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Arts & Entertainment / Gamers?

« on: July 06, 2007, 11:56:32 AM »

Hello FE people,

I wanted to see if anyone else was waiting with bated breath for Warhammer or Age of Conan to come out and if there were any FE guilds getting started for these games.

Also gonna be at Blizzcon this year to bask in the WoWness of days gone by.

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / God Construct

« on: July 10, 2006, 05:08:13 AM »

In this one, I will fall back to the ancient and in my opinion true statement.

God in his creation of us and everything else, obviously had great wisdom and power.  What makes you (or anyone for that matter) worthy of judging God's motives and plans.

That is what I used to believe when I had my faith

Because what makes God a God in my opinion is his ability to create life from nothin.

When we attain this level of technology I see no reason why we should not be God in the eyes of our "children".

Such is the logic behind my first post.

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / God Construct

« on: July 07, 2006, 01:58:57 PM »

The arguments of the two posters above appear just as valid as mine honestly.

1. And why shouldn't we be able to infer what some intentions are if the being under question has been documented in a book that lists nothing but his intentions for us.

2. Ehh whether the words "we were created in the image of god" are meant to be taken literally as "we look like god" or non-literally as "we think like god" are not that different of distinctions.

3. And humans having free will would go along with the notion of us eventually evolving and surpassing the being that created us. Cause without free will we could never make the choices that would bring us further along than God. We would be forever hampered by God's will and whatever limitations he has. (and he obviously has some though that's a whoel different debate)

1. how can you be sure the bible had divine influence?  it could be entirely manmade and mistaken
2. they're quite different.  if the biblical god had a body, he wouldn't really be the christian god now would he?
3. if he has limitations, he's not the christian god.  if we can surpass him, he's not the christian god.  but at the same time you're using the christian religion to analyze this god?  it doesnt make sense

The only limitation of God is God....the only limitation of Man is Man.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Ice wall questions

« on: July 07, 2006, 12:05:54 PM »

Plus what happens when Global Warming melt all the ice? Or heck it could just melt a crevasse in it and the seas would still drain.

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / On God

« on: July 07, 2006, 10:55:07 AM »

sounds kinda like my thread lol

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3155&sid=ea03daa7dafa726699da44990fa8a651

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / God Construct

« on: July 07, 2006, 05:17:30 AM »

The arguments of the two posters above appear just as valid as mine honestly.

1. And why shouldn't we be able to infer what some intentions are if the being under question has been documented in a book that lists nothing but his intentions for us.

2. Ehh whether the words "we were created in the image of god" are meant to be taken literally as "we look like god" or non-literally as "we think like god" are not that different of distinctions.

3. And humans having free will would go along with the notion of us eventually evolving and surpassing the being that created us. Cause without free will we could never make the choices that would bring us further along than God. We would be forever hampered by God's will and whatever limitations he has. (and he obviously has some though that's a whoel different debate)

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Re: The Ages of Man (caused by reversal of poles)

« on: July 06, 2006, 11:47:55 AM »

There are no reversals, there is just areas of low and high magnetism. NOWHERE on Earth will north-seeking compass point to south.

The magnetic poles have swapped in the distant past.  It seems to happen every few hundred thousand years.

Well that shoots down that part of the theory....I was thinking this happened more along the timeframe of 10 thousand years....not hundred of thousands.

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Erasmus:

And I am sure I have heard about the earths crust moving as one due to an imbalance such as there being so much ice built up on the north or south pole that it caused a rapid shift in the plates. Assuming a rotation like this could occur even over the course of days or months and slide that much ice into say...the tropics....theoretically the ice could thaw rather fast.

I am trying to find some source to back this up. I can't remember where I heard about this.

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I found this also. It is a picture of what the earth woudl look like if ALL ice on planet were to melt.



From the looks of it this shoot down my Sphinx theory as the Egypt area does not appear to be affected very much.

Link to site for above picture:
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/environment/waterworld.html

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Flat Earth Q&A / Global Warming + Flat Earth = Death to all?

