Plan B Forum

Guinevere wrote:

Crackpot wrote:Did you check to see if you accidentally save it? (I've done that on a few occasions)

If I accidentally saved it, where would I go to retrieve it once saved?

having accidentally saved posts many times, go to the user control panel and then check the drafts folder.

Lo--politics crosses party lines, and expressing support for, or against, a war effort the country is involved in is inherently political IMHO. And these rituals are designed to engender such support in much the same way as saying "X thousands of people have been killed in this action, we owe it to ...

I stand corrected about the origin of the spaghetti monster, but I can swear i have heard Dawkins use it. But I disagree that it doesn't ridicule religion; the idea of worhsipping/believing in a spaghetti monster inspires lughter, which is what it is intended to do. One could use any number of model...

Gob--maybe if I get a chance I'll try again, but generally I just find him to be a passive aggressive intellectual lightweight who says "outrageous" things for attention. In this way I see him as much more akin to those whom he attacks than among philosophers or intellectuals, relgious or not, who t...

Dales--for those "hard decisions", don't you think two heads are better than one? and, FWIW< where in the bible does it say that men are to make the hard decisions? IMHO if a couple cares for and respects one another, making decisions jointly is a natrual progression.

and state congressional delegations are supposed to reflect their perrcentage of the nation's population as a whole. Not entirely, even the smallest state gets one seat in the House of Repesentatives, whether thir proportion of the US population is 1/470th of the US population or not (and larger nu...

Big RR wrote: we shouldn't have to be so open minded [about religion] that our brains deop out I don't see that as offensive per se, though I guess context is everything. It chimes in with my earlier statement that his message is "Make your OWN mind up - THINK for yourself, and if you still believe...

Guin--I plan to read them when I get a chance. and I am interested in your point about the film being faithful to the book--that is counter to what many of the critics have said (and the only negative press I've read on the film). Glad to hear that it's not necessarily the case. FWIW, I think Lisbet...

thestoat--I'll see if I can google any quotes later if I have time as i oin't have anything here with me, but I have always found him to be more concerned with the sound bite than with discussing the subject. There is one quote I recall which says something like we shouldn't have to be so open minde...

Guin--Just saw it this weekend; you're right, she was the perfect (anti-)heroine. And, unlike many action movies, the movie was quite good as well. Not typical tough woman sexploitation. I've heard a US remake in in the works; how good do you bet that will be? Kristina--I haven't read the books, but...

I don't know about the US but in QLD if you see someone in need of help (as in the case of the man shaking the victem) you have taken on a duty of care. You are bound by law to assist or call for assistance, not doing so and you are identified you can be charged with Puttin a life in Danger or begh...

I'd be surprised if someone thought for themselves and then decided to believe in a god based on the text in an extremely old book that had been modified for so many reasons by so many people for so long. If you're saying that someone exmined the bible and used it to prove the existence of god, the...

Scooter--I think your point about the territories of the vatican (the papal states) was the reason the US recognized the sovereignty of the vatican from 1789 through 1870 (although I believe there were not always formal diplomatic relations with the vatican during that time). All formal recognition ...

Crackpot--I have com-laints with the catholic church, but this has no bearing on whether the vatican should be seen as a country; IMHO it has no more busienss being recognized as a country than Mecca or Medina or even jerusalem does. The Vatican is the overarching office of the RC church, not a coun...

Grammar school? Not that I recall. But precisely what information are you looking for? A fossil record of something with "half an eye"? why would you think that would be "successful" enough to produce some kind of fossil record? Do you dispute the contention that an infinite number of monkeys typing...

I'm fully in favor of changing it. There's absolutely no reason we should have recognized as a sovereign nation. As for the binding effect, I think the power to enter into treaties is reserved to congress and the executive, and recognition is clearly a treaty. My guess is that the courts would be bo...

A fact keld? How about several? Mutations exist--fact 1. Some of these mutations are negative and lead to early deaths, some are neutral, and some are positive--fact 2. The positive mutations ar emutations which make it better for the individual to survive in its envrionment--fact 3 (don't believe i...

Such as (among other problems) a real population. The population of the Vatican -- setting aside the offspring of adulterous unions which the Vatican refuses to recognize and the offspring of mercenaries who happen to be on Vatican territory -- is entirely transitory. The present pope was not born ...

I think what the evolutionist would say (and I agree) is that mutations occur and the fittest ones survive and proliferate. Obviously our eyes have proliferated because they suit the needs of us in an evolutionary sense. Now what this has to do with whether or not a supreme being exists is completel...

But the vatican is somewhat different than a multinational corporation; the US recognizes the Vatican as a foreign country (with which we have full diplomatic relations--why? I really have no idea.) and, consequently, the Pope as a head of state. Could we, e.g., hold the queen or PM of the UK respon...