FTFA: "But spirituality does not seem to involve exactly the same regions of the brain as religion."
I'm guessing it's more of a "lighted, windowed room at night" effect. Sit in a lighted room at night, and you can't see out the windows, because the information you're receiving is much more effective. Turn out the lights, and you can begin to see what's outside of your windows (perhaps a whole city). Perhaps our kinetics and structure (the part of the brain they were cutting up) keep us more grounded in immediacy? Perhaps that keeps us more worried and less "transcendant"? It sounds like they're just scratching at the surface, so it'll be interesting if they study this further.
Any biblical religion believes what the bible said, scooping Darwin by at least 5,000 years: "[Animals] were made fruitful and able to multiply -- in the sea and on the earth -- each after its own kind."
ID is not an excuse to teach creationism, as thought up by clever bible-thumpers. It is merely a heresy, crafted by perverting religion to meet a perverted science. It should be treated as such, and not used as a reason to hate anything but ID. Mormonism, as a religion, rejects ID. You might find a few idiots who attempt to coalesce the pseudoscience of ID with mormonism, but that is a personal religious compromise, which runs contrary to the teachings of their church.
Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision, dies and goes to Hell. The devil greets him when he arrives and says "Bobby, out of all the people up there, you remind me most of myself, so I'm going to let you choose your punishment for your first thousand years."
The two start at a short hallway labelled "First Timers" and stop at the first door. Inside is an old man, screaming, having his skin peeled off in 1 inch strips. The devil explains "At the beginning of the day, his flesh is renewed. By nightfall, he is nothing but a pile of organs hanging onto a skeleton. This is the only punishment where you get a few hours rest every night." Bobby feels a bit nervous about the long future ahead of him.
The go up to the next door. Inside is an even older man, screaming louder than the first man, and he's slowly being lowered into a vat of acid. The devil explains "This punishment lasts all day. It starts at the toes and works its way up. When you are completely burned away, it starts over. Some say that after the first 800 years, though, it feels more like a massage than a punishment. I suppose it's not so bad if you really enjoyed hot tubs when you were alive." Bobby starts sweating at the thought of his eternal reward.
They come up to the third, and last door of the hallway. Inside is an EXTREMELY old man, screaming at the top of his lungs. A gorgeous young woman, chained to him by the ankle, is giving him a passionate blowjob. The devil grins "This punishment may look like fun, but after the first few hours, you get tired, but you may never rest; not for a thousand years. This punishment is one of endurance. Now that you've seen your choices, which one will it be?"
Bobby Kotick doesn't take long to decide which of the punishments he'll undergo. "I'll take the last one. The blowjob one."
The devil accepts Bobby's choice with a nodded bow, and opens the third door. He enters in, unlocks the chain on the woman's leg and whispers in her ear "Your replacement is here, you've been relieved."
Yes, it's completely unproven, except for the millions of spectra taken of the molecule, which show its resonance in the infrared part of the spectrum. Science, bitches -- it works. Now, had you said something about the AMOUNT of heat it traps and whether that amount is significant, then we could be having an actual debate. I'll be bringing my physics Ph.D. with me, how about you?
I bring the entire combined knowledge of the world that says "We don't know, we haven't tested it yet. LoL!" which nullifies your point. A spinning mirror could keep as much light in as it can keep out. Until you take it upon yourself to test whether carbon dioxide particles trap more solar heat than they block out, (you'll be the first one to do it that will admit to it!), then your PhD in physics is as useful to this argument as a PhD in jumping jacks.
The first of course, belonging to the humble humanitarian who has never pulled any political stint or canvassed bullshit as science to make himself money, Al Gore.
And here you reveal the biases that inform your decision -- not against the science based on any understanding of physics and chemistry, but because one of the advocates is someone with which you disagree politically. Pathetic.
WRONG. I revealed the biases that have taken it upon themselves to inform YOUR opinion -- self-serving interest groups, the greediest men in the world, and non-reviewed assumptions based on groupthink, conjecture, time-travelling corollation, and stock holdings. We have a word for the types of people who would believe such tales of grandeur on these merits alone: Suckers.
Except that the fossil fuels we are digging up and burning were ALL once part of the atmosphere. Fossil fuels are made up of dead plants, algae, critters, and other sorts of swamp muck after it's been stewing for a sufficient timeframe. These chemicals are in oil because they were once absorbed by plant life, from the atmosphere. The Earth, as an ecosystem, thrives on the carbon we're dumping into the air. The more carbon, the more plantlife thrives. It's becoming healthier in that respect. The carbon will be absorbed in a positive way; either by plants, deserts, or settling. It's the other chemicals that should be discussed. Sulphur, methane, mercury, chlorine, and other such chemical cusswords are arguably bad for the planet when they're in our air supply (arguably), but the carbon is a good thing. The problems with the carbon are whether it can be converted back into a fuel fast enough to keep up with our oil demand, and if the atmosphere turns into a coal mine, we'll all get blacklung.
