[ { "sentence": "ultimate purpose? do the doctors ask how many firearms and what type? serial numbers? how can a yes answer to the question as to whether one keeps guns in the house result in anything 'akin to registration'? nothing but paranoid delusions imo.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "oh yeah, 'cos that bible you have is so much more moral than songs that swear! :)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "plus i think it is great for all the orphans in need of new homes. oh yeah, that's awesome! i would love to leave an orphanage to meet my two new dads!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "since your denying it so strenuously, i can only conclude you therefore support the right of gays to marry the partner of their choice and to enjoy the same benefits you and your spouse enjoy. or was there some other portion of my post that is contradictory to your beliefs? aw, how cute! archie learnt a new word: projecting. how is what i said 'projecting' archie?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Gee right on schedule here's the other half of the comic relief. Get a job and a life and off the dole. PS I think mum would be happy to see you out of her basement too.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "oh, i see now. it's your inability to speak the language that we're dealing with here. bill o'reilly was just quoted in the piece, he didn't write it. and yes, i would believe o'reilly before moyers in a heartbeat. but i'm not surprised you would consider it a deranged hit piece though, since it hits so close to who and what you are.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "I could have labeled my post \"TRAP\" and you wouldn't notice. Tell me, are these two contradictory:\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, ya know, if you actually, oh I don't know, VISITED THE SITE, you'd see that the \"friendlyatheist.com\" is a blog-like page (and not the one that is actually giving the info on the evolutionary migration of humanity) and it gave a link to the actual website that we are talking about (the second link I gave): http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/ But then, maybe we're expecting a little too much from a creationist.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Like blacks once were? Wasn't that the main thrust of the 14th amendment and incorporation? Given incorporation, imagine the suits those acts of discrimination would bring emoticonXGood ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So much for your cover. Its blown. You just made another gaps argument making the assumption that if theory X does not explain observation Y that a theory which is untested and untestable MUST be the only alternative explanation. Balderdash and shame on you. The alternative theories would likely be numerous and the ONLY one is not something untested and untestable.But I forgive you GOD probably made you make the error for his own mysterious reasons. Or else your statement is evil and was forced upon you by the devil. Maybe you will never know - in this life at least :(", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i love how it is 7 to 1.................. this is just the best.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Cool, see ya around.\r\nIn future though, before suggesting someone hasn't posted a book title, make sure that they have :)\r\nAnd try and keep to the one point.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Aww, you didn't read a top criminoligist I quoted before did you?The \"Myth\" of Gun TraffickingYou also didn't check out mexidata.com either did you?Now you need proof to back up your alligator mouth. Where's the beef sliiiiick?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Have some cheese with your whine, turkey?\r\nWho is the liar? It is the person who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is an antichrist. 1 John 2:22\r\nThat would be you and those like you. Repent, you heathen!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "There are contradictions in the bible, for so the bible doesn't obey the law of non contradiction. As to the law of identity, Jesus is called both the \"Son of God\" and the \"Son of Man\", which means Also, many parts of the bible are taken as 'metaphors' - yet the law of excluded middle should prevent us from doing that.I'm sure someone will be able to refute my individual points, but on the whole the bible is not an entirely logical source.Furthermore, even if these laws were created by a God, this God does not have to be the same one described in any religion whatsoever. In fact, he doesn't have to be omnipotent, so he could even be dead - Atheists could state that God created these laws then died. In which case, God does not exist but Atheists have still accounted for the creation of said laws.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Because there are good things about every state means....what exactly? Of course there is good in bad in most everything, which has nothing to do with what I said.\r\nYes, great food, crawfish as a staple, great fishing, bayous, New Orleans, Mardi Gras....long beads......sure, some great things. With regards to achievement or vision? I'm not seeing it. Legal gambling? That was another recent \"achievement\". What about wanting to secede from the Union? Yes, Louisiana is the consistent trend-setter for the civilized world. Oh wait, it isn't.\r\n-Mach", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Nothing. \"T. Kennedy\" is an alias of a known terrorist.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Biologically speaking, the fetus is human; the mother person is simply sustaining it via blood-- just like via mother's milk after birth. Can she legally starve the newborn child of that (if no other suitable nourishment is available) simply because she has the \"right to her body?\"I think no, by law.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But science classes are for teaching science and ID has not shown that it is science. There is no evidence and no research has been done yet. It has been around for more than a dozen years and we are still waiting for any actual research to be done.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "There is some truth here. Did you ever see \"Independence Day\"? They were taking pot-shots at the alien ships when they first arrived. It didn't stop the aliens... sure only a film... let's look at real life...modern - Iraq - Sadaam gave guns out to the people just before Gulf War IInot so modern - Boer War - Dutch farmers in South Africa were all excellent marksmen - Britain still invaded.US Civil War - I believe that the Confederate States were pretty well armed as far as the white citizens were concerned. US still invaded.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Bravo, Penfold! You are the neatest pricker of balloons with the shortest of needles whom I have come across!\r\n-", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I like how you don't defend what you said but merely post some unrelated link on the 2nd amendment. Do you still claim Article V was repealed!?!?!?\r\nI figured you wouldn't respond to the other items...you can only make up so much huh Doc?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "How is that a strawman? Your challenge directly relies upon something you assume to be proven, but has not been. Therefore even in a hypothetical stance, your underlying arguments are invalid, thus leading to everything else being invalid. You're not doing so well on this forum.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "ok, fine, you can use that line, but there is also a moajority that believes in other things. there's this crazy thing, called a choice. we all have that. remember? i made the choice to have sex, you're making the choice to be a total ***hole. we all make a decision, and its the strong ones that stick with them, even though there are others who dont believe the same thing.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "I don't think that any marriage rights are required at all by the Consitution.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And I just say that it would be unjust and unfair of you to force metaphysical belief systems of your own which constitute religious belief upon your follows who may believe otherwise than you. Get pregnant and treat your fetus as a full person if you wish, nobody will force you to abort it. Let others follow their own beliefs differing or the same. Otherwise you attempt to obtain justice by doing injustice.Mo", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "that explains why he's been identified as the most liberal voting senator of 2007...because he hasn't much of a rating. honestly, it is amusing when liberals try to explain things.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "oh really? then why don't we go naked and live in a forest or jungle? ................ i did not mean to say that i say we are different but the same.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "But you're missing one important fact.\r\n NONE of those \"reasons\" are required for marriage.\r\n Absolutely none of them. Any combination of man/woman can marry for whatever reason they want. Even if it's just drunken fun.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So, you think doctors in the US make LESS than those in the UK? Take a look at this: It's called \"statistics\" not \"wishful thinking and personal anecdotes\".", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "what other forest? By your logic there would only be one left in the entire world, and it would be what, the size on central park?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And you know he is NATO's boy how? You get a bit more looney with each post there comic relief. Keep the laffs coming tho.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Clear up some more muddled thinking for jo. As stated, that is from the Declaration of Independence. When was it penned?The Constitution would not have been ratified without the BOR being included. When were those rights penned and when was it adopted? The Declaration simply told England why we were separating and why, it had nothing to do with the BOR.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Wait, yes you admit to and own up to being a bigot or yes the minority should always win?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "well if you could scientifically test for the supernatural, it wouldn't really be supernatural, would it? if some god or gods acted in ways that could be predicted and measured by scientific processes, it would be no different to any natural part of the universe.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Not to be totally dependant and the systems of another body to keep it alive. Take a fetus out of the womb (That is during the period which most abortions are carried out) and it will die. Plus if the mother dies the fetus will as well. A baby doesn't depend on its mother's body to function. It can do that itself.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And of course, the theory of gravity isn't \"physically\" proven either. Neither is the heliocentric theory or atomic theory or the germ theory of disease. However, evolution has been observed to occur and the current theories are the best explanations that we have for the observations. As far as your mangling of the \"Out of Africa\" theory, it would be nice if you actually learned what you are talking about before you babble such nonsense.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "No. I am a student and I personally don't have much money. So how could I help them? I have very limited money of my own. I help when I can, but sometimes with my present finances I can't do much. If I had enough money, as I assume you do, than yes I would help them as much as I could. This is just an example of where people feel compassion. And as I have said before, Dawkin's has trouble explaining how the universal feelings could come about through evolution. We would not expect mutated pondscum to produce feelings and morals, ethics, etc.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But you need proof to back up a explantion. If you didn't, all you'd have a creationism. Explanations without any support.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Just like in memetic algorithms, there are many paths to an endpoint. Both memetic algorithms in development and in the docking simulation converge on similar endpoints each time it is rerun. (e.g. skin in development).", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yet without it the vessel is just worms, mud, then dust, like rock & tree houses, not made to endure, yet, the life force, energy, back to the cosmos/source, converted, capable of being rewinded, paused, and fastfowarded, like a movie screen amongst the stars, revealing our lives.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So as a gay man I should be forced to accept hetero marriage. If I am forced to accept hetero marriage they should be forced to accept gay marriage. What part of equal protection do you not understand? I personally would like to see all displays of all religions wiped fron the public square. No one is going to dictate to me how to live my life based upon some outdated religious belief that I don't subscribe too.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Hmmm... He may get things right only when he thinks getting it right contradicts evolution...", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Interesting links. Thanks for posting them. I had also previously heard of a number of experiments showing altruism in animals. It helps show that altruism has a biological and evolutionary basis.I am curious, though, what made you think that scientists (materialists, etc.) think that altruism is limited to humans? Please explain how you came to this conclusion.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "It is disappointing that you would continue with this mistake. I said that God is both knowable and unknowable. You simply think that equates to the same thing, and thus you argue against what you believe I say, rather than what I said.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I don't understand your outrage. McChrystal's your boy's general now. Are you saying that you disagree with \"the Great One\"?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That's obviously not what is said. The sun's energy is not claimed to be a mechanism that makes order of disorder. What it does do is override the tendancy within the 2LoTD where total usable energy in a system decreases.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I don't think this approach is all that new, but I have to admit that I haven't been around as many of the old-school creationists.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Can you please provide a cite in the Constitution that supports the notion that a Supreme Court Justice nominee has the power to declare that any case is \"settled law\" and the subsequent power to make it so?\r\n \r\n I didn't think so.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I say, since there are medical uses for the stuff, the drug is not pure harm (as the authoritarians assert.) Marijuana has its benefits and harms, and some of these benefits boil down to a matter of personal preference. Illegalizing it, in effect, dictates a personal preference.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "He made a post suggesting you were a troll, it has been removed it seems. Anyway, glad to help.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And melting the entire surface of the earth and boiling the oceans. Even creationist who propose the nonsense that you spout admit that they have no way to explain where the heat went. In an effort to answer where the water went, they encounter the problem of explaining where the heat went.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "yes, as it was used in the correct context such that it made sense (referring to a bill/legislation that was being passed. obama did not use it correctly and it was quite clear he was using it to insult palin. especially when another of his buddies in missouri on the same day made a direct mention of palin and used 'lipstick' in a same manner (said mccain was trying to cover up his 'deficiencies' but even his vp pick couldn't do it no matter how much lipstick they covered it with). hardly a coincidence, wouldn't you say? personally i see obama coming down from that high horse he has claimed to be on and has started getting dirty now that for the first time he is behind in the national polls.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Iangb, I would have thought that you would be intellectually honest enough to have (at least) accepted the fact that I have supported my claims. I also thought that (by now) someone from your side of the abortion issue would step in (in this thread or by private message) and hold you to your claims of being 'intellectually honest.' At this point, I actually have you questioning Planned Parenthood's definitions? QUOTE; ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You know, your comparison of those that fought to end segregation, to those that fight to enact gun ban and gun control laws, is nothing more than a cheap and dirty tactic that does nothing to address the issue, and everything to suggest that breaking the law is alright if you're a politician or legislator. There's a very large difference between people like Rosa Parks, and the mayor of Philadelphia; gun ownership is protected by the Constitution, segregation wasn't. The fact that you're comparing those who instituted civil disobedience for good reasons, to those who want to violate state laws to pass their own laws because they think they know better and have a right to do so, just shows that you can't address the point at hand.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "gooey cute as this reads, how is this relevant to the philosophy discourse?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "This decision was not solely based on self, but then, I really don't give a if you want to call me selfish - the facts speak for themselves.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yes. It's not logical to simply cite, \"the Bible tells me so, the Bible was written by God,\" and consider that an argument. The Bible has been wrong. It's also not logical to cite authority to God. It necessarily begs further questions about your God's unproven existence to those who don't believe in that God, or in any God. If we don't simply believe in your God, on the basis of your presupposition, he can have no authority over the rest of us. One must come up with another argument.Should each religion have it's own definition or completely different idea of logic, which favours that religion and its God? ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You're a Bush-man, aren't you, gnojek? Come on, admit it. With that stance, you'll be in the White House before sunrise.(You do realize that I was being sarcastic - right?) emoticonXRolleyes", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "simone: exactly what is a gun-loving fool anyway,other than something you just pulled outta your butt? is the person a fool to start with?did the gun make him a fool,after all, we all know guns have these magical properties. or are we fools for standing up for our god given rights? if thats the case i guess your a bigger fool if you think any amendment of the constitution applies to you (of course we know the 2nd don't heaven forbid). so call us foolsfor an a amendment we hold dear, you best be ready to call yourself an even bigger fool. fool emoticonxkillemoticonxkillemoticonxkill", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "aren't gun shows rather controlled environments? i've heard weapons for sale are required to be unloaded and customers commonly have to pass through metal detectors and submit to a pat down.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Exactly, which is why I don't like economists:) \r\nAccountants are the true heroes...ha", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "wasn't meant as an insult?\r\nNow let's here from you on the form 4473 instructions to those buying firearms as gifts.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And you simply can not rely on what you hear on MTV or the radio anymore. They play what's marketable - not necesarily what's good. Clear Channel would not know good music if I shoved it up their XXX and lit it on fire.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "This is more of a legal question involving whether or not it was negligence(sp). If so, you can't really sue for amounts of money you MIGHT get in the future. He could sue for lost pay on the job and other medicial procedures. So ya know :). I don't really know what the question is.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "exactly the logic behind the condom. oh- i'm sorry, those are sinful. looks like you're gonna be virgin for a long time! and good thing too. we don't need any more fundies breeding. :)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Wouldn't it be wonderful if every woman in the world had access to decent prenatal care, if every woman in the world could be guanateed safe childbirth, wouldn't it be wonderful? The entire series is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/opinion/10gift.html And, if men had to suffer the torture of being in labor for a week and having their insides torn out, don't you think the male-centered world would truly care more about the welfare of women and children?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That should get the natives milling around looking for victims. Fundamentalist Christianity does not take kindly to criticism.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You don't get to just say \"hey i wanna be Catholic\" and make it so just because you said you wanted to be.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Maybe you're the one who's suddenly being selective.\r\nGet Jesus, dude, before you perish!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Not that I am aware of... but I guess it's conceivable that I could have a split personality disorder and not be aware of it.\r\nI am still interested in your thoughts to my questions and comments above, though.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "My gosh, ER writes a proverb that refers to himself.. and then uses it to attack someone else.\r\nHow ironic is that.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Then by that standard, christianity is horse puckey! Christians contradict each other. Oh! But wait. Anyone who disagrees with you isn't \"really\" a christian.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i've just finished reading your contributions to this thread and i'm astonished by the sheer bombast of their tone and the sciolism in their content. why don't you just make succinct and logical points without the 'support' of a ridiculous apparatus of phoney scholarship ?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "i love it when people do this. 'you have to prove everything you say, but i'm allowed to simply make assertions and it's your job to show i'm wrong.'", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "i love how you reply without putting any thought into your post, it is awesome. the answer to my question was no. your computer screen is not absorbing light from the sun and reflecting the color yellow back to you. thanks for playing, you lose. we know you don't actually believe in science, so you can stop trying to quote it.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "...and 8 beers are imo worse than one joint. People tend not to smoke as many 'doses' of pot as they drink 'doses' of alcohol.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "good thing this argument has never been done!...oh wait. With that logic we should make everything legal. You are much better off making theft legal and safe (no more guns needed!) than to have it illegal and dangerous. ", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "What do you mean by 'Yet it still stands'? Are you saying that it has ultimate authority, or it is simply a cultural fairy tale that so many are frightened to discard?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "yes it is...you said.. \"\"\"\"\"They should keep it to themselves, if they believe homosexuality is \"deviant\". They don't need to take it so personally as a threat to their own or others heterosexuality. When they go there, it's overkill. They are being irrationally defensive and insecure.\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"Why must I be silent?Are you a fascist that wants to control what I can say?you.. promote gay behavior... and so, you must allow people to oppose gay behavior.its called free speech... and it works both ways.once you try to prevent the opposition from speaking.. it is you.. who have become the homo-nazi.please dont let that happen.We should be free to discuss it.Because if we are not, then we have lost freedom.-Mosheh Thezion", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "...but you are just fine with marijuana smoke huh?\r\nI am working on the assumption that you run home to tell mommie or you run to find your teacher and report it immediately. Midgets like you got to have some backup.\r\nHow and why do you always change the subject? Can't take the heat? Do you ever read headers?\r\nYou got a mouth on you as big as grand canyon.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "[quote=jo bennett;314232]stabbing yourself is not ok, but that doesn't mean it should be illegal. i'm not even going to bother with your non-sequitor, but i imagine plenty of alcohol manufacturers enjoy the occasional drink. these are mostly caused by illegal guns. you can't outlaw something thats already illegal. i highly doubt this. how can a gun be illegal when it used to be legal? most illegal guns are bought off the black market.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Just come up with something that discredits the resurrection, if you think you can. Should be easy for you Einsteins, shouldn't it?But in two years I haven't seen it yet. Not from you or anybody else.Where's the beef?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "that's ...... well i'm not surprised really. have you ever watched 2 1/2 men? it's content is all about charlie's character's sex life.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Never thought of that. If that \"person\" has rights, do they have responsibilities? Could a fetus be charged for causing toxemia? How about suing the little tyke for giving mom varicose veins and stretch marks?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "** Silly thinking. Evolution is a natural phenomenon that requires explanation; it explains nothing, it simply is what it is, i.e., a plain fact of life. It is an effect, not a cause, and except among some darwinian true-believers, effects are never their own causes. In this particular instance certain organisms we call eubacteria have evolved inter- and intra-cellular communication systems--a phenomenon not found in, say, grains of sand or salt or the various molecules, atoms, quarks and other 'things' that 'bits of stuff' can be reduced to by materialist/mechanist darwinists. ** Forgive me, but I'm the one laughing now!! That you find this behaviour non-indicative of intelligence only points to a certain lacune on your part as far as that quality is concerned. ** Sorry, just can't stop laughing. Foolish words do that to me every time.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And if the state decides to keep abortion legal? Then you don't care if these \"gifts from God\" have a chance or not?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "ummm... the death penalty has always been around. i never claimed that death was the penalty for every crime, nor that it was the most common punishment. try to catch up", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "AGREED!!!!That has to be BY FAR the best series I've ever read!Also, Asimov's Foundation triligoy is good. And again, the classics:Fahrenheit 4511984Catcher in the Rye...and all those other depressing books...", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "\r\nHe already gave you two, how much spoon feeding do you need?\r\n\"Hitler exterminating 11 million people is evil. But God exterminating all life except a handful of humans and animals isn't evil? \r\nMan legislating abortion is evil. But God commanding the Israelites to perform abortions on the Canaanites isn't evil?\"\r\nHow many times did your God commit these quite specific acts?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Oh deary me, no. Where do I even start?The bacteria and enzymes in your gut and intestinal tract that digest food are every bit as microscopic, and they thrive on specific compounds, not elements. Sugars and fats are plain old carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. You could get exactly the same atoms into your body by drinking water and eating graphite - and you'd die. Can you digest cellulose? No - but other animals can, because they have enzymes that can break it down. It's still all just carbon, oxygen and hydrogen - but that's like saying everybody's front door key is just 'brass'. It isn't the fact that it's brass that unlocks your door, it's the shape it's formed into :) ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "And so on. Yes. a lie generated by creationist liars is what you use as source for what scientists are claimed to adhere to? Your dishonesty is actually rather startling. This is the worst attempt at dishonesty I have seen from lying creationists yet, and your gleeful introduction of that lie shows how truly and completely dishonest you are. Would you stop your lies. You are pathetic.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I don't see how one can be a agnostic and be a Deist either. Deism requires a origin, some form of a clockmaker. To not be sure that such a being exists is to fail one of the most basic ideas of Deism.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well said Jito. I don't understand why pro-lifers dismiss pregnancy as easy and/or suggest that it's a wonderful snuggly thing that's just the best thing in the world. Even if you want a baby, it's unbelievably hard to go through and something your body never fully recovers from. If you don't want a baby and are being forced to go through it, it's unbearable. You can't force somebody to go through this life-threatening condition that is always physically harmful.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "It's thanks to the opposers of the theory that all this rubbish about descending from monkeys and slimeball came about, all ppl need is a bit more education and things should become clearer.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "what are they doing at the marshals service anyway besides losing two way radios? maybe, they should just radio it in to find them, oh wait, they can't, they are lost.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "john mccain is nothing more than another rino. he is the media's darling from the gop.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "if the distinction matters, then what is your point about promiscuity, exactly? misinformation msleads people into thinking that if the significantly curtail the number of partners they have sex with, that they would eliminate the chance of contracting disease. that is not true. it just takes one time with an infected person. protection is what people should be arguing. it would be much better if people were upfront about sex and sexuality, upfront about their hiv status, and used protection at all times during sex.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "No it doesn't!It cost way more money in appeals than it does to excute someone. WE the taxpayers pay for legal represenatation for them and us, plus the cost of keeping them in jail. The appelas process alone costs the tax payers millions.It is far more expensive to kill them than to leave them in jail with no chance of parole.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": " but that's not the addition of new information that's deletion of old information which supports the creationist theory that all creatures were perfect until the fall!\"\" The important point is that it completely crushes one of the \\strongest\" biological arguments they use against evolution.Also it is a single gene that produces 24 different isoforms in mammals but not in lower vertebrates.So it has gone from an indeterminate (based on my quick searches) number of fewer isoforms in lower vertebrates to the 24 found in mammals. That's an increase in information.\" ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well then, have at it. The theme of the day was weddings. Almost everything taught that day, except for this one story, was about heterosexual marriage. Go on, show us your argument against teaching kids about how this society organizes familes. Your opposition to this, homo- or heterosexual, is so obviously contrived. School is there to help socialize children and instruct them in how to be good members of this society, AND YOU KNOW IT. The idea that you would prefer them to ignore discussions of family -- while you simultaneously assert that this society rests on the family and tradition -- is ludicrous. Come on, jyoshu, you don't have to argue this one... we won't tell your supervisor.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "** so i don't like your lies and deliberate distortions. do i have to admire your mendacity? live with the fact that my opinion of your personal integrity is so low that i'd rather ignore you completely from now on.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Crime has dropped significantly in New York and Los Angeles in recent years. ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "you mean like northern illinois university or virginia tech? why....if they rescinded their complete ban on firearms on campus, someone could bring a firearm onto school property and shoot the place up! oh, wait........... yeah. seems like the complete ban on firearms is about as effective as it is in chicago or washington d.c. gun control laws: because someone who completely disregards the proscription against murdering innocent bystanders will, no doubt, altruistically agree to voluntarily disarm because it's against the rules.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Gosh, why not just adjust the document the way it was surely intended: \"This document does not in any way apply to XXXXXX.\"", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well it came from somewhere and presumably changed as it went along. Careful there that ones been clearly shown to be the case - in a laboratory environment to boot. Not to mention in the form of a hydrogen bomb! You mean that the planets and stars have always existed? Really - so how come we see stars being made in nurseries via the Hubble telescope. So you don't believe that life had an origin! WOW so you think its always been present on the Earth? Not even the bible goes that far! And you fail to account for the observation that there IS life. Thats not an evolutionary theory, at least not a scientific one. Kinds is a theological construct not a biological one and MOST creationists use the KINDS thing as a support for their arguments.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And I just spent all that money on a new camera. Pity.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "At your service:ComparisonI could've just circled the whole thing, but this makes it clearer. Plus it's overall body shape is \"fatter\"", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "so if you were starving to death would you steal a loaf of bread? morals depend on the situation you are in. if teachers were to teach them, they would not be taught as such. teachers would say 'don't steal', but they won't say 'don't steal unless you need to do so to survive, or need to save another's life, or....' morals would be taught as absolute rules, rather than relative ones. this is the problem with teaching them. my personal stance on morals is basically that others should be treated with respect and how you would want to be treated by them. but i would not necessarily extent this respect to someone who i knew had acted immorally. we are actually debating whether it is morally right for teachers to teach morals :)", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "the aruba case fuelled a lot of bad blood around here. to be honest i'm still astonished about the whole thing. what idiot starts verbally assaulting wartime allies over a missing person's case?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "You also need to borrow a new insult. Did you get that one from Crim?\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Where did you here this XXXX?\r\nSome cheap detective novel or something?\r\nOnce again, my sincerest apologies.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Do you grasp the concept of \"consentual\"?\r\nconsentual definition | Dictionary.com", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, to say it has no mental existence doesn't really tell the whole story. The fetus WILL have (more than likely) full mental existence in a very short time. It seems to me that if you \"view humanity with mental existance as important\" you'd also view as important that the unborn baby WILL indeed reach that point, in all likelihood. ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I'd be pretty dumb to buy something from someone who doesn't even believe in what they're selling. Those teachers may teach it, but they don't believe in it.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "separate but equal is never equal? which are better? boys' or girls' bathrooms? other than that last statement i agree 100%. i don't believe gay civil unions are separate but equal but i do believe they could be if we wanted them to be. unfortunately the people who seem to only be against redefining marriage and for civil unions never want to give gays all the rights of marriage in a civil union.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "That, my friend, is where the wisdom of interpretation - makes sense of the data. For exa.: I really have no idea what the Federal GAO has for data, but, The wisdom of giving 850 Billion to a few bankers rather than the people who actually fuel the engine of this economy - eludes me. We have a large and powerful machine, but who is driving? Very important IMHO.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well let me be the first to promise to hire the next high school drop out, single mother of 5 to help me clean the condos...I'll go ahead and pay her $500,000 a year for cleaning toilets so her kids can go to the same school Obama's attend.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But I would have been interested in hearing how you explained the above points. My post was a quick hack job, looked up in a few books that I have along with stuff that I remember from my reading. I may have made an error and would be interested in hearing about it. Maybe I can defend my point of view, maybe I can't. If you put time and effort into a response, why delete it. Redundant posts happen. ss/ww won't pay attention anyway and maybe he would respond to you. He runs from me because he always seems to make himself look like a fool and he realizes it.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yes, T. Kennedy is the alias of a known terrorist, and Ted Kennedy got punished because of it. And many are advocating that such a system be used to deny Second Amendment rights and be used to try innocent people in a court of law.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well of course. This spiritually dead church which exists to serve Man, but not God, must compromise biblical principles in order to attempt to preserve membership in an ever expanding secular humanist society. Just remember that no matter how many churches abandon the spiritual truths outlined in Gods Word in these last days, it does nothing to diminish or nullify that truth.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Now I understand why some women want abortions...\r\nWould you fit in a towsack goober?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Somewhere in the middle? I always though it was solidly to the Right. :p \r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I guess I am just \"psychologically conditioned\" to be blue eyed.?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "are you joking? i hope you're joking. no, it's not logical to believe in god. first, how did we get here? we got here because of evolution. this theory easily explains it. unless you are trolling, you should see the difference between a picture of africa and a picture from the movie avatar. if you are seriously trying to prove your god by comparing real life things with fictional things, then yes, you have proved your god is fictional. thank you.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Well let's deal with one thing at a time. The NEJM study about Washington D.C. concluded that banning handguns saved 47 lives each year. The study didn't conclude that it was just a \"curious relationship in the numbers.\" Go back to that thread and read the study. If you're looking for evidence that is absolutely without any degree of uncertainty then you won't find it. You can't prove things to a 100% certainty with statistics. What you can do is show what is probably true and what is probably not true. Even in court you're not expected to prove that someone is guilty to a 100% certainty. You're expected to prove that they are guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Oh, I LOVE semantics games Well, viability now is around 23-25 weeks gestation and really is based on weight more than age. Howeverm the past push towards heroic intervention is now tempered by the rather horrific disabilities and complications seen at the younger age", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The sky is blue.\r\nNeutral enough. I didn't just condemn the sky, did I?\r\nShould I not say that the sky is blue then?\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "... are you asking me for evidence that this debate doesn't name specifics? er, then as evidence i submit this debate. you mean your grandkids. and again, hair is apparently more important than policies to the right wing. i'm surprised you didn't just make an acronym of my name, that woulda shown me what's what. no, republicans don't have the majority and they likely never will again until they change their backwards ways. what the republicans have is a bought and paid for propaganda machine called fox, and a band of old fat people scared of their own shadow (not to mention afraide of the scary black guy in office) who will believe any psychotic conspiracy fox throws their way. republicans won't have the majority after this midterm, and the republicans are going to lose more seats when obama is re-elected in 2012.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "oh yeah, and i'm pretty sure my display picture has pissed off a lot of people, and if it has; i'm glad ;)", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Can't your religion survive a little mockery? On the other hand I can understand why your worried your religion being so ridiculous and all.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "He had ALREADY MADE the animals. \"now the Lord God HAD FORMED...\" not \"now the Lord God formed...\" See the difference? He already HAD FORMED the animals before he brought them to Adam. He made the animals before Adam.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "one idea per episode? there were always at least 4; one for each main character. and they always linked together perfectly. with the exception of a few episodes at the beginning and the last one, seinfeld was always gold. the simpsons, on the other hand, has sucked for the last few years when they turned to the 'pick a celebrity guestspot' system.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Excuse me?! Didn't AIDS started because your homies either ate or did the nasty with monkeys, thereby crossing the species boundary? What did it have to do with \"da man\"? And crime and poverty in Africa is also the white devil's doing? emoticonXConfused\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You must know a lot of Abortionist to make that claim. And Obviously they must have had you 'round for dinner to know how much they make and where they live. If you have so many Abortionist friends then why are you so anti choice?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You mean my dog 'CIgarette'??I took him out for a drag.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "that doesn't suprise me. again i'm not surprised that your first reaction to the idea that people aren't equal would be to enslave some and that your second idea would be to subjegate women. this reveals way too much about your nature. it ain't pretty. try living homeless for a year then get back to me on whether you saw yourself as equal to someone on '1million a year' emoticonxrolleyes now if the '1million a year' person gave the homeless person 1/2 million a year, then they would be equal, because equality is at the entre of such socialist ideals.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Why? You'll just call them 'stupid'. And by doing so you will have effectively trumped all of the facts in one fell swoop. Right?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Unlike your stiff-necked, Neanderthal mockery of God, Christ, the Bible, and everything noble, which is well documented in these fora, you've never been able to back that claptrap up. You just run off at the mouth like your spiritual father, the Devil (John 8:44).", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Right. And that is the reason for peer review. Creationists don't subject their ramblings to peer review. That is why so much care is devoted to the proper construction of experiments to test the hypotheses by real scientists. Creationists just invent ad hoc stories without any experimentation.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I think even the Court knows that the Fourteenth was not well crafted, at least in terms of forsight. However, once it was ratified the Court really had no choice but to try to work it into the legal landscape.Certainly State power needed to be curtailed to stop such institutions such as slavery, but I don't think restructuring how the entire Constitution works was the right move.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i'm a little surprised- i've found that pot smokers are usually the least pushy. usually they're laid back enough to just offer, unless they forget to offer. i've only ever been pressured to drink by one person, and that's all the peer pressure i've received. i'm not sure if it's the people i hang with, who almost all use something but are very laid back, or if it's that i'd be hard to ressure so that people don't try. what's your experience been?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Do people have a short attention span? What do you think?emoticonXKill", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Translation: Muslims are worth nothing. Christianity is superior, therefore they are worth nothing. Let the US come in and kill them, ruin their cities, and take their oil.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "you really are an opinionated and arrogant chump. who said that the estimated age of the universe at 14 billion y.o. is a fact? it is a figure based on man's increasing knowledge and understanding. that the figure is adjusted from time to time shows that science does not rest. on the other hand, having faith that the bible is inspired, without testing it's veracity, and then basing your life on it, it absurd in the extreme. clearly you can't differentiate between the different meanings of the word 'faith'. swallow this:", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "What is a 'higher' species. If you mean a more intelligent primate?? The concept there is a hierarchy of 'higher' and 'lower' species is incorrect. The only difference between man and the other primates is that man has a hyperdeveloped brain. There are t", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "i love how you are pro-choice until its a choice you don't like. let people carry guns in their own home. let them carry it on their person. it has nothing to do with you does it not? unless you deal with people threatening you with guns on a daily basis it doesn't. their house =/= their choice, her body = her choice? i love hypocrisy.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "mexico? that explains many things. mexico: candidates must address murders of women | human rights watch", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Accidents for one. Just last week a man who was drinking and cleaning his firearm accidentally shot and killed his daughter. Run a google search for \"man shoots self\" the amount of accidental shootings is rather disturbing yet funny. Most of these however are due to improper gun safety though.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well I'm glad its no problem for your son. No child deserves to be harrassed.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "why are these murders 'blatant racist killlings'? the article you posted makes it sound like a robbery gone bad.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "wowwwwwwwww. you learned how to say something other than 'you are going to hell'. did your mother teach you that, or are you just copying what i'm doing? cuz i doubt you are smart enough to learn anything by yourself.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Is your thinking really this simplistic? Either I have to agree with you or I am an anarchist? Is that all the complexity you can handle? This or that? Black or white? The best soda in the world is Sprite and everything else is wrong? What a boring little pigeon-holed world you live in.\r\nNo harm no foul - that is where I stand on sex and romance. Kids, animals and those who don't or can't consent are off-limits. K? Now that I have established (AGAIN) how I feel on that matter, let me reinstate.\r\nAny God that allows love and intimacy for only a select group is viscious.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "were it so simple. for the agents to 'freely assemble' among us they, or their superiors, must conclude that we are some sort of threat. would that make you feel loved? on a side note, i'm always surprised at how 'conservatives', normally so worried about government waste, take such a waste of taxpayer dollars so glibly. fbi investigating kiss-ins? joining subversive 'terrorist' xxxx biker groups?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Not really the ball park is too wide. The place you live would be older than the earth. Take egypt. If Moses wrote Genesis the country he lived in was documented as older than his creation. It can't be 6-days.\r\nAngry Black Man Xqs me I mean Angry African American (AAA).", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, I have disagreed. But supposing that you are right (and you are not as I have shown), then you have successfully shown that abortion is frowned upon in Scripture. The verses you quote ALL describe the actions in those verses negatively. Congratulations, you proved what you were trying to disprove.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "What, pray, is a real answer? Because, you know, if it is anything like a corrcect answer you are doing a rather poor job of it, mate.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And so wasn't the universal opinion that homosexuality is unnatural, wrong and to no benefit to Society at all.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "never heard of it. tell me, what is the most troubling thing you have read in this bill so far? one thing i did not like was that it required me to buy insurance or pay a fine.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "You mean the guy who didn't tell his own cabinat he was going to Argentina to go get a little.. and left a power gap because no one knew where he was? You mean that guy?\r\nThat is a heck of a lot worse that actually having an affair. Eliot Spitzer at least had the decency to resign when he got caught being a hypocrite. \r\nI personally don't care about his diddling with some woman.. although it does make him a hypocrite since he ran on the 'family values' campaign. It's that little thing about leaving his duties behind without communication that is the real destruction the public trust.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Coming from the person that thinks \"because I think it is\" is a good argument for constitutional understanding. At least I can actually read a phrase and not construe it to go beyond what it says.\r\nShould we bring up your 9th amendment arguments again? I actually have history, tradition, and founding fathers notes on my side...you merely have your opinion.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "What is it about the same piece of paper you do not understand?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "What is conveniently missing from your response? An explanation of why a limit on the number of guns that can be purchased during a certain time period is not a law which imposes \"conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms\" per Heller. If the punishment does not fit the crime it does not necessarily follow that the crime is Constitutionally protected. Executing someone for shoplifting would be unjustifiable. However, that does not mean that there is a Constitutional right to shoplift.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "And this coming from a so called, self proclaimed \"rational christian\" ? It appears you have blown your cover as a poser by showing your true colors as an anti-christian atheist and a hatemonger. Thanks for revealing your true Nature. emoticonXGood", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Well they didn't. That's a nice proclamation, but it's a little late. Perhaps you would fight for better sex education?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You have a blob of tissue in your \"but(sic)\"? Sorry dude, that has to suck. Perhaps you're really referring to hemorrhoids? You do know that those aren't really blobs of tissue, right? They're really the swelling and inflammation of veins.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So theistic evolution is not a belief, not a faith at all? It is simply a humanistic idea that is based on science, using God to fill gaps?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "that's the finals tournament. are you being deliberately obtuse? there are qualifying rounds that eliminate many teams before the finals competition. you will notice, therefore, that neither scotland, wales nor northern ireland are involved in the finals competition, though you can be assured that they participated vigorously in the qualifying rounds. 2010 fifa world cup qualification - wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 204 teams entered the most recent qualification competitions.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "wow, lets all clap for that great argument for evolutionism. personally, i'm not sure why this is being brought up again.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "A fairly good explanation, toned down a bit from Darwin's explanation (for the average person who does not have a PHD in biology).", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Quite frankly, one absolute certainty in science regarding homosexuality is that being gay IS NOT a \"choice\". It is my personal opinion that anybody who proclaims that it is a choice is clearly demonstrating a lack of any real knowledge on the issue of a scientific examination of homosexuality.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well sigma, which is more painful?? Being burnt with salene for 30 minutes to an hour and if that doesnt work after the 3rd time, being born prematurally and laid on a table and starving to death..... OR A woman sticking a clothes hanger up and accidentally killing herself but intentionally killing the kid within her? seems to me that people dont really care about how the baby feels. It has just as much feeling as the mother.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "My article say's this. it needs to be noted the alleged evidence for extensive history assumes uniformitarian geology. Because of this fact, this response adds up to: Your theory doesn't work under my theory, so your theory is wrong. Of course you don't want to consider that fact, do you?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "When the pro-life movement began in the early 70's, being pro-life meant you were 100% opposed to any and all abortion. In the early 80's, that standard was watered down to include those who had rape, incest, and the life of the mother exceptions. Now in the 90's, things have declined so rapidly that someone who is only opposed to partial-birth abortions can sell themselves as pro-life.\"- Pastor Matt Trewhella How does that crow taste?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "so why have darwinists ignored symbiosis for decades if it was so compatible? same with developmental biology? why have developmental biologists been locked away in closets, never to be heard from until recently when they've forced themselves upon the scientific community? the reality is you have no choice: accept that organisms cooperate with each other and respond purposefully and intelligently to the environment or else. tell me though: do you now admit that individuals evolve, not populations?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "That is one definition of creation. There are many. You again make a mistake of making an assumption about what you want to argue about, and argue against that.If you want a (non-exhaustive list) seehttp://www.crystalinks.com/creation.htmlYou have simply picked one model, treated it as the only one, and constructed a (thus false) argument against it.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yes, they do show a faithful devotion to the ultimate reality that there are no gods. You're an atheist, aren't you?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well do you mean Texas or Texans? Because Texas holds the record for execusions in the US. Not something I'd be proud of.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "You call this a discussion? You're on here, continually talking about how we need to pass laws that're already on the books, laws that haven't been proven effective or even useful, and you refuse to address the potential shortcomings that we're pointing out to you.\r\nThis isn't a discussion, this is our group beating up a mental cripple.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "now isn't that a terribly socialistic position to take? but, i'm confused by it at the same time, for socialists like you don't really want to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs now do you? emoticonxrolleyes when logic fails, there's alway ad hominem, right? and the ad hominen continues..... we're larger, more diverse, more litigious, need i go on? leaving the continued ad hominem aside, one of the causes for our high healthcare costs is litigation. since the dnc survives on the money derived from the blood-sucking trial lawyers lobby, i don't see real reform occurring until we cut those purse strings along with the big pharma's.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Where, exactly, did the article say that bacteria exhibit intelligence????", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "but why should i care about their emotions? they obviously don't care about mine. this is in reference to the jonestown massacre, where this cult leader convinced his followers to drink a soft drink (i don't think it was actually kool-aid) laced with cyanide. okay.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Oh gosh, silly, silly me, not blaming an entire group of people for something a few nutjobs did. My, I'm so embarassed for being so intolerant and thinking that! emoticonXBangheademoticonXBanghead\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "A nameless face to the feds? In this era of paranoia and fear and overgrown governments? As if any of us are private and unknown individuals anymore.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "LoL What part of a Binding Document, the Constitution with it's Bill of Rights, don't you understand! \r\nYou demand that we obey the law, but you would allow Government to break the Supreme law of the Land, and you call me a nut? I gotta say my friend, THAT is truly nutty! emoticonXSmilie", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I do not empathise with an embryo or early fetus the way I imagine I would with my late-term fetus or born child.I fully intend to have children in the future, including through adoption possibly. When I do I will love them with all my heart and put their needs above my own. I'm not going to do a half-assed job of parenting; I'll give it 100%.But not yet.Prototype:", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "you know who else is not normal? one who has an i.q. of 122 or higher.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "And, let's see, when did the job loss actually start? \r\nOh yes.. We can trace the troubles starting in 2007, with a big melt down in August/September of 2008. Let's see.. Obama must have been a terrible president to have caused that.. oh WAIT. That wasn't Obama, that was BUSH.. Excuse Me.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i've gotten laid a number of times already winston dearie. and every single time the results are messier than trying to help my cousin change the oil in his car. plus it doesn't help that every single one of them is a bad **** and so full of themselves they don't know how to take a cue. and i can tell you first hand that size does matter. but is has to be the proper size for that saying to actually mean anything. there's such a thing as too big, too small or just plain too ergonomically unsound to work. come back when there's a set of teethmarks in the headboard that don't belong to either you or the dingo. then we'll talk.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Having politicians monitor their ethics is much like having the mafia monitor crime. \r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "How else should it be done? It is a constiturionally protected right. To eliminate that right, the constitutional protection must be removed first, is the removal itself, becomes unconstitutional.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Hello, please read http://www.reasons.org/resources/apo...ing.shtml?mainIt is a good christian site that explains that there are lots of problems with Dr Russell Humphreys' hypothesis.The universe and Earth are very old. We know this as a fact. Why would God lie to us? If the Universe looks old, then it is. To claim otherwise is to call God a liar.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "dear old marge, the voice of unreason. the use of plain english confuses him.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "But the point you miss is that a caterpillar is NOT a butterfly; a puppy is NOT a full grown dog; a ZYGOTE and a FETUS are NOT children.\r\n \r\n These entities have not YET grown or developed or changed into those other entities.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "\r\nI guess I SHOULD give you some time to mourn, so go back and dry your snot", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Based on your irrational rants, you are most definitely the sockpuppet you proclaimed yourself to be in the post above. \r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "which you posted. i think it was fair enough for me to take that as you supporting his views. i think both factors had a lot to do with it for us, and by the same token i don't think you can claim that france's decision was purely economic either. i agree. not quite sure i follow. are you saying that france not standing by the us constitutes a crime? i support the war, and think we were correct to do what we thought was right. but by the same token i find it very hypocritical to continually bad mouth the french for doing the same.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Well, first, I did say \"The fact that you and I cannot understand this doesn't make it impossible.\" Secondly, how is no god possible? Third, a person being 100% something and 100% something else isn't entirely impossible. There are people all over the wor", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "So now Wiesmann's barrier is the most important thing to the ToE? Somehow I doubt that biologists agree, but obviously creationists have more authority on the topic of evolution...", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "As a gun owner I'm also a property owner. Or are you denying that guns are property?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "no, but i went over there and checked and i guess by time stamp you were first. ;)", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "I find it funny you think Article V was repealed yet the bill of rights references Article V for passage. So we have the bill of rights which can't be repealed but Article V which was repealed meaning all the amendments we had are unconstitutional? You've really lost it haven't you.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Geeze, let's give George Walker Bush a tad of credit.\r\nHades! Bush was a far more efficient murderer than Hussein, he had bombers and planes at his disposition, all kinds of weaponry. Bush makes Hussein look like a wimpy piker in comparison, at least in regard to the killing machines each employed.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "'slaves, tortures, drones, dictators' hmm, what does that sound like? oh yeah, the history of most european countries, including germany.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "They are safer. The 300 gun deaths per year rate has dropped since then.Let's have a little reality intrude on the gun porn fantasies. Only 13% of Swiss homes ever had an Army-issue weapon in them, Militia service extending only from age 20 to age 30, and the ammunition was stored in a sealed pack, with severe punishments for the seal being broken.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The tooth fairy has a different function than the Easter bunny.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "No, it requires pretty much the same amount of faith, as if faith could be quantified.\r\n \r\n .", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "What does being a priest have to do with anything? It wouldn't matter if he were a Satan worshipper.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So, you're saying that you believe in absolutely everything your church believes and you support everything it does and the moment it did anything oustide of these you'd leave right?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I once walked into Halbergs office in an effort to borrow a big XY plotter his group had available. Before I left he overwhelmed me with an extended lecture on chronobiology and his current work as well as a large sheath of reprints and reviews. A very vocal advocate of his field (and it WAS his field) and quite a character. Of course I met him in the morning and perhaps he was on a chronobiological peak at the time who can say. Anyway I did get access to the plotter for some chemical work I was doing, and I learned a bit about his work and interests. Productive meeting.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well then, my skeptic fellow Australians, what is the answer to the question? Do any of you guys here know? I sure as hell don't. Creationists did not misquote Dawkins because the words came from his mouth. And Dawkins is a professional at biology, but he", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "All the more reason to be armed to the teeth huh,does this mean you see it our way?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Like evolution, right? You have your conclusion, so everything else must adhere to it. Just answer the question. How to you account for the statements above?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "then it will open the door to eventual total control. oh yeah, most autocratic regimes started with governments taking away child beauty pageants! just to confirm, i don't disagree that they shouldn't ban them, i just think making such a statement, that is such great speculation, and has so little basis in fact, is reasonable.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Actually it couldn't be any worse then it is right now. More people historically have died at the hands of religious wars then non-religion. Religion has been used to push extreme political viewpoints, selfishness, racism, destruction of whole cultures, hatred, and ignorance. Wow that's something for you to be proud of eh grizzly6626? Through religion, televangelists have become pimps where cash is more important than integrity. While I haven't seen any atheists with bombs strapped to themselves, we've all see plenty of religious fools blowing themselves up each and every day. And of course we all know how peaceful and charitable The Spanish Inquisition was. I guess it's true, when it comes to religion IGNORANCE is bliss... BTW - you forgot to mention that hitler was a devout catholic. Yeah, like I said before, it couldn't be any worse then it is right now", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "oh man! what is going on? i vote for the 2nd coming of christ is near!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "wow you really don't like america do you? i should start calling you hate monger.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "simone darling, please stop. your making yourself look foolish. your trying to compare uniformed soldiers in an organized military under civilian gov't control to terrorists. there is no comparison to be made here, even you should be able to see that. huh? the u.s. military dismantled some of our bases in saudi arabia based on a prearranged schedule at the behest of the saudi government. it had nothing to do with 'capitulating to the taliban', nor did we remove all of our bases. yes simone, we still have military bases in saudi arabia.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "I suspect that you are thinking of birds. But early birds had fingered claws on those wings. It is generally true that no organ ever springs into existance completely developed where nothing existed before. The wings of bats, birds, and pterodactyls are merely the modified fore-limb of a tetrapod. There is evidence that insect wings may have arisen from some sort of thermal panel. And of course, size has considerable relevance to flight. Wingless spiders fly by spinning a loop of silk that is carried by the moving air. Very small insects require almost no wings to fly. What they do is more similar to a whale in water than a bird in air. If by chance, a small animal is upsized because of a competetive advantage, and the wings are too, then it becomes a larger flying animal.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I think we are all aware that abortion is a terrible thing. No-one is denying that. And contrary to what some people might think, there is nothing anyone could say to make (most) women undergoing an abortion feel any worse about it. Just like any traumatic situation, sometimes you might just need to talk to someone about it, make sure your head is in the right place. And yes, some abortion clinics do provide counseling, but as far as i know, all of them provide referrals to other organizations that do. Contrary to what some people might think, the employees at these clinics, for the most part, are caring, compassionate people.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "which ones and how so? i am curious because your saying using the same reasoning different conclusions are reached. maybe the reasoning is not the same", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "i would suggest trying out new activities/hobbies she might enjoy. at her age, gymnastics is a fantastic activity, which gets her comfortable with moving her body in different ways and would set her up for a healthy, active lifestyle later on. dance is also fun for children at her age. above all, if she's not already part of one, i would suggest putting her in a preschool program (not a daycare) so she can be around other children her age and learn the fundamentals that will set her up for academic success.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Once one is adept at finding evidence after a conclusion is presumed, all sorts of \"proofs\" reveal themselves. What's next, Nostradamus?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "wow :) i'm just a starter, that's my first big tattoo (the debate picture, sorry about the glare, i had another sitting friday and it was lathered in tattoo goo!) i've had 5 hours on it so far, still got so long left but it's going to be a 3/4 sleeve once finished.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "No doubt Matthew! We just have this lust for killing gays. Wow, you really nailed it. We actually are pretty well organized to. Darth Vader is the president of the VA chapter for example. We soon plan on launching a weapon that actually seeks out gays....not that this matters because anyone we don't like we put in the camps. We have a national meeting in a few months in Montana. Maybe if you wear a black robe and do the secret handshake they won't know you are gay so then you can attend. We have really good food at these events.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And how is your think group any different, you all think alike just as gun owners all think alike. So stop calling the kettle black.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "will you stop fucking talking to me? damn. leave me the hell alone. what the fuck is wrong with you?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "And that's all irrelevent, because pages 240-243 concern what happens in the world today, not what happened concerning creation. His feelings about God's interactions with the world today would be different if he had a basic knowledge of the Bible.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Actually, it does no such thing. It merely means a secular moralist must justify moral codes on the basis of their intrinsic rationality and real world consequences, rather than appealing to a deity as an arbitrary authority. Since all the scriptures of the world have been written by people, this moral authority represents nothing more than their personal opinions about what they think their god wants.