Recent content by 2Dbunk

Since there is something called the National Governors Association (a sort of board of state governors), this is a problem that organization should be addressing! The governors of border states should be leaning on this Association as a civil way to ask for assistance in handling the numbers...

Science gives us an objective set of verifiable truths. The lesser standard that you are suggesting is subjective or merely opinion, based on one's personal experience and/or standard. I don't think a universal standard can be applied here. I agree we should be open to new experiences, but we...

I agree with that, except the source of nature is most likely not attributed to a god -- at least not the Christian god. We have a small but comfortable house, just one car (a hybrid but not luxurious), and live within our retirement income. My wife has this motto hanging on her office's wall...

In reading these posts I am reminded of what someone (Anatole France?) once said about theology: "That science which treats the unknowable with infinitesimal exactitude."

It is very, very unlikely that Satan or God exists. Biblical accounts are really ancient prose meant to influence otherwise uneducated people at the dawn of writing. Interestingly, Biblical citations are rarely if ever allowable in a U.S. court of law.

PSHAW !! I've been an Atheist for 65-years and those years have been the happiest of my life. Before that, I wrestled with religion, sang in the church choir, read the Bible through, experienced unnecessary guilt, etc. My second wife of 23-years is an Atheist, and we are still very happy...

Very good, Tracy! As far as racial criticism is concerned, I stand by the adage: 'Live, and let live.' That goes for same sex marriage and other LBG issues also.

Your cited FOX NEWS poll is a good start but it will never happen. NRA bribed Republicants will never vote it in!

That is good that you don't presume. Sleep well in your citadel.

From AB's post #5 I hope you understand that those three suggestions I listed were tongue-in-cheek. I was trying to hi-lite the absurdity of this argument. I was trained as an engineer -- engineers solve technical problems for a livelihood; this is as much a technical problem as it is...

No. Automatic and semi-automatic rifles should be banned, but here's a suggestion that I'm sure the NRA would highly approve: 1. If parents have but one child, the child should be home-schooled! 2. If parents have more than one child, they should send each child to a different school. That...

Hi Bill, There is a reason that you refer to the God Helmet in the past tense. The study's results have yet to be replicated by independent entities (scientific press - Nature, academics and documentarists). Those trying to replicate Persinger's experiments say that "... pschological...

AB wrote in post #2: In general, I can say that I would want science informing me on this issue. I know politically, the issue is framed as being it's the woman's body so it should be her choice. But if she's carrying a sentient human, then that's where I draw the line. It is no longer just the...

Bill writes: When neural emf excites the temporal lobe, it can generate a feeling of empathy. And if you are on your own, the only thing to empathize with is an invisible super being. Sources of neural emf include drugs, excitement, randomness, illness and, to complete the list, supernatural...

A George W. Bush appointee who joined the court in 2006, Alito argues that the 1973 abortion rights ruling was an ill-conceived and deeply flawed decision that invented a right mentioned nowhere in the Constitution and unwisely sought to wrench the contentious issue away from the political...