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Post by iamspartacus on Dec 14, 2005 6:10:48 GMT -4
In the hundreds and thousands of years before written history humans had an oral tradition of storing and passing on information. Such wisdom as, “don’t go over that hill else you will be eaten by monsters (ie. the neighbouring tribe)” or “don’t eat the glow-in-the-dark mushrooms because they’ll kill you” prevailed.
People who ignored these warnings and did go over the hill or ate the mushrooms would voluntarily take themselves out of the gene pool. Can you see where I’m going with this? Maybe over time this would predispose humans to adopt belief in things told to them as a survival strategy. The stronger you believe, the greater your chances of survival.
Humanity may have evolved to accept things without evidence. This may range from traditional faiths in a supreme being to one million Americans believing that they have been abducted by aliens. Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies. There seems no limit to what humans will believe.
Of course there are always mutations in genetic inheritance. I think I must be one because I have no predisposition towards belief at all. I am a rationalist and require evidence before I accept something. In fact, I don’t believe in anything that requires belief!
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Post by iamspartacus on Jan 10, 2006 5:37:42 GMT -4
I don’t believe it’s as bad in the UK as in the US. The reason being that the UK’s National Curriculum includes Religious Education as subject. ID therefore may be taught along with the other creation myths and kept well away from science.
I don’t think that this is an option in the US because state schools have to be secular. This is why Creation/ID proponents try to get religion into US schools under the guise of science.
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Post by iamspartacus on Feb 10, 2006 6:59:45 GMT -4
Wow! they pass the Turing test so it must be true. Stutefish, a piece of advice, random use of large fonts will bolster your argument no end.
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Post by iamspartacus on Jan 30, 2006 17:30:39 GMT -4
Then there’s the question of dosage. Some people would get too much and some wouldn’t get any. In the Moscow theatre siege the Russian special forces pumped in some kind of anaesthetic gas. Some people died because they breathed in an unsafe amount.
Is the drug in the jet fuel? If it is then it is hard to see it surviving the combustion. If it is pumped in with the jet exhaust then there needs to be some kind of delivery system. It’s difficult to imagine all commercial jet airliners having this fitted and serviced without any one knowing. Do they have the equivalent of Murray the vending machine guy come round to each plane once a week to fill up the secret drug tank? ;D
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Post by iamspartacus on Jan 1, 2006 13:00:49 GMT -4
English boxer Ricky Hatton dethroned Australia's IBF light welterweight world champion Kostya Tszyu.
Lleyton Hewitt suffered a heart-breaking loss to Marat Safin the Australian Open final.
Tasmania won their first domestic title in 26 years when they beat Queensland in the final of cricket's domestic one-day competition
June - Australia slumping to their first ever loss to Bangladesh in a one-day shocker.
Sadly, Australian cyclist Amy Gillett was hit by a car and killed while on a training ride in Germany
New Zealand crushed the Kangaroos in a Tri-Nations rugby league upset. You’ve already got that one! ;D
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Post by iamspartacus on Jan 9, 2006 8:21:55 GMT -4
It's not my job to make you believe what's staring you in the face The level of proof that DH requires is at the extreme low end of the proof scale typical of a CTist. Belief plays a large part in their lives. I can only conclude that they have a (I must be careful what I say here) different grasp of reality to other people who do not accept their theories.
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Post by iamspartacus on Feb 27, 2006 12:22:28 GMT -4
That has to be one of the stupidest things I've heard in my entire life I could only bear to listen to the 1st 20 minutes or so. Just up the part where he said the people on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's were all satanists, including Laurel and Hardy. What, including Shirley Temple?
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Post by iamspartacus on Feb 11, 2006 11:51:29 GMT -4
Now you're just being speciesist!
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Post by iamspartacus on Feb 11, 2006 4:27:09 GMT -4
It obviously works for Keith Richards too!
If McCartney is a shape shifting alien reptilian then presumably he could look any age he wanted to. We must therefore conclude that he chooses to look the age he does. Either that or he's been spending too much time with Keith Richards.
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Post by iamspartacus on Feb 7, 2006 11:58:59 GMT -4
OK Len your large font sized argument has totally convinced me. But did you know, they have been incorporating nano-particles of a rare earth element in commercially available tinfoil for years. This allows mind control waves through. You can disable this by baking it in a radiation oven, or is that a ceramics lab? Anyhow, I would recommend wearing a high gauge stainless steel colander. And don’t forget, the waves are much higher out of doors. I always wear mine on the way to work and look at all the other silly chumps driving around unprotected. If only they knew just how stupid they were! ;D
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Post by iamspartacus on Feb 6, 2006 17:07:53 GMT -4
As Rusty pointed out Paul didn't die until '66. Lennon and Harrison wrote all the songs atributed to him. Lennon was killed because he was going public. I suppose that is more believable than my, McCartney is a shape shifting alien theory. But something still doesn’t add up. In a recent outburst at the Q Magazine awards, Yoko Ono said “John Lennon used to lie awake at night agonising over why Paul McCartney’s songs were more popular than his own”. She said that she used to pacify John by assuring him that his songs “were more sophisticated than his colleague’s simple rhythms”. Ono appeared to imply that McCartney’s lyrics were from the “moon, June, spoon” school of rhyming love songs. If Lennon and Harrison wrote all the songs then why did Lennon not take all the best ones for himself? Why let Paul “Impostor” McCartney get the glory?
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Post by iamspartacus on Feb 6, 2006 14:14:46 GMT -4
Didn't you know DNA can be faked in a radiation oven? Curses! Foiled again Or duplicated by an alien shape shifting reptiloid. Think about it! McCartney knows the Queen, she gave him the knighthood. On Abbey Road he wrote the song "Her Majesty" which goes as follows: Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl, but she doesn't have a lot to say Her Majesty's a pretty nice girl but she changes from day to day "but she changes from day to day" Also a shape shifter!!! and a known member of the NWO. It all fits.
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Post by iamspartacus on Feb 6, 2006 10:57:07 GMT -4
I believe that Paul is dead and was replaced by a double. Can anyone listen to the $h!t he recorded with Wings and as a solo artist and really believe he is the same Paul who was in the Beatles?! The rumours of his death started in 69 around the time of the Beatles split but believers in the theory claim he actually died in 64/65 (they can't seem to agree which). So whoever replaced McCartney in 65 wrote on Rubber Soul and all subsequent albums.
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Post by iamspartacus on Jan 21, 2006 6:10:00 GMT -4
There were about 40 small fragments x-rayed in the skull as well, supposedly from a full metal jacket bullet. Dr. Cyril Wecht noted... "It is my experience, including bullets that are not as powerful, and fully jacketed ammunition like this [the 6.5 mm Carcano bullet], that they do not explode into dozens of pieces." Did anyone see the episode of Mythbusters where they were trying to see how much depth of water you need to protect you from bullets. All the low velocity rounds (from a Civil War musket, shotgun with deer slug) penetrated the water to a depth of 9-12 feet and remained intact. The high velocity rounds (full metal jackets in an M1 and 50 caliber rifle, penetrated less than a yard and ended up in fragments. It was put down to the massive deceleration of the supersonic round as soon as it entered the water. They busted the ice bullet myth also. Spelling
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Post by iamspartacus on Feb 28, 2006 4:45:21 GMT -4
I saw it. It was very nostalgic for me and very informative. I liked the way they cut the Luna TV pictures with that of the LM window mounted 16mm. James Burke got a few things wrong about the roles of the CDR and CMP but his demos on suits and systems were very enjoyable. It was nice to see everything pristine and new rather than the aging and dusty exhibits that they have now become. Patrick Moore's trousers were very dubious though.
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