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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: The Autistic Genocide Clock. This is sickening people. |
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Posted: 31 Aug 2009, 10:12 pm
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This is like watching an argument about how horrible it is that the world will end in 2012. Fascinating to watch, but the major premise isn't true. Thus, all the arguments that follow from it are unsound.
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: The law should get its priorities straight. |
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Posted: 30 Aug 2009, 7:35 pm
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| It's an 'educational centre' that uses negative reinforcement in order to scare the inmates into behaving. In this specific case, electric shocks delivered via remote control. I believe that is all that one needs to know about the place. What they do is actually illegal in (say) US prisons, but appa... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are all AS religious? |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2009, 9:42 pm
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| Would it be rude of me to ask what 'spiritual, but not religious' actually means? I have never understood what the word 'spiritual' means, in that sense. As best I can determine, it means 'I believe (in some manner), but other believers annoy me, so I will use another term." I feel a tremendous sens... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are all AS religious? |
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Posted: 23 Aug 2009, 9:35 pm
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| I am sorry, I should not have jumped on this point. I did so merely because I have had too many encounters with those who claim that Darwin was either an orthodox Christian, or that he became one on his death bed. You claimed neither, and I attacked reflexively. For that, I am sorry. No need to apo... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are all AS religious? |
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Posted: 20 Aug 2009, 9:28 pm
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| BTW some personal stuff in my life: I had an only child who had some serious health issues (resulting in her death at the age of 2) My most sincere condolences. I have a son, and wouldn't wish to imagine the sheer horror of losing him forever. BTW Darwin was religious, and did not see the conflict ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are all AS religious? |
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Posted: 18 Aug 2009, 8:24 pm
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| BTW some personal stuff in my life: I had an only child who had some serious health issues (resulting in her death at the age of 2) My most sincere condolences. I have a son, and wouldn't wish to imagine the sheer horror of losing him forever. BTW Darwin was religious, and did not see the conflict ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are all AS religious? |
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Posted: 16 Aug 2009, 1:20 am
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| Not to be picky, but an atheist specifically believes that there is no god; an agnostic just considers that it's not possible to know. A mere absence of belief is, I would say, the very broadest definition possible of atheism. Positive knowledge is irrelevant, because - of course - there's no such ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are all AS religious? |
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Posted: 13 Aug 2009, 9:48 pm
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| Atheist in observance, agnostic in inclination. ;) I prefer to think of myself as a don'tgiveatossist. :D Exactly. From what you've said, you are an atheist. Your epistemological position happens to be agnostic. Do you actively believe that there is/are god(s) out there? If not, you are an atheist.... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are all AS religious? |
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Posted: 12 Aug 2009, 9:05 pm
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awmperry wrote: So yeah. Agnostic, bordering on atheist.
It's not really a continuum. Sounds to me as though you are an agnostic atheist. |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: Eligible Odd-Bods! - The Premier Aspergian Singles List |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2009, 10:00 pm
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| Age: 35 Gender: Male Orientation: Heterosexual Location: Toronto, ON Height: 5'9" (175 cm) Weight: 200 lbs (90 kg) Ethnicity: Complicated. Nominally Métis, if that means anything to you. Interests: Many and varied, but tending toward the intellectual. I read voraciously, and rarely is it fiction. Ph... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are all AS religious? |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2009, 9:19 pm
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| ryan93: The latter two arguments fall under the logical fallacy known as "argument from personal incredulity"...ie, "this doesn't make sense to me, and is thus wrong." They aren't really valid arguments against a theistic viewpoint. Far better, methinks, to just cite the utter lack of evidence for a... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: The Autistic Genocide Clock. This is sickening people. |
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Posted: 09 Aug 2009, 1:20 am
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| <Facepalm> Anyone who claims to be able to diagnose autism in a fetus is a quack. Luckily, nobody of whom I am aware is making such a claim. That there is some sort of autistic holocaust in the offing is every bit as alarmist, unevidenced, and bizarre as the claims of those nuts who insist that the ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Are all AS religious? |
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Posted: 06 Aug 2009, 10:15 pm
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Religion is a sort of intellectual dishonesty. Belief without any sort of evidence is just bizarre.
Bertrand Russell's celestial teapot provides the perfect analogy. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you believe in UFO's and Aliens? |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2008, 8:28 pm
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| Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up July 24, 2008 12:01am FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist. It's probably worth noting that there is no reason to take his view more seriously than that of a rando... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you believe in UFO's and Aliens? |
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Posted: 27 Jul 2008, 12:48 am
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| Moon-walker claims alien contact cover-up July 24, 2008 12:01am FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist. It's probably worth noting that there is no reason to take his view more seriously than that of a rando... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Do you believe in UFO's and Aliens? |
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Posted: 23 Jul 2008, 7:25 pm
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| There are aliens on this planet. They are spiritual beings, able to change form at will. They live for centuries. They gain power by milking soul power from humans. In animist cultures, they bribe the humans to give them soul power by offering to look after them. Later, they get the upper hand and ... |
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