sent2null's Comments (120)

“actually no ebanks84 , you didn't qualify your statement you started it with

"Blacks don't give up on their own that easy."

which last time I checked is a generalization that includes ALL blacks...not just yourself. I agree with your statement that my admiration for his sporting game is still the same, but his overall sheen as an honorable human being took a major hit...after all he did a good job keeping it pretty for the cameras for quite some time, but not all things last.”

“Superstition is religion without a codified set of rituals. It is simply ritual by piece meal...a precursor to religion formerly, the philosophies behind both are based on suppositions about the world derived from anecdotal correlations and hope and not based on fact.”

“you do make a good point.”

“I think it is very important for the vast moderate majority of Muslim's to speak up when extreme incidents occur in the world. The same is true of course of extremism in all religions but unfortunately the same pattern of silence by the vast middle seems to take sway, and silence is the same as tacit acceptance of the methods to those who aren't members of a given religion.

As an atheist I think the larger solution comes from recognizing that we don't need religion at all to live peaceably, the pursuit of knowledge that you mentioned as a guiding principle of traditional Islam must not stop when acquiring knowledge forces one to confront the factual basis for various scriptures or beliefs based on them. Religious philosophy is just that, and should be subject to the same change under the influence of new data as we apply to all other types of knowledge. After all, our application of these methods are what created the technology and medicine that has enabled our species to flourish on this planet, not the believes , practices or scriptures of religion directly.

As for the tragedy that has occurred , it is too early to tell just what caused him to take the path he did though we may discover his reasons soon enough as he is still alive to tell them.”

“Hmm...I guess I am the only one who is noticing that the fact that the evidence and methods used to convict mister Willingham were invalid does NOT mean that he was innocent. It only means that the methods to prove his guilt were invalid...he could very well have set the fire intentionally , all we know for a fact is that the data gathered didn't prove it.

We can conclude his legal innocence of the crime from this but we can't conclude that he in fact did not perform the act of killing his children a subtle difference that people here are glossing right by as they march on their anti death penalty crusades. All we can say is that the court system had no right to execute him based on the conclusions of that case and thus he was innocent only in a legal (unproven guilt) way.”

“I went to the MLB site as well Obamatomic but the thing is if the MLB were smart , instead of telling youtube to take the unauthorized videos down they'd have the pages simply hook back to the MLB content. Of course Youtube might want a cut for this "service" but it would at least guarantee that the official version of the video is linked to by people who otherwise would not even go to the MLB site to watch it. (I didn't even know they had the clip there and they can thank HuffPo for that!)”

“the MLB are a bunch of a$$holes, they took down the clip.....backward thinking old media apes.”

“There is no long term stable value in "faith" devoid of empirical backing. Most religions hold that "faith" in things unseen is sacred above all things...unfortunately for that idea, reality calls it a lie at every turn. "Faith" is not what starts your car in the morning, "faith" doesn't fly a plane to Tahiti, "faith" doesn't blast rockets to the moon. A slow deliberate and thorough process of investigating how natural processes work improves the chances for success and obviates the need for "faith". So humility with regard to this process of using discovered facts to better our position in the world, fly us to different parts of the world...or off world is a non-sequiter. We don't need to worry about things when we know exactly how they will come out to sufficiently high probability. Religion by definition is fixed and static, a dogma of belief disconnected from the empirical facts of reality which is dynamic. It is true in a strictly philosophical sense that "faith" is required when supposing things that we have not acquired all the data for, but that "faith" based on a temporary inability to find a truth that is out there is very different from a "faith" in something that has no empirical evidence that it is out there at all.

I agree that a level of humility is required when discussing these understandings but we should never tolerate ignorance when we hold the keys to truth.”

“yeah...just like the "knee-jerk" reactions that got Northern boys to join the cause to fight in the civil war against the Confederacy, the "knee-jerk" reactions that got teens to lie about their age to join WWI and put down the Germans the first time, or the other set of boys a generation later who did the same after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor...yeah...knee jerk. You really need to think about things before you go publicly making foolish statements.”

“Well said NevaforLeadership,

It is statements like yours made from a simple dispassionate analysis of the FACTS that the world needs to read. However, though the children of the west tend to consume more than the children in the third world, the third world tends to have larger families. Most western countries have neutral or negative population growth which is good....the countries with positive growth predominate in the third world. Where family size leaning toward large are promoted based on religious, cultural or economic reasons or all together. The fact that ignorance in these areas is so high is a greater threat to our planet and our future on it than the western couples that have mid to large size families. That said, we must do something about it globally and I think the start should be in attacking the reasons traditionally used to support large family size. Myth systems like religion should be an obvious first start.”

