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atheisthistorian
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Posted - 09/14/2004 :  17:28:21  Show Profile  Visit atheisthistorian's Homepage Send atheisthistorian a Private Message
Hello everybody!

I'm here to push my log, in which I comment on all the evil and stupidity in the world, caused by people being stupid and evil.

If this sounds interesting to you, check it out at:

http://atheisthistorian.org/study/badthinking.htm

Hope to see you there!

Dude
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Posted - 09/14/2004 :  22:20:14   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Dude a Private Message
What if I don't believe there is such a thing as "evil"?

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson

"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin

Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard

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Posted - 09/14/2004 :  22:42:41   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
What if I don't believe in the word, "the"?

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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filthy
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Posted - 09/15/2004 :  02:39:07   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
Interesting site, I suppose, but all of the stories posted I'd already seen elsewhere. But, I'll give him a B- for spam.

I myself do not believe in the word: 'believe'.


"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

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Dave W.
Info Junkie

USA
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Posted - 09/15/2004 :  06:16:24   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
Actually, I have a problem with the underlying premise:
All of my opinions and writings in this log build on a simple, underlying philosophy: humans are stupid and gullible.
It should be clear that these qualities are independent of whether one believes in any of the "root causes of all our misery" or not. Exxon Valdez didn't happen due to an ideology, and Enron didn't happen because of religious tradition. Also, there are some very smart and very not-gullible people out there who are devoutly religious.

The attempt to paint the religious, superstitious, and/or pseudoscientific as gullible idiots only further divides them from their critics. It's insulting, and nothing more. It serves no constructive purpose, as they're not going to say, "I'm an idiot? Oh, now I see! Thanks a lot, Atheist Historian! I am now free!"

Sheesh.

- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too.
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