This is what I wrote for the Christian asshole:
BULLSHIT. You don't know anything about science. You don't even know what science is. Why do you science deniers repeatedly show off your stupidity?
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Here in Idiot America we have millions of anti-science morons.
An Idiot America fucktard wrote this bullshit: "Darwin was wrong and scientists are seeing this."
This is what I wrote for the Christian asshole:
This is what I wrote for the Christian asshole:
This planet has some terrible problems and it's going to get much worse.
Wikipedia - Amazon rainforest - Impact of early 21st-century Amazon droughts
Impact of early 21st-century Amazon droughts
In 2005, parts of the Amazon basin experienced the worst drought in one hundred years, and there were indications that 2006 may have been a second successive year of drought. A 23 July 2006 article in the UK newspaper The Independent reported the Woods Hole Research Center results, showing that the forest in its present form could survive only three years of drought. Scientists at the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research argued in the article that this drought response, coupled with the effects of deforestation on regional climate, are pushing the rainforest towards a "tipping point" where it would irreversibly start to die. It concluded that the forest is on the brink of being turned into savanna or desert, with catastrophic consequences for the world's climate.
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the combination of climate change and deforestation increases the drying effect of dead trees that fuels forest fires.
In 2010, the Amazon rainforest experienced another severe drought, in some ways more extreme than the 2005 drought. The affected region was approximately 1,160,000 square miles (3,000,000 km2) of rainforest, compared with 734,000 square miles (1,900,000 km2) in 2005. The 2010 drought had three epicenters where vegetation died off, whereas in 2005, the drought was focused on the southwestern part. The findings were published in the journal Science. In a typical year, the Amazon absorbs 1.5 gigatons of carbon dioxide; during 2005 instead 5 gigatons were released and in 2010 8 gigatons were released. Additional severe droughts occurred in 2010, 2015, and 2016.
In 2019 Brazil's protections of the Amazon Rain Forest were slashed, resulting in a severe loss of trees.
Impact of early 21st-century Amazon droughts
In 2005, parts of the Amazon basin experienced the worst drought in one hundred years, and there were indications that 2006 may have been a second successive year of drought. A 23 July 2006 article in the UK newspaper The Independent reported the Woods Hole Research Center results, showing that the forest in its present form could survive only three years of drought. Scientists at the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research argued in the article that this drought response, coupled with the effects of deforestation on regional climate, are pushing the rainforest towards a "tipping point" where it would irreversibly start to die. It concluded that the forest is on the brink of being turned into savanna or desert, with catastrophic consequences for the world's climate.
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the combination of climate change and deforestation increases the drying effect of dead trees that fuels forest fires.
In 2010, the Amazon rainforest experienced another severe drought, in some ways more extreme than the 2005 drought. The affected region was approximately 1,160,000 square miles (3,000,000 km2) of rainforest, compared with 734,000 square miles (1,900,000 km2) in 2005. The 2010 drought had three epicenters where vegetation died off, whereas in 2005, the drought was focused on the southwestern part. The findings were published in the journal Science. In a typical year, the Amazon absorbs 1.5 gigatons of carbon dioxide; during 2005 instead 5 gigatons were released and in 2010 8 gigatons were released. Additional severe droughts occurred in 2010, 2015, and 2016.
In 2019 Brazil's protections of the Amazon Rain Forest were slashed, resulting in a severe loss of trees.
A fucktard said "I'm an agnostic" as if that's a good thing.
"I'm an agnostic."
Is supernatural magic real or not? You're too dense to figure it out.
Agnostics are part of the religious stupidity problem. You idiots have my contempt.
Is supernatural magic real or not? You're too dense to figure it out.
Agnostics are part of the religious stupidity problem. You idiots have my contempt.
Charles Darwin killed the childish god fantasy. A few billion fucktards did not get the memo.
"How do people unironically believe in God in 2019?"
I learned a new word today that I will never use: "unironic" means "not ironic".
Why are there still god-soaked fucktards in the 21st century?
Good question. We know things these days. We know the magic god fairy of the gaps has run out of hiding places. The fairy is not required for anything therefore it's not real.
I think it's a stupidity problem. People who are hard of thinking don't understand science. Some of these morons are afraid of science and they want to throw it out, especially evolution for some reason. Biology makes them cry.
I learned a new word today that I will never use: "unironic" means "not ironic".
Why are there still god-soaked fucktards in the 21st century?
Good question. We know things these days. We know the magic god fairy of the gaps has run out of hiding places. The fairy is not required for anything therefore it's not real.
I think it's a stupidity problem. People who are hard of thinking don't understand science. Some of these morons are afraid of science and they want to throw it out, especially evolution for some reason. Biology makes them cry.
I'm putting these 4 links here for myself. I'm almost done reading a book about it, "Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum."
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Children were begging for bread to eat. Most of them starved to death. All of them were eventually killed. Their crime? They belonged to the wrong religion.
"The total death toll among the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto is estimated to be at least 300,000 killed by bullet or gas, combined with 92,000 victims of rampant hunger and hunger-related diseases, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the casualties of the final destruction of the Ghetto."
Everything you always wanted to know about Mikhail Tal, World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961).
