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Yeah, the vocal evolutionists and scientists got kicked off of FR sometime around 2007. Most of them moved to darwincentral.org, which in practice is a place for right-wing nerds to hang out and hate on FReep. Kind of like SomethingSensitive is to SA. One of them, a guy who goes by the handle PatrickHenry, maintains a fairly decent blog dedicated to trolling creationists called "The Sensuous Curmudgeon".
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quote:Whatever you read about his background is probably lies put out to make this fraud seem smart. I feel like this is a perfect encapsulation of freep's approach to research: You start with your opinion about something, and dismiss any source that contradicts you as "probably lies" At least this guy had the balls to do it pre-emptively rather than trying to make up some poo poo about actual sources. Though that "probably" makes him sound kinda wishy-washy so he'll probably be banned soon
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If they do go on an earnest zotting run in that thread, there are some serious dissenting voices. Freeper Zarthras is probably only still around due to his regdate (1998). Posts like this: quote:And still the Earth is more than 4000 years old. are far more reasonable than any Freeper has a right to be. In contrast, there's this post by A Formerly Proud Canadian which aptly sums up how Biblical literalism hangs on a tiny, delicate thread: quote:Actually, mankind, per the Bible is approximately 6,000-7,000 years old, not 4,000 years old. Jesus never said, "Oh, BTW, that Adam and Eve thing? Wrong! Those dates are REALLY off!" Instead, He said in Matthew 5:18, "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled." In 2 Timothy 3:16, Paul writes, 'All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness'. But Rocks Hurt Head fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Feb 4, 2014 |
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Yep. Turns out the Bible is all sorts of hosed up and everybody's soul is damned because of a multitude of copying errors in the Bible down through the ages.
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But Rocks Hurt Head posted:In contrast, there's this post by A Formerly Proud Canadian which aptly sums up how Biblical literalism hangs on a tiny, delicate thread: It also sums up how they think they can destroy science by pointing out holes in a theory. They really believe that if a theory not 100% bulletproof it has to be thrown out and start all over from scratch instead of trying to close those holes by revising the theory. It also probably explains why they're so obsessed with Darwin's original Theory and not Modern ToE, which while Darwin was a good starting point was shaky as hell simply due to data being so hard to collect in that era
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Feb 5, 2014 00:11
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Darkman Fanpage posted:
It doesn't even matter, anyway. What was Christopher Hitchens' background that made him so credible to debate this subject for years? His background was being Christopher Hitchens. Other than that, he was a writer and a fan of pissing off creationists.
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Feb 5, 2014 00:22
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quote:When God created man he did so as a fully developed mature being. God did not raise Adam and Eve from a baby. Uh what? Did God create Adam complete with fake scars so it would look like he had a childhood?
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Feb 5, 2014 00:28
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Yep. Turns out the Bible is all sorts of hosed up and everybody's soul is damned because of a multitude of copying errors in the Bible down through the ages. When I was growing up I was taught that copying errors just didn't happen, period. Oh and there was no loss of meaning in the translations from Hebrew, Aramaic, or Ancient Greek when changing over to modern English 
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Feb 5, 2014 00:37
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VitalSigns posted:Uh what? Did God create Adam complete with fake scars so it would look like he had a childhood? When God created Adam he arrived in Eden like how the Terminator arrives in the past.
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Feb 5, 2014 00:43
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That's mainly because it's easier to make absurd syntax arguments to justify your personal theological interpretation using the English text than it is to learn Greek and Hebrew to do it there. Evangelical Protestantism was founded on a strong distrust of any scholarship you don't personally understand.
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VitalSigns posted:Uh what? Did God create Adam complete with fake scars so it would look like he had a childhood? I've just realised how confusing children would have been to Adam and Eve. Beings like them would have no frame of reference. Heh bitter jealousy that their spawn got to have a maturation process instead of God just assuming they have adult decision making skills.
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Mind Loving Owl posted:I've just realised how confusing children would have been to Adam and Eve. Beings like them would have no frame of reference. Heh bitter jealousy that their spawn got to have a maturation process instead of God just assuming they have adult decision making skills. They got their adult decision making skills from the apple, dummy.
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quote:To: Uncle Chip This is a joke post. There is absolutely no way someone can type this out and not be bursting out laughing at how ridiculous of a concept this is. What the gently caress am I saying, this is FReep we're talking about. 
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 Report: Sandra Fluke Mulls Run for Henry Waxman's Seat quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: Pollster1 quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Perhaps a rare moment of clarity from a freeper? quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet Wait for it... quote:To: Obama_Is_A_Feminist quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: Cyman This is strangely poetic, like some horrible freeper haiku Slut runs for congress wants me to pay her for sex just lay down and DIE!!! quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet quote:To: Cyman Freep's answer to e e cummings: quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet California 33rd is a D+11 district, but it doesn't stop this freeper from dreaming! quote:To: 2ndDivisionVet For those of you playing War on Women bingo at home, this thread has: Abortion Barbie, skank, slut, hooker, Congresslut, bimbo
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Wow, how do you own a gun without ever finding out that pointing a gun at someone is assault?
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Ainsley McTree posted:That and "plain and simple." 'Common sense' is the big trigger term for me, although it's not entirely specific to Freepers. Whenever you hear one of these types describe something as 'common sense', you know there's a big ball of assumptions and prejudices running down a hill towards you.
