Tero's Atheist Ramblings

[Tero]

90 year old mormon dude gets spiritual vertigo
http://youtu.be/wteRcVGlsGI

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Tero, do you visit used book stores? There's one on Manchester next to a BMW dealer. The strip mall also includes a dry cleaner run by Korean Baptists. They have the windows almost blacked out with Bible verses. Sadly, it looks like they had a sign painter do them as the Engrish aspect is almost non-existent.

[Tero]

I don't go to any but B&N and a used CD and DVD place that has books in Chesterfield mall.

Have you ever stopped at Trainwreck?
http://stlouis.citysearch.com/profile/5 ... aloon.html
looks like just bar food.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I don't go to any but B&N and a used CD and DVD place that has books in Chesterfield mall.

Have you ever stopped at Trainwreck?
http://stlouis.citysearch.com/profile/5 ... aloon.html
looks like just bar food.

Never noticed it before. There's a bar I'd love to get the meet to, just west of Vandeventer on Manchester, called the "Foxhole". (Atheists in foxholes?) But given the neighborhood I've never stopped there.

[Tero]

Well, I stay mostly on this side of Maplewood. If you got guests at Trainwreck looking for a restaurant that is not all the way into town, Webster Groves has an Irish pub, good beer, a few Irish menu items. There is also one in St Charles if you are headed there

http://www.llywelynspub.com/

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Well, I stay mostly on this side of Maplewood. If you got guests at Trainwreck looking for a restaurant that is not all the way into town, Webster Groves has an Irish pub, good beer, a few Irish menu items. There is also one in St Charles if you are headed there

http://www.llywelynspub.com/

We'll be around St. Charles Friday I think. Mai has a mission up that way. I've learned not to herd these cats, so lunch will be where we wind up.

[Tero]

We find a troll at Amazon forum. He uses different emails and the same credit card to register.

Or how about the monkeys typing a line of shakespeare-as soon as one letter is right it locks itself in and really only takes a couple of minutes to get the line right. If there is no planned product in evolution, how could it possibly know when to lock in the right letter? The thing about it is, dawkins actually doesn't realize that he is completely contradicting himself. And the god delusion--complete garbage. dawkins should stick to what he knows; but, to think of it, I'm not sure what he knows. Anyway, if you want to read a good book defending atheism check out George H. Smith; at least he is intelligent enough to make a coherent argument). And yes I am a troll; I freely admit it. I've been around here off and on for years under different identities. All you got to do is set up a new account with a unique e-mail and order one item to have access to the forums so you can troll to your heart's delight. But, anyway, Bill, I am a lazy troll. And one thing I have learned is that the quickest way to learn about something is to come onto an Amazon forum, and make some stupid, insulting post about the topic you want to know about. Then, just sit back and before long the fanatics like you, Bill, come out of cloud (as they say) and educate the ignoramusses by letting them know everything they know about the topic, or supply or them with dozens of links to relevent sites.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Really only takes a couple of minutes to get the line right."

[Hermit]

And one thing I have learned is that the quickest way to learn about something is to come onto an Amazon forum, and make some stupid, insulting post about the topic you want to know about. Then, just sit back and before long the fanatics like you, Bill, come out of cloud (as they say) and educate the ignoramusses by letting them know everything they know about the topic, or supply or them with dozens of links to relevent sites.

That's a pretty inefficient way to get to know a topic and find the relevant links to it. Hasn't he heard of search engines or the Wikipedia?

[Tero]

[Tero]

25 one star reviews of Losing Our Religion. Enjoy
http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Our-Religi ... addOneStar

[Tero]

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[Tero]

catch of the day: amazon member responds to fundie

>>without intelligence you cant have life

And yet, here you are.

>>all i need is an education in logic

That would be a good start! Let me know when you get one.

[Tero]

Catch of the day

Fundie:
>>do not need to revisit that krapp no matter how much
>>you claim the emperor has clothes on

Response:

Creationists would love to think that this is all a case of "The Emperor's New Clothes", and that they're the clever little child who sees the problem that all of the other experts and scientists keep missing. I've noticed that there are many urban myths based on similar ideas. For example: the story about the Philosophy student who gets to his graduate exam and finds that it consists of one question ("Why?") followed by 10 sheets of blank paper; he replies with just the words "Why not?" and gets an A+. Or similarly, TV shows like ol' American westerns, Doctor Who, McGyver, etc. where the stranger comes to town, uncovers the problem that has stumped everybody else living there for a generation, and fixes everything before sunset.

People like these stories because they like that underlying idea, mixed in with the general conspiracy theory mentality. But like creationism, these stories are fictional. If there's a field of study you're unfamiliar with, and you come up with a rhetorical question that you is a big stumper ("Why are there still monkeys?", "So where did the Big Bang come from?"), it's more likely that you're simply not familiar enough with the subject to know that the question has already been brought up and answered countless times.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Gotchaism will never replace honest science.