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, its not just morally wrong in America, but its morally wrong in the middle east as well. And i think that if we continue our way downward morally as a nation, it would give terrorists even more hate for america because we are supposedly a \"christian nation\" and dont live morally. anyways.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Ala San Francisco values by Nancy Pelosi and that crowd? God help us!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "i guess since your know how to post without the 50 characters you are a half veteran but once you figure out behind what's behind the humor of joe's post you will be a full veteran. pay attention.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "I dunno... we already have enough fundies thinking that the Big Bang is part of evolution...", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Is North Korea a bastion of peace and good-living? Nope. Is it religious? Nope. Therefore obstacles to 'peace' don't necessarily have to be tied in with religiosity.\r\nHope that's spelt out enough for you. Try to keep up.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "If that's the criteria, then it must be Islam and Roman Catholicism in the Final Days.\r\nOf course, the Mormons are mightily proselytizing away. They might make a billion yet.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "becasue tehre is no merit to the behavior that would need special recognition. should people with attachment disorders be allowed to be polygamists? what is so special about homosexuality that it deserves to be treated different than other behaviors? remember there is no definitve evidence that it is genetic.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Is this another attempt of yours to paint all that believe in smaller, less-intrusive government as loonies? Very transparent, sorry. :(", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "How mature: all caps screaming and namecalling.\r\nIt's no surprise, though; it's all you have, Archie. You come in here making assertions about souls, so when we challenge you to defend your view... you don't. emoticonXRolleyes", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Wow, you PROVED the Big Bang to be a big dud? I didn't see this clear refutation of a longheld scientific theory written up in any of the peer reviewed scientific journals. I must have overlooked it. Can you give the reference to your article?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You SERIOUSLY need to take a basic biology course so you can stop sticking your foot in your mouth An egg is NOT larva, and larva is NOT a caterpillar, and a caterpillar is NOT a butterfly - much the same as a zygote is NOT a embryo, and a embryo is NOT a fetus, and a fetus is NOT a baby, and a baby is NOT an adult. I challenge you to prove that a larva is exactly the same as a butterfly. If you can't even do something as simple as that, then you'll never understand the process/transformation of what a human has to go through, and THAT in and of itself should give you a clue as to how much in denial you are in, and how much you have to twist the truth around just to justify your version of events. Deal with it!", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "This is poor example. Focusing on saving lives over burying the dead doesn't do anything to trump personal autonomy.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That's not exactly true now, is it? People get to vote for elected officials, and that's all that's guaranteed federally. Some states have provisions for allowing people to vote on local laws, but in some states the government is allowed to prevent the vote. And of course there is no provision at all allowing the people to vote on federal laws. So in point of fact it is a true statement that in the United States someone is not allowed to vote on X, for some values of X.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Hey, someone has to clean our toilets. This may sound brutal, but one of the biggest reasons why Indians, Asians, etc all are heavy on education is because their lives sucked. They didn't get a education and they were living in poverty. Thus, they seem education, mainly the sciences and the maths as a way to escape poverty. Japanese and Chinese parents are massively strict on their kids because they want their kids of excel as the parents either were poor or grew up poor and know what that's like. This may be necessary for these religious homeschooled folks to find out. Spending a life time in poverty or working 3 jobs to make ends meet will change someone's view point on education.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Those damn black people! All wanting respect and equal opportunity! They should just be happy with what they got!Why should they work for the same pay? They are just selfish! [/end sarcasm]This argument is tired *yawn*", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Actually, I had no intention of responding to WW. As I'm sure you can see by now, he doesn't actually respond to what's written, but rather just engages in lies and insults. He's not worth the effort to debunk; he's self-debunking.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But if the state refuses to recognise their right to commit to each other in a legal union, then they are being denied at least one right which is available to everyone else.\r\n \r\n This can also affect legal entitlements.\r\n \r\n Leo", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "really? i was unaware of that the ritual of moloch was revived in modern-day medical abortions. seems odd not to support the punishment of such sinful infants then if you're only in favour of innocent life. cool. does that mean i get to say rude things about you and yours?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "The article said very little about his observations and almost nothing about his methods.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "It's also a noun. But since you're unable but to repeat your self, maybe a few more times will make it 'true'", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Ah yes, this is old school Brady here. Wailing on about the evil guns while defending the rapists. Kind of puts is other posts into perspective doesn't it. I think views like this are why Brady had to move to Thailand.\r\nBrady, hows the list coming?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Do you have to work at becoming so scientifically illiterate? What ever happened to the creationist chant about evolution being a product of pure chance? You seem to chant all of the other creationist tripe.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Steeeeve?\r\nDo yourself a favor and stop fantasizing about my opinion, 'mmkay?\r\nI don't believe you are like that.\r\nThis junk you do where you refuse to address what I DO say and make up strawman arguments gets you nowhere...\r\nI understand you're getting angry, but YOU are MAKING YOURSELF angry over a position I do not have...\r\nLet me repeat that. Hopefully it will sink in?\r\nYOU are MAKING YOURSELF angry over a position I do not have...\r\nWith that said, I return you to your delusions...\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "We all agree that abortion is \"killing\". Killing something that has yet to become self aware is different IMO. Funny you request an open \"mind\". My point is that it ain't a human being if it ain't got no mind. That's why they unplug you when you're brain dead.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "it's more along the lines of you saying you were going to do something... ... and posting it ... ... then deciding to erase all evidence of what you said you were going to do after you decide you don't want to follow through. care enough to make this post, eh? ironically, it had to do with you not coming back to this thread anymore... but yeah. i'm not surprised you *wouldn't remember* that... emoticonxfrazzled", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Got evidence to back that up?? I'm not sure how a stoner's worse than an alcoholic really. -Wez", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Yea right just like jolly old England. Tell that tale to the Marines coz this salty old dog ain't buying it.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Come on, people. You don't butcher an innocent baby for the conveience or sins of the parents. There's plenty of people in the world who would have adopted that baby. And if no one else would have, I would have.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i'm intrigued by that last tidbit there, infant baptism. can you please substantiate that with some scriptures?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "No one said he invented guns!A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.[1] To \"attack a straw man\" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar proposition (the \"straw man\"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.[1][2]", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "It's quite obvious that it's the ID proponents who have issues with definitions, particularly among themselves. Behe has changed his own definition of IC, and Dembski changed Behe's definition of IC.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "really!?!?! that high!?!?! wow!!!! cool!!!! do you think i beat out larry the cable guy ;)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "are you telling me that my pubes are sentient? i agree, however i am no constitutional expert.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "ah, but why do you use the word concept for both evolution and intelligent design? Evolution is a theory that has been studied, given evidence, and offered up for peer review. Intelligent design is simply a concept, a single belief. Evolution is a theory ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "He didn't pursue the \"master race of white Protestant.\" He was a pure Aryanist, genius one. The very least you could do is get your facts straight, but you probably like spreading this bullcrap on purpose. (Seeing as how you're an atheist.)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Whether a fetus is a person is not something open to consideration. An apple is not an orange. The reason that we have two words to apply as labels is simply because they absolutely are not the same thing. It is that simple.Suppose that a fetus is frozen and implanted in a female 22 years later. Is it of legal drinking age at birth? Obviously not. We currently have the technology to actually do this.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Ok, now show your evidence. If you have any, that is.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And you can disprove hindusism, or Janism, or Taosism, or Confusism, or Buddhism, or atheism.\r\nOn the other hand, Christianity make some very strong claims.. such as the phsycial resurrection of someone 3 days dead, dead people walking around a city, thousands of people being fed with 5 fish, and make claims about the \r\nexistance of demons.. \r\nFrankly, those are rather silly superstitions that in my eyes discredit the possiblity of Christiantiy being accurate.\r\nNot to meantion the belief in hell and salvation.. sheese, where do people ocme up with these crasy ideas.\r\nAnd, of course, the concept that some religious people have of a 6 day creation a bit over 6000 years ago has been falsified.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Gee, maybe catch a few episodes of \"Entertainment Tonight\" and see if they have anything on it. \r\nWhy not just refute what she said. After all, she posted it, so it must be true, right?\r\n(For those wondering why I posted this, see this thread.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I tried.\r\nAgain I say, this discussion has nothing to do with my spiritual integrity. I'm amazed that you are able to judge its soundness from the total lack of related information regarding same.\r\nMy suggestion is that you request a total refund of all monies you and any of your associates may have spent on tuition. You were robbed! You might also look into punitive damages. emoticonXBye", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "since you are so oblivious to the truth, and probably flunked science a couple of times: http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/essays/courtenay1.htm http://newton.nap.edu/html/creationism/evidence.html http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk/the%20...g%20theory.htm http://www.umich.edu/~gs265/bigbang.htm fact listen: [ fkt ] n. knowledge or information based on real occurrences: an account based on fact; a blur of fact and fancy. a. something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed: genetic engineering is now a fact. that chaucer was a real person is an undisputed fact. see above. http://www.carm.org/abortion/embryo.htm a piece of my hair is of the homo sapein species too. does that mean my hair is a person? perhaps you need to get your 'facts' straight.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Thank you. Unfortunately, on a forum plagued with emotional patriotism based on conceited belief systems and distorted historical interpretations, rational opinions are normally ignored.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So any long publication must be due to a panic attack? It takes a few minutes to read those posts, but it takes an hour and a half to watch Expelled; does that mean that IDers are having the mother of all panic attacks?Your logic can't even be described as \"tortured,\" marc, because it's completely nonexistent.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You are exactly right and I believe that is Gods intent. When it comes right down to it, each person must make his peace with God. It is our responsibility and our right as individuals. We have the freedom to choose. It is our God-given right to decide what we will do with God and Christ. ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Be wary of names. 'junk' DNA is not rubbish ... it's called 'junk' because we don't know entirely what it is used for... But just look at all the blank spaces on this post. They are nothing, but they are keeping the words in order. Evolutionaries are putting too much faith in names of words - such as human embryonic 'gill slits' or 'transitional' fossil", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "what the heck? owning an airport is evil now??? it is becoming clear at this point that you're pretty much grabbing at anything you possibly can, no matter how silly, to bash jerry falwell. he did enough bad things to where you don't need to resort to the benign things, to bash him. the man is gone. you don't have to worry about him anymore. move on.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "hey, archangel, i notice you didn't respond to the points i made - no argument, huh? to quote jyoshu: 'well since you didn't address my points, i'll assume you're done! a simple 'ok, i concede that ... and moving on back to the issues ...' ***jyoshu well, everyone, looks like our ez/ss clone has finally realized his argument was wrong.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "The Right of the people...Shall not be infringed.... BY THE GOVERNMENT. Private businesses (although less and less) can make thier own rules regarding thier establishment... Strange concept eh?\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So who do you hold responsible for forcing people to stay at the convention center to die? Lemme guess.\r\nShould they be held criminally negligent? \r\nI'm sure the \"bipartisan\" commission will find out who is responsible and hold them accountable.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "YOu mean they don't eat, sleep , pass wastes, fight (not neccesarily physically) for dominance in their social setting, react to the opposite sex, put on displays for the opposite sex, and things like that? How very odd.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And can you please tell me the difference between nonrandom variation and directed variation? I'd also like a link to verify what you say. Thank you. God Bless!", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I guess they could if they knew where all the parts were located. Oh, I would think they would be in hell. I can't imagine \"God\" would have anything to do with mass murderers; do you? \r\nBTW, this is Osama's technical guide for the terrorists. \r\nhttp://www.almostaproverb.com/images4/osama_dummies.jpg", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i have a reputation to maintain. most people stay on this site for about a year. i've been here for almost 3 years now? i guess you haven't learned that you shouldn't try to teach a pig to dance. nor have you learned that you shouldn't wrestle with a pig. you can't win and the pig likes it ;)", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "How many opponents of liberal gun laws live in urban areas?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Oh, I don't know. Grow food in a garden, gather it from various wild sources, hunt game animals in the forest.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "It doesn't take a Ph.d. to understand who wrote the first Gospel. Grade school children can look up who was the first man to walk on the moon.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i can't believe he used that on me. just goes to show that he will mimic not only preachers but any one else that he thinks will make him look good at the time. ez why don't you stop this?? people will actually converse with and discuss things that you feel are important if you would only think for yourself. forget the dogma,.. forget the spoon feed interpetations of a dusty old book and think for yourself. people will actually begin to take you seriously.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "i'm surprised no one has mentioned the incident in burlington, vt. if you read the first story on that, you'll find out that women have the right to breast feed their baby anywhere the baby is allowed to be. while i would not be 100% comfortable with it, i recognize that if a mother chooses to breast feed her baby, she needs to be able to feed it when it's hungry, whether it be on a plane, in a car (not driving) or in a restaurant.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "you and omegawatsit are the we? or are you the same person? whatever, i'm glad for you. keep up the study and you might achieve the dizzy heights of the mid thirties by next year!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "why do you assume the poster didn't use birth control? they said nothing about birth control; only a statement on being pregnant and having an abortion. also, why do you make any assumptions about suffering? according to the poster, suffering was avoided. condoms are not 100% effective. a childhood friend's younger sibling was the product of a failed condom, among other factors. nine months and nine weeks are completely different.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "that explains your excellent use of grammar, word choice and spelling? rotflmao", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Quite frankly, you don't know squat about me. So stop trying to pretend you do.I have gone on record to say I think Christianity does a lot of good in the world.I have even tried to correct Matthew in his anti-Christian tirades. (Until I gave up realizing it would do no good... emoticonXFrazzled )I hate to break it to you, but the WORLD typically functions with people putting out negative news.You hear about how Joe XXXX broke the law.Do you ever hear about how Johnny Atlas keeps the law?emoticonXFrazzled", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Quite True. I guess those are pretty useless. I suppose His Noodly Appendage works in mysterious ways.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Oh, well, then that settles the argument doesn't it. It must be a person because she says so, now. Maybe she will change her mind again?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I'm actually in the Detroit Subs with one kid in a Blue Ribbon High School and two in college nearby. And yes, the mayor's got the bling goin on in his wife's city-leased Escalade. I'm not sure if it has \"dubs\" on it or not, though, but I bet the stereo's kickin'. :)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You know you are full of it when you claim they can't just walk into a gun show. Strange that can can do just that at a licensed dealers. What would be so very different than checking licensed dealers at a gun shop and investigating the same at a show? Go back to the Brady bunch and see if they have any facts that prevent the BATF from doing any thing. Try again Brady as your logic and facts just don't hold up. edit: The BATFE checks paperwork as part of their investigations. Federal laws are not suspended at gun shows as you would have the uneducated and ill informed believe.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And yet after investigating for over a year, our inspectors agree with me, not you. Hmmm.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "what's your opinion of religious people who believe evolution is merely a part of creation? there are non-literal creationists out there in large numbers.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Well, there are several problems with your post. 1) You misunderstand the term 'THEORY' when applied to scientific theory's. A theory is a model to try to explain the FACTS. WHen it comes to evolution, the theory of evolution is a model to try to explain the observed fact that evolution happens. Second of all, Humans and modern apes share the same ancestor. From a biological point of view, humans ARE apes that have a specialised brain. The third problem is many religious people take much of the bible as allegorical. That means they are able to reconcilate such things as scientific fact, (evolution, expanding universe, age of the universe, biology, geology and physics), and their belief in God.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I not pushing this on you from a male chauvinist pig stance, but can you imagine the wrath of this woman would slay the largest dragon if turned toward effective argument techniques.\r\nI'm wondering who he was wanting to call...or was he just trying to bring the phone bill within budget?emoticonXAngel", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "If that were true, why are there millions of miscarriages each year? I don't believe a word of it.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "And many news stories have referred to the New York shooter as being armed with a \"high powered rifle\" despite the fact that this was blatantly false. Why should we take this story as being fully factual about the details of background checks and gun shows?And a lot of newspapers are repeating the claims that fully-automatic machine guns, anti-tank missiles, fragmentation grenades and rocket launchers, are being bought by mexican drug cartel members -even though they couldn't possibly pass a background check- and that they're being bought from gun stores in America! But no matter how many times we demand proof of such, NONE IS EVER PRESENTED!Come back with undeniable proof that FFL dealers never conduct federally mandated background checks when selling guns at gun shows, otherwise don't post on the topic anymore since you have nothing but lies and scare mongering tactics.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Actually, God does not care one bit. It's only plumbing.. \r\n Got that from God Himself ", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Lol.. you are so silly. I also see you love shifting the burden of proof, and into making grandiose claims. Bring it on, bring it on.\r\nYour opinion is noted and laughed at. I do love your rants though.\r\nI do have to wonder, I never clashed with you about the existence of Jesus in this current nick. What was your old one, and why the nickname change? Banned under the old one?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I'm glad you made the same correlation I did. ToE is a substitute for #### in this case.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "and that has what to do with my right of dissent? as i have stated before, and reinforced by your response, i don't need a laser to follow a dimwit. it is apparent to all here that there is a great deal you don't know and the definition of seniority is the least of the lot. since i give little weight to the inquiry of a simpleton, i will ignore your question re my birth. dono", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Hey that cheeseburger is on me,and make sure it has extra rat poison!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And creationism was investigated and explored completely and shown to be false.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Says who? People have the right to say anything they want to. There is NO right to not be judged by someone. It doesn't matter if something someone else does affects you and me or not. People can think whatever they want about other people. People can also SAY what they want. As far as a personal philosophy of behavior, I agree with you--what you're saying is a good rule to live by. But I can't agree people have no right to condemn or judge others.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "yeah but they also might not care! i mean they might have a gun themselves!", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "oh really? i prove evidence to the subject and i don't repeat the same thing over and over again. i am not repeating anything over and over am i. i think you are the worst debator.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "can you guess why they have these items? i know. do you? it's quite practical for both officers and inmates. how bout not having a riot in the first place and not having to shoot anyone. if you can prevent it, do it. it causes less pain and suffereing and is less damaging.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Nonsense. The most widely accepted idea is that these epics were oral traditions that were finally recorded in writing, possibly by a guy named Homer. Read and read.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "What else would you expect from the people who created a god in their own image?\r\n \r\n Your thinking here is right, religion has a long history of being egocentric.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "nice twist. do you ever think or read what you write? i know a lot who are in jail, are they still 'agents of the government'? when they get paid by the dod and work for the fed, we will call them soldiers. know any ex=soldiers? oath remains but that is about it. how about an ex-wife? this lady we are talking about was not a police officer. know how you keep your status as an police officer?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Yes, we shouldn't let those slaves be citizens, they will burden our legal system since they will now have...OMG...rights!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Here is yet another example of Duo holding other people's arguments to a higher standard than he holds his own. Duo, you said \"Second, no one call actually tell the age of anyone here. To declare such when the verifiability that the claim depends on does not exist is sheer insanity.\" Are you right? Anyone claiming to know age on these boards without evidence is insanity? Duo, if you are right, you are calling yourself insane. That's not going to help you out on the credibility meter. Perhaps you might want to amend some of you posts?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And you say juleacatz is the one who views pregnancy as a punishment for women.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Our pumping of CO2 is certaintly not helping. Does that mean we should pump gasses and make people in big cities sneeze?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And, what percentage is that? How was the poll conducted? Who conducted it? How was the determination made about who was a 'scientist'?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Does that mean test tube babies are pure and sinless? If so then why don't we just eradicate that whole phase of passing through the birth canal (if that's what IS where we get our sinful nature) and just have test tube babies! Wheeeee!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "gay dreams are pretty common among men, but it doesn't make them gay erm.. you've had dreams about having sex with men? i think you're kidding yourself if you think that's normal for a straight guy.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "I think if Islamic fundamentalism shows us nothing else it's that...", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i guess you get some credit, but this seems to be way more effective.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "You yourself said you don't even know what the gun laws in California are. Yet you're saying there you believe they have legitimate tests?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And, I'm sure that Terri Schiavo was fully aware of all that Bush and radical rightwing religionists did for her and appreciates what they did.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "What would you know about fair and balanced? I know a lot of truths about gays. Do you want me to start posting incessant threads pointing them all out? And I am the moderator for the formal debate forum, not the entire board. Want to debate me on the benefits of gays on society vs Christianity?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Our emphasis on Police and crime fighting reduced crime. Not gun control!\r\n \r\n Our murder rate is largely an Inner City drug and drug gang related problem. Fix that and then you will finally be doing something!", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "studies about what? that some people are more talented than others? i'm afraid that falls under the umbrella of 'common knowledge'. so? it would change nothing, since i was pointing out why i responded the way i did.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Actually, it is a mutation. Just like the color of the fur is a mutation. Polar bear fur is not white, it is colorless. Moreover, it is hollow. That is another mutation. And Polar bears have longer legs than their closest relatives, the brown bears. They have smaller ears. None of the changes are caused by \"friction\".By the way, the webs between the toes of a Polar bear are very much like the webs between the toes of a duck.Adaptation is, by the way, evolution. I presume that is the word you meant to use. Adaptation is not adaption. You talk about the process as if it were adaption and then call it adaptation. In reality it is adaptation.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "###!! You're seriously advocating allowing kids to take guns to school? Don't you have enough greiving parents already without giving kids the option to shoot out a disagreement?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "so we would penalize financially those who want to have kids?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Actually the details of HOW embryogenesis proceeds is becoming increasingly understood. And it goes way the heck beyond speculation. Check out how homeobox genes work and how regulation by master switches is understood as just two examples.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Find me a mass shooting in Utah where concealed carry on campus is legal.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "No, I mean evolution, in which statistically random variation is but one factor. It's a terrible mistake to equate evolution with pure chance.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "On the bright side, it appears that the Rapture will solve the Social Security financing problem...", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "NONONONONONONO! I wasn't talking about you JoeBrummer I was talking about aNaCaLaGoN! Don't worry I try not to pick on people who don't like it!Right Sinjin?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "...Which is quite easy to make out because the creationists have a few crackpots not doing real science, whereas the scientists are legion and do good research. How many other fields of mainstream science do you support a minority view of? \r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "How long has the boyfriend been 16? Is he closer to 15 or 17?How long has nocturnal09 been 14? Is she closer to 13 or 15?If nocturnal09 will be 15 in a couple of days or so and the boyfriend just turned 16 about a month ago, then the 14 vs 16 thing isn't really the biggest deal. Depending on when their b-days fall, they could both be in the same graduating class. He could have been born in May 1990 while she was born in July 1991. Therefor, he is 16 but she will still be 14 for at least another half of a month. Now, none of this information was given. All I'm saying is that the 2 year gap (until more info is given there) can not be considered the biggest problem.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "dear noob, i am officially president of cd, i made a debate where we had an election and i won. i just need to get addltd to make me a banner and things.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Really Brady. It is widely recognized that Mr. Heston gave away a very promising film career in order to take such an unpopular stand at that time. In fact he worked very little in films after that. I think the above statement was a political one, an anti-gun one, without much fact to back it up.I don't think a man of such principle changes his mind when all he actually work to accomplish comes to pass. But you can push your poison just as far as you want to. You have a first Amendment right to do so. Mr. Heston would have wanted it that way!", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, it might be hard to convince people that you aren't ignorant of some of the facts, although it appears that you're not completely ignorant of all of the facts... On the other hand, only Christians might label you as \"anti-Christian\" for rejecting literalism.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "a suicide is a suicide by what ever means emoticon_rolleyes", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "If Congress decides to remove the law, what can the military do?Nothing.Logically, they're not a barrier...", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Problem is, you think requiring a woman not to kill someone is \"treating them as breeding animals\". Kind of an odd thought.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Unless you're suggesting that the wiggas are getting the sistahs then the question could be construed to presuppose \"black men are takin' our women\" IYGMD. Where have I heard that before?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But only if they're willing to receive one. Most aren't.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That’s not the problem. The problem is how do you account for all the different species that are on the earth today coming from what you say were on the ark?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Everything basically. You're held captive by hostile natives that have set up barricades and checkpoints around the property you live on. They decide when you get to come in and go out, and the police have decided to abandon you rather than come to your aid. And Canada has laws that make defense with a firearm either impractical or out right illegal depending on just where you life.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "so what? the judges' actions created greater freedom for everybody in massachusets. they defended against majority tyranny, and frankly, i do not care about the sources of the laws - only the laws themselves.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "And yet this is what they fossil record shows. There is alot of information floating around on the uses of feathers for insulation, hunting techniques, display etc before flight.Half a feather might not be as good for flight as a \"fully developed\" one, but dinosaurs had them and they probably were able to glide, albeit poorly, with them. Even less of a feather might shade a pool of water to allow them to spot small fish or for display to attract a potential mate. To say they were \"totally useless\", is simply false. Evolution works on adapting already functional structures for different functions.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "How many court decisions have said that it is unconstitutional to regulate guns in any way?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "1. you're kidding, right? have you never watched c-span and listened to congressional inquiries? it's all q&a;and fact driven. i haven't watched tv in quite a few years, and when i did i didn't watch c span. where are the facts that the court has cited? 2. you have the chance to clear that up (about your denials) yourself. wouldn't i have to be in denial in the first place though?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "These official groups are jokes. Armed citizens are much more effective.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "if you loved everyone so much, why would you insist on your own son being tortured and killed ? why would you need substitution sacrifice if you are the one making the rule? it doesn't make sense one lick.