"And the Lord said, 'I will destroy Man, who I have created, from the face of the Earth.' So, don't forget your sunscreen!"
http://www.etonline.com/tv/219615_brad_pitt_returns_as_the_morbid_weather_forecaster_on_the_jim_jefferies_show/ Forum: Recovery Board
If you think the Syria situation is bad now, just wait.
I don't want any of this to happen but to poo-pooh it and dismiss the current sort climate change as just a normal cycle makes no sense given what we know. Forum: Recovery Board
Back in the eighteenth century, people from Europe couldn't believe that black sub-Saharan Africans were human beings like they were. Now modern science and research tells us that all modern humans were from Africa. Mormonism even incorporates this type of racism in its theology and many of them can't accept that racial differences in humans are just adaptations to different climatic conditions. Forum: Recovery Board
And I don't mean conspiracy theories. It's not about "suppressing" different views. It's about having evidence that supports what you are saying.
I mean real, valid science that's been tested and reviewed by mutliple invesigators using the same data.
I'm waiting... Forum: Recovery Board
There is no doubt the Earth is a three dimensional spheroid.
It doesn't matter what you or I or anyone "believes."
I may have a desire to go faster than light but there is no way known at the current time that it is possible so the answer for now is no. That's that.
Facts are stubborn things. Forum: Recovery Board
highly amusing.
Racism is a social concept, not a scientific one.
http://www.pbs.org/black-culture/explore/interracial-marriage-relationships/#.WT-EB0BOk1I
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Rhinelander#Marriage Forum: Recovery Board
It's not about "forcing" other people to believe anything.
But denial of reality is something else all together. Other people's lives are at stake -- not just theirs.
If they are intent on walking over a cliff they can do so -- but I'm not going to follow them.
And it's just going to make life harder for me after they are gone. Forum: Recovery Board
and science isn't like religion. There's a lot less uncertainty now.
It's not a case of what Dr X. says versus Professor Y. Science is an open book for all to read. Forum: Recovery Board
It's a great cover for them and enables the Brethren to get away with all manner of things.
There's a difference between an organically evolved religion and something that was started as a flat out fraud like Mormonism.
Mormonism isn't going away any time soon. It's got to be the most successful long-term fraud in history.
Truth isn't going to destroy Mormonism.
Only disillusioned bel Forum: Recovery Board
Not to mention the misogyny, latent racism, nonsensical dietary rules, meaningless offices, titles, and positions, graft and corruption, etc, etc Forum: Recovery Board
Mormonism doesn't always come up in conversation but I do try tell them it's as fake as a three dollar bill and is totally made up rubbish.
Most non-Mormons really have no idea what Mormonism is and just lump it in with other groups like the Jehovah's Witnesses or Seventh-Day Adventists -- but NOT with cults like the Unification Church (Moonies) or the Scientologists. Forum: Recovery Board
It originated in Britain in the mid 1800s.
Liberals don't "worship" government.
Democracy, universal suffrage, and the rule of law are all liberal ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_liberalism Forum: Recovery Board
Long, long ago in Australia the government had an official "White Australia" policy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy
The purpose of this was to effectively bar non-white immigration into the country. This policy didn't end until 1975.
Why? Why do some people feel the presence of other people who are not like them as a threat? I've never felt that way. But Forum: Recovery Board