-- Mikhail Tal, World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961)
Mikhail did not have a very healthy lifestyle. Notice the cigarette in his mouth. He died at age 55 in 1992 in Moscow, Russia.
He was famous for making unsound sacrifices and getting away with it.
Wikipedia - Mikhail Tal
Mikhail Tal (9 November 1936 – 28 June 1992) was a Soviet chess Grandmaster and the eighth World Chess Champion (from 1960 to 1961).
Widely regarded as a creative genius and one of the best attacking players of all time, Tal played in a daring, combinatorial style. His play was known above all for improvisation and unpredictability. It has been said that “Every game for him was as inimitable and invaluable as a poem". He was often called "Misha", a diminutive for Mikhail, and "The magician from Riga". Both The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games and Modern Chess Brilliancies include more games by Tal than any other player. In addition, Tal was a highly regarded chess writer. He also previously held the record for the longest unbeaten streak (95 games) in competitive chess history, until Ding Liren's 100-game streak from 9 August 2017 to 11 November 2018.
The Mikhail Tal Memorial has been held in Moscow annually since 2006 to honour Tal's memory.
Early years[edit]
Tal was born in Riga, Republic of Latvia, into a Jewish family.[9] According to his friend Gennadi Sosonko, his true father was a family friend identified only as "Uncle Robert";[9] however, this was vehemently denied by Tal's third wife Angelina.[10]
From the very beginning of his life, Tal suffered from ill health. He learned to read at the age of three, and was allowed to start university studies while only fifteen. At the age of eight, he learned to play chess while watching his father, a doctor and medical researcher.
Shortly thereafter Tal joined the Riga Palace of Young Pioneers chess club. His play was not exceptional at first, but he worked hard to improve. Alexander Koblentsbegan tutoring him in 1949, after which Tal's game rapidly improved, and by 1951 he had qualified for the Latvian Championship. In the 1952 Latvian Championship, Tal finished ahead of his trainer. Tal won his first Latvian title in 1953, and was awarded the title of Candidate Master. He became a Soviet Master in 1954 by defeating Vladimir Saigin in a qualifying match. That same year he also scored his first win over a Grandmaster when Yuri Averbakh lost on time in a drawn position. Tal graduated in Literature from the University of Latvia, writing a thesis on the satirical works of Ilf and Petrov, and taught school in Riga for a time in his early twenties. He was a member of the Daugava Sports Society, and represented Latvia in internal Soviet team competitions.
In 1959 he married 19-year-old Salli Landau, an actress with the Riga Youth Theatre; they divorced in 1970. In 2003, Landau published a biography in Russia of her late ex-husband.
Personality[edit]
His first wife, Salli Landau, described Mikhail's personality:
Soviet champion[edit]
Tal first qualified for the USSR Chess Championship final in 1956, finishing joint fifth, and became the youngest player to win it the following year, at the age of 20. He had not played in enough international tournaments to qualify for the title of Grandmaster, but FIDE decided at its 1957 Congress to waive the normal restrictions and award him the title because of his achievement in winning the Soviet Championship. At that time, the Soviet Union was dominant in world chess, and Tal had beaten several of the world's top players to win the tournament.[12]
Tal made three appearances for the USSR at Student Olympiads in 1956–1958, winning three team gold medals and three board gold medals. He won nineteen games, drew eight, and lost none, for 85.2 percent.[13]
He retained the Soviet Championship title in 1958 at Riga, and competed in the World Chess Championship for the first time. He won the 1958 Interzonal tournament at Portorož, then helped the Soviet Union win its fourth consecutive Chess Olympiadat Munich.
World Champion[edit]
Tal won a very strong tournament at Zürich, 1959. Following the Interzonal, the top players carried on to the Candidates' Tournament, Yugoslavia 1959. Tal showed superior form by winning with 20/28 points, ahead of Paul Keres with 18½, followed by Tigran Petrosian, Vasily Smyslov, the sixteen-year-old Bobby Fischer, Svetozar Gligorić, Friðrik Ólafsson, and Pal Benko. Tal's victory was attributed to his dominance over the lower half of the field;[14] whilst scoring only one win and three losses versus Keres, he won all four individual games against Fischer, and took 3½ points out of 4 from each of Gligorić, Olafsson, and Benko.[15]
In 1960, at the age of 23, Tal thoroughly defeated the relatively staid and strategic Mikhail Botvinnik in a World Championship match, held in Moscow, by 12½–8½ (six wins, two losses, and thirteen draws), making him the youngest-ever World Champion (a record later broken by Garry Kasparov, who earned the title at 22). Botvinnik, who had never faced Tal before the title match began, won the return match against Tal in 1961, also held in Moscow, by 13–8 (ten wins to five, with six draws). In the period between the matches Botvinnik had thoroughly analyzed Tal's style, and turned most of the return match's games into slow wars of maneuver or endgames, rather than the complicated tactical melees which were Tal's happy hunting ground.[16] Tal's chronic kidney problems contributed to his defeat, and his doctors in Riga advised that he should postpone the match for health reasons. Yuri Averbakh claimed that Botvinnik would agree to a postponement only if Tal was certified unfit by Moscow doctors, and that Tal then decided to play.[17] His short reign atop the chess world made him one of the two so-called "winter kings" who interrupted Botvinnik's long reign from 1948 to 1963 (the other was Smyslov, world champion 1957–58).
