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@RationalMadman
The flaw in what you just said is that Eve was made by his rib, so she'd have to be the same bloodtype.
Nah, if god magic can chance the dna from the rib enough to make it into female dna then god magic can change the bit that governs blood type.
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@Alec
Alec in post 8: We could charge each taxpayer a regressive headcount tax of $1579 each per year.
Alec in post 57: Talking about taxes in this thread is against the CoC.
DD in post 58: Uh-huh... but you are still avoiding my question about how you justify regressive headcount taxation.
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@triangle.128k
Now, you get a Protestant Church holding "transgender ceremonies."
What is a transgender ceremony?
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@ethang5
Your loony pro-homo conspiracy
Could you go into a bit more detail on that one? You seem to just be throwing around words at this point.
is of no interest to me.
If you were not interested in loony conspiracy theories then you would not have made this thread about your loony conspiracy theory of a secret homo pedo cabal infiltrating the BSA over the last 100 years to "murder" the organization from the inside.
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@Alec
If your referring to the fact that I tend to not respond after like a dozen posts,
No. I am referring to the fact that you have never to my knowledge responded to people pointing out that the regressive headcount taxes you constantly propose are ridiculously outdated and harmful.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
So you're saying it is possible to get four blood types from a population of two.
Good. Glad we are on the same page.
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@Deb-8-a-bull
Two people.Four blood types.
You know how blood type of an offspring is determined don't you?
Adam could have been type O- and Eve type AB+. Eve would have to have a heterozygous Rh factor in this case, of course.
As a matter of fact if Eve is AB+ this makes any blood type for Adam possible with the exception of AB+ or AB-.
Obviously I am not a creationist, just pointing out that you could use a lot better argument if you tried a bit harder.
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@ethang5
Did you know, the BSA has been tracking pedophiles within its ranks for about 100 years? They were aware of the problem, but still voted to let homosexuals become troop leaders.
Chick tracts? Neither of us have mentioned religion.
If "Homo pedophile cabal secretly infiltrated the BSA over the last 100 years in order to let a bunch of other homo pedos in to destroy the organization from the inside" doesn't sound like a summary of a Chick tract to you then you've either lost the plot entirely or you have never read a Chick tract before.
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First login in a week. Thinking Ethang should go back to creating brain teasers and leave the Chick tract proposals to the experts.
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@Alec
$516 billion per year./327200000 taxpayers___________________$1579 per taxpayer.
Ignoring the obvious flaws such as the fact that the United States has WAY LESS than 327 million taxpayers and the fact that $1600 a year is a lot of money, I have a more basic question for you:
When people point out to you that regressive headcount taxes such as the ones you constantly propose are ridiculously outdated and harmful do you ignore that because you don't listen to criticism or because the criticism just goes straight over your head? There might be some other possibility but I can't think of any.
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This is my first time logging in in about a week and I do not anticipate becoming any more active in the near future.
/out
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@ethang5
If he used a scribe, that kills your argument, according to your logic.
I am not aware of anyone being capable of using a scribe while not existing.
Still not sure what your reference to the Shakespeare stuff has to do with anything either, perhaps you could fill in the blanks...
It is reasonable to think it is possible Shakespeare existed and the works attributed to him were plagiarized by Shakespeare.Therefore it is reasonable to think it is possible Plato did not exist and the works attributed to him were _______.
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@Salixes
I still don't even know what you are talking about when you refer to the "third man theory" because you described it with a bunch of nonsense text about drinking hemlock and having visions or something.
I am forced to assume that you are making some weird reference to Aristotle's "third man argument" which he created to demonstrate certain flaws in Plato's Theory of Forms.
If you are referring to something else then please reread post 26 and this time actually respond to it rather than simply ignoring it...
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@Salixes
I was referring to Plato's "Third Man" hypothesis.
Well you called it the "three man" argument before, which explains why I had no idea what you were talking about (see post 26).
Also that was Aristotle not Plato.
Also you gave an outrageously innacurate description of the argument in post 23.
Also you don't seem to realize that it was an argument and instead seem to think it was some sort of theory of its own...
I mean dude, I am just a random asshole on the internet with a high school diploma and a 2.7 GPA. You should not be having this much trouble keeping up with me.
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@TheRealNihilist
Did you not see Define spam?
Any content which is nonsensical or excessively repetitive.
I'll rephrase. You are choosing what to speak against. When you are doing that you don't realize you are not talking about the important questions like how do you define spam.
Oh you mean that "let's have five different lines of conversation at once" thing that you keep trying to pull?
Yeah, frankly you aren't interesting enough for me to go for that.
So let's stick with one conversation at a time. You say mafia is being spammed. I asked why you think that. Your response _______?
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@TheRealNihilist
Literally choosing what you want to speak about yet glance so much more important topics.
I ran this through a translator and got nothing. Not sure what to make of it.
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@Vader
Not saying it's great, I'm saying it's better than the rest.
Important distinction lol.
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@Vader
@zedvictor4
Yeah that postage stamp joke got a 4.5/10 rating from me, with 5 on that scale being "it passes" so not terrible. I probably would have given it a solid 5 if not for it being part of a wave of mostly 2s and 3s.
The fact that it is one of his best is kinda sad.
Really the only other kinda decent one he had was here:
I give that one about a 5.7-5.8 but I doubt it was original by him.