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Ghetto Prince posted:Wow, how do you own a gun without ever finding out that pointing a gun at someone is assault? No idea, I don't own a gun but was taught from day one around them to never point one at someone unless you intend to shoot them. I guess that's pretty well-known gun ownership teaching.
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Wasn't it Einstein who said common sense is just a set of prejudices you collect till you're eighteen?
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The average  is a bubbling cauldron of spite, fear, and various neuroses. But every once in a while an honest-to-god crazy person shows up:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3117843/posts quote:To: LyinLibs Member since 2001. And his other posts are generally just as crazy. The best part is that he's never called on any of it, since the worldview of a paranoid schizophrenic is only very slightly different from freep's.
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Georgia Peach posted:No idea, I don't own a gun but was taught from day one around them to never point one at someone unless you intend to shoot them. I guess that's pretty well-known gun ownership teaching. Either the guy was crazy or being a deliberate, major rear end in a top hat. I lived in a totally poo poo neighborhood for years and there's no way that I would have pulled a gun on anyone as I opened my front door, especially not a little kid.
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Threatening children with firearms is ok, because I'm one of those responsible gun owners. Not like one of those crazies giving us all bad names.
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Isn't violent crime the lowest it's been...ever? It's just so sad to see people subsist on a diet of nothing but FOX News and Drudge Report thinking that there's riots in the streets and they have to be armed 24/7. 
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Did school shootings and violence happen as frequently in the 1880s or 1930s and just wasnt reported, or remembered?
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Georgia Peach posted:No idea, I don't own a gun but was taught from day one around them to never point one at someone unless you intend to shoot them. I guess that's pretty well-known gun ownership teaching.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Did school shootings and violence happen as frequently in the 1880s or 1930s and just wasnt reported, or remembered?
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Did school shootings and violence happen as frequently in the 1880s or 1930s and just wasnt reported, or remembered? Multiple-shootings and mass-shootings weren't reported in the 1930s, but as always, Wikipedia's got you covered on on the terrible things you need summarized in an easily readable list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
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DarklyDreaming posted:Holy poo poo that's my district. Awesome. There's nothing awesome about Waxman retiring, dude's a legislative beast.
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Zeroisanumber posted:There's nothing awesome about Waxman retiring, dude's a legislative beast. Yeah I'll admit that stings a little, I'm gonna miss voting for that glorious human being 
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DarklyDreaming posted:Yeah I'll admit that stings a little, I'm gonna miss voting for that glorious human being : B-b-b-b-b-but he's funny looking!
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3116116/postsViennacon posted:The thing is the Muzzies always blow up regular people. If they blew up idiots like Macklemoore and Queen Latifah, I wouldn’t care at all. Everyone who participated in this satanic ceremony is an ENEMY of the country.
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I know how much it gets repeated in this thread, but I love the hilarity of Freepers talking about Obama's military rule and scary authoritarian dictatorship and yet their ideal vision for America usually involves televised firing squad executions, secret police to round up enemies of the state, brutal and indefinite prison sentences for political reasons, etc.
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Apparently Freep Loves their cigs and tobacco is some kind of god given right enshrined in the constitution. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3119435/posts quote:I find these sorts of erosions of freedoms disgusting. quote:To: FlingWingFlyer quote:To: Red in Blue PA Yup, that's it, eventually CVS will single ban everything. quote:To: caver quote:To: Red in Blue PA quote:To: tanknetter Ahh. The real reason behind it. quote:To: Red in Blue PA quote:To: Red in Blue PA quote:To: DoodleDawg quote:To: Red in Blue PA They hate the free market if it goes against their idea of what the world should be. I have to assume that Red in Blue PA smokes like 3 packs a day and lives next to a CVS or something. He's so loving pissed.
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Interestingly the bar I like to go to recently fell in line with Ohio law and stopped allowing people to smoke in the bar. Now all the regulars will flip-flop between bitching about having to go outside to smoke, and exclaiming how much money they've been saving without chain smoking in one spot and how much better they feel.
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I don't think CVS does that much cigarette business to begin with. I can't recall ever seeing somebody buy a pack of cigarettes at a CVS, even though they have a big wall of tobacco products behind the register counters. This is all anecdotal, of course. But if I had to guess it's probably gas stations that depend more on the cigarette business. Unfortunately for Freep I think we'll all find that CVS will do just fine without tobacco, seeing as how they're a loving pharmacy in America, the country that is absolutely dependent on prescription and over-the-counter drugs to survive.
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Article I read said something to the effect of 1.6% of its yearly revenue comes from tobacco, so yeah, they'll probably be fine. Or dead within 10 years. One or the other.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:I don't think CVS does that much cigarette business to begin with. I can't recall ever seeing somebody buy a pack of cigarettes at a CVS, even though they have a big wall of tobacco products behind the register counters. This is all anecdotal, of course. But if I had to guess it's probably gas stations that depend more on the cigarette business. Unfortunately for Freep I think we'll all find that CVS will do just fine without tobacco, seeing as how they're a loving pharmacy in America, the country that is absolutely dependent on prescription and over-the-counter drugs to survive. The CVS near my apartment sells a shitload of tobacco products, mostly because it functions as the 'local convenience store' much like a gas station shop or a 7-11 here. There are a non-negligible number of people doing their grocery shopping there as well. Note that this store is located directly on a major subway/bus connection outside of Boston, so it's probably not typical. Plinkey posted:
 
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