His highest Elo rating was 2705, achieved in 1980. His highest Historical Chessmetrics Rating was 2799, in September 1960.
Later achievements[edit]
Soon after losing the rematch with Botvinnik, Tal won the 1961 Bled supertournament by one point over Fischer, despite losing their individual game, scoring 14½ from nineteen games (+11−1=7) with the world-class players Tigran Petrosian, Keres, Gligorić, Efim Geller, and Miguel Najdorf among the other participants.
Tal played in a total of six Candidates' Tournaments and match cycles, though he never again earned the right to play for the world title. In 1962 at Curaçao, he had serious health problems, having undergone a major operation shortly before the tournament, and had to withdraw three-quarters of the way through, scoring just seven points (+3−10=8) from 21 games. He tied for first place at the 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal to advance to matches. Then in 1965, he lost the final match against Boris Spassky, after defeating Lajos Portisch and Bent Larsen in matches. Exempt from the 1967 Interzonal, he lost a 1968 semifinal match against Viktor Korchnoi, after defeating Gligoric.
Poor health caused a slump in his play from late 1968 to late 1969, but he recovered his form after having a kidney removed. He won the 1979 Riga Interzonal with an undefeated score of 14/17, but the next year lost a quarter-final match to Lev Polugaevsky, one of the players to hold a positive score against him. He also played in the 1985 Montpellier Candidates' Tournament, a round-robin of 16 qualifiers, finishing in a tie for fourth and fifth places, and narrowly missing further advancement after drawing a playoff match with Jan Timman, who held the tiebreak advantage from the tournament proper.
From July 1972 to April 1973, Tal played a record 86 consecutive games without a loss (47 wins and 39 draws). Between 23 October 1973 and 16 October 1974, he played 95 consecutive games without a loss (46 wins and 49 draws), shattering his previous record. These were the two longest unbeaten streaks in competitive chess for more than four decades [8], until Ding Liren broke the record in 2018 with 100 games, although with far fewer wins than either of Tal's streaks (29 wins, 71 draws).
Tal remained a formidable opponent as he got older. He played Anatoly Karpov 22 times, 12 of them during the latter's reign as World Champion, with a record of +0−1=19 in classical games and +1−2=19 overall.
One of Tal's greatest achievements during his later career was an equal first place with Karpov (whom he seconded in a number of tournaments and world championships) in the 1979 Montreal "Tournament of Stars", with an unbeaten score of (+6−0=12), the only undefeated player in the field, which also included Spassky, Portisch, Vlastimil Hort, Robert Hübner, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Lubomir Kavalek, Jan Timman and Larsen.
Tal played in 21 Soviet Championships,[18] winning it six times (1957, 1958, 1967, 1972, 1974, 1978). He was also a five-time winner of the International Chess Tournament in Tallinn, Estonia, with victories in 1971, 1973, 1977, 1981, and 1983.
Tal also had successes in blitz chess; in 1970, he took second place to Fischer, who scored 19/22, in a blitz tournament at Herceg Novi, Yugoslavia, ahead of Korchnoi, Petrosian and Smyslov. In 1988, at the age of 51, he won the second official World Blitz Championship (the first was won by Kasparov the previous year in Brussels) at Saint John, ahead of such players as Kasparov, the reigning world champion, and ex-champion Anatoly Karpov. In the final, he defeated Rafael Vaganian by 3½–½.
On 28 May 1992, at the Moscow blitz tournament (which he left the hospital to play), he defeated Kasparov. He died one month later.
Team competitions[edit]
In Olympiad play, Mikhail Tal was a member of eight Soviet teams, each of which won team gold medals (1958, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1972, 1974, 1980, and 1982), won 65 games, drew 34, and lost only two games (81.2 percent). This percentage makes him the player with the best score among those participating in at least four Olympiads. Individually, Tal won seven Olympiad board medals, including five gold (1958, 1962, 1966, 1972, 1974), and two silver (1960, 1982).[13]
Tal also represented the Soviet Union at six European Team Championships (1957, 1961, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1980), winning team gold medals each time, and three board gold medals (1957, 1970, and 1977). He scored 14 wins, 20 draws, and three losses, for 64.9 percent.[13] Tal played board nine for the USSR in the first match against the Rest of the World team at Belgrade 1970, scoring 2 out of 4. He was on board seven for the USSR in the second match against the Rest of the World team at London 1984, scoring 2 out of 3. The USSR won both team matches. He was an Honoured Master of Sport.[19]
From 1950 (when he won the Latvian junior championship) to 1991, Tal won or tied for first in 68 tournaments (see table below). During his 41-year career he played about 2,700 tournament or match games, winning over 65% of them.
Health problems and death[edit]
Naturally artistic, witty and impulsive, Tal led a bohemian life of chess playing, heavy drinking and chain smoking. His already fragile health suffered as a result, and he spent a great deal of time in the hospital, including an operation to remove a kidney in 1969.[21] He was also briefly addicted to morphine, prescribed due to intense pain.[22]
On 28 June 1992,[1] Tal died in a Moscow hospital, officially of a hemorrhage in the esophagus. But his friend and fellow Soviet grandmaster Genna Sosonko reported that "in reality, all his organs had stopped functioning."[23]
Tal had the congenital deformity of ectrodactyly in his right hand (visible in some photographs). Despite this, he was a skilled piano player.[9]
Playing style[edit]
Tal loved the game in itself and considered that "chess, first of all, is art." He was known to play numerous blitz games against unknown or relatively weak players purely for the joy of playing.
