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The Show / Re: Shop Amazon, Help FTL!
« on: June 04, 2006, 12:36:39 PM »
Ian, give us another sampling of what people are buying? It's interesting, in a kind of voyeuristic kind of way.
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General / Re: the libertarian movement in UK
« on: June 04, 2006, 07:03:03 AM »After a couple of months of listening to FTL while researching the ideas behind Free trade and smaller government I cannot find a group in the UK that is actively promoting Libertarianism.
Hmm. I Googled "UK libertarian" and the first link that came up was to a Libertarian think tank in the UK: the Libertarian Alliance. http://www.libertarian.co.uk/index.htm. They've got meetings, publications, audio and video files, all sorts of good stuff.
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General / Re: Gun Commercial Horrors
« on: May 27, 2006, 02:16:12 PM »
Very funny! I just wonder, why is the voice-over guy British when this gun shop is in Utah?
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General / Re: FTL & Amazon
« on: May 06, 2006, 01:45:18 PM »Quote
but it was a Marketplace thing.
It still counts. One of mine was marketplace.
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General / Re: FTL & Amazon
« on: May 06, 2006, 01:19:14 PM »
Nifty!
Those were me
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Agency and Responsibility : A Common-sense Moral Psychology
The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics
Those were me
2706
General / Re: Christian Anarchy is the only sensible answer...
« on: April 27, 2006, 08:45:03 AM »Quote
Of course Occam's Razor does not explain everything. There are a large percentage of times that it does not apply.
It's not supposed to. It's a guideline, not an explanation itself. Don't reach for complicated explanation when a simple explanation will suffice. That's not the same as saying that there will never be complicated explanations.
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Also, perspective is important in determining your answer. From my perspective, God is a likely explanation as I believe He exists and therefore it is a likely event that He could intervene..
Even if we grant that God exists, you still have to find a basis for explaining why he chose to interrupt the laws of nature which he himself created in order to save a particular human from something bad happening to them.
"There is a God" + "This really great and unlikely thing happened to me" is not enough to = miracle.
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General / Re: Christian Anarchy is the only sensible answer...
« on: April 26, 2006, 03:30:40 AM »Quote
It jsut seems foolish to attribute something like surviving a car crash to divine intervention when random chance is just as good of an explanation.
Occam's Razor would say so. A God is a really, really, really, really complex explanation. An accident is a very simple explanation.
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Furthermore if God did help your son survive and brasky as well Why did he? And why did he not help the thousands of others who die on our roads every year?
An unlikely and fortuitous event is much more likely to take on cosmic proportions if it happens to you personally or someone you know.
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General / Re: FTL buddy icons.
« on: April 25, 2006, 06:21:22 PM »Quote
Well... yes and no. Yes, that's actually me and it was the 80s (as I was born in '75 and that's my senior high school pic).
Eh? Being born in '75 would mean you'd have graduated high school (if all things went right) in '93 or '94
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General / Re: Win shitty radio swag!
« on: April 19, 2006, 11:15:44 AM »
It's freakin' April. Has Sara gotten her stuff yet?
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General / Re: Pat: New female listener
« on: April 16, 2006, 05:31:00 AM »
Wow, good one Johnson!
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General / Re: Christian Anarchy is the only sensible answer...
« on: April 13, 2006, 11:38:22 AM »Quote
That will help me to continue to teach all the others who read this thread the TRUTH.
It's a good principle to keep in mind throughout life that whenever somebody says they have "the TRUTH" and want to teach it to you, to be wary and keep a safe distance.
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General / Mybillofrights.org -- Chris Bliss's effort to create Bill of Rights monuments
« on: April 13, 2006, 08:06:46 AM »
If you listen to Penn Jillette's radio show on Free FM, you may have heard about this.
There's an organization called Mybillofrights.org whose mission is basically to put up a monument displaying the Bill of Rights on the capital grounds in every state in America-- for a start. Then they aim to place them everywhere the 10 Commandments are currently displayed on public grounds-- courthouses and, I would imagine, some schools.
They're accepting contributions only from individuals, and nothing over $250, because they want the project to represent an awakening among Americans to the importance of their rights.
There's an organization called Mybillofrights.org whose mission is basically to put up a monument displaying the Bill of Rights on the capital grounds in every state in America-- for a start. Then they aim to place them everywhere the 10 Commandments are currently displayed on public grounds-- courthouses and, I would imagine, some schools.
They're accepting contributions only from individuals, and nothing over $250, because they want the project to represent an awakening among Americans to the importance of their rights.