« on: July 06, 2006, 07:50:32 AM »

I'm curious what you FEers think is gonna happen when global warming gets into full swing and the great ice wall surrounding the edge or the earth melts.

And there is an even more important question....

Who is gonna be the first one to go over the edge in a barrel? Gotta be quik cause the water in the oceans isn't gonna last forever at the rate it will be pouring over the side.

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / God Construct

« on: July 05, 2006, 06:44:25 AM »

I guess you could files this under the "what is the meaning of life" category.

I am basically confused as to why God would create humans. Was he lonely? Or he just want a toy?

In the bible it says we were created in the image of god....so guessing he has two arms, two legs and is just far more advanced.

Isn't it more likely that instead of creating being for the purpose of being worshipped (vanity). Wouldn't you prefer to create beings that could one day surpass you? Isn't that the whole point of life.

I know among humans we want our offspring to have a better life than we ourselves did. I believe the same should hold true for God and his children.

If it is a simple matter of creating life from nothing....I believe we aren't to terribly far from that. What happens when our "children" start to view us as gods? Will we finally be worthy of meeting our creator and swapping blooper stories?

Or perhaps he created a bunch of "humanish" peoples on many different worlds and the point of our lives is to participate in a great race to see which of us can create life first and thus prove ourselves worthy of being Gods buddy in the cosmos.

Anyways this is just the crap that runs through my head at 8 in the morning. Sorry and hope yall had a fun 4th

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / The Ages of Man (caused by reversal of poles)

« on: July 05, 2006, 06:23:31 AM »

I wanted to see what yall thought abotu this lil theory of mine that I have had since I was like 10.

Now I'm sure a lot of yall have heard theories about how throughout the world there are monuments that appear to be far older than the civilizations they are attributed to. (Sphinx comes to mind)

And the theories I've heard involve some random group of artisans just happening upon an area and deciding to build something. (kinda dumb)

What if all these unique monuments were created by actual civilizations that were then wiped out completely by a natural disaster?

Now take into account that until fairly recently (last 400 years or so) the great majority of civilization has lived on the coast where it is very vulnerable to being wiped out due to flooding. (and I mean massive flooding)

Then also consider that in the past the earths crust (as a whole) has shifted completely upside down. (poles swapping)

And the belief that old old maps show Antartica free of ice (unconfirmed by me).

Now say the poles did this every few thousand years and essentially restarted human civilization each time since after all ice on the planet melted the only humans left would be very far inland and probably so separated that most would die out.

Could this account for the remnents of ancient civilization left over and modified?

or for the oral legends from the bible? (OH NOES WATER BE COMIN)

Now this is just a very rough theory I've had and even I can see some gaping holes in my own knowledge of it that maybe some of you can help me refine.

1. How often do the poles switch, and has it even happened in the last 10 thousand years even.

2. If all ice on earth melted how much would that raise sea levels? Enough to wipe out all coastal civilization?

3. Let's face facts....the Flying Spaghetti monster would never allow such extinctions to occur as it has to much love for us

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Center of the Universe

« on: June 10, 2006, 06:55:06 AM »

your diagram is though pretty decent at describing how far we can see, however i would replace "stuff past cosmic goop" with "here be dragons" ;-)

done and done

Thanks for the input. I guess I will have to wait and see.

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / the force

« on: June 07, 2006, 10:50:31 AM »

Jesus used the Force

He was the original Jedi Knight.

Discuss.

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Center of the Universe

« on: June 05, 2006, 10:09:12 AM »

Hello yall,

I am definately not as educated as many of you but I am still curious on about some things and find this forum mentally stimulating

So here is a question I have always wondered about.

Where is the center of the universe? I know that you can only look so far with a telescope before all you see is "soup". So I am assuming that the "soup" appears at the same distance no matter what direction we loook.

Now that would imply that we are the center but I don't think that's right.

My guess is that it would appear more like....



Now consider this from the perspective of the BIG BANG and not some religious philosophy.

Has anyone ever seen anything that confirms where the center might be and where we are inr elation to it?

And also is the universe a perfect sphere? Or does part of it move faster than others thus making it appear misshapen.