Recent posts by Navarre on Kongregate

Topic: Serious Discussion / Equality...

Sharangir: I agree. It is a comfort to think that everyone has traits that makes them equal to others in some way but there is no reason why this must be the case. Instead of convincing people that the differences would be bad if they existed, we should accept that they exist but deal with them in the right way, by realising that firstly they don’t affect our rights or value as equal humans and secondly that to then use those differences as a basis for a generalisation or prejudice is still as stupid as before, as the individual is not the generalisation.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Equality...

Intelligence has nothing to do with equality. Equality is to do with rights and fair treatment. If it’s proven that a single person is superior in every respect (intelligent, strength, etc…) that person is still no better than the other. That is the trap we have fallen into. We tell everyone that being stupid, fat, etc… makes them inferior when in fact it does no such thing. There are people who are more intelligent than others, but they are no ‘better’.

Whether the results of this research prove anything relating to race and intelligence is irrelevant.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Super Genius

Your revision for the tests should have been your previous years of education.

Topic: Serious Discussion / God, the Bible, and religion - a Kong search for truth

I’d make the case that religions come and go, but Atheism is the oldest surviving and adhered theological position.

Stick that in your stigmata and smoke it.

Topic: Serious Discussion / God, the Bible, and religion - a Kong search for truth

Does it ever actually say that the snake is satan?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Can anybody show me an example of one of these?

Tim Minchin is amazing.

Also, flawed ontological argument is flawed. Here’s an atheist version.

If God exists, he is perfectly and as skilled as possible.
Skill lies in being able to accomplish things while overcoming disadvantages.
The most skill lies in overcoming the biggest disadvantages.
The biggest disadvantage is not existing.
Therefore god does not exist.

If you follow the theological ontological argument, you have to accept this one too. Otherwise you can be a rational person and agree that they are both bollocks.

Topic: Serious Discussion / God, the Bible, and religion - a Kong search for truth

The statement “There exists no absolute truth” if it were true would be an absolute truth and would therefore contradict itself. Therefore there must be absolute truth.

That is my opinion. It has nothing to do with my atheism.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Proposition 8 in California, 2008

Gay couples should be afforded all the rights that same sex couples are. We really don’t need to be rewarding procreation at the moment.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Evolution, tell me please

No-one is stating that bacteria are the first forms of life. I have already linked to protocells.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama Wins! Live Election Discussion - See First Post for LIVE Results!

He must be hung.

Sorry, did I ruin the moment?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama Wins! Live Election Discussion - See First Post for LIVE Results!

They clapped McCain!

Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama Wins! Live Election Discussion - See First Post for LIVE Results!

If Obama is still alive by then…

Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama Wins! Live Election Discussion - See First Post for LIVE Results!

W00t!

Topic: Serious Discussion / Evolution, tell me please

http://exploringorigins.org/protocells.html

Topic: Serious Discussion / Evolution, tell me please

And please tell me how everything got there in the first place.

We don’t know. Neither do you. The difference is we don’t make guesses.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Obama Wins! Live Election Discussion - See First Post for LIVE Results!

America, Obama better win, or we may never forgive you.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Should women fight in war? (on the frontlines)

Because thats how things really work Navarre. Grow up a bit, these generalities and outright lies get tiresome.

What are you talking about? My point was that I’d rather they didn’t. Not because of any inequality or chauvinism, but because it means half the population won’t be soldiers which is a good thing.

I could feed a British town centre with that chip on your shoulder.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Should women fight in war? (on the frontlines)

If half the population is not allowed to kill themselves and others for usually arbitrary or immoral reasons then what the hey. It’s like asking ‘Should women be able to catch prostate cancer?’.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Am I able to foretell the short term future?

As Ajora stated, you are experiencing False Pattern Recognition, the basis of all superstition and the seeds of religion.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Poetry

It’s shite poetry.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Poetry

@Henry: Do so then. If you honestly thought that you could make lots of money for no effort, why wouldn’t you?

Topic: Serious Discussion / Poetry

Science is only cold hard facts at entry level.

Classical art only really exists because photography didn’t. There is nothing artistic about that.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Poetry

The whole point of post-structuralism is that meaning is open to interpretation and that the interpretation of the author is not necessarily better that the readers.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Poetry

How is using the most evocative thing in existence to convey an imagination not art? Poetry is one of the purest art forms there is.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Evolution; scientific fact or believed by faith?

Evolution is scientific fact in that it is the currently accepted version of truth according to the evidence available.