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1401  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: March 31, 2019, 07:45:34 AM
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So now you are presenting an argument from authority. LOL.  Did I put your feet too close to the fire?
Am I?

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I can give you countless errors in the scriptures (all religions and denominations).  Countless reasons from history.
Then you surely did not understood what I am talking about. Hence you are still insisting to put your argument based on the personal God which I have already stated that it was not I am referring to. Those happens for reasons we don't even know (As you have said if you don't know something then tell them you don't know) Now tell me how does that connects to God of Baruch Spinoza that I am talking about? wait I get it you are just talking about the personal God lol.


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All of what you see was an accident.  And continues to be one.
of course it was not created by accident did I even tell you that this were created by accident? or it's just that you are assuming that much?


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No intelligent being would 'design' a world with all of the above.  
The fact that it is unknown how did you know? for you to be able to tell me that there is no such beings who design everything you should have to be there when all of this are being designed or not right or right? or again you are just assuming? LOL.

Yes, you are.  You paraded Einstein/Spinoza and waved his views (pantheistic God) in my nose.

How were the first organelles formed?  Do you know?  Fucking fusion accident, that is how.  How was the universe started?  A fucking explosion (probably from a black hole singularity explosion) and expansion on space-time, that is how.  If that is not an accident that I don't know what is.  How was our Sun formed?  A result of a fucking supernova accident that is how.  Accidents upon accidents.  All follow the natural laws of Physics.

You are just a simple man looking through your 80-year window.  Step back and look outside.  The universe is incredible, huge and really, really old. Pick up some Biology/Physics books and stop reading "the goatherder's guide to the galaxy" aka religious scriptures.  

Pascal wager is worse than believing the Earth is flat because you are not honest with yourself. Flat-Earthers and Bible thumpers are convinced and in their mind, they are honest with themselves.  You are not.

We as humans would not be here if it was not for the sheer number of accidents in the past.  Think about it for a second, then you will know why nothing was 'designed'.
1402  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why do Atheists Hate Religion? on: March 31, 2019, 07:25:20 AM

So, it is you stupid FE Christians that are helping atheism to grow more than ever. After all, the Bible is meant for salvation... not to prove the shape of the earth.

Cool

I honestly can’t tell if these flat earth folks are religious idiots who genuinely believe their flat earth blather or atheist idiots seeking to attack Christianity via some form of misguided association fallacy.

So far I can only conclude that they are idiots.

It's funny that a religious person would call another religion person an idiot when you believe in nonsensical shit too, you know, a powerful being and magic. Flat earth can be proven wrong just as easily as the bible, we know the age of the universe, earth, we know evolution exists, basically any scientific discovery disproves the bible.

The problem with most people is that they are very sloppy thinkers.
A genuine search for truth does not involve arguing against strawmen. On the contrary one must examine the strongest possible version of your opponents argument.

In the case of flat earth if we assume it’s true we basically have to also assume the entire world is engaged in a giant conspiracy to hide the truth, but it’s worse then that because the experiments to prove the earth is round can be carried by a single individual seeking the truth. It would not be cheap or particularly easy but one can actually prove the world is round by ones own experimentation. The genuine believer in flat earth would then have to believe that the universe itself is conspiring against him and altering the results of his scientific studies in real time to hide the worlds flatness.

Is that impossible? Well no it’s not. Potentially we could all be living in a computer simulation that for some reason found it funny to lie to us in that way. Such a  scenario, however, strikes me as highly implausible and  incompatible with a genuine Christian faith which holds that we live in real universe created by a loving God. Thus I view those who promote both ideologies as either simpletons who lack the capacity for scientific thinking or more likely atheist seeking to challenge religious views by associating them with clearly false beliefs. In the first scenario we are dealing with a confused idiot. In the second a dishonest one.

I don’t believe in magic. I accept the current scientific estimates regarding the age of the universe. I also agree that we have hard data supporting the existence of micro evolution. I believe in God and identify myself as one of his children striving very imperfectly to live for God.

None of my beliefs are contradictory or incompatible with Christianity or the Bible.

Now you know how I feel.  I think you might be the dishonest one.

You do know that people who wrote the Bible did not know that we live on the globe, do you?  Or you are just pretending that they knew?

