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Nigger.

Censorship is wrong. You have no right to not be offended.

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Much better IDentification

I was going to write a nice long and angry jeremiad about Unintelligent Design (so called in this instance because I, for one, am sick and tired of being pissed at an unnamed designer for not giving me x-ray eyes) but i could not seem to avoid mini-polemics like that one. So here’s a really, [...]

Omneity by way of parenting

how much of how important being a parent is to leading a fulfilling life related to the fact that most of us will never do anything else worthwhile?
your kids don’t have a choice about the insane, massive influence that you have on them, the rest of the world does.

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Are you a Steve?

This article is out of date, there are now over 600 scientists named steve who support evolution. “Creation Scientists” and Intelligent Design advocates are fond of creating lists of scientists who dissent from evolution, as though scientific theories are decided by majority vote. The largest one that I have heard of is misleading to the [...]

Just because you’ve proved it’s not provable doesn’t mean it’s not true

a note to readers: the following is an argument in favor of objective reality that I wrote for my friend Kim, who took an opposite position. If you agree or disagree with me please feel free to criticize any particular point, I doubt anybody cares enought to take the necessary several hours to respond to [...]

private life

ridiculous term. i sit and i think and i am private. except that nothing that i think about is private.
“man is a social animal” -aristotle
even when living wholly for myself i desire other people. i don’t even know what purpose i serve anymore. i used to think that people who knew gradually became better people. [...]

diatribe

Profundity is the bastard stepchild of absurdity.

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i seem to be a verb

c’mon, that sentence is fucking Awesome!!! tell me you see it? huh? tell me? apparently attributable to fuller, but i haven’t taken the time to research it yet (i came across it in the illuminatus! trilogy). if nobody says anything i’m going to go off on a rant about it… so for pity’s sake, tell [...]