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Re: definition of sentience

From Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.atheism
Subject Re: definition of sentience
Date 2016-06-06 00:40 -0700
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On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 17:40:06 -0700, hypatiab7 wrote:

> On Sunday, June 5, 2016 at 2:15:06 PM UTC-4, Kelsey Bjarnason wrote:
>> On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 10:36:39 -0700, Kurt Kurt wrote:
>> 
>> Comment being responded to: "you know full well science is not a
>> religion"
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > It's a religion to you. Pure religious faith. Comforting religious
>> > faith.
>> 
>> Except it isn't, and you know this, so why keep saying it?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > All it does is predict experiments part of the time, nothing else.
>> 
>> Which is its job.  So your complaint is something that does its job is
>> bad?  You must have an interesting employment history.
>> 
>> > No truth, no knowledge, no proof, that's all blind religious faith.
>> 
>> You have that backwards.  Claiming to have "Truth(tm)!" when unable to
>> demonstrate that it is, in fact, true is the hallmark of religion.
>> Science is very clear that its theories are provisional, always, never
>> to be confused with "Truth(tm)".
>> 
>> Since you obviously don't understand even the tiniest aspect of what
>> science is, your opinions on it are about as valid as my 
>> four-year-old's opinions on geopolitik, and for the same reason.
>> 
>> If you have an actual argument, make it.  If all you have is empty crap
>> like what you offered above, grow up, get an education, and shut the
>> fuck up until then.
>> 
>> HTH.  HAND.
> 
> Kurtles knows what science is. He is another narcissist trying to prove
> that he can trick people into believing what he says he believes. He
> hates atheists because we don't fall for his bill of goods. He is a
> deliberate religious troll who has trapped himself in alt.atheism
> because we've punctured his ego. He can't leave because he can't win.
> He's just another ArtieJoe, Duke,Astroboy, Robert Duncan and Cody. Yet
> another pity troll. The longer they're here as total failures, the more
> trapped they are.

Don't recognize a couple of those names, but being listed in with Duke is 
a Bad Thing(tm),,, and Robert the Duncan is quickly working himself into 
my "more amusing than dangerous" list.

You'd think between them they could collectively muster a *single* 
worthwhile argument for whatever it is they supposedly believe.

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Re: definition of sentience Kurt Kurt <passerby31416@gmail.com> - 2016-06-05 04:34 -0700
  Re: definition of sentience Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@gmail.com> - 2016-06-05 09:12 -0700
    Re: definition of sentience Kurt Kurt <passerby31416@gmail.com> - 2016-06-05 10:36 -0700
      Re: definition of sentience Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@gmail.com> - 2016-06-05 11:08 -0700
        Re: definition of sentience Don Martin <drdonmartin@comcast.net> - 2016-06-05 16:50 -0400
        Re: definition of sentience Kurt Kurt <passerby31416@gmail.com> - 2016-06-05 14:35 -0700
        Re: definition of sentience hypatiab7 <hypatiab7@comcast.net> - 2016-06-05 17:40 -0700
          Re: definition of sentience Kelsey Bjarnason <kbjarnason@gmail.com> - 2016-06-06 00:40 -0700

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