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@Tradesecret
Confucianism
己所不欲，勿施於人。
"What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others."
子貢問曰：「有一言而可以終身行之者乎？」子曰：「其恕乎！己所不欲，勿施於人。」
Zi gong (a disciple of Confucius) asked: "Is there any one word that could guide a person throughout life?"
The Master replied: "How about 'shu' [reciprocity]: never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself?"
The Master replied: "How about 'shu' [reciprocity]: never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself?"
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@fauxlaw
Your first point is entirely faulty. As a race [and it was settle a little longer ago than two generations, which typically amount to 20 - 40 years, each]
Actually, badger is correct. The struggle for racial equality in the United States of America in the 1960s extended across the nation and was waged from segregated lunch counters to the bar of the United States Supreme Court. It had an impact on every aspect of American life, including the federal government. Because the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) preserves and makes available federal records of continuing value, its holdings are a valuable source of documentation about this era. Federal records can shed light on how and why the struggle was launched, on occurrences during the 1960s that influenced the course of events in America in the following decades, and on the federal government's role in the struggle. During the past ten years, NARA has added to its holdings and, in some instances, made available for the first time records that provide interesting insights into the federal role in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s.
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@badger
I got the Moderna vaccine a couple of months ago. I had no problems.
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@Wylted
Lead was never seen healthy by the scientific community. It was capitalism that loved it. By the 1920s, lead was an essential part of the middle-class American home. It was in telephones, ice boxes, vacuums, irons, and washing machines; dolls, painted toys, bean bags, baseballs, and fishing lures. Perhaps most perniciously, it was in gasoline, pipes and paint, the building blocks of urbanization and a growing housing stock.
That was precisely how the lead industry wanted their product to be seen. Despite the fact that lead was known to be toxic as early as the late 19th century, manufacturers and trade groups fiercely marketed it as essential to America’s economic growth and consumer ideals, especially when it came to their walls. Latching onto the nation’s post-Depression affection for clean, bright colors, they were successful.
That was precisely how the lead industry wanted their product to be seen. Despite the fact that lead was known to be toxic as early as the late 19th century, manufacturers and trade groups fiercely marketed it as essential to America’s economic growth and consumer ideals, especially when it came to their walls. Latching onto the nation’s post-Depression affection for clean, bright colors, they were successful.
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@Fruit_Inspector
Are you saying that evolutionary biologists would make no distinction between Homo sapiens from 100,000 years ago and Homo sapiens today?
So when did fossils finally first show fully modern humans with all representative features? It’s not an easy answer. One skull (but only one of several) from Omo Kibish looks much like a modern human at 195,000 years old, while another found in Nigeria’s Iwo Eleru cave, appears very archaic, but is only 13,000 years old. These discrepancies illustrate that the process wasn’t linear, reaching some single point after which all people were modern humans.
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@Fruit_Inspector
Is there anything that is factually incorrect about this statement from the evolutionary perspective?
No
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@Fruit_Inspector
Let's look at chimpanzees, the closest ape to us. They do have different skin tones but they're all different degrees of what we would consider dark skinned and their skin tends to darken with age, accounting for those differences.
Skin color in humans serves a purpose however, dark skin, that is more melanin, protects better against UV and is often found in people who live near or on the equator. Light skin helps with vitamin D synthesis and is often found in people far from the equator. Less UV radiation reaches those places and UV radiation is actually important in synthesizing vitamin D, therefore lighter skin that lets more through is important.
Now back to the chimpanzee, we share a common ancestor from about 7 million years ago, this adaptation of skin tone in humans emerged around 1 million years ago at the latest.
Skin color in humans serves a purpose however, dark skin, that is more melanin, protects better against UV and is often found in people who live near or on the equator. Light skin helps with vitamin D synthesis and is often found in people far from the equator. Less UV radiation reaches those places and UV radiation is actually important in synthesizing vitamin D, therefore lighter skin that lets more through is important.
Now back to the chimpanzee, we share a common ancestor from about 7 million years ago, this adaptation of skin tone in humans emerged around 1 million years ago at the latest.
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@Lemming
So I assume you are a Neo-Confederate?
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@Lemming
I think I will go with Russell Simmons on this. Russell Simmons has got a pretty clear explanation on the relevance, or lack thereof, of a statue of Robert E. Lee in a 21st century America. According to the mogul and philanthropist, honoring Lee is no different from honoring the likes of Adolf Hitler.
