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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Re: How To Build a Time Machine
« on: July 03, 2015, 02:31:20 AM »
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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Re: Zoo hypothesis
« on: July 01, 2015, 11:38:32 AM »It's definitely not impossible, but there is no point believing in it unless you have any evidence.
So no point in religion then.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Gay marriage is now legal in the US
« on: June 30, 2015, 12:47:47 PM »Just to be more clear about my position on this issue, I don't believe that gay people are evil or any rubbish like that.
My dad is actually gay, and just to be clear he is my biological father.
My views on the whole gay marriage thing is that no matter what the law says gay people will still love each other. All that marriage is is a legal contract binding them together, it has no effect on how much people love each other and many strait people live together without being married anyway. I believe that gayness is simply a challenge that someone is born with, and people can get hormonal replacement medication which can help make gay people become strait.
What I have against gay marriage is that it shows that our society is embracing gayness, and it also means that gay adoption might become a thing. Mostly the latter. Children being raised by people of the same sex goes against the well established natural order of things and children need both masculine and feminine influence in their lives.
Again, these are just my views. I am not presenting them as fact and I am not interested in debating them, I am just making it clear where I stand.
Tell us, oh wise one, what hormones need to be replaced to make a gay person straight?
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Gay marriage is now legal in the US
« on: June 27, 2015, 12:32:36 PM »WEATHERWAX, my argument is simply that SCOTUS exceeded its authority. The matter should have been left to the Sovereign States to decide.
It just seems strange to me that heterosexuals should have a strong opinion on this. There was a referendum in Ireland recently and I saw heterosexual groups campaigning for a no vote - what business is it of theirs?
It makes me angry when people try to project their personal beliefs onto others, which I fear young Mikeman is doing. Just mind your own business!
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Gay marriage is now legal in the US
« on: June 27, 2015, 11:14:56 AM »I definitely oppose it.
Why? If you are gay, why would you be against it?
If you are not gay, it's got nothing to do with you, so how can you have an opinion?
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Racism
« on: June 25, 2015, 03:41:27 AM »
Common sense and decency shouldn't need to be enforced, and you're right, can't be. It just takes time. I think we are getting there in my country (UK) at least. It seems tobe a lot more deep seated in the US, but they'll catch up eventually!
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Directional Explosions
« on: June 25, 2015, 03:37:53 AM »
This is idiotic. Why are you all debating this? We've all seen rockets right? Maybe not a Saturn V, but we've all seen rockets on some scale launch. They work. End of story.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Racism
« on: June 25, 2015, 03:30:12 AM »
It's time we ditched the over-sensitive polital correctness. We should be past that now and it does damage.
In Rotherham, England, a group of Asian men have been abusing children for years. It turns out that they got away with it for so long because social workers and police (who were aware of it) were terrified of being labelled racist.
Any educated adult knows that skin colour is just a physical trait like eye colour or height; there should be no discrimination either positive or negative, just treat people the same.
In Rotherham, England, a group of Asian men have been abusing children for years. It turns out that they got away with it for so long because social workers and police (who were aware of it) were terrified of being labelled racist.
Any educated adult knows that skin colour is just a physical trait like eye colour or height; there should be no discrimination either positive or negative, just treat people the same.
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Flat Earth General / Re: Infinite Earth - The Next Step
« on: June 06, 2015, 02:39:47 PM »Hello Itchy.
You still haven't told me how you think space travel could be real on a flat Earth, that makes no sense at all to me.
Glad you asked that, it relates to one of my recent discoveries.
Two weeks ago I went to a talk on UFOs. I'm not a UFO believer, but the talk was near my home, so I thought I would go along just out of interest. The talk was awful, but a guy there said he was a university cosmology post-grad researcher. I got to talk with him after. Of course, he didn't believe in UFOs either, but he said he liked to expose "bad science".
I explained to him that I had doubts about some claimed achievements in space, expecting him to call me a nut and walk away, but get this; he smiled at me and said that it's well known in academic circles that most space missions have been nothing more than cold war propaganda. Basically both the US and Soviets started exaggerating their achievements and the whole thing snowballed out of control. That's why progress seems to have stopped; since the end of the cold war the propaganda has lessened, and today's claims are more in line with reality.
The truth is that we can launch satellites and probes, but that's about it.
Then why do all space pictures show the Earth being round?
Because the illuminated portion of Earth is round.
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Flat Earth General / Re: NASA owes us an apology for Werner Von Braun
« on: June 06, 2015, 09:27:04 AM »Can I just ask then if you think the v2 was a fully functioning rocket?
I think it eventually became a functioning rocket. But I wouldn't be surprised if Von Braun overplayed its capabilities in his proposal to Hitler.
The people of London during the war testified to its capabilities.
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Flat Earth General / Re: NASA ows us an apology for Wherner Von Braun
« on: June 06, 2015, 09:17:06 AM »Why does any nationality get chosen for any specific project? Maybe he was Germany's version of Walt Disney or Arthur C Clarke, etc.Von Braun was probably no more than a Walt Disney mouthpiece aiding in promoting the fantasy of space travel,along with other like-minded bullshit artists of the sci-fi world.
Why would they choose a nazi to be a mouthpiece? Surely an all-American hero would have been better?
Let's face it; Von Braun had one hell of an accent and it wasn't nazi.
They wouldn't have chosen a German, Nazi or not, to be the mouthpiece of America's space program, immediately after the US had been at war with Germany, without a really good reason to do so. Like, for example, he knew how to build ballistic rockets.
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Flat Earth General / Re: NASA ows us an apology for Wherner Von Braun
« on: June 06, 2015, 06:31:32 AM »Von Braun was probably no more than a Walt Disney mouthpiece aiding in promoting the fantasy of space travel,along with other like-minded bullshit artists of the sci-fi world.
