http://helpmebro.com/posts/sIXuYVpT3S
Because polar magnetic shift thingy. Pray hard, you immoral heathen bastards.
Holy shit! The polar magnetic shift is going to split the Earth in half??? I had no idea that this time was going to be so much different than all the other times it has happened!
But the world is going to end on October 21. It's always October 21. That's the date Harold Camping predicted. It's the date the LHC was supposed to go into full swing and create black holes which would suck up the Earth. And it's my second child's birthday. She LOVES being the harbinger of doom. It's her thing. Don't you take that away from her!
Quote from: stromboli on July 14, 2016, 01:42:50 PM
http://helpmebro.com/posts/sIXuYVpT3S
Because polar magnetic shift thingy. Pray hard, you immoral heathen bastards.
My profs told me we wouldn't even notice the shift. How could they have been so wrong?
Oh, that's a day before my mums birthday, so I can use that as an excuse not to buy her anything!
According to my 5 minutes of google research, the polar reversal usually takes thousands of years. Since there is not, to my knowledge, specific info that points to a mass die off because of a polar shift, not too worried.
The world is ending again? I kind of want it to just happen now, so I don't have to keep hearing this shit anymore
Polar shifts are not a laughing matter, but I don't think they happen on July 29th.
Quote from: Munch on July 14, 2016, 02:00:23 PM
Oh, that's a day before my mums birthday, so I can use that as an excuse not to buy her anything!
Don't do it! Harold Camping and CERN were supposed to get me out of Christmas presents TWICE and I can tell you from experience that no matter how sound the logic is, you're the asshole. Yeah, THIS time it sounds legit, but I have been fooled before.
Quote from: stromboli on July 14, 2016, 02:21:10 PM
According to my 5 minutes of google research, the polar reversal usually takes thousands of years. Since there is not, to my knowledge, specific info that points to a mass die off because of a polar shift, not too worried.
Well, there you go. This one is happening in a day and that's why we're all going to die. Sweet! I don't have to pay next month's sales tax! I can spend it instead!!!
Quote from: SGOS on July 14, 2016, 02:44:32 PM
Polar shifts are not a laughing matter, but I don't think they happen on July 29th.
They always happen on July 32nd..
Quote from: stromboli on July 14, 2016, 02:21:10 PM
According to my 5 minutes of google research, the polar reversal usually takes thousands of years. Since there is not, to my knowledge, specific info that points to a mass die off because of a polar shift, not too worried.
I don't know about major extinctions, but it's probably no picnic. One of things that happens is that during those thousands of years, the magnetic field surrounding the Earth dissipates while the magnetic poles shift. Ordinarily, the magnetic field intercepts harmful particles from space, but I can't remember which ones, and redirects back into space. Some of them are redirected to the poles (which causes the Arora Borealis). During that time, life gets bombarded with these harmful particles, so maybe instead of an extinction, we could have a surge in evolution as our DNA strands get continually reassembled into whatever.
Worst case scenario, my great great etc. grand kids might grow a third eye, or something.
Btw, I don't know if you thought about it, but just about every conceivable scenario of alien assault and radioactive nastiness has been covered by an episode of the Twilight Zone or Outer Limits. Been broadcast since the 50's, so any potential alien attacks will be thwarted because they will realize we are on to their tricks. Rod Serling has saved us!
Oh, goody! It's about time this pile of shit came to an end! So long, suckers!
:menacing:
meh, its probably going to be a bi-polar magnetic shift and all that will happen is I will have to reset my alarm clock.
I remember a polar shift was supposed to happen on May 5, 2000. A planetary lineup was supposed to cause a sudden buildup of polar ice, which in turn was supposed to cause the earth to suddenly flip upside down. I remember it was a nice day in Kentucky Derby Week in Louisville, but I lost my bets at the Oaks races.
Again? How many times did the world end so far? Anyone has the count?
Quote from: Atheon on July 14, 2016, 10:59:22 PM
I remember a polar shift was supposed to happen on May 5, 2000. A planetary lineup was supposed to cause a sudden buildup of polar ice, which in turn was supposed to cause the earth to suddenly flip upside down. I remember it was a nice day in Kentucky Derby Week in Louisville, but I lost my bets at the Oaks races.
I remember that one! I asked help calculating the weight of the Earth and the weight of the polar ice. The result was minuscule.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on July 15, 2016, 05:51:11 AM
Again? How many times did the world end so far? Anyone has the count?
I don't think it's actually possible to count, there are so many claims. Only Camping ever had any real balls about it. Well, recently, anyway.
Quote from: stromboli on July 14, 2016, 01:42:50 PM
http://helpmebro.com/posts/sIXuYVpT3S
Because polar magnetic shift thingy. Pray hard, you immoral heathen bastards.
Are the Jehovah's Witlesses..............eeeerrrrrrrr; I mean Witnesses aware of this? They've got Jesus second coming and the onset of "The Rapture" set for an unidentified post 7/29/16 date. Won't this magnetic pole reversal thing really fuck with a divine manifestation?? Would it mean Jesus will take all the Dogless Heathens with him by mistake, and leave all the Dog Feerin' Christians behind?? I can tell you right now; if that happens that guy who wrote the Left Behind novels, and people who think they're real prophecy will be really pissed off!
Meh! Maybe they can turn the whole thing into a new Reality Show featuring those camo mongers from Duck Dynasty.......................oh yea...............and Sarah Palin.
Quote from: Atheon on July 14, 2016, 10:59:22 PM
I remember a polar shift was supposed to happen on May 5, 2000. A planetary lineup was supposed to cause a sudden buildup of polar ice, which in turn was supposed to cause the earth to suddenly flip upside down. I remember it was a nice day in Kentucky Derby Week in Louisville, but I lost my bets at the Oaks races.
The KD is about the hardest race to handicap. Unless, of course, you can get inside info...maybe use spy cams, or some such similar methods.
Damned..nothing ever happens on MY birthday...except for the Anders Behring Breivik incident in Norway, but that was too far away to be any fun.. Oh wait! In Germany it's also Rat Catchers day depending on whether you go by Robert Browning's poem or the Brothers Grimm.. in which case it's June something..That was the day the Pied Piper lead the children out of Hamilin..
Quote from: Atheon on July 14, 2016, 10:59:22 PM
I remember a polar shift was supposed to happen on May 5, 2000. A planetary lineup was supposed to cause a sudden buildup of polar ice, which in turn was supposed to cause the earth to suddenly flip upside down. I remember it was a nice day in Kentucky Derby Week in Louisville, but I lost my bets at the Oaks races.
That wouldn't have mattered because at that point the Mayan calendar still hadn't ended, so we were all doomed regardless.
(http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31000000/Come-at-me-bro-rainbow-dash-31030597-500-310.gif)
Quote from: Flanker1Six on July 15, 2016, 05:17:52 PM
Are the Jehovah's Witlesses..............eeeerrrrrrrr; I mean Witnesses aware of this? They've got Jesus second coming and the onset of "The Rapture" set for an unidentified post 7/29/16 date. Won't this magnetic pole reversal thing really fuck with a divine manifestation?? Would it mean Jesus will take all the Dogless Heathens with him by mistake, and leave all the Dog Feerin' Christians behind?? I can tell you right now; if that happens that guy who wrote the Left Behind novels, and people who think they're real prophecy will be really pissed off!
