Secular Café Archive

I think in many places body-cams are illegal. I noticed the other day coming through passport control that there was a big sign saying "no cameras or phones". Personally I don't see any justification for banning them.

[quote=""Roo St. Gallus""] That means probably 95% of all vaccines, which are scheduled for administration during minority years. So, your 'consenting' doesn't mean shit.[/quote] I think you are just smelling shit because your head is so firmly wedged up your own ass. Plenty of e...

As long as everyone is consenting, I don't see the issue. It should be up to them. I think it should be illegal not a vaccinate kids though.

What do you have against cursive? It is my default writing style. Admitedly I type more than I write nowadays, but only slightly. I still like taking notes with a pen because of the fluidity it gives me to annotate and add diagrams (often on my iPad). Being able to write well is very useful, and for...

[quote=""Jobar""]Hello and welcome, Kabir. We're going to merge this board with the Talk Freethought board, sometime in the next month or two- so it's a good idea to go ahead and join there, too. But all posts on this board will be archived, so anything you write here will still ...

[quote=""Worldtraveller""] I don't understand how someone can derive sexual pleasure from being spanked. :confused: :d unno: Yabbut, I thought you didn't understand sexual pleasure anyway. You don't really seem to understand pleasure, in general.....[/QUOTE] I don't know where yo...

[quote=""Greatest I am""] Educated, yes. Smarter, no. There is a difference you know. I*f you are smart that is. [/quote] Sorry, I don't mean to be offensive, but that is also clearly not true. The only way you can think this to be true is by having a very selective definition of...

[quote=""Greatest I am""]How do you compassionately tell a supernatural believing person that they are borderline stupid?
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I am 100% certain that I personally know "supernatural believing people" who are smarter than you. What should that tell us?

I don't understand how someone can derive sexual pleasure from being spanked. :d unno:

Maybe. But I am getting old now and have never met anyone likeable/stimulating/engaging enough to make me not want to be alone. I doubt I will in the future.

It doesn't make sense. The penalty for getting caught harvesting someone's organs is presumably sufficiently severe that you are better off (in terms of risk and punishment) simply killing them. However, I would be very reluctant to give cabin crews this sort of power. There is already too much inst...

[quote=""Jobar""]I do think some people are natural hermits, and suffer more from too much company instead of too much time alone. But those are rather rare. I'd be curious to know what percentage of the population they would constitute, and I expect that there are more males tha...

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Looks like sexual harassment to me.

[quote=""Jobar""] Ozy, I want to offer three quotes here, which AFAIK are all genuine. "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." -Richard Feynman "If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not und...

The fact that Lewontin has these views says to me that we scientists need to do a better job at explaining our science. These seemingly counterintuitive ideas are actually not counterintuitive at all - they have just been badly explained. This emphasises how important it is to provide better funding...

[quote=""Koyaanisqatsi""] the chances for the universe to be in such a way that life can exist, is one in a number so big that it would require 55 digits to write it down. Hence, it can't be the result of a coincidence. 1) In spite of the attempts to make it legitimate, this is a...

You can't solve the fine tuning problem using an anthropic principle unless you invoke the multiverse, which in my opinion is even more henious than intelligent design. However, the fine tuning problem should not be seen as a problem at all - it is an opportunity to point us towards new physics disc...

I'll be first to admit that I really don't know what you mean by your answer, so maybe I am in the same camp as those you have already spoken to. However, let me give my view on ID. Firstly, you will never be able to debunk ID, because it is actually a hypothesis that can be made to fit any observab...

[quote=""DrZoidberg""] There's not room in the head for both Christian faith in God and accepting science, facts and reality. If you accept God your reality will start warping truth around it. It's not a good place to be. And while you're with God there is only one predictable ou...

Well, my parents are certainly not going to come live with me! What else would I do with them? Send them to the dignitas clinic?

Nope.

[quote=""Koyaanisqatsi""] A good friend of mine actually posted (in regard to Louis C.K.), “If a woman—even an ugly one—asked if I wanted to watch her masturbate, I’d be totally fine with that.” So I asked, “Ok, but what if she asked if she could ram a broomstick up your ass and ...

[quote=""Greatest I am""] If the definition of "good" is taking actions that are approved by God, It isn't. [/QUOTE] Your original statement was "I find it quite strange that Christian, Muslims and Jews can ignore the immoral ways that their God is shown to have in...

[quote=""subsymbolic""]Might this help? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Nii5w2FaI British enough for you?[/quote] Not really. There is a lot more to harassment than just sexual consent. For example, it is harassment (in particular circumstances) to ask if someone wants sex, irr...

If the definition of "good" is taking actions that are approved by God, how can any actions of God not be "good"?