Known as "The Magician from Riga", Tal was the archetype of the attacking player, developing an extremely powerful and imaginative style of play. His approach over the board was very pragmatic—in that respect, he is one of the heirs of ex-world champion Emanuel Lasker. He often sacrificed material in search of the initiative, which is defined by the ability to make threats to which the opponent must respond. With such intuitive sacrifices, he created vast complications, and many masters found it impossible to solve all the problems he created over the board, though deeper post-game analysis found flaws in some of his conceptions. The famous sixth game of his first world championship match with Botvinnik is typical in that regard: Tal sacrificed a knight with little compensation but prevailed when the unsettled Botvinnik failed to find the correct response. Tal's style of play was so intimidating that James Eade listed Tal as one of the three players contemporaries were most afraid of playing against (the others being Capablanca and Fischer). However, while Capablanca and Fischer were feared because of their extreme technical skill, Tal was feared because of the possibility of being on the wrong side of a soon-to-be-famous brilliancy.[24] Although Tal's sacrifices were formidable, some of the best players of the time were successful in refuting them, contributing to his negative record against some of the top players of the time. These included Spassky, Petrosian, Polugaevsky, Korchnoi, Keres, Smyslov, and Stein. (Tal has a positive record against Fischer with his four wins from the 1959 candidates tournament.)
Although his playing style at first was scorned by ex-world champion Vasily Smyslov as nothing more than "tricks", Tal convincingly beat many notable grandmasters with his trademark aggression. Prevailing against Tal's attack required extraordinary ability. It is also notable that he adopted a more sedate and positional style in his later years; for many chess lovers, the apex of Tal's style corresponds with the period (approximately from 1971 to 1979) when he was able to integrate the solidity of classical chess with the imagination of his youth.[25]
Of the current top-level players, the Latvian Alexei Shirov has been most often compared to Tal. In fact, he studied with Tal as a youth. Many other Latvian grandmasters and masters, for instance Alexander Shabalov and Alvis Vitolins, have played in a similar vein, causing some to speak of a "Latvian School of Chess".[26]Tal contributed little to opening theory, despite a deep knowledge of most systems, the Sicilian and the Ruy Lopez in particular. But his aggressive use of the Modern Benoni, particularly in his early years, led to a complete re-evaluation of this variation. A variation of the Nimzo-Indian Defence bears his name.
The Democrats have a moron problem and if they don't fix it we will be stuck with Fucktard Trump for another 4 years.
What I wrote for the fucktards who read the New York Times:
Trump hopes Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren wins the nomination because they would be easy to defeat. For example, most people would never vote for an anti-business candidate like Warren who wants to break up Amazon.
Trump hopes Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren wins the nomination because they would be easy to defeat. For example, most people would never vote for an anti-business candidate like Warren who wants to break up Amazon.
What is an atheist?
"What kind of atheist are you? cold, hot, or lukewarm?"
I'm a hardcore atheist. I'm 100% certain magical beings (God, Zeus, Allah, Easter Bunny) are not real.
Anyone who is not a hardcore atheist is an idiot.
I'm a hardcore atheist. I'm 100% certain magical beings (God, Zeus, Allah, Easter Bunny) are not real.
Anyone who is not a hardcore atheist is an idiot.
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Here in Idiot America 40% of the population thinks the entire fucking universe was magically created between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. Evolution makes these fucktards cry. I'm not making this up.
Do Christian creationists (aka science deniers) ever wonder why everyone laughs at them?
Stupidity that dense doesn't even care.
-- Jeff
Generally, they are so deluded that they willfully refuse to accept that their position is laughable.
-- Space Wasp
Stupidity that dense doesn't even care.
-- Jeff
Generally, they are so deluded that they willfully refuse to accept that their position is laughable.
-- Space Wasp
Cosmology and the arrow of time: Sean Carroll at TEDxCaltech
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University, and has previously worked at MIT, the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago. His research ranges over a number of topics in theoretical physics, focusing on cosmology, particle physics, and general relativity, with special emphasis on dark matter, dark energy, and the origin of the universe. He is the author of "From Eternity to Here," a popular book on cosmology and the arrow of time, and of "Spacetime and Geometry," a textbook on general relativity; has produced a set of introductory lectures for The Teaching Company entitled "Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe;" and is a co-founder of the popular science blog Cosmic Variance, http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cos...
Everything you always wanted to know about Kimmy Schmidt. I never watch TV these days. I know this character exists thanks to the comic strips.
