danielsangeo

Anger is a survival instinct, I believe. Like fear, it raises your adrenaline so that you can defend yourself and go after attackers. Depression's an offshoot of sadness and, it appears, a malfunction of some sort in the brain where the sad feeling doesn't go away. Sadness, I gather, is there to help educate about a certain situation; sadness is not a nice feeling and you don't really want to do things that make you sad so it's there as another survival instinct. There hasn't been enough research into emotions to really know for sure.

So, I've typed up the subtitles for Episode 34 but there's just one part of the episode where I couldn't understand what Freeman was 'saying'. When he's fighting the "ninjas", right before he kills the last one, he says something like: "I trace a white dwarf's orbits, you think I can't find you?" But that doesn't make too much sense to me. I'm thinking it's something scientific but, as I don't know everything about science, I'm not sure what he's saying. What's he saying there?

Let's remove corporate personhood first. Unions have very little power and we can get them next. Teamsters, I think, you would consider a large union. In 2010, the Teamsters spent $2.1 million on lobbying. FedEx, by itself, spent $25.6 million on lobbying.

"Pro-abortion"?

Doom: Please read the "is-ought problem".

You could try to learn what empathy looks like and maybe try to emulate it (even if you don't have it yourself). Empathy means for you to put yourself in their shoes; if someone was going to act to you how you're going to act to them, how would you respond?

I agree, but the real problem creationists have is common descent. But "common descent" is plainly visible in any extended family. Your grandparents have three kids. One of those kids does the horizontal tango your other parent and gives birth to you. Meanwhile, another one of those kids does the horizontal tango with someone else and gives birth to someone else. That person is your cousin. The common ancestor for you and your cousin is your grandparents. Follow the human species (Homo) and the chimpanzee species (Pan) back through ancestry and you'll eventually arrive at the common ancestor. It appears to be the Pierolapithecus catalaunicus (when dealing with older creatures, they don't generally have a 'lay' name like "humans" or "chimpanzees"...when talking about creatures, it's better to use their scientific names: Homo sapiens and Pan troglodytes, respectively). We are still part of the same Family, though: Hominidae. That's fine. I'm not going after you. Just explaining things. I thought we were talking about what is, and should continue to be, taught in schools.

The way I see it, things like Facebook and Twitter and such are much more informal than places like web fora (for instance, you'd probably never see the word "fora" on them) so people don't see a need to compose their thoughts a bit more prior to responding. It's more a "stream of consciousness" thing than a "I'm writing a letter to you" type of thing. "I'm sorry that I could not attend the meeting; I was detained by an emergency at work." becomes 'sry dude cant go shit@wrk!!!!ugh!!!1!" They are capable of doing the former but do the latter because they feel it's more informal. However, if the informal nature of the message is not the problem, it could have to do with how you and they communicate. You are not getting your point across for whatever reason so you need to figure out how best to explain it to the person. Other times, people are just assholes.

We were talking about the theory of evolution and how it being a "theory" means that it's not a "fact". Of course, this is an error as there are theories about a whole bunch of things that no one disputes. For some reason, though, evolution stands with just a small handful of other subjects where too many people say that it's "just a theory". A theory is a set of statements to explain certain facts using testing and observation. Simply having something be "just a theory" is like saying that a hot pan cooking food is "just a theory" or that plate tectonics (shifting continental plates) causing earthquakes is "just a theory" or gravity attracting masses to other masses (a human being 'pulled' to the surface of the Earth and the Earth being 'pulled' toward the sun) is "just a theory". We are disputing the "just a theory" claim. Evolution is a fact. And a theory. Evidence is given every time you see any living thing giving 'birth' to something else. You are not exactly like your parents and your parents are not exactly like their parents. That is evolution.

I literally coughed while eating something when I read this. Are you guys even reading what I'm typing? How about answering the question? EDIT: Also, what gender is Walmart? I ask because Walmart was founded in 1962 and as of 1980, if Walmart is male, then he is required, by law, to sign up for Selective Service and, if the draft is reinstated, he would have have to go fight in a war. Is Walmart right-handed or left-handed? What's his waist size? I ask because if he goes into service, he'll have to have a uniform. Did Walmart sign up for Selective Service? If not, why not?

