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Albert Einstein says: “The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”

Spirit-5    Cheetah Gentleman's Club

Humans exhibits ethical behavior by nature because their biological makeup determines the presence of the three necessary, and jointly sufficient, conditions for ethical behavior: (i) the ability to anticipate the consequences of one's own actions; (ii) the ability to make value judgements; and (iii) the ability to choose between alternative courses of action. Ethical behavior came about in evolution not because it is adaptive in itself, but as a necessary consequence of man's eminent intellectual abilities, which are an attribute directly promoted by natural selection.

That is Biden incase you haven't read previous posts.

All I can say is oromagi's first name is Christopher A.

See oromagi's response.

Wow, Greyparrot makes the case for Biden not being to old to be President again.

Don't we want a President that says:  "God dammit, how the fuck don't you know this?!," 

 "Don't fucking bullshit me!," 

OMG, Greyparrot is number 2 on the Most Active Members list. So even the Mod's think he is number 2.

Because it is obviously Trump who fulfilled Mencken's prediction. When will Trump let the public know his IQ?

Shouldn't this type of topic be banned?

You all know that Greyparrot owns the fake news website Babylon Bee, don't you.

Yes, the NIH is a credible source if you evaluate all the sources.

Our argument is that according to experts, the term “fetal heartbeat” is misleading and medically inaccurate.
“While the heart does begin to develop at around six weeks, at this point the heart as we know it does not yet exist,” said Dr. Ian Fraser Golding, a pediatric and fetal cardiologist at Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego. 
Instead, at six weeks, the embryo will develop a tube that generates sporadic electrical impulses that eventually coordinate into rhythmic pulses, he said. (Six weeks of pregnancy is closer to four weeks of actual development, because pregnancy is measured from the first day of a woman’s last period, before she is actually pregnant.)

That’s far from a fully formed heart, with four chambers and valves that pump blood throughout the body.
The correct medical term for what’s observed at this point is “cardiac activity,” said Dr. Sarah Prager, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Washington Medicine.
“It’s not until about 10 weeks that there is an actual structure that has four tubes and connects to the lungs and major vascular system like we would think of as a heart,” she said. 
It’s around 10 weeks of pregnancy that the embryo becomes a fetus. It remains a fetus until birth.
But defining a heartbeat is tricky even after 10 weeks, said Dr. Nisha Verma, an OB/GYN who spoke on behalf of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, because the heart continues to develop over the course of the pregnancy. 
It’s not until around 17 to 20 weeks, when the four chambers of the heart have developed and can be detected on an ultrasound, that the term heartbeat is accurate, according to ACOG.

I don't want a Slovenian sex worker for First Lady again.

C'mon man, don't get your panties in a bunch.

Vegasgiants is correct. From The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) :

It is clinically inaccurate to use the word “heartbeat” to describe the sound that can be heard on ultrasound in very early pregnancy. In fact, there are no chambers of the heart developed at the early stage in pregnancy that this word is used to describe, so there is no recognizable “heartbeat.” What pregnant people may hear is the ultrasound machine translating electronic impulses that signify fetal cardiac activity into the sound that we recognize as a heartbeat.

Until the chambers of the heart have been developed and can be detected via ultrasound (roughly 17-20 weeks of gestation), it is not accurate to characterize the embryo’s or fetus’s cardiac development as a heartbeat.

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
― H.L. Mencken, 1920

OMG, are you a Marker?

“I will also order our government to deny entry to all communists and markers,” Trump said in his speech.

"The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, is for me no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion. Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning."—Albert Einstein, letter of February 5, 1921

Neuroscientists who study consciousness and have weighed the decades of research into NDEs have said these claims that consciousness survives death are not supported by the research. Though they are highly personal and often transformative for those who experience them, NDEs are nonetheless explained by physiological processes, they said, which have been pieced together over the past 50 years. In the decades since Moody published Life After Life, advances in critical care medicine and resuscitation science have made it easier to revive patients whose hearts have stopped, which has made it easier to systematically identify and study people who have had an NDE. Some estimates now suggest that between 4 to 15 percent of the global population and 10 to 23 percent of cardiac arrest patients have had an NDE.2 We now have a better grasp of how they happen, what purpose they may serve and why they are so transformative for those who experience them. At the most basic level, neuroscientists say, when a person’s brain changes in profound ways—as happens when that person goes into cardiac arrest, for example—their perceptions and emotions change in profound ways, too.

As rates of gun violence increase in the United States, experts have identified a disturbing, decades-long trend: There's a clear intersection between mass shootings and domestic violence toward family members.  
More than half of mass shootings — those involving four or more victims — are "actually shootings of intimate partners and families," said April Zeoli, Ph.D., an associate professor and the policy core director for the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention at the University of Michigan. Zeoli studies the intersection of domestic violence, gun violence and policies aimed at curtailing both. 
Even in cases where family members and partners are not killed, the perpetrators of mass shootings often have a history of domestic violence, she said. 

C'mon Man.

By my poll (Pew Research)  61% of Americans say abortion should be legal.

    Roe v. Wade

 75% of women requesting abortion in the US are in poverty or in the low income bracket. I am glad the South wants a lot more welfare.

Tru dat.

Well, people do say I look like Jack Ryan.

Did you notice that Sir.Lancelot is Con on his Global Warming/Climate Change is a hoax topic?

How do you explain 2023 being the warmest year on record? And don't say God did it.

In 1953, every person in the USA owed $858 on the National Debt.

Now it is $96,744.

Oh, and Trump voters?

OMG, the video is saying Christians are Schizotypal people?

Did you know that you and everyone in your family each owe $96,744 on the US Debt?

In 2022, the federal government spent $476 billion on net interest costs on the national debt. That total, which grew by 35 percent from $352 billion in 2021, was the largest amount ever spent on interest in the budget, and equaled nearly 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

Tru dat !

What do you think Marjorie Taylor Greene's IQ is? I would guess around 80. The woman has no connection to reality, lacks any kind of critical thinking skills, is highly susceptible to conspiracy theories.

Yes, the fact-checking organization PolitiFact has found Republicans to be less trustworthy than Democrats, according to a new study.

An international study in the 1990s tested 13 year old's in mathematics in 15 countries. The United States placed next to last, above Jordan.

I agree.

Here Is Why I Don't Believe In The Bible.

Trump

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The purpose of life is to make as much money as possible and to have as much sex as possible. And no, i am not a Trump.

Well stated.

Shouldn't you be saying that you do not believe in Science because you are no Einstein?

. Does God want you to become a cult leader and commit mass suicide?

6000 years ago the Worlds' population was 2, now it is 8 billion.

The increase in population shows that there is no Beforelife. A Beforelife and an Afterlife would require a constant population.

I support CLOTS rights.