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| Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt character |
Kimmy Schmidt was born in Durnsville, Indiana, around 1984 to 17-year-old Lori-Ann Schmidt. According to the episode "Kimmy Goes to Her Happy Place!", Kimmy is unsure who her father is (but is aware that his name starts with an "S" or a "5"), as he had sex with her mother in the bathroom of a Ruby Tuesday. Also, revealed in the same episode, she was born on a rollercoaster during a tornado warning. At the age of 14, Kimmy was kidnapped by Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (portrayed by Jon Hamm) along with three other women – Donna Maria Nuñez (Sol Miranda), Cyndee Pokorney (Sara Chase), and Gretchen Chalker (Lauren Adams). They were placed in a bunker near Durnsville and were told that the apocalypse had come and that everyone else was dead. At some point, Kimmy found a rat from one of the vents, and realized the reverend was lying to them, but when she confronted him, he told her she could send out Cyndee all alone if she's so sure, and Kimmy, who was very attached to Cyndee, ended up deciding against it at the last moment.
I asked a fucktard question and I got a fucktard answer. The stupid, it burns.
The fucktard question I asked: "Is God perfect, just, merciful, loving, and does God care a great deal about our actions?"
The fucktard answer: "Yes and our actions in this life determines our eternal fate."
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Reality: Dead people don't have an "eternal fate" because they are fucking dead.
The fucktard answer: "Yes and our actions in this life determines our eternal fate."
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Reality: Dead people don't have an "eternal fate" because they are fucking dead.
"The Earth and Moon are like identical twins, made up of the exact same materials -- which is really strange, since no other celestial bodies we know of share this kind of chemical relationship. What's responsible for this special connection? Looking for an answer, planetary scientist and MacArthur "Genius" Sarah T. Stewart discovered a new kind of astronomical object -- a synestia -- and a new way to solve the mystery of the Moon's origin."
America (Simon & Garfunkel song)
Wikipedia - America (Simon & Garfunkel song)
Stephen Holden, in reviewing Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits in 1972, wrote, "'America'...was Simon's next major step forward. It is three and a half minutes of sheer brilliance, whose unforced narrative, alternating precise detail with sweeping observation evokes the panorama of restless, paved America and simultaneously illuminates a drama of shared loneliness on a bus trip with cosmic implications." Thom Jurek of Allmusic described the song's central question as an "ellipsis, a cipher, an unanswerable question," a song in which "sophisticated harmonic invention is toppled by its message." David Nichols, in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, called the song "a splendid vignette of a road trip by young lovers; both intimate and epic in scale, it traces an inner journey from naive optimism to more mature understanding." American Songwriter deemed the song "essentially a road-trip song, but like all road trips, it tends to reveal as much about the participants as it does about the lands being traversed."
Disc jockey and author Pete Fornatale describes "America" as one of Paul Simon's "greatest writing achievements in this phase of his career." In 2014, a Rolling Stone readers poll ranked it fourth among the duo's best compositions, with the magazine writing, "it captured America's sense of restlessness and confusion during the year that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, as well as the escalation of the war in Vietnam," declaring it one of their most "beloved" songs. Amy S. of ClassicRockHistory defined "America," as Simon and Garfunkels best song. The author described the song America as "perhaps the most representative of Simon & Garfunkel's music: wistful and optimistic, personal and universal, and most of all, uniquely American."
Stephen Holden, in reviewing Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits in 1972, wrote, "'America'...was Simon's next major step forward. It is three and a half minutes of sheer brilliance, whose unforced narrative, alternating precise detail with sweeping observation evokes the panorama of restless, paved America and simultaneously illuminates a drama of shared loneliness on a bus trip with cosmic implications." Thom Jurek of Allmusic described the song's central question as an "ellipsis, a cipher, an unanswerable question," a song in which "sophisticated harmonic invention is toppled by its message." David Nichols, in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, called the song "a splendid vignette of a road trip by young lovers; both intimate and epic in scale, it traces an inner journey from naive optimism to more mature understanding." American Songwriter deemed the song "essentially a road-trip song, but like all road trips, it tends to reveal as much about the participants as it does about the lands being traversed."
Disc jockey and author Pete Fornatale describes "America" as one of Paul Simon's "greatest writing achievements in this phase of his career." In 2014, a Rolling Stone readers poll ranked it fourth among the duo's best compositions, with the magazine writing, "it captured America's sense of restlessness and confusion during the year that saw the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, as well as the escalation of the war in Vietnam," declaring it one of their most "beloved" songs. Amy S. of ClassicRockHistory defined "America," as Simon and Garfunkels best song. The author described the song America as "perhaps the most representative of Simon & Garfunkel's music: wistful and optimistic, personal and universal, and most of all, uniquely American."
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka Mormonism) and the religious implications of evolution.
Some words I never use because it's philosophy bullshit.
nihilism: the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.
moral relativism: Moral relativism is the view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint (for instance, that of a culture or a historical period) and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others.
metaphysics: the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.
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Is life meaningless? No, because we have chicken thighs.
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"The mission of Brigham Young University — founded, supported, and guided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — is to assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life. That assistance should provide a period of intensive learning in a stimulating setting where a commitment to excellence is expected and the full realization of human potential is pursued."
—BYU Mission Statement
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I know some Mormons. I like them. They're wealthy or on the way to being wealthy, and that's a good thing. Of course, their fantasies are ridiculous, especially the "eternal life" bullshit.
What about evolution? Not good. Most Mormons are science deniers. Human evolution makes them cry.
I found this at Which religious groups are Creationist? By Razib Khan | February 15, 2009.