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Indeed. If a teacher teaches 'the controversey' correctly, and lays out the facts and let's kids decide for themselves (is that done for ANY subject?), certainly, the most indoctrinated will say creation wins. But what about the open-minded? What about", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "you ever seen 'schindler's list?' how about ever read a book about the holocaust? i'm guessing not, because you have no clue what you're talking about. there is a huge difference between using psychological 'torture' if you wanna call it that for the purposes of extracting information and what the nazis did. not providing a detainee air conditioning is as bad as the nazis? playing rap music too loud? hell, even chaining someone in a room for long periods of time...sure, it's unpleasant, perhaps to a great degree. but come on, i'd rather go through all of that than endure a nazi pow or concentration camp.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "I have a feeling that the tradtitional marriage the Dobson is refering to is only about 100 years old. Hardly traditional if you view it in the perspective of history. Up until the turn of the 20th century marriage was about property. The man physically owned the woman and the children. I sometimes laugh at these cithgaps, espically the women, when they talk about defending the traditional marriage. They are trying to defend a redefinition of something that has allready been redefined.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Interesting, this is the same type of angry rants that Capo used to post on the abortion debates before he was banned. How interesting that you should get so angry and worked up over such an innocent exchange between me and chloe.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Can you read? You're the type that just waits to say your next piece and never attempts to listen to others.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "you're fucking kidding me right? you do realize no matter which one of us is right it's still fucked up right? god flat out blatantly allowed satan to torment job and kill people. and you justify that by saying he was given a new family?! oh yeah they gave him a new wife and new kids that makes it allllllll better. just replace those god allowed to be killed for some stupid test. fucking christians and their fucked up twisted morality.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Been saying that ever since the first time I heard about creationsism.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i wonder how there could be such accurate data before satellites? how did people track storms deep in the atlantic i wonder. maybe they could have followed them with ships, but that would be very dangerous, and how would they know when the storm started?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "are you sure you mean burqas? burqas are generally found in afghan culture, if your local muslims are from the middle east, chances are they're wearing jilbab and niqab rather than burqa, particularly if it is black. also, you've pulled that xxxx with the largest population of muslims outside the middle east before, and it's simply untrue.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Are you blind, or can't you read? NATO just provided evidence right now.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "How is that related to deterrence? \r\n \r\n Once again, deterrence is preventing through the fear of consequences.\r\n \r\n What you are talking about is not related to the subject of deterrence.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i love it when christians say this...pay who, for what, whose sin? if he is god, no one had to die for anything. he could blink his eyes and everything would be as he wanted!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Yes, that is logical So you're saying your unwilling to discuss it, and you think that an oblique ad hominem (fitting in with nut cases) is a way to progress this topic? No, you got the reason right. Why not actually discuss it? Or is it in effect to say \"I'm making a post to say I've got nothing to add to this thread\"?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Wow, make up your mind. Either populations change over time (evolve) or they don't. Would your wingless beetles be able to produce wings again if they were somehow beneficial again? You are starting to sound like Darwin and his finches.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Repeating superstitious nonsense makes it no less mythological than the first, second and third time you were shown it to be so. Skeletons, even from the BRONZE age, let alone your incorrect reference to the stone age, are not fossils.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Oh no an open minded church that doesn't hate? GASP! And sorry but the bible has many interpretations as is clearly seen in the WIDE and VAST amount of differing denominations. Just because their not closes binded right wing bigots doesn't mean you can grill them cause their interpretation is different...", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Limpballs went to Iraq? Are you SERIOUS???\r\nDid he venture out of the Green Zone? What's the report?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "to review. we have this piece of wonderful news stating that we cannot keep illegal products out of the country, and we should just give up and quit. major panel: drug war failed; legalize marijuana new jobs program by sinjin for the mexican drug cartels. inport illegal guns in too. and this news from a country much like ours. australia. with much much more gun control than you want at this particular moment, and they still have the illegal gun problem. and yet you still insist on laying this off on our constitution? the probability of success is zero, and you know it! so what is your real reason for burdening the constitution? ooooo! ooooo! i know! you dont like it! isnt that what you told charlie?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "i am surprised scientists havn't made so much of a fuss about you. wow......", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "what is the big deal here? so eharmony doesn't cater to gays. (there are also gay-only services out there that don't cater to straights.) if anyone doesn't like the service, they don't have to use it.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "i'm surprised that some people still aren't aware of what the chinese have done to upgrade their country. sure, certain areas like the financial sector are still lagging (which is why they won't float the yuan just yet), but when it comes to industry and infrastructure they're done a most admirable job. does anybody here also think it's kinda funny that a communist country is beating the us at their own game (i.e. capitalism)?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Again, I'm not sure where all this emphasis on limbs comes from, as if it were the only possible result of genetic variance.\r\n \r\n But I'll bite: some people are born with six fingers. Example of a new part to an existing structure...on humans, no less.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The Brady Bill does not lower crime:http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/284/5/585A little dated, 1997, but also note that both Cook and Ludwig were both anti-gunners.\"Brady Law Proponents: Ludwig, Cook, JAMA Among Lott's harshest critics have been anti-self-defense academics Professors Jens Ludwig and Philip J. Cook. In a study funded by the anti-self-defense Joyce Foundation and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) they set out to debunk Lott's findings regarding the Brady law. There was just one problem: they couldn't. \"http://rpc.senate.gov/~rpc/releases/1999/gc083100.htm", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Nor is there any need for some mythical molecular elemental, nebulas natural selection, or mystical transitionals based on peicemeal forensics and antithestic rhetoric.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But it is OK to teach your religion in public school classrooms? Is that what you mean? What about my religion. Is it OK for me to teach it to your children against your will?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "If your to blind to see, me telling you won't help. \r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You are riddled with a serious case of projection, considering the fact that your teabagging hero, Dick Armey of Freedomworks, has suckled the teat of the nanny state's taxpayer subsidized government plans his entire adult life, not to mention your bailed out bankers and health insurance and pharmaceutical companies.\r\nYour real tune is, when poor old big corpo the whorpo wants his bottle, they better bring him his bottle! emoticonXCry\r\nI say leave him in his crib, close the door for a couple of hours, and let him cry it out!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I think maybe you have hit yourself in the head with the Bible a few times too often.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Ah, back in the day. I get misty eyed when I think of back then. Trading horses for wives... no antibiotics... poor nutrition... having 10 kids so 2 live to adulthood. Ah, the memories :D\r\nFallacy. Just because it's an old idea does not make it a good idea.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "French like turkeys even the yanks eat turkeys. What has a turkey got to do with the French voting No! By the way, why do you spell turkey with a capital T?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Oh spare me the condemnation ya' XXXX-hard. You aren't interested in saving souls. If you were, you would bother to have payed attention to the countless times you have been told that your abrasive, insulting tactics DON'T WORK. \r\nPlus an eternity in hell or an eternity with a terroristic God? I think I will stick with being able to live with myself for even today, let alone an eternity.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And you clearly avoid how you support a totalitarian system of reporting (among other anti-democratic and anti-liberty ideas). I find it amusing that you are now justifying methods used by the very people and groups you hate. But then again, you become what you hate.\r\nDiogenes99: we never have all of the facts. However, what is missing from \"a koran was flushed down the toliet\" in regards to facts? emoticonXRolleyes", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Hate to have to spoil things, but the rest of the world has really no interest at all in Kansas and its scholastic problems", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And they can be. Increases in complexity are readily achieved via incremental change.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Or possibly your Holy Fathe has resorted to XXXXX-bashing. It's all perspective. Frankly, I don't think that the views on this message board will fuel discrimination and hatred of Popes everywhere around the world, so I think they have less to answer for.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I though the torture was just a result of the number of wing nuts there were around the place.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I believe science can indeed tell us when it cannot be considered a \"person\" as we define a person legally. No mental existence for the simple reason that the hardware has yet to form. Protecting \"potential\" persons is beyond the scope of our Constitution IMO.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Are you blind? I was refering to Nancy Pelosi's \"'fair' speech\" policies, not free speech. Fair speech is an attempt to limit free speech.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "the majority of women that are of child bearing age will already have at least one child. i'm not surprised at all by this statistic - its what you'd expect it to be.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Right. Catholics say prayers to a woman that they hate. Next!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "ok. so are you going to follow all the other laws about stoning people to death too? hmmmmmmmmmm. emoticonxfrazzled guess i better go find a bunch of rocks. next question being:'who do i throw at first?' what about 'glass houses?'", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "If I ever need a kidney to live, I know who to tell them to harvest from... whether or not you agree to it :P\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The liberal spin that back street abortions ran amuck prior to Roe V Wade is simply not true..............It does seem nowadays you read in the paper every week about some woman stuffing her newborn in a trash can...... There are many more abortions today then there were prior to Roe V Wade.......Over 40,000,000 million since 1972....sad.........", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "this is not good news at all. i'm guessing that there will be a lot of trouble in the near future. one thing that i would not recommend, and i'm surprised that you would even suggest it given your stance on others having an opinion about american elections, is the us getting more involved in there election process. pakistan has to be, and be seen to be, uncompromised in this process. smiley", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Non-aggressive, yeah. That's why it's Israel that's the occupying force in Palestine and not the other way around. emoticonXWow", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Based on what besides your own immediate knee-jerk denials?\r\nYou're always in the tank for the Bible bashers.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The point is that, if gun control works, why are there any shootings? Why are they increasing in number, more than 10 years after their bans? Why are they increasing after what seems to be a never ending gun turn in amnesty? Why are the only people who are disarmed, are just the law-abiding?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That's right! Let them burn and murder the people who work in abortion clinics. It's all for a good cause, so why not? After all it has been done before and it worked as the murdered doctor never carried out anymore abortions.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "are you planning to be dead by age 40? i dunno. do you start to sag by then? wow! are you serious? his death is far worse because he's a total hottie? of course! if channing tatum died tomorrow i would cry. it's a total let down!!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Said like a cruel evil person who has no concern for his fellow man.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Again???? Gun control laws by design are meant to kept inner city citizens (i.e. black) from owning guns... Liberal terms such as \"saturday night special\" all have racist undertones. Also since the majority of gun violence in the US is minority on minority... Who are these laws meant to target?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Haaaaa Haaaaa Haaaaaaah haahhhha HAhaaaa. My GOD I can't stop laughing Heeee Haaaa.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Your not going to trod out the myth of the smallpox-infected blankets are you? That one's been disproven so many times that even YOU should know that. emoticonXRolleyes", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "And certain versions of Mark: 15He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. 16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. 17And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well. Are they mistakenly reading this?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Because electricity moves faster than a man's arm? Give me one example of this actually happening and I'll concede that it's not a ridiculous thing to consider.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "holy ####. It took 20 pages before a creationist tried to address the first post. So much for a argument disproving the flood...", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "do you support legislation that would outlaw gay marriage? do you oppose funding nasa? but abortion is quite different from any of those because it's giving people the right to kill something that is living. the government also supports hunting, granting hunting licenses to millions of individuals. the animals being hunted have a far greater ability to feel pain and emotions than the fetus in the womb being aborted. i cannot see why the government should be able to legalize something that is clearly wrong, playing god in the process. because it's not clearly wrong. there are other opinions out there other than your own. all you seek to do is deprive people of their choice, and impose your will upon the masses. let's all be glad you are not in a position of power, for you would abuse it undeniably all in the name of 'god'.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "You are wrong in your claim.\r\n The power of the 14th amendment, applied to ensuring equality, has a very real history.\r\n Would you care to look at how the 14th amendment has been applied over its history?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "are uk mortgages packaged and peddled as securities as in the us? if so, is that (those) a government or quasi-government agency(s)? i ask to see where the eventual fallout will take place. the uk is much like the us in that when consumers default there's always a substantial amount of private money waiting for those adjustments to buy at the bottom for future resale. if they are in fact packaged, the security holders will have to write down their investments and defaults by the end of their fiscal year, normally determining the length of that cycle. we follow many of your economic cycles but i've never watched your residential real estate market. brown would have a tough time pulling that one out of the fire.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Exactly. Trying to prove that God, if he exists, didn't make us as good as an all powerful being should have made us doesn't prove anything in the God debate. I could always debate that since God is all powerful and all knowing he could have always thought of something better to do. If he made those changes, then of course there would still be something better he could have thought of. This would be an endless loop of creating something better and better until finally he would have to stop and say that is good enough. But even then this debate that he didn't make us as good as he could have would be valid in my view.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "LOLfunny I never looked at you name in detail. I just assumed you were a male. Unlike women and Montalban, you present very rational arguments. OH NO! PLEASE DONT TELL MY WIFE I SAID THAT! LOL", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "No, I for one dislike your posts because I know you intentionally write irrational posts to help support your religious cause. Just for the record montalban, basically every single legitimate scientist is \"pro-evolution\". Creation theory is not taught in public schools, not by chance, but because...*gasp* it's RELIGIOUS MUMBO JUMBO. There is no evidence to support it. Creation fiction has made no progress with it's \"faith-based\" (lackofevidence) with rational people. And I'll also say that I'd welcome ad hominem over irrational thinking any day. Ad hominem is just a lack of patience, or someone who doesn't care to hide their emotion or opinion. Irrational thinking on the other hand is often only cured by death. Someone guilty of ad hominem can still hold a rational debate. The irrational..well, why bother? -Mach", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "it wasn't the best movie ever mind you but it was still fantastic.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Careful, or a spiritually-inspired passage might just pop up and tweak your carnal conscience!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Congratulations, guys: you've unwittingly explained the principles behind the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics: superposition!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "They are not exactly the same. See the examples above. It is not random.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Oh, yea. You are damn right those European socialists are dangerous. Americans might look and see their governments actually doing something USEFUL for the people and think that we should have that here. \r\nI am surprised we have not nuked them yet.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Mr. Brown was able to attend ball games. Not exactly held captive was he?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "No, it's often an emotional show. They choose their families based on submitted videos, usually from families with one or more physically challenged members, then they build them a house to fit their needs.There was one in particular with a blind autistic boy who loved to swing. The joy on his face when he got the new swing would make any sensitive person weep with joy for him. There was another about a deaf couple whose new home included and lot of strobe light signaling systems.BTW, alcohol is a depressant! emoticonXWow", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "[quote=mae] land that didn't belong to the un or israel. or current american aggression? what's the difference? both are imposing their ideologies by force. you make it sound like choosing a sports team; for or against based on personal opinion.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "seriously man, i hope you don't believe what they tell you on that channel. it's just whoa. this one anchor woman was talking about how background checks led to registration than extermination; i was shocked. the thing with fox is, they put on whatever rupert murdoch wants.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Do you believe that the freedom to not participate in any religion whatsoever is not covered by the expression \"Freedom of Religion\"?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "[quote=zsu2357;361600] Now, now ZSU, we learned from comrade star gazer that GW created the Continental Army. I am sure these gentlemen have some equally illogical and inaccurate 'facts' to scatter around the barnyard", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Funny how you haven't had a literature or history class recently. Would you like me to contact the several history and literature/English teachers in my school and ask them if they credit Homer as the actual author of those epics?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yawn, again you keep repeating this. You not only refute yourself by providing an example of knowledge of the unknowable, but you gave an example of what is unknowable, by telling me I'd never be able to know you!\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That isn't the arguement your buddy made. He claimed guns could be controlled by dogs and snakes and stuff like that. Do you have any examples of dogs or snakes controlling drugs and going on rampages and blowing folks heads off? Even claimed the dog was mournful for his bereaved master. He didn't mention how the snake felt Also said something about robots and guns but didn't have any examples to wow us with. Do you?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The human collective is the authority. One major advantage of this authority over a theistic one is that it actually exists.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "read the rest of the post. i added to it before you responded to make what i said clearer: why would you be maligning them if they were not bad? the intended effect is that you would deserve the same maligning you were giving since what you were doing was equally as bad. since you malign something bad, it is generally understood to mean that the speaker considers you to be as bad as those you malign.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Oh, ok, I can be politically correct if it makes you feel better. How about I refer to them as \"intelligence deficient\". And I was really not referring to bona fide \"retarded\" individuals (those with true pathology). I agree that there is nothing funny about that. How about I refer to them as people who drive like XXXXXX...Is that better?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "There's absolutely no way in hell this could be legal in any sense. That California school got ***** slapped for expelling a student who had a gun off campus, beyond the jurisdictional reach of the school. So how can this school believe they can get away with such an insane policy?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Cornell's writings consistently place him within the collective right camp. Even the arguments that are attributed to him which start this thread show his collective right desire. His claim to neutrality in the individual/collective right debate is as disingenuous as his interpretations of the SCOTUS opinions in both Miller and Cruikshank: Greatest Threat to Second Amendment? Greatest Threat to Second Amendment? Whether ?neutral? or not, Cornell has proven himself capable of distorting SCOTUS opinions when he does not find that they suit his collective right tastes.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "you ever see those plympton cartoons? where someone's head blows up like a balloon, and their eyes pop out, and then their head collapses in on itself until it looks like a burnt match stick? that's what your post just did to me. it was a fascinating mental experience; so thanks for that, anyway.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Well then it sounds like you don't even know what a SM is seeing as the 3rd one is the main one that people like you bring up when debating this isse.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i am mildly surprised steve hasn't argued that if we recognise gay marriage, we will have to accommodate the hoards of americans eager to marry their buicks, dogs and dead relatives. after all, if we lift one of the unreasonable restrictions on marriage we are compelled to lift every single last reasonable one. makes sense, right? emoticonxrolleyes", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "So do you want to argue my points or do you want to argue me? Which of my bullits are wrong? Which of them are right?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yup, I get the drift. You're the sort that is in denial about how he feels about gays; equating tolerance for gays with tolerance for murderers, while pretending you're doing something else. Now I know how you think, thanks!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Why? Because people like you are still pushing gun bans regardless of the Heller ruling! It doesn't help your side's argument when your people continually talk about \"reasonable\" and \"common sense gun regulations\" and their examples include bans on \"as", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "In the thousands of scientific papers that present the thousands of bits of evidence that go to prove evolution beyond all sensible sane and reasonable doubt.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "do you believe the average individual actually has any personal control over providing basic essentials and security? most individuals exist from proceeds of a 'job' or government programs and would be lost without one or the other, of which they generally have no actual influence. i find it difficult to accept that the average, individual us citizen has the brain power to be concerned about anything but what's on tv. voter apathy of 25% or less participation in municipal elections are a strong indication of individual need to be manipulated as governing powers see fit.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Gee, I'm just bowled over by your mature and articulate counterargument.emoticonXRolleyes We all know genitals have nothing to do with sex.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "aye, 'at they did and it was quite plain that they were priviledges and immunities of the people only. the packing of scotus by lincoln and later by liberal roosevelt and his hand picked crooks caused a great deal of confusion. about the same old, same old is going on now but it appears that this one may be in a great deal of difficulty? ha, ha, ha. ma, ma, where's pa? gone to the white house ha,ha, ha.(only a texan would understand that)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "NO, gun registration should not be mandatory anywhere in the US. The government has no business knowing who has a gun. Gun registration could possibly allow the government to infringe on constitutional guarantees provided by the Bill Of Rights. Just knowing that there are many Senators and Congressmen who would like to abolish gun rights gives credence to the fact that government could actually try to limit or ban the 2nd Amendment in the future. P.S. Crazy is as Crazy says. Scary to think that some would believe that a registered gun that becomes a stolen gun would help in finding the thief or killer if that same criminal gets rid of the gun. Which, if later found, would then be traced back to the legitimate owner, who may not even know the gun had been stolen. The alibi better be outstanding!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Speculation can be profitable.\r\nA full head of hair is not unique.\r\nMy pyramidal tinfoil hat is an antenna for knowledge and truth. It reflects idiocy and dumbness into deep space.\r\nYou still haven't admitted to your error.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Like Clive14 said, the reason we don't have a 3rd or 4th altnerative is because we are not in a state where we can understand such a possibility, hence the quantum mechanics analogy. Simply because we are not at that state does not mean it does not exist.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You know, I cannot even remember if we covered it in middle school or high school biology. I do remember learning about Mendel and his genetics, but I swear I can't remember if we even mentioned Darwin's name. If we spent any time on it at all, it was very little. Our biology classes were mostly devoted to taxonomy, anatomy/physiology, and cellular machinery.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And it is. The ToE is a theory, however. It explains evolution, which has been observed. Do not attempt to deny that.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I am also fascinated by the Shoot First Law that has been introduced in Florida. You can now use a gun against any perceived threat.\r\nThe question is whether this legitamises shooting Jeb Bush. Anyone stupid enough to think this law is a good idea is a definite threat, not merely perceived.\r\nSmiley", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Ah yes, your diversionary tactics. I am sure if I provided it, you would move the goal posts, or demand evidence that you know is not yet available.. So, since this thread is about Jesus, and if a 'historical' Jesus actually existed, where is your evidence besides religious articles, forgeries, and accounts taken from Christians?What?? No where to be found?? Gasp.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "but should the elected legislature based in part on partisan politics be telling our courts which case to look at and which case not to look at? i thought there was a reason we had 3 seperate branches of government.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "I see your point, Iangb but I'm not about to be leaving before you've had a chance to respond. I won't be \"leaving\" at all. You challenged me to produce an argument, so I'm going to produce my argument. I will then summarize the argument, and you can respond to it and we can then discuss / debate those specifics that you have a problem with.Truthfully, this is how I should have first responded to your challenge. Doing it piece meal has only resulted in a less focused debate.--Chuz", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "you're completely clueless, aren't you monty? there is much more distinguishing a human from a chimpanzee or gorilla skull than size. here's a hint. check the link which lurch provided. is sample a only a small version of sample n? is sample i a large case of a or a small case of n? btw 'kind' is a meaningless creationist term. feel free to provide your own perculiar definition if you are fame.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "So, I guess in your view, educating people against prejudice and intolerance is a bad thing.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Ok, so if we are going to let everything take the \"normal course of nature\", then lets just let everyone die. Have cancer? Too bad, its the natural course of nature that you die. What about heart failure? Sorry, no paddles of life for you. We're going to let nature take its course. Just like your beloved pope, nature is not always right.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So you would go with the unknowable argument? Well then this is applicable to your response: So now you have said that god is undefinable or often said \"supernatural\". T:I believe in God A:What is God? T:I dont know. Then my question to you would be that if you dont know what God is... then what is it that you believe in?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Thomas favored incorporation through priviledges and immunities, correct? That likely makes the most sense but the Court probably feared how far that could go, since the logical conclusion is the abolition of individual State law. Not that the \"substan", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "that shouldn't be too hard for an 'educated' person such as yourself to point out in the heller ruling now should it? there have been quite a few rulings post heller. did those courts let 'restrictions' stand? no!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "do you think i would lie to you? http://panasonic.net/pavc/lumix/line_up/slr.html nice photos!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Your own source said there's a cliff a mile and a half away, and I'm the liar? Go find it and jump off it, you flaming, incompetent, scatter-brained, dishonest cretin.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "You call me or a family I may have, a perversion(sorry the word was \"perversity\"), but that is not hate? I believe I am probably younger than you, but that doesn't mean I was born yesterday.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "\"A story in some early editions of yesterday's Daily News incorrectly reported that gun-control advocate Sarah Brady may have skirted Delaware's gun laws when she bought a rifle for her adult son but did not declare who was going to own the weapon.\"The Delaware Department of Justice initially insisted to The News that gun purchasers must declare who the weapon was intended for so that person's background could be checked. Yesterday, a spokeswoman for the Delaware Department of Justice said it misinterpreted the law and that Brady was not obligated to state that the gun was for her son as long as he was legally qualified to own a firearm.\"In addition, a spokesman for Brady said, 'Sarah Brady told the gun store that the gun was for her son and filled out the forms that they asked her to fill out.'\"The News regrets the error.\"CORRECTION", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I think its actually the states job...the judiciary does need to overturn Roe v. Wade to get this done though...which doesn't mean it becomes illegal.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I thought it was at the bottom of a large body of water.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, all I can say then is that no action is just about as bad as failed action, and IS as bad in terms of anything current. Either way you don't have gay marriage. You have a majority in Congress right now, and you're not demanding much change just because of fear of backlash? Yeah, there would be backlash. Heck, the Civil War was the ultimate backlash, but that didn't stop abolitionists from demanding more than TOKEN change, and it's a good thing they did. It's your gig, though, so do what you want. I don't see much point in laboring this discussion any more; I'm just pointing out my observations.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You make some great points but she could carry the baby to term and then put it up for adoption...........There are long lists of people wanting to adopt babies...........I know a couple that waited 5 years and then adopted a child from South Korea.......... Why does the innocent baby have to forfeit its life?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I believe the Congress in Mass is still fighting what their Supreme Court did and I am pretty sure they will be trying to pass and amendment there in the next year...........\r\n \r\n It will be very interesting to see what happens..............", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Don't be hatin' my friend. We have to deal with \"criminals freely walking the streets\" here. There goes one now.emoticonXKill\r\nI like the snow. Especially in a paper cone with some syrup.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i am more amused than anything else. i don't have to 'attack your character', you do a much better job at showing exactly what you are made of than anybody else can.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "As Arthur Jones described in the copy/paste in my first post, there are benefits. You have not addressed what it said.