“Hitler lost, right? We don’t have a memorial for Hitler,” Simmons told TMZ. “We don’t have a whole celebration of his effort. His effort was wrong. His intention was bad; hurtful. So, we don’t put up statues of him or, in fact, any opponents.”
“The South says, ‘Well, what are we going to have to represent the South?’ use the American flag, right? That’s all you need.”
“The South says, ‘Well, what are we going to have to represent the South?’ use the American flag, right? That’s all you need.”
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Homosexuality is linked to hormone levels. Didn't God know anything about quality control? I don't think God could have gotten into MIT.
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Good, now they can remove all the statues of Hitler they have in Germany. Oh wait, they don't have any.
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@n8nrgmi
is because they lack good judgment and critical thinking skills.
Do you mean like Albert Einstein? “The word God is for me nothing but the expression of and product of human weaknesses"
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Remember that religion was developed as an opiate for such a poorly designed world.
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Humans are one type of several living species of great apes. Humans evolved alongside orangutans, chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas. All of these share a common ancestor before about 7 million years ago.
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@thett3
Using information obtained through public record requests, the Stanford Open Policing Project examined almost 100 million traffic stops conducted from 2011 to 2017 across 21 state patrol agencies, including California, Illinois, New York and Texas, and 29 municipal police departments, including New Orleans, Philadelphia, San Francisco and St. Paul, Minnesota.
The results show that police stopped and searched black and Latino drivers on the basis of less evidence than used in stopping white drivers, who are searched less often but are more likely to be found with illegal items. The study does not set out to conclude whether officers knowingly engaged in racial discrimination, but uses a more nuanced analysis of traffic stop data to infer that race is a factor when people are pulled over — and that it's occuring across the country.
The results show that police stopped and searched black and Latino drivers on the basis of less evidence than used in stopping white drivers, who are searched less often but are more likely to be found with illegal items. The study does not set out to conclude whether officers knowingly engaged in racial discrimination, but uses a more nuanced analysis of traffic stop data to infer that race is a factor when people are pulled over — and that it's occuring across the country.
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@oromagi
18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
I think that eventually Trump will be found guilty of this and then he will move with the first First Lady born in a Communist country to his Trump Tower in Moscow.
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@ebuc
Well stated. There were 213,799,485 registered voters in 2020. Trump got 74216154 votes which is 35% of registered voters. 35 percent also just happens to be the percent of mentally ill people in the USA.
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@Marauder
Isn't proof of your low IQ the fact that you believe in God?
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This speech by Trump on Jan. 6 should be considered criminal.
"Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that's what this is all about. And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with: We will stop the steal. Today I will lay out just some of the evidence proving that we won this election and we won it by a landslide. This was not a close election."
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@Fruit_Inspector
See: On the Brain of the Negro, Compared with That of the European and the Orang-Outang
Author(s): Frederick Tiedemann
Source: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London , 1836, Vol. 126 (1836),
pp. 497-527
Published by: Royal Society
(note that this was published in 1836)
It states: It is evident from the comparison of the capacity of the cavum cranii of the Negro with that of the European, Mongolian, American, and Malayan, that the cavity of the skull of the Negro, in general, is not smaller than that of the European and other human races. The result of HAMILTON's * researches is the same.
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@Marauder
The causes of the Bronze Age Collapse have been presented by scholars as linear, happening in a set sequence: earthquakes brought down cities and poor harvests (Global cooling climate change) caused famine which led to social and political instability. That sure sounds like things happened as they did and not as they didn't.
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@Double_R
It's the stuff of a children's book.
Or as Albert Einstein said:
"the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.”
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@ILikePie5
From Trump's speech Jan. 6
Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that's what this is all about. And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with: We will stop the steal. Today I will lay out just some of the evidence proving that we won this election and we won it by a landslide. This was not a close election.
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@ILikePie5
Justice Kennedy, joined by The Chief Justice, Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Sotomayor, concluded that the Act infringes upon speech protected by the First Amendment. Pp. 3–18.
(a) The Constitution “demands that content-based restrictions on speech be presumed invalid . . . and that the Government bear the burden of showing their constitutionality.” Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union, 542 U. S. 656 .
Content-based restrictions on speech have been permitted only for a few historic categories of speech, including incitement, obscenity, defamation, speech integral to criminal conduct, so-called “fighting words,” child pornography, fraud, true threats, and speech presenting some grave and imminent threat the Government has the power to prevent.
