Comments for The Better Part of Valour

Comment on Sexier than heaven by Max Brandt

Max Brandt — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:17:12 +0000

Yeah, she looked good in her standard ED flight suit but she looked quite sexy in the shiny red one-piece jumpsuit, IMHO! She is quite the lady! Smart, sexy, brave and loyal….Col. Deering was the best of that show!!

Comment on Arguing for God by Peter Kemp

Peter Kemp — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:06:21 +0000

Jesus Kerist, Rob what’s happened? Has the defeat of the Howardistas got you flummoxed, intimidated by Strocci’s descriptive ‘dark forces of Wetness’? Even CL is back in the blogsphere.

You are conspicuous by your absence, on your own blog WTF?

Comment on Sexier than heaven by Al

Al — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:35:35 +0000

White works for me too, I mean, Princess Leia wore white too (but the slave girl bikini was better), and Padme Amidala

Comment on Israel/Palestine: the 70% 70 year old solution by snoopythegoon

snoopythegoon — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:19:21 +0000

Yeah. Looking at some other conflicts of similar kind (North Ireland comes to mind), it need a few hundred years to come to a semblance of a settlement. Do we have these few hundred years, I wonder?

Comment on Chavez goes down by snoopythegoon

snoopythegoon — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:16:13 +0000

Well, he is not fully down yet, but let’s hope he will be soon.

Comment on Arguing for God by Rob

Rob — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:26:11 +0000

Nothing I’ve read of Dawkins so far has impressed me by much. But Hitchens on the subject might be a rewarding read. I’ve seen some of his video’d addresses. They suffer from the smart-arsedness that the Dude is sometimes cursed with, but interesting nonetheless.

Comment on Arguing for God by Rob

Rob — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:17:39 +0000

I thought Dennett was weak not only in the interchanges but also in his 25 minute opening statement. Frankly, I had conversations along those lines when I was 13. But D’Souza’s constant recourse to analogy is effective as a rhetorical trick, but not as a philosophical position. That said, Dennett seemed unable to counter him.

Still, this is the debate of the ages and is hardly going to be resolved one way or another in this exchange.

D’Souza hardly gets a word in edgewise in the video you linked, IMHO.

Comment on Arguing for God by Peter Kemp

Peter Kemp — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:54:24 +0000

{I’m thinking there may be a compelling philosophical case for the existence of God.}

You need to read Dawkins “The God Delusion” If you feel “compelled” towards “belief” then delusion is creeping up upon you.

First chapter here:

http://richarddawkins.net/firstChapter,1

But if you want to philosophise, consider Epicurus:

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able, and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?

PS If you want to dig deep into an understanding of Darwinian theory, natural selection and the trashing of IDiots and other fruitcakes like D’Souza go here. Warning: if you’ve had no formal training in biology it’s heavy going.

http://www.scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

Cheers.

Comment on Arguing for God by Australian Atheist

Australian Atheist — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:35:17 +0000

Thanks for the link to the audio of the debate. I can’t stand watching these things on youtube but I do like to listen to them on my mp3 player.

While I obviously haven’t listened to the debate I have read this short post.

It wouldn’t surprise me if D’Souza won the debate. He is a very good presenter but I don’t have any respect for his intellect.

Here is a video of D’Souza blaming ‘the left’ for the 2001 terrorist attacks in the USA.

Comment on “A Stranger By the Gulf” by Gypsy

Gypsy — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:57:17 +0000

And I am a cat-woman-poem in one.