"The moment life is detected else where will once and for end the silly notion of god or religion."
Because?
BEECAAAUUSE we will eventually find a Space Jesus in another civilization!
The aliens that we discover will be worshiping their own Jesus, one who is older than ours - this will cause a schism between Earth Jesus followers, but many remain faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ. Another several thousands of years pass by when encounter YET ANOTHER civilization, one who worships, what we quickly came to call him as, Space Jesus #3, who bares an uncanny resemblance to the Space Jesus' 1 and 2.. also with Krishna, Mithra and Horus (thanks Bill Maher!) but we're talking about Jesus, here.
Some time later, we've come to discover over 200 Space Jesus' in our own Milky Way. After millennia of toil, the most recent Space Jesus lived within the SAME EXACT time period that Earth Jesus was being engorged for sins. This debunked the claim by the New Space Jesus Order that all Space Jesus, including Earth Jesus, were in fact the same Jesus, wiping out sin from the galaxy like an inverted Santa Claus. The remaining true believers of Earth Jesus, a blip compared to their former breadth of influence, are flabbergasted and are mocked by the majority.
However, the remaining followers, berated and on the cusp, regularly resort to violence to prove everyone else wrong. IN THE NAME OF EARTH JESUS!
Uhhh, have you ever seen a supernova??? They're a LOT prettier than just a star. Given, you won't see a twinkle in the sky, but with a telescope, you'd see something fantastic, even hundreds of years after it exploded
Now cops can watch other cops have the case of 'fuckitz' when it comes to waiting for red lights.
I got this habit a while ago. It helps me with my delivery job ^_^
But now they might be able to watch me with my severe 'fuckitz'? They better bust each others balls as much as mine, or this won't be fair.
Sex at zero-gravity must be done so that the two partners are bound to each other in such a way as if they were a wooden paddle and a pink rubber ball tied by a string. I can't think of it in any other way..
More people may be added so that we have a human-representation of Newton's Cradle in effect.
I am very eager to masturbate to this idea.
Dolphins can use the same ploy against *US*!
Be wary, and think twice about the strangers you see, for a dolphin can be "surfing" on land with its new man-mobile.
Yes, dolphins, too, have an upper class who indulges on this kind of thing.
As to the weight of the light saber -- have we established it would have no weight? Certainly, any of the scenes in which a light saber flies around, the physics seem modeled to indicate weight.
The scenes depict weight because they were modeled after Kendo, tennis swings, and such, so they adopt the weighted swing.
However, you don't necessarily need more mass (weight) to increase inertia (an objects resistance to change of motion), such as electromagnetic fields.
Besides, I do believe light sabers are made out of light;)
Come now, every EverQuest player has broken at least 2 chairs from experiencing these 'consequences'. Having nothing to sit on while you retrieve your corpse is NOT fun.
This has been suggested many times before, probably with each Jack Thompson thread. Ignoring him will not make him go away. It's better to bash on him collectively, than to all turn our ear away from him, or else someone else will bring it up. I'd rather have all bitchy soccer moms, politicians, etc, to channel their stupidity and ignorance into him, so we can squelch Jack by proving him wrong.
Too bad you can't change a zealot's mind, but the soccer moms who care enough might hear some of his losing battles, and that's what really matters.
It wasn't the media's decision, it was the "executive committee of the South Carolina Democratic Party." Although, yes, their decision was based on the idea that across national news, it was ambiguous if his candidacy was real or not. Basically, they were scared of drawing disgrace upon themselves. Either way, it's a shameful shame.
I do agree though, this country is not a democracy. It can be, though. Shame, shame.
Please keep voting. You would at least want to look back and be able to say "at least I tried", and maybe work to change the future with your voting attempts, because no one listens to a man with an empty ballot.
Black holes don't last forever. They emit Hawking Radiation, meaning they lose their thermal energy over time. Lose enough energy, and you lose your black-holiness. I'm not exactly saying this is what became of most of the black holes that we see from our early universe, but I do know that black holes can wear out.
Two divided efforts competing towards the same goal can indeed achieve more rapid productivity. However, I believe that if a single combined entity is more effecient if its bureaus are large enough to promote inner competition.
In my opinion, divided efforts can produce wayward results, such as if Company A achieves a result 2x faster than B would have, Company B would have to diverge its focus from other departments to stay in the race, or else would have to suffer other losses, having to choose the lesser of two evils.
Inner competition is more friendly, less stressful, and if one department/bureau gets 'ahead of schedule', others would be pressured into catching up, but not in a detrimental way.
Too bad I'm just a theorist, and I don't base this on much. Inner competition really thrives if the single entity is large enough to Utopian-like proportions any-hoo. We will have to settle for our divided efforts, but it suffer from its division.
I thought of this idea about a month or two ago for the United States. My idea though was to have discussion forums, perhaps moderated like on slashdot, for voters to bounce ideas off one another. A summary then should be written with a poll on it, almost as a petition. These petitions could be edited under a sub-discussion, and if edited, the poll restarts under a new summary of desire/demands/comments. This is how the voice of the people should be represented, using the benefits of collective wisdom of the public.
