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by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 20, 2023 4:33 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: The Religion Thread
Replies: 202
Views: 61727

Re: The Religion Thread

sparks wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 4:04 amWhich book? He's only published a couple of dozen or so...
Has he? Okay. I was specifically referring to God Is Not Great.
by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:59 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: The Religion Thread
Replies: 202
Views: 61727

Re: The Religion Thread

Cite an example regarding Hitch please. Okay so I may have been mistaken about his politics. Thanks for making me actually go look. I still don't agree with the idolisation that he gets from some in the antitheist crowd - his book was one of the reasons why I left that particular cause. Not the onl...
by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:45 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Weather
Replies: 358
Views: 98322

Re: Weather

Yes. I do swords. Gamer? No. Well, I mean yes, but not in this case. I've studied sword fighting and Historical European Martial Arts for decades. Right now most of my practice is in the Live Action Role Playing (LARP) field, where we use safe foam weapons rather than actual steel, but I have done ...
by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:22 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Weather
Replies: 358
Views: 98322

Re: Weather

sparks wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:17 amHoly fuck!

How can an individual contribute to the relief effort?
How do you eat an elephant?

One bite at a time.
by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:20 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: AI
Replies: 28
Views: 8749

Re: AI

Admin wrote: Fri Feb 17, 2023 11:46 pmWhoa, Ben Elton was miles ahead of you there, stanky. It's over 30 years since Gridlock came out, and the aliens think exactly that. They just sit and watch, realising earth wasn't somewhere they wanted to go.
Gridlock was a great book, but have you read Blind Faith (also by Elton)?
by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:18 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global
Replies: 71
Views: 11624

Re: Mad, Bad, and Sad: Global

Most poor people aren't poor because they're lazy. Most poor people are poor because the system is stacked against them, making bootstrapping themselves out of poverty almost impossible. You need money in order to make money.
by arthwollipot
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:16 am
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Aussie v NZ
Replies: 57
Views: 14794

Re: Aussie v NZ

Are you sure you're Greens Art? Sounding a lot saner than most of them. Well that's the thing. When you actually look into what most of them are saying, and into the party platform in general, they're not that outrageous. Sure, there's definitely a lunatic fringe, but most of the mainstream Greens ...
by arthwollipot
Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:59 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Life's better moments.
Replies: 210
Views: 58090

Re: Life's better moments.

I like peanut butter. I like it on sandwiches with Vegemite. Cheese also works pretty well.
by arthwollipot
Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:50 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: The Drowning Thread
Replies: 25
Views: 4596

Re: The Drowning Thread

Bull sharks, btw, have been spotted as far as 700 miles up the Mississippi river. Interactions with humans in fresh water are evidently very rare. They're common in Aussie rivers, and I'm pretty the only reason there aren't more attacks is only insane people go swimming in Aussie rivers. Years ago ...
by arthwollipot
Sun Feb 19, 2023 11:41 pm
Forum: The Everything Forum
Topic: Planet America
Replies: 909
Views: 300642

Re: Planet America

Also, that looks like a Catholic bishop, who aren't the ones strongly advocating for 2nd amendment solutions to perceived problems. But evangelical pastors are harder to identify on sight than Catholic bishops, so I guess it's understandable. And though a Catholic bishop is quite rightly depicted as...