Posts by Josh Addison
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Whenever conversation turns to porn, I feel compelled to mention Ali Davis' True Porn Clerk Stories - the best writings on the subject ever, in my barely informed opinion.
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It what did does is remove the specific defence that made assaulting a child different from assaulting anyone else.
And yet when I've mentioned that elsewhere, all I get back is "but adults and children are different! If you think we should treat them the same, that means you think we should be able to have sex with children!!"
And it's not gone much past that...
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Danyl: Yeah, I've never got the sheep-shagging thing, especially from a country that has way more sheep than we do.
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Re: murder rates in Iraq, you'll be wanting to read this:
http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/11/murder-rate-in-baghdad.html
It seems the meme has evolved - at the time that post was written (last November), it was Washington DC that Iraq was being compared to...
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I have nothing constructive to add, other than that I was actually listening to "Helluva" as I read Dr. Huxtable's quote. Respect.
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In the case of the atheist vs. the theist, the burden of proof is on the theist; in the case of the atheist vs. the agnostic, the burden of proof is on the atheist.
The term "agnostic" has developed a few meanings over time. When it was first coined by T. H. Huxley (a good buddy of Darwin's, incidentally), it was defined as more of an attitude than a specific belief - the idea was just that you shouldn't pretend certainty when it's not justified. Using this definition, you are welcome to believe anything you want about the existence of God, provided you don't claim that your beliefs are immune to possible future revision. So it is possible to be an "agnostic atheist" or an "agnostic theist" or, as is more common these days, and "agnostic doesn't-really-give-a-shit-either-way"...
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Shihad, "Home Again"
You should know I still love you, when I'm miles away...