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heh, I just told a british friend about this thread, and that people were shocked at the treatment of Thatcher by the British. His response was "And they we're not more shocked by the treatment of the British by Thatcher?"

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Great news! Congratulations, Cuda!

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I could agree that homosexuality is in the human genome. Maybe it's a way to completely stop their bloodline and eradicate itself. Having children is not the only way to make sure your genes carry on. The other way is to look after your relatives' children. You also share a large amount of genes wi...

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well, if you take it based on the standard of this board, you are clearly a lefty. But if you would see it from an european standard, you are very much in the centre. I cannot comment on the result based on an american standard, but this would differ by region anyways.

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Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent. and Nearly 100,000 Ethiopian Jews have moved to Israel under the Law of Return since the 1980s, but their Jewishness has been questioned by ...

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nicely spotted, Foil. Very good counter that I hadn't thought of before. Would be great if one of my students would actually come up with something like this

(also, I have watched it some many times now, I strongly suspect that at least parts of it are staged).

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seems relevant. TED talk by Frans de Waal, one of my favourite primatologists, about moral behavior in animals. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Lm49XVkGQ So, if animals, can and do behave morally, doesn't this not quite clearly show that morals don't need a God (at least not a belief in god or adhe...

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Yes, i do. At a UK university. I specialize in cognitive neuroscience.

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Haha, i love that one. I use it to start my lecture on mimicry/mirror neurons.

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wow, this looks great, Psionik!

what are the system requirements?

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what Jeff said. There is life out there but we're never going to meet it.

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]Weird. AFAIK all Neurons communicate with eachother via chemical neuro-transmitters across the synaptic cleft, not via electrical impulses. Electrical impulses are how neurons transmit messages across themselves (ie: from one side of a single neuron to the other side of the SAME neuron), but it's ...

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You merely say, 'this is how I think it works'. You are both very wrong, economics doesn't work that way. Ever. You are misunderstanding me. I am not saying at all how anything it works. I just say that before I have hard evidence I reserve judgement about any state of affairs. I am a lefty at hear...

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I am with Spidey here. I am very much sympathetic to the idea of limiting the gap. It is clear (to me) that economies are the healthiest the higher the buying power across all strata of society. However, I'd like to see a negative correlation between wealth of the super-rich and poverty in the lower...

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I get the feeling some pro-lifers think people have abortion parties or something. No one I know that has had an abortion feels good about it. Some friends I know have been traumatized by the experience even though they can still say confidently it was the right decision. In almost every case, thos...

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Almost everyone thinks that individual human life is something to be respected and protected. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation or the quality of the person's life, most would say. At least that's what I have to say. So, lets start there with the abortion discussion. I really don't care...

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Spidey wrote:That would be great if it weren’t for the fact that most abortions are gotten by middle class white women....

I am relatively sure that is not the case. AFAIK, the typical abortion patient is young, coloured, and poor.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/US-Abortion-Patients.pdf

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interesting question. its the same in germany. rural is conservative, more liberal in towns. I wonder whether conservatism fits better to rural life where self-sufficiency is important and a daily aspect of life, and where people (want to) self-organize in small communities without much outside inte...

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Do we need it though? It's like asking religion what colour shirt to wear. Morality is simply not something we need to consult an absolute authoritative source on, we do just fine consulting our genetic inherentance and millenia of built up cultural baggage. I mean in what way do you we need to con...

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Vision, by the way, could you summarize the argument in the TED talk. Sorry, I really can't stand watching videos for information. I'd much rather read.

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agreed, Vision. Religion can propose morals that groups of people can subscribe to, but of course this can come from other sources as well (I mentioned philosophy in my original post as an example), and individuals can make up their own morals (I am pretty much atheist myself, but do find me a prett...

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Very frustrating. I find it pretty hard to get some good, well-sourced information on that, other than the typical conjecture. Are you aware of that, by the way? how does it fit in the narrative? The Wall Street Journal said the consulate was being used as a CIA operation, adding that of the 30 Amer...

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Because Obama spiked the football and declared Dorothy killed the witch 6 months ago. The flying monkeys were on the run. hehe. because it is tied directly to the administration. either they lied to forward an agenda that they defeated Terrorism. or they lied to cover up and total inept failure by ...

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I disagree. Every aspect of existing science at one stage had a religious alternative explanation. All the way back to cro-magnon holding something up from her environment and asking "where did this thing come from?" , some religion always had an explanation. Either local (ie: "That ...

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even Candy Crowley admitted such after she called out Romney during the Debate, she went back and said that he was not talking about the 2012 attack he was talking about the 2001 attack. and the CBS interview that was released just before the election confirms they they didn't call it terrorism. th...

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To tell the truth that's one of the political issues I never looked into. I just gathered from some of the things I heard that it was a bad situation caused by allowing a shipment or shipments of weapons through to Mexican drug rings. The stink was that it was done or allowed at least in part to he...

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Proving or disproving that God exists can't be a scientific exercise right on. I wish more people would appreciate this. Science and religion cover separate domains of human existence. I don't think both should overlap. Leave finding out about the world to science. Leave finding out about morals an...

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I agree 100%, Cuda. Add to that that the media makes money out of scares, controversy and close races (!), and then there is not much incentive to publish a honest view of the world. There's a reason its called infotainment now. For these reasons, I have all but given up on reading the news. I read ...

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when will the first news actually start trickling in?

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Exactly

I am actually quite excited, even though I am a German living in britain!

most serious models show a clear Obama lead, but who knows?

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haha, reading tea leaves.

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Burlyman wrote:Have any of you global warming guys actually made any measurements yourselves

Yup. I look at our thermometer several times a week.

If you mean whether i have analyzed some climate data myself, then yes, i have done that, too.

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Spidey wrote:Sounds a little like life.

LOL, Spidey, how true. But i guess you have to reach a certein age to appreciate the joke.

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roid wrote: there was nothing terrible left for Christ to even save me from. He was unneeded. I'm just too positive

haha, I was exactly the same. I remember being puzzled about this in religion lessons in school. I still don't understand what I could be saved from.

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this is very, very cool. I second your top comment on youtube

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Having been a smoker long ago and rarely still enjoy a good cigar, I find it puzzling why someone growing up now-a-days would ever get started smoking. The Marlboro Man died from lung cancer, all cigarette ads like we had in the 50's and 60's are banned, so what is the trigger to get someone starte...

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flip wrote:I say we have angel blood in us, a great perversion of man.

aha, a believer in the nephilim!

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Chavez, Castro, Putin: Four more years! (For Obama!) heehee, as always, we are given only half the truth. its not just the dictators that like Obama more. Almost every country does. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20008687 The only place where Romney stands a chance seems to be America. A...

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what I don't get about this whole fast and furious mess is how it is linked to Obama. Didn't the whole program start in 2006, under Bush's reign? So do you blame Obama primarily for not stopping it?

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