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Flat Earth Debate / Re: The ocean and a spherical earth

« on: May 28, 2012, 05:12:19 AM »

My issue would be that the earth changed position. 10 miles east is barely anything for a change in celestial bodies based on where you are. 100 miles or so and you would most likely see the actual difference

The amount of change is irrelevant, only that it does change.

but stand in the same spot for 24 hours and you will also see a change in the heavenly bodies.

Which are rotating around a common barycenter.  Look for stars in the wiki if you want more information.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Obama is for gay marriage

« on: May 27, 2012, 04:00:10 PM »

Can you tell me of a time when the United States was not governed by "liberal elitists"?

Wait a minute... are you trying to say the founding fathers were quintessential liberal elitists? 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: God Hates You

« on: May 27, 2012, 03:55:36 PM »

I read a answer recently to the question of the first fall.  Why did God create a human that was going to make the original sin and plunge us all into hate, war, disease, suffering, etc, etc?  The answer was he may not have.  God can choose whether or not to be all knowing.  So he may not have known which way Adam and Eve were going to choose when presented with the choice.   

Except for that part where he said he knew the end in the beginning.  Do you guys even read this book?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Obama is for gay marriage

« on: May 27, 2012, 03:24:36 PM »

I think he is saying that his favorite clubs in 'the hood' are being overrun with crackers.  I could be wrong though.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Formation of Bodies disproves FET

« on: May 27, 2012, 03:17:36 PM »

I did not answer your point at all. 

An object can accelerate for an indefinite amount of time and never reach the speed of light.

That is the exact opposite of your point. 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Obama is for gay marriage

« on: May 27, 2012, 03:13:11 PM »

Yeah totally the same.

The mindsets are the same. 

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trayvon Martin case

« on: May 27, 2012, 03:09:35 PM »

So he eventually stopped following him, but got jumped and overwhelmed by a 17 year old kid with a bag of skittles that looks to be about 150 pounds soaking wet 200 feet from where the kid lives?  The record of the call to the police says that he was in his truck, then the kid started running away, and he got out of the truck and pursued him.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trayvon Martin case

« on: May 27, 2012, 02:48:06 PM »

Yeah I like to thwart criminals with my bare hands too.

Then call the police.  Then when the police tell you not to pursue them, do it.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Obama is for gay marriage

« on: May 27, 2012, 02:37:20 PM »

People had this same argument about slavery.  It's funny because it's true.

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Technical Support / Re: Technical To Do List

« on: May 27, 2012, 01:11:57 PM »

This may not be possible, but I'll go ahead and throw it out there anyway.  When you go to your new replies there is a button on the right side that takes you to the last post in the thread.  Is there a way to put in a button that takes you to your last reply to the thread as opposed to going to the last page then cycling back pages until you find it?

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Formation of Bodies disproves FET

« on: May 27, 2012, 12:05:12 PM »

What does that have to do with force and acceleration?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: What are you reading?

« on: May 27, 2012, 11:54:26 AM »

'Steal This Book'
By Abbie Hoffman

http://www.tenant.net/Community/steal/steal.html

Disgusting hippie book.

It's only fiting that there is a chapter on scoring free pot.  I laughed.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trayvon Martin case

« on: May 27, 2012, 10:47:42 AM »

So he is supposed to wait until he is actually raping someone before he approaches him?  Don't you think your presence as a witness may prevent a crime from actually happening?   Meaning if the bad guys sees you sniffing around he may think twice about doing something. 

The real question I think is, whether Zimmerman lost sight of him and then was approached by Martin.

No, the real question is, how does one infer a teenage kid walking down the street is about to rape someone.  If you approach someone who 'looks' like he's about to do something wrong, start a fight, and then shoot them in the chest one of two things, according to you, have happened.  Either he was about to rape someone so I shot him, which is undermining due process, especially considering he was in no way, shape or form a member of law enforcement.  Or, I approached him hostily so he wouldn't rape someone, even though no one was anywhere near him and he was just walking down the street, then he responded hostily and it was self defense which is ridiculous.

Also, 'sniffing around' and approaching someone with a gun are two completely different things.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: The ocean and a spherical earth

« on: May 27, 2012, 10:36:34 AM »

So you are basically saying that the calculation of azimuth and the correction is not the issue, but your observation of stars while performing the calculation is?  Let's say there is a star directly above Chicago and that you live 100 miles south of that.  If you were to walk 10 miles east on a flat earth do you not think that star would change apparent position relative to you?

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Field Artillery firing solutions

« on: May 27, 2012, 10:28:41 AM »

The Coriolis effect at the Equator is most important for the idiot gunner who shoots straight up. If he shoots horizontally the effect is, as Thork calculated, hardly measurable.

