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Topic: February 2006, Posts of the Month
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 2 of 71 (283195)
02-01-2006 2:12 PM
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Holmes, at the "Is there anything good about narcotic prohibitions?" topic
Author: Holmes Forum: Coffee House Thread: Is there anything good about narcotic prohibitions? Message: 49 Yep, and I do believe with the legalization of some lighter drugs, there will be less of a market for harder drugs. I think that is THE key sentence in the whole debate. To be debated at the cited topic, not in this POTM topic. Moose
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 5 of 71 (283571)
02-03-2006 3:29 AM
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Omnivorous, at the "Is there anything good about narcotic prohibitions?" topic
Author: Omnivorous Forum: Coffee House Thread: Is there anything good about narcotic prohibitions? Message: 60 Pretty heavy. Moose
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 13 of 71 (283689)
02-03-2006 5:01 PM
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Many people, at the "Is there anything good about narcotic prohibitions?" topic
It has been alluded to just up thread, but I wish to stress that there are (IMO) numerous POTM caliber messages in the Is there anything good about narcotic prohibitions? topic (currently at message 73). Evidence that great messages feed off of other great messages. Indeed, the Homes message I nominated in message 2 of this topic may actually be rather minor in the scope of the topic as a whole. But I'm a sucker for what I view as a major point in a compact posting. Once again, kudos to many posters at that topic. Someday I may get to posting something there myself, beyond the shameless plug of the earlier topic I started on the same general theme. Maybe there's still a variation of the theme worth pursuing at that earlier topic. Moose Edited to change "message 70" to "message 73". Three more showed up while I was prepping this message. This message has been edited by minnemooseus, 02-03-2006 05:03 PM
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 20 of 71 (284182)
02-05-2006 4:12 PM
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Parasomnium, at "Cartoons and common sense"
Author: Parasomnium Forum: Coffee House Thread: Cartoons and common sense Message: 20 Essentially, a one sentence message. But it's a very good sentence, and IMO should be the focus point of further discussion in that topic. Mark24 touched upon the same thing a bit, in the previous message, but Parasomnium did it better. Moose
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 25 of 71 (285344)
02-09-2006 9:11 PM
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Omnivorous, off-topic, but still interesting at "Cartoons and common sense"
Author: Omnivourous Forum: Coffee House Thread: Cartoons and common sense Message: 209 Omnivourous's brush with monkhood. Maybe this message can find a better home somewhere. Moose
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 27 of 71 (285652)
02-10-2006 2:55 PM
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Percy, at "Is talkorigins.org a propoganda site?"
Author: Percy Forum: Is It Science? Thread: Is talkorigins.org a propoganda site? Message: 104 Perhaps the best "in a nutshell" argument against creationism I've ever seen. As a footnote to the above cited, also see Percy's previous message. Moose
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 35 of 71 (287027)
02-15-2006 3:56 PM
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Percy, at "For percy: setting the record straight on Charlie Rose interview"
Author: Percy Forum: Miscellaneous Topics in Creation/Evolution Thread: For percy: setting the record straight on Charlie Rose interview Message: 45 Includes quotes from Charles Hard Townes, Baptist preacher and a Berkeley Nobel Prize winning physicist, about the co-existence of Christian faith and worldly reality. Offhand, Towns seems to take the same position as Kenneth Miller, author of Finding Darwin' God. Debate the topic there, not here. Moose Added by edit:
The bulk of my above message still stands. This message has been edited by minnemooseus, 02-15-2006 04:03 PM
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 36 of 71 (287052)
02-15-2006 4:45 PM
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mike the wiz, at "How do we classfiy people?"
Author: mike the wiz Forum: Miscellaneous Topics in Creation/Evolution Thread: How do we classfiy people Message: 3 IMO, need to also plug this message into the related, and even newer Death of a Scotsman (Re: the "no true Scotsman" fallacy) topic. Moose
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 37 of 71 (287391)
02-16-2006 4:27 PM
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Omnivorous, at "Death of a Scotsman (Re: the "no true Scotsman" fallacy)"
Author: Omnivorous Forum: Coffee House Thread: Death of a Scotsman (Re: the "no true Scotsman" fallacy) Message: 5 As far as Moose POTM nominations go, Omnivorous seems to have replaced Holmes. The cited topic is piling up messages fast. It was already to about message 45 by the time I saw it, post PNT version. The cited message happened early on. I like it. See previous message 36 also. I presume that MtW has also posted simular thoughts at the "Death..." topic. Moose
Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment. "Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer." - Bruce Graham "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith "I know a little about a lot of things, and a lot about a few things, but I'm highly ignorant about everything." - Moose
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 66 of 71 (290400)
02-25-2006 3:45 PM
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Crashfrog, Sidelined, Aximili23 at "What's the best strategy for defending evolution?
Author: Crashfrog, Sidelined, Aximili23 (who started the topic) Forum: Miscellaneous Topics in Creation/Evolution Thread: What's the best strategy for defending evolution? Message: 11, 17, 19 Mike the Wiz already nominated Crashfrog for #11. In all, a very nicely done topic, and not just by and in the above three mentioned. Lots of good quoted material from outside sources. In other words, read the whole topic. Overall, special kudos to Aximili23. Moose
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Minnemooseus
Member Posts: 3945 From: Duluth, Minnesota, U.S. (West end of Lake Superior) Joined: 11-11-2001 Member Rating: 10.0
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Message 71 of 71 (291062)
02-28-2006 4:29 PM
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EZscience at "What's the best strategy for defending evolution?"
Author: EZscience Forum: Miscellaneous Topics in Creation/Evolution Thread: What's the best strategy for defending evolution? Message: 58 Haven't been following topics in general at all closely lately, but this new one seems pretty good. Upthread also seems pretty good. There's much more there, but I'll quote one paragraph:
EZscience writes: There was a good article in New Scientist a few weeks ago about the reasons for the rise of fundamentalism in both the east (Islam) and the west (Christianity) and it pointed out the allure of (1) simplistic explanations of the world, (2) the infallibility of a sacred text and, (3) spiritually-derived moralities. All these things have superficial but immediate appeal to people with minimal education seeking solid, unchanging truths about the world in times of unparalleled uncertainty and rapid change. Science does not and cannot provide such psychological crutches. Remember, the place to debate the topic is at that topic, not here in the POTM forum. Moose
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