• 7 Billionth baby
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[QUOTE=Paravin;33056256]Science brought us firearms and nuclear weapons, which have brought even more direct damage then religion. Seems logical.[/QUOTE] Science has also brought us modern medicine, which has done a bit of good, I'd say. To point out only firearms and nuclear weapons is borderline retarded.
Did they pick the ugliest baby they could find for the 7 billionth baby?
[QUOTE=Dah-thla;33056300]Did they pick the ugliest baby they could find for the 7 billionth baby?[/QUOTE] You looked like that too, probably. I bet you still do.
[QUOTE=Paravin;33056286]Muslims aided in scientific discovery during the Dark ages, it was slowed down not completely lost.[/QUOTE] Slowed down so much that if we could have avoided it, I have no idea where we'd be right now.
I'm not talking about what religion has given us (which I agree, hasn't been much on a physical scale), I'm talking about the intolerant stupidity how you blame religion for everything.
I was hardly even insulting religion, I was stating facts. To get mad at me for that is to be the one with the dildo in your ass.
[QUOTE=Dah-thla;33056300]Did they pick the ugliest baby they could find for the 7 billionth baby?[/QUOTE] To be fair most babies are really fucking ugly
And how is 47 people agreeing to [I]this[/I] not insulting religion? [QUOTE=Shiftyze;33053771]We'd be at space colonization, if religion didn't stop so many from thinking above and beyond. :([/QUOTE]
Because we lost so much scientific advancement to the dark ages, and if we hadn't, we might not be all the way to space colonization yet, but we'd be a hell of a lot further than we are now. [editline]31st October 2011[/editline] I'm sorry if facts offend you.
[QUOTE=Paravin;33056362]And how is 47 people agreeing to [I]this[/I] not insulting religion?[/QUOTE] Because religion is stupid, duh. On a side note, I don't see what any of this actually has to do with a baby. [QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33056374]I'm sorry if facts offend you.[/QUOTE] It's actually more of a completely unfounded hypothetical proposal about alternate time lines, drawing a conclusion most likely influenced by the proposer's religious views. But I guess that's close enough to fact.
[QUOTE=Paramud;33056387]Because religion is stupid, duh. On a side note, I don't see what any of this actually has to do with a baby. It's actually more of a completely unfounded hypothetical proposal about alternate time lines, drawing a conclusion most likely influenced by the proposer's religious views. But I guess that's close enough to fact.[/QUOTE] You're right, like science's projected timelines that follow the lines of evolution; it's not fact, it's theory, right? Completely influenced by the proposer's religious views. Yeah. Totally.
[QUOTE=Paravin;33056362]And how is 47 people agreeing to [I]this[/I] not insulting religion?[/QUOTE]Because fuck religion.
[QUOTE=Paravin;33056362]And how is 47 people agreeing to [I]this[/I] not insulting religion?[/QUOTE] You need to realize that we (or I) don't hate religion, it's what religion has done. It has slowed down progress for our entire species, the ignorance that stems from religion, the fear that stems from it, both of those caused our species to stagnate intellectually for 500 years. We -COULD- have had space colonies had our rate of scientific progress been uninterrupted. It's not hating on religion to place the blame at the prime cause of the interruption.
[QUOTE=Miskav;33056534]You need to realize that we (or I) don't hate religion, it's what religion has done. It has slowed down progress for our entire species, the ignorance that stems from religion, the fear that stems from it, both of those caused our species to stagnate intellectually for 500 years. We -COULD- have had space colonies had our rate of scientific progress been uninterrupted. It's not hating on religion to place the blame at the prime cause of the interruption.[/QUOTE] Exactly, if religion was just a bunch of guys praying at night in their own homes and leaving it there, I wouldn't care. But religion has caused so many atrocities and done so much wrong, and even if it ever did any good and advanced our species in some way, it's not necessary anymore. So fuck it.
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;33053771]We'd be at space colonization, if religion didn't stop so many from thinking above and beyond. :([/QUOTE] Yep, religion set back humanity 1500 years when they decided to destroy the great library of Alexandria. FUCK!
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33056447]You're right, like science's projected timelines that follow the lines of evolution; it's not fact, it's theory, right? Completely influenced by the proposer's religious views. Yeah. Totally.[/QUOTE] Nice deflection. I am willing to bet any and all money I will ever earn on that image being made without a singe bit of research. The only thing that is actually detailed in it are the dates.
