Re: SPOUTED: Knee-jerk Atheist Spams List With Stories of Christians Gone Bad

2005-06-20 Thread William T Goodall
On 20 Jun 2005, at 6:58 am, Trent Shipley wrote: And let us now remember the evil done by doctrinaire atheists such as Stalin and Mao. Verily it is not faith in diety or religion that causeth evil, but belief in all master narratives. If thou wouldst do no evil, have not faith, not even

Re: Religious zealot slaughters children

2005-06-20 Thread William T Goodall
On 20 Jun 2005, at 3:52 am, Alberto Monteiro wrote: Damon Agretto wrote: Yeah, cause we all REALLY know it was Dungeons & Dragons that drove him to do it... I must be the most evil person in the list, because I am christian, communist, heavy metal fan and D&D player. Don't leave o

Re: Now, this is just thoroughly tasteless....

2005-06-20 Thread Max Battcher
Dave Land wrote: On Jun 18, 2005, at 9:42 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: More appropriate might be shreds of the US flag. Flag-idolizers in the USA are no more or less nutty to me than Koran-idolizers in the Islamic world, although the American nuts generally seem less likely to call for the deat

Re: Free book!

2005-06-20 Thread Max Battcher
William T Goodall wrote: Charles Stross has put up a free to download copy of his new novel Accelerando in several formats at http://www.accelerando.org/book/ Always great to see more writing released to the Creative Commons. I'm just a bit disappointed to note that it is released NoDeriv

Re: Cover-up or protection?

2005-06-20 Thread PAT MATHEWS
From: Dave Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not too many people are aware of the natural connection between Silicon Valley and mercury. One of the area's natural attractions is the Almaden Quicksilver County Park, whose name is not just a pretty word attached to a pretty place: quicksilver is what was

Re: Religious zealot slaughters children

2005-06-20 Thread Alberto Monteiro
William T Goodall wrote: > >> I must be the most evil person in the list, because I am christian, >> communist, >> heavy metal fan and D&D player. > > Don't leave out Linux user! That blasphemy could get you burned at > the stake in Redmond :) > Using Linux is part of the commie stuff. Communists e

Re: Now, this is just thoroughly tasteless....

2005-06-20 Thread Leonard Matusik
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 17:38:03 -0500, Gary Denton wrote: On 6/18/05, Horn, John wrote: >> > Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa >> > > >> >On Jun 18, 2005, at 7:37 AM, Julia Thompson wrote: >> > >> > > I wonder how they'd feel about someone using pages from a Bible >> > > construct something from papier mache?

Re: Religious zealot slaughters children

2005-06-20 Thread Leonard Matusik
WHOOPS; sorry wrong post. I was activly ignoring this thread. Leonard Matusik [EMAIL PROTECTED] "A bad thing done for a good cause is still a bad thing. It's why so few people slap their political opponents. That, and because slapping looks so silly." - Randy Cohen. ___

Re: SPOUTED: Knee-jerk Atheist Spams List With Stories of Christians Gone Bad

2005-06-20 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 23:28:29 +0100, William T Goodall wrote > I'm fed up reading knee-jerk woolly-minded garbage about how great > religion is. I'll just post a few actual facts about what religion > is really about. Obscene evil, that's what. Rape, murder, child- > abuse, cannibalism, genoci

Re: Cover-up or protection?

2005-06-20 Thread Nick Arnett
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 06:43:11 -0600, PAT MATHEWS wrote > >Dave "breeding a geek in my spare time at home" Land > > Boy? Or girl? Dave is a boy. Nick P.S. So is his son. So was the other one. -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voicemail: 408-904-7198 _

Re: Cover-up or protection?

2005-06-20 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Jun 20, 2005, at 8:44 AM, Nick Arnett wrote: Dave is a boy. Nick P.S. So is his son. Hmm. San Francisco, liberal attitudes, surgery ... Hmm, all is impermanent... ;) (Around a decade back David Byrne did a song called "Now I'm Your Mom" about a man who gets a sex change and is tryin

Re: SPOUTED: Knee-jerk Atheist Spams List With Stories of Christians Gone Bad

2005-06-20 Thread William T Goodall
On 20 Jun 2005, at 4:39 pm, Nick Arnett wrote: Anybody who has been on this list has gotten the message that you have a grudge against religion. I don't have a grudge against religion. I just don't like evil, and religion is evil. Say something new about it! What's to say? It was

Re: Gulags

2005-06-20 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Gary Denton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2005 9:27 AM Subject: Re: Gulags >Dr. Cole is correct, what you are arguing is that a class of people should >be held indefinitely without trial. This is known as a bill of

Time Magazine on Gitmo L3

2005-06-20 Thread Dan Minette
Time magazine, issue before last, had a cover story on Gitmo that is relevant to our discussions. To me, it raises a few questions: 1) Is it valid to think that the treatment of this prisoner was unique because the administration had strong evidence of his ties to the workings of AQ and the plann

Wonder Woman, Arab-style

2005-06-20 Thread Deborah Harrell
An Egyptian man creates Middle East superheros: http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/09/19/wonder_womana_mideast_versionfinds_her_niche/ http://makeashorterlink.com/?F31A12B4B CAIRO -- Jalila finally tracked down the terrorists who stole plutonium from the nuclear power plant w

Environmental mayhem (was: Pesticides and Children)

2005-06-20 Thread Deborah Harrell
For those who don't know, Pete Coors' bid for senatorship was defeated in last year's election; I don't recall the margin but a majority of Coloradans didn't think he'd have our best interests at heart. > Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > His earlier article "Crimes Against Nature" is he

Re: Cover-up or protection?

2005-06-20 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Gary Denton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 12:26 AM Subject: Cover-up or protection? >More than 500,000 kids currently suffer from autism, >and pediatricians diagnose more than 40,000 new cases every year. The >

Re: Cover-up or protection?

2005-06-20 Thread Dan Minette
- Original Message - From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 7:23 PM Subject: Re: Cover-up or protection? > > - Original Message - > From: "Gary Denton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" > Sent: Saturday, J

Religious child prostitution

2005-06-20 Thread William T Goodall
http://skepdic.com/devadasi.html "Devadasi is a religious practice in parts of southern India, including Andhra Pradesh, whereby parents marry a daughter to a deity or a temple.The marriage usually occurs before the girl reaches puberty and requires the girl to become a prostitute for upper

Roe vs. Wade

2005-06-20 Thread John D. Giorgis
An interesting tidbit was passed along to me today that bears repeating in light of our most recent list discussion on the subject Rehnquist, in his dissent from the Roe vs. Wade nooted that the Court must be wrong to find any basis for this right in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, for

Re: Cover-up or protection?

2005-06-20 Thread Gary Denton
On 6/20/05, Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, does anyone know if the diagnosis of autism has fallen off by, say, 80% > over the last few years? I'd guess that, if that happened, someone would > have noticed. I am wondering if Robert Kennedy Jr. engaged in a bit of overstating his ca