lorriman

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by lorriman 7y ago
Low-level anxiety, procrastination, jittery energy useless for humdrum work, bad overall energy levels if you consume alot of strong coffee, painful wakeup in the morning, adrenalised brain geared to snap decisions rather than measured reas
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by lorriman 7y ago
How was what I wrote a 'flamewar'? And especially in the context of the anti-religious views that elsewhere were not flagged nor called flamewars. What's your agenda, Dang? Politics, religion, philosophy, these are worthwhile
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by lorriman 7y ago
Yet I spelled out that much of Christianity (at least; if not other religions) have no issue with the fundamental scientific claims that are said to disprove religious claims. That the Big Bang, 14 billion years, and evolution are all the p
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by lorriman 7y ago
You mean you suppose it to be imaginary. The example isn't the same as religious claims. Firstly because all religious people claim that the 'invisible' friend will talk back if you make the effort to make contact (with few e
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by lorriman 7y ago
cannoneshamster: "Your post is full of strawmen and logical fallacies." You've made a lot of assertions about my 'logical fallacies' without any reasoned demonstration. How am I meant to argue with that? Meanwhile,
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by lorriman 7y ago
"Nope. A-theist simply means someone who lacks theism." Actually it was coined by theists without a strict reference to the greek and was defined as "To Deny the gods/God". Lately, the OED modified the definition to
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by lorriman 7y ago
A great deal of speculation in that article. Sounds more like psycotherapy ideas than real psychology/neuroscience. Meanwhile, let's look at the (paraphrased) claims: "Science is not compatible with religion." Yet the Bi
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by lorriman 7y ago
Veganism unavoidably implies a moral superiority where vegetarianism doesn't. That's pretty irritating. It also just doesn't mesh with most people's understanding of simple animals as simple and food-driven, not in any w
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by lorriman 7y ago
This is only an issue because Donald Trump is misrepresented as being racist and anti-immigration when he has only talked of illegal immigration and the problem of Islamic migrants (ie, the Islamic version of democracy which is not compatib
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by lorriman 7y ago
Before anyone goes vegan, check-out the numerous ex-vegan videos on youtube. Even with supplementation veganism isn't sustainable for most people past 3 years, 10 if you're lucky, very few get to 15. Just keep in mind that without
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by lorriman 7y ago
The wonderfully mad thing about UK politics is that the socialists are very much against the EU and for leaving, but their nominally socialist party, the Labour Party, is Remainer while their leader is a capitulating Brexiter, and grassroot
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by lorriman 7y ago
"As long as everyone gets the same voucher, same amount for voucher, and has guaranteed public transportation to the same schools as others, with no regard for race, ethnicity, background, then sure go for vouchers.... if you can'
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by lorriman 7y ago
A healthy capitalism is expressed by G K Chesterton, and is an argument against liberal capitalism,which even Thatcher did not support: “Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.” Like anything, capita
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by lorriman 7y ago
...or trust the government with the education of your children. As much as the Left sneer at it, a voucher system would give people the liberty to choose the schools they want and not what they are forced to accept. Meanwhile, governments s
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by lorriman 7y ago
I heard Fred Hoyle when he came to lecture at my school in the 80s (a prestigious, rich boys school). It was one of the few places willing to give him the time as his views were vaguely in line with Christian creationism though he was an at
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by lorriman 7y ago
Desktop development was a dream with Delphi but Microsoft decided to compete against it and then undermine it instead of supporting it. Not just a dick move, but DaF.
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by lorriman 7y ago
Aquisition/immersion learning is rapid. Thegovernment metrics are likely based on academic learning methods. Forget the books and turn on the radio and TV instead.
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by lorriman 8y ago
Languages don't need to keep up with trends to stay used. But updating languages is the fun stuff; there won't be a problem with volunteers for that especially at universities. All the hard work has been done, unless an update wou
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by lorriman 8y ago
That argument applies to something like Linux. Here we are talking about a language and wrappers and an essentially completed framework (granted new ideas mean no framework is every completed). And unlike a google service, which requires co
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by lorriman 8y ago
What do you mean by "burned by Dart 1.0"? Dart was rejected by the community it was aimed at, Javascripts devs (and for pretty dumb reasons, I don't have much respect for either Javascript or its devs). Google understandably
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by lorriman 8y ago
The win gap was at least 4%. (48 vs 52). Further, the native population was far higher pro Brexit. As for misinformation, I don't know any Brexiters who were voting based on Boris Johnson's obviously politically gamed claims from
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by lorriman 8y ago
>Explain again why saying "I don't accept your claim that there is a god" is irrational? I addressed that in what I wrote.
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by lorriman 8y ago
But these are wikipedia's crazy mashup of definitions coming straight out of the authors' butts. The original definition, and defined by those that coined it, to be positively "there is no god" was "To deny the Gods
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by lorriman 8y ago
One of the interesting, teeth-gnashing ironies is that the father of modern genetics is a Catholic monk, Gregor Mendel, and the inventor of the Big Bang theory is a Catholic priest, George Lemaitre. George Lemaitre was given a papal award f
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by lorriman 8y ago
Atheism has a long history of redefining terms. The OED changed from "To deny the Gods/God" to "To deny or disbelieve in the gods/God" The latter - disbelieve - fits the greek, but the former was the intended m