Meh! Maybe they can turn the whole thing into a new Reality Show featuring those camo mongers from Duck Dynasty.......................oh yea...............and Sarah Palin.
Can you imagine it? The second coming of Christ really WOULD lead to utopia...for us. Can you just imagine the progressive agenda which would fly through the courts and political system? We would immediately be rid of a large percentage of the bigoted assholes on the planet. Of course, he'd only take Christians and leave behind the rest of the rabble, but it's a hell of a start.
Quote from: widdershins on July 20, 2016, 12:16:41 PM
Can you imagine it? The second coming of Christ really WOULD lead to utopia...for us. Can you just imagine the progressive agenda which would fly through the courts and political system? We would immediately be rid of a large percentage of the bigoted assholes on the planet. Of course, he'd only take Christians and leave behind the rest of the rabble, but it's a hell of a start.
The only problem with that is that none of the people who claim to be Christians would be gone.
Can't help but notice that the world hasn't ended yet.
Fair and balanced (like Fox News).
Quote from: Hijiri Byakuren on August 04, 2016, 12:28:39 AM
Can't help but notice that the world hasn't ended yet.
Fair and balanced (like Fox News).
You're very observant.
But you know it's coming
It's October 31st now.
The world as we knew it is dead. Long live the old world, long live the new.
Fuck! Was that LAST Friday? :smote:
Quote from: Shiranu on August 04, 2016, 03:19:59 AM
The world as we knew it is dead. Long live the old world, long live the new.
What is dead may never die.
Of course, the hilarious thing about at least the religious predictions of doomsday is that their own holy book says "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" (Matt. 24:36, if you care) so basically, as soon as someone makes that prediction, they're definitely wrong by the words of their own book.
I guess if we can get some thumper somewhere to make a fresh prediction every day, the world will never end. ;)
Quote from: trdsf on August 04, 2016, 01:59:19 PM
Of course, the hilarious thing about at least the religious predictions of doomsday is that their own holy book says "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" (Matt. 24:36, if you care) so basically, as soon as someone makes that prediction, they're definitely wrong by the words of their own book.
I guess if we can get some thumper somewhere to make a fresh prediction every day, the world will never end. ;)
Guessing is very different from knowing. The Bible doesn't claim that no man will guess the day the world will end/ Jebus will return. So let's say Christianity is true. If the world had ended on July 29, that wouldn't mean that the person making the prediction actually had the knowledge that the world was going to end on that day. They didn't know it would end. They thought/ believed/ guessed it would end, which is not really even close to knowing. If I made the claim that I was going to win the lottery tomorrow, and it actually ends up happening, I didn't actually know that it would happen. I just made a really good guess. A very lucky guess. The Bible doesn't say no man will guess right. It says that no man knows.
Quote from: FaithIsFilth on August 04, 2016, 06:11:05 PM
Guessing is very different from knowing. The Bible doesn't claim that no man will guess the day the world will end/ Jebus will return. So let's say Christianity is true. If the world had ended on July 29, that wouldn't mean that the person making the prediction actually had the knowledge that the world was going to end on that day. They didn't know it would end. They thought/ believed/ guessed it would end, which is not really even close to knowing. If I made the claim that I was going to win the lottery tomorrow, and it actually ends up happening, I didn't actually know that it would happen. I just made a really good guess. A very lucky guess. The Bible doesn't say no man will guess right. It says that no man knows.
Man, I love these types of answers. They're all nit-picky and precise.
And yes, you are correct as the difference between "knowledge" and "belief" can be considered to be as simple as a matter of choice. A "belief" is that which you choose to believe where "knowledge" is something you have experienced or seen firsthand. It is, however, very easy for us to convince ourselves that a particular "belief" is "knowledge". In your example, after you won the lottery you would say, "I KNEW that was going to happen!" when really you just believed it and it happened to be right.
But interestingly by that definition we can also "know" something which actually is not correct. Grifters depend on this (I've been binge-watching
Leverage on Netflix. Good show). They manipulate your firsthand experience to give you actual "knowledge", even though what you "know" is wrong.
In the end knowledge and belief can easily be confused for each other and both could be right or wrong, though knowledge likely has a much higher chance of being right. That is probably why so many religious people really, REALLY want to think that their beliefs are actually their knowledge. Because knowledge just "feels" right, more valid than a belief.
Quote from: FaithIsFilth on August 04, 2016, 06:11:05 PM
Guessing is very different from knowing. The Bible doesn't claim that no man will guess the day the world will end/ Jebus will return. So let's say Christianity is true. If the world had ended on July 29, that wouldn't mean that the person making the prediction actually had the knowledge that the world was going to end on that day. They didn't know it would end. They thought/ believed/ guessed it would end, which is not really even close to knowing. If I made the claim that I was going to win the lottery tomorrow, and it actually ends up happening, I didn't actually know that it would happen. I just made a really good guess. A very lucky guess. The Bible doesn't say no man will guess right. It says that no man knows.
But that's rather the point: the people who make these predictions quite definitely claim knowledge. It's not like they say they chose the date by lottery, that they guessed.
Is that when Hillary and Trump became the party nominees? Cause that is pretty much our end
Quote from: Feral Atheist on October 24, 2016, 12:18:59 AM
Is that when Hillary and Trump became the party nominees? Cause that is pretty much our end
Our system is much more durable than that. This is a readjustment period while the GOP tries to decide if it will remain a viable entity or not.
Quote from: Feral Atheist on October 24, 2016, 12:18:59 AM
Is that when Hillary and Trump became the party nominees? Cause that is pretty much our end
Only if Trump wins.
If Hillary wins, I will be celebrating sweet victory with alcohol. If Trump wins, I will be drowning my sorrows with alcohol. Either way, alcohol will flow that day.
Well possibly, but which Eon?
31st October the next event in Armageddon News.
Disclaimer: The following video could cause severe nausea and amusement right at the same time. In any way it is a waste of 17 minutes showing a cavalry battalion led by Jesus defeating a tank battalion of sinners. It's hard to keep track, obviously I can't see the divine truth me being a heathen and all.
4:25 Note that there is only one jewish head stone and no soulds are going up to heaven from that one. :lol: Also while heaven relies on horses and swords, apparently they like ugly, dry 'modern' architecture up there. And we can het that the number 'thousands' is a vast number for people who made this video. I don't get why it is a problem to be prisoned for any being that is supposed to exist out of time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HPrfFvkEj0
They spelled "schlock" wrong.
And the "comet" ? is racing past some planet WAY too fast to turn and hit it.
Did you see the earth 'shaking'? I thought that was hillarious. I wish Einstein could have seen smt like that. :/
It's always a barrel of laughs when some one predicts the end of the world.
I wonder how many times that has been predicted. And failed?
God's ctrl+alt+del.
https://youtu.be/ijFm6DxNVyI
I have a false vacuum. The bag is probably filled.
there's a joke in the lexx community about the earth imploding because of humans trying to find the god particle. Very funny stuff none of it's serious of course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INodNZY5ytE
Quote from: drunkenshoe on October 26, 2016, 10:09:33 AM
Lol'ed.
Try hitting the del key 4 times. There's a cookie.
