There is nothing to disagree about. There’s no argument. There’s no room for opinion.
What you really mean is, “I’m sorry, but I’m just going to continue to believe something erroneous.”
Faith: Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence.
Do you have any evidence that life has formed on other planets? Do you know with absolute certainty that life formed on this planet as science proposes? Do you know that there are conditions favorable to such a process being duplicated on another planet of the solar system? (I’ll give you a hint: all three answers are the same, and they both start with ‘n’ and end with ‘o’).
There is too something to disagree about. You speak as though a belief in the possibility of aliens is a settled matter, as if 100% of the world agrees with you (or would, if only they were as enlightened as you). You are basing your belief on unproven evidence, whereas I base my belief on no evidence (at least, no evidence that science will accept). If you feel that gives you sufficient moral high ground to insult me, enjoy yourself, for all the good it will do. I note that you didn’t respond to any of my points, but chose instead to declare victory for yourself.
I believe I’ll do the same.
I do not believe based on “unproven evidence”, I live my life based on “more evidence then for your side.” There is no such thing as “unproven evidence”.
:smack: Insulting the concepts you have put forward, as in “It is a pretty stupid concept” does not equal insulting you. Get it straight! As for the rest of your post, I believe it speaks for itself.
Maybe he’s a student of “Gay Science”?
Believing in the possibility of life on other planets (which includes bacteria and other non-sapient/sentient beings too, by the way) is NOT the same as believing there is an all-powerful supernatural being that created the universe. I’m sorry you can’t see this.
Not believing in your god doesn’t mean that I can’t hold out the hope that we’ll find bacteria on Mars. This is not hypocritical in the least, as the two are not opposites and, in fact, have absolutely nothing to do with one another.
Probability seems to be beyond your grasp in this conversation… as does the fact that “aliens” doesn’t mean creatures that evolved in the same conditions that we did, as asserted in your last post. No ‘little green men’, in other words.
Sorry for continuing the hijack.
Returning to the OP…
All limousine liberals (but Sean Penn and Michael Moore especially with “word out” to the late John Lennon) who fulfill the Gilbert & Sullivan list item
while reaping insane benefits from a capitalist society with free speech (and seeming to have no idea that both require a military).
Tom Delay for oh so many reasons, but among them championing morals (as defined, of course, by him) and family values while having no relationship with his own mother and siblings, lying about why he didn’t go to Vietnam (“Gee, I really tried, but they told me that black people had already taken all the positions…”) and for more financial misdealings than I can list in this post.
To Jimmy Swaggart for passionately bashing gays in his sermons when he can barely find his way to a men’s room without getting caught with a cheap whore.
To John Hagee for bashing liberals and gays and everybody else based on Old Testament laws but evidently having no problem with being a minister in spite of having left his first wife (and children) for another woman.
To Mary Cheney for playing the good Sonderkommando by towing the party line and working on her father’s campaign in spite of the fact that denying her relationship any validity is a key point in his party’s agenda. (For that matter, to all Log Cabin Republicans- if your taxes matter more to you than your freedom then you deserve whatever you get.)
To Dave Roever for preaching that all of the OT is still in force and thus unwed mothers and gays should be denied civil rights, yet strangely for not being able to find any of the passages forbidding a scarred man from serving as a minister.
To every female minister for championing the Pauline preachings against (sorta kinda) homosexuality and other “social ills” but totally ignoring the “women- keep your wafer-holes shut in church”.
To Bush for a million different reasons, but especially for praising military service as the greatest contribution while his own military service seems oddly non-existent and for changing his story 3,090 times about the War in Iraq.
To every senator and representative who cried “OH! But life is precious! Howl Howl Howl!” when Terry Schiavo’s body was allowed to join her jello brain in death, and yet never once saw any ethical problem with capital punishment (with Kudos to the Brothers Bush for presiding over hundreds of executions without ever feeling the need to reexamine the evidence [in spite of the growing-every-year number of people released from death row due to DNA evidence they didn’t have access to at the time of their original trial]).
To Ann Coulter for constant distortion of facts and outright lies while accusing liberals of the same thing.
Dear Jove, but I’m not even warmed up and my fingers are already tired.
Er, probability is logical proof.
Do you have proof the sun will rise tomorrow? No, you don’t. You only have the evidence of celestial mechanics and the fact that it has done so every day for the last three billion years to guide you to the probability that it will rise again tomorrow. But surely you would not call an atheist who was certain of the sunrise a hypocrite, would you?
Actually, I think it’s equally consistant. It just takes a bit more thought to recognize the internal consistency in our stance than in theirs.
Well, yeah. And that’s what makes their argument internally consistent. They’re working from the axioms that a) a fetus is a human, and b) certain crimes are so heinous that the person who commits them forfeit their right to live. I don’t accept either of those axioms myself, but they are not inconsistent with each other in the slightest.
I’m no Christian, but I believe that passage is more nuanced than simply, “Don’t ever judge.”
