No. Biology teaches us that brain cells die within three to seven minutes after cardiac failure. Nature is extremely efficient at breaking down human corpses. Decomposition is well under way by the time burial or cremation occurs. However, the exact rate of decomposition depends to some extent on environmental conditions.

Decomposition in the air is twice as fast as when the body is under water and four times as fast as underground. Corpses are preserved longer when buried deeper, as long as the ground isn't waterlogged.

Every state execution in Connecticut from 1640 - 1700 was for either sodomy or witchcraft. There were 13 such documented executions, and almost certainly many more undocumented murders for these "crimes".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Haven_Colony
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_masturbation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_executed_in_Connecticut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_George_Spencer

If we allowed them, these Christians would bring us right back to such "justice" tomorrow. Fortunately for us, dear readers, we weren't born in the 17th century.

Religion is technically in competition with science, but only in the same farcical way that the Amish are in "competition" with Amazon.com for furniture sales. Or the way stone tablets are in "competition" with computers for information storage.

You have no hope, theists, none at all.

 Religion is an ever-shrinking pocket of scientific ignorance.

Yet. The end of death may well come within your lifetime. Bringing the dead back to life may soon be a medical reality, with claims people may be able to be resuscitated up to 24 hours after their death.

Critical care physician Sam Parnia makes the claim in his book Erasing Death, saying resuscitation research is on the cusp of a major breakthrough within the next 20 years.

"With today's medicine, we can bring people back to life up to one, maybe two hours, sometimes even longer, after their heart stopped beating and they have thus died by circulatory failure. In the future, we will likely get better at reversing death," he told Germany's Spiegel magazine.

"It is possible that in 20 years, we may be able to restore people to life 12 hours or maybe even 24 hours after they have died. You could call that resurrection, if you will. But I still call it resuscitation science."

Currently the average resuscitation rates for cardiac arrest patients in the US is 18 percent, while in the U.K. it is 16 percent. But at Parnia's research base in New York that rate is between 33 percent and 38 percent.

"Most, but not all of our patients, get discharged with no neurological damage whatsoever," he said.

Very smart people are just as capable of being misled - or misleading themselves - as are idiots. Our world is awash with intelligent, wealthy, and powerful individuals who deliberately deceive others - often en maase. Only the wary and determined information wanderer finds the path to truth.

Nearly all living adults were systematically lied to during their formative years. We are few who possess the ability to liberate ourselves from this brainwashing by means of mentally searching and destroying all fear. That's why there are some very intelligent people pushing some very stupid - sometimes insane - worldviews.

Gold is only scarce to a planet-bound civilization. We are no longer planet-bound, and gold is downright abundant in our solar system. Gold was an excellent investment in 1915, but a terrible investment to be making in 2015.

Back in the colonial days, before separation of Church and State, men would leverage the power of the state to enforce the will of their chosen deity, in this case the Christian god. Masturbation, homosexuality, and heresy were all punishable by death.

Each such case was of course a terrible abortion of injustice, and many people recognized this, felt empathy for those being murdered senselessly. Early Americans decided they didn't want to live in a society that engaged in Human Sacrifice to satisfy an angry God. We didn't want to be like Ancient Aztecs.

Churchmen used the State to murder their fellow citizens when they felt offended, so that's why we have separation of church and state.

Of course, change is always scary, most especially when you can't see the past horizon. But it's folly to fear the inevitable. Change is the only constant, and now the world is changing faster than ever before.

We must learn to embrace change, because it has surely embraced us.

The real question is, why is this automobile discussion thread in the politics & society subforum?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=9.0 <- off-topic is here

Eight Health Benefits of Sex:

1. Sexercise is cardio, that's healthy
2. Lowers blood pressure
3. Reduces risk of heart attack
4. Eases pain, orgasms can even block chronic pain
5. Reduces risk of prostate cancer (for men) / Improves bladder control (for women)
6. Improves sleep
7. Reduces stress which in turn
8. Boosts the immune system

By the way, I don't merely promote sex for pleasure. I promote a human existence which holistically maximizes pleasure and minimizes suffering.

Pleasure, not pain.
Dignity, not drudgery.
Liberty, not tyranny.
Reason, not violence.
Science, not superstition.
Sufficiency, not waste.
Knowledge, not ignorance.
Truth, not falsehood.
Wisdom, not folly.
Love, not hatred.
Kindness, not cruelty.
Solidarity, not apathy.
Compassion, not greed.

There stands my philosophy. It stands opposed to religion and deception, it stands opposed to banks and loans, it stands opposed to nations and borders, it stands opposed to poverty and starvation, it stands opposed to war and murder, it stands opposed to capitalism and exploitation.

Are these bible-thumping assholes still pushing fear and shame down our throats? Unbelievable.

Bitcoin can and will crash the relative value of gold. Diamonds will not be effected.

Actually it carries quite of few implications about your intellectual acuity.