Quote from: Cavebear on October 26, 2016, 09:34:40 AM
I wonder how many times that has been predicted. And failed?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 26, 2016, 12:43:08 PM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events
Ah, thanks, I was wondering when the next End-Of-The-World event was going to happen.
QuoteJeane Dixon claimed that Armageddon would take place in 2020 and Jesus will return to defeat the unholy Trinity of the Antichrist, Satan and the False prophet between 2020 and 2037. She had also previously predicted the world would end on February 4, 1962.
That's just the religious predictions, IIRC. The "end of the Mayan calendar"-type predictions may or may not count in that list depending on the religious support it gets.
Yeah, actually we have little idea what happens when the magnetic poles shift; There are no extinction events associated with it. Maybe migrating geese get confused.
Or the dead arise from their graves, Bwa-Ha-Ha...
Quote from: Cavebear on October 26, 2016, 01:45:38 PM
Yeah, actually we have little idea what happens when the magnetic poles shift; There are no extinction events associated with it. Maybe migrating geese get confused.
Or the dead arise from their graves, Bwa-Ha-Ha...
Oceanography 101 at Purdue, the prof. said we wouldn't notice anything personally about the shifts, it would take instruments to detect it. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a good mine for the study of the pole shifts, the magna tends to cool with the particles aligned to the magnet pole. IIRC they found that the shifts took a good long while (on human scales) to complete. There's been not found, so far anyway, in the fossil records to show that animals were at all discomfited by the shift.
But still a change had to happen. At some point North was South. Or was North East for a while. I'll admit this is something I know too little about.
Quote from: Cavebear on October 26, 2016, 01:45:38 PM
Yeah, actually we have little idea what happens when the magnetic poles shift; There are no extinction events associated with it. Maybe migrating geese get confused.
Or the dead arise from their graves, Bwa-Ha-Ha...
Depends. If the poles reverse as part of going thru a low-field transition, then the Van Allen belts will collapse and we all get irradiated by the solar wind and hard UV rays ... if we aren't underground in the Elite bunker with Eva Braun.
Quote from: doorknob on October 26, 2016, 10:12:51 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INodNZY5ytE
Fortunately the physicists have been wrong about everything concerning the LHC ... both in terms of the Higgs and in terms of exotic events (like mini-black-holes). The only mini-black-holes I know of, are people's lower orifice. Don't worry, fusion energy and warp drives are just around the corner.
Quote from: Baruch on October 26, 2016, 07:09:19 PM
Depends. If the poles reverse as part of going thru a low-field transition, then the Van Allen belts will collapse and we all get irradiated by the solar wind and hard UV rays ... if we aren't underground in the Elite bunker with Eva Braun.
Right, now I know I've been up too long, I read that as 'in the Archie Bunker with Eva Braun.' Ow.
Quote from: trdsf on October 26, 2016, 11:22:41 PM
Right, now I know I've been up too long, I read that as 'in the Archie Bunker with Eva Braun.' Ow.
Dude, if you have some spare of whatever that was...
Yeah, I want a part of that brownie...
Quote from: Cavebear on October 29, 2016, 01:55:23 AM
Yeah, I want a part of that brownie...
"Smoking pot is bad for you!"
"Have a cookie."
Yeah, eating the cookie IS healthier than smoking it...
Quote from: Cavebear on October 29, 2016, 10:30:05 AM
Yeah, eating the cookie IS healthier than smoking it...
That's what my doctors say.
But an apple is healthier than a cookie... Depending on what is in it.
Quote from: Cavebear on October 29, 2016, 10:49:20 AM
But an apple is healthier than a cookie... Depending on what is in it.
Depending on which tree you get it from.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 29, 2016, 01:36:31 PM
Depending on which tree you get it from.
What about this tree? Is it healthy?
(http://bigblackdogs.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DSC_0035-1.jpg)
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 29, 2016, 01:36:31 PM
Depending on which tree you get it from.
Organic, definitely...
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 31, 2016, 08:48:45 AM
Orgasmic, naturally.
I have to admit that I have never met an orgasmic apple tree. But with the right drugs, it is certainly possible. Not that I do. Really, I don't.
Quote from: Cavebear on October 31, 2016, 08:56:17 AM
I have to admit that I have never met an orgasmic apple tree. But with the right drugs, it is certainly possible. Not that I do. Really, I don't.
It was cloned from a tree in "Avatar".
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 31, 2016, 11:51:39 AM
It was cloned from a tree in "Avatar".
Is that for real? I never saw the movie.
Quote from: Cavebear on October 31, 2016, 12:05:18 PM
Is that for real? I never saw the movie.
Movies aren't for real. Superman is still alive, he was just fooling Batman.
Quote from: Cavebear on October 31, 2016, 12:05:18 PM
Is that for real? I never saw the movie.
The planet was a moon of a gas giant a good ways away, so "no".
If you google "orgasmic tree", this comes up as the first pic:
(http://img.ifcdn.com/images/1a76976404efe97263b1ac446a3dacac3566dfc31877fcf68d0b769668ff98bc_1.jpg)
So, he doesn't fuck her?
I've never understood why men want stupid women. Is it to make your self feel better that or you are so ugly you have to trick the girl into having sex with you?
But that seems illogical to me because looking at it scientifically wouldn't you want any possible children to be intelligent and good looking? I don't understand why ugly and stupid people keep reproducing. In theory they should die out.
Quote from: doorknob on October 31, 2016, 05:10:28 PMI don't understand why ugly and stupid people keep reproducing. In theory they should die out.
Where do we get baby warthogs from?
At least warthogs are eatable. We can't eat the ugly and stupid (humans).
At least they didn't like it too much when Jeffery Dommer did it.
Quote from: doorknob on October 31, 2016, 05:10:28 PM
I've never understood why men want stupid women. Is it to make your self feel better that or you are so ugly you have to trick the girl into having sex with you?
But that seems illogical to me because looking at it scientifically wouldn't you want any possible children to be intelligent and good looking? I don't understand why ugly and stupid people keep reproducing. In theory they should die out.
Why do women prefer stupid men? ... those meat palaces with an inverse IQ like Arnold? If women weren't stupid, there would be no reproduction. Fortunately for their lebido, there are plenty of stupid men ... who can help perpetuate the "stupid". The Tragedy of the Commons works in genetics too. There will always be more poor people and more stupid people, who are not always the same individuals of course.
If you are so scientific ... then go to a sperm bank where Nobel Prize winners contribute ... either to donate or receive. If you want to donate, and you don't have a Nobel Prize ... then you are stupid. Or just go to a Mensa orgy and take your chances.
And you are assuming that pretty and intelligent are pro-survival ... this is wrong too ... boy birds are a distraction target to protect the girl birds and the nest. In a race with a bear, I don't have to outrun Johnny Weismuller ... I only have to outrun you ;-)
Quote from: doorknob on October 31, 2016, 05:10:28 PM
I've never understood why men want stupid women. Is it to make your self feel better that or you are so ugly you have to trick the girl into having sex with you?
You say that like you don't believe women fuck good looking but stupid men.
I know women fuck stupid men. And ugly men too. The number of good looking men is disproportionate to good look women IMO.
But yeah if you're gonna go for some one stupid then they'd at least better be good looking or rich.
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on October 31, 2016, 07:15:21 PM
You say that like you don't believe women fuck good looking but stupid men.
