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Ray Jones

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Posted in: Calif. bans smoking in cars with kids
  Ray Jones
10-15-2007, 12:07 PM
#40
Because you asked nicely. Smokers can be nice people, you know.Oh yeah, that's why they made a law instead of asking nicely....  [Read More]
Posted in: Calif. bans smoking in cars with kids
  Ray Jones
10-14-2007, 5:35 PM
#34
Why would someone bother to avoid smoking when my kids are in his car when he doesn't with his kids in the car?...  [Read More]
Posted in: Calif. bans smoking in cars with kids
  Ray Jones
10-12-2007, 9:48 AM
#18
I, for one, do disagree with seatbelt/helmet laws. However, if the person is underage, I think it should be required. Adults, by nature of being, are decision makers and can decide whether or not they use these devices.So, as an adult and parent, I c...  [Read More]
Posted in: Humans: Carnivorous?
  Ray Jones
10-08-2007, 3:19 PM
#49
Seems to support my belief of bourderline herbivore/omnivore since we were scavengers who ate mostly small kills.Scavangers usually do not kill at all. And borderline herbivore or not does not matter, since it was the ability to eat something else th...  [Read More]
Posted in: Humans: Carnivorous?
  Ray Jones
10-08-2007, 9:29 AM
#47
Originally (read: 3 million years ago) we supposedly were omnivorous gatherers/scavangers living in the forests. We only came out of the forrest when there was nothing to find (like small animals, insects, eggs but also fruits, nuts, roots, other eat...  [Read More]
Posted in: Humans: Carnivorous?
  Ray Jones
10-05-2007, 10:19 AM
#30
it is possible, though cooked meat is generally best when cooked, and I imagine fires scared off primitive humans.I'd be surprised if the "primitive humans" did not recognise very quickly what power fire would give them. I think for a tool...  [Read More]
Posted in: Humans: Carnivorous?
  Ray Jones
10-04-2007, 4:20 PM
#27
I did not talk about burned to coal. Also, in a bush/woodfire not all animals die due to direct contact with fire. The heat can be high enough to cook/roast flesh in case some animal tries to hide where ever but with semi-optimal success. For instanc...  [Read More]
Posted in: Humans: Carnivorous?
  Ray Jones
10-04-2007, 3:53 PM
#24
Meat tends to smell good when cooked, as most things primitive humans discovered were done so out of curiosity or accidentOr by simply imitating things from their environment. and the idea of cooked food likely derives from some cave guy sticking hi...  [Read More]
Posted in: Christian right looks to rebound
  Ray Jones
10-02-2007, 5:09 AM
#65
Thanksgiving is but one harvest festival among many. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Harvest_Festivals) Also, the first recorded thanksgiving in North America was celebrated on May 23rd in 1541 by Vбsquez de Coronado and the tribe of the Tej...  [Read More]
Posted in: Movement to Declare A Chimp "A Person" Underway in Austria
  Ray Jones
10-02-2007, 2:52 PM
#18
Yap. They use tools, think strategic and use different tactics when they hunt or follow a goal. That is pretty much ability to reason....  [Read More]
Posted in: syko topic
  Ray Jones
10-01-2007, 2:03 PM
#23
Really? Depict the phrase "the branch that could not hold a butterfly"....  [Read More]
Posted in: syko topic
  Ray Jones
10-01-2007, 5:18 AM
#21
Well, technically, you would not stick in -- more like lay between. What does, at the end of the day, not sound cool, especially when you switch waffle iron with vagina or anus....  [Read More]
Posted in: syko topic
  Ray Jones
09-27-2007, 4:39 PM
#5
:chinaman: is an Asian looking guy w/ Rotarkinson Syndrome....  [Read More]
Posted in: Ancient-Renaissance, Modern Cultural Decline, etc
  Ray Jones
09-14-2007, 12:51 PM
#6
(I'll respond later because I have no time at the moment, but maybe some mod could move the related posts from the secularisation thread over here in the meantime. Thanks. :))...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ohh nooes!
  Ray Jones
09-19-2007, 6:34 PM
#35
arr let's sail this ship to where the world is made of rainbow, mateys ;...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ohh nooes!
  Ray Jones
09-19-2007, 2:49 AM
#31
If I were god, I'd take the sunlight, the moonshine, a rantomic fire on the beach and the stars on a clear summernightsky and make a special luurrve place just for jmac and Niner with it. It'd also be fully equipped with latest hd video technery in...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ohh nooes!
  Ray Jones
09-18-2007, 6:27 AM
#24
But technically, and theoretically, and ideally, and/or maybe not, we can restore order from no order at all! We just need to proceed well prepared and thoughtful. *attempts to restore order* - BBRRRRRZZAPIPP! - AARRRGGGH!!! Electric sheep in...  [Read More]
Posted in: Ohh nooes!
  Ray Jones
09-17-2007, 3:45 AM
#19
whoa resize that sig turtlefreak...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why do atheists become people of faith?
  Ray Jones
10-13-2007, 5:10 PM
#107
They may question the morality they see in other atheistsNot more than I may question the morality of anybody else. feel they do not want to be wrongSo, with atheism, I'd be wrong? How could I miss that fact? Also, what's wrong with being wrong? f...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why do atheists become people of faith?
  Ray Jones
10-13-2007, 4:17 PM
#105
Hm.. let's see -- Weak atheism: the weak atheist is not convinced that there are gods. The existence of gods is not necessarily denied, there is just the statement that there is no objective and rational reason to believe in the existence of any go...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why do atheists become people of faith?
  Ray Jones
10-13-2007, 9:57 AM
#99
And here I am thinking this is clearly about religious faith, and why atheists possibly might feel the need to turn to it and against reason - instead of some finickiness about atheists being able to have faith or to believe that their socks will sme...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why do atheists become people of faith?
  Ray Jones
10-13-2007, 4:39 AM
#97
I'd like to know that too....  [Read More]
Posted in: Why do atheists become people of faith?
  Ray Jones
10-02-2007, 2:49 PM
#68
Quick!! Put them back in, ET. :P...  [Read More]
Posted in: Why do atheists become people of faith?
  Ray Jones
10-02-2007, 5:43 AM
#65
At the time I met Jae, I was engaging in some self-destructive behaviors. She led me to a faith that helped me see the folly of the path I was headed down. Getting married to her also made me realize that I could not continue acting in that manner be...  [Read More]
Posted in: What are you?
  Ray Jones
10-05-2007, 2:36 PM
#41
Nationality: German Basic political tenants: Hmm. Democracy is a good idea it seems. Religion: Nee. Major issues you believe in: Mathematics, chaos, knowledge, life (itself). Doubt is where wisdom begins....  [Read More]
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