This picture explains everything I feel about Al Gore.
We seem to have a slightly different veiw of religion over on this side of the atlantic, we have a way to temper and compromise religion in order to accomadate the truths that are science, if god is all powerful, then he would be able to function within the laws of physics (Damn, they are his laws after all ) also the bible is more viewed as a book of morale guidance, full of hidden meanings and rarely to be taken completely literaly.
The Southern Baptists would protest England like it was stem cell research if they knew this. Just letting you know what we have to deal with over here. Think about dealing with 300 million retards as apposed to 60, and having to
appease the larger groups without pissing everyone else off.
One I don't believe in global warming, I've seen no proof. ALl I've seen is that for thousands of years the earth has went through cooling and heating cycles. It freezes it melts. Way of the world. It may get warmer as we get pulled toward the sun. its called entropy, suck it up live with it.
I bet you don't
believe in fossils either huh?
Here are some resourses for reading up on the existence of global warming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming
http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/viewTopic.do?o=read&id=521
http://maps.grida.no/go/searchFree/q/global+warming
Also, your post contradicts it's self. If you don't
believe in global warming how can the earth possibly go through a heating and cooling cycle? If we are to believe that this is merely the up swing of that cycle wouldn't that be global warming? How can you not believe in it then?
Let's talk about entropy now. Entropy is the gradual running down of the universe, the dissipation of heat and energy that will ultimately mean the end of the universe (see Issac Asimov's 'The Last Question' for how that will go down). Entropy is not the heating and cooling of the earth, nor is it one or the other. Entropy is quantifiable disarry that our system is in. Let me make this absolutely clear:
Human influenced global warming will increase entropy and lead to our demise.
Also Bad Religion wrote a song about entropy. It's called 'Entropy' and it's on 'Against the Grain' and I encourage anyone reading this to check it out.
Oh and a quick reply to this. STOP CUSSING. SIMPLE. If you want your song heard in its entirity, don't cus. There is NEVER a reason to cuss, it is simply childish to imagine a reason to, especially in a song. Why do you need to sing about "I'm a P.I.M.P." or "I'm gettin all that ***** tonight". No one wants to hear how many sexual diseases a guy is picking up in one night.
From Stephen King's
On Writing.
Stephen King said:
Make yourself a promise right now that you'll never use 'emolument' when you mean 'tip' and you'll never say John stopped long enough to perform and act of excretion when you mean John stopped long enough the take a ----.
His boldface, not mine. Take a lesson from the man that has sold more books than the bible. Also when they bleep out god damn, the bleep out god, not damn. Just thought that's interesting.
Being an agnostic is impossible because to believe nothing is true is to believe the truth that nothing is true. Same as being an atheist...its impossible.
Ignoring the ignorance of you post for a second, let's talk about paradoxes. Your paradox reminds me of the paradox of the all powerful god... the one who could create a rock so big that even he could not lift it, but since he can't lift it, isn't all powerful. Chew on that.
Also you may be confusing agnosticism/atheism with
Nihilism and then getting that wrong too. That's the only way I can figure out what you are saying.
I think the definitions for agnosticism and atheism were laid out by others in the thread, so I encourage you to reread those definitions.
heymrdj, I hate that you took the brunt force of this post, but there is one thing that I agree with you on. Your 'live with it' apathy. My idealism got left on a roadside long ago and I no longer believe that I can do anything about the screwed up things in the world and have found better ways the spend my time (like mega-posting, I guess.)