(a) The Constitution “demands that content-based restrictions on speech be presumed invalid . . . and that the Government bear the burden of showing their constitutionality.” Ashcroft v. American Civil Liberties Union, 542 U. S. 656 .
Content-based restrictions on speech have been permitted only for a few historic categories of speech, including incitement, obscenity, defamation, speech integral to criminal conduct, so-called “fighting words,” child pornography, fraud, true threats, and speech presenting some grave and imminent threat the Government has the power to prevent.
Doesn't this sound like incitement?
On Jan. 6, Trump gave a 70-minute speech to the crowd assembled at the Ellipse near the White House. He rambled at length about the details surrounding the supposed election steal, sounding chaotic and deluded to critics.
Yet, to his followers, his ability to reel off statistics, however false, not only evoked his ostensible business expertise but also furnished more evidence for the stolen election. Trump also made numerous statements that could be taken as a call to insurrection: “If you don’t fight like Hell, you’re not going to have a country any more;” “When you catch somebody in a fraud, you’re allowed to go by very different rules;” “You’ll never take back our country with weakness.”
The implication of the word “our” is that America has fallen into the wrong hands: Democrats, minorities and urban elites. When his supporters chanted “Fight for Trump,” he responded with the approving “Thank you.”
Yet, to his followers, his ability to reel off statistics, however false, not only evoked his ostensible business expertise but also furnished more evidence for the stolen election. Trump also made numerous statements that could be taken as a call to insurrection: “If you don’t fight like Hell, you’re not going to have a country any more;” “When you catch somebody in a fraud, you’re allowed to go by very different rules;” “You’ll never take back our country with weakness.”
The implication of the word “our” is that America has fallen into the wrong hands: Democrats, minorities and urban elites. When his supporters chanted “Fight for Trump,” he responded with the approving “Thank you.”
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I told you janesix was the new ebuc.
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@sadolite
The Constitution establishes a federal democratic republic form of government. That is, we have an indivisible union of 50 sovereign States. It is a democracy because people govern themselves. It is representative because people choose elected officials by free and secret ballot.
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@ILikePie5
See United States v. Alvarez (567 US, 2012).
This decision made clear that there are certainly some cases where lying is not protected speech, such as when it’s part of criminal conduct or interferes with the operation of the government, intentionally false statements are simply not a category of speech that gets less protection. Trump lying that he won the 2020 Presidential election is a threat to the stability of the US government. It is quite possible that Trump could be arrested if he testifies in the Supreme Court case
This decision made clear that there are certainly some cases where lying is not protected speech, such as when it’s part of criminal conduct or interferes with the operation of the government, intentionally false statements are simply not a category of speech that gets less protection. Trump lying that he won the 2020 Presidential election is a threat to the stability of the US government. It is quite possible that Trump could be arrested if he testifies in the Supreme Court case
that he did win the 2020 election.
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Facts the ZOG Hides
African-American adolescent females between the ages of 13 and 19 represent 15 percent of all U.S. adolescent females, yet they account for 66 percent of all AIDS cases reported among young women. HIV/AIDS rates for African American females were 19 times the rates for white females and 5 times the rates for Hispanic females:
BLACK-ON-WHITE RAPES.......In 1988 there were nine reported incidents of black women being raped by white men. In the same year there were 9,400 reported cases of white women being raped by black men In 1991 there were 94 reported cases of white on black rape, but 20,016 reported cases of white women being raped by black men. (Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1993, p.290, Table 351.)
In Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of Sept. 1862 he said: "I have urged the colonization of the Negroes, (back to Africa), and I shall continue. My Emancipation Proclamation was linked with this plan (of colonization). There is no room for two distinct races of White men in America, much less for two distinct races of Whites and Blacks. . . . I can think of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the negro into our social and political life as our equal...Within twenty years we can peacefully colonize the Negro...under conditions in which he can rise to the full measure of manhood. This he can never do here. We can never attain the ideal union our fathers dreamed, with millions of an alien, inferior race among us, whose assimilation is neither possible nor desirable."
On Jan. 31, 1977, Martin Luther King's FBI records were sealed by court order until the year 2027 because, as his wife said, "its release would destroy his reputation" These records are rumored to contain instances of bizarre sexual perversion and homosexuality, and proof that King was under the direct orders of Soviet spies and financed by the Communist Party.
