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Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Just to bury Dimbulb and Ignorant Roy a little deeper using a source that Dimbulb first appealed to...
Seriously, you guys are coming across as utter morons for even disputing this.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Roy View PostIt looks complicated. That in itself might have an effect if funding was uncertain.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostSeriously, you guys are coming across as utter morons for even disputing this.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostIt's a classic case of the law of unintended consequences - if you offer some help to get somebody out of an immediate and temporary bind, and they discover they can get more money by intensifying the problem... plus, our government is notorious for assuming that "if we do X", the affect will be "Y", when the average person can easily game the system.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Originally posted by Roy View PostYeah - and it's exacerbated by some people's greed and uncaringness. We've had occasional problems in the UK with people trying to claim child benefit for children who have left home/died/never existed/been passed around multiple 'parents'.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Roy View PostNo."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostThing is, I didn't actually get any details wrong. I used the term "life", which scientifically speaking has a fairly well-defined meaning and is used interchangeably with the terms "life-form" and "organism". It's also a fact that there is a clear distinction between something being "alive" and meeting the scientific definition of "life". Your skin cells are alive, at least in their early stage, but they are not life since they do not have the attributes that science uses to describe life (they don't organize, adapt, self-sustain, metabolize, respond to stimuli, etc.). A skin cell is part of an organism, but it is not an organism in and of itself.
Dimbulb claims to have a science degree, so either he knows this and is trying to score rhetorical points by playing dumb, or his degree is only suitable for lining the bottom of a bird cage."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View PostI just assume that you did get a detail wrong, but it doesn’t matter because it’s just Roy picking nits without addressing the actual argument made.
His degree is in psychology, which means it’s irrelevant to this debate.Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom
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I recommend you do not try too hard and ...research as little as possible. Such weighty things give me a headache. - Shunyadragon, Baha'i apologist
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Originally posted by One Bad Pig View PostHis thesis is certainly not in the field of psychology - but it's not in biology either.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Originally posted by Roy View PostI have no idea what field starlight studied, but I do know he has more than one degree.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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Originally posted by Roy View Post... Not that it matters, since this is high-school material.That's what
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Without a clear-cut definition of sin, morality becomes a mere argument over the best way to train animals
- Manya the Holy Szin (The Quintara Marathon)
I may not be as old as dirt, but me and dirt are starting to have an awful lot in common
- Stephen R. Donaldson
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostYou know that he SAYS he has more than one degree.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostIt's actually a very complicated issue, as noted in this NYTimes article.
Welfare has often been accused of encouraging poor unwed mothers to have more babies because they get additional funds for additional children.
Some states attempt to limit that, to discourage additional children born into poverty families.
It is suspected that this would increase the abortion rate, as pregnancies would still occur, but no additional funding would be available.
So, it's complicated.Find my speling strange? I'm trying this out: Simplified Speling. Feel free to join me.
"Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do."-Jeremy Bentham
"We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question."-Orson Scott Card
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Originally posted by stfoskey15 View PostWhere's the NYTimes article? I just see something from NCSL.The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.
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