Comments for The Dubious Manifesto

Comment on Petri Dishes VS Giant Particle Colliders by Joel Hicks

Joel Hicks — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:06:54 +0000

While my brain is not goo-ified per se, this is pretty awesome stuff. Mendel would be proud.

On another note, have you seen Zeitgeist: The Movie?

Comment on LHC Frustrations by surya narayan singh

surya narayan singh — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:01:44 +0000

my thoughts on lhc
http://snsays.com/429/lhc/

Comment on While We’re On the Subject by Luke Radl

Luke Radl — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:13:24 +0000

I’m a big fan, it’s a weekly staple.

I’d be glad to. I’ve also just added it to my Google RSS reader :). Would you mind reciprocating?

Comment on While We’re On the Subject by Mike

Mike — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:43:30 +0000

I am glad you like the show, Luke. (Maybe you could add “Tangled Up in Blue Guy” to your blogroll.)

Comment on While We’re On the Subject by Joel Hicks

Joel Hicks — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:11:55 +0000

Ugh. Sites like that give all religious people a bad name. And he says the KJV is the infallible word of God, even though it’s historically documented that King James had it altered to reflect more kindly on his monarchy.

Comment on The Names We Give Ourselves by joelhicks

joelhicks — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:20:59 +0000

I don’t expect the Wager to convince anyone. Nobody else I know bases their theism or atheism on probability. I understand why you would be upset at people making her upset. However I would then have to extend the question to her for the same reasons. I don’t expect an answer here since she is not present, but the question remains.

Comment on Delightfully Underhanded by Luke Radl

Luke Radl — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:38:41 +0000

Haha I think I would have to disagree with extreme prejudice. The zealots are doing much more harm.

Comment on The Names We Give Ourselves by Luke Radl

Luke Radl — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:34:34 +0000

Personally, I find Pascal’s Wager to be very unconvincing. The reason I was upset was because I knew how it made her feel and the people well-wishing were being, however sincere or unaware, inconsiderate of how saying that made her feel.

I’m not really sure. Definitely if you have a WordPress account but I’m not sure otherwise.

Comment on Delightfully Underhanded by Joel

Joel — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:45:34 +0000

The only thing worse than a religious zealot is a religious superficial.

Comment on The Names We Give Ourselves by Joel

Joel — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:41:07 +0000

I don’t really talk about my religious views that much so most people still think of me as the churchgoing good boy from the days of yore. I stopped going to church after moving down here but I stopped thinking of myself as a Christian long before that. I am a good person and have been described as such. I have morals, admittedly most of which I got from my Christian upbringing and I appreciate my upbringing in much the same way Jon described in his post here. I do think there is a higher power of some kind out there, just not the Christian God. I choose to believe in a higher power purely to make myself feel better and to maintain some hope that someone has got my back in all this chaos. I’m a firm believer in logic and as such Pascal’s Wager appeals to me in it’s basic form. I’m a fairly laid back person and I find it difficult to get really worked up over something, which is probably why I didn’t get swept away by “feeling the love of God”. In this vein of thought, I’m not sure why you got upset at people saying that they would keep ‘your friend’ in their prayers (quotes to maintain the anonymity you’ve established, not to appear skeptical) instead of simply accepting their well wishing in the spirit that it was given. To me it’s like being upset that someone said “good afternoon” in a podcast from Australia because it was not afternoon where you were.

Completely unrelated, but is there a way to get this thing to tell me when there’s a reply after my comment?