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• Do you believe in the afterlife?

  Tue Jan 19, 2010
  • If you think hopes, dreams, LOVE, and PURPOSE are meaningless just because someone rejects a belief in the Supernatural, I pity you. I'm no believer, but hopes, dreams, and Love are all the Purpose I need.

• Teen birth rates highest in most religious states

  Wed Sep 16, 2009
  • Any of us who have known the delights of an illicit midnight rendezvous with the preacher's daughter are not at all surprised by this finding. Ahh...memories. :)

• Berlusconi: 'I am by far' best Italian leader ever

  Thu Sep 10, 2009
  • What a foolish egomaniac. Marcus Aurelius, Trajan, Hadrian, and Cicero certainly stand far above this petty politico. I'm also certain their names will be remembered long after history has forgotten Berlusconi and his plethora of purile peccadillos.

• Primate ancestor may be from Asia, not Africa

  Tue Jun 30, 2009
  • Where your metaphor broke down was in suggesting that prayer (AKA supplication/wishing/etc.) is similar to a designed mechanical process which leads to acceleration.

• Primate ancestor may be from Asia, not Africa

  Tue Jun 30, 2009
  • It's hardly my fault that your metaphor was so poorly chosen, consisting as it did of two completely unrelated concepts, it was not recognizable as such.

• Primate ancestor may be from Asia, not Africa

  Tue Jun 30, 2009
  • "Among other sources" includes things such as the natural process of the weathering of rocks and minerals. As for your second question, you appear to be operating under the misapprehension that dirt is alive. Considering that, I'm going to assume you're not an English professor, huh?

• Primate ancestor may be from Asia, not Africa

  Tue Jun 30, 2009
  • Then it's a poor metaphor. A proper metaphor relates two things that are similar, asking us to see one thing as being another. You have compared two thing/concepts which couldn't be further apart.

• Primate ancestor may be from Asia, not Africa

  Tue Jun 30, 2009
  • Where does dirt come from? Decomposing organic matter, among other sources.

• Primate ancestor may be from Asia, not Africa

  Tue Jun 30, 2009
  • Pressing the gas petal is prayer to the engine.. Uh, no. Pressing the gas petal is ordering the fuel flow to the engine to increase.

• Primate ancestor may be from Asia, not Africa

  Tue Jun 30, 2009
  • Whoops..."hear", not here. Heh.