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Flat Earth Q&A / My official resignation

« on: November 12, 2006, 12:40:04 PM »

My Giveashitter is broken, sorry.

Then I would suggest you stop having anal sex.

Noooooooo!!  


Tell Edna...Tell her I said 'Hi.'  OH GOD! Saying goodbye is so difficult...I...I CAN'T LET YOU GO! I love you, fathomak. Pleaaaase... I can't live with out you...Ahhhh.


~D-Draw

The feeling certainly isn't mutual.

If nothing else, these forums are entertaining.  But there are more productive ways I could be using my time.  I'm in college, planning on going Ph.D, and arguing about whether or not the earth is flat isn't helping me get there.  Best of luck to everyone.

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Flat Earth Q&A / My official resignation

« on: November 11, 2006, 08:52:11 PM »

Now it's official.

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The Lounge / Post an image of yourself!

« on: November 11, 2006, 08:25:13 PM »

I see two people.  Are you two people?

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The Lounge / God does not exist

« on: November 11, 2006, 01:03:20 PM »

GEN 1:25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

GEN 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

They may be presented in different order, but it says nothing about which one actually came first.

GEN 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
GEN 2:19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

I don't see the contradiction here.  If you include the next verse, it says of the beasts no suitable helper was found.

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The Lounge / WIRED: The Crusade Against Religion

« on: November 11, 2006, 12:29:28 PM »

Well, if it somehow delayed intercourse for everyone's parents for even a single second, the people born would not be the same.

Yes.

How do you know?  What evidence can you possibly have that that's the case?

Considering there are 6-7 billion people on earth, and only a few hundred million sperm per ejaculation, surely someone in the chain would still be born.  But then again, the day the sperm of such person was produced would probably be different than before, and then they'd also have to do it on the day the sperm was produced... no, I guess that doesn't even work.

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The Lounge / I ROCK

« on: November 11, 2006, 12:22:28 PM »

I just played an insane round of "hot cross buns" on my 2-string accoustic, therefore I ROCK.

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The Lounge / DEms RULE

« on: November 10, 2006, 10:00:48 PM »

Personally I was stoked with the election results. I just hope we get another Clinton in presidential elections 2008.

As long as it's not a Hillary.

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The Lounge / God does not exist

« on: November 10, 2006, 07:49:51 PM »

You forget that there are other social creatures besides humans that perform acts to impress the group such as being generous and such. how do you know that they don't have the same kind of feelings about so called "right" and "wrong" that we do? Morality has not a thing to do with god or religion in all actuality. It's just something that religious people have somehow managed to claim for their own, at least in the public eye. But anyone with a keen and skeptical mind can easily see why this this void. Creating arbitrary dogmatic rules and codes for people to live by? That's morality? What is so moral about herding into church every sunday? Or praying 5 times a day on your knee like a moron?

From what I've heard, it's generally only humans and dolphins having sex for pleasure.  I figure any other animal trying to impress another would be for the purpose of getting a mate.  Animals tend to avoid extinction when possible.

Dead wrong.

Damnit, why doesn't anyone ever read all of the posts?



EDIT:

If a belief in God made people moral, or happy, it would not be an argument for the existence of God. That makes no sense.

I think you're missing the point.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Cyclones/Toilets Flush....... (PROOF THE EARTH ROTATES)

« on: November 09, 2006, 04:35:01 PM »

Yea, back to the toilets, they generally have them designed so the water comes out at an angle all around the rim.  Then it spins whatever way it came out...

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Technology, Science & Alt Science / Are dodoes still alive?

« on: November 09, 2006, 04:30:35 PM »

Everybody got your attempted joke, there isn't a person in the history of the universe who has read your comment and did not understand what you were referring to. Unfortunately it lacked wit and wasn't funny.

I thought it was funny.

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The Lounge / God does not exist

« on: November 08, 2006, 10:06:19 AM »

Sure sure... I'm just saying that there are at-least-as-reliable arguments for morality from a naturalistic perspective. You know, just tossing it out on the table.

  It felt like we were getting a little sidetracked, but yes, I agree with that.

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The Lounge / God does not exist

« on: November 08, 2006, 10:00:54 AM »

I never said any of this was true.  All I said was that morality has been used to justify the existence of a higher being.

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The Lounge / God does not exist

« on: November 08, 2006, 07:14:07 AM »

Completely false. There are hundreds of examples of homosexual animals;

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0722_040722_gayanimal.html

Mentions beetles, sheep, fruit bats, dolphins, penguins, ostriches, flamingos, macaques, bonobos and orangutans.


(OMG bibicul, I said something and backed it up with a source yet again!)

I think we're starting to drift away from what the topic was supposed to be about.

We're talking about animals having moral codes, not gay sex.  The only reason I said anything about sex was because troubadour claimed that animals "...perform acts to impress the group such as being generous and such."  I think that's usually only to get a mate.  I doubt most animals would care whether or not they're being generous.  In other cases, it may be that they're sharing food so their offspring don't starve to death.

