Coastaljames
Justified & Ancient
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Who Sherlock Holmes if he doesn't exist?
Tall chap? Big on cocaine. Good at solving crime?
Who Sherlock Holmes if he doesn't exist?
So we can agree that Sherlock Holmes exists. I'm glad that's sorted.Tall chap? Big on cocaine. Good at solving crime?
to state that one doesn't personally believe in religion may be a polite way of saying that one finds the whole thing a pile of bollocks which oppresses the human spirit and blights progress.
Depends on the perspective one adopts.We're only monkeys, we're not entirely rational.
Very true. Been there done that. Should have put 'apparently' in my original post (edited it now) as I've met many who 'apparently' have no social skills, but miss nothing...just don't care to get involved in the b/s.Coal,
An apparent lack of social skill amongst more technical types can be down to the fact that it is often better not to converse at all to people who have a particularly strong belief in something you do not share. even if the evidence is in your favour. Doing so may create a bad situation.
In other words, sometimes best to think carefully of the consequences before attempting to reason.
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Tch, far too subjective.All pretty irrelevant to me. You're either a dickhead or you're not a dickhead.
Tch, far too subjective.
The problem is that for some religions "Be a dickhead" is a religious commandment.
Why I added the smilies, it was a joke...Of course it is.
The links I provide give a full explanation. Obviously too much to be dealt with here on this forum.
This is the problem:
"We get a lot of YouTube spammers with silly claims about aliens, Jesus and 9/11."
WHO ARE YOU TO DECIDE WHAT ARE SILLY CLAIMS? APPARENTLY, ONLY YOU AND YOUR TYPE KNOW WHAT IS REAL OR NOT. PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO BELIEVE WHATEVER THEY WANT AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT SERIOUSLY HARM ANYONE.
PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO BELIEVE WHATEVER THEY WANT AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT SERIOUSLY HARM ANYONE.
... WHO ARE YOU TO DECIDE WHAT ARE SILLY CLAIMS? APPARENTLY, ONLY YOU AND YOUR TYPE KNOW WHAT IS REAL OR NOT. PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO BELIEVE WHATEVER THEY WANT AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT SERIOUSLY HARM ANYONE.
... We want the facts out there and to speak for themselves and let the people decide.
We need a permanent and wide-spread record of these idiots so as to prevent future tragedies of this sort from occurring. You will obviously try to do everything in your power to distort, destroy, and defame this damning evidence. You basically have dug your own graves.
We want the facts out there and to speak for themselves and let the people decide.