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quote:Logical examples  A large hunk of personality arises from your envrionment and upbringing, not your genes. Natural selection can't select those traits out.Additionally, while natural selection does select for truly altruistic behavior, in some instances pretty brutal and aggressive behavior is selected for because it is competitively advantageous. You can see this in the development of Christianity in fact... used to be a highly pacifistic religion of martyrs. Now the dominant form of Christianity is militant and pushes for political and cultural expansionism. quote:Maladaptation Male-pattern baldness usually only occurs after the prime mating age. No contradiction whatsoever. After your teens and early 20s, nature for the most part doesn't really give a poo poo about your own reproductive success.quote:Wrong prediction What?  quote:Uncategorized It's kinda amazing how they decide to put up walls of fetid bullshit up before simply mucking around in general ignorance. You'd think Conservapedia would want to work its way gradually to the more outlandish claims.
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I love how "No Son of Mine" by Genesis makes it onto the greatest conservative songs page. Well, there are lots of other awesome choices, but that one seems the most likely to have not been listened to.
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May 16, 2011 06:27
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M4rg4r1ne posted:I love how "No Son of Mine" by Genesis makes it onto the greatest conservative songs page. Well, there are lots of other awesome choices, but that one seems the most likely to have not been listened to. It's like everyone on that site stopped listening to music 20-30 years ago.
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May 16, 2011 06:34
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ShadowCatboy posted:
I don't think the claim makes sense at all. I thought I read a statistic years ago that women interested in raising a family find baldness attractive, because (being age-correlated) it tends to be associated with maturity and stability.
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May 16, 2011 08:08
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ShadowCatboy posted:What? Nevermind that "devolution" wouldn't exist if evolution wasn't possible.
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May 16, 2011 08:23
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DarkPumpkin posted:So I'm bald because God hates me? My guess is its more of an "evolution doesn't care what happens after you are 30 because you are probably dead anyway" thing.
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May 16, 2011 08:34
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Just thought I'd share these, these need to be read in order.  Andrew Layton Schlafly is clearly insane. Has anyone posted the Schlafly and Obama photo yet?  At the Harvard law review, some people have theorised that Schlafly lost to Obama in the election for review president, but I've not found any evidence of that.
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May 16, 2011 08:47
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DarkPumpkin posted:So I'm bald because God hates me? It's stupid because: 1. Some animals do display MPB, such as gorillas 2. Sometimes MPB does help in sexual selection, it's a sign of maturity. That's mostly among gorillas though, according to Wikipedia. Don't expect it to help you out at the club :I Maybe the dude who wrote that in the first place is bitter about getting shot down due to his bald spot?
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May 16, 2011 10:41
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quote:Feminism originally was an expression used by suffragettes - who were predominantly pro-life - to obtain the right for women to vote in the early 1900s in the United States and the United Kingdom. quote:Abortion is a billion-dollar industry in the United States and Western Europe except for Ireland, Malta and Poland, where it has been abolished. Smudgie Buggler fucked around with this message at 12:49 on May 16, 2011 |
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May 16, 2011 12:30
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* Having Christianity used as a means to control the people (Medieval: Total War and it's sequel, Medieval II: Total War) * Letting players get to be terrorists and perform terrorism (Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2) * Yiddish used as a "terrorist" language (Mercenaries II) * Liberal bullying (Bully) * Unnecessarily violent torture being used by American soldiers (Call of Duty: Black Ops) Either the people who sneaked these in have a great sense of humor or have absolutely no self-awareness of ironic statements.
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May 16, 2011 13:22
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Stalingrad posted:Just thought I'd share these, these need to be read in order. I love this. He can't understand that you can parody more than one thing in one way.
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May 16, 2011 13:44
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Cwapface posted:I didn't realise abortion was such a hot topic in the 1910s. Abortion has been around forever. Western women used to use Wormwood decoctions to induce miscarriages, and other cultures had their own procedures. The notion that god hates it is relatively modern however. The bible actually seems to permit abortion via beating the woman, as long as the husband aproves.
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May 16, 2011 13:48
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G. Hosafat posted:* Having Christianity used as a means to control the people (Medieval: Total War and it's sequel, Medieval II: Total War) I thought you FOUGHT bullies in Bully. If bullying is liberal , wouldnt that make Bully a conservative game?
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May 16, 2011 13:50
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M4rg4r1ne posted:I love how "No Son of Mine" by Genesis makes it onto the greatest conservative songs page. Well, there are lots of other awesome choices, but that one seems the most likely to have not been listened to. Christmas Shoes! What a shocker. I am afraid of anyone who can give praise to Christmas Shoes.
