To stay or not to stay ---That is the question.

@Robert Gentel,

I have discovered that google has great A2K searchability.

site:able2know.org [insert search terms here]

You're leaving because too many people disagree with you??

For me, they're the reason I stay.

(Usually includes you, so I'd rather you stayed)

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@Finn dAbuzz,

Finn dAbuzz wrote:

A place for everyone to say the same thing and congratulate each other on their brilliance is not appealing to me, but it's a simple comfort for some that's hard to deplore.

I agree, which is why I would be happy if you stuck around. I have not read through the rest of the thread yet, so I dont know what you have decided, but I think these things come and go. So if you go, come visit some time.

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@Merry Andrew,

No matter where you go in life your going to run into jackasses and the saying goes opions are like assholes and everyone's got and no one thinks theirs stinks. But you can't let the smell ones run you out of things.

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@lkimble,

Smells aren't a problem. You can get used to anything if you do it long enough. Even hanging.

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@roger,

OK, lets summarize .
Finnwantsa leave.

Many people are gonna kneecap him if he does.
A few dont care
Several are just being assholes themselves
Finn decides to come out and show us his stuff

OK lets make a decision here Finn, this thread is wasting those little electric thingies.

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@McGentrix,

Google does a better job at overall page relevance (e.g. finding you the best Lenny Conundrum thread on a2k out of the many there are) but doesn't do well at post-level searching. In that regard the old search engine (and the one we plan to make eventually) did better.

So if you want to find a specific post by a specific member it doesn't help much. But yes, it does other stuff well. Thing is, if you are using the site:able2know.org query you might as well just use the search engine in the header of every page, as it does the same thing.

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Robert wrote:

In that regard the old search engine (and the one we plan to make eventually) did better.

Go ahead, Robert, please!

(It's just frustrating as it is right now)..

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@Francis,

want want want.

T
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Shocked

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@Brandon9000,

Brandon9000 wrote:

Merry Andrew wrote:

Quote:
It's pretty clear that it has become an overwhelmingly left-wing forum,

That's not necessarily a bad thing.
(I think you're mistaken, but -- still -- that would not be such a bad thing.)

And if it were an overwhelmingly right wing forum?

"Right wing" can possibly mean at least 3 inconsistent & conflicting things.
Does it mean the point of vu of George Washington, James Madison, Barry Goldwater,
Wm. F. Buckley Jr, Ron Paul and me,
or
Pat Robertson and W ?

Some people believe (in error) that national socialist, anti-individualism A. Hitler is "right wing".

That term is too vague to be understandable.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Brandon9000 wrote:

Merry Andrew wrote:

Quote:
It's pretty clear that it has become an overwhelmingly left-wing forum,

That's not necessarily a bad thing.
(I think you're mistaken, but -- still -- that would not be such a bad thing.)

And if it were an overwhelmingly right wing forum?

"Right wing" can possibly mean at least 3 inconsistent & conflicting things.
Does it mean the point of vu of George Washington, James Madison, Barry Goldwater,
Wm. F. Buckley Jr, Ron Paul and me,
or
Pat Robertson and W ?

Some people believe (in error) that national socialist, anti-individualism A. Hitler is "right wing".

That term is too vague to be understandable.

David

So is left wing...especially as someone like Finn uses it, you doofus.

Finn's left is my right....or centre right.

AMERICA'S left is the rest of the worlds' right or centre right or just centre.

Wallies.

So it goes.

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

OmSigDAVID wrote:

Brandon9000 wrote:

Merry Andrew wrote:

Quote:
It's pretty clear that it has become an overwhelmingly left-wing forum,

That's not necessarily a bad thing.
(I think you're mistaken, but -- still -- that would not be such a bad thing.)

And if it were an overwhelmingly right wing forum?

"Right wing" can possibly mean at least 3 inconsistent & conflicting things.
Does it mean the point of vu of George Washington, James Madison, Barry Goldwater,
Wm. F. Buckley Jr, Ron Paul and me,
or
Pat Robertson and W ?

Some people believe (in error) that national socialist, anti-individualism A. Hitler is "right wing".

That term is too vague to be understandable.

David

So is left wing...especially as someone like Finn uses it, you doofus.

Finn's left is my right....or centre right.

AMERICA'S left is the rest of the worlds' right or centre right or just centre.

Wallies.

So it goes.