Who is the dishonest one?  It took millennia before the helio-centric model was accepted.  Your Christian ideology was against it along the way.
1403  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists" Should we say that? on: March 30, 2019, 02:43:09 PM
So disagree with the fact that all are terrorist or even 5% or any percentage.
Any terrorist that carries out an attack is not an muslim as its a religion of peace, not killing.
Killing a human is frowned upon.
However a few pointers.

A lot of religions have books, such as Bibles, and Quran.

These books were written a very long time ago, bible 2000 years plus, Quran 1400 years plus.

The literature although applicable today is open to interpretation and just like anything can be interpreted in many ways.

so some choose to interpret in way that suits them and use a the religion as an excuse.

look at bitcoin how controversial it is.

Its simple and annoying that anything that is associated with money laundering is always blamed on bitcoin, for smaller things like someone scammed out of $100 savings, however the banks launder billions and nothing is said.

So lets not label everyone, there are a few rogue one which cause mayhem.

You deny them the Muslim label. Yet they selfidentify as Muslims. Can you take that right away from them?

As far as Muslim immigration goes, there are two problems. The hate towards non-Muslims and very backwards treatment of women (way behind western culture). Without these, I have no problem with any Muslim immigrant.

You do not understand the ultimate goal of all true Muslims: peace (under a global Caliphate).
1404  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: March 30, 2019, 12:42:29 PM

So, you believe in the "God of the Gaps".

If you don't know how something happened, an intellectually honest position is to say: "I don't know how it happened.", not to invent an answer.

If you do, your epistemology goes out of the window.


If you don't know how it happened then you are just simply gonna rest your reasoning there? The God of the Gaps you were actually talking about is just also invented by someone like you and it is so broad to understand(kindly tell me then your definition of God cause if you do only focus your answer base on the God the most religions believed in then your reasoning goes out of the window.


Albert Einstein once said "I am not an atheist" and prefers to call him agnostic (Which only means that if you don't know something. It doesn't mean that it did not exist) Therefore you bragging that it is already certain that God is not existing even if you still do not know is also purely biased.

Again I am talking about the God of Baruch Spinoza here not a personal God. Now tell me why are you too certain?


for reference link below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_philosophical_views_of_Albert_Einstein

So now you are presenting an argument from authority. LOL.  Did I put your feet too close to the fire?

I can give you countless errors in the scriptures (all religions and denominations).  Countless reasons from history.

Here are a few:

1. 6 million of Jesus' countrymen (the chosen people, WTF?) slaughtered by people who believed Jesus was the son of God.
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake in the morning of "Feast of All Saints" when all people were in (Christian) churches (which became their coffins), tallest buildings collapsed first.
3. Islamic conquest, millions of people killed, 270 million (half of the global population) by one estimate https://www.politicalislam.com/tears-of-jihad/
4. A process of evolution in all living organisms
5. Age and the size of the universe
6. Black holes
7. I can go on forever about Astrophysics if you like...Evolution of stars, galaxies, a formation of atoms, etc.

No intelligent being would 'design' a world with all of the above.  All of what you see was an accident.  And continues to be one.

If you think otherwise, please do humanity a favor and do not reproduce.
1405  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists" Should we say that? on: March 30, 2019, 02:22:28 AM
Like any other supremacist doctrine,every believer is a possible project to be a terrorist.
To make things more clear, terrorist is not just the one explosing himself in in a crowded street. Some others use the Islamic ideology to marry four women or marry children.
Because Islam is more than a simple religion for Muslims, considered as their life guide, they are terrorist.
By the way, am from an Arabic country, I experienced Islam for my whole life.

Exactly Islam is not only a religion but a political system. Christianity had a reformation process and separated the state from religion to a large degree. Islam has not gone thru this process. Until Muslims are willing to abandon the political system aspect of Islam, at least in foreign nations not already under Sharia, then there will continue to be conflict, war, and yes more attacks on Muslims.

+1

More like a mafia or a criminal gang.  You cannot leave it without some dire consequences.

This may indeed be so, but now we have a drift of this thread in a direction of agreeing with the straw man argument initially proposed by the OP.

I cannot agree with that, because I know that were I to be boots-on-the-ground fighting Islamic terror, to my right and left would be Muslims, and they would be good. I see your point of view, just can't group them all together in such a fashion.