You're so right! I'll make a deal with you -- if I admit that science doesn't fully understand gravity, will you can go jump of a goddam cliff?
A poor analogy indeed.
Perhaps if you admit that science doesn't fully understand gravity, I'll cancel the International Conference on Gravity Change where we were all going to get together to discuss how the governments should start distributing "Gravity Caps" to big businesses in order to curb the trend of increasing gravity that humans are causing on Earth. Our head speaker was going to be renowned actor Keanu Reaves who became an expert on gravity change when he starred in multiple movies in which he had to save the Earth. Dismiss this science with your pathetic "observations" and "scientific methods" and "peer reviews done by objective 3rd parties", because everyone knows that the tides happen close to rush hour -- when most humans are creating gravity wells by decreasing air pressure when they drive with their cars. I don't have to prove anything. Just as Carbon Dioxide traps heat on Earth is an unproven, yet indisputable fact, so are man-made gravity wells caused by car driving! Now, if you'll excuse me, Keanu and I are discussing the plans for his new house, it will have the honor of being the Second private residence large enough to be seen by space. The first of course, belonging to the humble humanitarian who has never pulled any political stint or canvassed bullshit as science to make himself money, Al Gore.
Exactly. In a few decades, instead of a power cable leading to your house, you could fit your house with a 30-ton, $7,000,000 quantum disentangler! I imagine it could also be used in place of a battery on your ipad! Never worry about low battery ever again!
When the bread has gotten stale enough, the government will open up a new loaf. This decade and the last were child porn, the decades before were drugs, the decades before those were communism. Hitler was not a phenomenon. He just knew how to keep the loaf fresher than most governments do.
Well, if assholes like you wouldn't have spent billions of dollars a year funding religious extremists (everything from the Mujahideen, the funding of the Islamic Bomb, Zionists in Isreal and Christian Fundies) and right wing dictatorships then you wouldn't be in such a mess. Stop bitching about the problems that you cause.
Right... because people like me who don't like paying taxes and don't approve of large government programs or spending LOVE it when the government spends billions of dollars on big government programs. We also have to be religious idiots. Also, dictators love capitalism, and they are never communist or socialist! Whatever helps you sleep, asshole.
I suppose where you work, wasting 2 peoples' entire mornings every time someone reads the news without updating their Java version is not considered "painful"
After what I went through, in those early days, oh boy... when I find the bastard who wrote Vundo, I will kill him with my bare hands. He can think the awesome things he bought with what little money he made as the light fades from his eyes and his soul is slowly gripped by the eternal horrors of Hell. Will you then consider jailtime too severe a penalty for me? I am just someone who stomped on a contagious insect -- someone who cut out a tumor.
All your post tells me is that you never caught Vundo on your computer. Your attitude toward bored, Russian malware writers drastically changes. The first time you get it, it's as painful as a digital kidney stone -- and someone, somewhere is making money from your suffering.
I used to feel the same way. I was very buggered about the idea that the Half Life 2 I purchased had to install some crappy network "service program" and all. Worse, when my HL2 game glitched out (I found myself caught in an endless hallway, IIRC), it seemed my modding options to fix it were closed off. So long Steam for about 5 years.
Then, the sirens' cry called me back by offering me games that I love for oh, so cheap. "King's Bounty and Armored Princess for $11? I just can't stay mad at you can I?"
I guess that means I'm a no-good whore now, but I stood by my convictions for a half-decade!
Face it, the NFL are brilliant. They are not about football. They are about revenue. They had two goals in mind when setting out on their broadcasting endeavor:
a) Sell high-cost adspace
b) Get people to care about the adspace
Now you hear people always saying "I watch the superbowl for the commercials!" Mission A-Ccomplished NFL. Was that enough? It's never enough. So the last 10 years have been their attempt to make more money by becoming some of the biggest douchebags in the IP industry.
"That's the thing about greed, Arch, it's blind. And it doesn't know when to stop" -- Lenny Cole
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FTFA: "But spirituality does not seem to involve exactly the same regions of the brain as religion."
I'm guessing it's more of a "lighted, windowed room at night" effect. Sit in a lighted room at night, and you can't see out the windows, because the information you're receiving is much more effective. Turn out the lights, and you can begin to see what's outside of your windows (perhaps a whole city). Perhaps our kinetics and structure (the part of the brain they were cutting up) keep us more grounded in immediacy? Perhaps that keeps us more worried and less "transcendant"? It sounds like they're just scratching at the surface, so it'll be interesting if they study this further.
