God Damned Fundies!

|From: Matt Eggleston
|To:   Wayne Chirnside
|Sub:  Hulda Clark -- again
|Date: 27 Jul 01  17:05:32
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WC>WC>MG>SH>Any of the rest of you Herd members smart enough to discuss
WC>WC>MG>SH>religion?

WC>WC>MG>You bet, Stan.  Got any evidence for your god?

WC>WC>ME>For no other reason than I'm bored with your repetition: first
cause.

WC>WC>OK, what "caused" God?

WC>ME>First cause has to do with physical phenomena.

WC>Typical fundy dodge.

Not your best answer, not the least because I'm an atheist. If you can
tell me what a 'fundy' atheist is, I'll gladly retract my assessment of
that answer.

It also does not directly deal with the point under discussion. Try
addressing the topic in the future. In the meantime, here are a couple
of suggestions for next time:

The usual reply is to the effect of "Either God is subject to it or he
does not physically exist."

A better reply would be "First cause is a null concept because of the
infinite nature of existence."

Se how that works? Now you give it a try, OK?


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|From: Matt Eggleston
|To:   Wayne Chirnside
|Sub:  APPROPRIATE NAMED TH
|Date: 27 Jul 01  17:05:32
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WC>MG>>Which one of the Boys of Politics that claimed that South
WC>MG>>America isn't overpopulated?
WC>MG>>ROTFL!
WC>ME>Define "overpopulated" and I might.

WC>MG>Another one that doesn't know English...when it's convenient.

WC>ME>I will say that too many people in and of itself is not the
WC>ME>problem.

WC>MG>There.  See?  You knew what overpopulation menat all along.

WC>See there's no overpopulation, there's just to little land and
WC>resources ;-)

Too little land? Too little resources? Odd assertions, considering the
data. People are living better now than ever before in history -- more
and better variety of food, more indoor living space of better quality,
longer lifespan, less famine, better medical treatment, etc.


WC>Now if we just collect all the rainwater, Bob Eyer style,
WC>stop wasting all that unused space by building our skyscrapers
WC>downward below the Earth as well as up, start farming in space and
WC>on the moon we can all sit down to a sumptuous meal of microwaved
WC>cakes and bread.
WC>Actually I see farming on the moon and in space as being a
WC>really efficient time saving measure as your breads and  cakes
WC>will be precooked by cosmic rays!
WC>Bob Eyer and does not necessarily reflect the views or opinions
WC>of myself>

I have discussed many things with Bob Eyer, but I have never seen him
reply with anything like what you describe. If indeed these did come
from Bob, he paints far too grim a picture of the future.


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|From: Matt Eggleston
|To:   Wayne Chirnside
|Sub:  Church and State
|Date: 27 Jul 01  17:05:33
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WC>ME>Absolutely. He wouldn't last a minute in an armed society.

WC>MG>A minute's a damned long time with an automatic weapon.

WC>Especialy with the newly developed 1,000,000 round/minute
WC>weapons recently built by both an amature American arms builder
WC>and the British military!

I haven't heard of this weapon, but even assuming the weapon itself
weighs nothing, each round weighs 30 grams and he's carrying 10,000
rounds in an auto-feeding chain from a backpack, that means it would
weigh 300kg or about 660 pounds.

And he'd still run out of ammunition in 0.6 seconds.

The rest of the minute isn't a very long time to anyone, except to the
idiot who blew his 300kg of ammunition with 59.4 seconds to go.


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