Yes that may be so but a lot more women will say they want an intelligent man. Primarily because the supply of good looking idiots is low.
As for myself I don't like what normal people call good looking any way. I like really pretty men, not the beef cakes. I like nerdy hot and intelligence over looks any day.
Quote from: doorknob on October 31, 2016, 05:10:28 PM
I've never understood why men want stupid women. Is it to make your self feel better that or you are so ugly you have to trick the girl into having sex with you?
But that seems illogical to me because looking at it scientifically wouldn't you want any possible children to be intelligent and good looking? I don't understand why ugly and stupid people keep reproducing. In theory they should die out.
Who wants stupid women? They're no good for conversation.
Quote from: Blackleaf on November 01, 2016, 12:01:01 AM
Who wants stupid women? They're no good for conversation.
Why would I want to converse with her? I can meet the guys at the bar after work and do that. (this was satire, don't hit me)
My wife was very intelligent, and we didn't converse either. We had better things to do ;-)
To a woman, all men are stupid ... so being a woman seeking intelligent men, must be meta meta contradictory.
Quote from: doorknob on October 31, 2016, 10:07:03 PM
I know women fuck stupid men. And ugly men too. The number of good looking men is disproportionate to good look women IMO.
But yeah if you're gonna go for some one stupid then they'd at least better be good looking or rich.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs ... rich men first, handsome men second, smart men third (they are working up the pyramid, so don't get offended, smart guys).
Quote from: Baruch on November 01, 2016, 07:31:17 AM
Why would I want to converse with her? I can meet the guys at the bar after work and do that. (this was satire, don't hit me)
My wife was very intelligent, and we didn't converse either. We had better things to do ;-)
To a woman, all men are stupid ... so being a woman seeking intelligent men, must be meta meta contradictory.
Now, now being a woman I can honestly say I don't think of men as stupid. They are just simple creatures, which is good because if we were both complex we might kill each other.
I think the top two things men require to be happy are food and sex. F maslow.
Women have greater complexity, but also more frequent breakdowns ;-(
I can agree with that.
I know I do any way.
Quote from: Baruch on November 01, 2016, 07:51:44 PM
Women have greater complexity, but also more frequent breakdowns ;-(
The more intricate the software, the more likely it is to crash. lol
Quote from: Blackleaf on November 02, 2016, 12:19:41 AM
The more intricate the software, the more likely it is to crash. lol
I should know. My ex is Italian-American. Spaghetti code ;-)
Quote from: doorknob on October 31, 2016, 05:10:28 PM
I've never understood why men want stupid women. Is it to make your self feel better that or you are so ugly you have to trick the girl into having sex with you?
But that seems illogical to me because looking at it scientifically wouldn't you want any possible children to be intelligent and good looking? I don't understand why ugly and stupid people keep reproducing. In theory they should die out.
I'm reasonably smart, kind, thoughtful, a decent cook, and helpful. Handy with house maintenance. But 20 minutes of sex once a week isn't worth sufferring another person in my life who argues about what to watch on TV, what to eat for dinner, sharing the bathroom, vacuuming the house every other day and replacing all the perfectly good furniture every couple years just isn't worth it. And I don't give a damn about my genes traveling into the future. 6 Billion of us are more than enough for human diversity.
The stupid keep reproducing cause they cant get a job and are stuck at home with nothing better to do.
The real date to watch is Sept 23, 2017. That is the day when the astrology charts match up with revelation. A woman clothed with the sun and the moon at her feet. A crown of 10 stars on her head.... It has to happen cause I saw it on youtube and they are never wrong on youtube. The bummer is that the guy didn't say anything bad was gonna happen. He's just an astrologer making an observation.
Here's part of the problem..Very few people will ever admit to being stupid even though everything they do points out that they are in fact stupid. Even the stupidest people want to believe they're smarter than everyone else. Ask yourself when was the last time the stupidest person you know came right out and admitted to being dumb as a brick?
Intelligence is not what we think it is. Sure, perhaps you have the ability to hack into the most sophisticated computer systems on the planet and spill all the government secrets to the public and kick off WWIII and kill us all. Sure, ok. You're a genius able to do something few others will ever be able to do, but you've just ended life on our planet forever. Congratulations on being smart, but now undo all of it and put the power in the hands of people who will only do good things for the rest of humanity..
It just doesn't work the way we think it works.
I'm smart enough to build a nice baby cradle out of a pile of 2x4s..but that and $2.75 might get me a cup of shitty coffee at Dennys.. It's all relative. Smart only counts when it matters. A lot of smart people got Donald Trump elected.. That's worked out wonderfully..
sure let's have another conversation about Trump in about 50 years from now;after the damages have been totaled. be nice if he realizes he can't handle the job and resigns early in the game, but I think he's gonna bungle his way to the end.
Quote from: fencerider on December 11, 2016, 04:25:25 PM
sure let's have another conversation about Trump in about 50 years from now;after the damages have been totaled. be nice if he realizes he can't handle the job and resigns early in the game, but I think he's gonna bungle his way to the end.
Honestly, Trump's VP may be more dangerous than Trump himself. Best case scenario, we kick both of them out in four years.
Quote from: fencerider on December 11, 2016, 04:25:25 PM
sure let's have another conversation about Trump in about 50 years from now;after the damages have been totaled. be nice if he realizes he can't handle the job and resigns early in the game, but I think he's gonna bungle his way to the end.
Too bad Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Barak Obama all three, didn't quit after one term. It is clear that none of them could handle it.
Quote from: Blackleaf on December 11, 2016, 05:45:39 PM
Honestly, Trump's VP may be more dangerous than Trump himself. Best case scenario, we kick both of them out in four years.
I hate to think what might be the worst case scenario, but Chumps intentions can be much more easily seen by his actions than by whatever crap he spouted during the campaign: a fox for every henhouse.
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I don't think we'll be able to kick them out in four years - I think they're here to stay. America is the victim of a bloodless coup, and the stupid voters don't even know it.
R.I.P., America...
I think that in 50 years or so the stars and bars will be as hated a symbol as the swastika now is.
Trump sneaks into another thread I see.
Quote from: PorkPie on December 15, 2016, 09:38:55 AM
Trump sneaks into another thread I see.
Yes, in the religion section. For some people Trump is a god, for others Hillary is a goddess. This is ironic among atheists ;-)
Well, I guess the religion section should be a Chump-free zone, considering how few evangelical Christians supported the guy...
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White evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump, exit polls show (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/09/exit-polls-show-white-evangelicals-voted-overwhelmingly-for-donald-trump/?utm_term=.3109a3ab10e4)
Quote from: doorknob on October 31, 2016, 05:10:28 PM
I've never understood why men want stupid women. Is it to make your self feel better that or you are so ugly you have to trick the girl into having sex with you?
But that seems illogical to me because looking at it scientifically wouldn't you want any possible children to be intelligent and good looking? I don't understand why ugly and stupid people keep reproducing. In theory they should die out.
Somewhat off the subject but I think your avatar is the most interesting of all, it's absolutely the most beautiful. :yourock:
Quote from: Blackleaf on December 11, 2016, 05:45:39 PM
Honestly, Trump's VP may be more dangerous than Trump himself. Best case scenario, we kick both of them out in four years.