Kemmelmeier (2008) surveyed college students who scored above average in academic achievement tests (e.g. SAT and ACT) and found two trends. There was a linear trend for more intelligent students to be less conservative overall, in line with Stankov’s findings. Additionally, there was a non-linear trend for the most intelligent students to support more extreme political views as opposed to more moderate ones. Political views in this study were measured by first asking people how liberal vs. conservative they were, and additionally asking about their views on more specific issues referred to as “traditional gender roles” and “anti-regulation” attitudes.

Participants’ views on the former issues (e.g. gay marriage and abortion) were more strongly associated with their overall conservatism than their views on government regulation (e.g. gun control, higher taxes for the wealthy, speech codes on campus). Interestingly, higher intelligence was associated with less conservative views on traditional gender roles on the one hand, but more “conservative” views opposing government regulation. This suggests that more intelligent people in this study tended to support both greater personal freedom and less government regulation in general (libertarians take note). This finding is similar to a previous finding that higher education was associated with greater support for liberal social policies but not with support for greater economic regulation (Gerber, Huber, Doherty, Dowling, & Ha, 2010).

Stankov (2009) has argued that conservative political ideologies tend to be associated with lower intelligence on average. Conservatives generally value tradition, respect for authority, and social order, and tend to be leery of innovation and change. These scholars have argued that such values tend to be associated with cognitive rigidity and may therefore appeal to people who have difficulty with intellectual challenges that require them to process novel information. In support of his argument, Stankov cited evidence that people with more conservative views tend to score lower on IQ tests and to have lower levels of education.

One major reason why intelligent people tend to be liberal is that conservatism is the default position. As Charlton once wrote on this blog “conservatism is natural and spontaneous”. I agree with this; conservatism is natural because conservatism is all about our most primitive self-serving impulses: tribalism, family and children, greed etc. Evolution has predisposed us to feel emotions that enhance our genetic fitness, and these are the conservative emotions, so conservatives are disgusted by immigration because it threatens their gene pool. They worship wealth because historically, the ability to acquire resources enhanced the survival of one’s self, one’s family, and one’s tribe. They are disgusted by feminism because feminist daughters threaten their genetic fitness by being too focused on career to give them grand-kids. Similarly, they are disgusted by gays because openly gay sons also don’t give them any grand-kids. So evolution has programmed us to feel conservative emotions, and thus only people who are intelligent enough to think critically about their evolutionary programming and rebel against it, tend to have the option of being liberal.

A second major reason why intelligent people tend to be liberal is that intelligence is the mental ability to adapt and liberalism is all about change. By contrast, those who are not intelligent enough to adapt to a changing society or just new ideas, may fear it, and thus prefer conservatism which seeks to preserve tradition.

A third reason why intelligent people tend to be liberal is that liberalism is more complex and ambiguous. By contrast conservatism seeks simple solutions and simple dichotomies like good vs evil, us vs. them. However just because liberalism is more intellectually demanding than conservatism does not make it more correct. I find a lot of smart people really are “clever sillies” in that they embrace theories and ideas that are unnecessarily complex and this is probably a major problem in the IQ 120-140 range that so many of our elites are drawn from. Such people are smart enough to think of complex answers to questions, but they’re not smart enough to understand why the complex solution is wrong.

They suffer from bounded cognition, because they haven’t internalized Occam’s razor.

You understand nothing. Not me, the individual, but humanity in the collective sense is God.

Atheists are disorganized in a non-religious way to maintain the idea that there are no unicorns. Atheism is a religion. It is a non-religion where mankind is god, because it is mankind who, with the support of all evidence, concludes that there are no unicorns.

Mankind is god

Economic Left/Right: -9.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -9.44

That's very basic reverse psychology. It's no different than this shit here:






When an advertisement tells you to LOVE YOUR BODY, it's really reminding you that you HATE IT. It's designed to help you arrive at the conclusion that you should buy their product to alleviate that hatred.

When an advertisement tells you to SAVE MONEY BY BUYING _____, it's really telling you to SPEND money. As an exercise, try replacing the word "save" with "spend" everywhere you see or hear it in an ad.

When a religious book tells you FEAR NOT, the true intent is to remind you of the fear the book itself has already inspired in you - that terrible fear of ETERNAL HELLFIRE.

That's why FEAR NOT is in the bible 71 times, the authors knew you'd need a TON of reminders about your fear. Fear is not a natural state, after all. Infants come into this world trusting of all strangers. Why do you suppose that is?

Jealous magical skyfather who judges your life and will possibly decide to burn you in hellfire for eternity? I'd be terrified!

Well, I'll leave you to your flagellation. Get to it, you don't wanna risk eternity in Hell!



I'm gonna go masturbate.

So much thought, so much effort, so much energy wasted denying what is right in front of your eyes. I know you're afraid theists, afraid of the unknown.

But there's nothing to fear, there never has been. The unknown is nothing more than a shadow on the wall.

So you reject the New Testament and only endorse the Old Testament?