Why would they choose a nazi to be a mouthpiece? Surely an all-American hero would have been better?
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Flat Earth General / Re: NASA ows us an apology for Wherner Von Braun
« on: June 06, 2015, 05:05:03 AM »
Why would the US government have gone to all the trouble, and potential embarrassment, of harbouring a nazi rocket scientist, if space travel was impossible?
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The Lounge / Re: Does BiJane have pointy elbows?
« on: June 06, 2015, 04:40:04 AM »
She's got liberal elbows.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Your research is not complete; do your own field research
« on: June 05, 2015, 10:28:25 AM »Tom, why are you so stuck on the notion that long distance spotting is the only way to determine the Earth's shape?
He owns a shop that sells nothing but 60X spotting scopes.
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Flat Earth General / Re: What expedition would you suggest for flat earthers
« on: June 05, 2015, 10:07:19 AM »
I love the way he told me to "think about it". Yeah, I'm the one not thinking things through here. 
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The Lounge / Re: More acceptance of sexual immorality
« on: June 05, 2015, 09:57:30 AM »
Homophobia is wrong. I learned that at a meeting today to discuss disabled access for lesbian, gay, and transgender Muslim single parents of ethnic minorities.
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The Lounge / Re: More acceptance of sexual immorality
« on: June 05, 2015, 08:49:39 AM »
You're obsessed with man-love.
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Flat Earth General / Re: What expedition would you suggest for flat earthers
« on: June 05, 2015, 07:59:56 AM »Think About it:
You think the Earth is a flat rectangle?
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Flat Earth General / Re: Poll Is the earth flat in these pictures?
« on: June 05, 2015, 07:57:31 AM »Haha so far 11 shills have voted 'No'
OMG LOOK AT THE CURVE LOL:
IT'S SO OBVIOUS
You are right, the horizon looks flat in that picture. That wasn't the only picture though, was it.
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Flat Earth General / Re: What expedition would you suggest for flat earthers
« on: June 05, 2015, 07:42:43 AM »
Why do you think it's impossible to cross the Bering Strait? Even on a flat Earth that doesn't make sense. Plenty of people have crossed it. There was even talk of building a tunnel.
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Flat Earth General / Re: What expedition would you suggest for flat earthers
« on: June 05, 2015, 05:52:37 AM »
There is an expedition next year being lead by Itchy Arris.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Your research is not complete; do your own field research
« on: June 05, 2015, 05:41:03 AM »The number of possible experiments is infinite. Since people don't like wasting their time, we can usually not do an experiment if we already have data to infer the result of such a experiment; for example, in the case of sinking ships, I have seen them disapear, and I know that binoculars do not work over the horizon (I live in a bay area, and I can't see the beach on the other side with a telescope). Also, most people trust independent peer reviewed research for non-critical experiments, since again, we only have limited time. And lets not forget about dangerous research, like Marie Curie's.
You can discuss RE-FE for a hundred years, but you will never be sure if you don't do your own long-distance observations with a spotting scope on a reasonably clear day. It's the only way.
If you don't have time to do that and are not interested then don't.
Wrong. The Earth was proved to be a sphere before any kind of "spotting scope" existed.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Your research is not complete; do your own field research
« on: June 05, 2015, 02:27:49 AM »
I also believe in radioactivity, but I dont feel the need to repeat Marie Curie's experiments.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Your research is not complete; do your own field research
« on: June 05, 2015, 02:04:28 AM »The second the first picture of Earth from space was taken, our "research" was done.
You are forgetting the most simple aspect of research. Going in the field and see with your own eyes with a 60x spotting scope if objects at different distances are disappearing/sinking behind the calculated horizon. How difficult is that?
Your research is not complete without this simple experiment.
What's the point? I've seen pictures of the Earth from space, so I know what shape it is.
Then, don't
Okay. BTW, I live on the coast. I've watched hundreds of ships disappear over the horizon, always bottom first.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Your research is not complete; do your own field research
« on: June 05, 2015, 02:00:06 AM »The second the first picture of Earth from space was taken, our "research" was done.
You are forgetting the most simple aspect of research. Going in the field and see with your own eyes with a 60x spotting scope if objects at different distances are disappearing/sinking behind the calculated horizon. How difficult is that?
Your research is not complete without this simple experiment.
What's the point? I've seen pictures of the Earth from space, so I know what shape it is.
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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Your research is not complete; do your own field research
« on: June 05, 2015, 01:49:12 AM »
The second the first picture of Earth from space was taken, our "research" was done.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Devil
« on: June 04, 2015, 03:05:56 PM »OK, Einstein was not Christian, but he was religious. I was wrong, but my point still stands.
He didn't identify himself with any religion, so I don't see how you could call him religious. He stated he was agnostic, and used the word "god" to describe the fundamental laws of the universe, as in god is the very fabric of the universe. If that makes sense. There is a limit to scientific knowledge, and he used god to describe things beyond that limit. That's a long way from believing in the man in the sky.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Cousin say's Scientology is the one true religion.
« on: June 04, 2015, 02:35:46 PM »The most compelling reason not to believe in the existance of Jesus is the complete absence of mentions of him by any contemporary historian (the only contemporary exception by Josephus is nowadays believed to be a forgery).
There wouldn't have been much reason to mention him. He had a handful of followers in a backwater of the Roman Empire.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The Devil
« on: June 04, 2015, 02:17:44 PM »Einstein was not a Christian.
"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details."
-Albert Einstein
Using the word "god" does not make someone a christian. You realise there are other religions which also have god(s) right?