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"I want my commenters to be uncivil. There is no virtue in politeness when confronted with ignorance, dishonesty, and delusion. I want them to charge in to the heart of the issue and shred the frauds, without hesitation and without faltering over manners. These demands for a false front of civility are one of the strategies used by charlatans who want to mask their lack of substance — oh, yes, it would be so goddamned rude to point out that a huckster is lying to you. I am quite happy that we have a culture of being rude to frauds here."

~PZ Myers

Thanks for your nomination as the most knowledgable member. While I, for one, know that is patently false when compared to the posts of so many other members, it's nice to know that my contributions here are appreciated on some level. Cheers mate!

(btw... Eagle Nebula is one of my favorites, too)

"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

"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...

Best of luck with all of your studies, Chem.

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.

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

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.

Happy Winter Solstice!

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.

I meant it.

I must be habituated to it. I hardly noticed.

I played some disc golf years ago when I was in college. Do you have a whole set? Different drivers, chippers, and putters, or are you like me who had only one disc and still was the Bagger Vance of the course?

I prefer the term "slut," thank you very much!

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

I'm diggin' your new avatar. Hope things are well with you. Cheers.

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."

I've learned a lot from your posts, and I'm glad you participate here at SFN. The community is better for it. Keep it up.

I've never turned down a friendship request from a 'sexy bitch' before in my life, and I'm sure not inclined to start now. Cheers.

Interesting idea. Truly, I'm not that interesting. I am good at responding to stuff, and answering questions. If I had one, it would be boring, of that I'm relatively certain. I'll consider it though. Thanks for the incentive.

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

It's good to see you, mate. I missed responding to your posts. The members here are much more science savvy and focussed. Just avoid the religious talk, as that's not welcome, but would be okay in the context of a study or an article on the topic. Anyway, thanks for the friendship request. Like I said, it's good to see you. Cheers.

Just because my unicorn farts doesn't mean it's a pet. Thanks for your nomination.

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

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.