Soliton signing out!

12/25/2008 | Soliton

[Soliton]

After 10 years and many thousands of replies, I am leaving FR.

I don't really care, and I don't know why anyone else would.

I am leaving before I am banned (again). Truth doesn't seem to matter on FR. I don't know if it is donations or sympathetic opinions that do, but I have been suspended twice when I followed the rules and the people who complained to the moderators didn't, yet the moderators sided with them.

For the record, evolution is a fact and the Shroud of Turin is a fraud. I would prove it if the admin moderators would let me, but they won't. Your resident "expert", Swordmaker won't debate me because he can't.

I will work to build a forum where members have rights and truth matters.

Merry Christmas

[NinoFan]

If you have the right browser, there’s no reason to have to take any time at all. It will spell check as you type and underline/identify any errors as you make them. This literally takes no added time on your part. Just FYI.

[NinoFan]

;)

[tpanther]

...you demonstrate that you are impervious to fact and reason, and show that you simply aren't worth the effort.

This from someone who automatically and reflexively responds to any challenge to his cult with auto-parrot responses of:

"Inquisition"!!!!!, "burnings at the stake"!!!!!!!! and "theocracy"!!!!!!!!, shrieking with his hair on fire, without fail.

[tpanther]

I think you'd like to know that this post, in it's brief lifetime, has achieved quite an internet following. It has been nominated as the dumbest thing ever posted on the internet.

I'd like to know what crowd decided this?

DU?

MoveOn?

[Swordmaker]

So, how about it? Now that the mystery of his name has been solved by yours truly (yeah, I’m patting myself on the back, so sue me), what say you guys to my idea of a thread for puzzles/games for intelligent FReepers? I’d be glad to create it. Maybe we could even have a few challenges for some actual prizes (no obligation to provide prizes on any participant’s part, of course; only those who wanted to contribute some geek prize would do so)? Let me know.

I would be interested. I don't know how much time I could allocate to solving puzzles, but I have been known to do so in the past...

[valkyry1]

I'd like to know what crowd decided this? DU? MoveOn?

That or maybe worse 

 

[CE2949BB]

Well, aren’t YOU special. Getting a calendar named after you and all. ;)

You bastard! You figured it out! :D

Bravo!

[CE2949BB]

Black is white. White is black. Creation "science" is science and fundamentalists are pro-science.

Sigh. You're right. It's depressing.

[CE2949BB]

The Ayn Rand Cult

Barf. Lame.

Review from Noble Soul

Review Summary: Muckraking journalism in book form. Walker stretches so far to attack Rand that he damages his own credibility in the process.

Do better! :)

From Leonard Peikoff's site, on smoking:

Q: If Ayn Rand were still alive, would she smoke?

A: No. As a matter of fact, she stopped smoking in 1975. When the Surgeon General in the 50s claimed that smoking was dangerous, he offered nothing to defend this view but statistical correlations. Ayn Rand, of course, dismissed any alleged “science” hawked by Floyd Ferris, nor did she accept statistics as a means of establishing cause and effect. Statistics, she held, may offer a lead to further inquiry but, by themselves, they are an expression of ignorance, not a form of knowledge. For a long period of time, as an example, there was a high statistical correlation between the number of semicolons on the front page of The New York Times and the number of deaths among widows in a certain part of India.

In due course, when scientists had studied the question, she and all of us came to grasp the mechanism by which smoking produces its effects—and we stopped. Doesn’t this prove, you might ask, that she was wrong to mistrust the government? My answer: even pathological liars sometimes tell the truth. Should you therefore heed their advice?

[CE2949BB]

To all members of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy (and the sane non-members): if I missed any posts in this thread to me, please mail me directly. :)

[metmom]

From someone who believes dominionist nonsense.

[metmom]

DC.

FReepmail

[js1138]

Not necessarily -- which explains why medicine, psychology, and sociology -- all of which deal with observable effects -- are not "hard" sciences.

Hard and soft are just metaphors describing the level of maturity in the methodologies of a particular field. Methodologies improve as instrumentation improves. There are fields where the instrumentation is still relatively primitive.

[js1138]

I'd like to know what crowd decided this?

Does this mean you agree that gravity cannot be directly detected?

What would it mean to have something directly detected, as opposed to indirectly detected? Can you give me an example of a phenomenon that can be directly detected in a whay that is obviously and qualitatively different from the way we detect our own weight?

[Logic n' Reason]

Send me youre link when you're up and running. I agree with your veiws/opinions/facts!

Jim

[trussell]

Sort of. But they are religiously anti-religion.

This isn't true...there are people at DC of most religions including Jewish, Christians, Catholics athiests, etc... They chose to not discuss it as though religion is the only important topic.

[trussell]

The stars have nothing to do with how many times a person has been banned. It only shows “posting status” for the site. A person with more stars has posted more comments. That’s all.

[DoctorMichael]

Is there one creationist on this thread who is honest enough to admit the error that I have been pointing out for two days now (see posts #615 et seq.)? Just one?

"Okay. Grog admit it. Creationists lie
like fur rug on cave floor."

[grey_whiskers]

Aye, but there are also those where there are so *many* unknowns (and "unknown unknowns" as Rumsfeld would say) where you don't have a lot of confidence in being able to control for all the important variables...

And thus, the applicability of the scientific method is weakened.

Cheers!

[tpanther]

Can you give me an example of a phenomenon that can be directly detected in a whay that is obviously and qualitatively different from the way we detect our own weight?

Of course, sometimes a person is suspended in a tank of water and the amount of water displaced measures body weight/mass/fat content, muscle content, etc.

So how about you...where DO you come up with your idiocy? DU? MoveOn?