“There is no empirical evidence for God(s).

Not the one of Abraham,
nor the ones of the Sumerians,
nor of Thor or Loki,
none for Baal , Aphrodite or Shiva,
nor of any of the Roman Gods,
or any other of the thousands of Gods that are or were believed to exist by people.

all we have are the hard facts of past history, that Man has created "God(s)" in an effort to provide comfort during often lonely times facing death in an uncaring environment. To believe in something greater, something that may help is not divine it is prudent, it is a survival advantage that comes from often in a communal environment actually having some one there to help. A cousin, a brother, a father, a mother. Divine belief is just projection of this very real appeal to "familial" assistance.

We have one another on this globe, in the short time we have to live currently we should seek to maximize happiness for ourselves and those around us in that time. Not place hope in imaginary dreams to be carried out for us by equally imaginary God(s).”

“hot orange, she needs to lay off the self tanner seriously.”

“The video from the side proves it, the girl did cheat. As for the comment below claiming that no one in sports is honest, that is just horse manure. How about we just agree that the girl cheated and leave it at that, stop trying to reduce the impact of her implicit dishonesty by claiming (without any evidence) that ALL sports players do it...that's such a weak logical fallacy.”

“lol”

“I don't know the implication behind that, but Ethiopian women are easily some of the most beautiful in the world. I doubt the count is courting a clunker.”

“that was the one that had the nerve to ignore a person because they didn't refer to her as "countess" ....couldn't have happened to a better "person" From the sound of it, he's definitely trading up on his trophy wife collection. It's hilarious how these trophy wives tend to have a total useful life span about about 20 years before they are discarded like old shoes for the latest model by their super rich husbands. No surprise really if what you are marrying for is convenience or things instead of for love.”

“amazing how people open their mouths and start speaking without thinking first. A violation of a contract is a precise reflection of ones ability to keep a contract, be it a personal or professional one "Akon". You would be an idiot not to hold his "personal" problems (and that word is funny as physical violence is not personal ...governments make laws against it for a reason) against him in your "work" relationship...but I know why you said what you did, you just saw the dollar signs that could come from working with him. Making you almost as disgusting as he is but for different reasons.”

“Vulgar indeed...and we are to believe that if taxes are raised on such rich folks as Simmons that some how businesses will clam shut. Utter nonsense, the 2% that own most of everything could suffer 50 or 60% tax rates and still live like Kings, that is how far gone some of these people are.”

“lol that was funny. "Special ordered".

The same formulaic stuff that is popular , particularly to this strong drinking culture that has emerged in the last few years from the millenial set. Add some alcohol and a club filled with eager dancers and this music sounds like the best stuff in the world. Just like how disco sounded 30 years ago, what is old is new again. ;)”

“If course, the casino only wants you to think you have a chance of winning some times, that way they can milk you dry in the long run. Learn how to play the game too well and now you are a bad guy, it is just like what would happen if you played cards with gangsters. Beat them enough, and you will find yourself taking a dirt nap or getting a really good beating, just because you had the temerity of actually being good at the game!

Still, I respect the ingenuity of the card counting machine designers. The gangs of students that figured out methods to better their odds in various games by building computers were really amazing talents.”

“read my post above for reasons, I think he knew of an "incident" but didn't know it was abuse yet...(there was a gap of about half a day when the details had not been confirmed) he probably gave that comment in that gap.”

“Foot in the mouth much Terrence? He probably hadn't had confirmation that Brown did treat Rhianna's face like a Pinata but it seems from his comment he was aware of an "incident".

Next time Terrence, err on the side of caution, either deny comment or state that physical abuse is wrong in all cases.”

“One thing that right wing conservatives know how to do is BREED. An unfortunate truth for the enlightened among us who have to battle their backwards conservative ideas.”

“I am sorry HuffPo but that is pretty much par for the course for all journalism. As a scientist it is a painful exercise to watch the logically imprecise and fact devoid presentations of every "news" article I've ever seen written. Your profession should be a harbinger of the scientific method in writing but instead is lose with innuendo, implication and levying statements without any supporting facts or citations at the end of the writings. Though the AP is right for being admonished for this story, so should pretty much every article on this site today , most of them filled with assertions by the authors that have zero empirical data to support them. So get off the high horse, don't throw stones if you live in a glass house.”

“perfect ...but falling on deaf ears the race separators are out in force....doing the deeds set on their ancestors by slave holders who they would have hated ....how ironic.”