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i've gotta see the libs comeback to that one! :)

i know this is gonna sound like a pretty shallow response, but i think it may be a case of the "grass is greener.." in thinking that some other time frame is gonna open up the royal road to riches.. personally i always factor in the larger timeframe trend (by my definition of it) and only...

hahaha, idiots like that just kill me! :D does this twit realise what he is saying? that SOMEONE'S arbitrarily constructed group of stocks (which is what an index is) will perform better than mine, or someone else's, over a 10year (was he being specific with this figure?) period. and...

why does (3) make no sense? here it is again: 3) if a being/s exist/s in a realm beyond our 5 senses and rational faculty, we have NO REASON to assume that being has unlimited power. is there is an entity, a "being" that exists beyond the capacity of our rational faculty, why must such a...

couple of things: 1) we DO know how to define an all-powerful being, but such a being would be self-contradictory. to the extent that the existance of such a being is possible, our knowledge of him becomes impossible. 2) we have no reason to believe that such a being of unlimited power...

what about their narrow based indicies? i assume they would be cash settled by i couldn't find anything on their website. hope these suckers take off, but i won't be holding my breath. volume on SSFs in europe is pretty much zilch. guess the big boys have found much use for them yet. which...

your link reminds me of the Rats of Nimh, a book i read as a kid. maybe theists can break out of being "just rats" too! :)

hey thanks gann! guess i must in your GOOD books then! :) hmm, what a weird feeling....

Hey moderator, how about a FAQ? lescor posted this in another thread (re yet another question on bullets). i think it's a great idea.

don't worry goldenarm, i don't hold it against you. i guess you just don't know any better. you need to realise that I too get offended and feel insulted. especially when holiery-than-thou christian bigots pre-judge me as being a less of a man than them just because i don't believe in their...

hahaha! :) tripack is most certainly not making "sense", not to anybody that actually understands simple logic, but, under the circumstances, he's hasn't put it in a bad attempt.. goldenarm, truly i do not know why you continue to post on this thread. you have been shown to have a...

to answer your question babak, the only the alternative that people opposed to doing something about Saddam have is to do nothing. people like candleman (who has made one of the great all time about faces) have a problem with the US getting involved in international affairs. they think "we"...

hehe. at armstrong's birth, did god know what would become of armstrongs life or not? no evading this now, if god DID know, and god is never wrong, armstrong COULD NOT have chosen a course of action that would preclude him from being an astronaut. if he did, then GOD WAS WRONG.

i guess you fail to see the self-refutation of that statement. when Neil Armstrong was born, god KNEW that he would land on the moon. his entire life, Armstrong was prevented from taking such actions that would disqualify him from the opportunity to land on the moon. Armstrong never had the...

tripack, again, the IMPLICATION of god NEVER BEING WRONG, of KNOWING INFALLIBLY what you will do, can only lead us to the conclusion that we NEVER HAD A CHOICE. because if God right now, at this very second, KNOWS that i will do X at some time in my life, and GOD IS NEVER WRONG, then i...

the bible MIGHT lead you to lead a happier life; if you choose to ignore the morally criminal actions of the one who you are supposed to devote your life to serving (god). anyway, this is all besides the point. the question was never whether the bible contains bits and pieces of wisdom -...

well, one thing we share is the amazement that the other person can't see how simple our respective arguments are:) look, if i ask god, "what will tripack be doing on 30 April 2003?" and he says, "tripack will doing X". you have no choice BUT to do X. if you don't, then god was WRONG...

tripack, the implication of man having free will is that it becomes possible for the god of christianity to be wrong. if god "knew" that i would be a carpenter at age 25, but, using my free will, i became a trader instead, god was wrong about me being a carpenter. there is no way to avoid...

wonderful. i'll try and remember that the next time i'm stuck on something.

yeah, that's "better" in the sense that we are getting closer to an idea of the properties of this entity for whom you claim there is a possibility of existance. so far i have a being with limited powers and limited knowledge, who used unknowable means (to us) to create the universe. have i...