Actually we haven't, at all. Islam does not require participation in a political system. Muslims can honor their religion in their own lives, but they have no right to come to a Western nation and then impose Sharia law, even upon other Muslims within the Western nation. This is why Sharia is incompatible with Western nations. Muslims should be welcomed, Sharia law should be destroyed.

You cannot destroy Sharia Law without destroying the Quran and the Hadiths.

How can you welcome Muslims and destroy Sharia Law?  If you start banning parts of the Quran or Hadiths, you will turn all non-Islamists Muslims into Jihadists and Terrorists.

This ideology cannot be reformed.  No word in the Quran can be changed.  Just talk to any Muslim if you don't believe me.

They think that the Quran is the word of God and humans have no right to change it. 

The only long-term solution is a physical separation of Muslims and non-Muslims. 
Muslims should not be allowed to reside in non-Muslim or secular countries.

Anything else is just kicking the can down the road.

Western countries made a grave mistake by allowing Muslims to legally immigrate to non-Muslim countries.

Islam is the sickest product of the human mind.

 
1406  Other / Politics & Society / Re: "There is mysterious ‘undocumented technology’ hidden on Intel computer chips" on: March 29, 2019, 11:45:29 PM

Considering that Intel are the ones who purposely put it there, I wouldn't put too much stock in their "solutions".

More non-Intel solutions to disable the ME engine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

If you really worry about it.
1407  Other / Politics & Society / Re: "There is mysterious ‘undocumented technology’ hidden on Intel computer chips" on: March 29, 2019, 11:31:41 PM
You can check if your system is vulnerable:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software.html

INTEL-SA-00086 Detection Tool:

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/27150?v=t&_ga=2.230735834.435826897.1553902028-399230316.1553902028&elq_cid=5162027

1408  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists" Should we say that? on: March 29, 2019, 10:34:46 PM
Like any other supremacist doctrine,every believer is a possible project to be a terrorist.
To make things more clear, terrorist is not just the one explosing himself in in a crowded street. Some others use the Islamic ideology to marry four women or marry children.
Because Islam is more than a simple religion for Muslims, considered as their life guide, they are terrorist.
By the way, am from an Arabic country, I experienced Islam for my whole life.

Exactly Islam is not only a religion but a political system. Christianity had a reformation process and separated the state from religion to a large degree. Islam has not gone thru this process. Until Muslims are willing to abandon the political system aspect of Islam, at least in foreign nations not already under Sharia, then there will continue to be conflict, war, and yes more attacks on Muslims.

+1

More like a mafia or a criminal gang.  You cannot leave it without some dire consequences.
1409  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: March 29, 2019, 01:44:19 PM
@azkielt,
Its kinda really hard cause you have a lot of questions that was never answered. That might be the reason why you have that kind of perspective. On my part, there are also alot of things that science still can't explain even if we say that its evolving it is still has a lot of holes to fill. I am also aware of the possibilities that it may not be able to fill those holes.

That is my perspective which also leads me thinking that there should be a start and created everything

So, you believe in the "God of the Gaps".

If you don't know how something happened, an intellectually honest position is to say: "I don't know how it happened.", not to invent an answer.

If you do, your epistemology goes out of the window.
1410  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists" Should we say that? on: March 29, 2019, 12:34:31 PM
Cry Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists"  Should we say that? Cry Cry

I think there is always a scapegoat in the community.

Who is the most violent perpetrator of the massacre? Who?

I Think "" Hitler "!!! He persecuted 6 million Jews. With that we blame the Christians for that ?, Hitler, He's Christian ,so because he persecutes the Jews, it does not mean all Christians are like that.

Then , How about Muslims? are they all terrorists? Are there organizations that want to create a " Muslims Phobia" ?
It is inappropriate for us fellow humans to hate and kill each other.

what do you think?  


I'm more of an individualist myself. I don't like to smear people based on their belief systems / race / gender.

A typical example would be when I was younger our local shop was run by a family of Pakistani's. They didn't like to touch us when putting money in our hands and every time we walked into their shop they started talking in their native tongue. A few years later another Pakistani family bought the shop from the owners and their family were completely different. The owners shared beers with the locals in the local bar, their daughters were allowed to date whoever they wanted, and whenever we walked into their shop they swapped from their native tongue to English. Both families were Muslim. They may have both subscribed to the same belief sets but both families were guided by their own sense of morality and took a different aspect away from their belief.

