is the queen elizabeth an atheist |
I don't think so. What an interesting question. |
are tomatoes a fruit or a vegetable |
Fruit. They are the ovaries with the seeds inside. |
do computers fear death |
Good question! I'd say no. Computers are designed,
not evolved. Our fear of death
is a survival strategy, a universal behaviour rule that maximizes
our survival chances in unforeseeable situations. Computers can
be instructed to avoid self damage but they cannot easily be made
to fear. It is very easy to program a machine to destroy itself,
just think about a guided missile. Come to think of it is is easy
to program a person to become a guided missile too. See Martyrs
Fear of death is not inevitable with functional intelligence, it
is probably inevitable in evolved intelligence. |
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Some do, I do, and many more would do if they
weren't brainwashed by convention. |
do real men vote democrat? |
Oh yes. For sure. |
do salesman make a lot of money |
Only a minority. |
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No. Man does not need any religion. Either for
morality or for any other reason.
We might be stuck with it, but
we don't need it. |
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I do. Many do. Taste can be changed by exposure
and social conditioning. Men can be trained to find a particular
race repulsive or fascinating. But without pressure most men will
find most young women attractive although unfamiliar beauty will
be less attractive. Bring up a pygmy in Sweden and he will find
tall blondes attractive, leave him in the jungle and he will find
them a curiosity, but given a reasonable risk-free opportunity he'd
still shag one either way. The same goes the other way.
As I have got older I have become more and more attracted to black
women, that is because I have been more exposed to them. Now I think
it would be fair to say that I am attracted to almost the same proportion
of the black population as to the white although when I was younger
it would have only been the most attractive black women that caught
my eye. |
why women find gay men attractive |
One of life's great mysteries. |
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We tolerate too much from religions. It is time
we gave them no more protection than any other voluntary organization,
they don't need or deserve special status. Freedom of religion is
merely a subset of freedom of expression and can be totally contained
within laws to allow free expression, freedom of assembly and freedom
of thought. |
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Social deprivation cripples lives, including the
moral sensibilities of people. Poverty sucks, we need to abolish
it. |
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Virtually all mammals have nipples to suckle their
young, the tissues are not sex-dependent, they form in both sexes,
but are only of rudimentary proportions in the males. Why is our
species so dumb that millions of us think men's nipples are are
some kind of great mystery? Not all male animals develop nipples,
whether they do depends on the timing of the sex differentiating
drench of testosterone. In man this occurs after the nipples have
formed although in some species it happens before this point and
in such animals males do not develop nipples. As possession of non-functional
nipples in the male is utterly trivial evolution doesn't care a
damn about them. Male nipples still have many of the same nerve
connections as in the female and so they can be erogenous for some
men, but not me. For me nipple stimulation is no more erotic than
a tickle, it is just annoying. |
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I can only answer
for me. |
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It's a long story. |
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Jason has a good answer. |
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An interesting phenomenon, people wanting to look
average, across an ethnically diverse society, it is bound to end
in tears, or surgery. |
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Come on, it's the 21st century, surely we should
have flying cars and world
government by now? |
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Oh, an easy one. Religion. If you want good people
to do evil things you need religion, faith, pigheaded dogmatic belief,
nothing else is remotely as effective. |
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Simple, it means crippled. Physically challenged
people are cripples, technically challenged things are broken. |
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Most people don't think about surveillance
cameras, they just react. |
what are the negative consequences
of vegetarianism |
Farting and terminal
moral rectitude. |
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I have a novel theory to explain this one. |
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Yes, apart from the untrustworthy people, like
criminals and politicians. |
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It might be worth trying real sex
education some time, rather than just teaching reproduction,
ethics and urogenital health. |
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Oooh, now this is a hard one... |
are girls stomachs supposed to
be hairy |
No, stomachs are for digesting food. Girls should
have hairy abdomens, but only the finest hair, so you can make
them shiver by moving your hand across just avoiding touching
their skin. (Umm, for some reason I feel like going for a shower
now...) |
are you naked during a pelvic
floor examination |
I understand that you can keep your hat on. |
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YES. |
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Yes. If they haven't tried it yet in your country
I suggest you give it a go. |
why we shouldn't take life for
granted |
Death could be just around the corner, for you,
me, the species or the whole planet. |
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OK children,
there is no Santa Claus. No Father Christmas, no Easter Bunny or
Baby Jesus either. They are all made-up stories. They serve to obscure
and disguise the inherent unfairness of the universe and especially
a capitalist economy. They are myths adults cling to to help explain
the inexplicable and uncomfortable realities of life. Life isn't
fair. Some children get virtually everything they want and yet miss
out on what they need, others miss out on material wealth and love
as well. The idea that Santa Claus
and Baby Jesus are watching over things is a myth.