In 1935 only 36 percent of the students at the Mormons’ Brigham Young University denied that humans had been “created in a process of evolution from lower forms.” By 1973 the figure had risen sharply to 81 percent.
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At the BYU student newspaper, this is what an anti-science god-soaked fucktard wrote. It's about the religious implications of evolution. To solve that problem he wants to throw out the science instead of throwing out his childish god-did-it fantasy.
Evolution and creation
Though it is admirable that BYU is attempting to reconcile religion and evolution in a way that students can effectively learn more about both, this attempt at reconciliation is, like all other attempts, ultimately doomed.
The theory of evolution is rooted in a purely naturalistic metaphysics. It assumes that all things can be reduced down to mere atoms bouncing against each other and that all aspects of life are nothing more than the result of random, meaningless chance. These assumptions ultimately imply a world where agency does not exist, choices are meaningless and there is no universal morality that we can ground ourselves in. It assumes there is no God.
On the other hand, the idea of creationism is rooted in an entirely different metaphysics. It makes its starting assumption that there is a God. It assumes that God created us, our world and the whole universe. It assumes that God is perfect, just, merciful, loving, and cares a great deal about our actions. It assumes we have agency to live morally and that life has meaning.
These two viewpoints, evolution and creationism, can never truly be reconciled because they are rooted in fundamentally opposed metaphysics. All attempts at reconciliation will fail because of this.
By all means, teach evolutionary theory in the classroom. But teach the assumptions and implications that go along with it. Teach how the theory of evolution, when really taken seriously, leads to determinism, nihilism, moral relativism and the death of God.
—Jacob Tubbs
Malad, Idaho
nihilism: the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless.
moral relativism: Moral relativism is the view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint (for instance, that of a culture or a historical period) and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others.
metaphysics: the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.
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Is life meaningless? No, because we have chicken thighs.
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"The mission of Brigham Young University — founded, supported, and guided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — is to assist individuals in their quest for perfection and eternal life. That assistance should provide a period of intensive learning in a stimulating setting where a commitment to excellence is expected and the full realization of human potential is pursued."
—BYU Mission Statement
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I know some Mormons. I like them. They're wealthy or on the way to being wealthy, and that's a good thing. Of course, their fantasies are ridiculous, especially the "eternal life" bullshit.
What about evolution? Not good. Most Mormons are science deniers. Human evolution makes them cry.
I found this at Which religious groups are Creationist? By Razib Khan | February 15, 2009.
In 1935 only 36 percent of the students at the Mormons’ Brigham Young University denied that humans had been “created in a process of evolution from lower forms.” By 1973 the figure had risen sharply to 81 percent.
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At the BYU student newspaper, this is what an anti-science god-soaked fucktard wrote. It's about the religious implications of evolution. To solve that problem he wants to throw out the science instead of throwing out his childish god-did-it fantasy.
Evolution and creation
Though it is admirable that BYU is attempting to reconcile religion and evolution in a way that students can effectively learn more about both, this attempt at reconciliation is, like all other attempts, ultimately doomed.
The theory of evolution is rooted in a purely naturalistic metaphysics. It assumes that all things can be reduced down to mere atoms bouncing against each other and that all aspects of life are nothing more than the result of random, meaningless chance. These assumptions ultimately imply a world where agency does not exist, choices are meaningless and there is no universal morality that we can ground ourselves in. It assumes there is no God.
On the other hand, the idea of creationism is rooted in an entirely different metaphysics. It makes its starting assumption that there is a God. It assumes that God created us, our world and the whole universe. It assumes that God is perfect, just, merciful, loving, and cares a great deal about our actions. It assumes we have agency to live morally and that life has meaning.
These two viewpoints, evolution and creationism, can never truly be reconciled because they are rooted in fundamentally opposed metaphysics. All attempts at reconciliation will fail because of this.
By all means, teach evolutionary theory in the classroom. But teach the assumptions and implications that go along with it. Teach how the theory of evolution, when really taken seriously, leads to determinism, nihilism, moral relativism and the death of God.
—Jacob Tubbs
Malad, Idaho
This is something I wrote for Christian fucktards.
The magical resurrection of the decomposing Magic Jeebus Man never happened because it's impossible. Morons believe this magical bullshit because they're gullible, just plain stupid, and extremely insane.
Christianity is the most ridiculous cult ever invented. It doesn't make any sense and it's disgusting.
Christianity is the most ridiculous cult ever invented. It doesn't make any sense and it's disgusting.
The world’s smartest dog dropped dead at age 15.
New York Times - Border Collie Trained to Recognize 1,022 Nouns Dies
Chaser, often described as “the world’s smartest dog,” made headlines worldwide for being able to identify objects by their names.
Chaser, a Border collie who gained fame for being trained to recognize more than 1,000 nouns, died at the age of 15.
John W. Pilley, a professor emeritus of psychology at Wofford College, taught Chaser over 1,000 words using cloth animal toys, balls and Frisbees.
By Derrick Bryson Taylor
July 27, 2019
Many owners struggle to teach their dogs to sit, fetch or even bark on command, but John W. Pilley, a professor emeritus of psychology at Wofford College, taught his Border collie to understand more than 1,000 nouns, a feat that earned them both worldwide recognition.