BLACK-ON-WHITE RAPES.......In 1988 there were nine reported incidents of black women being raped by white men. In the same year there were 9,400 reported cases of white women being raped by black men In 1991 there were 94 reported cases of white on black rape, but 20,016 reported cases of white women being raped by black men. (Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, 1993, p.290, Table 351.)
In Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of Sept. 1862 he said: "I have urged the colonization of the Negroes, (back to Africa), and I shall continue. My Emancipation Proclamation was linked with this plan (of colonization). There is no room for two distinct races of White men in America, much less for two distinct races of Whites and Blacks. . . . I can think of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the negro into our social and political life as our equal...Within twenty years we can peacefully colonize the Negro...under conditions in which he can rise to the full measure of manhood. This he can never do here. We can never attain the ideal union our fathers dreamed, with millions of an alien, inferior race among us, whose assimilation is neither possible nor desirable."
On Jan. 31, 1977, Martin Luther King's FBI records were sealed by court order until the year 2027 because, as his wife said, "its release would destroy his reputation" These records are rumored to contain instances of bizarre sexual perversion and homosexuality, and proof that King was under the direct orders of Soviet spies and financed by the Communist Party.
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@oromagi
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The Make America Great Again movement is only just beginning.
President Trump is calling on you to step up and become a founding member of his Save America team.
Can he count on you?
Please contribute ANY AMOUNT in the NEXT HOUR to get on President Trump’s Official Founding Member Donor List.
President Trump is calling on you to step up and become a founding member of his Save America team.
Can he count on you?
Please contribute ANY AMOUNT in the NEXT HOUR to get on President Trump’s Official Founding Member Donor List.
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@Fruit_Inspector
How will we know when this supposed racism has been eliminated?
When the Supreme Knights of the Klu Klux Klan doesn't have a website anymore?
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@Fruit_Inspector
Do you agree with the statement that denial of evolution is white supremacy?
Yes
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@bmdrocks21
In 2019 a New York judge ruled that President Trump must pay $2 million in damages to settle claims that the Trump Foundation misused funds. The money will go to a group of charities, and the foundation is in the process of dissolving.
The case is tied to a televised fundraiser for veterans held by Trump in Iowa when he was running for president in January 2016. Trump had said the funds raised would be distributed to charities. But according to court documents, the Trump Foundation improperly used $2.82 million it received from that fundraiser.
The case is tied to a televised fundraiser for veterans held by Trump in Iowa when he was running for president in January 2016. Trump had said the funds raised would be distributed to charities. But according to court documents, the Trump Foundation improperly used $2.82 million it received from that fundraiser.
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Does anybody here agree with the statement "We simply believe that the United States of America was founded as a white Christian nation." ?
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@Fruit_Inspector
Just say yes, I believe we should teach young people a theory that is a decades-old academic framework that asserts racism is woven into our history .
This might help eliminate racism.
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The president of the nation’s second-largest teachers union is taking a strong stand against a recent spate of laws that restrict public-school lessons on racism, vowing legal action to protect any member who “gets in trouble for teaching honest history.”
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, warned in a speech Tuesday that conservative lawmakers, pundits and news sites are waging a “culture campaign” against critical race theory. The theory is a decades-old academic framework that asserts racism is woven into the history and thus the present of the nation, helping shape how institutions and systems function.
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@Fruit_Inspector
Right, everyone knows that Adam and Eve were White and Blacks evolved from Apes in 6000 years.
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@fauxlaw
In March 1826 a court in Bainbridge, New York, convicted a twenty-one-year-old man of being “a disorderly person and an impostor.” That ought to have been all we ever heard of Joseph Smith, who at trial admitted to defrauding citizens by organizing mad gold-digging expeditions and also to claiming to possess dark or “necromantic” powers. However, within four years he was back in the local newspapers (all of which one may still read) as the discoverer of the “Book of Mormon.” He had two huge local advantages which most mountebanks and charlatans do not possess. First, he was operating in the same hectically pious district that gave us the Shakers and several other self-proclaimed American prophets. So notorious did this local tendency become that the region became known as the “Burned-Over District,” in honor of the way in which it had surrendered to one religious craze after another. Second, he was operating in an area which, unlike large tracts of the newly opening North America, did possess the signs of an ancient history.