Yes, there are bad Muslims. Yes, there are bad Christians. Yes, there are bad Atheists. Same with Liberals and Conservatives, they both have good and bad people in them - but to tar them all over the actions of other people is silly.

People are people. And span widely in beliefs, culture, even realities.

Stop blaming people.

You need to focus on ideology.

Islam is a very bad idea.  Quran is a vile, supremacist book that leads otherwise good people to do some horrible things.


Oh I absolutely agree with that,

But it's the same with Christianity. If you read the Bible it's a vile supremacist book that leads otherwise good people to do horrible things. Doesn't mean everyone is running around stoning folks for working on Sunday.

All religions are fairy tales.  Just because in one, a blind man flies to outer space on a winged horse does not justify another story where an old bearded guy created the universe in 6 days, 6000 years ago.  They are all utterly ridiculous.

What we are talking about is Islamists.  Why do they exist and what drives them to become Jihadists and eventually terrorists?

To me, it is clear that the Quran drives them to radicalize themselves.

Stay on the OP topic.
 

I am on the OP topic my friend.

There are radicals in every crazy ideology. This is what I was trying to put forth. Perhaps I can't profess to know every worldly event under the name of some crazy religious zealot because I only know those in my circle and that which the news reports to me.

But you can't just go around saying that All Muslims are terrorists because then you'd need to know EVERY Muslim and be inside each and every one of their heads. Otherwise then you would be ASSUMING all Muslims are terrorists.

I don't like to make assumptions because I'd have to know everything about everything. That would be a hard feat!

Who is saying 'all Muslims are terrorists'?  In my previous post, I gave you my estimate on how many Muslims are terrorists (or Muslims who want to become martyrs), 5% in my estimation.
1411  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists" Should we say that? on: March 29, 2019, 11:49:15 AM
....
It is inappropriate for us fellow humans to hate and kill each other.

what do you think?  


Muslims have been responsible for some 31,500 terror attacks since 9/11.

www.thereligionofpeace.com

....Sure, its wrong to say that all muslims are terrorists.... but i've never heard that anybody said that all muslims are terrorists....

Right, the OP thought he'd be clever and made up what is called the "straw man" logical fallacy.

Are you sure they are Really Muslims? what if it's just a big slander designed by a secret community that wants the world to be chaotic ?


Muslim -> Islamist -> Jihadist -> Terrorist

Yeah, it is obvious to anyone with half a brain.  I bet if you start with 100 Muslims you will have
50 Islamists
20 Jihadists
5 Terrorists (or soon to be terrorists)
1412  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists" Should we say that? on: March 29, 2019, 11:44:59 AM
Cry Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists"  Should we say that? Cry Cry

I think there is always a scapegoat in the community.

Who is the most violent perpetrator of the massacre? Who?

I Think "" Hitler "!!! He persecuted 6 million Jews. With that we blame the Christians for that ?, Hitler, He's Christian ,so because he persecutes the Jews, it does not mean all Christians are like that.

Then , How about Muslims? are they all terrorists? Are there organizations that want to create a " Muslims Phobia" ?
It is inappropriate for us fellow humans to hate and kill each other.

what do you think?  


I'm more of an individualist myself. I don't like to smear people based on their belief systems / race / gender.

A typical example would be when I was younger our local shop was run by a family of Pakistani's. They didn't like to touch us when putting money in our hands and every time we walked into their shop they started talking in their native tongue. A few years later another Pakistani family bought the shop from the owners and their family were completely different. The owners shared beers with the locals in the local bar, their daughters were allowed to date whoever they wanted, and whenever we walked into their shop they swapped from their native tongue to English. Both families were Muslim. They may have both subscribed to the same belief sets but both families were guided by their own sense of morality and took a different aspect away from their belief.

Yes, there are bad Muslims. Yes, there are bad Christians. Yes, there are bad Atheists. Same with Liberals and Conservatives, they both have good and bad people in them - but to tar them all over the actions of other people is silly.