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "would anyone here object to your 16 year old daughter camping out with 21 year old men? how about your 16 year old son with 21 year old women? edit: whoa! this thread is older than i thought.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "But it, along with the uranian tapeworm hypothesis, is just as valid as intellegent design as a hypothesis. Actually, the uranian tapeworm hypothesis,. as far fetched as it may be, is more testable than a supernatural designer.I think maybe the kids SHOULD be taught intellegent design as an example of pseudo-science. Hopefully they will see why it is not science and why evolutionary theory is.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Please do, because according to your source McVeigh called himself an Agnostic.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That's a fair accusation, but I wonder, where is this sword that Jesus brought? Is there any record of anyone having seen it? In the absense of this I think it is fair to say it is a metaphorical sword. That leaves the question of a metaphor for what? I've given my thoughts, based on my beliefs. If you have a different interpretation, I'm all ears.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "I'm one of those cruel heartless bastards that thinks the Constitution doesn't apply to terrorists. Break out the cattle prods and \"LET'T PARTY\" emoticonXRolleyes", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I think that is true of so many things. Wanna screw something up royal? -- add humans.\r\nI heard once that a gallon (or maybe is was a barrel) of Coca Cola (syrup) is more expensive than the same amount of oil. Things that make you go hmmm.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Hmm, while she is right at the first point, the second doesn't follow.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Wrong. Crocs, more accurately primitive crocs lived with dinosaurs. Modern crocs did not. Crocs came about 200 million years ago, Alligators much much later.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The vast majority of scientists do not believe in Creationism, and all those people you listed who say there are only 2 varients evolution or creationism--they are't anthropological or theological experts. All they know is their westernized view. Their opinions have no reflection on Biology in that sense. THey should stick to Biology. There is only 1 true way--that's evolution. THe other's are wishful thinking, whether they be the primordial flood, the divine parrot, or magic god who made people from dust.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Wow Archie, way to suck the fun out of something. Let me use your words here:\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "It's not just cars and catalytic converters have greatly decreased emissions.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "so steeeeve, how long have you supported the confiscation of all privately held firearm in the us? c'mon, you know you want to.emoticonxkillemoticonxclown some gun-grabbing anti-constitutionalists wear a rather convincing disguise.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "What study do you refer to? If you're going to bring up something then you should be ready to provide it whenever you try and make a point. I don't care if you've presented it before, simply telling us to go look for it isn't constructive of honest and open debate.Perhaps you would care to explain just how owning a gun is going to make a person more likely to get murdered? And who are they more likely to get murdered in comparison to? Are they more likely than people who live in the ghettos? More likely than drug dealers? More likely than gang members? More likely than police officers? More likely than people in third world countries? Who exactly?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "And with your current attitude and those like you, you will lose again..........Hey I love it............keep up the good work......\r\nI don't think I could have the hate for someone that you have but if I did I would definitely move on to a place like Canada or Cuba where the majority agree with my beliefs.........\r\nThat is just me though...........", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You assume homosexuality is a \"choice\", with no evidence substantiating that position, until you have been shown evidence that it is genetic???\r\nAnd you claim to be a \"scientist by profession\"???\r\nLOLOLOLOL!\r\nWhile you're at it, maybe you can explain to us what a \"unconscious choice\" is...\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "dear fucking god. why would you want to extend your life more than 30 years? holy crap, are you mental now too, as all others seem to be? life is poison, time is pain, and every second that i exist, the closer i become to dying. life is purest misery, a clock waiting to break down. it keeps not time, but pain and suffering. the wait of pain is broken up not by content happiness, but only with brain shattering feelings of hope, soon to be smashed into infinite pieces, jagged with the dimensions of agony and memories of laughter never to come again. why do we live? it is not a miracle. it is a curse.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Gun Control is not on this list of crime contributing factors. However banning guns would leave the law-abiding defenseless in the face of these criminal predators. Why don't you work for changing these conditions instead of working for something that has no effect on reducing crime (gun control). However, if you think you can prove gun control will work as crime control, then go for it! Maybe you can cower us with your overwhelming evidence.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yes, mulitculturalism is wonderful. You know what else is wonderful? Fact checking:\r\nArchie swallows own foot again\r\nIt was the second link when I googled his name. At least try to not look like a jackass every time you post.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "someone needs to go over to IIDB and invite those kooks over here to debate me on this thread. There's currently an open thread over there with my name on it...seems they like obsessing over me....they're like a bunch of teeny boppers obsessing and salivating over a Backstreet Boy.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Your writing is as muddled as your thinking.I assume the \"they\" here is the IPCC? Are you seriously asking why radiative forcing (which can be accurately calculated using line-by-line radiative transfer codes, see Collins et al. 2006 and Myhre et al. 2001) is relevant to the issue of global warming?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "The frequency of legitimate ones doesn't warrant my walking around armed all the time IMO. How does my being unarmed put you at risk? Think I should be prepared to shoot someone for you in case of emergency? Touchee yourself.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Preganancy should not be used as a punitive measure against women who are sexual. What you think is not reflective of the reality of women and their cicumstances that exist in the world. The reasons to abort are numerous and complicated. Some reasons are more valid than others. But you have no way of knowing that for millions of women, only they can really know.And although there are some youngsters in this forum who negate life experience, it is not to be negated. Ther is a lot to be said for \"walking in a mile in another's shoes\". Be careful about your desire to take the life circumstances of a stranger in your hands. Are you ready to be morally cuplable for the damage you could do?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "to be honest, i'm surprised it was that hard to give a corporate handout. any big insurance company and big drug company is delighted since their competition will now be squashed and the average joe will delight in their weaker care at a higher price. but hey, a for effort, right? emoticonxrolleyes you don't get points for failing to deliver or delivering a failure in my opinion.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Here's a fact that you don't have to like: New York legalized same sex marriage. Awww...is his wittle feewings huwt? Good. It's about time you wake up to the reality that you are in an ever shrinking majority, and like it or not...democracy has been served. GO NY!!!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "I must say, you are quite a creepy addict. You seem pretty dangerous when high, especially since you think everything is a good idea. And why would you want his soul? emoticonXConfused Are you in a cult? Is that why you get high? I can see why teachers would need to go to attitude school after meeting you. They might need some help, as well as do you. And as contrary to your side subject, I think I am quite different than you.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yeah, right, JO, socialist countries are Eden Mecca's all over the world today. No matter how many times they fail, its proponents just need another chance.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Of course I can't. Can you guarantee that the apparent mugging about to happen isn't some poor slob about to ask directions? \r\nBig guy, dark parking lot, bang bang. Better safe than sorry, eh?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "How about, \"I think it's a good idea\"?As Jito said, maybe YOU can't, but I guess that's your problem.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "my implication was that the christians felt they could not compete financialy so they vilified the jews in order to justify destroying them and taking there success. my question is how is that attitude any diffrent from todays ultra liberials that wish to uphold the inheritance tax, or property taxes? todays 'haves' are not nessacerialy all jewish, they are however being attacked by the 'havenots' for their success, much as the jews were back then.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Yes, it's been supressed. Only 14 people knew it before some brave soul tortured them until they confessed the horrible truth!!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So you are equating pigs with humans. Pig rights! Yes that is logical. We should value a farm animal the same as your kids.\r\nWhat basis are you using to rationalise such equality? You did have a point, right?\r\n*\r\n\"In 1890 the Supreme Court of the United States, concluding a great contest begun in the District Court of the Territory of Utah in 1887, held that the National Government had \"a perfect right to prohibit polygamy and all other open offenses against the enlightened sentiment of mankind, not withstanding the pretense of religious convictions by which they may be advocated and practiced.\"\r\nhttp://www.barefootsworld.net/consti11.html#c84b", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "why thank you , and yes i guessed that as you are pretty busy grovelling to the hide and seek champ , so full credit to you and of course the invisible dictator ..., don be shy take a bow .....", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Oh, look, removing a quote from its context. How about your address my textbook definition next?\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Actually, Peeling and others on this thread have proven you and Cash to be utterly wrong. The fact you don't recognize this is irrelevant.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "OS is so consumed with vitriolic hatred of me he is incapable of realizing that I did not start this thread.\r\n \r\n The fellow who started it has been banned for his extreme anti-woman views.\r\n \r\n Perhaps OS should be banned for his extreme anti-Simone views.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "would that be legaly owned guns, or criminals who have guns (and also ues guns) for there crimes? most Gang members have guns, if they are killed in a drive by shooting, is the gun responsable, or would it be the illegal activitys?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "he'll get to you eventually, he's doing them in order of points. lol though i'm disappointed to say that a lot of people, including myself, are starting to lose interest in the roasts. i'm not surprised though, because there's a lot of inactive users.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Supreme Court Empowers Foreign Governments to Sway Federal Elections? The Washington Independent\r\nGood bye! America! The greedy savages within have finally destroyed you.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Still clueless and still presenting a barrel of laffs I see. Have someone that can read and comprehend spell it out for you. I bet yer mun is considering that to get you out of the basement. How's the weight loss coming by the way?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "no, did you? i don't get why this debate seems to have pissed you off, but it is rather perplexing. i say that everyone deserves human rights; children and adults. am i wrong? i say that privacy is a human right. am i wrong? therefore, privacy is deserved by all human beings; children and adults. am i wrong? get over any issues you may have had, because one person's issues with privacy does not ultimately relate to every other child in the entire world; this is an obvious fact in life and i am shocked that you do not understand this.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Leaving aside for a moment the false construct you're arguing against you should read up...The Pseudo-Problem of Creation in Physical Cosmology by Adolf Grnbaumhttp://www.infidels.org/library/mode...m/problem.html\" As Bondi sees it, the steady-state theory propounded by himself and Thomas Gold in 1948 brings \"the problem of creation . . . within the scope of physical inquiry\" (Ibid.)Although some theories are deemed defunct, such as the one above, your assumptions about such things being outside the scope of science is flawed.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The anti-abortionists claim that would be killing a human life to save one.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Not only would I throw the switch, I'd pay the electric bill, too. emoticonXGood", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Thus you admit that you would prefer ignorance to knowledge. How sad.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i am surprised that you would agree with the president of a group that says it promotes ' individual liberties to counter the radical right. '", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "i noticed..., you got a public apology. i'm impressed ;)", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Well, this comes from the same people who invented the death pannels. The truth is that all the developed countries (all of Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Israel) have universal healthcare. Their COST per capita is about half of ours. They have better outcomes.Universal healthcare has been tried in many places and it does work. What does not work is our current system. Wellpoint has just increased premiums by 30% even wiyhout a reform bill. They spend 30% on administrative costs.BTW, do you oppose the bill that would force them to limit the administrative costs to 20%?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And Creationists who can't tell the difference between cats and nuclear reactors don't understand fluid mechanics.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Thank God you have that unfortunate government. It permits you the opportunity to decide on how justice is defined and how it may best be served for all of us. In a perfect world these types of choices would not be necessary, but then in a perfect world there would be no purpose for religion. We do the best we can in proportion to how much we care. Want a different government vote. Want a better government vote wisely. Want a better government quickly. Get others to do the same.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well then there's grounds for a lawsuit. Find a group of veterans and get them to sue the VA, funded by the NRA, and take the whole organization to court on charges of violating federal standards.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That's fair enough, but I just think it's important to at least acknowledge and realize that the unborn baby does have worth and importance, and not just a piece of tissue as it's so often callously viewed.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Again with the common sense, but that is another issue alltogether. You're arguement that the brain is a fundamental unit of life is just plain wrong, considering the majority of all organisms don't have one. Bacteria, Protists, Plants, Fungi, and some animals are all without brains. Brains are required for motion and fast response to immediate changes in environment, for example a falling rock. Brains cluster nerves so that appropriate action can be taken. Some brains are amazingly simple while others like our own are immensly complex. Your arguements all show a general lack of study in biology and my common sense is appalled by yours. I am reminded of Bill Maher who once said about the intelligent design debate: \"Because you don't have to teach both sides of an arguement when one side is retarded.\"", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Gee, I wonder why the liberal left is so quiet? I remember when Bush's DWI from decades previously came out, and you couldn't shut the hypocrites up! \r\nIt's hilarious.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "He is a hell of a lot wiser than thee.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So the initial murder wasn't enough to show \"that they are willing to commit acts of violence\"? This makes absolutely no sense.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i'm totally surprised i've posted so many posts in this thread: not like me at all.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "with you it's pretty easy, we just assume it's all BS, works every time.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That is what it said. Now your website gives a false translation to this. It clearly is talking about if the unborn is harmed.Not to mention the numerous other quotes I gave you about how a person (in the Christian faith) is formed before conception! This shows that God has already created you. God also talks about how you can't kill a person he created. This is an easy concept to follow.I suggest if you wish to learn what the Bible says you read it and not take what a biased website has to say. Religioustolerance.org is a joke that misleads people into making God what they want him to be.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That \"brilliant\" statement has absolutely NOTHING to do with the original point. \r\n...later", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So what? Why should the woman be forced to care for this child against her will?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.The whole concept of \"reap what you sow\" is a CHRISTIAN concept.And now you're claiming it's flawed?While I feel the need to continually reiterate that what this guy did in harming others was WRONG (primarily to avoid the trolls from misrepresenting my point), the validity of the generic concept of \"reap what you sow\" is amazingly poignant.People typically don't just go nuts and harm people for no reason.Columbine saw the kids trying to harm other kids who harassed them.While some people may be jumping the gun in trying to assign \"sowing\", I am also amazed that others are so unwilling to inspect the question of whether or not the church involved truly did \"sow\"...", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "April was \"recent\" ? Please provide evidence from the memo of these \"examples\".", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "All I want to know is,\r\n\"Did you plug the hole today, daddy?\" \r\nemoticonXBouncer", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "It seems to be the reason for crafting this new, individual right against the States. Since the original purpose of the Second Amendment doesn't appear to be needed, there is a new use that is protected.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That's true, but how much have we actually learned, and how much have we theorized, with an atheist presupposition, the only presupposition currently allowed?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So your political thinking is 40 years out of date? That does explain quite a bit.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Gee I wonder if it's bad for a father or mother to provide for their kids, since members of the KKK may do that too and agree with it. emoticonXRolleyes", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But it really does deal with thinking. It can invite a more wide open scientific investigation of ecological and developmental patterns. It's not politically afraid to pursue facts about newly discovered complexities of life which pose problems for those trying to make a case for happenstance origins. It invites thought, not suppression, of irreducible complexity, another problem for happenstance origins. ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Because? The conventional big bang is just as unlikely as God. Therefore your claim is wrong. However the current believe mainly among physicists and astronomers is that there is no end and there is no beginning to the universe. Expansionary theories along with contractionary theories that are being observed have led many to believe that the current universe was born from the death of the last universe. There is no end and there is no beginning. You are out of your league.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Individual personal accountability without political leveraging onto others in the same party who did not commit the offense?\r\nWhat a bizarre idea... emoticonXHoho", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "agreed. god does exist in some form, whether you want to call god a supreme being or whatever, there is a greater power out there thats beyond our comprehension. in the meantime lets all just get along", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Yet it is the only source I've seen that counted the incedents in which a gun was used in self-defence, but nobody was injured. I could assume that all of your sources and Ians only count occasions where one was injured. According to the source, they'd 91.7% of all times where a gun was used in self-defence.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Humm. More guns, more Concealed Carry and Violent Crime and Murder is down to it's lowest levels since they started to record it. So how can these studies be credible or considered in anyway correct.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Reading Difficulties, huh? There's a cure for that. It's called school. Perhaps you should go there.....", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "really? i never miss the chance to tell everyone that i'm going to heaven? i challenge you to quote me ever bragging that i'm going to heaven and you're not. what i have done is promised you mockers and scoffers that the day will come when you will learn the truth about how wrong you are to reject the living god. but never have i boasted that i am going to heaven while you're not. and never has my motivation for promising you that you will ultimately learn the truth been to make such a point. so quote my posts kronus. prove me wrong and defend your lying claim. and i want links to posts in context to the debate and point being made at the time.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Your own source said the amendments are 11-27. Amazing how the 2A got incorporated into the XIV isn't it without Article V. emoticonXGood", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "1868 actually, that is a link to the wikipedia article on the act. once again, the 14th amendment and the civil rights act of 1964 are not the same thing. more importantly, a store saying 'no blacks allowed' is not violating the 14th, they violate the civil rights act of 1964. furthermore, a store saying 'no guns allowed' is not violated the 2nd amendment. time for you to read up on the constitution doc, you might find some good things in there. i'm a little surprised you don't vote democrat given your thoughts. then again, not much difference between a given democrat and your texas 'republicans' (see w bush and rick perry)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "it is no \"story\"........i am debating on the whole evolution thing... look at the facts. so many great ppl, physics people, niels bohr, he was for evoulution, then he found out all of the facts that it is junk, so he became a christian", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Isn't agreeing with what? The senate hasn't passed any laws that would restrict right to carry anymore than it already is.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So essentially the good thing about religion is that it poses a question that may or may not be completely meaningless and then invents a happy-making answer to satisfy the curiosity thus engendered? Wow, that's so much more profound than eradicating smallpox.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "No Matthew, we all read it. The fact that you have specific targets in mind for your attacks changes nothing; what everyone says still applies. Please, please, give up this appproach. You're only hurting those you claim to want to help.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "well then back up your claim. Saying \"I'm sure that...\" doesn't make it true.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Make sure you clap when our defense is gutted and we can't adequately defend our own liberty. Turkey. You don't have an ounce of common sense.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So the stats come from John Lott.... Wasn't he the one who got caught making up statistics and impersonated a woman for three years to support the pro-gun cause? http://articles.latimes.com/2006/may/31/opinion/oe-wiener31 http://whoismaryrosh.com/ .", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "if it were up to the thought pattern of individuals that produces this, then not only would we be speaking with a british accent because the left can't stomach any war that goes beyoned five years, but you would have left adolph hitler alone too until he invaded poland. and for the record, the u.n. isn't working on sanctions against iran because they are good and innocent, but because they feel, like i and many others do, that iran is engaging in deceptive and non-cooperative behaviors. and when the darling of the liberal left - the u.n. - feels that way, then maybe there's a lot more to it than you think you know. by the way, how did you like that fatwa for nuclear weapons?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Recent studies apparently show that pot is more harmful than you say. One joint is said to contain more carcinogens than four tobacco cigarettes.I doubt your 20,000 joints theory.You have a simplistic argument going for pot. I can't agree that legalizing all drugs would be a good thing either. Programs in Holland have failed to produce significant if any benefits to society in general. The druggies seem to have benefitted by having arrest-free drug zones and access to whatever they want, but the cost of drugs still requires some income, something that most of them likely do not have other than from crime, begging or social programs.One \"benefit\" I see from legalizing drugs is that the users could be more easily identified.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Don't get me wrong. This isn't exactly a trip to Sunday school. You shouldn't accept packing an arsenal around in the trunk as if it were completely innocuous. It kinda seems suspicious like a primer colored Nissan Maxima with five guys wearing stocking caps sitting in a vacant lot at 3 a.m...... ...something's not right, but nothing is illegal. The guy should have been asked to leave airport property. Officer #1: \"HOLY COW! GUNS! Arrest him!\" Officer #2: \"On, what?\" Officer #1: \"Uh......Felony something! Uh......Felony transportation of guns! No. Not evil sounding enough. Uh.........Felony transportation of AN ASSAULT RIFLE! Yeah! I've included the term \"assault rifle\" so it must be illegal!\" Officer #2: \"What about those guys over there in that Nissan Maxima?\" Officer #1: \"Oh, they look suspicious. We'll check them for legally carried firearms next. If we don't find any, I guess we'll have to let them go.\"", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well if no siege comes, I guess no harm no foul.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So redemption is not a possibility? They did their time, paid the penalty, and just want their rights as a citizen returned to them....l", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Chuz, the purpose of this summary is not to summarise your arguments as a whole - it is to summarise what your argument is up to this point. Why not post just a summary of your position so far, as you see it - I can do the same, then you can continue with your argument? There's no point in writing an argument, summarising it and then leaving the thread before I've had a chance to respond to even your argument (never mind your summary). If you are going to simply ignore any criticisms of your reasoning, then I struggle to see the point of you repeatedly requesting a one-on-one debate in the first place - you essentially regress your argument to the 'because I said so' that you are (presumably) hoping to avoid, it's just that there's slightly more detail.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "'lame apologetics'? well, i guess if you say so, with your invincible assurance of being right whenever you open your mouth, it would be futile to contradict you. at least you haven't accused me of being 'prejudiced' against science. james.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Yeah, reasonable people are OK with ripping unborn fetuses from their mother's wombs minutes before the baby would be born naturally! How dare those kooks try to defend the rights of the unborn fetus!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Not at all. The theory of evolution contains many many things.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And irrational emotional appeals seldom hold up in the face of logic", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Maybe I wanted it from a source that was worth looking at", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "My first thought on reading this was \"What is Comfort thinking?\".... Then I remembered he has faith instead.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You know, its those happy-smiley cartoons that really freak me out. Is this just me or does anyone else find them creepy?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "What about them? Is this a question? Um. Have you read Leveticus? And I mean, read it. Not skimmed it. Because, God loves everybody. Are you reaching? And what does fast and loose mean? I'm confused. I think you are trying to label me.. but I'm not quite sure what I'm being labled as. What part about people burning in hell for eternity?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i love when my feet get rubbed after a long day. its really relaxing and i dont mind rubbing a mans feet.... as long as they don't stink you are a woman after my own heart.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Look, the \"no one was around to see it\" argument. \"If a tree falls in the woods, and no one was around to see it, did it really fall?\" You lost this one a long time ago, too. You never learn.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well let's see . . . the last time a state started recognizing gay marriages, suddenly there was more support for a Federal Marriage Amendment than ever, Democrats lost more seats in Congress, the minority Democratic leader was defeated after years in office, a protestant presidential candidate carried the Catholic vote against a Catholic candidate, evangelicals in the country were energized, the pro-FMA candidate WON re-election even though his approval rating was 50%, and the state that recognized gay marriage fell under a slew of legal challenges to the point where it's up in the air again.The more you push you agenda through activist judges, the closer you get to the people having to pass an amendment. At least New York was smart enough not to do it right before an election.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "actually, it can be proven whether leprechauns, unicorns, the flying spaghetti monster, magical space monkeys and livining care baers, and even god, exists or not.the question of proving a belief seems kinda self-contradictory to me. if something is a fact that can be proven, then your belief about it is irrelevant. likewise, if you believe something, whether there are facts to support it or not, its still your belief. there are people who believe things inn the absence of supporting facts, and sometimes even in the face of opposing facts. the term for that is faithfaith is the belief of something in the absence of evidence. if you have faith in something, proof is irrelevant, or at least it should be", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "your argument is contradicting how can seeing people naked ifnringe on your personal thought and the other not? also the right isn't to marry whomever neterosexuals want. the limits apply to everyoen equally just people have different preferences.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Well, the antichrist is going to come and make any true believer a heretic any way so what am I worried about? I knew the risks before I accept the job. :-)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "In England we have a sack with a couple of bricks inside it.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I am un-aware of a conservative nazi party. Did Howard Dean tell you this?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Could you be so kind as to point out the holes, please? Or are you going to dance around some more?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "of course the above doesn't apply to you, if you say that the nra is not a gun lobby then of course is gonna be true, right ? but they are not lobbysts and they are not powerful, right? of course not, and guns don't kill, and i feel in less danger of being shot in a place where everyone packs a gun rather than in a place where no one does. btw they executed the sniper who terrorised washington dc a few years back. damn! if only those he killed and wounded had only been packing guns (which don't kill) instead!! i am sure they would have been saved for guns act as a shield, right? and the sniper, what did he use to kill and terrorise, a sling shot ? emoticonxbye", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Is your thinking really this simplistic? Either I have to agree with you or I am an anarchist? Is that all the complexity you can handle? This or that? Black or white? The best soda in the world is Sprite and everything else is wrong? What a boring little pigeon-holed world you live in.No harm no foul - that is where I stand on sex and romance. Kids, animals and those who don't or can't consent are off-limits. K? Now that I have established (AGAIN) how I feel on that matter, let me reinstate.Any God that allows love and intimacy for only a select group is viscious.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "And evolution is exhausted. It can't do anything with origins, and recent discoveries of the complexities of the simplest forms of life exhaust it even more.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I fail to see where I broke any of those rules, no names were called, there was no labeling, there was no none of it. And even if there was, you do it all the time, so what makes you any different. Practice what you preach Penfold.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That is a nice little pistol with lots of smack for only 11 onces. Also, I like DA automatics.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, I am sure that if you gave a piece of petrified wood to a scientist, they would be able to find out the difference between the old stuff , and the man made stuff.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I see! So God is like an abusive parent. \"I love you! Do what I say! No, I'm not going to give you a reason!\" \"I still love you!\"\r\nWhat a temper God has! Maybe he needs anger management.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well i know it wouldn't be sensible for anyone to call my child an it that is just disrespectfull to both your partener and child.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Three days? Non Christians supposedly spend an eternity in hell, not the weekend.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "what country are you from? in america the people have never had the ability to decided law. the legislature writes it, the executive approves it, and the judiciary interprets it. the people have no direct say what so ever.