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May 16, 2011 14:05
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I read the article on Operation Iraqi Freedom and they actually say that WMDS were found in Iraq, as well as connections to Al Qaeda. On top of this, they also said that Saddam was apparently killing 20 thousand people per year. Apparently George Bush was 100% right while every news agency and investigative force have all been lying. Eroto-Bot fucked around with this message at 14:12 on May 16, 2011 |
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May 16, 2011 14:09
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duck monster posted:The bible actually seems to permit abortion via beating the woman, as long as the husband aproves.
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May 16, 2011 14:09
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:I totally believe you, but I'd love to point this out to a friend. If you don't mind a quick derail - where in the Bible, exactly, is this implied? Er, I think I mangled the meaning a little via memory, but heres the quote;- Space Ghost posted:"And if men struggle with each other and strike a woman with child so that she has a miscarriage, yet there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband may demand of him; and he shall pay as the judges decide. "But if there is any further injury, then you shall appoint as a penalty life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, (NAS, Exodus 21:22-24) The implication being that if you whack a chick and she miscarriages, the husband can demand compensation via the courts, but thats all. But if he injures the woman, then he gets busted as someone who hurt a person. The basic meaning seems to be that a hostile abortion is not to be considered murder or assault (eyes and tooth exchange), except for whatever damage happens to the woman herself. Presumably if you punch a chick in the gut and she miscariages, under strict eye for eye, she can punch you in the gut and you'll probably have to pay her a fine, but thats about it. Christianity is historically all over the place with abortion, the earliest writers of christianity thought it was murder to poison the fetus, but between the 5th to 16th centuries the idea the soul entering the baby at either "quickening" (When the fetus first starts kicking) or on the first breath post birth (Which I think is the position of genesis?) changed that idea so that it was not murder per se. However 16th to 18th century its decreed murder again, and then after the 18th century we hit feminism and the various struggles for and against it. Prior to christianity the greeks and romans did not consider fetus's in the first trimester to be people because they had no soul yet, whilst most of jewish judisprudence saw it as infanticide. Not sure how Islamic jurisprudence saw it , although Islam emerges around the time christian thought starts shifting to seeing it as not murder. duck monster fucked around with this message at 14:56 on May 16, 2011 |
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May 16, 2011 14:41
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Didn't some goon once source a Battlestar Galactica quote to George Washington and have it stay on his page for two years?
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Stalingrad posted:Has anyone posted the Schlafly and Obama photo yet? Ugh, this photo reminded me of what Ivy Leaguers are like. They smell of ambition and fear.
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I just find it hillarious that a person studied alongside the present president of the United States (and was magna cum laude, just like Obama), and also has a qualification in engineering, now runs a website that claims kangaroos hopped all the way from turkey to australia 5000 years ago. How does that happen, it really shows that being the son of a crazy rich person, (and a crazy, rich person) is enough for someone not only to get into a great university but to actually do well. Because there is no loving way Andrew Layton Schlafly is smart enough, I refuse to believe it.
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Stalingrad posted:I just find it hillarious that a person studied alongside the present president of the United States (and was magna cum laude, just like Obama), and also has a qualification in engineering, now runs a website that claims kangaroos hopped all the way from turkey to australia 5000 years ago. Being raised by insane, rape apologist parents probably didn't help.
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Fuschia tude posted:I don't think the claim makes sense at all. I thought I read a statistic years ago that women interested in raising a family find baldness attractive, because (being age-correlated) it tends to be associated with maturity and stability.
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MOLLUSC posted:Being raised by insane, rape apologist parents probably didn't help. Well it helped him get into university. Btw Andy has a gay brother, and it's really not talked about. I have read far too much rationalwiki, because conservapedia is in my daily "laugh at crazies" section of the day.
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G. Hosafat posted:* Having Christianity used as a means to control the people (Medieval: Total War and it's sequel, Medieval II: Total War) Sometimes I try to write a post describing just how absurd every aspect of Conservapedia is but I just can't do it. There's so much to say.
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May 16, 2011 18:58
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duck monster posted:The implication being that if you whack a chick and she miscarriages, the husband can demand compensation via the courts, but thats all. But if he injures the woman, then he gets busted as someone who hurt a person. I'm not sure of this reading at all. This passage (Exodus 21:22-25) seems to imply that it's only okay if you hit the woman by accident; possibly only if the accident occurs while two people are fighting, presumably over alleged infidelity. Definitely check with your rabbi before you kick your girlfriend in the stomach. duck monster posted:Not sure how Islamic jurisprudence saw it , although Islam emerges around the time christian thought starts shifting to seeing it as not murder. IIRC, Islamic law is split on the subject, but I think it mostly argues that life begins at quickening (40 days for boys, 80 for girls, which I think follows Aristotle rather than being natively Muslim bigotry).