See my signature. I don’t think there is any person more hypocritical.
For all those lackwits who claimed to the rafters that Terri Schiavo was (take your pick) looking at her mother and able to see and comprehend the world around her, able to be rehabilitated, not in a PVS, strangled or abused by her husband, not sufficiently cared for at any point in her 15 year decline, etc., who have not subsequently apologized to Michael Schiavo and/or admitted that they were wrong. The facts are the facts, folks. You made an innocent man suffer horrible accusations, many years in court, public vilification, and heartbreak, and now you don’t even have the decency to admit that you made a mistake. Respect for life? What about Michael Schiavo’s life?
Plus, these “respect for life” people have no problem with executing teenagers and the mentally ill/retarded on death row, some have even called for the impeachment of judges who won’t execute teens, while they simultaneously fight against abortion. So killing an older kid is OK, huh? They have shown an unwillingness to review cases of prisoners on death row when new evidence arises and rarely commute sentences. Hmm, I notice an inconsistency with this “culture of life” philosophy-- it should be “the culture of life that will get me the most RR votes.”
Quite possibly we’d also find the holy grail and a set of keys to Fort Knox, too. 
Um, since, I, at least, got the abbrev. from noted Xtian author C. S. Lewis, & have been using it since I was rather young, (& possibly helping popularize it on this board) I find this response amusing. I had not thought of that, but yeah, I guess so!
Just so you know, it’s Xian, if by “X” you mean “Christ”.
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Oh, & Lib, I spell it Xtian, as in Ct, the first & last letters in the stem Crist-. “Xian” looks like a Chinese name to me, pronounced roughly, “Hsyahn.”
Agh! Where’s my
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tag!?
Oh, yeah, hypocritical jagoff: I nominate myself, for continually hijacking threads for grammatical points…
You weren’t, perchance, conflating Capill and Brian Tamaki? Because you just know that the Bishop has a few dirty secrets of his own. I wish that Ngati Toa would get on Destiny’s ass about appropriating the haka for their rally of hate.
Dianne Feinstein, who very desperately wants to take away my right to own and/or carry a gun while holding one of the few prized California CCW permits. While I can’t confirm that she owns a gun or has ever carried one she has the right to, even as she rails against those very rights.
Let’s not forget Rosie and Michael Moore, both anti-gun celebs who rail against gun ownership, yet who have both had bodyguards arrested for illegal carry. We aren’t supposed to have guns for protection, but it’s ok for them to be protected by them.
Re: the OP. Saying Graham Capill is a wanker is an insult to wankers. He’s a hypocritical shit. My tuppenceworth.
I can’t remember his name, but I’m positive this happened and is not a U.L.: a few years ago one of the most rabid pro- gun control activists, a resident of D.C. (I remember that he was elderly [70ish], male and African-American] woke up to find a burglar in his house. Did he
1- discuss with the young man the error of his ways and suggest more positive win-win life strategies that set the young man on a new course (after, of course, getting his signature on a petition to expand the powers of the Brady Bill)
or
2- waste him with an unregistered handcannon?
Here’s a hint: The answer isn’t 1.
More for my list:
Paula Jones: she changed her story several times, swore that Bill Clinton made her feel like a cheap sexual object and that she hated the limelight, then posed nude for Penthouse before getting her butt whipped by Tonya Harding as a celebrity boxer.
Speaking of Paula Jones, one of her most rabid funders and promoters: Susan Carpenter McMillan. Among other major hypocrisies, McMillan is a longtime anti-abortion activist who in 1990 tearfully confessed (just before it was to be published in an investigative rag) that she had indeed herself had an abortion in college ca. 1970. She explained that it was this abortion which made her an activist.
She had a harder time explaining why she had another abortion thirteen years later, which was also dug up by a reporter. At first she claimed it was a miscarriage, then that it was indeed an abortion but was necessary for her health, but neither report was supported by the evidence.
For that matter, pretty much everybody involved in Monica-gate, but especially Ken “Keep those tobacco checks coming” Starr for having the nerve to swear he was non-biased and non-partisan (he was a decades long rabid GOP member). He also laughed about how he promised his wife he would dance at their wedding if she would convert to Christianity from Judaism, then reneged at the reception (as a Baptist and lunatic he finds dancing sinful). His incarceration of Susan McDougal and others is something right out of a totalitarian state and to quote the great Samuel Jackson “I hope he burns…in…he-yull!”
This was Carl Rowan. He did wound an intruder, and he did occasionally write pro-gun control op-eds. But favoring rational gun control is not the same as favoring a gun ban, and you could hardly call him “rabid” or an “activist.” But this didn’t stop the slippery-sloper gun nuts from starting a shit-slinging fest that apparently continues to this day. It’s inspiring that the gun lobby propaganda machine reminds us of this 17 year-old event as if the man hadn’t even died 5 years ago.
When fighting over hypocrisy, he who wins is the one with no standards at all.