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@TheUnderdog
See: Mormonism: A Racket Becomes a Religion
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A GQ cover story in 2012 noted that Spanish actor Javier Bardem is an atheist. He is quoted as saying, "I've always said I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino." THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images
English actress Keira Knightley has joked that she wishes she were Catholic. "If only I wasn't an atheist; I could get away with anything," she said in 2012. "You'd just ask for forgiveness, and then you'd be forgiven." Frederic Nebinger/Getty Images
Actor Paul Giamatti calls himself an atheist. In a 2011 interview, he said, "My wife is Jewish, and I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew. ... I will talk to my son about my atheism when the time is right." Dominique Charriau/WireImage via Getty Images
Sir Ian McKellen, best known for his roles as Gandalf in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and Magneto in the "X-Men" films, has listed atheism among the causes he cares most about. But he says since coming out as gay in 1988, he has been reluctant to lobby on issues beyond his most urgent concern: "legal and social equality for gay people worldwide." Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images
Legendary CBS News commentator Andy Rooney, who died in 2011 at age 92, was outspoken about religion. "I am an atheist," Rooney said at Tufts University in 2004. "I don't understand religion at all. I'm sure I'll offend a lot of people by saying this, but I think it's all nonsense." CBS/Landov
British actress Emma Thompson said in a 2008 interview, "I'm an atheist; I suppose you can call me a sort of libertarian anarchist. I regard religion with fear and suspicion. It's not enough to say that I don't believe in God. I actually regard the system as distressing: I am offended by some of the things said in the Bible and the Quran, and I refute them." Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Singer-songwriter Billy Joel reiterated his stance in a 2010 interview with radio host Howard Stern. Asked whether he believed in God, Joel replied, "No. I'm an atheist." His song "Only the Good Die Young" includes the line "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints." Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images
Composer and musician Brian Eno refers to himself as an "evangelical atheist." In 2007, he told the BBC, "What religion says to you, essentially, is that you're not in control. Now that's a very liberating idea. It's quite a frightening idea as well, in some ways." Sergio Dionisio/Getty Images
Penn Jillette, half of the Emmy Award-winning magic duo Penn & Teller, wrote the book "God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales." In it, he said, "If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true, and someone would find a way to figure it all out again." Lloyd Bishop/NBC/Getty Images
Academy Award-winning director James Cameron, known for films such as "Titanic" and "Avatar," calls himself a "converted agnostic." In "The Futurist," a biography by Rebecca Keegan, he says, "I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism." Atheists believe there is no God, while agnostics say it's impossible to prove or disprove God's existence. Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
British actor Hugh Laurie, known for his lead role on the medical drama "House," confirmed his atheism in a 2007 interview with The Sunday Telegraph. "I don't believe in God," he said, "but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted, he'd take it away." JEFF PACHOUD/AFP/Getty Images
Actress Jodie Foster told Entertainment Weekly in 2007 that she was an atheist. She added, "But I absolutely love religions and the rituals. Even though I don't believe in God, we celebrate pretty much every religion in our family with the kids." Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
Seth MacFarlane, creator of the animated series "Family Guy," has become vocal about his atheism. Asked about it in a 2009 interview with Esquire, he said, "It's like the civil-rights movement. There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith." Michael Buckner/Getty Images for SXSW
Ricky Gervais, creator of the British series "The Office," wrote about his religious journey in an essay published in 2010 by the Wall Street Journal. "Wow. No God. If mum had lied to me about God, had she also lied to me about Santa? Yes, of course, but who cares? The gifts kept coming," he said. "And so did the gifts of my new found atheism. The gifts of truth, science, nature. The real beauty of this world." Paul Drinkwater/NBC via Getty Images
Comedian Kathy Griffin, a self-described "militant atheist," made her position clear with a controversial Emmy Award acceptance speech in 2007. "A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award," she said. "I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. ... So all I can say is, suck it, Jesus. This award is my god now." Paul Drinkwater/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
British evolutionary biologist and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins' views about religion were summed up in his bestselling book "The God Delusion." He wrote, "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." His coming-out campaign suggests atheists should be proud rather than apologetic. KAI FOERSTERLING/EPA/Landov
Christopher Hitchens, a British author and antitheist who died in 2011 at age 62, viewed religion as "the main source of hatred in the world." In his book "God is Not Great," Hitchens wrote, "There are days when I miss my old convictions as if they were an amputated limb. But in general I feel better, and no less radical, and you will feel better too, I guarantee, once you leave hold of the doctrinaire and allow your chainless mind to do its own thinking." PETER FOLEY/EPA/Landov
