May 2011 Screwballs

[Challenger Grim]

Furious D has been on a sanity role of late.

If [the Parents Television Council] is real, then they're not the brightest berries on the bush because they don't know about the law of unintended consequences. By attempting publicly shame the unclean for their sins they have given them something they want even more: lots and lots of media attention. So you get them doing things like having a sexed up duet between two singers whose careers haven't been quite as sizzling as they were just a short time ago for an awards show that normally hardly anyone watched. The media goes along because they love mixing puritan condemnation with repeated airings of the so-called "offensive" material.

And this is good advice not just for TV/movies, but for... well a lot of things atheists fail at.

One trap that people making historical dramas make is to judge historical figures and characters by modern standards and attitudes. That's a mistake. It turns your drama into a lecture about how wrong people were, and nobody likes lectures.

[Challenger Grim]

It... explains... EVERYTHING!

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[Augustine2004]

It... explains... EVERYTHING!

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I guess that poster was made after Savage's death.

[Analytic Theist]

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This is officially the worst argument against KCA I have ever seen. Ignorance of prior material, complete misrepresentation of the first premise, failure to understand what is being argued. He even demands that people flood Craig with this video to confront him with his "refutation". I wish Craig responds to him just for the kicks. So unintentionally funny!

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[Augustine2004]

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against KCA I have ever seen.

I don't have sound. I looked up KCA acronymns. The closest I got was 'Keep Christmas Alive.'

[Challenger Grim]

I guess that poster was made after Savage's death.

Highly likely. It's post date was after, anyway.

[Analytic Theist]

I don't have sound. I looked up KCA acronymns.

The Kalām cosmological argument.

[Raphael]

Another nomination for Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5324.htm

Memri

"In Europe, there is a lot of rain – an average rainfall of over 1,500 millimeters. They do not need [watering] systems because they have natural irrigation, but they used equipment at their disposal to empty the clouds. "As you know, clouds move from west to east. They are formed over the ocean, and then move over the Mediterranean, where the air undergoes changes. Then they pass over Iran, moving eastward. The clouds were emptied of most of their content.
[...]
"I was at a meeting where someone said that there was a water crisis, and that someone had written an article about it. I told him that this guy does not work in this field, and that he is not an expert on water, meteorology, or hydrology. How did he reach this conclusion? We had reports that they are doing this in Europe. They are emptying the clouds, so that they will not move our way.

"Then we conducted studies and became convinced that what this gentleman had written was not a scientific forecast. Rather, this is a premeditated event. We will deal with this through legal channels. We will not permit such a disgraceful thing to take place.

"It is clear that when rain becomes scarce, more conflicts develop over water in border areas." [...]

© source where applicable

H/T to Tanakah Keeper

[wildrow12]

Ant-screwball to Wenham for taking Hawking to task:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...hawking-heaven

Hawking says some admirable things, but the idea that I believe in life after death because I'm afraid of the dark is insulting

[One Bad Pig]

Th-th-th-that's all, folks!

Do not pass "Go". Do not collect $200. Go directly to June.