Whoa! Wait, what?!

I think it's kind of silly to go after laws because, well, if criminals aren't going to follow them anyway, why have laws at all? Also, for anyone that says that "gun control" is something liberals want, I would suggest that they not stereotype.

The_Doctor: I've tried this with a creationist I was conversing with once. I showed him multiple evidences that bacteria evolve. His response? "But they're still bacteria." I thought that was extremely telling. At least, for this person.

Earthquakes are evidence of plate tectonics. A theory is an explanation of observable phenomena. If observable phenomena is not "fact", I don't now what "fact" is.

If you do the research, it's very possible for men to lactate and nurse. (Oops, missed the last part of BrainBlow's post)

Evolution's already fact as much as gravity, thermodynamics, and germs are. He has the freedom to deny that gravity exists, but that doesn't mean he's going to survive jumping off the Empire State Building. I'm sorry if you think it's degrading the quality of the conversation, but babies do come about by the reproductive process of sperm and egg coming together, gestating in the uterus of the woman, and then being birthed. There is no stork involved. No cabbage patch. You don't get to "decide" facts.

There was once three tomatoes in Mexican-held territory which was located around the border of new new microwave. They planned a mission for invading Earth, suddenly a pirate starship, piloted by Captain Figunaye, appeared in the twisted transistor. "Photon cannons, ready?"

Let me take issue here. Atheism is not the absence of belief in the supernatural because "theism" is not the belief in the supernatural (not sure what word that would be..anyone know any Latin? ). Atheism is solely the absence of belief in a deity. Atheists can surely believe in other supernatural elements, though....Ghosts, reincarnation, vampires, werewolves...that sort of thing.

And why keep it to science? Why should the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle be the sum of the squares of the remaining two lines? I say, Christopher Columbus didn't sail to North America in 1492; he flew to Japan in his gyroprop in 1942. I say, teach the controversy! The Egyptians didn't build the pyramids; it was space aliens! Let our children decide the truth! I am not being sarcastic here. This is truly what creationists want.

I think the big problem is that there are just so many religions and so many denominations in each religion, you'd need to major in it in college to scratch the tip of the iceberg (I think I mixed my metaphors). And, it definitely should not be taught as science until one of the religions can meet the basic requirements to be considered "science".

A-he-he-hem.... Do you know what a "theory" is (in this context)?

The theory of evolution also says "why" we are the way we are, too.

The problem is: Evolution HAS been witnessed. And it's witnessed every day by every single person on the planet.

I apologize if I insulted you; it was not my intention. I was mainly elaborating if anyone didn't know. It's just how I do things. If I repeat something you already know, just ignore it because my intention is to clarify for anyone reading this that doesn't know what I or you are talking about. Easier to do it in thread than have someone stop what they're doing and research a word or topic. I talk in person or in private (one-on-one) differently than I talk in 'public'. It's just my way. Again, I apologize. This assumes that they would ever deploy the nukes. The best defense is a good offense. I'm not saying that we won't get our ass kicked, but it doesn't mean that will be destroyed either...and if you kick our ass, baby, you'd better be ready to meet any maker you might believe in! I would say to them "Try not to worry about it; we've got our best minds working around the clock to protect us from harm." This kind of stuff has been happening since the "caveman" days. And we're still here. As for pollution, we can stop it from happening. Right now. But certain ideological forces say that it would cost too much money and cost jobs. The technology is there (again) to stop the pollution that technology created....if only we'd use it.

I think you're watching too many Hollywood movies. Real life doesn't work that way. And, inherent in this, is MAD: Mutually Assured Destruction. Anyone that launches a nuke will be nuked back. Watch the movie WarGames (for a semi-realistic idea of MAD). This has to do with money, not technology. This has to do with ideology, not technology.