Comments on: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc

By: bdsm fem dom

bdsm fem dom — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 01:24:22 +0000

i am happy mostly – though terribly sick at times – the medicine is not a perfect fix – i think some weed would help but caant find any – Kant find any…

By: Betsy Markum

Betsy Markum — Tue, 09 May 2006 03:49:09 +0000

I can’t believe it, my co-worker just bought a car for $57775. Isn’t that crazy!

By: Kamachanda

Kamachanda — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 13:48:52 +0000

Hieronymus Braintree, No one wants to do a colonoscopy on a Neo-Con. Probably find everything from Bush’s real military records to the Lindburg baby.

By: Hieronymus Braintree

Hieronymus Braintree — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 22:02:55 +0000

Well, we can always tyring shoving as hard as we can and meet each other half way.

By: Kamachanda

Kamachanda — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:45:09 +0000

I’m morally superior for not shoving my irrational beliefs down other people’s throats. Not that that’s where I’d shove them….

By: Hieronymus Braintree

Hieronymus Braintree — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 19:33:00 +0000

David,

Nuts to you, Sweetheart. That’s the thing about dealing with religious people and their apologists: They always resort to trying to bully people with their emotions.

You say schaedenfruede is a sickness. Uh, huh. And I should believe that why? Because some sanctimonious boob who has his panties in a knot says so?

And, incidentally, for me it isn’t even schadenfruede. It’s the relief at seeing a pernicious piece of horseshit exploded. Everybody has pain, Charlie. It’s just that some of us don’t use it as an excuse to shove our irrational beliefs down other people’s throats while telling everyone that we’re morally superior for doing it. Unfortunately, you can’t say that for Christians.

By: David K. M. Klaus

David K. M. Klaus — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 11:18:17 +0000

It is indeed a shame that you think that families so desperate for the survival of a loved one that they will try even prayer are a source of hilarity. Schadenfreude is ill-becoming, no matter who is indulging in it. It itself is a sickness. Okay, prayer doesn't work. Is the crying child praying for the survival of her father funny? Is the desperate wife with four children to feed praying for the survival of her husband funny? I'm an agnostic. That doesn't make me insensitive to human pain. If you are, perhaps you need an empathy transplant.

By: Hieronymus Braintree

Hieronymus Braintree — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:11:14 +0000

Religious people, by insisting that we respect their stupid delusions (i.e., sex is evil, Republicans are more honest than Democrats, we don’t have to take care of the enrivonment because the Rapture’s gonna happen any day now and that’s why I have a variable mortgage) do tons of damage which people are afraid to point out because they don’t want to offend religious people. In other words, religious people bully us with their feelings in a way that puts a huge crimp on intelligent, productive conversation. (Of course you could say the same thing for the identity politics crowd, but that’s another story.)

I mean Geez, Dan. if you can’t laugh at a destructive and apparantly intractable delusion that harms us all, what’s the use of going on? No use being a sanctimonious speck of drool.

And now it’s time for a round of Mr. Answer Guy:

“What really puzzles me is the mathematics: If 59 percent of the patients who knew about the prayers suffered complications vs. 51/52 percent in the other categories, how does that translate into a 14 percent higher rate of complication?”

59% – 8% = 51% 8 divided by 51 = 15.69%
59% – 7% = 52%, 7 divided by 52 = 13.46%

14% is a decent midpoint description for 13.46% – 15.69%

By: David Parsons

David Parsons — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:25:05 +0000

I have to agree with Dan. I am very opposed to this attitude on the Left that science is absolute truth and anyone who “believes” in anything outside of that is a redneck moron from the “Bronze Age.”

Oh you hip atheists really have it all figured out, and your air of superiority is sooooo sexy.

Science is a religion like any other. Read some quantum physics and quit being so dismissive. If the left is supposed to be more “open-minded,” I’m not seeing that here. A truly open mind doesn’t laugh at anything that fails to fit his/her limited view of things.

By the way, I’m not defending the people who did the study…I’m just attacking the attitude that is disappointingly common on sites such as this.

Can we EVOLVE our minds beyond this left/right nonsense? I think it’s critical that we do if humanity is to survive even another decade.

By: M ike Meyer

M ike Meyer — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:28:14 +0000

How can a Man know GOD.