People are people. And span widely in beliefs, culture, even realities.

Stop blaming people.

You need to focus on ideology.

Islam is a very bad idea.  Quran is a vile, supremacist book that leads otherwise good people to do some horrible things.


Oh I absolutely agree with that,

But it's the same with Christianity. If you read the Bible it's a vile supremacist book that leads otherwise good people to do horrible things. Doesn't mean everyone is running around stoning folks for working on Sunday.

All religions are fairy tales.  Just because in one, a blind man flies to outer space on a winged horse does not justify another story where an old bearded guy created the universe in 6 days, 6000 years ago.  They are all utterly ridiculous.

What we are talking about is Islamists.  Why do they exist and what drives them to become Jihadists and eventually terrorists?

To me, it is clear that the Quran drives them to radicalize themselves.

Stay on the OP topic.
 
1413  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists" Should we say that? on: March 29, 2019, 11:07:02 AM
Cry Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists"  Should we say that? Cry Cry

I think there is always a scapegoat in the community.

Who is the most violent perpetrator of the massacre? Who?

I Think "" Hitler "!!! He persecuted 6 million Jews. With that we blame the Christians for that ?, Hitler, He's Christian ,so because he persecutes the Jews, it does not mean all Christians are like that.

Then , How about Muslims? are they all terrorists? Are there organizations that want to create a " Muslims Phobia" ?
It is inappropriate for us fellow humans to hate and kill each other.

what do you think?  


I'm more of an individualist myself. I don't like to smear people based on their belief systems / race / gender.

A typical example would be when I was younger our local shop was run by a family of Pakistani's. They didn't like to touch us when putting money in our hands and every time we walked into their shop they started talking in their native tongue. A few years later another Pakistani family bought the shop from the owners and their family were completely different. The owners shared beers with the locals in the local bar, their daughters were allowed to date whoever they wanted, and whenever we walked into their shop they swapped from their native tongue to English. Both families were Muslim. They may have both subscribed to the same belief sets but both families were guided by their own sense of morality and took a different aspect away from their belief.

Yes, there are bad Muslims. Yes, there are bad Christians. Yes, there are bad Atheists. Same with Liberals and Conservatives, they both have good and bad people in them - but to tar them all over the actions of other people is silly.

People are people. And span widely in beliefs, culture, even realities.

Stop blaming people.

You need to focus on ideology.

Islam is a very bad idea.  Quran is a vile, supremacist book that leads otherwise good people to do some horrible things.
1414  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists" Should we say that? on: March 29, 2019, 11:03:30 AM
Cry Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists"  Should we say that? Cry Cry

I think there is always a scapegoat in the community.

Who is the most violent perpetrator of the massacre? Who?

I Think "" Hitler "!!! He persecuted 6 million Jews. With that we blame the Christians for that ?, Hitler, He's Christian ,so because he persecutes the Jews, it does not mean all Christians are like that.

Then , How about Muslims? are they all terrorists? Are there organizations that want to create a " Muslims Phobia" ?
It is inappropriate for us fellow humans to hate and kill each other.

what do you think?  


Islam is a supremacist ideology.

Some Muslims read too much into it and do hate non-Muslims.  Others are good people who do not hate anyone DESPITE their religion.

Some Muslims become Islamists, then Jihadists, and eventually terrorists.

There is a wide spectrum of wackos in Islam, just like in any other supremacist ideology.

Every religion teaches goodness, believe me !!
If someone makes a mistake don't judge his religion, but that is his/her fault.

If you fail to see a link between Jihadist and his religion, I cannot help you.

If a Jihadist 'makes a mistake' as you put it by killing innocent people, and you fail to see why Quran verses are the root cause, I cannot help you.

Some Muslims are Jihadists.
Some Jihadists are terrorists.

All Jihadists are Muslims.

i.e. Some Muslims are terrorists.
1415  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists" Should we say that? on: March 28, 2019, 05:23:16 PM
In my opinion terrorism have no religion.
Terrorists can say that they act in the name of some religion but it's not right.
They just abuse religious teaching for their own sake.
World religions promote peace and love in general, not war or hate.
People misuse religions. 

What do you do when you have unsafe products on the market?