Actually, best case scenario is taking the House and Senate away from the GOP in 2018 to put the brakes on the clown car of Asshole and the Bigot. Although I wouldn't be too surprised if Asshole resigns before then, not because he was forced out but because it wasn't as much fun as he thought it was going to be.
I will never understand why his candidacy wasn't over the day he mocked a disabled reporter. Any other candidate -- even another Republican -- would have been hounded out of the race within two days.
Quote from: trdsf on January 04, 2017, 09:54:13 PM
I will never understand why his candidacy wasn't over the day he mocked a disabled reporter. Any other candidate -- even another Republican -- would have been hounded out of the race within two days.
The Right had been programmed to believe anything was better than Clinton.
Yep, Clinton was a victim of the right-wing hate machine - for 30 years! No wonder people hate her.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on January 05, 2017, 07:02:26 AM
The Right had been programmed to believe anything was better than Clinton.
And tautologically, in English, they are right ;-)
Quote from: Baruch on January 05, 2017, 06:50:38 PM
And tautologically, in English, they are right ;-)
And they've been told they are right so often that they no longer even try to consider if that's true.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on January 05, 2017, 07:26:52 PM
And they've been told they are right so often that they no longer even try to consider if that's true.
Repetition is habit forming, so the Catholic nuns tell me ;-)
Quote from: Baruch on January 05, 2017, 07:51:03 PM
Repetition is habit forming, so the Catholic nuns tell me ;-)
What do nuns form their habits from? Phlogiston?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on January 06, 2017, 06:18:29 AM
What do nuns form their habits from? Phlogiston?
Being serious ... The Liturgy of Hours. That is why we have clocks, so that the monks and nuns can pray at the same time.
Quote from: Baruch on January 06, 2017, 06:41:13 AM
Being serious ... The Liturgy of Hours. That is why we have clocks, so that the monks and nuns can pray at the same time.
So the Egyptians who built clocks were just undercover Catholics?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on January 06, 2017, 06:51:57 AM
So the Egyptians who built clocks were just undercover Catholics?
The clepsydra was Greek, so was Alexandria. The first modern clock, that only showed hours, was built in Europe in the Middle Ages. Before that, nobody needed to know what time it was other than sunrise and sunset.
http://www.newyorkcarver.com/inventions4.htm
Pope Sylvester II was the only Pope to be a scientist ... educated at a Muslim university in Morocco, rumored to worship the Devil!
On apocalypse ... people love their doom porn ;-( Particularly when Sylvester II was Pope (in year 2000).
They lived in Egypt. I didn't lift any skirts to find out who they really were.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on January 05, 2017, 07:02:26 AM
The Right had been programmed to believe anything was better than Clinton.
Well, they had what, fourteen other choices? And they still went with the one that makes Sarah Palin look comparatively coherent. I mean, I'm no fan of my governor (Kasich), but I wouldn't have the feeling of existential dread were it he being inaugurated in two weeks. My attitude would be more along the lines of, "Well, the next four years are gonna suck" rather than "Are we even going to make it through the next four
months?"
I'm convinced the reason Asshole got a pass from day one is because the media needs him. Not for any political or policy reasons, but because they know he's going to be a 24x7 freak show. They need him for the advertising money they can charge for the news programs that cover the Embarrassment-In-Chief. And they don't give a sideways lubeless fuck with a brick over the damage he's going to cause, so long as it's a circus and puts butts in seats watching the unfolding disaster.
Wasn't it Stephen Colbert who challenged him to run?
Quote from: doorknob on October 31, 2016, 10:13:56 PM
As for myself ......I like really pretty men,
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Quote from: aitm on January 08, 2017, 09:56:00 AM
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Why does it have to be competitive? Just leave it out and see who's looking.
It was 85 yesterday and 48 now so.....you know....shrinkage and all. Thanks goodness I am not in Cleveland.
it must have been a very small brick, if they are going to be sitting down after all that.
I have to agree does Donald really need until july 29 to destroy the world?
Up clinton creek without a paddle cause she sold it or up donald creek without a paddle because the dumbbunny dropped it in the water.
Its like trying to teach a wild teenager how to drive. We're all sittin in the passenger seat crossin our fingers hoping he doesnt crash, but knowing the whole 4 years he could crash at anytime cause he aint got his act together
I think it may come sooner for you guys than you might think!
Remember: The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
This forum will basicly be ground zero.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/01/28/the-doomsday-clock-is-the-closest-to-midnight-since-1953/
2 1/2 minutes 'til midnight. By the time the present regime is finished, it'll be 12:01.
Quote from: OldFaithful on January 28, 2017, 05:35:02 PM
I think it may come sooner for you guys than you might think!
Remember: The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
This forum will basicly be ground zero.
First Century Christians believed that Jesus would come back within their lifetimes. Hell, it was even promised that some of the people in his audience would still be alive when he returned (Matthew 16:28). When they all died, the next generations believed Jesus would return in their life times. And the next believed the same about their life times. And the next, and the next, until present day, when gullible people continue to believe that Jesus is coming back any minute now. You will be long dead, and another generation will believe the same. How long can this go on until you people realize he's not coming back?
Quote from: OldFaithful on January 28, 2017, 05:35:02 PM
I think it may come sooner for you guys than you might think!
Remember: The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
This forum will basicly be ground zero.
I don't want to have to pay the funeral home for my cremation anyway ;-)
Blackleaf ... Jesus (or a standin) arrives just before the end of the universe, at the Restaurant At The End Of The Universe ... in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EDHV_4Hnnw
Quote from: OldFaithful on January 28, 2017, 05:35:02 PM
I think it may come sooner for you guys than you might think!
Remember: The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.
This forum will basicly be ground zero.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Are we supposed to be scared now???????????????
Quote from: Baruch on January 28, 2017, 07:09:14 PM
I don't want to have to pay the funeral home for my cremation anyway ;-)
Blackleaf ... Jesus (or a standin) arrives just before the end of the universe, at the Restaurant At The End Of The Universe ... in Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EDHV_4Hnnw
Time stamp?
There is a lot of profundity that went into the writing of Douglas Adams material.
Quote from: Baruch on January 28, 2017, 08:04:54 PM
There is a lot of profundity that went into the writing of Douglas Adams material.
First time I read HHGttG I didn't know it was supposed to be funny.
Laugh it up! While you still can...
Quote from: OldFaithful on January 29, 2017, 04:55:12 PM
Laugh it up! While you still can...
And you keep waiting on your "god of love" to light the world on fire and throw the majority of people in Hell to suffer eternal torment. As for me, I'm not wasting my life waiting for something that will never happen.
Quote from: Blackleaf on January 29, 2017, 05:24:29 PM
And you keep waiting on your "god of love" to light the world on fire and throw the majority of people in Hell to suffer eternal torment. As for me, I'm not wasting my life waiting for something that will never happen.
I'm not waiting for it. If you really believe it will happen, you do not need to wait, my child.
Quote from: Mike Cl on January 28, 2017, 07:35:30 PM
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! Are we supposed to be scared now???????????????
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Quote from: OldFaithful on January 29, 2017, 04:55:12 PM
Laugh it up! While you still can...
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Is this the meme thread or real discussion can be had?
Quote from: Blackleaf on January 29, 2017, 05:24:29 PM
And you keep waiting on your "god of love" to light the world on fire and throw the majority of people in Hell to suffer eternal torment. As for me, I'm not wasting my life waiting for something that will never happen.
