Scott Adams: In his own words
I create my Sunday comics on Sunday, for no particular reason except that the phone doesn’t usually ring in the morning. I need some help on today’s masterpiece. It features a character who only has three stories that he repeats in a loop. So far I have two: “Why you…
Read MoreWhen people say America attacked Iraq “for money” or “for oil,” they’re talking about two different but related concepts: 1. President Bush attacked Iraq to make his evil capitalist overlord friends richer. 2. President Bush attacked Iraq to protect the overall economy. While I do not approve of starting wars…
Read MoreI note that many of you believe that President Bush and his corporate buddies wanted to attack Iraq because of some personal profit motive. You called me naïve for thinking otherwise. I’ll agree that greed is a prime motivator for people in general, and that there’s no such thing as…
Read MoreAccording to world public opinion and the American government, the most powerful military force in history had at least 13 completely different and compelling reasons to attack Iraq. Saddam was one unlucky despot. And STILL he didn’t see it coming. Here’s a sampling of President’s Bush’s many reasons, according to…
Read MoreI don’t understand the theory that we attacked Iraq for oil. Can one of you geniuses explain that to the rest of us? I like a good conspiracy theory as much as the next person. And I certainly think governments are capable of doing bad things. But I don’t understand…
Read MoreIf you know what occam’s razor is, you can skip this paragraph. According to Wikipedia, Occam’s razor states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. For Skeptics, occam’s…
Read MoreSome of you questioned my so-called fact that religious faith is correlated with lower education and intelligence. It’s appropriate to question those sorts of statistics since it’s entirely possible that the studies were done by atheist-leaning weasels. I would go so far as to say probable. My reasoning is that…
Read MoreIf you work in an office, think about the most annoying co-worker, subordinant, or boss you have at the moment. Then tell me the one thing that he/she did most recently to set you off. (No long background stories please, just the behavior that got you.) I will be selecting…
Read MoreThe results are in, unscientifically speaking. Those of you who believe in psychics almost always believe in God. This does not surprise me. As many readers noted, psychic powers have often been tested in the lab. And while studies sometimes hint that these powers exist, none of those results has…
Read MoreI just saw a TV show about famous alleged psychic Edgar Cayce. Back in the 1920s he was putting himself into trances and making lots of predictions that – according to this program – turned out to be true. One prominent example they gave is that he predicted the exact…
Read MoreThis will look like a rhetorical question, but it’s not. I’m still trying to figure out how religious people interpret their environment. Here’s something that has always puzzled me. You’ve probably seen the studies showing that the smarter you are, and the more you know, the less likely you are…
Read MoreRecently I asked the believers among you to explain why you believe in your own prophet but not the other guy’s prophet. The LDS (Mormon) folks said they talk directly to God and get personal answers. Most of the rest of you said something along the lines that your prophet(s)…
Read MoreSoon after 9/11 I decided to read the Koran to see what would inspire believers to pilot a jet into a building. I picked up an English translation and dove in. My impression of this translated version was that it was stuffed with warlike language about killing the Christians and…
Read MoreI’ve always been curious about how a person can believe that God spoke to Moses and not become a Muslim. Allow me to explain my confusion. For those who are not up to speed on your comparative religion, let me oversimplify it for you. Jews believe Moses communicated with God…
Read MoreI have decided to take Sundays off from blogging. I figure this will slightly reduce the chances that I will be struck by lightning.
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