It's not difficult to figure out, have you taken a world or european history class? For probably 30,000 years leading up to year 0, humans made very slow scientific progress. It started furthering more and more rapidly with the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Chinese, etc., and you can easily see the sudden droop in scientific advancement with the Christian Dark Ages. Historians around the world all know and agree on this, it's why you learn so much about the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, because we were back on track toward modern science. To deny this is unbelievably ignorant.
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33056784]To deny this is unbelievably ignorant.[/QUOTE] I'm not denying the fact that scientific advancement slowed considerably during the dark ages. That's why they're called the damn dark ages. What I'm denying is that it's a [b]fact[/b] that, if it weren't for the dark ages, we'd all be space kings by now. What makes this preposterous to me is that you're basing this entirely off a small and undetailed graph, with no sources, that you saw on the [b]fucking internet[/b].
[QUOTE=Drsalvador;33055082]Ok then tell that to the possibly hundreds of billions of uncatalogued south american and african tribesmen.[/QUOTE] We'd be walking on a 2m layer of skeletons or something if there were hundreds of billions of people before us. (okay that's a hyperbole but look at population numbers, we only reached 1 billion around 1800
I never said it was a fact that we'd be colonizing space yet. I actually explicitly stated we probably wouldn't be. However I did say we'd be a lot further along than we are now, which is completely true. Way to miss that, though. gg
[QUOTE=lil_n00blett;33056883]I never said it was a fact that we'd be colonizing space yet. I actually explicitly stated we probably wouldn't be. However I did say we'd be a lot further along than we are now, which is completely true. Way to miss that, though. gg[/QUOTE] That has nothing to do with the fact that the graph is entirely unreliable and completely hypothetical.
Overpopulation isnt near to being a problem on this planet yet. Its honestly a myth, we have plenty of resources to feed everybody on the planet. The problem is that they dont have the money to buy the food.
[QUOTE=Paramud;33056896]That has nothing to do with the fact that the graph is entirely unreliable and completely hypothetical.[/QUOTE] It's a good and not-too-inaccurate way to visualize the damage done. Quit crying about it already.
That is one ugly-ass baby.
[QUOTE=Miskav;33055916]Isn't it also a sugar substitute in America?[/QUOTE] Dude, sugar is a fucking substitute for corn syrup here.
I like how there's a debate about how the CHRISTIAN DARK AGES!!!1 somehow kept us down, as a fucking species, for a long time in a discussion about a BABY. If you don't know what the fuck you're on about, SHUT THE FUCK UP and stay on topic. This isn't yet another discussion about the perils of religion and how Jesus is stopping us from colonizing Mars. It's a stupid argument, it's always been a stupid argument and it will forever be a stupid argument. Religions are not these unstoppable titans that roam the earth, finding hapless scientists and squeezing their precious science brains out with their big religion fists. It doesn't fucking work like that! Even if they did, injecting anti-religious shit into discussions that have [i]absolutely [u]nothing[/u][/i] to do with religion wouldn't help the situation! Yes, bringing up European progress and how it stagnated because of the dreaded [b][i]religion[/i][/b] and that, somehow, caused the rest of humanity to be dumb as shit too, is [i]very important[/i] to a discussion about babies. I am sick and fucking tired of some loud-mouthed Atheist son of a bitch running into a discussion and screaming about religion in a high pitched voice like some kind of intellectual suicide bomber. It's not cool anymore and it certainly was never funny. You are [i]just as bad[/i] as Phelps and his merry band of cocksuckers, so take a moment and [i]think [u]carefully[/u][/i] before you decide to do it again. Yeah, you're the exact same as the people you criticize the most. In fact, you're worse because they'll go away... eventually. You? Well, you're incapable of really noticing when people have stopped giving a shit [i]hours ago[/i] and the worst part is we can still hear you. Our only flaw is we can't somehow develop telekinesis, probably using the part of the brain that stores hatred like a capacitor, and rip your tongue out with our fucking minds. I hope you break your both your hands in your fit to rate me dumb. Oh, and I forgot to add, that baby is adorable. <3
you really are a big fan of using italics, bold, and underline when you're raging, aren't you? and because i don't want to break my hands, instead of rating you dumb, i'll just say that you are
Lol, people die so how can any baby be the 7 billionth. :>
china has a generation of lost girls because they were aborted just because their parents wanted baby boys chinas population will peak then dramatically fall due to a decrease in available mothers
[QUOTE=J!NX;33056295]What has religion given us? Just a little sanity, for a certain number of people. [B][I][U]That is all.[/U][/I][/B][/QUOTE] People are free to believe whatever the fuck they want. And don't pull the "the higher echelons of power are slowing us down" card, the Pope is little more than a figurehead nowadays, he has no real power anymore.
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