Jeremiah 25:33
QuoteAnd the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
Yeah, sure...God is love...
who cares?
Quote from: Unbeliever on January 29, 2017, 05:34:03 PM
who cares?
I care very much sire!
I have little education where I am from. Only formality of English in classes.
I hear from all around me to talk to atheist and scientist to get the true facts from some things.
I type in google to take me to atheist boards.
I come here and everywhere memes and only a few minutes ago some guy calls me dumb and different other things which I shall not repeat in good will!
So no more abuse please and accept my honesty as I will yours.
Quote from: OldFaithful on January 29, 2017, 05:32:53 PM
Is this the meme thread or real discussion can be had?
Well, you're here and the center of attention now, so I can't imagine much intelligent discussion going on here.
Quote from: Blackleaf on January 29, 2017, 05:37:22 PM
Well, you're here and the center of attention now, so I can't imagine much intelligent discussion going on here.
You did not read the other parts of my post, sire!
I wish for a genuine discussion. Not namecalling and pseudo clever reply.
Quote from: OldFaithful on January 29, 2017, 05:37:13 PM
I care very much sire!
I have little education where I am from. Only formality of English in classes.
I hear from all around me to talk to atheist and scientist to get the true facts from some things.
I type in google to take me to atheist boards.
I come here and everywhere memes and only a few minutes ago some guy calls me dumb and different other things which I shall not repeat in good will!
So no more abuse please and accept my honesty as I will yours.
Well, sir, you came to us - we didn't come to you.
Quote from: OldFaithful on January 29, 2017, 05:37:13 PM
I care very much sire!
I have little education where I am from. Only formality of English in classes.
I hear from all around me to talk to atheist and scientist to get the true facts from some things.
I type in google to take me to atheist boards.
I come here and everywhere memes and only a few minutes ago some guy calls me dumb and different other things which I shall not repeat in good will!
So no more abuse please and accept my honesty as I will yours.
Fine then. If you want to learn something, then name your topic. But the way you chose to introduce yourself here left the impression that you were here to try to teach us, not the other way around.
Quote from: Unbeliever on January 29, 2017, 05:40:05 PM
Well, sir, you came to us - we didn't come to you.
I did.
I had certain expectation that I have outlined in previous post.. Not at right siteadress for it here?
Quote from: Blackleaf on January 29, 2017, 05:41:05 PM
Fine then. If you want to learn something, then name your topic. But the way you chose to introduce yourself here left the impression that you were here to try to teach us, not the other way around.
What I said to make impression like this at you?
Quote from: OldFaithful on January 29, 2017, 05:32:53 PM
Is this the meme thread or real discussion can be had?
Ten years ago this would have been an interesting thread. Now it's just SSDD.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on January 29, 2017, 06:17:32 PM
Ten years ago this would have been an interesting thread. Now it's just SSDD.
Ah, but I had a real conversation with a real person, in the shout box ... and turns out that English isn't his first language, and that media was much more conducive to conversation. I now know him ... much better than I would in this string ... and he knows me much better. So we have a means of relating ... because we got down to brass tacks ... human problems with other humans ... not theology.
Quote from: OldFaithful on January 29, 2017, 04:55:12 PM
Laugh it up! While you still can...
Paul thought the world was about to end. And many, many theists believe it as well. Delusional is the best I can say.
Is there a year specified? Just asking because I want to settle my massive stock accounts...
Quote from: Cavebear on January 31, 2017, 09:13:18 AM
Is there a year specified? Just asking because I want to settle my massive stock accounts...
Next year.
The end of the world, is the end of any human being ... a human being is a world. The end of the world, the end of a human being, occurs multiple times every day. What makes that the Last Judgement, isn't an episode of Judge Judy. It is the idea that while alive, we can do thing, even repent or repay. But once dead, our intentions are dead with us.
Quote from: Baruch on January 31, 2017, 07:06:32 PM
The end of the world, is the end of any human being ... a human being is a world. The end of the world, the end of a human being, occurs multiple times every day. What makes that the Last Judgement, isn't an episode of Judge Judy. It is the idea that while alive, we can do thing, even repent or repay. But once dead, our intentions are dead with us.
Your third clause is faulty (
a human being is a world). Therefore, the whole fails.
Quote from: Cavebear on February 05, 2017, 02:06:03 PM
Your third clause is faulty (a human being is a world). Therefore, the whole fails.
Fortunately those who are ignorant of metaphysics are only meta-wrong ;-) In theoretical physics, Wolfgang Pauli called one paper "not even wrong".
Quote from: Baruch on February 05, 2017, 02:26:02 PM
Fortunately those who are ignorant of metaphysics are only meta-wrong ;-) In theoretical physics, Wolfgang Pauli caused one paper "not even wrong".
That sounds like the anecdotal Philosophy essay "Why" and the answer "Because".
Quote from: Cavebear on February 11, 2017, 07:01:39 AM
That sounds like the anecdotal Philosophy essay "Why" and the answer "Because".
My last sentence "wasn't even wrong" and you didn't call me on it. There is a blog, by a mathematician, who correctly criticizes the physicists .. named "Not Even Wrong". He wrote a good book too, really headache inducing. So not anecdotal ... he knows enough math to know when the physicists are pulling Higgs bosons out of the asses.
Quote from: Baruch on January 29, 2017, 06:31:25 PM
Ah, but I had a real conversation with a real person, in the shout box ... and turns out that English isn't his first language, and that media was much more conducive to conversation. I now know him ... much better than I would in this string ... and he knows me much better. So we have a means of relating ... because we got down to brass tacks ... human problems with other humans ... not theology.
More irrelevancies. C'est la vie.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on February 11, 2017, 02:07:36 PM
More irrelevancies. C'est la vie.
If you aren't human, maybe you are a chat bot? Humanity is the only relevancy.
Quote from: Baruch on February 05, 2017, 02:26:02 PM
Fortunately those who are ignorant of metaphysics are only meta-wrong ;-) In theoretical physics, Wolfgang Pauli called one paper "not even wrong".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong
QuoteHe also quotes another example when Pauli replied to Lev Landau, "What you said was so confused that one could not tell whether it was nonsense or not."
He might as well have been talking about you here, Baruch, since this is often the kind of feeling your posts generate. Are you Lev Landau?
Quote from: Baruch on February 11, 2017, 02:33:37 PM
If you aren't human, maybe you are a chat bot? Humanity is the only relevancy.
Bald assertions don't need Brylcreem.
A little dab'll do ya!
Quote from: Unbeliever on February 11, 2017, 04:24:32 PM
A little dab'll do ya!
That is what she told her girlfriends, after she got preggers.
Quote from: Baruch on February 11, 2017, 08:44:17 AM
My last sentence "wasn't even wrong" and you didn't call me on it. There is a blog, by a mathematician, who correctly criticizes the physicists .. named "Not Even Wrong". He wrote a good book too, really headache inducing. So not anecdotal ... he knows enough math to know when the physicists are pulling Higgs bosons out of the asses.
Since the Higgs Boson has finally been detected, who is pulling what out of where? Science marches on.
Quote from: Cavebear on February 15, 2017, 03:05:33 AM
Since the Higgs Boson has finally been detected, who is pulling what out of where? Science marches on.