You remove them by banning the sale of such products.
1416  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists" Should we say that? on: March 28, 2019, 02:25:41 PM
Cry Why so many people say "Muslims are terrorists"  Should we say that? Cry Cry

I think there is always a scapegoat in the community.

Who is the most violent perpetrator of the massacre? Who?

I Think "" Hitler "!!! He persecuted 6 million Jews. With that we blame the Christians for that ?, Hitler, He's Christian ,so because he persecutes the Jews, it does not mean all Christians are like that.

Then , How about Muslims? are they all terrorists? Are there organizations that want to create a " Muslims Phobia" ?
It is inappropriate for us fellow humans to hate and kill each other.

what do you think?  


Islam is a supremacist ideology.

Some Muslims read too much into it and do hate non-Muslims.  Others are good people who do not hate anyone DESPITE their religion.

Some Muslims become Islamists, then Jihadists, and eventually terrorists.

There is a wide spectrum of wackos in Islam, just like in any other supremacist ideology.
1417  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Africa isn't poor - Africa is being raped. on: March 28, 2019, 12:53:48 PM
I laugh at my continent when foreigners call us poor. You make a statement online about the continent or any country in it and the first thing that comes to people mind is "That poor country or poor continent". Who is to be blamed for all these, it isn't just the leaders anymore but the people are to be held responsible because they voted those leaders into power.

The image below shows you how wealthy Africa is and if she wasn't being raped she would had been the richest continent on earth.

        

What my continent have failed to realized is that power won't be given to you unless you fight for it. If the world was a fair one most African countries would had been among world leading country but instead we get treated like slaves and our wealth is been enjoy by other continents. What a shame Angry

From the marvel movie "Blackpanther" i believe the solution to the continent (Africa) problem is to act as the past Kings of wakanda did with their natural resource: Vibranium, they should learn to manage their resources themselves and later they can sell finish products to the outside world.

Africa is not poor.  Africans are.

To develop and manufacture new products you need scientists, engineers, IT guys, business managers.

What the "Blackpanther" movie portrayed was pure utopia.

What Africans can hope for is to go the Chinese route (attract foreign investment), but one crucial ingredient is missing: education.  Chinese communist education system is among the top education systems in the world.  Africans don't have a world-class education system, that is why they will never be able to compete on the world stage unless they tackle that issue first.


You really think communist china is spending billions of $ in the 3rd world out of good will and welfare?

No wonder the west is short before its downfall...

I guess time to immigrate east and accept the loss.

China benefited from the greed of Western corporations.  It was a mistake by Western governments to allow this shift of Western capital and infrastructure to China.  Militarily, a really stupid mistake.

Now we see the aftermath.  China is flexing its financial muscle all over the world, buying up resources, real-estate all around the world, from Africa to South and North America.

They don't give a flying puck about the long-term welfare of the subservient countries, whether it is Ecuador, Ghana or Canada.

They are investing heavily in the industrial sector in Africa.  Just like the West was investing in China since the late 1980s.

Do I think China cares about the welfare of Africans?  Probably they do care a bit.  Just like the slave masters 200 years ago did care about their slaves so that they do not die in large numbers.

Africans are the resource.
 
1418  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Evolution is a hoax on: March 28, 2019, 02:02:01 AM
Oh come on! A measly 1,000 scientists is nothing, right? Cheesy


Over 1,000 scientists sign statement expressing skepticism over Darwinism, encouraging new questions about the origins of life.



Over 1,000 scientists have now joined the growing movement to challenge prevailing evolutionary theory. Under present scientific dictatorship, theories like Darwinism go virtually undisputed; challenging such a widely accepted belief is almost certainly career suicide. But as the “dissent from Darwin” movement shows, even the most “established” of theories should still be subject to scrutiny.

To continue to blindly accept a theory, even with evidence to the contrary, is more akin to brain-washing. The true spirit of science, after all, is to question — not to follow.

The aptly-named list, “A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism,” surpassed 1,000 names in early 2019. Respected professionals from around the country who’ve earned doctorate degrees from top-tier universities are joining forces to remind the establishment, and the public, that what scientists know, and what they think they know are two different things.

Dissenting from Darwinism

The Dissent from Darwin list was created in 2001 and is maintained by the Discovery Institute. All 1,043 dissenters have signed the same 32-word statement, which reads:

...

