Recent content by Whiskey_Lord

Heath Ledger was gay? I thought he had a wife and kid...

Well yes, you don't need those things to post here. I personally don't see the point if I have nothing of substance to add. May as well just lurk and try to learn something.

In case I have any closeted fans here wondering where I've been: I'm taking a vacation of sorts because I don't feel like I have much of anything valuable to contribute here. I may or may not return to active posting after I have filled some of the larger gaps in my education and developed a...

^^What he said. Also, you might want to try reducing the amount of time you work out. After about an hour, your brain starts releasing stress hormones which have a catabolic effect on your muscles and may contribute to soreness.

No, I'm saying that there's no excuse for an omnipotent god doing such a crappy job. If the imperfection was the intention, then god is cruel and capricious. If not, then merely incompetent. Take your pick.

He could easily be a county sheriff in Arizona or the governor of Texas.

Given how poorly designed the creation is, I don't think a creator would deserve that much credit. I don't see why any deity would want or need veneration anyway. Wouldn't a proper god (read: father) actually prefer if its creations stopped caring about what it thought of them and learned to...

Contrary to what you see in movies, it's rather uncommon for people to come together.

I presume he's talking about the efforts of certain groups in the US to suppress the teaching of evolution in public schools. Problem is, this only applies to a small but obnoxiously loud minority of fundies who seem to have been somewhat successful.

Join the club.

Clearly liberals are only interested in suppressing as much freedom as possible. That's how they got their name.

Ah, closure at least. I was worried I would have been kept up until 5AM again pondering yet another set of impossible questions.

So are you implying that the existence of a self is necessary for "meaningful knowledge?" Even if it is true, I still see no reason to assume that the self is actually a "soul" as religion tends to define it.

Damn, I shouldn't have used the 'P' word. I suppose it would be bettered to say "inferred" rather than "proven," yes? And I'm not sure what you mean. I thought the brain was responsible for interpreting the senses. The brain and the body are ostensibly two aspects of a whole sensory...

Unfortunately my limited senses are all I have to work with.