They didn't find the Higgs ... yet. There may be more than one, because there isn't just one theory. Supersymmetry wasn't confirmed, and that is in the same domain of discussion as the Higgs. Confirmation will take years. They had to name, the puny resonance that they detected, as a Higgs, to please the European tax payers. If you want to know more, I can help in the Physics section. Yes, we will have warp drive, just as soon as people un-warp their pop-physics.
Quote from: Cavebear on February 11, 2017, 07:01:39 AM
That sounds like the anecdotal Philosophy essay "Why" and the answer "Because".
'Because' is a theologian's answer. The proper philosopher's answer is 'Why not?'
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on July 14, 2016, 04:02:33 PM
They always happen on July 32nd..
Good, I won't have to be another year old then. I don't really need an 84th year. (https://i1.wp.com/i.imgur.com/fmUxoSe.gif?zoom=2) I've seen too many of them already.
Quote from: trdsf on February 15, 2017, 01:26:25 PM
'Because' is a theologian's answer. The proper philosopher's answer is 'Why not?'
That is still a lazy thinker's answer.
Quote from: Cavebear on February 17, 2017, 02:26:18 AM
That is still a lazy thinker's answer.
There's a reason I consider philosophy to be only marginally less pointless than theology. :)
Quote from: trdsf on February 17, 2017, 11:29:18 AM
There's a reason I consider philosophy to be only marginally less pointless than theology. :)
Contemplating your navel is useful, if you need to clean the lint out ;-)
Quote from: Cavebear on February 17, 2017, 02:26:18 AM
That is still a lazy thinker's answer.
Philosophy is weight-lifting with helium balloons anyway.
Philosophy is OK when it comes to morality or ethics, but when it comes to physical reality no philosopher has ever known enough to know what they were talking about, and so should steer clear of it. Unfortunately, they haven't.
Quote from: Unbeliever on February 17, 2017, 03:48:25 PM
Philosophy is OK when it comes to morality or ethics, but when it comes to physical reality no philosopher has ever known enough to know what they were talking about, and so should steer clear of it. Unfortunately, they haven't.
Natural philosophy = modern science. The scientists just don't want to be as kooky as Newton anymore.
Quote from: Baruch on February 17, 2017, 06:40:40 PM
Natural philosophy = modern science. The scientists just don't want to be as kooky as Newton anymore.
Natural philosophy is the pre-scientific attempt to combine nature and spirit. It does not equate to modern science.
Quote from: Cavebear on February 19, 2017, 02:38:13 AM
Natural philosophy is the pre-scientific attempt to combine nature and spirit. It does not equate to modern science.
So you invented the reflecting telescope, analyzed light into the rainbow, invented calculus before Leibniz, developed celestial mechanics into a true science, discovered the universal law of gravitation, and were master of the mint? But Newton was also an alchemist and a Revelations interpreter. So for you only a pure atheist like Feynman is a real scientist?
Quote from: Baruch on February 19, 2017, 08:56:35 AM
So you invented the reflecting telescope, analyzed light into the rainbow, invented calculus before Leibniz, developed celestial mechanics into a true science, discovered the universal law of gravitation, and were master of the mint? But Newton was also an alchemist and a Revelations interpreter. So for you only a pure atheist like Feynman is a real scientist?
Newton was one of the transitioners of natural science to modern science. He made great strides, but also had pre-scientific ideas.
Quote from: Cavebear on February 23, 2017, 04:00:38 AM
Newton was one of the transitioners of natural science to modern science. He made great strides, but also had pre-scientific ideas.
We are 1000 years in the past (of 1000 years from now) ... we are hopelessly primitive to. With Progress (tm) we will have even smarter phones in the future.
Quote from: Baruch on February 23, 2017, 05:55:21 AM
We are 1000 years in the past (of 1000 years from now) ... we are hopelessly primitive to. With Progress (tm) we will have even smarter phones in the future.
Your statement means "today". Feel free to engage in primitive beliefs. I do not.
Quote from: Cavebear on February 23, 2017, 11:07:37 AM
Your statement means "today". Feel free to engage in primitive beliefs. I do not.
So get the bone out of your own nose, before you get it out of mine (Jesus).
Quote from: Baruch on February 23, 2017, 12:22:32 PM
So get the bone out of your own nose, before you get it out of mine (Jesus).
You need to identify the bone. Only then can we discuss it. And I'll bet the only response you can manage is a non-sequitor.
Quote from: Unbeliever on February 17, 2017, 03:48:25 PM
Philosophy is OK when it comes to morality or ethics, but when it comes to physical reality no philosopher has ever known enough to know what they were talking about, and so should steer clear of it. Unfortunately, they haven't.
"No philosopher came out of a debate with more than he went in with." Jubal Harshaw.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on February 26, 2017, 10:22:47 AM
"No philosopher came out of a debate with more than he went in with." Jubal Harshaw.
Far from me to argue with Jubal. But I will if I get a chance. He would appreciate that.
Quote from: Cavebear on February 26, 2017, 10:15:08 AM
You need to identify the bone. Only then can we discuss it. And I'll bet the only response you can manage is a non-sequitor.
New Guinea men use a boar's tusk thru the septum ... ouch! Not my fault that you don't know head hunter culture. This is why I always stayed away from them, when they called me at work, offering me a new job ;-))
Quote from: Baruch on February 26, 2017, 12:22:34 PM
New Guinea men use a boar's tusk thru the septum ... ouch! Not my fault that you don't know head hunter culture. This is why I always stayed away from them, when they called me at work, offering me a new job ;-))
You underestimate me. 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' is only where I started.
Quote from: Cavebear on February 26, 2017, 12:51:39 PM
You underestimate me. 'Guns, Germs, and Steel' is only where I started.
So if you read "Collapse" you know that Western Civ is toast.
Quote from: Cavebear on February 26, 2017, 10:32:18 AM
Far from me to argue with Jubal. But I will if I get a chance. He would appreciate that.
First you have to determine what's 90 degrees from everything.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on March 01, 2017, 07:07:32 AM
First you have to determine what's 90 degrees from everything.
Orthogonality is more general than just 3d geometry. There are even mathematical objects that are self-orthogonal.
This just in guys! The world is ending tomorrow!
Quote from: Baruch on March 01, 2017, 01:05:18 PM
Orthogonality is more general than just 3d geometry. There are even mathematical objects that are self-orthogonal.
Irrelevant in context.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on March 01, 2017, 01:44:14 PM
Irrelevant in context.
Not if you are an ahistorical historian ... Paradox R Us.
Quote from: Baruch on March 01, 2017, 06:05:38 PM
Not if you are an ahistorical historian ... Paradox R Us.
You mean "Not if you are a nonsensical babbler." You own it.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on March 01, 2017, 08:12:47 PM
You mean "Not if you are a nonsensical babbler." You own it.
The new guy, is another "me" from a different corner of the multiverse. I am now scanning as Stephen King, but he is scanning as H P Lovecraft, the inspiration for Stephen King. We will crush you all between our gothic thighs ... chicken thighs that is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9KlMWzKj4s
I just have to wonder, what is the motivation behind believing in this? I can understand the motivation behind making claim to this happening, but I reckon on most who push this same repeated narrative being those in it for profit or manipulation of the masses. But those who actually believe this, 1: why do they want to believe this, and 2: Why do they ignore the fact the same end of the world scenario and time stamp has been repeated time and again, why hasn't something triggered in their brain that maybe, this is a lie made up by ministers or preachers.