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "So you're saying we would not have clindamycin without the ToE? The ToE is supposed to be defined as changes in alleles, not changes in anything someone wishes to assign it to. It seems that in addition to the term evolution being broadened to mean ju", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "the nice part. i'm surprised that you've even read the bible. presumably you're commenting on 1 thessalonians 5:2, wherein paul admonishes the greeks to be watchful for the coming of god? the funny thing is that all of my bibles say that.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "i didn't know that, but i'm not surprised by it. israel needs all the soldiers it can get. and i disagree with you on the iran war issue. all out war with iran will have the israelis sitting on the sidelines yet again so as not to xxxx off the me allies fighting against iran.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "I don't get why either side thinks it matters much. There is evidence that many, many behaviors we see have genetic roots; including behaviors that are unacceptable to society. It is not like something being genetic necessarily matters one iota in terms of the morality the behavior associated with it. So it's just as strange that some feel proving gay-is-genetic will matter as it is strange that some feel that disproving it will matter. The moral issue of homosexual relations will go on regardless of the genetic debate, because quite frankly, one is not dependent on the other.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yawn, refer to the above post you clever little cookie. You're obviously the other 'half' of the brain cell missing from the preacher.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Half of the country is stupid enough to think that four (or eight) more years of Dumbya would be good.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I suggested nothing. You are reading into this some thing that is absent. \"The nurse then informed me, if I had answered yes to any of the questions, I would have lost my concealed carry permit as it would have gone into my medical records and the VA would have reported it to Homeland Security. Looks like they are going after us vets.\"", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "A master baiter like you should present your thesis to be taken seriously, you haven't and you aren't. ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, you didn't have my experiences, now did you? Each woman who has an abortion coul have innumerous circumstances and experiences.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "No, it's one of those rare instances in which YOU are on the right side of an issue. :p;)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Are you kidding me?! You think that blacks living in Third World Carribean and African countries are \"content?!\" They're starving by the tens of thousands per day or living so far below the poverty level that it's unimaginable. Maybe you should wander off the beach sometime and see for yourself.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "if it were only based on religion, you'd have a point. only if your first point were true; and it isn't; and it doesn't include any concern for the philosophies of science and other biases that are being taught as science which scientific method does it mimic? your whole assumption is one version -v- another. this is a false idea of the pelthora of ideas that exist.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "So then I guess you could also debate that algebra serves no purpose as well.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I see no reason why secular shows should be required to mention your mythology.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yes, it's a common problem that nutjob parody posts can be hard to distinguish from sincere nutjobs posts. This is an artifact of how utterly ridiculous the nutjob position is.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "ridiculous. if ic cannot support id, id has absolutely nothing going for it, right? including their supporters of ic, since all of them with the exception of you use it to support id. behe is wrong, dembski is wrong, johnson is wrong, every id supporter is wrong for using ic, because freedom the great thinks it's wrong. daewoo: ic is irreducible complexity, the idea that complex biological systems like the eye or bacterial flagellum could not have evolved through a gradual process, but had to have been formed all at once, by a designer with a function in mind. id is intelligent design, creationism with new pseudo-scientific skin, a political ploy for creationism to gain scientific respect. it failed. michael behe is an advocate of id who came up with ic.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "So most of your friends have had sex with your guy too? emoticonXGoodYou and I both know that homosexuals have different partners regularly, at least compared to heterosexuals.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Right, expect when talking about the 14th amendment. The way you guys like to define \"equal protection\" would make it so any restriction is unequal.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You're somehow right despite the fact that all reliable evidence is on our side? What idiocy.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "be sure and count the number of hits vs. the number of misses of some well trained leos. sap, remember your postition you took now on citizens might miss and hit some innocent person? read 3 or 4 versions of this shootout and learn something! lots of useful information in there.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "I responded to your posts on the thread of \"Lets discuss the actual...\" I suggest we continue that discussion there.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "College. They are normally studied for two years between the ages of 16 and 18 before going to uni.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Did you start the thread in the hope that no one would respond to it ? Is responding to and pointing out the trolling and hypocrisy you have shown wrong ? But I congratulate you for finally admitting that this is a trolls thread. That is more than I expected from you. And as for me reinforcing your contention about conditional christian love ? I do love you my friend, I just hate what you represent which is why I express my love by correcting you and calling you on your every hypocritical contradiction. emoticonXAngel I am Archangel after all. emoticonXGood", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "SNIP\r\n \r\n This isn't evidence, this is an opinion piece made by someone with an agenda. Come back when you have something of substance.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "your face is always red??? oh wait! your real face.... hehe", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "it went way over your head accipiter didnt it? the world will always have it ...it is either real or part of the human psyche....", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "I still do not understand what these people are demonstrating for or against. Are they demonstarting for being dropped in the middle of cancer treatement? Are they demonstrating for being denied coverage due to pre-existing condition? Are they demonstrating for increasing healthcare costs? Are they demonstrating for keeping 50 million people uninsured?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "bin laden said on that tape that muslims should support iraq. why? iraq is secular. he shouldn't want iraq to be supported... he hates non-muslims. hmm... thistown, who cares what people think? it's a bad idea to set foreign policy by opinion polls. 85% of our population was opposed to entering ww ii before pearl harbor while hitler was killing millions, and we knew all about it. that was the wrong thing to do. i bet the chancellor is relaxing with a cool glass of french wine waiting for his term to end...his people hate him. he's holding his stance to gain popularity, playing politics. our president blew him off, he's killed relations, and he knows it.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "wait so being bullied is infringing on your rights? well no duh but if i 'bucko' have to deal with it on a daily basis just for the fact that i'm slightly different i'm not surprised someone has to deal with it for their sexuality. and if they just dealt with the fact they were gay, accepted it and realized that other people aren't the end all and be all, that they'd eventually find people who accepted them for who they were and that high school wasn't the world maybe they'd still be alive.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Yeah, I'm sure no one else will. It's just me, 'cause I'm so \"hateful.'\r\nROTFLMAO!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "let's all listen to one religious book and base our laws off of that, regardless of any other beliefs that may exist, especially when regarding something that has little to no effect on anyone but those directly involved. that makes sense. lets all listen to one scientific theory and base our laws to teach that the earth is round. that doesn't make sense", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "i am trying to show that in fact the crime rate is increasing, not that there is more than a change in how it is reported. around here (my home county) we are doing much better.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Wrong again. If she supported bans on all guns then why would she say \"I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me.\" Shes Jewish too so shes definitly not on Hitlers side.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "not necessary to 'break away'. more like to assume the powers of the state governments which are guaranteed a republican form of government and assume each of their states reserved powers. for instance, the xvii th amendment changed the way sin-ators were chosen. they were intended to be ambassadors chosen by their elected legislatures of the states and be sent to d.c. to represent their interests to the foreign country called d.c. really think so slick? read your constitution and see the powers reserved for the states and the powers denied the states. all you need is an education. no doubt the teabaggers of kalifornia will be appreciative of your blessing. good to know you have telepathy powers cause you sure don't know your history. why don't you just send the 'friend' a mental message? we are quite aware of your powers. emoticonxfrazzled", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "oh yes we can. invoking god is not an explanation for ultimate origins, it's the papering over of the absence of an explanation by declaring further application of the question off limits. simply declaring that god's origin doesn't need explaining does not make that so.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "explain to me how a dragon would get off the ground and fly. the sheer necessary muscle would be more then the available mass of the organism as similar to the necessary requirements to merely run for a t-rex. how many several ton animals can fly on thermals? please, if you think you understand anything in the realm of reason, explain to us how a dragon weighing several tons could fly. or does he need a jet engine strapped to his butt? hahha. you're never going to hear the end of that one.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "I believe many of the intellectuals behind the \"pro-life\" movement (and rest assured it is the intellectuals, not the masses, behind any political movement, whether it be pro-life or instigating a communist revolution) are not opposed to abortion per se. Anti-abortion legislation is simply a tool by which they try to maintain a less sexually permissive society, believing that if women who fall pregnant outside of marriage are forced to endure pregnancy and likely child-raising alone, rather than being offered an easy way out, they will be less likely to have sex outside of marriage. For this reason any method of contraception poses the same threat to them as abortion does, though some methods may be easier to rally support against than others.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "unkerpaulie, thank you for this explanation. boing! eureka! i have finally concretely grasped what a 'strawman' argument is. creating something that does not exist. making mock, in a sense. sorry, i just have to reiterate the term in my terms to paste it firmly into place in my cranium.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "i love it how you every time someone disagrees with you, you call it 'attacking' :|", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Me thinks you are a dim wit that thinks Nero had a nice wedding with his catamite slave ' with a ceremony and everything'emoticonXLove\r\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_dynasty\r\n'All the male rulers of the dynasty took the name Ptolemy. Ptolemaic queens, some of whom were the sisters of their husbands, were usually called Cleopatra, Arsinoe or Berenice. '\r\nThe Ptolemies actually did officially marry there sisters(with a ceremony and everything) so according to the XXXXX that is Excaliber this is great news for incestual marriage advocates. Thank dim wit lol", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So atheism doesn't \"need\" facts? If it claims to have complete knowledge of evolution, doesn't it need all the facts? If the answer is no, then how can it argue against religion? Miller didn't explain it.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "You have such a low satisfaction quotient, except for when it comes to reality. Any more false prophecies and con jobs to post yet?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "ok to lie?? no. having people preaching 'the evolution of species from a cell to every living creature and plant life on earth', and tell me 'its darwin's origin of species, you should try reading it sometime', after i had just presented them an entire paragraph from hitler's meine kempf - entertaining! having your beloved talkorigins crew flunk the test straight-up as they were asked, 'who said the following, _________, hitler or darwin?', while going a whopping 0-3 for a revealing score of zero............ ...............priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Yeah, because in the in europe, nobody cares about women who are murdered... emoticonXRolleyes", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i'm a little surprised by this. the polls i've seen show that mass voters favor gay marriage. i would have thought that getting those who oppose it to put their opposition on the record before the elections would be beneficial. then again, seeing as how the lies and fear mongering have already started, i can see how they might want to avoid having the elections muddied with the inevitable dirty fighting that would be thrown at them. not the most couragous stance, but perhaps safer in the long run. you are right that the longer society fails to collapse the more inane the doomsayers seem.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "It is pretty bizzare. There are plenty of groups out there that will reach whatever \"conclusion\" you pay them to reach. Why he didn't cite one of them instead of an easily checkable source that says the opposite of what he says they do is beyond me.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Evolutionary scientists is a confusing term. A geochronologist might work out an age for a lava sample for example. Astronomers have also made comment on the age of the earth as have paleontologists studying certain fossils.So why would no flood make radiometric much more likely to accurate as you say? Can we hear some specific detail on this as it is kinda significant to backing you your assumption.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "They need to keep their opinions to themselves and out of the law the effect gay peoples lives. I see nothing wrong with locking up those who incite hatred towards gay people just as we lock up people who shout fire in a crowded theatre.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And how would Bush look if his own people hated him so much that they revolted? That would be very bad publicity, and quite an embarrassment that I wouldn't want as a country leader.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Really, fetal persons are born. Science has demostrated that birth really occurs into the womb, not when one leaves it.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I think it goes something like that. Scientists have tried to repeat what they believe happened, but to no success. Anyway, atheistic evolution says that there is no intelligence, the scientists who were trying to repeat what may have happened have intelligence and they made many such measurements to try and create life from lifeless chemicals - in other words, the experiment was already logically flawed!", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Which of course says volumes. On the other hand such metaphors are appropriate in many cases. For example consider the vaccination program for smallpox which eradicated the disease FAPP. It was indeed a struggle and new tools and techniques were critical to reaching the objective. From Jenner to the end of the virus as a human pathogen.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "How many suicide bombers have you herard of wearing a cross? You're assertion is absurd...as usual.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "i love how i am getting under your skin. it really amuses me and your wish is my command.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Then you would want me to be something god did not create me to be? Silly, I 'd say! Humans are part of the animal kingdom. Mammals if I remember from biology. Are you not an animal? If not, maybe the mothership will come and pick you up soon.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Oh yeah, like that hasn't been tried before /sarcasm It darn sure isn't about crime control. No doubt some nefarious excuse to farther control the people and attempt to charge user fees to discourage a right. No doubt sinjin will approve so \"they\" can match fingerprints and type of ammo to the DROS registration file?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The same thing it says about your spelling abilities, plenty. emoticonXRolleyes", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That's right...if there was any possibility we didn't do it the Soviets would have jumped right on top of us and shouted, \"Wait a minute! it was a hoax!\"\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "jt, france has health care for everyone and a university education if you can pass the grade. are they, too, a bunch of 'socialist pigs'? seems to me you have a kind of boogie man in your head, i.e. superstitious beliefs, not anything based on reason.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Just because it is human doesn't mean it's a human being. I'm not sure what grade you're in but that's basic biology 101. Your ears are human. Your ears are NOT human beings.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So police who are not military and are civilians, unless you are paid by the DOD and come under the geneva Convention you are a civilian period. If you had of paid attention, you should know that it is not the \"standing army\" that is fighting the current wars, it is oath taking militia/civilians from the State National Guards and reserve forces who have taken the same oath many of us have, to protect the Constitution from all enemies both domestic and foreign. That is not to say that only those people are the militia either!Can you name one successful government that has ever won a guerrilla war? Russia fought in Afghanistan for how long before it limped back home?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "who defines where the 'extreme left' begins? do you deny the existence of a 'conservative lens'? we all view the world through a perceptual filter. could it be that through yours, anyone left of you becomes a commie? i've heard similar said about the aclu and they've defended the 'extreme right' in court.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "dear noob, i chose the anthem as a song which describes me. however since i am reforming this site into a more democratic community i shall make a debate seeking for a new one.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "I know you're talking to Jessica, so I will only comment on this. It would be easier to make it rare if pro-life people weren't intent on making it illegal. Pro-choice people have to make it as available as possible to counter pro-life attempts to shut it down entirely.If pro-life people didn't exist, then the reasonable people could work towards making abortion rare.Take the current debates for example. My entire point is that it should not be illegal. That abortion should be available as a safe and legal choice (it can only be really safe if it's legal). We spend all our time and effort debating the legality that we spend no time on creating programs to help women choose to continue their pregnancies instead of having an abortion, legal or not.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Don't forget cheaper to feed, take orders better, and are harder to hit.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You know Brady, you've said a lot of stupid stuff over the years. I even remember finding a post of yours where you said all guns and gun owners should be registered, but sex offenders shouldn't be. This latest post of yours is just another senseless and stupid rambling of somebody that's so hateful and fearful of an inanimate object that it's impossible for him to function in our society and can barely handle his own needs.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Interesting.... have you ever been to a schoolyard recently? I think the \"taunts\" are more directed at gays. Like \"f@ggot\" and \"fairy\". What taunts do you get on a daily basis? What... being called out on your negativity towards the rights of a minority? boo hoo.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "You can take anything you want, but you won't take that one very far, especially because you cannot find a single post of mine advocating equality of outcome.\r\nHarrison Bergeron must be unknown to you - unless your last name is Glampers.emoticonXAngel", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Sounds like a movie... We could threaten to use our old nukes on all the potential enemies...oh, yeah, we've already done that.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Clearly you have some beef with the economics of abortion-it's a lucrative business - but then you have no problem bringing up what abortion has done to the detriment of our workforce and economy. *All that money we could've had if the wimmin had been forced to spawn!* This is one of the most ridiculous prolife arguments What's ethical now?\r\nThis is all moot, b/c if you are for early term abortions, which is when most abortions take place, none of this matters. Are you prochoice or prolife?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The Scandinavians always have been a multi-cultural society as the uncouth Vikings were so good at stealing culture from us Brits ;)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Erm... we are? Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are usually quoted as parts per million, currently a little over 380ppm, 150 years ago closer to 280. In 1970 about 330ppm.\r\n Carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "is there an analogy here somewhere? perhaps instead of having a penalty box there should be gallows or a guillotine. please ellaborate. smiley", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "And we all know that is what it will become. I'm willing to bet money that Marc is going to argue that abiogenesis is a part of evolution as well as the big bang. There's a clear reason why he won't accept the definitions before the debate starts.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i'm surprised cindy sheehan and the radical left aren't wearing turbans and funding al queda already, as much as they despise america's war on terrorism. but maybe some of them are.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "oh yes ww one other question. are human sperm alive? are they aware?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Well, the Judge made a ruling late last week that she should not be revived should her breathing stop again, backing the medical assessment of her doctors:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3723656.stmAnd yes, very sad.Another dilemma posed by what has become possible through ever advancing medical science.....", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "and you shouldn't forget the thousands of gays incinerated at this death camp!!!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "How do you know he was a gun owner? Maybe he borrowed it. ;)And I bet he was a carnivore, walked upright and drove a car, as well.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "lol Seriously boring is right. Just think, no Larry Craig scandals.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "EZ, the \"I know you are, but what am I?\" response works in the schoolyard, or on the Rush Limbaugh show, but not in the civilized world. Not too surprising coming from a Bush supporter. You could insult the intelligence of an ape.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Isn't the point pretty obvious- that exposure to a gun can raise testosterone levels and trigger violent and aggressive thoughts and actions?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "oh dear pagan, i would grab my sword of jesus and slice your head off, put it on a pole and await the next foolish rebellion against the glorious kingdom of god almighty!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "i just spat coffee on my new monitor... wanna catch a movie, sinjin? i'll get the popcorn if you'll bring that yellow salt...", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "No Peeling, it would be, \"We proved it was possible to evolve as humans have, so why can only we do it?\" Why hasn't one other creature on Earth ever evolved to our level of sophistication in the same alleged 4 billion years that we have had to attain our level of evolution? If evo is real, then it seems only right that it should touch all species equally and that all species that weren't forced into extinction, but survived and overcame the pressures they faced should have ended up in a similar evolved place that man has attained in 4 billion years.Unless of course that the science of evolution is a humanistic justification to explain our origins but has no basis in fact what so ever. And that is my claim and belief.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Because that's when the law says that they have the 'right to live.' Rights are legal terms that are fabricated by humans. They are not constant, but rather change whenever we wish to change them.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "emoticonXRolleyes And you say I'm crazy?! This guy interrogates rocks! emoticonXRolleyes", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Did you even read ythe OP? Did you even read the title? \r\nPointless distinction? Huh. \r\nI understand what you are saying. I also know you are changing your argument. When it was proven that Sanford did indeed run on family values, you changed your argument. Instead of just owning up and admitting that, you weasel out of it. \r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "WOO HOO.So the main stream entertainment industry who brought us such great talent as Brittney Spears does not consider this film the cats meow? WEE HA - all the more reason to see it.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "depends do you put any thought into writing your arguments? oh wait you don't never mind.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "More irrational drivel, and have you forgotten that I am an arab? A smaller minority in this country than blacks? Yet you must play the race card and assume that because I oppose this criminal woman for threatening the life of her unborn child by actually holding her responsible for her own poor conduct that I am somehow a racist. Your argument is as pathetic as your character is found wanting, you immoral apologist for all that is wrong with this country.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Ever see someone try to kill you?that can causes paranoia also.emoticonXRolleyes", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "the top 10% of people in this country pay 67% of the taxes. most of the money from the middle class? no, not at all.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Nope, you're posting your own BS.. and just making yourself look more stupid than you are.. if that's possible...\r\nemoticonXCryemoticonXCryemoticonXCryemoticonXCryemoticonXCryemoticonXCryemoticonXCryemoticonXCry\r\nHow's your Uncle EZridden.. haven't seen him today...emoticonXKill", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "yeah, that was all just exaggeration and absurdities from religionist to make the story more fantastic and supernatural. or else nobody will ever join them religion.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "So now you're freely and willingly admitting that you'd take pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering on innocent people who have never done anything to you?\r\n \r\n Good God! No wonder you don't like guns and want to see everyone disarmed!", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Worker: I Saw Rat Roasting In Peanut Plant, Tells Jeff Glor He Also Saw Rat Droppings, Roaches, Huge Holes In Roof Of Ga. Facility Being Probed In Salmonella Outbreak - CBS News\r\nWell gosh! If it was a Republican Rat I'm sure that makes everything okey dokey. Right, BushFans?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "It's ashame that everyone keeps looking for the judiciary to do the legislature's work. When will the people press Congress to take up abortion? It is the job of Congress after all, to address the issues desired by it's constituents.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "The short answer is that it isn't. See the details here: Phil Plait", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Actually, according to your use of the word \"person,\" she is. A significant percentage of fertilized eggs fail to implant and are instead passed. How sad (and typical) that you haven't bothered to educate yourself about these things.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "we? which of you is the puppet? looks from here like you are talking nothing more than big gun, small ...... feet. empty sweeping generalisations are still empty. he made claims, i want evidence to back them up.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": ". did i say anything about your family? i don't want to know you and you are doing my job easier by your ad homs. my job is to hold the mirror up to nature and make you look as bad as you are :) have you seen your militia lately? united states code: title 10,311. militia: composition and classes | lii / legal information institute are you doing your militia duty? the law of the land is that the militia is you...and me and every true citizen. that is pro government in this republic. since when did it become invalid? serving as a group is not a necessity to own firearms as the supreme court ruled in mcdonald ruled it is a personal and fundamental right. you really are out of your league aren't you pot licker? emoticonxclown", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "where did i 'bitch' about kinds? please quote the post or withdraw the comment. a clue for you: i've never discussed kinds with you, so just apologise and we can move on, eh?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "how about when it dawns on you who he was when he came the first time? lol! trade in your blinders for some spiritual light!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "HA wouldnt you say someone who is really overweight actually has more of a problem with stress on their joints, muscels, heart, and bladder than a woman carrying a small child in her womb? Obesity can demand major scarifices in behavior and diet. Some of which can be detrimental.I really dont see your point because this isnt just a woman's problem when it comes to these issues you pointed out.And im not really sure what a \"pregnancy\" is according to you.. please explain.. When i hear the word pregnant, i think of 2 people, not just 1.Also, the baby has its own blood, its own immune system, and contains its own calories once consumed. theres nothing that the mother has that the baby doesnt other than it just needs nutrtion. Just like you need food everyday.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Because they couldn't own models like the AR-15 or AK-47? Last I checked those were banned in Chicago and much of Illinois, limiting people to mainly deer rifles.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "And you're a poor replacement for that koolaid-drinking Seer Travis.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And were you and your Repub cronies making such complaints then?\r\nOh wait. That was with Bush.\r\nI can guess the reality of THAT situation... emoticonXIc\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "if you want to use this arguement then you are assuming a right to free speech seperate from the 1st amendment. you are applying the first amendment but rather assuming 'free speech' is a right granted outside of the constitution. i believe our argument is dealing with applying the first amendment to the states. the case didn't deal with the first amendment at all. where did you get that idea from? it dealt with religion but that is about as close as it gets. ok? was there ever any doubt that the 1st amendment was incorporated since cantwell?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "The comic relief doesn't even recognize it has passed in on, or attempted to!", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "come on, everyone knows that uzi's are used for hunting and target practice! [btw- if you were shooting for french it's \"libert\" but who cares]", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "this is another one of your pure strawmen. why should i defend a bill that i'm neither supporting or completely condemning? the subject of this thread is senate amendment 2837, which is based on two pieces of legislation i have linked more than once on this board, inviting you to read and respond to it. neither of which are thousands of pages long. one less than 30 pages, and the other less than 200. you read those bills, and discuss the subject of the thread, which is senate amendment 2837. supported by 2/3rds of americans -- that is, what you call, like a nitwit, a 'plan for national socialism.' you wouldn't know 'national socialism' if it hit you upside the head, ali.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "It has been 33 years. The allies managed to stop the holocaust in only two. You guys are certainly dragging your feet at stopping the great American \"holocaust\" against \"unborn babies.\"", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, it's not as though you hold your tongue all that often when it serves in support of an anti-gay argument.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Can you read? You're the type that just waits to say your next piece and never attempts to listen to others.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Pregnancy is always harmful to the woman's body. However, if the pregnancy is desired then the changes are welcomed by the woman.To a woman who does not want to be pregnant then those changes are very unwelcome and are a bad thing. Pregnancy is always harmful, but the perception of what is happening changes depending on the woman.You do not understand that whether or not pregnancy harms the woman's body is objective, but whether or not the woman wants the pregnancy anyway depends on the woman. You are mixing the two.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You mean the Conservative tilting Supremes donot know the law ? You want to tell them that ? emoticonXChicken emoticonXChicken emoticonXChicken emoticonXChicken emoticonXChicken", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i am familiar with both men; and my posts sound very lockean, which if you really knew locke you would know is true. remember previously in this thread (that is, when you were travelling these parts as 'bhbcu64') where i said that there is no right to control one's body? or where i said there is no right to suicide? that is locke 101.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "--------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n I do not believe that the supreme court adressed the the problem of convicted fellons having the death penelty reduced to life in prison and going on to kill in prison.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "your a wall. and where did i do this? ok, perfesser, even if i did do more research my stance would not change. i never asked you to. like the old saying goes it takes a xxxxx to know a xxxxx. :)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "it's my first day and i'm already wishing forums had an ignore button. this really is my first day, and i am frankly flabbergasted. is this (archie-types) an ongoing problem here, or an isolated individual? i feel like i'm arguing with my 6 year old niece. i'm asking everyone out there who has been there for a while. seriously. as a former christian, i have numerous christian friends whose conversation and opinions i respect and think i could learn something from - but, well...jesus, is this the norm around here? this is not a rhetorical question.