Including wars,

…in the 20th century, including the world wars, 3% of people died from violent deaths if you include man made famines, connected to wars for example…that is, if we push the number as high as we can.
….in the Middle Ages it was around 10% that died from violent deaths. 
….in prehistoric times or tribal societies it was…[Read more]

Including wars,

…in the 20th century, including the world wars, 3% of people died from violent deaths if you include man made famines, connected to wars for example…that is, if we push the number as high as we can.
….in the Middle Ages it was around 10% that died from violent deaths. 
….in prehistoric times or tribal societies it was…[Read more]

Hi kerwin,

Yes, I’ve looked at the stats. And yes there was a minor counter trend beginning around the 60’s but that reversed and continued its much more significant downward trend. You know about the upturn beginning in the 60’s, but seem somewhat unaware of the last 20 years. The upward spike is a minor bump when you look at the much much…[Read more]

Hi kerwin,

Yes, I’ve looked at the stats. And yes there was a minor counter trend beginning around the 60’s but that reversed and co tinted its much more significant downward trend. You know about the upturn beginning in the 60’s, but seem somewhat unaware of the last 20 years. The upward spike is a minor bump when you look at the much much…[Read more]

How did mans fall or original sin corrupt all of nature so that animals, a similar percentage of them as humans, became homosexuals?

What is the point of this?

Nick, then for the love of all that is good, please quite your obsession with them. You are the only one who is obsessed with them. I’m not even entirely sure why. Also, I am not sure you are relevant. But what does this have to do with our discussion? Not much.

As I’ve done 15 times in the past, I feel like abandoning this thread,…[Read more]

T8, I am not saying that miracles are not possible here. I am saying that today, what many people call miracles are due to not understanding science or psychology or deception or math or evidence or things like this.

I’ve read “hyperdimension” a couple of times. Fascinated by the way other dimensions are explained by showing how a 3 dimension…[Read more]

Hi miia

No, exactly the opposite. I was indoctrinated, trained, programmed from an early age to believe in them. The problem was, I took too deep of an interest. It’s easy to believe in something when you don’t know a lot about it, when you don’t study it deeply and become enthralled with it. You can use al sorts of “arguments from ignorance,”…[Read more]

Ed, it really feels like that is in the bible. Not to become familiar with heavy drinkers of wine. Or something like that. Feels like proverbs?

Nick,
Before you become a centarian, I hope you finally see the error of your ways and repent of your Buddhist philosophy. Look at us, being all 5 year old. I see the appeal.

Ed, the problem is delusion and bias and self deception.

Everyone could say we should follow the spirit or be led by the spirit. Really, very often the person is just reaching into themself for their own feeling and following what the bible calls their treacherous heart that cannot be trusted.

Every witch that has very been burned alive or…[Read more]

Nick:

“Does true morality exclude following men?”

I am only concerned with the men who wrote the bible. Does true morality come from following what they wrote? Or do we in actuality get our morality from elsewhere while pretending this isn’t true. This is my question.

You seemed unhealthily obsessed with jw. Nick, in the past 7 years can…[Read more]

The reason I am focused on morality is because most people fall prey to a cognitive illusion called the availability heuristic. They watch the news. They believe that people are behaving worse and worse. They don’t look at the stats. They don’t consider how the news works. They don’t understand how the mind works with respect to remembering…[Read more]

Nick

You don’t know who I am

You don’t know what I believe

You don’t appear to know what this thread is about.

You seem to mostly be filled with a mixture of hate, confusion, logical fallacies, specifically red herrings and ad hominem like attacks that are unrelated to the actual thread, a thread you seem to be wholely unaware of what the…[Read more]

Hi miia

I am not comparing gods power to magic tricks.

I’m looking at the way people think about magic tricks and it’s the same way they think about miracles TODAY.

HUMAN REASONING is bad and prone to self deception and bias and cognitive illusions and a host of things. We can filter those out by looking at the whole rather than anecdotes.…[Read more]

Nick.

Thanks for so succinctly proving my point. Do you even know what this thread is about?

Seriously, 95% of your posts could be ousted to any single thread and it really wouldn’t matter.

The other most highly contraversial thing other than beating women is, and I don’t even know if it is true, but, if your daughter gets raped, is there any encouragement to then kill her out of shame?

So, your daughter gets raped. Do you then have an impulse to kill her?

Nick,
The thing about your comments are, 95% of them could be randomly posted in any thread and it wouldn’t be any more or less clear what you meant. You could take that last comment and post it in any thread. What is the point?

I have not suggested relying on works of law.

Nick, this thread is about morality, good and bad behaviour and how…[Read more]

Hi bod

With reference to your women are like jewels statement, what are your thoughts on beating women, in the Muslim tradition?

(I really haven’t studied this but there are those sensational type of pictures floating around)

But that’s the fall of MAN and original sin of man. How or why would this be passed along to animals? God didn’t have to make or allow that, especially if he is disgusted by it. If we say it’s satan perverting animals, I’m not sure why he would be amused by having two male Beatles having sex. and I’m not sure why God would even allow that if…[Read more]