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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Belief of Magic, Magik, Majic, Majik? |
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Posted: 15 Aug 2008, 9:56 am
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| What would convince me of the existance of Angels and/or Demons would be to meet one, face-to-face. Nothing less will suffice. But you could die if that happens, and then, no evidence would exist rather than a mysterious heart attack :P On the other hand, being a lot less drastic, you would have to... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: People Trying to Convert you |
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Posted: 15 Aug 2008, 9:54 am
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| Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn ... Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn ... Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn ... Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn ... Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn ... Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthul... |
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Forum: Off the Wall: Forum Games, Quizzes, Roleplaying, etc. Topic: Post a random fact about an unnamed WP member. |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 10:41 pm
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Replies: 150
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| He's really an athiest, and not the religious fanatic that he pretends to be. |
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Forum: Adolescent Autism Forum Topic: Existing friends who do not exist. |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 10:38 pm
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Shai-hulud wrote: Have you ever been with a friend that you hadn't seen for a few weeks, and felt as though he or she didn't actually exist?
No ... I have normal feelings regarding my friends. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Possible Time-Traveler? |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 10:36 pm
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| Retrograde time travel is impossible, only because it would violate causality - causes must precede their effects. Thus, we can not have a time traveller depart the future (the cause) to arrive in the past (the effect). One may as well believe that Hiroshima was destroyed in 1946 by a bomb dropped o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: People Trying to Convert you |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 10:32 pm
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| Zing! but then is not String Theory bringing science closer to religion? :lol: Maybe ... if you consider that only a special 'priesthood' of enlightened people who mutter an arcane labguage into their beards while enscribing their inspirations in illuminated tomes that will rarely (if ever) be take... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A challenge |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 10:23 pm
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Replies: 17
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| I invented the Internet; therefore, it exists. :P 1)Fnord invented the internet 2)Fnord is Al Gore Damn, that's scary. It was back around 1980, I was attending university, and several of us (students, professors, and government types...) were discussing the impending evolution of the ArpaNet. I tho... |
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Forum: Love and Dating Topic: judging women on their looks. |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 10:17 pm
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| If I were the type to be considered "gorgeous" (I'm an average, I'd say) then I believe it would be extremely frustrating to be taken only at face value and treated like "arm candy." How would you tell if a potential partner wanted you for you, instead of for your "trophy appeal?" What would be the... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: People Trying to Convert you |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 10:13 pm
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greenblue wrote: slowmutant wrote: The gulf between science and religion is actually getting narrower, especialy since the advent of quantum physics. We can almost touch God with the advent of the String Theory. 
... of neither is there any evidence, only faith in esoteric writings by obscure old men. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Possible Time-Traveler? |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 10:11 pm
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| This book looks interesting, especially if one likes ancient and middle history related to religion, I suppose. It is interesting that it is under the genre of Science Fiction, it seems to just illustrate an alternative history, from the reviews, and not making a relation or a conexion in the novel... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: People Trying to Convert you |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 9:24 pm
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| Faith in a divine being is merely belief in someone whose existance can not be proven. Unfortunately, humans have mucked up that faith with religion, which is the political expression of faith. "Believe as thou wilt, but the First Law is Love; Therefore, above all else, thou shalt do no harm." |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Possible Time-Traveler? |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 4:00 pm
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| Anyone else think this might make a good story in book or movie format? Roma Eterna (Hardcover) by Robert Silverberg (Author) " The newly arrived ambassador from the Eastern Emperor was rather younger than Faustus had expected him to be: a smallish sort, finely built, quite handsome ..." It's been ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Possible Time-Traveler? |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 3:56 pm
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greenblue wrote: Fnord wrote: pat666rick wrote: God doesn't like anything that isn't mentioned in the Bible. YOU are not mentioned in the Bible. Exactly 
Besides, unless pat666rick can provide evidence that he is God's own chosen prophet, we can ignore any statement he makes regarding what Gos does and does not like. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Possible Time-Traveler? |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 3:54 pm
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pat666rick wrote: God doesn't like anything that isn't mentioned in the Bible.
YOU are not mentioned in the Bible. |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Possible Time-Traveler? |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 3:52 pm
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| Time traveling isn't in the bible so therefore it's blasphemy. It's for sinners IMO. Same as computers, but I still use them. I sort of regret using any high-technology. Whatever is not mentioned in the Bible (computers, gunpowder, anticoagulants, et cetera) is not blasphemous, but if you use them ... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Possible Time-Traveler? |
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Posted: 14 Aug 2008, 3:36 pm
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| If you orbit the earth the opposite way to which it is turning, faster than it takes to perform a whole rotation (a day), then essentially you go back in time. Or so I remember. I guess time is created as a human convenience and in fact, physics allow us to overlap it when possible. Currently I can... |
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