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Posted in: the President's support of "intelligent design."
  edlib
08-18-2005, 9:22 AM
#50
Based on his history, I think I would have to choose "C"... But I can be a cynical bastard even at the best of times......  [Read More]
Posted in: the President's support of "intelligent design."
  edlib
08-09-2005, 2:46 PM
#39
Well, tribal culture has been expanded into regional and nationalistic tendancies. Any group with a common culture and belief code can adopt the tribal mindset. That's all I meant by that. For example, if you don't think Texans can see themselves as...  [Read More]
Posted in: the President's support of "intelligent design."
  edlib
08-09-2005, 9:48 AM
#37
Well, America has always been about going to the far extremes. Moderates have always been somewhat frowned upon as wishy-washy, which is a fate even worse than clinging to the totally wrong belief, in many people's view. In this case, people tend to...  [Read More]
Posted in: the President's support of "intelligent design."
  edlib
08-08-2005, 9:30 PM
#35
Well, it's funny... back when I used to attend church semi-regularly, I remember all kinds of Bible studies and discussion groups on decoding the symbolism of the prophesies, especially Revelations. Nobody actually imagined that a giant, multi-headed...  [Read More]
Posted in: the President's support of "intelligent design."
  edlib
08-07-2005, 10:55 AM
#32
Actually, Santorum is against teaching ID in schools.Story here. (http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-08-04T191725Z_01_N04247382_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-POLITICS-EVOLUTION-DC.XML) I only noted it because it's the very...  [Read More]
Posted in: the President's support of "intelligent design."
  edlib
08-04-2005, 8:20 PM
#20
I have no problem with discussing religion in school, in the proper context. In fact, I think it's an excellent idea. Religion, faith, and spirituality have played an important part of humans lives for as long as we have existed, so I don't believe i...  [Read More]
Posted in: the President's support of "intelligent design."
  edlib
08-03-2005, 7:58 AM
#6
There are thousands, if not millions, of "unproven" theories in science (including almost everything that Einstein set forth...) so why does this one get all the really great hate mail? :rolleyes: Teaching "Intelligent Design" in...  [Read More]
Posted in: Tom Tancredo
  edlib
07-31-2005, 11:18 PM
#17
Religion is nothing but organized and standardized spirituality. And my theory on it is this: Any time you get a group of people united around a common idea and organized behind a charismatic leader, there is apt to be trouble. I don't think it ne...  [Read More]
Posted in: Magical thinkers opposed to Magical thinkers
  edlib
08-16-2005, 11:32 AM
#20
Good point....  [Read More]
Posted in: Magical thinkers opposed to Magical thinkers
  edlib
08-16-2005, 9:21 AM
#18
I wasn't allowed to watch some violent things when i was younger... The irony being (as has been pointed out several times here already) that the Bible is one of the most violent and bloody things I have ever read. :D Filled with all kinds of illicit...  [Read More]
Posted in: Magical thinkers opposed to Magical thinkers
  edlib
07-27-2005, 8:22 AM
#7
If we ban every book that makes reference to magic, magical creatures, wizards and witches (especially those that dare to presume that some of them might be good) the list would rapidly get very long indeed. Seems to me that if you ban Harry Potter...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Digital Millenium Copyright act: is it necessary?
  edlib
07-28-2005, 10:56 AM
#19
They tried that crap with used CDs a few years back... but it didn't fly. (I think Garth Brooks of all people spearheaded that one.) Good thing it failed too... 95% of my CD collection is from used CD shops. :D Used book trading has been around for...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Digital Millenium Copyright act: is it necessary?
  edlib
07-28-2005, 8:21 AM
#17
Well, something is nessesary... just not this. But the situation can't stay the way it is, with both consumers and copyright holders feeling like they are getting the shaft. Something needs to resolve it... some fair comprimise that works towards bo...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Digital Millenium Copyright act: is it necessary?
  edlib
07-27-2005, 10:51 AM
#11
The big part of the problem is that record companies ARE NOT, NOR EVER HAVE BEEN in the business of selling music or songs. They are in the business of selling the public little discs of plastic. What's encoded on those discs is, (and always has been...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Digital Millenium Copyright act: is it necessary?
  edlib
07-27-2005, 8:40 AM
#8
Copyrights are a good idea that are almost impossible to enforce in the age we now live in, when perfect digital copies of almost anything you can imagine are easily distributed. The DMCA is an attempt to enforce the impossible, and as a result, doom...  [Read More]
Posted in: Human finger found in Wendy's Chili
  edlib
04-23-2005, 11:36 AM
#3
I thought it was pretty much accepted that this was a scam. She has a history of pulling scams on big corperations in order to sue them for a big settlement. Plus: Nobody along the Wendy's chili food-processing chain would admit to losing a finger,...  [Read More]
Posted in: Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed.
  edlib
04-04-2005, 8:06 AM
#130
True, that. But it doesn't mean that people won't still try. Now more than ever, I think. I also forsee the very real possibility of legislation being introduced in the next couple of years that will try to override patient's wishes in cases like th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed.
  edlib
04-03-2005, 1:53 PM
#128
Living wills can be contested. While it's unlikely that the ruling would ever go against the patient's wishes, the case could get tied up in the court system for years, leaving the patient in limbo the whole time, just like in this case....  [Read More]
Posted in: Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed.
  edlib
04-01-2005, 10:21 AM
#112
Somewhere I read that Terri's parents had originally encouraged Michael to date other people a couple of years after her attack. Now that has become the central argument in the case that he shouldn't have had any say in what happened to her. It mak...  [Read More]
Posted in: Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed.
  edlib
03-25-2005, 10:42 AM
#64
In this case removing feeding tubes falls into the same category (no artifical means of life support and no heroic measures of recovery) as a patient rejecting life-prolonging medication, turning off a ventalator machine, or refusing CPR if that pati...  [Read More]
Posted in: Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed.
  edlib
03-21-2005, 5:49 PM
#33
That's pretty much the point I was trying to make in my first post: Even if a tiny bit of Terri is still concious in there somewhere, try to imagine the life she is leading right now: unable to control her own motor functions, unable to communicate w...  [Read More]
Posted in: Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed.
  edlib
03-21-2005, 1:41 PM
#29
Interesting little snippet of propaganda on this case I found linked from Google news: http://www.lifenews.com/bio814.html In the article it makes Terri seem not only aware of what's going on, but able to communicate her wishes on the matter. Kinda...  [Read More]
Posted in: Terri Schiavo's feeding tube removed.
  edlib
03-19-2005, 6:33 AM
#18
Several experts have testified that she is in fact brain dead, and without 15 years of heroic artificial measures she would have died within hours of the attack that put her in this condition in the first place. Her body is just an empty shell, exist...  [Read More]
Posted in: The One Year Thread Redux
  edlib
02-22-2005, 3:23 PM
#247
That was EXACTLY the problem I was having with my PRS that inspired me to pick up the can of contact cleaner. It's working fine now. I pulled the pot out of the cavity from the back so as not to spray chemicals all over the top of my instrument. The...  [Read More]
Posted in: The One Year Thread Redux
  edlib
02-21-2005, 7:43 PM
#244
2/21/05 More snow... just what I needed on my day off. (*Grumble* *Shakes fist at sky*) Oh well,.. it kept me... so that I could really enjoy: LAUNDRY DAY!!!!!!!!! It was starting to get overwhelming. I started laundry a month ago, back on the d...  [Read More]
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