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I'm very excited to find this site. I occasionally find myself in discussion with friends who describe themselves as being rabid theist's. Although I respect their right to their beliefs, we enjoy engaging in friendly debates on the subject of faith and all that it implies. More often than not, I have well thought out points and arguments that support my atheist views. Unfortunately these points come to me hours or days after our debates. I hope to engage in lively discussions with members of this forum and as a result find myself able to assemble pertinent thoughts and arguments that support my views.
It my firm belief that people who are committed to critical thinking are amongst some of the most interesting thoughtful people I have ever met. After spending an evening reading many post here, I'm confident that there many here who fit that description.
I am writing to you from Halifax, Nova Scotia which is one of Canada's prettiest and most vibrant cities.I have an interest in world history with an emphasis on the history of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires. I enjoy sailing and sailboat racing andp retty much like to be on or around the ocean. ( I have yet to see anyone walking on the water)
My sincere greetings and best wishes to all.

I'm eating a boneless honey ham and drinking a bottle of wine on March 29th -- the day we killed jesus.

Thank gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwd -- i'm glad to be rid of that dude!

It was indeed a good Friday, the day we got rid of that man.......

What will you eat for We-Killed-jesus Day?

I often hear how jarosław kaczyński is smart, insightful or even good at making speeches. Granted his party ruled Poland for 8 years but this is the guy who said that kids aren't being born in Poland cause young women drinks* and called his opponents treacherous gobs when speaking in Parliament. He is not at the level of trump incoherence but his usage of polish language makes mine own English to be Chaucerian (or Shakespearean if previous does not carry weight I ascribe to it) in comparison. So I wonder if it is situation in which he won therefore he is great apply? Or perhaps public likes language taken straight from tabloid journalism.

I realize that not many will be able to comment on situation in Poland but surely there are equivalent situation in your countries. So what's your take on this? 


*dają w szyje was exact phrase which while not vulgar certainly shouldn't be used by member of Parliament

Just a quick hello. Hope you are enjoying your weekend. Cheers!

I had (have) a great deal of editorial comment concerning the following but present it here with only one editorial observation at the end, and leave it to the forum to dissect or ignore:


The human population today is just over 8,000,000,000 people.


Roughly half are opposite sex; so 4,000,000,000 couples.

34% are child bearing age, 66% are children or otherwise non-procreatively capable.

2/3 of the 66% are nonetheless sexually capable.

Roughly, 75% of the population is sexually active.

So, 3,000,000,000 sexual pairs at any given moment.

On average, sexually active couples have sex once every 12 days.  That’s the average.  Naturally age and other factors will have averages other than that, but the whole population averages out to 12 days.

12 days is 17,280 minutes.

3,000,000,000 divided by 17,280 is 173,611 sexual couplings every minute, on average.  That’s all 3,000,000,000 couples having sex across 12 days.

There are 267 births globally every minute.

267 of the 173,611 couplings produced a child.

0.15%

The odds of sex producing a pregnancy is 20%.

5 times 267 is 1,335 sexual unions conducted with procreative intent.

0.769%

 
Percent that sex is solely recreation:

99.23%

 
Any argument that people have sex for the purpose of procreation is grossly incorrect.  For human beings, the overwhelming purpose of sex is recreation (and other non-reproductive reasons).

World organized crime has gained revenues in the amount of tens of thousands of billions of dollars in recent decades. Today, there are no known billionaires from illicit activities. There aren't tens or hundreds of billionaires in dollars missing, but thousands of billionaires. The combined wealth of organized crime is much higher than the wealth of all the billionaires in the world. If the vast private wealth of the world's organized crime is missing, it means that the Western States are those that organize and use the profits from illicit activities. We have a choice between believing that the states controls organized crime (because states in the past were the ones who organized drug trafficking, and today there are no known billionaires from illegal activities) and believing that there are many hidden illegal billionaires and organized crime is the main force of the global economy (because organized crime is richer than all the legal billionaires in the world).

There are only two options:
option A: (Western) states are involved in illegal activities.
option B: (Western) states are not involved in illegal activities, in which case organized crime is the main force in the global economy.
Which option do you think is the correct one? More importantly, what facts do you base your choice on? Do you agree that, in both options, the world is ruled by criminals?

No industry or large company is controlled by organized crime, therefore global organized crime cannot be the main force in the global economy. If it is the American state that rules global organized crime, then one of the most important prophecies of the Bible, namely that the most powerful kingdom (state) that has ever existed will lose its power in judgment, is about to be fulfilled.

So far, prophets have failed to provide evidence that they speak in the name of God, so religion has been based on faith alone. This time, one of the most important prophecies (the judgment of the ruler of this world - the American state) is fulfilled by a man who has 6 coincidences in his personal data, out of a total of 32 coincidences. Through the man, name, initials of the name, location of the town where the theory was created, street names, date of birth, links to the three major monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), and all elements of the Trinity (the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit) can be made. Most of these coincidences can be verified, and for the first time, we have something real, something that can be measured about God. The coincidences can be used to estimate the probability of the existence of the Christian God.

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I know they're just animal bones and sugar, but they're so good. 

So somebody said to me that the relatively poor get emergency hospital treatment and the use of an ambulance to that end for free, due to their being relatively poor. Those who are somewhat wealthier however have to pay thousands of dollars for an ambulance because they don't qualify for "free" ambulances due to their wealth. so here's a scenario for such a relatively wealthy cardiac patient:

"Hey hun, I'm feeling a tightness in my chest, I'm short of breath too..."
"Aw, you just ate too much too fast probably, give it a few minutes to calm down, you know how much an ambulance costs, give it a chance to settle."
RIP

Does this situation really exist in the USA? Too rich to call an ambulance?