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The Lounge / God does not exist

« on: November 08, 2006, 07:02:54 AM »

So there needs to be a higher being because for the mostpart we try to be ethical in our treatment of other people? One has nothing to do with the other.

I didn't say that either.

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The Lounge / Woop's brain teasers

« on: November 07, 2006, 11:39:33 PM »

if u buy a date rape pill im pretty sure u'd want to use it...therefore no, it doesnt fit

But then why would you buy a coffin if you didn't want to use it?  Maybe you didn't want to have to use it, but surely you wouldn't want to just waste money, and you would want this person to have a nice funeral.  I say date rape drugs must be an alternative answer.

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The Lounge / Woop's brain teasers

« on: November 07, 2006, 11:28:20 PM »

Well it fits, doesn't it?

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Flat Earth Q&A / My official resignation

« on: November 07, 2006, 11:24:43 PM »

Ah... well then can you forgive me for my ignorance as well?

Actually, I've heard of the clubbing.  Sorry, I just wasn't thinking along those lines.  In that case, well said.

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Flat Earth Q&A / My official resignation

« on: November 07, 2006, 11:16:57 PM »

I don't get the joke.

EDIT:  BTW, I forgive you.

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Flat Earth Q&A / My official resignation

« on: November 07, 2006, 11:10:22 PM »

Seals don't walk...  at least not in the conventional sense of walking...

What does the seal do in the club?

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The Lounge / Woop's brain teasers

« on: November 07, 2006, 09:58:33 PM »

The one who makes it sells it, the one who bought it didn't want it, and the one who uses it never knows. What is it?

Date rape drugs.

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The Lounge / Woop's brain teasers

« on: November 07, 2006, 09:31:34 PM »

Second one: $.05

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The Lounge / 0.9... = 1

« on: November 07, 2006, 09:23:11 PM »

Well, Erasmus, if you're interested here is part a) of the problem I was working on:

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The Lounge / 0.9... = 1

« on: November 07, 2006, 08:43:22 PM »

Now that I think about it, that problem isn't similar to the one with light in different mediums.  In this case, the shortest path would be the one where the point she reaches on the river forms a right triangle with her house and her grandmother's house.

Definintely not... imagine the case when some line perpendicular to the river exactly or very nearly intersects both houses.  On the other extreme, imagine both houses very close the river and yet very far apart.

Ah, good point.

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The Lounge / God does not exist

« on: November 07, 2006, 08:40:52 PM »

You forget that there are other social creatures besides humans that perform acts to impress the group such as being generous and such. how do you know that they don't have the same kind of feelings about so called "right" and "wrong" that we do? Morality has not a thing to do with god or religion in all actuality. It's just something that religious people have somehow managed to claim for their own, at least in the public eye. But anyone with a keen and skeptical mind can easily see why this this void. Creating arbitrary dogmatic rules and codes for people to live by? That's morality? What is so moral about herding into church every sunday? Or praying 5 times a day on your knee like a moron?

From what I've heard, it's generally only humans and dolphins having sex for pleasure.  I figure any other animal trying to impress another would be for the purpose of getting a mate.  Animals tend to avoid extinction when possible.

I also don't think morality is something religious people have tried to claim as their own.  I don't think morality necessarily has to have any connection with religion at all.  All I said was that people use the sense of morality to help justify the existence of a higher being.

Never as far as I can tell did anyone equate morality to attending church and praying.  I don't know what made you think that.

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The Lounge / 0.9... = 1

« on: November 07, 2006, 08:31:48 PM »

Now that I think about it, that problem isn't similar to the one with light in different mediums.  In this case, the shortest path would be the one where the point she reaches on the river forms a right triangle with her house and her grandmother's house.

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The Lounge / 0.9... = 1

« on: November 07, 2006, 08:27:23 PM »

Currently working on solid state physics.  I can't do a lot of notation for the problem I'm currently working on, so instead I'll divert my attention to paint so I can draw all of the notation and put it into a picture.  Give me some time and I'll post it if you like.

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The Lounge / 0.9... = 1

« on: November 07, 2006, 08:22:36 PM »

Perhaps I'll come back to it, but now I'm trying to focus on some physics homework, which is why I announced my resignation that seems to have had no effect on my posting thus far.

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The Lounge / 0.9... = 1

« on: November 07, 2006, 08:19:46 PM »

I've done something similar regarding the path of light moving through different mediums, though that was solved with calculus.

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The Lounge / 0.9... = 1

« on: November 07, 2006, 08:06:08 PM »

Prove that a group of order 56 must have a nontrivial proper normal subgroup.


...Yes, I'm stealing these from textbooks.

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Flat Earth Q&A / My official resignation

« on: November 07, 2006, 08:00:24 PM »

Wow, I can tell I was popular.