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May 16, 2011 22:00
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Angry Avocado posted:I interpreted it as "devolution exists, and it's the exact opposite of evolution, so evolution doesn't exist". Devolution as a concept is incorrect as hell btw. Any evolutionary adaptation to the environment is evolution, regardless of whether it adds new facilities or removes them.
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May 16, 2011 22:06
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Chin Strap posted:Christmas Shoes! What a shocker. I am afraid of anyone who can give praise to Christmas Shoes. Considering what Patton Oswalt thought of how that song portrays God I'm not surprised Conservapedia loves it.
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May 16, 2011 22:11
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duck monster posted:I thought you FOUGHT bullies in Bully. If bullying is liberal , wouldnt that make Bully a conservative game? raezr posted:I like the idea that Call of Duty, the most jingoistic game series around right now, is apparently anti-American.
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May 16, 2011 22:44
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I think the connection between Islam and SC2 is very clear. The Zerg have two units (Infected Terran and Scourge) which blow themselves up as their primary attacks. They use these units to conquer worlds. EXACTLY like Islam does on Earth. Seriously, I think this is what they're on about.
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May 16, 2011 22:45
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In the SC2 single player campaign, you play Jim Raynor, a terrorist who violently resists and eventually overthrows the large Terran Federation. Since all Muslims are terrorists, and this game has the terrorists winning, clearly this game sends pro-Islamic messages.
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Orange Devil posted:In the SC2 single player campaign, you play Jim Raynor, a terrorist who violently resists and eventually overthrows the large Terran Federation. Since all Muslims are terrorists, and this game has the terrorists winning, clearly this game sends pro-Islamic messages. You also fight againt a particularly fanatical group of Protoss Templar. The Knights Templar fought against Muslims during the Crusades, so that makes you one too.
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May 17, 2011 01:58
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My favorite thing on Conservapedia is when Shlafly attempts to 'debunk' research showing evolution in E. Coli bacteria. He ends up corresponding with the guy who did the study, and is destroyed rather thoroughly. http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Lenski_dialog
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Zeitgueist posted:My favorite thing on Conservapedia is when Shlafly attempts to 'debunk' research showing evolution in E. Coli bacteria. He ends up corresponding with the guy who did the study, and is destroyed rather thoroughly. I dunno, seems like a prime example of Professor Values to me.
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House Louse posted:I'm not sure of this reading at all. This passage (Exodus 21:22-25) seems to imply that it's only okay if you hit the woman by accident; possibly only if the accident occurs while two people are fighting, presumably over alleged infidelity. Definitely check with your rabbi before you kick your girlfriend in the stomach. quote:IIRC, Islamic law is split on the subject, but I think it mostly argues that life begins at quickening (40 days for boys, 80 for girls, which I think follows Aristotle rather than being natively Muslim bigotry). That'd make a lot of sense actually. Through a lot of Islamic history, muslim academics where fairly keen on greek moral philosophy, particularly Aristotle (In the same way catholic academia via Aquinas did).
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Zeitgueist posted:My favorite thing on Conservapedia is when Shlafly attempts to 'debunk' research showing evolution in E. Coli bacteria. He ends up corresponding with the guy who did the study, and is destroyed rather thoroughly. Lensky in that was amazingly patient in the scheme of things. My first reaction would have been a sharp short "Dear sir, Get hosed looney! Sincerely yours". For all of shafly's indignation, he really was treated quite well by the good doctor. Granted he does engage in a little bit of owneage in the second letter.
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Zeitgueist posted:My favorite thing on Conservapedia is when Shlafly attempts to 'debunk' research showing evolution in E. Coli bacteria. He ends up corresponding with the guy who did the study, and is destroyed rather thoroughly. See http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lenski_Affair for more complete coverage. Really, just see everything on RationalWiki, it's obsessive coverage of lots of the great stuff on CP.
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Nostrum posted:I think the connection between Islam and SC2 is very clear. You speak crazy fluently! Where did you learn?
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IM_DA_DECIDER posted:The entire page http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservative_parables#Welfare Seriously, look at this poo poo: quote:The Lost $40 It's like his entire life is one of those black and white segments in a TV ad. quote:The Drowning Man What the hell I don't even
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I like how the liberal lets go of "both" ends. Isn't it assumed that one end is already let go of? Or is the conservative actually holding both ends of the 50 foot rope, thus creating a 25 foot loop. Meaning when the drowning man pulls a 50 foot rope out of the ether he'll still drown. Also even if the drowning man had a 50 foot rope, he'd have to swim 50 feet to tie his 50 foot rope to the---ughhhh 
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Stalingrad posted:I just find it hillarious that a person studied alongside the present president of the United States (and was magna cum laude, just like Obama), and also has a qualification in engineering, now runs a website that claims kangaroos hopped all the way from turkey to australia 5000 years ago.
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