But what is that consensus the result of? More content near end-game? Little and static features for lower levels? Following the model of previous MMO's? The players will play what is provided by the game. At first, it's to level up to 60. Then the designers think "Ok, what should they do now once they've got 60?" This very question unevenly divides the focus from the rest of the game content.
Personally, after a couple of years playing WoW, I never made a char past 51 or so. I did the same with EverQuest, too. I enjoyed just traversing around, playing every class to get their experience/feel, more of RPing than end-game raids. I quit both MMO's because I felt as if they were ignoring my kind of gameplay.
Btw, how is Vanguard doing? I've been interested in it, but was deterred from the low subscribers soon after post-launch.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to call yourself an agnostic if you practice buddhism? Atheism is defined as the disbelief of a God or supreme-being, while agnostic acknowledges that there is one, but doesn't follow it, or that they personally leave the question unanswered. Most buddhists believe that the idea of a God is a mystery and unconceivable if there was one, but not denying an existence of one.
Also remember, that these adaptations are made for Planet Earth. It's temperatures, humidity, gravity, visible light spectrum, day/night, etc. Hell, maybe there's a tree of life that isn't made of layers (ie food chain), but rather spirals!
Actually, there a lot of asteroids in the asteroid belt that revolve around each other. Actually, most of the asteroids are just a bunch of little asteroids that revolved around each other long enough and ffinally compressed.
One of the most controversial findings is the assertion that games are less engrossing than other media, with players having less of an emotional connection to in-game events than the events in a book or movie.
When you watched Independence Day, did you cry when the President's wife died? No, because the movie wasn't made that way. Games are pretty similar too, as the action usually takes priority over character connections. But hell, my heart warmed up when Ness was having flashbacks when he got one of his Your Sanctuary's, I got chills when Chrono got killed by Lavos, and I'm guessing a lot of people cried from Aerith got stabbed (I already knew =\). Even when I played KotOR, I was feeling some adrenaline when my character awoke on a battlestation that was under attack.
Too bad some of these games are ancient, and that I haven't experienced a strong character connection since. Am I jaded, am I playing the wrong games, or is the industry focusing too much on other gamer demands?
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And the Kung Pow Cow will be imbued with the Prime Program, giving him the ability to freely manipulate the simulated reality of the mootrix !
"The moment life is detected else where will once and for end the silly notion of god or religion."
Because?
BEECAAAUUSE we will eventually find a Space Jesus in another civilization!
..nuh-uh
The aliens that we discover will be worshiping their own Jesus, one who is older than ours - this will cause a schism between Earth Jesus followers, but many remain faithful to our Lord Jesus Christ. Another several thousands of years pass by when encounter YET ANOTHER civilization, one who worships, what we quickly came to call him as, Space Jesus #3, who bares an uncanny resemblance to the Space Jesus' 1 and 2.. also with Krishna, Mithra and Horus (thanks Bill Maher!) but we're talking about Jesus, here.
Some time later, we've come to discover over 200 Space Jesus' in our own Milky Way. After millennia of toil, the most recent Space Jesus lived within the SAME EXACT time period that Earth Jesus was being engorged for sins. This debunked the claim by the New Space Jesus Order that all Space Jesus, including Earth Jesus, were in fact the same Jesus, wiping out sin from the galaxy like an inverted Santa Claus. The remaining true believers of Earth Jesus, a blip compared to their former breadth of influence, are flabbergasted and are mocked by the majority.
However, the remaining followers, berated and on the cusp, regularly resort to violence to prove everyone else wrong. IN THE NAME OF EARTH JESUS!
Wait, did I say religion was gonna end?
What does camel meat taste like?
Uhhh, have you ever seen a supernova??? They're a LOT prettier than just a star. Given, you won't see a twinkle in the sky, but with a telescope, you'd see something fantastic, even hundreds of years after it exploded
Now cops can watch other cops have the case of 'fuckitz' when it comes to waiting for red lights.
I got this habit a while ago. It helps me with my delivery job ^_^
But now they might be able to watch me with my severe 'fuckitz'? They better bust each others balls as much as mine, or this won't be fair.
Maybe testing officials should be mandatory, and yield consequences..
care. I'm expecting 499 other people to say they don't care.
Sex at zero-gravity must be done so that the two partners are bound to each other in such a way as if they were a wooden paddle and a pink rubber ball tied by a string. I can't think of it in any other way..
More people may be added so that we have a human-representation of Newton's Cradle in effect.
I am very eager to masturbate to this idea.
Dolphins can use the same ploy against *US*!
Be wary, and think twice about the strangers you see, for a dolphin can be "surfing" on land with its new man-mobile.
Yes, dolphins, too, have an upper class who indulges on this kind of thing.
As to the weight of the light saber -- have we established it would have no weight? Certainly, any of the scenes in which a light saber flies around, the physics seem modeled to indicate weight.
;)
The scenes depict weight because they were modeled after Kendo, tennis swings, and such, so they adopt the weighted swing.
However, you don't necessarily need more mass (weight) to increase inertia (an objects resistance to change of motion), such as electromagnetic fields.
