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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, but be sure not to completely rule out stupidity, either.

"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error." ~John Stuart Mill, On Liber...

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Yes, it's pretty damned impressive that you can grow coral in a shot glass. That most certainly makes you an expert in my book.

You can if it's a lunar eclipse...

Thanks. Happy Leap Day.

"Since the dawn of rational thought, the advancement of science has been retarded by the minions of mysticism, and profound revelations have often been opposed or suppressed by the greater part of the dominant religion, because dogmatic faith is not based on reason and zealots will not be reasoned with." AronRa

I must be habituated to it. I hardly noticed.

The politics section here has become a ridiculous waste of bandwidth. Logic and accuracy don't seem to matter among the most active

Where's Bascule been? Did he finally just get sick of it here?

TAR - You are a very kind soul, and I appreciate your words, but I want to make clear that the closure of the "How Religion Hijacks Neocortical Mechanisms and Why so Many Believe in a Deity" thread was unrelated to you. Your contributions always challenged me to think in new ways, and (while it may not have been clear) I appreciated that tremendously. Again though, the thread closure was a result of my own impatience and frustration with the staff, and not a result of anything you contributed. Please know that, it was my fault, not yours. Take care, friend.

Thanks for the friendship request. I happily accept. Thanks for your regularly solid contributions to the threads. Keep up the good work. I hope all is well with you.

Happy Winter Solstice!

I meant it.

Good to see you, man. Things have been pretty quiet here while you've been busy. I hope work stuff is starting to mellow out. Be well.

I use an insulin pump with short acting insulin. That's about all.

Thanks for the note. Your words were very kind. I have my flaws, and certainly have holes in some of my positions, but I think my strength is in the fact that I'm constantly trying to fill those holes, and am quite willing to abandon the position/change my mind if I cannot. Cheers.

I appreciate that you like me so much you'd copy my account and pretend to be me, but you'd really be even MORE impressive if you'd create your own.

Thanks, babe... but I must concede... Thinking about an armless dude trying to choke one off is somewhat depressing.

Glad you liked it. I'd forgotten I wrote that.

You've had a nice run of really great posts lately. This is just a quick note to say, keep it up. It's appreciated.

I've enjoyed many of your posts since you joined SFN, but you've really "cut your teeth" in the same sex marriage threads. You've established yourself as a very worthy poster, and I just wanted to take a moment to say, "Well done, and keep it up."

It's been nice seeing you around these last few days. Your absence was noticed. I hope all is well with you and yours.

You mentioned single malt jokingly in a recent post. Any fan of single malt is a friend of mine. Cheers, friend.

Wow! I can't believe we haven't done this sooner. Of course I will accept your friendship request. Thank you for sending it! I hope things are well with you out on the sub-continent.