I wouldn't be surprised if this is just the airlines opportunity for a money grab, by writing it off as a safety concern. I mean, why not target Kevin Smith who they look at as both overweight, and also has cash to spend. This is easily done since the seats were made to sit either a child or someone under 5 feet comfortably.
It's the year 2000 already, so it's about time we breed a slave race just like the ones in Sci-fi movies... and then they will rebel, and there will be a war, yada yada.
Religion is not "hardwired", but if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually take it as truth. Children or adults facing a crisis are even more susceptible to this if it comes from authority figure or mentor, and from it forms their reality of the world around them. Belief may be hardwired, but religion is a man made product that exploits this mental quirk.
People are going to generalize others into categories, taking the most extreme stances as status quo if you like it or not. If Shannon doesn't make Atheists "look bad", then somebody else will. If they want to form their reality of what an Atheist is due to Shannon's opinion and treat all other Atheists the same way, then that is their choice.
They do survey only a select group of people from those towns, so your only gauging the mental state of the individuals doing it, and not the general consensus of that town. Apparently they were the fattest city in the US last year, so maybe it's the same depressed and overweight people on welfare that stay at home all day doing the survey just as last year.
I say if a town is dying, let it rot. If it can't accept change and development, it's better off living a self-fulfilled prophecy to go belly-up. But then again, you can bite the bullet and accept integration of outside influences to jump start its economy and growth.
Please, for the love of god, stay off topic!
Religion is not "hardwired", but if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually take it as truth. Children or adults facing a crisis are even more susceptible to this if it comes from authority figure or mentor, and from it forms their reality of the world around them. Belief may be hardwired, but religion is a man made product that exploits this mental quirk.
People are going to generalize others into categories, taking the most extreme stances as status quo if you like it or not. If Shannon doesn't make Atheists "look bad", then somebody else will. If they want to form their reality of what an Atheist is due to Shannon's opinion and treat all other Atheists the same way, then that is their choice.
They do survey only a select group of people from those towns, so your only gauging the mental state of the individuals doing it, and not the general consensus of that town. Apparently they were the fattest city in the US last year, so maybe it's the same depressed and overweight people on welfare that stay at home all day doing the survey just as last year.
Nah, on second thought, let it rot.