That said, if someone were following what preachers and ministers and imams say, believing it all to be true, it is no small wonder why they would, and why they just as much believe them when they claim after the rapture doesn't happen "Well god/allah spared us this time"
Quote from: Munch on May 11, 2017, 07:26:25 PMI just have to wonder, what is the motivation behind believing in this? I can understand the motivation behind making claim to this happening, but I reckon on most who push this same repeated narrative being those in it for profit or manipulation of the masses. But those who actually believe this, 1: why do they want to believe this
For those in a cult/religion big on some sort of divine cataclysm, it's extremely tempting to dabble in end of the world predictions. For starters, it imparts a sense of specialness. The entire course of human history is leading up to this moment - you, one of the chosen few, at the end. The grain amongst a sea of chaff. How idiotic and wicked they are. How much wiser and holier and better than them you are!
Secondly, it imparts a sense of urgency - the apocalypse is nigh, forget petty world affairs and fervently embrace salvation. Religion alone is important.
Third, you get to mimic the doomsaying prophets of old - the holy and revered. Their story leads directly to yours, and it's the greatest story ever told. You get to preach to the heathens and seem like a wise, compassionate person in demanding they adopt your religious beliefs rather than an annoying solicitor.
Quoteand 2: Why do they ignore the fact the same end of the world scenario and time stamp has been repeated time and again, why hasn't something triggered in their brain that maybe, this is a lie made up by ministers or preachers.
It's a test of your faith. The religion is true. The holy text is true. All the signs were right. Therefore, it is figuratively true. Or god gave us a reprieve. Or a thousand other excuses.
Quote from: Munch on May 11, 2017, 07:26:25 PM
I just have to wonder, what is the motivation behind believing in this
There are a lot of people in Mericka that are addicted to the feeling if fear. One of the most popular national radio programs is Coast to Coast (show is so popular that every commercial break is at least 10 minutes long). alway talkin about ghosts, monsters, ufos, government coverups . There is a simular show by Portland OR run by Clyde Lewis.
Quote from: fencerider on May 12, 2017, 08:10:52 PM
There are a lot of people in Mericka that are addicted to the feeling if fear. One of the most popular national radio programs is Coast to Coast (show is so popular that every commercial break is at least 10 minutes long). alway talkin about ghosts, monsters, ufos, government coverups . There is a simular show by Portland OR run by Clyde Lewis.
"AM COAST-TO-COAST"
Quote from: fencerider on May 12, 2017, 08:10:52 PM
There are a lot of people in Mericka that are addicted to the feeling if fear. One of the most popular national radio programs is Coast to Coast (show is so popular that every commercial break is at least 10 minutes long). alway talkin about ghosts, monsters, ufos, government coverups . There is a simular show by Portland OR run by Clyde Lewis.
True I love a thrill tho i'm really squeamish when it happens.
Quote from: fencerider on May 12, 2017, 08:10:52 PM
There are a lot of people in Mericka that are addicted to the feeling if fear.
Seems to be the case. Repubs have learned how to use fear to manipulate them. I am very ashamed of the fear shown by the average American after the 911 attacks. I became very weary having people asking me if I was afraid.
Quote from: Mike Cl on May 12, 2017, 09:43:11 PM
Seems to be the case. Repubs have learned how to use fear to manipulate them. I am very ashamed of the fear shown by the average American after the 911 attacks. I became very weary having people asking me if I was afraid.
I was watching events at a university office. When the second plane hit I turned around and said, "Where were you the day the war started?"
coasttocoastam.com
I recall a guy on C to C once talking about having worked at Area 51, he went on for a long time before it was revealed that it was all from a dread he'd had, and the host just kept right on like it was the word of God, or some shit! I've never listened to it since.
Quote from: Unbeliever on May 15, 2017, 07:27:18 PM
I recall a guy on C to C once talking about having worked at Area 51, he went on for a long time before it was revealed that it was all from a dread he'd had, and the host just kept right on like it was the word of God, or some shit! I've never listened to it since.
Don't you believe in dreams? I studied French once, so I could have a longer casual conversation with Napoleon Bonaparte (who I met in a dream).
Quote from: Unbeliever on May 15, 2017, 07:27:18 PM
I recall a guy on C to C once talking about having worked at Area 51, he went on for a long time before it was revealed that it was all from a dread he'd had, and the host just kept right on like it was the word of God, or some shit! I've never listened to it since.
"dream"
Yeah, it's not the intent of that show to debunk anything or educate anyone, it's to sell soap and condoms. If it keeps the show moving it plays.
If you've seen the mini series "Taken", about generations of people taken by the aliens (who pretty much seem utterly incompetent to me) you might note that the radio guy in the camper is based on Art Bell, the original mouthpiece for the show.
Quote from: Baruch on May 15, 2017, 10:28:09 PM
Don't you believe in dreams? I studied French once, so I could have a longer casual conversation with Napoleon Bonaparte (who I met in a dream).
I dream of Jeannie with the light brown tennis shoes, but she'll never show up at my dinner table...
Quote from: Unbeliever on May 16, 2017, 06:14:26 PM
I dream of Jeannie with the light brown tennis shoes, but she'll never show up at my dinner table...
You may dream of Jeannie--I dream of Barbara Eden.
Yeah, who (of a certain age) doesn't?
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Why could we never see her belly-button?
Quote from: Unbeliever on May 16, 2017, 06:24:58 PM
Yeah, who (of a certain age) doesn't?
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Why could we never see her belly-button?
Or other parts??
Quote from: Unbeliever on May 16, 2017, 06:24:58 PM
Yeah, who (of a certain age) doesn't?
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Why could we never see her belly-button?
Prudes. I.e. women who would never look good in that outfit and men who knew they'd never see it on the bedroom floor.
Quote from: Mike Cl on May 16, 2017, 06:39:41 PM
Or other parts??
When I lived in Miami one of my neighbors was a female impersonator who did "Jeanie" quite convincingly. Never wanted to see his parts.
Quote from: Unbeliever on May 16, 2017, 06:14:26 PM
I dream of Jeannie with the light brown tennis shoes, but she'll never show up at my dinner table...
Don't blame us for being ugly, blame your parents ;-)
I would if I could but I can't so I won't.
Quote from: Unbeliever on May 16, 2017, 07:30:23 PM
I would if I could but I can't so I won't.
Blame them also for apparently sending you to "unintelligible gibberish" summer camp.
I've been learning from our illustrious fearless leader how to be gibberishly unintelligible.
Quote from: Unbeliever on May 16, 2017, 07:34:21 PM
I've been learning from our illustrious fearless leader how to be gibberishly unintelligible.
Sorry, I didn't say "green light" yet, so it wasn't your turn ;-) Using just a red and a green light, I can use that to do binary reprogramming of other posters. My cats call it ... hairball hacking.
I expect to be here July 30th. With nothing much changed...
Quote from: Cavebear on May 18, 2017, 02:05:16 AM
I expect to be here July 30th. With nothing much changed...
A reasonable expectation ... and I hope you are too.