Any biblical religion believes what the bible said, scooping Darwin by at least 5,000 years: "[Animals] were made fruitful and able to multiply -- in the sea and on the earth -- each after its own kind."
ID is not an excuse to teach creationism, as thought up by clever bible-thumpers. It is merely a heresy, crafted by perverting religion to meet a perverted science. It should be treated as such, and not used as a reason to hate anything but ID. Mormonism, as a religion, rejects ID. You might find a few idiots who attempt to coalesce the pseudoscience of ID with mormonism, but that is a personal religious compromise, which runs contrary to the teachings of their church.
Yeah, who needs their cellphone when they're on the go?
Bobby Kotick, CEO of Activision, dies and goes to Hell. The devil greets him when he arrives and says "Bobby, out of all the people up there, you remind me most of myself, so I'm going to let you choose your punishment for your first thousand years."
The two start at a short hallway labelled "First Timers" and stop at the first door. Inside is an old man, screaming, having his skin peeled off in 1 inch strips. The devil explains "At the beginning of the day, his flesh is renewed. By nightfall, he is nothing but a pile of organs hanging onto a skeleton. This is the only punishment where you get a few hours rest every night." Bobby feels a bit nervous about the long future ahead of him.
The go up to the next door. Inside is an even older man, screaming louder than the first man, and he's slowly being lowered into a vat of acid. The devil explains "This punishment lasts all day. It starts at the toes and works its way up. When you are completely burned away, it starts over. Some say that after the first 800 years, though, it feels more like a massage than a punishment. I suppose it's not so bad if you really enjoyed hot tubs when you were alive." Bobby starts sweating at the thought of his eternal reward.
They come up to the third, and last door of the hallway. Inside is an EXTREMELY old man, screaming at the top of his lungs. A gorgeous young woman, chained to him by the ankle, is giving him a passionate blowjob. The devil grins "This punishment may look like fun, but after the first few hours, you get tired, but you may never rest; not for a thousand years. This punishment is one of endurance. Now that you've seen your choices, which one will it be?" Bobby Kotick doesn't take long to decide which of the punishments he'll undergo. "I'll take the last one. The blowjob one."
The devil accepts Bobby's choice with a nodded bow, and opens the third door. He enters in, unlocks the chain on the woman's leg and whispers in her ear "Your replacement is here, you've been relieved."
Just remember to wear protective lenses when looking at the pictures it sends back. We don't want anyone going blind.
Find out how much time you can spend on the project before you'd get fired for laziness, then subtract a day.
flour, sugar, cinnamon, pepper, powdered dry wall, chalk dust, cocaine, nutmeg, etc.
That would certainly explain why I like girl scout cookies so much...
Mormons are Intelligent Design believers
No, they certainly are not. Perhaps you should have paid a little more attention in sunday school.
Yes, it's completely unproven, except for the millions of spectra taken of the molecule, which show its resonance in the infrared part of the spectrum. Science, bitches -- it works. Now, had you said something about the AMOUNT of heat it traps and whether that amount is significant, then we could be having an actual debate. I'll be bringing my physics Ph.D. with me, how about you?
I bring the entire combined knowledge of the world that says "We don't know, we haven't tested it yet. LoL!" which nullifies your point. A spinning mirror could keep as much light in as it can keep out. Until you take it upon yourself to test whether carbon dioxide particles trap more solar heat than they block out, (you'll be the first one to do it that will admit to it!), then your PhD in physics is as useful to this argument as a PhD in jumping jacks.
The first of course, belonging to the humble humanitarian who has never pulled any political stint or canvassed bullshit as science to make himself money, Al Gore.
And here you reveal the biases that inform your decision -- not against the science based on any understanding of physics and chemistry, but because one of the advocates is someone with which you disagree politically. Pathetic.
WRONG. I revealed the biases that have taken it upon themselves to inform YOUR opinion -- self-serving interest groups, the greediest men in the world, and non-reviewed assumptions based on groupthink, conjecture, time-travelling corollation, and stock holdings. We have a word for the types of people who would believe such tales of grandeur on these merits alone: Suckers.
Except that the fossil fuels we are digging up and burning were ALL once part of the atmosphere. Fossil fuels are made up of dead plants, algae, critters, and other sorts of swamp muck after it's been stewing for a sufficient timeframe. These chemicals are in oil because they were once absorbed by plant life, from the atmosphere. The Earth, as an ecosystem, thrives on the carbon we're dumping into the air. The more carbon, the more plantlife thrives. It's becoming healthier in that respect. The carbon will be absorbed in a positive way; either by plants, deserts, or settling. It's the other chemicals that should be discussed. Sulphur, methane, mercury, chlorine, and other such chemical cusswords are arguably bad for the planet when they're in our air supply (arguably), but the carbon is a good thing. The problems with the carbon are whether it can be converted back into a fuel fast enough to keep up with our oil demand, and if the atmosphere turns into a coal mine, we'll all get blacklung.