TECHNICALLY, I must agree with u,
in that saying "the left" only means deviation from
what was established, and the DIRECTION
of that deviation is not specified; i.e., a citizen can be liberal,
deviating in a very different direction than Roosevelt or Kennedy did,
but as a practical matter, reference to "the left" does usually mean
deviation from the original constitutional philosophy of George Washington
and James Madison (individualism and libertarianism)
toward the relative collectivism & authoritarianism of Roosevelt and Kennedy.

I cannot begin to guess what "Wallies" are.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

Quote:

I cannot begin to guess what "Wallies" are.

Foolish people...uninformed people...people with no nous.

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@OmSigDAVID,

dlowan wrote:

Quote:

So is left wing...especially as someone like Finn uses it, you doofus.

Finn's left is my right....or centre right.

AMERICA'S left is the rest of the worlds' right or centre right or just centre.

Wallies.

So it goes.

When American citizens decide what we shoud do
or refrain from doing, we very seldom or never consider
where nor how " . . . the rest of the worlds' right or centre right or just centre " is.

In common with most of my fellow citizens,
I am rather ego-centric and Constitutional centric,
taking advantage of our political heritage of individual freedom.

David

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Note the deluded, self-serving nature of what OSD posts. Not even a significant minority of Americans see the world as he does, never mind most Americans. It is an all too common fallacy of opinionated people that their viewpoints are widely or commonly held.

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A2K is a bundle of laughs. You Yanks simply don't know how to conduct an intelligent discussion. You are so obsessed with your dignity. I can't understand it. The facts of life are such that dignity is not a possibility.

There's nothing funnier than lefties. Especially those who promote evolution teaching.

I saw Barbara Stanwyk in The Maverick Queen recently and it was hilarious. The chaps were all complete idiots and yet I can imagine them serving as role models. The theatre of the absurd being taken seriously.

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You can get a flavour of what I meant by reading the posts on the Latest Challenges to Teaching Evolution thread after I posted this on it--

Quote:

Scientists on the BBC's Horizon Show demonstrated tonight that we don't have free will. How did de Sade know that over 200 years ago? He used a very similar argument too.

You're not choosing to be atheists at all. You only think you are. Your neurons are in charge. As they are with the kids in the schools.

I suppose it must be an evolutionary mechanism to protect us from the dangers of rationality and logic.

It's on i-player if you can get it.

In fact the whole thread is very similar.

I've watched the Horizon show again. Nothing but scientists. At the end the hero was signing a document donating his brain for research and he said that he was doing so despite him no longer being sure who he is.

But you will see posts in which I'm told to go **** myself, a fatuity from effemm, something about after a nuclear war when only the Kenyan Kikuyu survived being "interesting", the nth thousandth assertion from ci. that I wouldn't or couldn't understand evolution if my life depended on it coupled with an instruction to "give up", another bloody picture of Saturn's rings and an approval gesture agreeing that I should go **** myself.

Anybody who can't see what I mean about Yanks being unable to conduct intelligent discussions need look no further.

And, in this case, they are all Yanks who are seeking to promote science in biology lessons.

It's hilarious. How Finn can think of giving up such a reliable source of tittering material beggars belief.

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@Francis,

When we can afford to spend the time on it we will. Unfortunately we can't right now.

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@Robert Gentel,

Thank you, Robert.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

You can get a flavour of what I meant by reading the posts on the Latest Challenges to Teaching Evolution thread after I posted this on it--

Quote:
Scientists on the BBC's Horizon Show demonstrated tonight that we don't have free will. How did de Sade know that over 200 years ago? He used a very similar argument too.

You're not choosing to be atheists at all. You only think you are. Your neurons are in charge. As they are with the kids in the schools.

I suppose it must be an evolutionary mechanism to protect us from the dangers of rationality and logic.

It's on i-player if you can get it.

In fact the whole thread is very similar.

I've watched the Horizon show again. Nothing but scientists. At the end the hero was signing a document donating his brain for research and he said that he was doing so despite him no longer being sure who he is.

But you will see posts in which I'm told to go **** myself, a fatuity from effemm, something about after a nuclear war when only the Kenyan Kikuyu survived being "interesting", the nth thousandth assertion from ci. that I wouldn't or couldn't understand evolution if my life depended on it coupled with an instruction to "give up", another bloody picture of Saturn's rings and an approval gesture agreeing that I should go **** myself.

Anybody who can't see what I mean about Yanks being unable to conduct intelligent discussions need look no further.

And, in this case, they are all Yanks who are seeking to promote science in biology lessons.

It's hilarious. How Finn can think of giving up such a reliable source of tittering material beggars belief.

Had neurons been discovered "over 200 years ago?"

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