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[24 Jan 2009 | Comments Off | ]

This is taken from the Forum at the webcomic Questionable Content, but it is actually a paraphrase of a piece that Antony Flew wrote in 1950 called Theology and Falsification.
Anna and Kate are walking down the street when they come to an empty lot.
“Look at that beautiful garden!” cries Anna, “It must be tended by a particularly skillful gardener!”
“What are you talking about?  It’s an empty lot full of weeds!  It couldn’t possibly be tended by a gardener.” is Kate’s reply.
“He must tend it to grow that way.”
“I have never …

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[21 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]

“This world is not my home
I’m just a-passing through”
- Alfred Brumley
Well, fine, but please hurry on through. Please be polite and leave everything like you found it.  Preesh.

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[16 Jan 2009 | Comments Off | ]

Six degrees.  That’s how cold it is here in Music City.  I took the trash and recycling out this morning and HOMAGAWD.  I was also thinking; if you added ten degrees, it would still be 16.  If you added another ten, it would STILL be under freezing.  Another ten, and we’d still be saying “Holy cow, it’s cold outside.”  Everything may be relative, but sometimes it’s in a weird way.
“Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d have frozen to death.” – Mark Twain

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[14 Jan 2009 | Comments Off | ]

I was just behind a person with a bumper sticker that read “Christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven” who passed on the shoulder right next to a sign that read “No Passing On Shoulder.”
Can someone explain again to me this “objective basis for morality” thing?