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ippy

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Re: Just a thought
« Reply #25 on: March 09, 2018, 06:56:06 PM »
Ippy i'm delighted with this thread because it has given me an idea for getting out of jury service if I am called. I was called years ago when just moved house. the letter came to my old address just a day or so afterwards & I collected it on the way home from work.  I wrote 'Return to sender, no longer lives here' on the envelope & put in post. Well I wasn't lying.

Now I will object on grounds of being religious. If that doesn't work I'll say I'm dead (I'd be a useless juror).

I'm becoming a Pastiferian, that should do it, I could rise up to be the esteamed head of the society, well very holey enough to give vent to my belief and let my ideas run through to the followers.

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Re: Just a thought
« Reply #26 on: March 09, 2018, 07:36:12 PM »
I thought a pastifarian was something to do with food from Cornwall but seems I'm wrong.

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ippy

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Re: Just a thought
« Reply #27 on: March 09, 2018, 07:55:26 PM »
I thought a pastifarian was something to do with food from Cornwall but seems I'm wrong.

This is for you ippy (the figure on the right, ignore the one on the left):- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster#/media/File:Touched_by_His_Noodly_Appendage_HD.jpg

Have a look at my Pastafarian thread O P, there's a link, it's worth a look if you're deeply intellectual like wot i is.

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Re: Just a thought
« Reply #28 on: March 14, 2018, 06:54:13 PM »
Maybe we should just out these 'religious' lir in camps if we want to go down the route if treating they as second class citizens?

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Re: Just a thought
« Reply #29 on: March 15, 2018, 06:10:18 PM »
Iv'e been trying in a course of a forum discussion with Vlad, to reason with him and have tried to work my way through the usual Vladobable nonsense and a piece of Vlad's, I nearly wrote logic, post, it made me think, when the authorities pick people for jury service, technically perhaps holding a religious belief of one kind or another should disqualify them from jury service.

The reasoning behind my thinking on this, is that all of these religionists whatever religion they believe in, they tend to believe in things without sufficient evidence to do so, therefore having this tendency perhaps it should disqualify them from jury service because of this disability of not being able to recognise evidence when they see it or when it's not there.

I'm ready to be shot down in flames, if necessary, or find some support but believing things without evidence is a bit of a bummer and doesn't exactly fill people with confidence.   

Could be an interesting thread, who knows?

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The problem is that irrationality in one area is no guarantee of irrationality in other areas. Look at Vlad's posts on Brexit. Whether you agree with him about Brexit or not, they do not exhibit the same level of obfuscation and other nonsense that you see from him in respect of religion.

Similarly, on this board, my posts always exemplify the highest standards of rationality and evidence based reasoning but you don't know that I would be able to bring my considerable intellect to bear in a jury room situation with eleven other real people. I'm humble enough to admit that.

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Re: Just a thought
« Reply #30 on: March 18, 2018, 04:10:40 PM »
The problem is that irrationality in one area is no guarantee of irrationality in other areas. Look at Vlad's posts on Brexit. Whether you agree with him about Brexit or not, they do not exhibit the same level of obfuscation and other nonsense that you see from him in respect of religion.

Similarly, on this board, my posts always exemplify the highest standards of rationality and evidence based reasoning but you don't know that I would be able to bring my considerable intellect to bear in a jury room situation with eleven other real people. I'm humble enough to admit that.

Just read your post j p, why am I smiling? Almost as much quality in it as my post.

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