The new 'The End Is Bill Nye' Thread

[jasong]

Originally Posted by retina

It is not about lying, or truth telling, it is about proof. Where is it? So far you have presented none, zero, not a sausage, zip, nada.

If you actually wanted proof, you wouldn't be sparring with me anymore.

[jasong]

I’ve been noticing videos going viral the last few days, some with millions of views, about Muslim women bravely fighting to free themselves from oppression in the Middle East. The videos, curiously, are being shared enthusiastically by many Republicans and pro-Israel hawks, who aren’t traditionally the sort of crowd you see rallying to support the civil rights of Muslims. What’s up with that?

Well, you may want to sit down for this shocker, but it turns out that they happen to be women from a nation that the US war machine is currently escalating operations against. They are Iranian.

Whenever you see the sudden emergence of an attractive media campaign that is sympathetic to the plight of civilians in a resource-rich nation unaligned with the western empire, you are seeing propaganda. When that nation is surrounded by other nations with similar human rights transgressions and yet those transgressions are ignored by that same media campaign, you are most certainly seeing propaganda. When that nation just so happens to already be the target of starvation sanctions and escalated covert CIA ops, you can bet the farm that you are seeing propaganda.

Pure Christianity isn't motivated politically, pure Christianity is devotion to Christ.

You can tell who the fakey American Christians are because they tend to be way over-eager to defend Trump.

Off-topic: I believe Trump is a man of prophecy, but I don't believe the prophecy favors him. I believe he is an evil man, and he does God's will because God commands the devil to to command Trump according to God's will.

[Batalov]

Originally Posted by jasong

If you actually wanted proof, you wouldn't be sparring with me anymore.

And if he wanted a drink of water, he would stay as far from water as possible.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by jasong

If you actually wanted proof, you wouldn't be sparring with me anymore.

I'll take that as an admission that you have no proof to offer.

EDIT: I was prompted to look up quotations about things that cannot be proven. The following, found here, seemed apropos.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

-- George Henry Lewes, The Physiology of Common Life (1859-60; repr. New York: D. Appleton, 1867) vol. 2, p. 349