Neuroscientist and author Sam Harris is a well-known atheist and a vocal critic of religion. In "The End of Faith," he wrote, "We will see that the greatest problem confronting civilization is not merely religious extremism: rather, it is the larger set of cultural and intellectual accommodations we have made to faith itself." Charles Ommanney/Getty Images
Philosopher Daniel Dennett is referred to as one of the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism," along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris. In his book "Breaking the Spell," Dennett said, "You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better." BAS CZERWINSKI/EPA/Landov
British physicist Peter Higgs is among those credited with the theory behind the Higgs boson, a subatomic particle long thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe. In an interview with the BBC, he expressed his discomfort with people calling it the "God particle." He said, "First of all, I'm an atheist. The second thing is I know that name (started as) a kind of joke and not a very good one. ... It's so misleading." FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images
In his book "The Grand Design," theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking asserts that God did not create the universe. "Spontaneous creation is the reason why there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," he wrote. "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going." Cancan Chu/Getty Images
Greg Epstein is the humanist chaplain at Harvard University and the author of the New York Times bestseller "Good Without God." In the introduction, he wrote, "This is not a book about whether one can be good without God, because that question does not need to be answered -- it needs to be rejected outright. To suggest that one can't be good without belief in God is not just an opinion, a mere curious musing -- it is a prejudice." harvardhumanist.org
Kurt Vonnegut, author of "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Cat's Cradle," rejected supernatural beliefs. In his autobiographical book, "Palm Sunday," he examines how he was affected by studying anthropology. "It confirmed my atheism, which was the religion of my fathers anyway," he said. Vonnegut died at age 84 in 2007. Brad Barket/Getty Images
Douglas Adams, who wrote "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," was a committed atheist. In his book "The Salmon of Doubt," he satirically imagined a puddle thinking, "This is an interesting world I find myself in -- an interesting hole I find myself in -- fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!" Adams died in 2001. He was 49. Dan Callister/Online USA/Getty Images
Science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov wrote in his autobiography, "If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul." He died in 1992 at age 72. Library of Congress
Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who was murdered in 1995 at age 76, was an atheist activist. She founded the American Atheists and served as the organization's president from 1963 to 1986. She is perhaps best known for her role in the 1963 Supreme Court ruling that ended Bible reading in public schools. Life magazine once called her "the most hated woman in America." Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT/Landov
Ayn Rand, author of "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged," was an atheist and an opponent of religion. In her book "The Voice of Reason," she criticized President Ronald Reagan and his administration for trying "to take us back to the Middle Ages, via the unconstitutional union of religion and politics." She died in 1982 at age 77. Leonard Mccombe//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
Also Richard Branson is an atheist.
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The USA ranks 32nd in Average IQ in the World. This explains Trump being elected President.
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Microbial intelligence (known as bacterial intelligence) is the intelligence shown by microorganisms. The concept encompasses complex adaptive behavior shown by single cells, and altruistic or cooperative behavior in populations of like or unlike cells mediated by chemical signalling that induces physiological or behavioral changes in cells and influences colony structures.
Complex cells, like protozoa or algae, show remarkable abilities to organize themselves in changing circumstances. Shell-building by amoebae reveals complex discrimination and manipulative skills that are ordinarily thought to occur only in multicellular organisms.
Even bacteria can display more behavior as a population. These behaviors occur in single species populations, or mixed species populations. Examples are colonies or swarms of myxobacteria, quorum sensing, and biofilms.
It has been suggested that a bacterial colony loosely mimics a biological neural network. The bacteria can take inputs in form of chemical signals, process them and then produce output chemicals to signal other bacteria in the colony.
Bacteria communication and self-organization in the context of network theory has been investigated by Eshel Ben-Jacob research group at Tel Aviv University which developed a fractal model of bacterial colony and identified linguistic and social patterns in colony lifecycle.
Complex cells, like protozoa or algae, show remarkable abilities to organize themselves in changing circumstances. Shell-building by amoebae reveals complex discrimination and manipulative skills that are ordinarily thought to occur only in multicellular organisms.