For some time, Dr. Pilley had been conducting his own experiment teaching dogs the names of objects and was inspired by Border collie farmers to rethink his methods.
Dr. Pilley was given a black-and-white Border collie as a gift by his wife Sally.
For three years, Dr. Pilley trained the dog, named Chaser, four to five hours a day: He showed her an object, said its name up to 40 times, then hid it and asked her to find it. He used 800 cloth animal toys, 116 balls, 26 Frisbees and an assortment of plastic items to ultimately teach Chaser 1,022 nouns.
In 2013, Dr. Pilley published his findings that explained that Chaser was taught to understand sentences containing a prepositional object, verb and direct object.
Chaser died on Tuesday at 15. She had been living with Dr. Pilley’s wife and their daughter Robin in Spartanburg. Dr. Pilley died last year at 89.
Another daughter, Pilley Bianchi, said on Saturday that Chaser had been in declining health in recent weeks. “The vet really determined that she died of natural causes,” Ms. Bianchi said. “She went down very quickly.”
Ms. Bianchi, who helped her father train Chaser, said the dog had been undergoing acupuncture for arthritis but had no other known illnesses.
Ms. Bianchi said Chaser was buried in the backyard with the family’s other beloved dogs and with some of her father’s ashes.
“What we would really like people to understand about Chaser is that she is not unique,” Ms. Bianchi said. “It’s the way she was taught that is unique. We believed that my father tapped into something that was very simple: He taught Chaser a concept which he believed worked infinitely greater than learning a hundred behaviors.”
Ms. Bianchi said that her father’s experiment was “uncharted territory” in animal cognition research, pointing to news media coverage calling Chaser “the world’s smartest dog.”
“Her language learning is very high-level, powerful science,” she said.
Chaser understood that words have independent meaning and understood common nouns as well as proper nouns, Ms. Bianchi said.
If Chaser had 30 balls, Ms. Bianchi said, she would be able to understand each one by its proper-noun name and also as a part of a group of objects. “She learned the theory of one to many and many to one, which is learning one object could have many names and many names can apply to one object or one person,” she said.
Greg Nelson, a veterinarian at Central Veterinary Associates in Valley Stream, N.Y., said humans were learning that animals have a deeper understanding of the world around them.
“People have always been under the belief that animals respond to commands based on a rewards system,” he said. “Learn limited commands and tricks, then get a treat.”
But “they do have a language among themselves, spoken and unspoken,” he added. “And it’s apparent that they can understand the human language probably in much the same way as we learn a foreign language.”
Ms. Bianchi said that Hub City Animal Project, an organization dedicated to animal homelessness, sponsored a bronze statue of Chaser that will be placed outside the Children’s Museum of the Upstate in Spartanburg next year.
Dr. Pilley’s footprints, also in bronze, will be placed beside the statue of Chaser, and a portion of a street near the museum will be renamed Chaser the Border Collie Boulevard, according to Ms. Bianchi.
Dr. Pilley told The New York Times in 2014 that “the big lesson is to recognize that dogs are smarter than we think, and given time, patience and enough enjoyable reinforcement, we can teach them just about anything.”
A version of this article appears in print on July 28, 2019, Section A, Page 13 of the New York edition with the headline: ‘World’s Smartest Dog,’ Who Knew 1,022 Nouns, Dies at 15.
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I answered a good question about why religious bullshit exists.
"Why do you think religious behaviours and beliefs evolved in hominids?"
Long before science was a word, our ancient ancestors wondered why this planet exists and why it was teeming with life. Somebody said a magical being made it happen. Somebody else said, "that's a good idea". Another person made stuff up about the magic fairy. Eventually, people with numerous ideas created numerous religions, and that's why today we are still infested with anti-science anti-reality morons.
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Somebody else wrote a better answer:
"Humans evolved intelligence which gave us an evolutionary advantage, and it also made us curious about the world around us. For 200,000 years our understanding of an appropriate methodology for investigating reality was limited so we made assumptions to explain what we didn't yet have the tools to investigate or understand completely. A common explanation for what we didn't understand was the supernatural. In the past 400 years, a very small portion of homo sapiens existence, we have developed the methodology of discovering what is most likely true, we call it the scientific method. But we still have the vestigates of past superstition and myths, called religion."
-- Huh
Long before science was a word, our ancient ancestors wondered why this planet exists and why it was teeming with life. Somebody said a magical being made it happen. Somebody else said, "that's a good idea". Another person made stuff up about the magic fairy. Eventually, people with numerous ideas created numerous religions, and that's why today we are still infested with anti-science anti-reality morons.
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Somebody else wrote a better answer:
"Humans evolved intelligence which gave us an evolutionary advantage, and it also made us curious about the world around us. For 200,000 years our understanding of an appropriate methodology for investigating reality was limited so we made assumptions to explain what we didn't yet have the tools to investigate or understand completely. A common explanation for what we didn't understand was the supernatural. In the past 400 years, a very small portion of homo sapiens existence, we have developed the methodology of discovering what is most likely true, we call it the scientific method. But we still have the vestigates of past superstition and myths, called religion."
