Hawking

[Kineticist]

Originally Posted by thunderclapp

I don't care what Hawking thinks and I don't know why he is so angry about people believing in a god or why he feels a need to convince people that there is no god. I think he gets too much attention. He's just another person with an opinion and his opinion has no more weight than yours or mine. He has no more influence on me than Oprah Winfrey does. He's just a celebrity "new athiest" and an angry one at that. I've watched his interviews and speeches and I have no desire to read his books. He doesn't deserve my money. I may be a skeptic but I am not an angry skeptic. Let atheists be atheists and let believers be believers.

Just my 2 cents which is worth about 2 cents.

You don't sound like a skeptic, you sound like just another American supporting our culture of ignorance. You say he's just another a person with an opinion; that may be so, but he is also one of the most brilliant physicists of our time. Maybe if you actually tried reading a book now and then you might learn something and gain some understanding as to why people are skeptical of anyone that clings desperately to a belief system created by people barely out of the bronze age.

[Ignatiuslives]

I was beginning to think that I was alone around these parts.

[Toxick]

Originally Posted by Kineticist

You don't sound like a skeptic, you sound like just another American supporting our culture of ignorance.

Why are you so freakin' hostile?


If you hate everyone here so bad, why do you keep coming?

[VoteJP]

Originally Posted by Toxick

Genius at work:
Keep stamping your ravings with the universal symbol of the developmentally disabled.

That'll sure show them.

I truly have been on many Internet Forums long before coming here to SOMD and here is the one and only place were people view a "short-bus" in such a negative view, and worse yet is that the short-bus here is in fact a "school bus" that you decry.

And I do not believe it is even all the people on this forum but just a few aggressive bigots that push their dirty ideas onto this forum.

I myself am severely disappointed that Toxic will trumpet this trash as I have always expected so much better from you.

And you dare call it as a "universal symbol of the developmentally disabled", link here = ADA Compliance Specialist, Universal Symbols

[hvp05]

Originally Posted by VoteJP

here is the one and only place were people view a "short-bus" in such a negative view

From what I have read, people uniformly and adamantly disagree with nearly everything you post everywhere you post. Therefore, I am inclined to conclude that if folks on other forums did not express a resentment towards your use of the 'shortbus', it was because that smiley was not available and/or you never used it.

Given that you lay blanket insults against white people, Americans, the military, Christians, taxpayers and custodial parents among others, while simultaneously befriending terrorists, socialists, criminals and deadbeats, any mentally-handicapped individual who reads your crap should really feel complimented each time you mock them with that symbol.

[Ignatiuslives]

"while simultaneously befriending terrorists, socialists, criminals and deadbeats, any mentally-handicapped"

Haha that's how you know this is America.

[Tilted (Premo)]

I'm about halfway through reading it right now. I was kinda looking forward to it, but I'm as yet unimpressed. Thus far, it's struck me as rather pedestrian and without any remarkable insights. It's read like a rather superficial history of the evolution of scientific thought and understanding. Perhaps Mr Hawking and Mr. Mlodinow are just laboring through the necessary task of laying the foundation for some revolutionary insight - I hope that's the case - but, frankly, I don't know that they're explanations are elegant enough that anyone who doesn't already get what they're trying to explain will do so as a result.

Here's to hoping they finish with a bang or two.

[hvp05]

Originally Posted by Tilted

Here's to hoping they finish with a bang or two.

That would be different: putting the bang at the END of the story.

[Starman3000m]

Originally Posted by Tilted

I'm about halfway through reading it right now. I was kinda looking forward to it, but I'm as yet unimpressed. Thus far, it's struck me as rather pedestrian and without any remarkable insights. It's read like a rather superficial history of the evolution of scientific thought and understanding. Perhaps Mr Hawking and Mr. Mlodinow are just laboring through the necessary task of laying the foundation for some revolutionary insight - I hope that's the case - but, frankly, I don't know that they're explanations are elegant enough that anyone who doesn't already get what they're trying to explain will do so as a result.

Here's to hoping they finish with a bang or two.

Stephen Hawking doesn't believe in God, but he does believe in extraterrestrial beings (ETs) . According to a recent article, Hawking had warned NASA that it may not be such a good idea for the government to be trying to make contact with ETs. Maybe his book will end up with a scene taken from H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds.
Stephen Hawking warns alien life dangerous to humanity - Portland Humanist | Examiner.com

[Zguy28]

Originally Posted by Kineticist

You don't sound like a skeptic, you sound like just another American supporting our culture of ignorance. You say he's just another a person with an opinion; that may be so, but he is also one of the most brilliant physicists of our time. Maybe if you actually tried reading a book now and then you might learn something and gain some understanding as to why people are skeptical of anyone that clings desperately to a belief system created by people barely out of the bronze age.

What's funny is that when a Christian apologist cites material by Hawking in support of a point they are making, the atheists (in my experience at least) come out a try to downplay or even discredit Hawking's work. Strange bedfellows.