You're so right! I'll make a deal with you -- if I admit that science doesn't fully understand gravity, will you can go jump of a goddam cliff?
A poor analogy indeed.
Perhaps if you admit that science doesn't fully understand gravity, I'll cancel the International Conference on Gravity Change where we were all going to get together to discuss how the governments should start distributing "Gravity Caps" to big businesses in order to curb the trend of increasing gravity that humans are causing on Earth. Our head speaker was going to be renowned actor Keanu Reaves who became an expert on gravity change when he starred in multiple movies in which he had to save the Earth. Dismiss this science with your pathetic "observations" and "scientific methods" and "peer reviews done by objective 3rd parties", because everyone knows that the tides happen close to rush hour -- when most humans are creating gravity wells by decreasing air pressure when they drive with their cars. I don't have to prove anything. Just as Carbon Dioxide traps heat on Earth is an unproven, yet indisputable fact, so are man-made gravity wells caused by car driving! Now, if you'll excuse me, Keanu and I are discussing the plans for his new house, it will have the honor of being the Second private residence large enough to be seen by space. The first of course, belonging to the humble humanitarian who has never pulled any political stint or canvassed bullshit as science to make himself money, Al Gore.
Exactly. In a few decades, instead of a power cable leading to your house, you could fit your house with a 30-ton, $7,000,000 quantum disentangler! I imagine it could also be used in place of a battery on your ipad! Never worry about low battery ever again!
To give them the benefit of the doubt, it's a much finer line when you don't know the difference between a scientist and a fortune teller.
When the bread has gotten stale enough, the government will open up a new loaf. This decade and the last were child porn, the decades before were drugs, the decades before those were communism. Hitler was not a phenomenon. He just knew how to keep the loaf fresher than most governments do.
Well, if assholes like you wouldn't have spent billions of dollars a year funding religious extremists (everything from the Mujahideen, the funding of the Islamic Bomb, Zionists in Isreal and Christian Fundies) and right wing dictatorships then you wouldn't be in such a mess. Stop bitching about the problems that you cause.
Right... because people like me who don't like paying taxes and don't approve of large government programs or spending LOVE it when the government spends billions of dollars on big government programs. We also have to be religious idiots. Also, dictators love capitalism, and they are never communist or socialist! Whatever helps you sleep, asshole.
All I see in this ad is a lot of whining about taxes. It's just pandering to the selfishness of the average voter
You're telling me that a slave wanting freedom is being selfish? You are a bigger asshole than I am.
Just where is it taking us?
I suppose where you work, wasting 2 peoples' entire mornings every time someone reads the news without updating their Java version is not considered "painful"
After what I went through, in those early days, oh boy... when I find the bastard who wrote Vundo, I will kill him with my bare hands. He can think the awesome things he bought with what little money he made as the light fades from his eyes and his soul is slowly gripped by the eternal horrors of Hell. Will you then consider jailtime too severe a penalty for me? I am just someone who stomped on a contagious insect -- someone who cut out a tumor.
Every boy should go through a Metallica phase. Every boy.
All your post tells me is that you never caught Vundo on your computer. Your attitude toward bored, Russian malware writers drastically changes. The first time you get it, it's as painful as a digital kidney stone -- and someone, somewhere is making money from your suffering.
I used to feel the same way. I was very buggered about the idea that the Half Life 2 I purchased had to install some crappy network "service program" and all. Worse, when my HL2 game glitched out (I found myself caught in an endless hallway, IIRC), it seemed my modding options to fix it were closed off. So long Steam for about 5 years.
Then, the sirens' cry called me back by offering me games that I love for oh, so cheap. "King's Bounty and Armored Princess for $11? I just can't stay mad at you can I?"
I guess that means I'm a no-good whore now, but I stood by my convictions for a half-decade!
I thought it would have bombed.
Indeed. Who knew they had oranges in China?
Panda Express.
Face it, the NFL are brilliant. They are not about football. They are about revenue. They had two goals in mind when setting out on their broadcasting endeavor:
a) Sell high-cost adspace
b) Get people to care about the adspace
Now you hear people always saying "I watch the superbowl for the commercials!" Mission A-Ccomplished NFL. Was that enough? It's never enough. So the last 10 years have been their attempt to make more money by becoming some of the biggest douchebags in the IP industry.
"That's the thing about greed, Arch, it's blind. And it doesn't know when to stop" -- Lenny Cole
Nuh Fing Wong Hea. Al Tings Oh Kay.