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maturin1919 8 Oct 1
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Please also add 'Organic', the idea that if something is untested for safety in a lab to proper safety standards, it is therefore safer than something that has been. Especially if it has been used since the days when people poisoned themselves to death by thirty by boiling their wine in lead containers, and took carcinogens to expel worms. Mindless technophobia or what.

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I think you and I talked several years ago. I remember the Samoyeds, and WV, and you building houses.

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Photographic copyright should automatically belong to the person who is the subject of the photo.
Ownership of the copy right should be none-transferable but permission could be given on a one off only basis

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I've grown to really dislike Xmas. It starts in October. The nonstop pressure to shop, the crowds, the family obligations, even the decorations. All of it. Just blah.

We should all get together and refuse to trade with shops who start their christmas push before December.

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I hate weddings! It's really not my conception of love and relationship. I find the rituals and traditions arround them annoying and tasteless. If you want to put on a costume, to put on a show in front of an audiance and to get some applauds, become an actor!

Long ago I heard a stat. that generally speaking, the more people spend on a wedding the shorter time the marriage will last. About says it all.

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Vaccinations aren't as safe or effective as the media has everyone brainwashed into believing.

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When it comes to the hot button topics of the day, immigration,gun reform, The Kavanaugh hearings,healthcare you name it..

Both the left and the right.....Are both right...And wrong.

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It's totally hypocritical for leftists and third-wave feminists to spend so much time bashing Christianity (which is usually good to do), and then turn around and defend Islam; an even more right-wing religion.

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Sport is an activity(usually) competitive that we do in our spare time to use up surplus energy, keep fit and socialise. The meaning of the word should not extend to include professional versions.

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In the U.K, the idea of the greenbelt should be scrapped and housing development allowed all over it. We should make every effort to retain green spaces between houses for our children to play near their homes. All children need need this. The green belt only supplies vistas for the rich.

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The termination of a pregnancy should be decided by the woman herself without outside influence or moral judgement.

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People who are fed up with being alive should be allowed to exit with dignity.

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The idea of allowing cyclists to cycle on the pavement(sidewalk) or in pedestrian areas is plain wrong. Wheeled vehicles should stick to the road.

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I think it is wrong to maintain a carnivorous animal and then allow it the freedom to hunt and kill or harry wildlife. (Fox hunters and cat "owners" )

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I think people should have to take and pass a six month course on basic science as adults. At the end you sign that you agree to the terms and conditions of science. If you don’t then you can’t use anything that requires science to put together. 2. I think Christians should be forced to follow their own religion. I know there are many contradictions in the holy books, but come up with a list of rules from the book and if you are a Christian then you can be prosecuted for not following them. Watch church attendance fall like a rock. 3. I think marriage should be declared a religious contract and should be removed from all government records. Anyone can get married if they can find a priest to perform the ceremony. As for government records, when you file your tax return, one adult lists themselves as head of household and lists the others in the house. You do not need to declare your relationship with the others in the house. That is your business.

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Belief in art with a capital 'A' is another form of religion and does many of the same sort of harms. It stems from the arrogance of humans who believed that they were set apart from and above the rest of the animal world, and that therefore, the creations of our hands had a special 'spiritual' worth that the doings of other animals do not. It is arrogant, speciesist, causes pollution, diminishes our ability to appreciate the natural world and is used to lend a misleading 'spiritual' authority to many dreadful ideologies and no atheist or agnostic should beleive in it.. P.S. I love all the arts, being an atheist does not mean you can not admire the church spire just not accept what it means.

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I hate the way that cafes/restaurants pass soup though their blenders, and especially then put cream on top which adds nothing to the dish, today. I blame the trendy chefs who should all be made to stay in their kitchens and of the TV etc. anyway. In my day, (Grumpy old man phrase.) soup had lumps in it and texture, it was an interesting dish, and not just a boring way to get your customers to eat the leftovers.

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Hydrocarbon fuels are a necessary evil.

For now.

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I don't like Neil deGrasse Tyson. He never really stood out to me, but when I gathered that he likely believes in a multiverse and pushes it as a fact.. I grew a distaste for him. Maybe push is too strong of a word, but at least implies that it is true when he is "educating" people. As someone who is seen as a science promoter, he shouldn't be promoting something that is theorized like it's a fact. To me, that's no different than a theist spreading their belief like it's a fact.

Could be too that I really don't like the multiverse theory. It's complete horse shit actually. It's ok as a hypothesis, but most who follow it believe it.. and as a belief system, it's no better than religion. Created in a way that it will always just be out of reach of scientific query, meant to make you feel good about your place in the universe. Sad you didn't ask that one girl out that one time? Don't worry, there's another universe where you did. Your job got you down? Don't worry, there's another universe where you are working your dream career. Always daydreaming about humans actually being robots that resemble C3-PO? Yeah, there's a universe out there like that. Just another ignorant, non falsifiable belief system that appeals to the human ego.

And anyone who thinks the pyramids were built by slaves or aliens or humans enslaved by aliens or anything other than humans being humans, I think they're an idiot.

Chicken and waffles should be chicken cooked in gravy over waffles, not fried chicken over waffles with syrup.

How you gonna shit on chicken and waffles?

I have no opinion on NDGT but, while being no expert, I do agree that a lot of cosmology and higher physics now seems based on pure speculation and belief supported by little experimental evidence, some of which is contradictory, and it is in real danger of beginning to act like a religion more than science. Cosmology is protected from an lot of the attacks that religious fundamentalists mount on biology, by the fact that it is seen as complex and difficult to understand, yet maybe the attacks are actually good for biology, because the need to answer them helps to keep it grounded.

@Deiter I've always felt like his cuddliness and charm was fake. Like there's a bad person under the facade. So it wouldn't surprise me. I Googled it and found the accusation, but couldn't find if anything came of it. Might be a stretch, but his belief in the multiverse would have probably helped him be ok with doing it, if he did. Just like most religious belief, the multiverse belief frees you from personal responsibility.

@Minta79 Chicken in gravy over waffles all day, everyday. Doing it Dutch style, not this Southern shit.

@Fernapple Yeah, unfortunately it'll be hard to prove the true nature of the universe. We will always have an observational limit and even if we didn't, it'd technically not be able to be proven to be infinite or finite. If it's infinite and we travel an infinite distance, at any point someone believes it to be finite, they can just say "well you can't prove there isn't an end further out". If it is finite and we travel to the end, someone who believes it is infinite can just say "well you can't prove there is or isn't something beyond this boundary".

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Heading home from work and smelling BO on the bus. Really bad BO, like I don't know what a shower is BO.

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Time to overhaul the concept of "private property."

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Chaffed armpits after a long run feels great

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Cyclists need to get off the fucking road lmao

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Professional sports are a ridiculous waste of time, money and resources.

I mostly agree but I still watch occasionally ?

@maturin1919 I suppose so, but aside from actors which I also think are overpaid you don't see people getting paid multimillion dollar contracts to play a game that is basically inconsequential to our existence. Its obscene the things that could be helped and remedied by that money, when you rest of us give up our prime years and health for just the basics in most cases.

@maturin1919 because of stadium tax subsidy hand outs

If pro sports are so great, why do they need money from governments?!

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Black licorice is the BEST licorice.

@maturin1919 black licorice is way worse then Hawaiian pizza seriously

I agree. Black licorice is the BEST licorice. I ate as a kid, and still eat it occasionally.

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