The earth would be moving fastest at the equator.  The farther north or south toward one pole or the other you went would make the results even smaller.  How are you relating this to weather patterns?

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Obama is for gay marriage

« on: May 27, 2012, 09:26:44 AM »

It's your story, justify it however you want.  'One jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law' can only mean the law as a whole is still applicable until 'heaven and earth pass away' which has not yet happened.   'Fulfilling' only means doing what the 'law and the prophets', which is how the OT is refered to, said he was going to do.  He is fulfilling what the OT said about him, not performing some magical annulment of laws like you seem to think.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Obama is for gay marriage

« on: May 27, 2012, 07:57:13 AM »

Where did he say that? 

"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled."

It seems to me if that were the case the early Christians would still have been chopping bits off the ends of their penises and avoiding pork and shellfish.

Just because they didn't follow it does not mean it isn't there.

Also, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

At least you acknowledge the contradiction.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Diablo III

« on: May 27, 2012, 07:26:37 AM »

It depends on the method in which it was hacked.  Most times it is client side.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Diablo III

« on: May 27, 2012, 07:18:49 AM »

Hacked accounts aren't exculsive to D3 or even Blizzard games for that matter.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Diablo III

« on: May 27, 2012, 07:02:39 AM »

In that case, I don't understand what you're concerned about.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: Hi everyone

« on: May 27, 2012, 07:00:24 AM »

I don't actually think he's thick, just very very misinformed.
I'm taking the piss a bit really, people are free to think whatever they want to.
Personally, I think that the world is shaped like a carrot, and I can prove it with lots of made up science if anybody wishes to ask me.

You are entitled to your opinion.  Very rarely, if at all, do I say something is true or untrue simply based on a belief that the earth is flat.  Most of the time it is you and your comrades saying the earth must be spherical because _____ , and I explain to you why I do not believe that the two are mutually exclusive.  Feel free to point out my mistakes at any time.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Diablo III

« on: May 27, 2012, 06:41:25 AM »

Then get one.  Problem solved.

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Flat Earth Q&A / Re: How do we get weather

« on: May 27, 2012, 06:36:33 AM »

Robby, scientists have conducted studies to determine a planets moon or moons gravitational effect on the planet. Seeing as how we have not been to any planet ourselves then I can agree that other planets moons most likely have nothing to do with tides if they have water.

The point is that we have yet to confirm any other planet to have large bodies of water like an ocean or even water at all for. 

The one problem I do have is that the moon does not effect waves to the extent you are thinking.

I meant tides, not waves.  Sorry.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: Formation of Bodies disproves FET

« on: May 27, 2012, 06:27:32 AM »

Not to become flat. Not unless it had a completely uniform force forming a wall at enough speed and density to do so. If you're suggesting that, Earth would be going faster than light.

An object can accelerate for an indefinite amount of time and never reach the speed of light.

Try taking one of them on with mathematics and you'll have a frustrated Flat Earther.

I would love to see your math supporting the statement above.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: The IRL Collaboration.

« on: May 27, 2012, 06:17:58 AM »

Southeast US.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trayvon Martin case

« on: May 27, 2012, 06:16:42 AM »

I'm with Lorddave on this one.  Approaching someone in a hostile manner, then claiming self defense when they respond is ludicrous.  He had zero authority to approach him in the first place even if whatever he was doing looked shady.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Obama is for gay marriage

« on: May 27, 2012, 06:10:41 AM »

Oh, okay.  I see your point.

I'm not, and have never been, a Christian.  But I have read the Bible.  I honestly feel that Jesus' teachings in the Gospels were generally quite reasonable, and were perverted by Paul (or whoever, you know) in the later books.  Honestly, one could do worse than to follow his example.

Except of course when asked about the Old Testament, in which he says to follow every jot and tittle or something to that effect.  Now we are back to burning gays, stoning adulterous woman, abusing our children, and justified genocide among other things.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Diablo III

« on: May 27, 2012, 06:03:41 AM »

So?
Steal items and transfer to your account.
Use Authenticator on your own account.

Done.

Stealing the items in the first place would be difficult if the account required authentication.  For you to access my account you would need my username, password, and my cellphone.

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Flat Earth Debate / Re: The ocean and a spherical earth

« on: May 27, 2012, 05:58:11 AM »

cool Robby, were you underway on a leisure cruise? or personal boat? could you be a naval quartermaster?

None of the above.  You would definitely not want me playing quatermaster, but I am familiar with the principles involved. 

Well Robby, I guess that is where we differ. I believe that to get Azimuth one has to acknowledge that space is shapeless and the earth is a sphere.

You have yet to expain why you believe that and why the calculated angle would differ.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trayvon Martin case

« on: May 23, 2012, 12:03:29 AM »

The string of robberies in Zimmerman's neighborhood were done by black kids.

In what states do robberies result in the death penalty?