So... the First Great Atheist Holy War, who's up for it?
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We're now the 3rd result in a google search for "atheist holy war"
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Re: So... the First Great Atheist Holy War, who's up for it?
Geoff wrote:We're now the 3rd result in a google search for "atheist holy war"
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Re: So... the First Great Atheist Holy War, who's up for it?
But we're 1st for "first great atheist holy war": http://www.google.co.kr/search?sourceid ... t+holy+war
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Yeah.... and the second result is this:FBM wrote:But we're 1st for "first great atheist holy war": http://www.google.co.kr/search?sourceid ... t+holy+war
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Re: So... the First Great Atheist Holy War, who's up for it?
Fire in a crowded theater. Lol.
Yeah, same thing.
Yeah, same thing.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Re: So... the First Great Atheist Holy War, who's up for it?
"You have freedom of speech, but you are still not allowed to yell 'FIRE' in a crowded theater or 'AMBULANCE' in a crowded law school."laklak wrote:Fire in a crowded theater. Lol.
Yeah, same thing.
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Re: So... the First Great Atheist Holy War, who's up for it?
We beat Hitler!Pappa wrote:Yeah.... and the second result is this:FBM wrote:But we're 1st for "first great atheist holy war": http://www.google.co.kr/search?sourceid ... t+holy+war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitl ... ious_views
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"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
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[/thread] (Invoking Godwin.)
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Re: So... the First Great Atheist Holy War, who's up for it?
I blame Google.Gawdzilla wrote:[/thread] (Invoking Godwin.)
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Re: So... the First Great Atheist Holy War, who's up for it?
Have you actually ever looked at Godwin's law? Apart from being meant to be a joke, it's also meaningless. "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." You may as well replace "Nazis or Hitler" with "X". And it doesn't say that therefore the thread is at its end, let alone why or how.Gawdzilla wrote:[/thread] (Invoking Godwin.)
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You're right. It works with "bananas" too, or "the". It's a completely meaningless statement of probability.Seraph wrote:Have you actually ever looked at Godwin's law? Apart from being meant to be a joke, it's also meaningless. "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." You may as well replace "Nazis or Hitler" with "X". And it doesn't say that therefore the thread is at its end, let alone why or how.Gawdzilla wrote:[/thread] (Invoking Godwin.)
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There's a long thread over at JREF about how it means nothing except as a joke response to any mention of sHitler. I've never tried to shut a thread down by invoking it, and ignore anyone who tries. Not much for hall monitors.Seraph wrote:Have you actually ever looked at Godwin's law? Apart from being meant to be a joke, it's also meaningless. "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." You may as well replace "Nazis or Hitler" with "X". And it doesn't say that therefore the thread is at its end, let alone why or how.Gawdzilla wrote:[/thread] (Invoking Godwin.)
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Re: So... the First Great Atheist Holy War, who's up for it?
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Re: So... the First Great Atheist Holy War, who's up for it?
If you know of anyone who has ever burned a blank sheet of paper, let us know here so we can arrange a burning in effigy, the storming of buildings, the murder of innocent people, and more besides. 
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