Engaging in somoditic acts does not preclude the ability to procreate.

Therefore no.

I believe I am real, therefore I am tangible,

I believe that leprechauns are real.

Therefore leprechauns are tangible.

But, when you can't see them, hear them, feel them, taste them, or smell them, are they really tangible?

every thought I have ever had or will ever have matters.

But the thoughts themselves are intangible. They do not exist in the purely physical universe.

You believe you are intangible

I am clearly tangible. I can feel myself (and feel I do!), smell myself (and smell I do!), taste myself (and taste I do!), yaddayaddayadda...

therefore unreal

If I am not real, then why are you discoursing with me?

Clearly you have some mental issues, since you just admitted to talking to something that you believe to be "unreal" - gotta make you question your deity, doesn't it?

until they realize they are trying to add meaning to life

The meaning of life is to procreate. DNA has been passed on in an unbroken chain from the beginning of life to the present day. The meaning of life is to continue that chain.

This is what many atheists believe, and I am inclined to agree.

Religious people - and, unfortunately, even many ir- - have some meta-mystical need for there to be more to life than just living and fucking and making the next generation. Why? I have never seen the reason for wanting anything grander - what can be grander than the Great Chain of Existence?

where all sodomites will be.

So then it doesn't matter what I believe, now does it? Since I am already a sodomite, why should it matter if I drink of the Spirit of the Lord?

Herbert Marcuse beat Hillary to that claim, if indeed Hillary ever said such a thing.

But yes, when an entity - such as a political party - is willing to put human efforts to save the species on hold with the expectation that some supernatural being will do it for us - the ultimate deus ex machina - they are radical, and their rebellion against rationality and good sense makes them an insurgency. So, in conclusion, the Republican Party would seem to be a radical insurgency.

Oh how hated you are!?!

I post something, go to bed, wake up and see that you've replied, but in the interim have received 3 downvotes! And not even for something that deserves more than 1!

Had you clicked on the link you'd have seen that these are not my words but the words of Ornstein, which Noam Chomsky frequently quotes during his interviews.

I agree with Noam.

The Democrats are right-to-center.

The Republicans "are so far to the right that they don't even pretend to be a party anymore" (paraphrase). They allow God to come into the picture far too much, trusting in Him to take care of climate change, wanting to marry the government with religion, etc. Being a radical fundamentalist Christian is virtually necessary to win the election, and each president since Carter has made a huge show of his religiosity.

And sure, the Republican Party has been around awhile, but that doesn't mean they can't - and they have, a lot - change. I mean, Eisenhower was a Republican, and during his presidency (from 1944 until 1963) the top tax bracket was OVER 90% (at one time reaching 94%), and it was under LBJ - the Democrat - that taxes went soaring downhill.

You don't have a sense of humor, do you?

Well at least one person understands it.

So astronomers have determined that an asteroid is going to hit the earth! So large, it could easily wipe out the human population!

The world needs to work together and create a device that will knock the asteroid off path, and they only have 2 years to do so.

What do the Republicans have to say about this? They see it in two different lights:

1: It is a lie, damned liberals are trying to take our money and our freedom!

2: It is real, but God will save us. No need to bother ourselves over it!

So, if the Republicans are in power, 2 years later and humanity goes extinct.

We can hope that the Libertarian Party fills the void. Definitely an improvement.

You must be brain damaged. Indeed, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that this is the case. After all, who else could have so perfected the art of the idiot: no comprehension of what other people say, no care for reality, and only latching on to a single, out-of-context statement in an effort to enhance the appearance of your own naïveté?!

Do you believe that your thoughts are physical and have actual weight, shape, and tangibility? If so, then you just proved yourself wrong. If not, then where are they?

Ancient legends state that Jesus, when the adulteress was brought before him and was asked what to do with her - thereby being given the opportunity either to undo himself if he said to follow the Mosaic law, or to outright speak against the Mosaic law - began to write in the sand the sins of each of the people who stood before him. It is for that reason why the people, after Christ said let he among you who is without sin cast the first stone, fled.

The moral of this story is that we must find an indisputable plank in the eye of the people to whom we refer - most likely by developing a more thorough knowledge of Christ, the namesake of those who act as much unlike their Lord and Savior as possible to use against them, something I've been working on.

You must work hard at being naive. So very hard, for you are so very good at it. Well, everybody's gotta have something, right?

Since you say your intelligence emerged from primordial soup,your intelligence is primordial soup

My breakfast of bacon and eggs (sunny-side up) came from a live pig and a shell filled with gelatinous goop. Because my breakfast came from a live pig and a shell filled with gelatinous goop, am I eating a live pig and a shell filled with gelatinous goop?

Of course not!

Things change. Something that is in one state at time A may be in another state at time B, and the greater the difference between A and B, the greater the likelihood that that state will have changed. Thus, while some 4.2 GYA what is now me was not me, right now what is me is me.

Now, since intelligence is an intangible, a word used to quantify some pseudo-metaphysical neurochemistry that results in the ability of an individual to reason, remember, and create, it stands to reason that intelligence was not once of the primordial soup, for it does not physically exist - it is merely a descriptor.

George Washington.

Why?

'cause he's dead.

Can't fuck up this country any more when you're dead.