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "this seems like a begging the question fallacy. lets just assume that they 'do not' have control over it...it would be the same thing for an alcoholic (which people are also born with). are you saying alcoholics should be allowed to live in this lifestyle? i guess it is societies fault emoticonxrolleyes looks like jyoshu's reactions were correct for you i am pretty surprised no one is like 'yeah, this is still a problem'..instead they are going '25%...that aint too bad'. even worse, they blame other people. in fact, robbie says gay men are acting 'recklessly' because they aren't treated as 'normal', yet he believes that gay men are ready to have families. how can you be reckless yet be ready for a family?..or rather, a good family?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Actually the Bible has changed, not to mention had omissions.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I think he doesn't really know what he means, I don't think all heathens follow a particular set of beliefs, though I don't know as many as I do pagans.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "To three dimensional beings bound by time, it probably does not have meaning, at least not direct meaning. However, the concept can be imagined by humans and for God who exists in eternity it would make perfect sense.\r\nI am certain now that you will attempt to argue the same tired points and before you do, please don't as I won't be responding to you. I am enjoying the debate with fresh thinkers.\r\nEF", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "why convince me of something i already know? however, the homosexual community does have more of a problem..just like africa has more of a problem then the us.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "so their support of bush (so you say) means exactly what? that they were listening to the sound bytes dished out by bush's rhetoric? and where is bush is the man and jim's trucking? usually they're all over it when someone says something bad about the american people. oh, that's right... it's ok when a person on the right says it, it's when it said by a liberal like moore that it becomes an issue.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "that's pretty much assumed that god is magic. hence why we laugh at it when it is presented as a viable alternative to testable fact. what is more interesting is that archie who believed unless i'm mistaken that his god is perfect, is in fact a huge liar. btw, did you read the link i posted? it took 20 pages before a creationist took a stab at the arguments. archie didn't even try.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "in that case its a single act of terroism so if you know all of this what's the name of his group? i wasn't on a high horse. also could you post the source saying he was part of some group and not just a loon. jeez that sucks. *shrugs* well no different from black leaders who were targeted, slave owners/abolitionists who were targeted. this happens all the time. i'm surprised it hasn't happened earlier. i love how its a conspiracy! *roll eyes* its terrorism not a conspiracy. unless you gonna tell me the governments in on it. xd", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "I'm not sure what the source of the bias would be. Do you mean that it is somehow prejudicial to link ID with creationism, because, somehow ID is scientific while creationism isn't? But that's just not true. In the Dover case the court concluded that ID isn't science any more than creationism is. In fact, it was clearly demonstrated that the motivation for ID is an effort to disguise the fact that it is nothing more than creationism without the mention of god. Basically, if you scratch an IDer, you get a creationist.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "As I have pointed out, the only BS here is your accusations.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Actually, the answer might depend more on the nature of the question, or the particular religious cult of the person being asked, etc. In questions of science, fundamentalists will tell you that the answer was revealed to them by their god in their holy scripture.On the other hand, you are characterizing religion as insanity. I think that you really mean that when religion is offered as science, then that is insane.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Just to point out, the class that ID is being taught in is a comparative religion class.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You either did not read my post thoroughly, or are intentional misrepresenting me. Post 250 (which I had actually read before starting this thread) is nothing but DamEtel rambling about homologies between vertebrae embryos. That has absolutely nothing to do with the unexplained homologies that the Denton talks about. Evolution simply cannot, reasonably speaking, account for the homology between your arm and leg, among other examples.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Good. The less moronic \"spirituality\" in each state the better. Let's move out of the dark ages as fast as we can.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "VoR is about as Catholic as the Archbishop of Cantebury. I'm curious about what I'm right about though, seeing as I asked you whether you think that medically un-necessary abortions should be legal or not.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Invalid argument to assert that mutations can map a road outside of their assigned task in illogical, where would the information to do so come from? Biology works because every individual cell doing what it was created to do along with what the one next to it was, though created to perform another set of instructions creates the molecular change that the combination of the cells together would produce. But there is no additional information there... not int he way you assert.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You have this habit of making sweeping claims with little to no substantiation.And even if we were to completely ignore LeVay altogether, there is MOUNDS of other evidence showing a genetic cause.Like I keep pointing out, but nobody on your side of the fence seems to realize, NARTH's OWN CITED REFERENCES say there is a genetic cause!", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Liberals are squawking about more funding for atheist groups? Homosexuals don't deserve equality? Liberals are pro-terrorism?Goodness, even your backtracking just digs the hole deeper. Just can't help it, can you?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "this has nothing to do with my post. you don't need to believe in conspiracy theories to believe that the universe is pretty crazy. i'm an advocate of science, and even i admit that, especially at the quantum level, shit gets crazy. particles being in two places at once, 95% of the universe being undetectable, whole separate universes colliding to make new ones. it's crazy yes, but it is also scientific. in fact, compared to science, the answers psychics provide are rather boring. i'm impressed by the stuff i just listed, not some charlatan guessing whether or not i have a dog.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Contraceptives (for example a condom/ the pill) aren't going to last a month effectively. Then there's the fact that contraceptives, given the above data, can still be 99% effective, as it doesn't mention how many pregnancies they've prevented. What does the writer make of this though? \"According to this, condoms have a high failure rate for pregnancy.\"", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, she IS getting her info outta the bible, one of the bloodiest snuff novels ever written lol...", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Strawman. Scientists deal with scientific issues.. The people who are trying to promote ID are doing it for religious purposes, and have no science behind their claims. Science shoudl be taught in science class, not religion. If/when the proponents actually GET to the point their ideas are science, then it can be looked at. Until then, warmed over creationsism does not belong in the science class.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So what you are saying is simply that the genes do not actively control the body.What is wrong with assuming that genes therefore do not control the body is the fact that the genes were the blueprint for the body. The genes decided the arrangement of cells, the number of fingers, etc.The body, the cells, and the organelles within the cells are therefore strongly influenced by the DNA sequence.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i'll agree with you on some of the things you said, but not the hired gun. america doesn't need to hire guns, we have our own. if what you are asserting is the case, then why would we be where we are right now. and are you saying that israel gets there weapons for free? this is america son, nothing is free if you haven't found out. and our strong ties with israel are more than likely due to the fact that they're more trustworthy than any of the arab nations, thus making a greater ally.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "I don't know if you ever heard of the UK Poll Tax but I could have seen myself protesting by non-payment against such a grotesquely unfair system of taxation had I been of the age to do so.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "No - but then the feral child illustration was intended to highlight the significance of human social 'DNA' to humans, not to imply that it can civilize any old species. However, you raise a good point which I can turn to my advantage: let's replace the dogs in your reversed scenario with, say, chimps. Can they learn table manners and use silverware, learn to use the toilet or bathe themselves? Yes. I've seen a bonobo prepare a boil-in-the-bag meal. I consider my point concerning the role of social DNA in distinguishing human from animal pretty much made", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I don't believe that. Give me some proof. Besides, one does not have to smoke marijuana to get high.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "They do not hate the concept, they merely reject it as being useful or necessary to explain the material universe. I mean come on what utility would a physics which incorporated miracles be? Nothing would be predictable and all utility would be lost. If you want all of science to be arbitrary and unreliable then all ya gotta do is inject miracles into the field. For example what value is f=ma {except when the diety wills otherwise}. Or e=mc2 (god willing)", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "\"thats just the way it is\" isn't much of an argument!\r\nSo, basically you don't care that some people can have rights, while others who should have them don't get them. So, I take it you liked segregation, prohabition and prefer women barefoot in the kitchen rather than at the polls voting for anything. Wow! all I an say is wow.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So you haven't got an answer to the question and prove that you are 'busted'.. That's OK...as long as we can all see that.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Uhuh! And you've got a bridge in Brooklyn you want to sell me. . . .", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Because self-defence, unlike most other 'reasons', automatically allows all citizens firearm access, and in most cases allows firearm acess without mandatory training/evaluation. When this occurs, you are much more likely to get misuse of firearms.If you read around you'll see that I consider all rights as needing justification. This comes both from my stance as a relativist and as a UK citizen, where there is no formalised Constitution. Ask yourself this - if a right cannot be justified, why should it be treated as a 'right'?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Unfortunately for me, it's pretty clear that you've already been roasted on nearly every point you've made in the entire thread, from the insanity of Ray Comfort to man's oh-so-amazing biological ability to live in a submarine. Oh well, reading is almost as fun as doing the roasting myself.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Right. The frenquecy of the alles have changed over time.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But again, that requires a YEC to contradict their belief in the flood. As earlier stated, previous YECs have gone into the field, looked at the data and evidence and abandoned YEC as it makes absolutely no sense. YEC 'science' is not used in hydrocarbon production.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "many americans feel that deploying our military in our own cities as a police force sets a bad precedent. i'm surprised you don't. it's one thing to use them in the case of a natural disaster where local police might be overwhelmed, but to open a shooting war with street gangs? chicago ain't rio de janeiro.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "I was addressing his list. I'm not denying that only one side has scandals. In fact, I counted. If you could read and understand why I mock your inability to contrast nine with one, you'd know that.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "In a sense you really can. From the perspective of if niether Islam or Christianity existed there would be no AQ or KKK. The question then is would they have existed anyway? To do so they would have to have radically different access to resources, social acceptance and support, ideological motivation and all of these would need a reason to endour over time surviving cultural, geographical and population shifts.It's one thing to say religion is good, just used poorly, but when will it start being used correctly all the time? It's like having a TV that has a 1 in 3 chance of everytime you turn it on it will explode. At some point you stop buying TV's.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "This is a free market of ideas. The good ones survive. The bad one die like dinosaurs.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "No I am saying a human being. Human is VERY diffent from human being. The hair that is in the drain of my shower is \"human.\" It has the DNA charicteristics that make me and it human. My arm is human. It also has human characteristics. The question is, is it a \"human being\" with rights and interests, that was my point. ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Actually, my wife and I discuss evolution all the time. She's an evolutionary biologist. She did feel as if she had some duty to watch the show, just to stay on top of the sorts of things being said. She just has a low tolerance for willful stupidity. Which I totally understand. :)", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Why you quoted me is questionable. What I posted was merely a series of mathematical equations proving that Hovind is completely full of ****. How you consider mathematical equations \"mockery\" I don't know, but more likely, you did not bother to watch the video. Instead, in your normal fashion, you simply ASSUMED what you wanted to believe and then went from there rather then actually looking at what it was and what it had to say. Your post more accurately is towards the link that AA posted in defense of his beliefs (yet failed to realize was satirizing those beliefs). Furthermore, I'm not an atheist even though your poor definition wants me to be.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The logic we use to make statements about reality is derived from the way we observe material things behaving, and that logic is not immutable. Quantum physics demonstrates the fundamentally uncertain nature of reality at very tiny scales: the 'law of excluded middle' in particular taking it firmly in the shorts. Given that logic can vary on such a simple metric as physical scale, your argument is starting to look more than a bit frayed at the edges :)", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, you certainly defended this video, Archangel. How interesting to now hear that you were defending material you hadn't even viewed. \r\nBut I'm not going to do your homework for you. It's on this thread; jyoshu posted it. So search his posts on these pages.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yes, it doesn't agree with your agenda so it must be trolling. \r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i love how viruses (viri?) and prions make us redefine our notions of life.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "you have some good points but a whole lot of gibberish too but you forgot to say why you feel that?????? why did you forget and just go for the insult?? too silly! conservatives have always been very open about their disagreements with rand, but many also welcome her as a very very powerful ally against liberalism. i'm not surprised that you didn't know that what lack???????? what hypocrisy????? of course it does. many countries don't accept immigrants, it is a huge upheaval personally to do so, and most countries will be more liberal than the usa. certainly that is one option most sensible people would utilize when possible. what?????????", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "deliberate acts of fabrication to produce false and fradulent claims as to what others have said. You cited my posts which did not imply anything of the sort you claimed it did and what I thought. In fact, some of the cited refute such claims.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That's true, fracas. However, this thread is predicated on the idea that a large proportion of Spaniards oppose gay marriage, and it will not be allowed in Spain as a result. This premise has been demonstrated to be patently false.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I believe the earliest gospel estimation is placed around 50 ad, which is almost 30 years after Jesus died.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "it's not a fallacy. cars or religion are not basic necessities. having your house put out or your fatal injury treated are, so there is no comparison. he is trying to say that the basic necessities you need in order to live should not be privatized, with the obvious exception of food. corporations can't buy the oxygen in the atmosphere, can they? i don't like the government running things either, but when private corporations are doing a worse job than any government could, its time for the government to step in.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "So, you see the UN and other extra-British authorities as being better than the UK's? The sun sure does set on the British Empire nowadays. emoticonXWow\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But not all \"designs\" are manufactured. Take the repetitive ridges of sand on a beach. They are created by the motion of the water. Shall I remind you of the humorous story about the \"image of Jesus\" that attracted much attention, yet turned out to be a coincidence of shadows? This is why I insist upon your defining the terms you're using.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Atheism is a religion? Pray tell, where would I find the atheist church?Ridiculous.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Yes, it does. Read it all. Also go to this link where an Israeli citizen talks about guns and gun-control in Israel. http://www.counsel.net/chatboards/2n....02.36.24.htmlSounds like Israel has strict gun-control laws but also lots of guns. Gun-control has not led to gun confiscation in that nation.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Because that is your only excuse? Sorry chum, you still don't get seperation of church and state. If you want to debate religion, take it to the religion forum.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And when have they? Ever?\r\nStill waiting for your evidence that monogamous married sex is the most satisfying. As, I'm sure, is Wez.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, this gets rather complicated. A very young child does not get to choose his or her adoptive parents. Who decides on who adopts whom depends on the kind of adoption and the policies of the particular adoption system. In private domestic adoption, the birth mother usually gets to decide on who will adopt her baby. The foster care system is organized differently, and international adoption is different still and depends on the country from which the child is being adopted. So it's pretty much impossible to generalize about adoption policies and practices. They vary greatly.The point is that the purpose of adoption is to protect the rights of the child.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "uh huh. you prefer to be left alone so you can butcher all the unborn babies you want. besides engaging in infanticide, do you know what's wrong with your liberal mentality? you've slaughtered a whole generation of future scientists, teachers, and taxpayers - the latter in sufficient numbers that they would have been able to fund your invasive obamacare in its entirety, along with other nanny-state entitlement programs. turkeys. you losers ought to be caned and deported.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "but they don't enforce it very well at all. before the season they can only test 5% of the players max, and during the season, once you've been tested you can't be tested for the rest of the season. i mean if the teacher left the room during the sat's, do you honestly expect everyone to sit there and not cheat, when doing well can help them get a better standing in life? steroids is just an extreme. you pay a bigger price for it, but you also get better results.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "You mean I can get pregnant all by myself! COOL! Out with the men. They have been ticking me off for YEARS! Well, where should we draw the line with men? At what point is it OK for the government to take control rather than letting men make choices for their bodies? For me. Nothing less than I ALWAYS MAKE MY OWN CHOICES FOR MY BODY is acceptable and anything else is violation.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Superglue! How you gonna make the DNA?\r\nThis is all facinating but it doesn't have a thing to do with information theory.\r\nCopying DnA to do reasearch is a neat trick and quite useful.\r\nIs there a point to this?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "True, but I was referring to psychological explanations, not genuine reasons.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I had researched some stuff about viruses that was applicable about life in general because it is the only thing that is not defintely classified. So the argument was about life, the other stuff was just peripheral. Don't make such a big deal about including other tings in it.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That distinction may be irrelevant since they do say that no god that any religious person believes in exists. And that is what I was getting at originaly. Still I think that the idea that the existence of all religious gods can be ultimately refuted based on the logic you bring up is invalid.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, \"reasonable\" is clearly subjective... So the authors of the letter are practicly saying that any gun laws not interfering with the state militia would be permited according to the second amendment. But that gun laws obviously should be reasonable. But what reasonable is, is best left to the democratic will of the people. Or am I reading it wrong?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "If this is what passes for American healthcare, then your need for change is even more desperate. None of these \"treatments\" is available on the NHS.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You are aware that words have more than one meaning, right? And that every definition isn't appropriate in every situation? The definition, from dictionary.com, that you should have used is:\r\nTo infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I can see what you are saying. It's pretty much true...being a Jewish homosexual, I know it first hand. But just for once, couldn't they pick on somebody else?It seems almost like a bully tactic for the Christian heterosexuals who are against same sex marriages to pick on someone who doesn't have a legal leg to stand on...that's sad.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Hollow bones however when equipped with wings allow for greater flight distance.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But didn't they tell you? They outsourced your job to me!", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yes, any legal argument which relies exclusively on religious doctrine is indeed harboring on freedom of religion infringement. The same holds true for all civil rights which have had opposition from the \"religious-right.\"", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So then how do you know that abortion isn't in the plan then? If as you say we have \"VERY LIMITED PERSPECTIVE\"", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "so God would rather have evil in the world than infringe freedom. how very libertarian of you, jyoshu.but actually, are evil and freedom inversely proportionate? look at the examples i gave: slavery is both evil and an infringement on human freedom. on top of that, God puts evil into people and then does not take responsibility when these people do evil things... not to mention the evil that he himself has done. murder, genocide, bigotry... the lot.if he made people with complete freedom, he MUST have made people with evil as well. why did he do that? the only reason i can come up with is that if God made everyone in his image, he himself must be evil, even partially. that that is apparent in the bible.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Silly you, forgetting the lessons of Nuremberg.\r\nDid the Tribunal bring every private in the Wehrmacht or even every guard in the camps to trial?\r\nBack to your Marion Morrison fantasies, old chap!emoticonXSmilie", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So you carry grenades and 75 pounds of gear, all while wearing camouflage fatigues and can call in an airstrike bombing?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "What's your point? Of course they will be bound by Heller just as the courts are bound by Roe v. Wade. That point wasn't in dispute. As long as you're talking about 19th Century Second Amendment case law, I like The State v. Buzzard (1842).", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "No baby is more precious than another as far as my personal beliefs go it is no more alright to terminate a baby concieved through rape/incest than it is to terminate a baby classed as a mistake/inconvenience.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I think you do not know what you are talking about. Your description fits the matter \"god\" you belive in.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I was thinking moreso Canada, Great Britain, and Israel rather than \"Happyland\" but whatever floats your boat.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "loool justin bieber?! oh that is a sad thing to believe :p dear boy (obviously) whitney houston beats michael jackosn demi lovato beats justin bieber karen carpenter beats every singer on earth<3 opera is the most powerfull woman on earth, obama is said to be the most powerfull man on earth, but i seriously think that opera wins this one too. she's a rolemodel, idol, inspiring woman. love her <3", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "But the fact remains that guns are, by design, weapons.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "No, think about what you just said. A cancer cell doesn't mutate, it attacks healthy cells and causes the destruction of healthy tissue. Kinda like liberals in a healthy society - they are the free radicals of the body politic, huh... go figure.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": " in a population of 100 tigers 50 of which have bad eyesight genes and 50 of which have efficient running genes after many generations we would expect there to be relatively few tigers with bad eyesight and relatively many that could run efficiently.That is natural selection.Mutation is a process whereby new genetic material is introduced which then enters into the process of selection. A tiger might be born with 6 legs or white fur.\" Put in perspective, the average human is born with 300 mutations, of which 7 are potentially fatal, though usually recessive. ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "When you are menstruating, do you make sure you don't touch anyone so that you don't make them \"unclean\"? If not, you better start.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "We're legally dead when we no longer mentally exist (hence the term \"brain-dead\"), so there is no logical reason to set the beginning point as anything other than the start of the mental existence. Just as people who are dead and without mental existence do not have the ability to obtain rights, a collection of human cells without a mental existence cannot obtain rights. I also notice you have resorted to attacking other people's views rather than following the topic of the thread, which is to share YOUR views. emoticonXBanghead", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Really?!! I'm not aware of any kids being born to two gay biological parents (unless one is a lesbian and the other a gay man, that is).\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i've only had a quick look as i'm on the bus so research is limited but i'm sure the evidence for the 2000 year old israel is biblical, so is the promise from god which is what the modern israel is based on. i thought you thought the bible was stupid bronze age myths for creatards so i'm surprised to see you basing an argument on this. before the modern israel was created the land was part of palestine making it palestinian before it was jewish unless you go by biblical evidence and gods promise.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "No, it doesn't. It is an example of how one part of the theory of evolution works to effect changes in a population.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "What facts? The article above your post is replete with documented facts. Are you in denial? Have you even read the article? Are all of your responses knee-jerk, shoot-from-the-hip defense mechanisms?\r\nPay attention.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I'm sorry, did Article V have a clause I'm missing that says you can only amendment the constitution if it accomplishes more freedom? Is there anywhere in the history of that provision that supports this? Can you point to ANYTHING that supports your incorrect viewpoint? \r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "emoticonXFrazzledTalk about a fast and loose accusation.WHAT DID HE ACTUALLY SAY???Cause Harry Hay is well known for his gay rights work.If Jennings did find something about the guy inspiring, it was probably his gay rights work.If I said that I thought Martin Luther King Jr was inspiring, would you automatically associate my praise with extramarital affairs?This is just stupid!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "With all due respect my friend, this is foolishness. It's as if you're saying that a persons existence is based on their memories from their past. That is ridiculous because if it's true then, we oughta take every person who's in the throws of Alzhiemers out and euthanize them because they can't remember what they did yesterday. Just because you can't remember what you did at 4 doesn't negate for one moment that you still existed at 4 so your existence had value and substance even though you can no longer remember what happened back then in your life.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "good grief... satanist?!.. my goodness how can you say such a thing?! i will have to ban you for even mentioning the concept of it! my dear old fellow!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "do you know what a fatwa is ? the burden of proof is on those who want an invasion, iran can not prove that is not trying to develop a nuclear weapon. you can not prove a negative. honestly i don't think people have learned the lesson from the iraq war. what did we hear before that invasion from the warmongers in the us and uk ? the exact same thing we are hearing at the moment. that the regime is evil, they have wmd, they have links to aq etc surely the people are not dumb enough to fall for the same tripe again ?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Pro-lifers are like slave traders? What a pro-lifers trading? Anyone who denies a human being a fundamental human right is a slave trader...like a right to life...???", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So what does this have to do with the topic? Alcohol is legal, marijuana isn't, but they both serve the same purpose (getting high), so why should one be illegal and the other not?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "lol. great point pickle.Honestly, why not put into play the madman breaking into your house with not a care of your life or (im putting in a small child and puppy!) your small child or your little puppy. Because the time you take your sorry little self to the cops, he will be you and your little child.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "What is astounding about it? If we had been aborted, we wouldn't have known anything about it. Untold billions of conceptions have been spontaneously aborted. Do you shed tears for those, too?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, then, I guess that in America we can't possibly be safe from kill-happy gunners can we?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I would kind of Like to Discuss your Fascinating use of Caps. But seriously, your numbers are insane. Somewhere around 8000 gay couples have gotten married in the past couple of years, how in the world do you imagine that they've cost the state hundreds of thousands or millions each? You just made all that up, didn't you?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "oh yeah..., how long does it take to walk from one end of the country to the other? ;)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "But it did have (if we are talking the very first non-unicellular organisms) tiny ickle wickle bits and pieces that eventually became what we call 'organs'. Seriously, if you can't answer my questions above then you have no business questioning the theory, because if you don't know what the theory says, how can you argue against it? Your questions in this thread make no sense because they do not even address the issues from the standpoint of what is already known.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Nah, he has been TRAINED to recognize demonic possession as part of his B.A.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But she murdered her child.\r\n \r\n There are laws in Austrailia (and hopefully someday in the U.S.) against killing your pre-birth children.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You are a known anti-gun supporter, should we really be surprised at your presidential choice. Funny thing is, you are going to get screwed just like the rest of us if Obama wins. He might try to take our guns away, but your rights that are important to you wont be very far behind. ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Yes, because congresses powers are actually pretty limited. It hink it will be interesting to see how the 2 upcoming supreme court cases (one has already been accepted, the other is pretty much a shoe in) regarding the commerce clause will be handled, since the majority of the laws that congress passes are tied to it. ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "How curious that not everyone can admit that this kind of treatment is wrong. How interesting that another issue comes up instead of addressing the blatant, in-your-face kind of mistreatment of an individual making a private, personal decision. Like many decisions in life, this is one that is difficult to come to. It doesn't mean it's a wrong one. It's hard because your options are so very serious.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The question is illogical. By declaring the existence of an all powerful God then saying God cannot do something is not a comment on his powerfulness but rather the direct representation of his nature. Your question by its very statement does not test wether or not God is all powerful but wether or not God is comprehensible. See another thread for that topic. The statement that God is all powerful defines his nature. To state then that he cannot do something outside of his nature as proof of the non existence of his nature is circular in logic.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "oh yes i know what i stated, so answer the nonsensical question 'with qm'. is quantum fluctuation nothing? at which point it ceases to be a quantum vacuum; which begs the question has a quantum vacuum been 'observed' much less scientifically saddled with the responsibility of generating virtual particles (i know the question is so obviously self-contradictory i could barely type it with a straight face). lol, yes i've heard; but as i'm sure you know i am sadly ignorant of any 'new logic', and what's more intend to never accept it without it being supported by the old which puts me in an inescapable situation. is the ripple effect of space time nothing?