Science Friction

I believe that science and math likely points strongly in that direction. Next....

Mr. Trump seems to really be smitten with the idea of torturing our adversaries. "They are chopping off heads" and Mr Trump seems to think that we should "fight fire with fire." He really seems to get off on the idea of waterboarding, or worse. He says he thinks it's an effective measure of enhance interrogation. The Generals think differently. His own Defense Secretary says no way. Barry McCaffrey thinks Trump is off his rocker and is doing harm to the country by talking this way. Anybody BGP enhanced interrogation scholars on here think Mr Trump is not off base on this one. Our enemies are, in fact, committing some horrible atrocities on other humans. Saddam did, Assad and Putin do it, Kim Jung Fruitloop does it . Hell, Hitler did it. Why not Trump and America? Isn't it time we got tougher on these people who want to do us in? Is there value in waterboarding and torture or isn't this just the path that ISIS wants us to go down? Does an America that tortures people make the Islamic State's sales pitch to potential jihadists even easier?

Good questions. I would love to spend eternity with my heavenly father walking through streets of gold with my dearly departed friends and loved ones. Sounds wonderful. But.... How do I completely suspend my belief in all that is rational and accept on faith that which I see as totally irrational and nonsensical? My dad, who is not well, is struggling with this right now. As his life gets closer and closer to the end, he likes the idea of spending forever with a loving God and his family. Yet, he finds so much of what is espoused by Christianity and the Bible so utterly confounding that he just can't seem to get where he would like to be. I certainly wish you were right. It's a wonderful thought-- being with God, and family and walking streets of gold. That's why people want to believe it. Problem is --- not one shred of proof. How can I believe something that my mind says is rubbish? Do I just suspend all of what I do believe and just take it on faith that you are right? My mind won't allow me to do that, as much as I love the thought of your beautiful story. If man hadn't created such a lovely story, no one would believe it. So you tell me, how do I get to that point of believing your story of forever?

You do that.

I subscribe to that wisdom( without the sarcasm).

It's not, and there's plenty to worry about.

Don't count on it . You're already home.

As my mamaw(not the sportsaholic one) would have said, "he ain't right." Screws definitely loose.

Was set at 7 minutes until midnight at inception in 1947. The closest it was to midnight was 2 minutes in 1953 when the US and Soviet Union both tested thermonuclear devices within a month of each other. The furthest from midnight was 17 minutes in 1991.

Comments by US President Donald Trump and a "darkening global security landscape" have made the world less safe, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned Thursday, moving its symbolic "Doomsday Clock" 30 seconds closer to midnight. Symbolic 'Doomsday Clock' moves closer to midnight

I agree. He was so funny.

Maybe so. But I worry about the attention span of this bunch. We'll see come Saturday.

I second all this.

Without a doubt.

I've never done Facebook or any other kind of social media. I despise it. Just a whole lot of stupid on social media.

Reagan was the first to use "Make America Great Again."

Inner cities of Harlan , Russell Springs , and Whitesburg, maybe.... not Chicago. One would think by reading these threads that most these guys have first-hand knowledge of the Windy City's South Side.

“Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.” --- Thomas Paine “Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind." --- Thomas Paine

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.” ---Thomas Paine

“We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .” ---Thomas Jefferson

“There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.” --- Thomas Jefferson

“Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by the difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be depreciated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society.” --- George Washington

I love listening to a bunch of guys debating a woman's gynecological choices. About as humorous as listening to a bunch of white guys from Kentucky discuss their scholarly insights about the black problem.

Which show did you like better- the one where she was paired up with Van Dyke or the one she co-starred with Ed Asner ?