On Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 4:23:17 PM UTC-6, MarkE wrote:obnoxious twit, Google decides to end its support?
On Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 12:58:16 AM UTC+11, pzm...@gmail.com wrote:
I mostly abandoned TO many years ago, in part because of the noise problem, exemplified by obsessives like Nyikos and the persistent creationist idiots who had nothing to say but disrupted every conversation. Now that we're finally free of one
Unfortunately, blogs are in decline, too (I blame google for that, too -- they killed easy RSS access). The battle continues!There is no god.
Some of us old people have moved on to blogs (mine for instance, https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/, or Larry Moran's, https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/, or the Panda's Thumb, https://pandasthumb.org/ ) where you can continue the good fight.
deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, butPZ, I concede that Peter could be (was) obsessive and worse, but is there a moment for grace and mercy, rather than always "being hated and hating"? Not intended judgmentally, but to offer another way:
"Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready to do whatever is good, to slander no one, to be peaceable and considerate, and always to be gentle toward everyone. At one time we too were foolish, disobedient,
You will not persuade me by quoting the Bible at me. Quite the contrary.
On 2/21/24 5:55 AM, pzmyers@gmail.com wrote:
I mostly abandoned TO many years ago, in part because of the noiseAt least for now, TO has lost its classic reason to be. Who knows
problem, exemplified by obsessives like Nyikos and the persistent
creationist idiots who had nothing to say but disrupted every
conversation. Now that we're finally free of one obnoxious twit,
Google decides to end its support?
There is no god.
Some of us old people have moved on to blogs (mine for instance,
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/, or Larry Moran's,
https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/, or the Panda's Thumb,
https://pandasthumb.org/ ) where you can continue the good fight.
Unfortunately, blogs are in decline, too (I blame google for that, too
-- they killed easy RSS access). The battle continues!
what's ahead. At least check in from time to time. Nothing is
off-topic now.
On 2/26/24 9:17 AM, Mark Isaak wrote:
On 2/21/24 8:49 AM, erik simpson wrote:I don't know of any statement, but I haven't looked hard. He was about
On 2/21/24 5:55 AM, pzmyers@gmail.com wrote:
I mostly abandoned TO many years ago, in part because of the noiseAt least for now, TO has lost its classic reason to be. Who knows
problem, exemplified by obsessives like Nyikos and the persistent
creationist idiots who had nothing to say but disrupted every
conversation. Now that we're finally free of one obnoxious twit,
Google decides to end its support?
There is no god.
Some of us old people have moved on to blogs (mine for instance,
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/, or Larry Moran's,
https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/, or the Panda's Thumb,
https://pandasthumb.org/ ) where you can continue the good fight.
Unfortunately, blogs are in decline, too (I blame google for that,
too -- they killed easy RSS access). The battle continues!
what's ahead. At least check in from time to time. Nothing is
off-topic now.
Has there been any statement of cause of death? Something stuck in his
craw, perhaps?
78; not a young man.
I mostly abandoned TO many years ago, in part because of the noise problem, exemplified by obsessives like Nyikos and the persistent creationist idiots who had nothing to say but disrupted every conversation. Now that we're finally free of one obnoxious twit, Google decides to end its support?
There is no god.
Some of us old people have moved on to blogs (mine for instance, https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/, or Larry Moran's, https://sandwalk.blogspot.com/, or the Panda's Thumb, https://pandasthumb.org/
) where you can continue the good fight. Unfortunately, blogs are in decline, too (I blame google for that, too -- they killed easy RSS access). The battle continues!
John Harshman wrote:
On 2/28/24 8:50 PM, Ron Dean wrote:I simply responded only to the comment "there is no God". That's all!
John Harshman wrote:Reading and thinking are not among your talents. Have you tried
On 2/28/24 6:32 PM, Ron Dean wrote:I responded to the comment "there is no God" so, are you claiming
John Harshman wrote:
On 2/28/24 2:00 PM, Ron Dean wrote:The truth is we are _all_ clueless, since we cannot possibly _know_
pzmyers@gmail.com wrote:
I mostly abandoned TO many years ago, in part because of theThis is _your_ claim, but I see no proof. To know is impossible. >>>>>>> Therefore, it's just your opinion, for what it's worth! But I
noise problem, exemplified by obsessives like Nyikos and the
persistent creationist idiots who had nothing to say but
disrupted every conversation. Now that we're finally free of one >>>>>>>> obnoxious twit, Google decides to end its support?
There is no god.
;
hope you are wrong. We buried my sister after a long term fight
with cancer. I sincerely hope to see her again some day. But I
don't know. Neither do you!
The clueless is strong in this one.
;
for an absolute fact!
It's belief and belief _only_.
I suppose it's only right that I explain the nature of your
immediate example of cluelessness. So here: you were responding
seriously to a joke by PZ. It's possible that you have no sense of
humor and so are unable to recognize it, or that you just read that
sentence while ignoring the prior context. The details of your
particular cluelessness in that case are not entirely clear. But its
general nature is clear. HTH.
that PZ was joking?
I don't care who wrote the phrase "there is no God" it's just another
mindless and thoughtless unproven claim.
baking? Oh, but you probably have to read for that. Never mind, we'll
think of something. Well, you probably won't.
For some reason you cannot deal with this, so what do you do: not
surprising - you resort to belittling, personal assassination and
slander. I don't have to deal with insults from you!
I would say, let's get back to what we
are in talk.origins for.
On 28/02/2024 22:00, Ron Dean wrote:
pzmyers@gmail.com wrote:
I mostly abandoned TO many years ago, in part because of the noiseThis is _your_ claim, but I see no proof. To know is impossible.
problem, exemplified by obsessives like Nyikos and the persistent
creationist idiots who had nothing to say but disrupted every
conversation. Now that we're finally free of one obnoxious twit,
Google decides to end its support?
There is no god.
We've established that the statement was
presented as a joke. I perceive that
you aren't comfortable with it being a
joke. I give respect to that stance.
I would say, let's get back to what we
are in talk.origins for. But I think that
what most of us are in talk.origins for
is repetitive arguments between apologists
of science and misguided or dishonest
creationists, and I am just as happy to
have less of that. But if I don't accept
the role of apologist, then someone who
likes it less than I do will receive it.
On 07/03/2024 23:02, Richmond wrote:
Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> writes:
I would say, let's get back to what weWhat is that?
are in talk.origins for.
It is what I described in the sentence
that I typed after the word "for".
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