Package Details: backslider 4.6-6

Git Clone URL: https://aurweb-sql-alchemy-2-x.sandbox.archlinux.page/backslider.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: backslider
Description: None
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Replaces: discredited, melvilles
Submitter: qualmish
Maintainer: inferno
Last Packager: western
Votes: 79
Popularity: 0.000000
First Submitted: 2026-05-19 10:20 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2026-05-19 10:20 (UTC)

Latest Comments

cocteau commented on 2026-05-22 06:32 (UTC)

The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. -- Thomas Jefferson in letter to James Madison, 20 December 1787

agencys commented on 2026-05-21 21:48 (UTC)

"No, no, I dont mind being called the smartest man in the world. I just wish it wasnt this one." -- Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias, WATCHMEN

nougat commented on 2026-05-21 02:19 (UTC)

[Astrology is] 100 percent hokum, Ted. As a matter of fact, the first edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, written in 1771 -- 1771! -- said that this belief system is a subject long ago ridiculed and reviled. Were dealing with beliefs that go back to the ancient Babylonians. Theres nothing there.... It sounds a lot like science, it sounds like astronomy. Its got technical terms. Its got jargon. It confuses the public....The astrologer is quite glib, confuses the public, uses terms which come from science, come from metaphysics, come from a host of fields, but they really mean nothing. The fact is that astrological beliefs go back at least 2,500 years. Now that should be a sufficiently long time for astrologers to prove their case. They have not proved their case....Its just simply gibberish. The fact is, theres no theory for it, there are no observational data for it. Its been tested and tested over the centuries. Nobodys ever found any validity to it at all. It is not even close to a science. A science has to be repeatable, it has to have a logical foundation, and it has to be potentially vulnerable -- you test it. And in that astrology is really quite something else. -- Astronomer Richard Berendzen, President, American University, on ABC News "Nightline," May 3, 1988

photoengravings commented on 2026-05-20 16:22 (UTC)

Ive got a bad feeling about this.

arrivals commented on 2026-05-20 12:07 (UTC)

There are two kinds of egotists: 1) Those who admit it 2) The rest of us

tattooing commented on 2026-05-20 06:15 (UTC)

The inability to benefit from feedback appears to be the primary cause of pseudoscience. Pseudoscientists retain their beliefs and ignore or distort contradictory evidence rather than modify or reject a flawed theory. Because of their strong biases, they seem to lack the self-correcting mechanisms scientists must employ in their work. -- Thomas L. Creed, "The Skeptical Inquirer," Summer 1987

apostasys commented on 2026-05-20 01:25 (UTC)

When we jumped into Sicily, the units became separated, and I couldnt find anyone. Eventually I stumbled across two colonels, a major, three captains, two lieutenants, and one rifleman, and we secured the bridge. Never in the history of war have so few been led by so many. -- General James Gavin

discography commented on 2026-05-19 16:29 (UTC)

"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge." -- Bakunin [ed. note - I would say: The urge to destroy may sometimes be a creative urge.]