-- Huh
Monday, July 29, 2019
A young woman, 16 years old, lives in Sweden. She is demanding something must be done to fix the human caused global warming problem.
Greta Thunberg: Adults keep saying "We owe it to the young people to give them hope." But I don't want your hope. I don't want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day, and I want you to act.
BBC News - Greta Thunberg to sail Atlantic for climate conferences
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UN climate change conferences
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has accepted a ride across the Atlantic by boat to attend two key climate conferences.
The teenager will make the journey aboard the Malizia II, a high-speed 18-metre (60ft) yacht built to race around the globe.
"We'll be sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to New York in mid August," she tweeted.
Thunberg refuses to fly because of the environmental impact of air travel.
In a Facebook post, Team Malizia said they were "honoured to sail Greta Thunberg emission free across the Atlantic".
She had previously said that she wanted to attend the UN Climate Action summit in New York on 23 September, but was struggling to work out how to make it without taking a plane or going on a cruise ship - which have similarly high emissions.
Hurricanes also often deter sailors from trans-Atlantic journeys in August.
"Taking a boat to North America is basically impossible," she previously told the Associated Press news agency.
Now, the 16-year-old will be able to attend the New York conference. She will later journey by low-carbon transport south to the annual Santiago Climate Change Conference in December.
Malizia II was built to compete in the 2016-2017 round-the-world Vendée Globe race. The high-tech vessel generates electricity through solar panels and underwater turbines.
Thunberg and her father will make the crossing with captain Boris Herrmann, Monaco royal family member Pierre Casiraghi and a Swedish documentary maker, Nathan Grossman. The journey is expected to take about two weeks.
A spokeswoman for Team Malizia told the BBC they approached Thunberg to offer to take her, and had no previous plan to sail the yacht across the Atlantic.
It is not known how the activist will return to Europe. She is staying in the Americas for nine months, so as yet Team Malizia has no plan to take her back to Europe.
The team has not yet calculated the cost of the trip.
Related Topics
Santiago
UN climate change conferences
New York City
Schools' climate change protests
Climate change
Greta Thunberg
BBC News - Greta Thunberg to sail Atlantic for climate conferences
Related Topics
UN climate change conferences
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has accepted a ride across the Atlantic by boat to attend two key climate conferences.
The teenager will make the journey aboard the Malizia II, a high-speed 18-metre (60ft) yacht built to race around the globe.
"We'll be sailing across the Atlantic Ocean from the UK to New York in mid August," she tweeted.
Thunberg refuses to fly because of the environmental impact of air travel.
In a Facebook post, Team Malizia said they were "honoured to sail Greta Thunberg emission free across the Atlantic".
She had previously said that she wanted to attend the UN Climate Action summit in New York on 23 September, but was struggling to work out how to make it without taking a plane or going on a cruise ship - which have similarly high emissions.
Hurricanes also often deter sailors from trans-Atlantic journeys in August.
"Taking a boat to North America is basically impossible," she previously told the Associated Press news agency.
Now, the 16-year-old will be able to attend the New York conference. She will later journey by low-carbon transport south to the annual Santiago Climate Change Conference in December.
Malizia II was built to compete in the 2016-2017 round-the-world Vendée Globe race. The high-tech vessel generates electricity through solar panels and underwater turbines.
Thunberg and her father will make the crossing with captain Boris Herrmann, Monaco royal family member Pierre Casiraghi and a Swedish documentary maker, Nathan Grossman. The journey is expected to take about two weeks.
A spokeswoman for Team Malizia told the BBC they approached Thunberg to offer to take her, and had no previous plan to sail the yacht across the Atlantic.
It is not known how the activist will return to Europe. She is staying in the Americas for nine months, so as yet Team Malizia has no plan to take her back to Europe.
The team has not yet calculated the cost of the trip.
Related Topics
Santiago
UN climate change conferences
New York City
Schools' climate change protests
Climate change
Greta Thunberg
"Duh, duh, an immortal soul, duh."
A fucktard wrote this bullshit:
Humans evolved biologically, as clearly demonstrated by fossil evidence, but at a chosen point in time God "breathed into them" a spiritual nature and an immortal soul, at which time they became fully human by a direct act of God.
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Notice how the fucktard writes about the evidence for evolution but when he wants to stick his fairy into it, the fucktard provides zero evidence. He just makes things up.
These morons for Jeebus call themselves "theistic evolutionists" even though there is nothing theistic in science. What they really are but they won't admit it: Creationist morons.
And what is a "soul"? It's just bullshit that was invented to justify the heaven bullshit. That's what religions are, bullshit piled on top of bullshit.
The stupid, it burns.
Humans evolved biologically, as clearly demonstrated by fossil evidence, but at a chosen point in time God "breathed into them" a spiritual nature and an immortal soul, at which time they became fully human by a direct act of God.
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Notice how the fucktard writes about the evidence for evolution but when he wants to stick his fairy into it, the fucktard provides zero evidence. He just makes things up.
These morons for Jeebus call themselves "theistic evolutionists" even though there is nothing theistic in science. What they really are but they won't admit it: Creationist morons.
And what is a "soul"? It's just bullshit that was invented to justify the heaven bullshit. That's what religions are, bullshit piled on top of bullshit.
The stupid, it burns.