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Samuel Dravis

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Posted in: LucasPost #1
  Samuel Dravis
10-04-2009, 9:31 PM
#8
Well, I'll tell you Bart, I woke up this morning around 10 because my roommate wanted to go to this music festival thing down here called Austin City Limits. I have driven downtown to drop her off and pick her up the last couple of days while it was...  [Read More]
Posted in: LucasPost #1
  Samuel Dravis
10-04-2009, 7:44 PM
#3
Hello, just want to say hi to all my fans out there, ha ha! I'm Sam Dravis and I'll be here with you all tonight as we continue our little thread here. I've been with LF oh, at least 10 years and one second (It's okay, Darth Insidious, I still like y...  [Read More]
Posted in: Praise the President?
  Samuel Dravis
09-26-2009, 5:51 PM
#8
Personally I believe that this example is worse than the Jesus Camp incident mainly because it is a public school doing it. While private political indoctrination of children is offensive and reprehensible, a publicly-funded school should never be ad...  [Read More]
Posted in: Opposition not racism
  Samuel Dravis
09-19-2009, 7:24 PM
#28
Obama on racism's connection to the opposition of his administration. (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/health/policy/19obama.html?hp)...  [Read More]
Posted in: Souls?
  Samuel Dravis
08-25-2009, 7:38 PM
#19
VITALARATHY! I suppose if you want to know if people have souls I'd have to ask: where'd you hear the word "souls" from anyway? If you want to know if there's anything in a pocket you really do have to say which pocket you're talking about...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lockerbie Bomber to be released
  Samuel Dravis
09-02-2009, 9:35 PM
#51
Even if the crazies think that the "West is weak" because we happen to have some idea of mercy, it doesn't mean we shouldn't be merciful. It just means the crazies are sociopaths. Basing our moral decisions for real people in situations t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lockerbie Bomber to be released
  Samuel Dravis
08-27-2009, 6:40 PM
#44
Something I have become concerned about is the precedent that this could set - a man convicted of mass murder is released to live out the final days of a terminal illness. What about the person suffering from a terminal illness, convicted of remorsel...  [Read More]
Posted in: Lockerbie Bomber to be released
  Samuel Dravis
08-21-2009, 1:24 PM
#22
I think it's fine that they released him, but only as long as he's kept under police watch. Letting someone convicted of bombings wander around free is just not a good idea, even if the evidence used to convict him doesn't seem so reliable now. It se...  [Read More]
Posted in: Frogs
  Samuel Dravis
09-17-2009, 1:33 AM
#6
No normal person would ever say that in polite conversation. I personally would not even quote it in polite conversation. However, I did once listen for frogs out at Granger lake because the SCIENCE demands answers to how many frogs there are alive o...  [Read More]
Posted in: Burden of Proof
  Samuel Dravis
08-02-2009, 8:57 PM
#18
If not by logic, then how would you suggest we expand upon our base of knowledge? It really is the only way we do. It doesn't mean that all our answers are right, but we certainly have come to many more RIGHT answers than before we started doing anal...  [Read More]
Posted in: Burden of Proof
  Samuel Dravis
08-02-2009, 2:20 PM
#16
Agreed, if I understand you correctly - we are focusing on surety, things that are entirely provable by today's mathematical/logical standards, and how limited a universe is provided by "known" "provable" things. Socratic ignoranc...  [Read More]
Posted in: Burden of Proof
  Samuel Dravis
07-30-2009, 10:56 PM
#4
"The sun's going to come up tomorrow too, you know." Such statements can't be proven. Naturally! Some extraordinary and doubtless pristine reasoning follows this that usually involves treating as a concept something which isn't. IF IT DOES...  [Read More]
Posted in: Are we really extremists? I think not.
  Samuel Dravis
07-25-2009, 11:46 PM
#18
In general I dislike stupid ideas. Fanatically one-sided ideas for governing an extremely diverse country like the US are invariably stupid. So yeah, my views are a mixed bag. My interest in anti-foundationalist and existentialist philosophy (Wittgen...  [Read More]
Posted in: Evolution or Creation
  Samuel Dravis
07-29-2009, 10:34 AM
#166
If you're interested, DY, I offer a rather different way of looking at things in the Senate here (http://www.lucasforums.com/showthread.php?p=2656579#post2656579). As such, religion is more like a primitive reaction (along the lines of laughing, etc)...  [Read More]
Posted in: Evolution or Creation
  Samuel Dravis
07-24-2009, 9:41 PM
#156
I suppose one can believe whatever one wants to. But that doesn't mean that it's justifiable to conflate two very different systems like religion's mythological explanations with scientific explanations. It just means one has decided to do so. It d...  [Read More]
Posted in: Evolution or Creation
  Samuel Dravis
07-24-2009, 9:10 PM
#154
..... Everything about the earth and galaxy can be understood, so long as you find the evidence you need to make a reasonable conclusion. There are no mysteries in nature that are unsolvable. If there were, it would give credit to the creationist th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Evolution or Creation
  Samuel Dravis
07-24-2009, 7:33 PM
#152
I was referring to the ideas present in the post of yours that I was replying to: creationism in the sense of the-world-was-made-five-minutes-ago and theistic evolution. Obviously there is no way to distinguish between them using physical evidence, b...  [Read More]
Posted in: Evolution or Creation
  Samuel Dravis
07-24-2009, 6:27 PM
#150
If God cannot deceive, then he is not God. If God simply chooses not to deceive, then we have no assurance that he will never deceive. And if He did, He's God, so it really doesn't matter because He probably did it well enough so that we'd all buy it...  [Read More]
Posted in: Evolution or Creation
  Samuel Dravis
07-24-2009, 5:12 PM
#146
If that's so, then what's the point of this thread? You might as well have just called it "Does god exist or not?" If he did, then it really doesn't matter... an omnipotent being could just as easily have created the universe as it was 10 b...  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  Samuel Dravis
09-18-2009, 2:20 AM
#5854
Cookie monster T-shirt (http://shirt.woot.com/Friends.aspx?k=9649) Sputnik t-shirt (http://shirt.woot.com/Classics.aspx?k=9559) Linksys WRT54GL wireless router, much better than the rental crap. :p Concert today by the Will Evans Project, concert o...  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  Samuel Dravis
09-12-2009, 6:14 PM
#5838
.... so jealous....  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  Samuel Dravis
09-12-2009, 3:32 AM
#5836
* New headphones, they're pretty sweet, although not too expensive. Good deal. * Signed CD from one of my favorite local bands, The Will Evans Project, yesterday. * Javascript book so I can write some greasemonkey scripts....  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  Samuel Dravis
09-08-2009, 1:05 PM
#5817
Congrats leXX! As for me, I recently picked up a USB Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000. It works very well and the mic on it is far better than any analog mic I'd used previously....  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  Samuel Dravis
08-03-2009, 1:42 PM
#5778
Valve has said they'd issue an unlock code or DRM disabler if they ever go under. However, if they do go under, they'll be in no position to make good on that promise. They might be able to do it for their games, but most likely they'll sell the Stea...  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  Samuel Dravis
07-25-2009, 3:17 PM
#5757
Decided to get the new Sam & Max, finally. ALL of the new Sam & Max. Hey, they had a special and a coupon. :p Surfin the Highway Limited Edition Signed Hardcover Comic Book Sam & Max Season One game DVD Sam & Max Season Two game DVD...  [Read More]
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