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "oh yeahrubbish rubbish,scientifically speaking, human life (using a most bsic term) begins at conception. the twins exist as two seperate entities the moment each contains the individual human dna. seems to me you better be certain when it begins before you go around ending it. if you are driving at night an you \"think\" you might see a person ahead in the middle of the road you are hopefully not gonna drive over that person. Instead that uncertainty should lead you to stop. If you dont like that example, consider a hunter who is unsure what is in the bushes.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "No, I wasn't looking for religious morality, I was looking for general morality, so your argument was the kind I wanted to debate. Anyway, what is with people thinking that an activity that creates children is neccesarily a good thing? There are already a lot of people in the world, and too many more will end up using up all the food, and then there will no people, because we will all die an agonizing death of starvation. Heterosexuality is good, without any reproduction we would die out as well, but homosexuality is also very good and important because without enough non reproductive couples, the population would increase even more.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So? It still invalidates free will. This is particuarly true if the 'fore knower' is also the 'creator' If, \"before\" the universe began, the entity that created the universe KNEW you would pick that green shirt at that time show that entity is responsible.. since that entity created the conditions to begin with.But, that isn't even needed. All that is needed is there to be one course of action open, not matter what the illusion of choice is.'", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "First off, no one says that if there is evil, there can't be a God. They say that if there's evil, then God can't be omnipotent and all benevolent. Let's keep the topics straight. Also, I see no way in which the existence of good bolsters the argument that God exists. I could posit the existence of a God of popcorn, and then say \"look, here's some popcorn, my God must be real!\" Somehow, I don't think that would convince you.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Actually it is the creationists who don't know what they are talking about. If they wish to talk about cosmology, then by all means talk about it. Just don't pretend that anything discusses has any bearing on evolutionary theory.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But you forget, Ant, that he only uses alternate definitions in very \"special\" dictionaries.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "were you hiding under a rock until recently? phelps has been making the news for years for showing up at gay (and other) funerals. i think they even had a phelps-based character picketing funerals in one of those pc gay-rights themed movies like the laravie project didn't they?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "the argument has nothing to do with whether the bible is true or not, and everything to do with how certain concepts and interpretations are deduced from reading a piece of literature. i'm not arguing that i believe in a rapture, but rather that there is biblical support for a rapture event. i hope you see the difference", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "oh... isn't that just soooo bad??? i mean, after all, brown is such an erudite in this matter, isn't he? his words are just set in stone... he should have just attacked the church and opus dei more so more ignorant people could believe all the xxxx he wrote and be militant atheists without an agenda beyod that of attacking religion. what is it with you and the chuch? do you even know what opus dei is? do you know what it preaches? haven't you no argument that stands on its own, and doesn't need to be founded on some attack on christianity? defend something, don't just attack what you don't comprehend.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "I dunno about that, but possibly. They do know that those afflicted with ADD have some unusual structures in their brains too. Last I heard they were investigating the causality of homosexuality with developmental deficencies in the brain. The jury is not out yet", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "In this case, I will present the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection as evidence that life is evolving. As the evidence has been shown to support it, you are the person who should be presenting evidence. Currently, your assertion that organisms are \"devolving\" because of mutations has been shown to be faulty.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So you are saying that genesis is a scientific fact.Ok, so how did all the millions of species of life fit on a 450 ft wooden ship?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "From my first post, starting with the quote from the religioustolerance website;", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Are you suggesting that if abortion were banned that abortion clinics that are already done will flood the US? Please, get real here. People would probably go across the bordor and get abortions there...you might have drugs from canada come over that cause abortion but there is no reason to believe this will \"clog\" up the jails. People need to realize that is was only 30yrs ago that abortion was pretty much illegal (in most states). Did you see prisons flooded ? no.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "take a look at your post no. 80 time-stamped 6-26-06 09:55am wherein you said ...in response to my post #79 wherein i said: does that not comply with my claim that you change what i say? back in post #77, i requested that you quote and debunk the links. you merely scoffed at them (as i expected). prior to initiating any other question to me or introducing a tangential argument, please explain the above. i'll be back next week.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "like most things in christianity as the catholic church got organized. http://kevinantoine.com/holytrinity.htm now why does that matter? the burden of proof is yours to prove that god exists and the bible is his communication to man. you have made absolutely no progress towards that end. do not think my speculation on the evolution of the internal inconsistencies of christianity in any way substitutes for that responsibility.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Somehow I seriously doubt that \"Testimonium Flavianum itself\" meant \"from the website by Peter Kirby entitled 'Testimonium Flavianum' that happens to have the text of Josephus' An 20.9.1.\" But if that's what you're going with, whatever. \r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "**\r\nWell, it's sure hard to take them from them if they're still standing!! :)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You know you have outwitted a conservative thinker when they completely dodge the argument you have made.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "It will lose, mostly because it is true. Thanks for insulting instead of debating though.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "He certianly is better educated about things like that than certain evangalic christians.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I believe that you forgot a \"smiley\" after that statement. Otherwise, we would have to assume that you swim in the shallow end of the pool. :)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Oh? And what is the specific amount of pot you have to smoke before you become a drug crazed fiend?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So know we are breaking it down to whether the loss of life is deliberate.The restaurant bombing.We thought Saddam was there. We KNEW civilians were there. We dropped four 2000lb bunker buster bombs on/around the restaurant. We KNEW that civilians would be killed. We knew that by pressing the button, the bomb would be dropped and people would die.Compare that to the manufacturers. They make products that people use in their daily lifes. There isn't a button somewhere in the cigarette maker's office that kills a smoker when he decides it's time for them to die. ", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "So this time you are really serious about leaving emoticonXRolleyes \r\nSo now mental existence isn't good enough (as it is not unique which was my point) but human cells is important and something of a human brain. Well what importance are human cells and a human brain? It seems the idea of a human having importance is not just limited to me...you just happen to add another criteria at the end that you feel is important as well.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I'm with Smiley: you're describing yourself perfectly, save for referring to conservatives instead of liberals.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yeah, I'll get out of the kitchen, but like you maybe I should come back under another name? Huh, Jason?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "From the idea that smashing babies heads is wrong.\r\nPlease keep up", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "But at one time society accepted that slavery was right. \r\nSo, Abraham Lincoln, how dare you try and impose your own personal moral code on me. We have the right to own slaves via the Constitution and various laws of the society, and because it's in the Constitution and protected by laws, it obviously means society agrees that slavery is not wrong. Therefore, slavery is not wrong.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yes, some people are jumping ship, which is a crying shame. STICK TO YOUR GUNS MEN! WE'RE WINNING!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "wow, attacking an argument i haven't even made yet. classy. arguing the morality of something has nothing to do with religion for me which is why i argue on the morality of the actual act. if you were just going to regurgitate a religious excuse for your answer, as you seem to imply, then yes i would oppose it on those grounds, but if you can't think of a reason prostituion is morally wrong except for your religious answer then you are doing yourself a disservice. the only predictable one here seem to be you.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Didn't you say \"mix\" in your last post thing?\r\nBut don't you think the guy from STYX can sing?\r\nSpeaking of singing, what about The Byrds?\r\nCan they form melodic words?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Again he was under attack. Listen to yourself. And talk about a parrot? \r\nNo one is arguing Saddam was a saint. But he wasn't and threat and he wasn't insane enough to commit sucide. You are too busy being a lemming and being led over the cliff with president Shrub (Molly Irvins -- GW is to small to be a Bush). ;)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Force the children to learn science? How obscene!!\r\nwhat's next ? maths?? emoticonXRolleyes", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "well, the actual personality of the computer is in the hard drive. ram really isn't anything but a notebook, and the motherboard is more of a nervous system. so the processor and hardrive is the mind- the processor being the modivator, and the hard drive being the memory. if i were to take the intel p3 out and place an athlon xp 3000+ in it's place, would the computer be a different computer? no. it would be the same computer.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "I think he is just disturbed because he didn't get his 40 acres and mule?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "how so? i would think 'they shall surely be put to death' (as the av has it) is a commandment, and clearly addressed to the faithful. how can one pick and choose what to take as a commandment and what is god, for want of a better way of putting it, talking to himself!", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "i think so too. every father should have a right to have a say when it comes to an abortion because that fetus was formed from their chromosomes and genetics. i am surprised that advocates for abortion are saying that men have no right to tell a woman how to control her body but yet they don't have a problem with the decision of the u.s supreme court in which all of the judges were men.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "You'd think that to be safe they'de let the fetus live. But no, they kill it. Smart.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Don't get your panties in a wad, 38 State Attorney Generals signed a brief in opposition to any gun control this clown can dream up.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "ever hear of an insurance company? you know, that thing that you voluntarily pay for so that if you get hurt there is money available? oh yeah, i forgot, you're a socialist so anything private is evil and greedy and government is a magical thing. ps: at the end of the day, i still know how to run my life better than you do, so keep your nose out of it.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Distract? No. If Wells is accusing equivocation, he'd better be able to back up his claim.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "[quote=Galileo]Congress has justified its regulation of guns based on the Commerce Clause and the Taxing and Spending Clause of the Constitution. [quote] You mean this one? According to dictionary.com: commerce ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kmrs) n. 1. The buying and selling of goods, especially on a large scale, as between cities or nations. See Synonyms at business. 2. Intellectual exchange or social interaction. 3. Sexual intercourse. While I really hope it doesn't refer to #3 and I doubt it means #2, I would think it means #1. So it can regulate buying and selling among the states, with foreign countries, and with Indian tribes. So as long as it is sold in the state, the federal government has no power to regulate it. I always thought it was just the states that did that, but the 2nd amendment stops them from doing that. Or so I thought.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Trebor can't cough up the missing link so he changes the goalposts.\r\nAnd FYI, Jesus is risen. You'll see him soon enough I suspect.\r\nNow, who's yo (evolutionary) daddy?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "\r\nYou don't know which is which, which is why you're destined to be a future Pit dweller.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "oh really? people were born gay? that's insane....don't drag god into your crazy notions of homosexual genetics... you have no proof....'therefore, since he also allowed other animal species to be born gay' its funny how would use unreasoning animals to justify homosexual behavior... i guess if everyone did stuff like that most of us would have multiple sexual partners(male lions),we would be murderers, thieves, rapists, and pedophiles just because animals engage in these behaviors....", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "The leftie trolls are acting to character. The cant refute the content so they attack the source..yawn", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Hello there. The principle behind a pro-life Christian supporting the death penalty (I am one) is this: We are talking of innocent life. The death penalty is justified for a person who is guilty of commiting a crime against a society that has that law. The child never did anything wrong. I know of other beleivers who don't support the death penalty, so basically, it's an in-house debate.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Interesting thought..... such a situation would theorectically remove the division of opinion that exists based upon the perspective of gender (ie. the pro-life religious male) and would make any difference of opinion be based on moral/philosophical considerations alone. You could argue it would shift opinion towards the mix currently held by women as everyone would be in the position of having to bear pregnancy. Given that there is a full mix of religious and other beliefs in the current day female population perhaps this would be a good analogy to such a state of being you suggest.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "i'm sorry, but i find this completely ridiculous and unfounded. i can see (remotely) how abortion might be considered anti-woman (although it is of course anti-life before being anything else), but how has christianity directly sanctioned the questions of women's suffrage, spousal abuse, property ownership, social status, etc.? by the way, do you consider fundamentalists to be the best representatives of a religion? i am catholic, and i believe i understand the dogmas and principles of my faith quite enougth to say that nothing of what you have mentioned (except abortion, because it has nothing to do with women's rights) are viewed positively by the catholic church, or ever have been. please explain with details.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "This is simply false. Rock can be folded under pressure. This has been proven by lab experiment. However there are many features in sedimentary rocks that cannot be formed quickly, for example, fossil trackways.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Nonsense. Just look at all the great things that the Dark Ages did for Europe!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, I think I will be sending Satan a snow shovel about now. We actually agree on something. It is \"inconceivable\" (to quote \"the Princess Bride\")", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "dude, check my results. i'm shocked. i answered honestly. wow. you were def right, i aint no liberal. o.o", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "thank you my dear. i am going to fight like hell for happiness. i am damn stubborn like that.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "That is the kind, not degree. Chimps are not a higher animal. They are different. interesting", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Born again? Pardon me for getting it right the first time. ;)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "What a shame.\r\nOr maybe this is all too complex for you? What if I simplify things? I'll ask you to answer only a single question that is purely substantive and applicable to Divine Command theory:\r\nFrom where does the invisible man get his morals?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Directed variation seems unlikely:\r\n http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/tutorials/Natural_selection_and_variation17.asp\r\n \r\n Would not selection of mating partners produce nonrandom variation?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Sigma I have taken into account the options a woman has after pregnancy. However, there are no doubt cases in the history of the world (not just within America) where there were no options available to a mother but to keep her child (ie: the first human woman to give birth in the history of the world). For this pro-choice line of reasoning to be absoulutely true it must be true in every possible situation. Are you saying that the killing would be justified if no other options were available to her?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Would make, that is. However, not all members of the population are able to breed. Should we make this a thread for posting examples of natural selection? That might be fun. An example: rats are often a problem. The solution? Introduce rat poison. Unfortunately, some rats are immune to the poison. You should have guessed it- those rats reproduce, and the others don't (as much). Another: elephants use their tusks on predators and for ritual purposes (attracting mates). Some elephants lack tusks or have shorter tusks. However, when poachers kill the elephants with the biggest tusks, the elephants with smaller tusks (or no tusks) reproduce more.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You mean like how you suck any rationale thought or discourse from a debate topic? Talk about ABORTING.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Abortion is not immoral? End of story? Simone, are you trying to impose your own personal moral code upon me? Well I never....", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "It's worse than that, Pandion. For example, here's what I told him over at ARN on the same subject back on April 5th. http://www.arn.org/ubbthreads/showfl...e#Post30331420", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I saw that. Typical evasion. You guys don't have a clue who yo daddy is.\r\nOH YE OF GREAT FAITH to believe anyway!\r\nThis is hilarious to watch them weave and dodge and duck!!!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Life evolved over billions of years rather than being created in a few days.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Sounds like I got the better deal. Maybe you should have held your pre-printed sign higher so the cameras could read ALL of it. ;)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Yet another of your posts that wouldn't pass the Turing Test...", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Really??? You think most people would incorporate the golden rule? I don't think so--I think most people are willing to make a buck off of others (business ventures), land that job they want before someone else gets it, curse someone for cutting them off in traffic, get that parking spot before the guy coming around the corner gets it, or even get in an intentionally insulting dig to someone in a discussion forum such as this. The examples could go on and on ... I think a lot of people like to THINK they incorporate the golden rule, but at close, honest examination would find that they rarely do.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Because to not view it as sacred presents a greater potential for harm. People sometimes to take a disposable view of things that they consider unimportant. To view humanity as sacred helps protect humanity.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I disagree. I've been in a loving, committed relationship for 25 years to the same person exclusively...how does this have a negative affect on you?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Said like a lazy, ignorant person who would rather live off the sweat of others than go out and earn for himself.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "does that mean christians never invoked christanity as a justification for such actions? i find that hard to believe. i'm still waiting for my reply.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Do you mean like Piltdown Man? It was displayed there for 40 years.\"The Eoanthropus dawsoni, or Piltdown Man, was on display at the Natural History Museum in London for 40 years. It was removed when advanced dating techniques not only showed that the bones were only a few hundred years old, but that some of them weren't even human.\"http://www.mentalfloss.com/press_oklahoman2.htmDo you guarantee that all of the other displays at the Museum are true? No, of course not. Many other things there said to be 'true' are only 'true' in a transient sense of the word (that only science seems to use)http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/map_...klywiener.html Suggests that Piltdown Man had good science behind it, at the time.Never-the-less the Natural History Museum provides many examples of artistic licence, such as the 'human-like' hand given to a restoration of Australopithecus, displayed at the museum.\"Shattering the Myths of Darwinism\", p205", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "It would be 'an' analogy, but like the language analogy, it has its limitations.It is interesting to note that creationist computer software developers/programmers cannot seem to agree on the implications of 'mutations' when using such analogies - one such person, C.K. Lester, declared that computer programs can accumulate up to 30% 'random change', just like DNA (hypothetically) can, therefore, the computer analogy is a good one. But programmer R. David Pogge declares that even a single altered bit in a line of computer code a million bits in length would destroy it.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "That does not surprise me. A whole world filled with people who look, speak, think, and do things different than you must be absolutely terrifying.\r\n", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "and what do you think obama's proposal was, death panels? why do you think that he used the ancdote if not to propose that the insurance companies should not be allowed to drop clients in the middle of cancer treatemnt? i kind of wonder what you think the healtcare overhaul is about. 1. the man was dropped. 2. his treatement was delayed. 3. he died. but suppose that obama did lie, and he did not propose that the insurance companies should not be able to drop clients in the middle of cancer treatement. still what is wrong is wrong with that idea?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "with the way things are going for all the networks, jim, i'm surprised he's lasted as long as he did. his methods were deemed obsolete even before all the controversy. but, i like him. at least he's going out in style - march, i believe - the anniversary (40th ??) when he took over for walter. too bad one bobble got him thrown into the dungeon.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "wow. thank you. i don't think i've ever changed anyone's mind before. this feels pretty good. :)", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Doh! how was that again?\r\numm... so Christianity's tenets can be also found for instance in ... Playboy?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "degress of being christian? so i can say i am only half christian? a level 2 christian? is it like medicare i am christian part a, but will become part b at age 65.....", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "bwhahaaa....this is unreal. precrime? seriously? minority report? and guns magically turn people into 'bad guys'? hum...good to know. and its funny: we will remove the temptation of a lethal weapon by enforcing new laws via our own lethal weapons. you people are freaking retarded.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Wrong, the great majority of handgun bullets won't penetrate standard police body armor. Regular handgun ammunition possesses too low a velocity and too much a frontal surface area to properly bypass the kevlar weeve, especially when they're matched with the laminated ceramic trauma plates. Now hunting rifles, or near any rifle for that matter, WILL penetrate body armor and even the trauma plating like it didn't even exist. Of course Brady's false claim is based on the fake belief that the FN-57 gives AP capabilities to a pocket gun - absolutely false on every possible topic of discussion. He also ignores something very common; body armor or not, being shot in the head will still kill you.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Not needed? It is evolution. The collor of the moths is genetic - caused by 2 alleles of a single gene. The frequencies of those alleles were observed to change in the populations of moths over many generations. It is by definition, evolution.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "You're in luck Defender, we have a BONUS BONUS question for you today How according to \"literal creation opinion\" did humans come to inhabit the entire globe?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Our side? I don't get the impression we're on the same side.Besides, I think the subject is decreasing the number of unwanted pregnancies.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Your technicality bs is not needed here...granted you have only made 20 posts or so.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Which falls to logic I laid out in my thread-starting post...", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "what about god? so many god-fearing people, he must be a terrorist :) seriously i really don't know much about terrorists. i know that bin laden was behind 9/11 but he wasn't the only one, but that's about it.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "To bad you don't have the power to define the situation.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "exactly. the force and energy involved is unfathomable really. i'm absolutely fascinated by the whole thing. i love my job. :p waxy", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "this is totally false. the laws of logic being absolute does nothing to support a case for god. in fact, everything the bible tells us about god's nature indicates that god is illogical, unpredictable, unreliable and irreplicable. this is totally the opposite of logic", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "I gotta admit, I got a real chuckle out of this one. :pWaxy", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Most congregations are expecting to leave the U.C.C.? Where did you see this, or are you making up the news again?", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The desperate flailings of a city with absolutely no common sense. They're so impotent in their abilities to get tough on criminals, they feel it necessary to go after the most unrelated sources to try and make themselves look big and busy.Why not just build a big wall to cut itself off from the rest of the world, and set up high security check points so cars coming and going can be checked to ensure no contraband is being smuggled in.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "With you gun nuts its shoot first and ask questions later. Thats why your 43 times more likely to kill a family member than an intruder. Oops that was grandma!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "If that were true, why are there millions of miscarriages each year? I don't believe a word of it.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Well, you know. I always like to get my scientific information from a \"...non-profit, Christ-centered, non-denominational ministry dedicated to upholding the authority of Scripture from the very first verse!\" Read Nature or Science? Nah! Read journals of evolutionary biology, genetics, microbiology, molecular biology, paleontology? Nah! Or read scientific magazines with articles by leading scientists like Scientific American? Nah! Or read books by leading scientists or respected science writers? Nah! All I need is that ministry that upholds scripture.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "The Second Amendment does not apply to an Ohio Law. Thus, this ban is not unconstituitonal under the US Constitution. The Ohio Constitution, may however, protect gun rights, but I haven't read it.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Because the 'founding fathers' were not as foolish and gullible as people like you (especially, in foreign countries) to believe that ANY form of government is above the possiblity of tyranny against it's citizens.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "oh yeah, that's right.... i forgot ;) i'm getting dementia already ;) well, i guess that if i don't make it to heaven (due to all the liberals i've tormented over the years) i'll be so busy shaking hands with all of my friends that i wont have time to worry ;)", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Jesus! Another scientific illiterate. The facts are the observations. And the point is not to test facts but to explain them with an hypothesis that suggests a prediction as a consequence that can be tested by experimentation.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "wow, thats some poetic shit. i wonder to you roam around disagree with the people who boost about americas greatest, or how their a force for good. i wonder to you post wise ass comments next to these people. you have no idea how much of a hippocrit you are do you.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "the word of easy's god is evil! that explains a morally bankrupt lot.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "This is not true. Rather, when there is conflict between one's sanctity of life vs another's quality of life, the sanctity of life must win.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "God can do whatever He wants. Although one can say \"God does not\" or \"God is not\", a thiest believeing in and worshipping the God of Abraham and Joachim I do not think should ever say \"God can not\" anything....With God, all things and everything is possible. Sentiments such as those expressed above in my view seem to be evident in Western Christianity where it seems believers are too often trying to bring God down to our level, imposing limits etc.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Where did you here this XXXX?Some cheap detective novel or something?Once again, my sincerest apologies.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "RQ" }, { "sentence": "Just because Dolphins start using tools doesn't mean that one will give birth to a chipmunk! Get real, evolution is a fairytale!!", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Same thing happened in Rwanda. First they put the names of all Tutsis on lists. Then, the Hutu came around with machettes and took them off of the lists....permanently.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And what would that prove? It would certainly show that an animal adapted to survival above the Arctic circle was not adapted to the Arizona desert. Maybe it would indicate that the environmental conditions necessary for the change aren't present in Arizona. How is that relevant to evolutionary theory?", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "U.S. Guns Behind Cartel Killings in Mexico - washingtonpost.com No wonder Mexico is complaining about US guns being smuggled into their country.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "when i was in high school lots of the kids stole stuff all the time... stuff their parents didn't want to buy them, peer pressure etc. i'm not trying to be an ass either i'm just surprised at your views on this... maybe i'll make a debate and we can see what people on here think.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "the reason why premise 1 can logically stand is that God is first of all defined as the \"greatest possible being\". no matter what reality we are considering, such a thing as the greatest possible being in that relity must exist. \"greatest\" is a superlative, compared to all other beings that existits like \"the oldest man alive\". no matter what scenario, such a person as the oldest man alive will always exist, therefore such a man (that fits that definition) will have a necessary existence", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "well right now it's 20 minutes to the deadline, but i'm not optomistic. he hasn't logged in since my last post. i sent him a pm yesterday warning him that he had 24 hours, but since he hasn't logged in, i'm not surprised he didn't get it. if you can't stick to the deadline we agreed to before, you shouldn't have agreed to a formal debate. i'm sorry to say that i'm a little frustrated. although there is the chance that a miracle will occur and he will post in the next 20 minutes. but i'm not exactly holding out hope.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "HYP" }, { "sentence": "Yeshua is a more accurate pronounciation. There is little acceptance that it was ever \"Yahshua\" among scholars", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "And you're the guy who can't be troubled with algebra, telling the guys who have read up on calculus that THEY don't understand...\r\nemoticonXGood", "sentiment": 1, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "This is a push to promote lawlessness. The San Francisco fiasco is the prime example. People with certain agendas are refusing to follow the laws. This is a devastating precedent for our Nation.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "Little late on the uptake here,but why is this the wrong thread?I'm familiar with the crime debate area,and there is a lot of crime debated here and the why with alls and this qualify's,a sword rather than a gun is all.", "sentiment": 0, "source": "GEN" }, { "sentence": "oh, darling, doesn't it? if you are, as i believe, 'black', and conservative (heaven help you), to accept and embrace the republican platform, you essentially have sold your birthright down the proverbial river, because republicans care nothing for your black derriere, and would enslave you, all over again, if only they could. you completely overlook 'white privilege', which dictates that a white person could be homeless, dirty, uneducated, drug-addled, and or criminal, and he would get a pass before you would, simply because of the color of his skin. you've drunk the koolaid, and can't discern ca ca from truth. and so you've joined with the white racists and pointed fingers at me, because i upset the applecart, and the status quo, and refuse to bend or mind. again i ask....are you white? hispanic? asian? or black? not a trick question.", "sentiment": 1, "source": "HYP" } ]