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@Vader
<br>Their anti-church jokes are actually not funny. if someone made a funny one, I'd laugh
Yeah, I tried to help him with that in my first post of his "Church burns down" thread. No response =(.
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@TheRealNihilist
Mafia has been spammed
Citation?
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@ethang5
I said written by, not about
Yes, I have heard of the Bible.
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@TheRealNihilist
If Mafia was being spammed I doubt you would care because you enjoy that kind of "spam".
It is difficult for me to disprove this accusation since mafia is not being spammed. You seem to imply that it is, which makes me doubt that you are taking the topic seriously. You know what spam is don't you?
I just don't like spam in general. Why should I?
Dozen I think is thousands but I don't see thousands in 24 hours. This is of course exaggeration but why exaggerate if your point was good enough for the moderators to warrant a change in the CoC?
Lol? Honestly can't tell if this is a joke given the level of logic in the rest of your post. If it isn't a joke then Google the word 'dozen'.
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@ethang5
If we go by your stated standard, there is more evidence for Jesus existence than for Plato.
I mean, he wrote and left behind an actual novel-length text well over 50,000 words in length as just one of his many works that survived to the modern day.
I wasn't aware of any texts attributed to Jesus.
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@TheRealNihilist
My rephrasing would be If I agree there are differences not biologically but before they enter the classroom is it worth integrating people of other races?
Okay. Well my answer to that would be yes. I see no justification for the increased financial costs of segregation, not to mention the obvious moral concerns.
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@ethang5
There is less evidence for the existence of Plato than for Jesus.
That's laughably false. You may be confusing Plato with Socrates, though even then this statement would be a pretty big stretch.
The "more evidence for Jesus than Socrates" meme is based on the fact that Socrates left behind no written works of his own (or at least none that have survived to the present, it is hard to tell which). The number of firsthand accounts of his life, however, are incredibly numerous considering how long ago he lived.
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@Salixes
AM, was post 13 suggesting that I 'claim to be an atheist' or that Plato 'claimed to be an atheist'
Because you could argue (as some have) that Plato was a closet atheist and only pretended to believe in the gods but I am not aware of anything that would indicate he ever outright said he was an atheist.
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@ethang5
You mentioned Plato, and Plato may have been a theist
Nah Plato was probably a theist. He was definitely not "pretending to be an atheist"
If anything one could say (as some have) that he was a closet atheist and lied about being a theist due to the fact that atheism was a crime in that time and place. I am no historian so I can't go into much detail regarding the debate but general consensus is that he was not an atheist.
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@Vader
Yes, actually. Clever.
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@Vader
It was, but sarcasm and text don't mix well so it is hard to tell sometimes (hence the clarification request)
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@David
We will need to MEEP it.
Let's do it.
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@David
@drafterman
@Vader
@Speedrace
@Dr.Franklin
Frankie has two points, one of which is retarded and the other not so retarded (and I think it is obvious which is which)
Point one: Who gives a shit about the CoC?
Point two: The CoC can be changed.
As drafter points out the question of whether this is technically spam under the CoC is "no". The question then becomes whether we ought to update the definition of spam given in the CoC. What is your response to that question?
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@Dr.Franklin
Equating "the most popular forum" with "the forum with the most posts" might be a bit of a stretch...
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Oh wow I did not see that Frankie came into the thread while I was typing the post to summon him lmao.
It is a small world after all.
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@Dr.Franklin
Actually speaking of Frankie (your name is Frankie from now on, Frankie) let's get some testimony from an expert witness in here.
Frankie... As DARTs resident spam expert do you think that the series of OPs in question constitutes spam? Why or why not?
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@drafterman
I honestly think this behavior is tied to the "newest topics" feature (similar to the way that dr franklin style spam is tied to the 'post count' feature) but okay.
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If not for the mafia community going strong this nerd would be completely covering the "newest topics" section (probably his goal tbh). Even with constant new mafia threads he actually did exactly that at one point
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@RationalMadman
About a dozen threads with one line OPs made by the same person in the religion forum in a space of about 24 hours.
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@Speedrace
You too, you are forum mod right?
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@David
@drafterman
Get in here.
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@TheRealNihilist
You are saying that integration means educating more people but that is obviously false.
Let's take a town where 500 people need to be educated. There are two ways to do it.
Integration:
Let's pay for one school system and set up all the infrastructure for it then put 500 people into it.
Segregation:
Let's pay for one school system and set up all the infrastructure for it then put 250 whites into itThen pay for another seprate school system and all its infrastructure and put 100 blacks into it.Then pay for another seprate school system and all its infrastructure and put 50 Asians into it.Then pay for another seprate school system and all its infrastructure and put 50 Arabs into itThen pay for another seprate school system and all its infrastructure and put 50 Indians into it.
You are suggesting that the second option sounds cheaper. Again your quote:
If I agree there are differences not biologically but before they enter the classroom is it worth spending time and resources more specifically integrating people?
I am suggesting that you may not have thought too hard before writting that.
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@ethang5
Yeah so he was talking about Plato like I said but not in the way I thought he was. I thought he was making a reference to The Apology (a written work by Plato purporting to describe the trial of Socrates) where Socrates is accused and convicted of being an atheist as well as other crimes all of which he denied.
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