Klinghoffer states further:

   Such is the power of groupthink. The scientific mainstream will punish you if they can, and the media is wedded to its narrative that ‘the scientists’ are all in agreement and only ‘poets,’ ‘lawyers,’ and other ‘daft rubes’ doubt Darwinian theory. In fact, I’m currently seeking to place an awesome manuscript by a scientist at an Ivy League university with the guts to give his reasons for rejecting Darwinism. The problem is that, as yet, nobody has the guts to publish it.


Cool

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-12-more-than-1000-scientists-sign-dissent-from-darwinism-statement.html

"Those who sign it “must either hold a Ph.D. in a scientific field such as biology, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, computer science, or one of the other natural sciences; or they must hold an M.D. and serve as a professor of medicine,” according to the institute."

Better list all the professional biologists who study evolution and believe that evolution is a hoax.  

BTW, MDs, chemists, engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists are not experts in evolutionary science.

It is like asking dentists to assess the viability of civil engineering projects.
1419  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Africa isn't poor - Africa is being raped. on: March 27, 2019, 01:07:56 PM
I laugh at my continent when foreigners call us poor. You make a statement online about the continent or any country in it and the first thing that comes to people mind is "That poor country or poor continent". Who is to be blamed for all these, it isn't just the leaders anymore but the people are to be held responsible because they voted those leaders into power.

The image below shows you how wealthy Africa is and if she wasn't being raped she would had been the richest continent on earth.

        

What my continent have failed to realized is that power won't be given to you unless you fight for it. If the world was a fair one most African countries would had been among world leading country but instead we get treated like slaves and our wealth is been enjoy by other continents. What a shame Angry

From the marvel movie "Blackpanther" i believe the solution to the continent (Africa) problem is to act as the past Kings of wakanda did with their natural resource: Vibranium, they should learn to manage their resources themselves and later they can sell finish products to the outside world.

Africa is not poor.  Africans are.

To develop and manufacture new products you need scientists, engineers, IT guys, business managers.

What the "Blackpanther" movie portrayed was pure utopia.

What Africans can hope for is to go the Chinese route (attract foreign investment), but one crucial ingredient is missing: education.  Chinese communist education system is among the top education systems in the world.  Africans don't have a world-class education system, that is why they will never be able to compete on the world stage unless they tackle that issue first.
1420  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Why I'm an atheist on: March 27, 2019, 12:25:31 AM

I am open to evidence that I am wrong.  I have been asking for it.  All I got was "the Bible says that it is the evidence" type of arguments.

Then there are guys like CoinCube who jump to the conclusion that there must be some sort of pantheistic God because some things cannot be proven in Mathematics.  And that this God is a Christian, Trinity God.

Cell death is an irreversible process.  When you die, you are dead, no conscience, no memory, no more you.
 
Whatever religious fairy tale one believes is irrelevant.  Religious people are increasingly becoming irrelevant.

In a few decades, religious beliefs (aka fear of death) will be diagnosed and lumped together with other phobias.

You have been presented evidence. You can find evidence for God in the Biblical tradition passed to us from the generations prior. Or if you choose to ignore that you can also infer the existence of God from certain basic features of the universe. The latter is the approach I took in my earlier post An Argument for God. I provided a link to it as your summary of my position is slightly lacking.

I am aware you that have rejected my argument. This puts you in a challenging position. There is a third path to take but it is the most difficult. That path lies in living out a life grounded in something other then God and learning the hard way the consequences the choice.  

People always get it wrong when it comes to religion. They think its about the building's or the prayers or the singing. That ultimately is irrelevant. Choosing ones religion is the process of defining who you are and the principles and reality you structure your life upon. Whenever someone tells me they are an atheist I pause and wait for some useful information. You don't define something by what it is not you define it by what it is.

Having rejected tradition and logical inference you live by and embrace some other worldview not grounded in God. Whatever you have settled upon I honestly believe it will disappoint you sooner or later.  Nevertheless, I wish you well on the journey.

A religious book written by the unknown number of authors over millennia is not evidence of God's existence.  

Your assumptions about how the universe came about are not evidence.

Yes, I do reject the traditions of stoning, slavery, rape, and genocide.

Enough said.
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