Even bacteria can display more behavior as a population. These behaviors occur in single species populations, or mixed species populations. Examples are colonies or swarms of myxobacteria, quorum sensing, and biofilms.
It has been suggested that a bacterial colony loosely mimics a biological neural network. The bacteria can take inputs in form of chemical signals, process them and then produce output chemicals to signal other bacteria in the colony.
Bacteria communication and self-organization in the context of network theory has been investigated by Eshel Ben-Jacob research group at Tel Aviv University which developed a fractal model of bacterial colony and identified linguistic and social patterns in colony lifecycle.
From the above, you can see that single cells over billions of years could form humans (after small animals and eventually apes were formed)
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When the Europeans arrived, carrying germs which thrived in dense, semi-urban populations, the indigenous people of the Americas were effectively doomed. They had never experienced smallpox, measles or flu before, and the viruses tore through the continent, killing an estimated 90% of Native Americans.
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@Yassine
The OIC countries (Muslim majority countries) have already surpassed the US & the EU in GDP,
Not true, the Islamic World's nominal GDP currently stands at a grand total of $6.25 trillion dollars, spread over a population of 1.6 billion people. For comparison India, which has an approximately similar sized population to the Islamic world (1.3 billion), has an economy worth $2.45 trillion dollars. Much of the Muslim world still lags behind countries such as Japan ($4.8 trillion dollars) and the United States ($18.6 trillion dollars) however, who have much smaller populations (127 million; 323 million respectively) but are highly industrialised, as well place a particular emphasis on science. Additionally China's current economy is worth $11.8 trillion dollars (with a population of 1.41 billion. Progress, however, is more rapid in some countries than others; for example Indonesia (population 261 million) became the first country in the Islamic world to surpass the trillion dollar mark in 2017, with Turkey closely behind at almost achieving this target (which currently stands at $841.2 billion dollars). Malaysia too is a laudable case, which is set to reach a nominal GDP of $500 billion dollars by 2022, with a population of only 34.2 million people. Significantly, these more advanced Muslim economies are not solely oil-based economies (with the exception of Saudi Arabia; $678 billion dollars and with a population of 32.4 million), but have rapidly been expanding in economic complexity over the years. Perhaps far more exciting is that the macroeconomic trends show the Islamic world will accrue a total nominal GDP wealth of $8.85 trillion dollars by 2022 (representing an average growth rate of 7% to 2022).
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@Yassine
LDS are actually closer to the teachings of the Bible than most Christian denominations out there.
Yes, Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell sure think so. That's why they killed her kids.
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@Athias
93% of the National Academy of Sciences, an elite organization of the best Scientists in the USA, were either overwhelmingly Atheist (72%) or Agnostic (21%). That was a cross-section poll of the 2000 scientists there, but what skews it is that these are the best of the best, all PhDs.
71 percent of people who only have a high school education say they believe in God.
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@Greyparrot
What Sowell has written most about are the affirmative action programs, which he says have backfired. Instead of producing more jobs for women and blacks, he says, they have made potential employers more wary, fearful that if the hiring does not work out, they will probably be faced with a lawsuit.
And he says that skin color is no longer an unscalable barrier to advancement.
The NCAAP's Tom Atkins responds vehemently. "It's true that Tom Atkins and Tom Sowell don't need affirmative action programs to assist our entry into the mainstream. And it is also true that both Tom Atkins and Tom Sowell are, when compared to the average white person, exceedingly more qualified and more prepared. We're super-blacks. The NAACP approach is not one designed to assist the elitist or superblack; we worry about the whole spectrum. Tom Sowell apparently does not know they exist. He sounds like an Uncle Tom to me.
And he says that skin color is no longer an unscalable barrier to advancement.
The NCAAP's Tom Atkins responds vehemently. "It's true that Tom Atkins and Tom Sowell don't need affirmative action programs to assist our entry into the mainstream. And it is also true that both Tom Atkins and Tom Sowell are, when compared to the average white person, exceedingly more qualified and more prepared. We're super-blacks. The NAACP approach is not one designed to assist the elitist or superblack; we worry about the whole spectrum. Tom Sowell apparently does not know they exist. He sounds like an Uncle Tom to me.
Un·cle Tom
noun
OFFENSIVE•NORTH AMERICAN
- a black man considered to be excessively obedient or servile to white people.
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@Dr.Franklin
sowell is very good
Yes, he makes a great Uncle Tom.
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