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Off Topic / Re: scary stories

« on: December 23, 2009, 10:49:36 PM »

What's scary is that sooner or later, you all will experience a strange sensation called puberty. It'll be painful and you'll not be able to think of anything save for kissing girls and enjoying your cooties.

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Off Topic / Re: A thought about conscience...

« on: December 23, 2009, 10:46:50 PM »

Quote from: Inv3rted on December 23, 2009, 10:34:09 PM

Zenthrox can be disregarded because he's a creationist. Until you people explain to me how every animal in the fossil record existed at the same exact moment (and refute the actual evidence for evolution, which I'm sure you don't even know about), I am going to say "forget you and have a nice day" every time you open your mouth.

As for Rughugger, you're a massive dolt. Science is not a religion because a religion requires faith. There. Done.

Faith isn't an exclusive to religion. Many scientists have faith or belief that their theories will work, otherwise, why try them in the first place? Science has a lot more faith than you care to admit.

Also, most of the most intelligent people were shunned and made fun of for their beliefs until they eventually were proven right. I'll take this as a step in the right direction. :)

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Off Topic / Re: Bisjac's computer exploded

« on: December 23, 2009, 08:01:30 PM »

Quote from: Bisjac on December 23, 2009, 06:56:03 PM

Your comp don't have pci-e
Also it won t fit an 11 inch long compnent lol
Also it uses like twice as much power then your entire comp currently does.

So......trade it in for something I can get and you can keep the difference :D

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Off Topic / Re: Your political views.

« on: December 23, 2009, 07:59:19 PM »

Conservative.

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Off Topic / Re: A thought about conscience...

« on: December 23, 2009, 07:56:15 PM »

Quote from: Zaran on December 23, 2009, 06:09:16 PM

-supersnip-

It's only arguing if you make it seem as such.

Imagine if you or me went back 2000 years and showed them a computer. Imagine how "Godly" and supernatural we'd seem in comparison when we take things like that for granted now. Imagine someone from 2000 years from now showing up with a magical device that allows him to jump from one end of the Earth to another in the blink of an eye. You see no obvious booths or hand held devices that control his movement, nor do you hear him make any communication to any supposed ship in orbit (if that's even how he traveled to the past.) How would you explain it? What if the entire process went against everything your science today holds to be solid fact? The point is, your "facts" of today can easily be thrown out the window tomorrow without so much of a notice. Does it make you doubt your faith in science? Nope. It's the same with any religious person. Tommy Lee Jones said it best in Men in Black when he said:

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

All of those examples were deeply held scientific fact. Imagine if people like you won every one of those arguments that Science fact remains true. We'd still be scientific handicaps who thought that germs never existed, it was the work of rats or some other animal. People knew for a fact that rats caused the plague. They were wrong. It was the fleas on the rats that carried and transmitted the disease. Science can and has been wrong fact or not. The day you learn to accept that, the smarter you become.

Science was born through the people's need to understand how "God" works. In the process they found out that a lot of it is just natural occurrences. Whooptee do, it happens. Science will inevitably prove that some supreme being, alien or not, manipulated the human genome to allow us to exist as we are now and thus we were created from more or less nothing. Just like we can manipulate genetic structure and create a plethora of things including bacteria that may one day heal damaged or severed nervous tissue in the back and even reconstruct teeth.

You seem to think that I'm not for science and all of that, but if you read my posts, I'm an avid believer of science and how it will explain everything I doubt in my faith.

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Off Topic / Re: Your YouTube Subscriptions

« on: December 23, 2009, 06:05:00 PM »

Just look up Lancenova. The rest will be revealed to you.

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Off Topic / Re: Cross Hairs? Whats so special?

« on: December 23, 2009, 05:56:27 PM »

Quote from: dkamm65 on December 23, 2009, 04:26:55 PM

OMG LUK WUT I DUN

It's black unless you click to enlarge for some reason.

Gah, you make me think you're Inv3rted with that bloody avatar. I'm just used to him using that and his peecs on croassz avatars. :(

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Off Topic / Re: Insult the above person.

« on: December 23, 2009, 05:54:40 PM »

I like you. You're a nice person :D

Hatred C-c-c-c-combo breaker!

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Off Topic / Re: Bisjac's computer exploded

« on: December 23, 2009, 05:50:01 PM »

Or you can gift me that video card since I'll need one for STO next month. You did say you would help me obtain a new one....*cough* :D

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Off Topic / Re: A thought about conscience...

« on: December 23, 2009, 05:45:27 PM »

Quote from: Tom Gunn on December 23, 2009, 04:56:43 PM

inb4invertedandrughugger

Too late for me. I posted at the end of page one. lol

Quote from: Zaran on December 23, 2009, 05:31:47 PM

Science is not a religion. Faith is one of the most important aspects in religion, while science is is based on evidence. Religious faith lacks evidence.

I do believe you are mistaken my friend... Wikipedia agrees with me.

"A religion is any systematic approach to living that involves beliefs about one's origins, one's place in the world, or a responsibility to live and act in the world in particular ways. Religion is often equated with faith and belief in a higher power or truth, but it is more properly defined as the pattern of action that expresses that faith, and reinforces it in day-to-day living. Thus, one can share the philosophy of a religion, believing in its higher truth, without manifesting that faith religiously."

You believe science is real. You believe that science is the truth. You believe the facts that support it. You believe it explains your origins. You believe that it has a place in the world for you. It influences how you go about your day to day life. You take all of this on faith that everything you know now through science is true. Yet science, itself, has been proven incorrect as much as any religion has over the years. Science, as well as any religious faith has been corrected over the years to better incorporate into the world. You have faith and belief in Science, so therefore you observe and defend it as religiously as anyone who is a Christian.

As far as Religious faith not having credible evidence....We've cloned sheep. We've created a life purely out of science. We know how to manipulate the genome and DNA to make all new breeds of animals and plants (Glow in the dark tomatoes anyone?) These things didn't simply evolve. We created them out of nothing. Creationism is a very real thing and science is growing ever closer in proving this the more we understand about it. Science will eventually prove how anything in the Bible can and will be real.

Chris Angel can walk on water. So could Jesus. Coincidence? Are either of them a "son of God" to God, we are all his children, so yes.

I could go on further, but you'll most likely ignore any of this because heaven forbid someone disagree with you.

Oh, Merry Christmas by the way! :)

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