan 31, 2006 4:01:01 GMT -4
Of course not, because he perfectly covered his tracks, which proves it's true. Heck, after single-handedly faking Apollo, Viet Nam, Watergate, and Canada, finding a look-alike corpse was a cakewalk for ol' Tricky Dick. Nixon faked Canada? You mean its existence? Or something else?
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Post by Retrograde on Jan 11, 2006 23:45:36 GMT -4
Despite the current rhetoric, I think Bush will be well out of office before the U.S. could attempt an unprovoked military action in Iran. The Army is quite stretched now without another war to fight. Bush only has three more years. I expect that Iraq would be a picnic compared to Iran...
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Post by Retrograde on Jan 11, 2006 23:43:39 GMT -4
I have a few reasons they might want nuclear power, There are plenty of reasons for that. Iran has the third largest oil reserves in the world, after Saudi Arabia and Iraq. This is often taken as evidence that Iran's intentions are less than noble, since they don't "need" the nuclear power with all that oil. True enough, but it may nonetheless be optimal; if they can generate power more cheaply than oil, then it would be optimal for them to do that and sell the oil to someone else. Furthermore, Iran is a big, big country, a much larger population than either Iraq or Saudi Arabia. And fuel consumption is subsidized (elminating the subsidy is the first thing I would recommend in their energy policy, but they don't seem willing to do that). So consumption is very high, and may well turn Iran into a net importer of energy in the coming years. The fact that they may have perfectly legitimate reasons for pursuing nuclear power is, of course, not at all incompatible with the pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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Post by Retrograde on Sept 1, 2006 17:28:35 GMT -4
I don't. I have evidence that gravity exists; since I do, I don't need faith. Yes, exactly. That's as far as I can go with blind belief in things I can't explain. I have faith in gravity and it has yet to fail me. Yet I honestly can say I don't understand gravity. I let others explain it, and have faith that their explanations are valid. True comprehension is outside my knowledge base. By gravity, do we mean curvature in space-time? ;D
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Post by Retrograde on Jan 3, 2006 9:23:59 GMT -4
For those that don't know Fiji, there are two groups of people there for the most part. Native Fijians, and Fijian Indians. Yes, and they don't always get on so well...
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God
Dec 10, 2005 8:30:27 GMT -4
Post by Retrograde on Dec 10, 2005 8:30:27 GMT -4
To slightly misquote the piece linked in the OP, if atheism is a belief then not collecting stamps is a hobby. All a matter of definitions. Interesting how theists and atheists alike prefer a narrow definition of religion. Maybe each group doesn't like to be compared to the other...
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God
Dec 6, 2005 23:07:16 GMT -4
Post by Retrograde on Dec 6, 2005 23:07:16 GMT -4
Then there's weak atheism/strong agnosticism, which doubts the existence of the deity. That where I place myself. OK, I think we're just different a bit on terminology. By "disbelief," I meant affirmative, certain disbelief, not uncertainty
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God
Dec 3, 2005 18:22:26 GMT -4
Post by Retrograde on Dec 3, 2005 18:22:26 GMT -4
"That would be an ecumenical matter!" To borrow a phrase ;D Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls! ;D ;D
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