The presents that children get come from their parents and other
people who love them and/or feel guilty or responsible for them.
As long as people know it is a myth no harm is done. That is where
the difference between benign myths like Santa Claus and evil
myths like Jesus, God and lottery
wins come in.
As for evidence it is very difficult to prove a negative. As always
the burden of proof should lie with those making the outlandish
claims. Santa Claus visiting every child in the world on Christmas
Eve? Flying reindeer? Prove it!
Santa Claus is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary
proof, as does God.
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Religion and Morality
do not go together as naturally as the religious would have you
believe. Morality is a built in capacity, we all have the ability
to readily develop it if given an appropriate environment, just
like language and social skills. It is possible to grow up without
morality just as it is possible to grow up without language, but
only if you have a severely denuded childhood experience.
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is this universe created by anybody
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No. The universe is all that exists, how could all that exists
be created by somebody?
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is a person who believes in religion mentally weak
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Not necessarily. It depends on why they believe in religion. If
they believe out of ignorance then it says nothing about them. If
they believe out of peer pressure then it says nothing good about
them. If they believe because they fear the consequences of others
not believing then it says a lot about them, but nothing good.
Religion can be addictive.
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No. They are an anachronism and an insult to the British people.
The hereditary principle is entirely wrong. The argument that they
bring money into the country is totally bogus, only sheep would
believe that foreigners come to London to see the queen.
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No, adultery is not illegal in any western country, to my knowledge.
There is a big distinction between
being legal and being socially approved, and I think that distinction
should be made wider.
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will i ever find love i am a fat and ugly
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Maybe.
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No. If parents have blue eyes they cannot have brown eyes. Unless
they have at least three eyes, one of which could be blue.
A more interesting question is can
blue eyed parents have brown eyed children. The answer
is that this is unlikely, a far more likely explanation is adultery.
Blue eyes are recessive, to have blue eyes requires both parents
to pass on the blue eyed gene. I have blue eyes, my father has brown
eyes. This is not an anomaly, as I look so like him that people
who have no idea who I am say I look like my father. A person with
brown eyes can have either two brown eyed genes or one brown and
one blue, I got a blue eyed gene from my blue eyed mother and the
blue eyed gene my father was carrying but not expressing. My wife
has brown eyes, our son has blue eyes and our daughter has brown
eyes. Obviously I contributed a blue eyed gene to both of my children,
and my wife contributed one blue and one brown.
For a couple both with blue eyes to have a brown eyed child would
require a spontaneous mutation (hey, they must happen or there would
be no evolution) or the women has been playing away, and if the
milkman has got blue eyes he ain't a suspect. Another possible explanation
is that one partner may be carrying a brown eyed gene (or a green
eyed gene, which is also dominant over blue) but not expressing
it for some reason, perhaps a developmental problem.
If your suspicions have led you this far mate, I'd be looking for
a paternity test if I was you, eye colour is NOT a sufficient grounds
for proof of adultery but it is reasonable grounds for suspicion.
If the woman has a right to choose, a man
has the right to know.
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