Besides, I do believe light sabers are made out of light
When did we lose faith in finding an American Einstein, huh?!
Come now, every EverQuest player has broken at least 2 chairs from experiencing these 'consequences'. Having nothing to sit on while you retrieve your corpse is NOT fun.
Alan Watts suggested that God is highly capable of joking, as it is the most constructive thing you can do. What else is God going to do with time?
Previous research had suggested the opposite, which ran counter to nearly everyone's personal experience.
What could have possibly have contradicted a learning curve such as "the more I play, the better I get"?
This has been suggested many times before, probably with each Jack Thompson thread. Ignoring him will not make him go away. It's better to bash on him collectively, than to all turn our ear away from him, or else someone else will bring it up. I'd rather have all bitchy soccer moms, politicians, etc, to channel their stupidity and ignorance into him, so we can squelch Jack by proving him wrong.
Too bad you can't change a zealot's mind, but the soccer moms who care enough might hear some of his losing battles, and that's what really matters.
It wasn't the media's decision, it was the "executive committee of the South Carolina Democratic Party." Although, yes, their decision was based on the idea that across national news, it was ambiguous if his candidacy was real or not. Basically, they were scared of drawing disgrace upon themselves. Either way, it's a shameful shame.
I do agree though, this country is not a democracy. It can be, though. Shame, shame.
Please keep voting. You would at least want to look back and be able to say "at least I tried", and maybe work to change the future with your voting attempts, because no one listens to a man with an empty ballot.
Black holes don't last forever. They emit Hawking Radiation, meaning they lose their thermal energy over time. Lose enough energy, and you lose your black-holiness. I'm not exactly saying this is what became of most of the black holes that we see from our early universe, but I do know that black holes can wear out.
I partially disagree.
Two divided efforts competing towards the same goal can indeed achieve more rapid productivity. However, I believe that if a single combined entity is more effecient if its bureaus are large enough to promote inner competition.
In my opinion, divided efforts can produce wayward results, such as if Company A achieves a result 2x faster than B would have, Company B would have to diverge its focus from other departments to stay in the race, or else would have to suffer other losses, having to choose the lesser of two evils.
Inner competition is more friendly, less stressful, and if one department/bureau gets 'ahead of schedule', others would be pressured into catching up, but not in a detrimental way.
Too bad I'm just a theorist, and I don't base this on much. Inner competition really thrives if the single entity is large enough to Utopian-like proportions any-hoo. We will have to settle for our divided efforts, but it suffer from its division.
...not just voting.
I thought of this idea about a month or two ago for the United States. My idea though was to have discussion forums, perhaps moderated like on slashdot, for voters to bounce ideas off one another. A summary then should be written with a poll on it, almost as a petition. These petitions could be edited under a sub-discussion, and if edited, the poll restarts under a new summary of desire/demands/comments. This is how the voice of the people should be represented, using the benefits of collective wisdom of the public.
But what is that consensus the result of? More content near end-game? Little and static features for lower levels? Following the model of previous MMO's? The players will play what is provided by the game. At first, it's to level up to 60. Then the designers think "Ok, what should they do now once they've got 60?" This very question unevenly divides the focus from the rest of the game content.
Personally, after a couple of years playing WoW, I never made a char past 51 or so. I did the same with EverQuest, too. I enjoyed just traversing around, playing every class to get their experience/feel, more of RPing than end-game raids. I quit both MMO's because I felt as if they were ignoring my kind of gameplay.
Btw, how is Vanguard doing? I've been interested in it, but was deterred from the low subscribers soon after post-launch.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to call yourself an agnostic if you practice buddhism? Atheism is defined as the disbelief of a God or supreme-being, while agnostic acknowledges that there is one, but doesn't follow it, or that they personally leave the question unanswered. Most buddhists believe that the idea of a God is a mystery and unconceivable if there was one, but not denying an existence of one.
Also remember, that these adaptations are made for Planet Earth. It's temperatures, humidity, gravity, visible light spectrum, day/night, etc. Hell, maybe there's a tree of life that isn't made of layers (ie food chain), but rather spirals!
I can see the title now: "Diablo: The Quest for an SoJ"
Actually, there a lot of asteroids in the asteroid belt that revolve around each other. Actually, most of the asteroids are just a bunch of little asteroids that revolved around each other long enough and ffinally compressed.
One of the most controversial findings is the assertion that games are less engrossing than other media, with players having less of an emotional connection to in-game events than the events in a book or movie.
When you watched Independence Day, did you cry when the President's wife died? No, because the movie wasn't made that way. Games are pretty similar too, as the action usually takes priority over character connections. But hell, my heart warmed up when Ness was having flashbacks when he got one of his Your Sanctuary's, I got chills when Chrono got killed by Lavos, and I'm guessing a lot of people cried from Aerith got stabbed (I already knew =\). Even when I played KotOR, I was feeling some adrenaline when my character awoke on a battlestation that was under attack.
Too bad some of these games are ancient, and that I haven't experienced a strong character connection since. Am I jaded, am I playing the wrong games, or is the industry focusing too much on other gamer demands?