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    Big money controlling news in USA

    in Civilization Problems

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    I never said anything against Nuclear. The only problem is in the rare events something does go wrong. That has a huge negative impact, but otherwise it's generally safe and very effective.

    Never said you did, it was just a min-rant against the "environmentalists" that are preventing decent power plants from being made. (the newest nuclear reactor is over 50 years old because of them)

     

    As for the safety of a nuke if something goes horribly wrong... Thorium reactors cannot go critical... Ever. Thorium reactors have no radioactive waste... At all.

    Team Fortress 2

    in Valve Games / Valve Stuff

    Posted

    I've used aimbots, and I've had lucky shots, so I personally don't call "aimbot" unless there are 3-4 awfully suspicious kills... Every time I do, all those suspicious kills either start happening to me, (definite aimbot, and the user doesn't care about people knowing) stop happening all together, (definite aimbot, and doesn't want to get caught) or continue. (most likely not an aimbot, just a really good aim)

     

    That said... I've seen way too many 'botters to want to bother playing. (I even know how to completely bypass VAC and all the server checks, and it's not that hard)

    Does God exist? (your opinion anyways.)

    in Serious Topic Discussion

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    "Oh but what if it is this way and you're going to go to hell for not believing?"

     

    That's the Pascal's Wager! It is better to believe that God exists, then if you win you win a place in Paradise and if you lose - it doesn't matter, however, if you don't believe in God and lose - you go to Hell for a very long time...

     

    The trouble is what if you chose to believe on the basis of that rational argument and God really exists and he sees your mental calculations and disqualifies you for the opportunism?

    Don't use Pascal's Wager... God won't like it. :)

     

    What proof do you have that there even were "proto-humans" at that time?

     

    From Wiki: "Anatomically modern humans appear from about 200,000 years ago and after 70,000 years ago (see Toba catastrophe theory) gradually marginalize the "archaic" varieties. Non-modern varieties of Homo are certain to have survived until after 30,000 years ago, and perhaps until as recent as 10,000 years ago. Which of these, if any, are included under the term "archaic human" is a matter of definition and varies among authors. Nonetheless, according to recent genetic studies, modern humans may have bred with "at least two groups" of ancient humans: Neanderthals and Denisovans.[3] Other studies have cast doubt on admixture being the source of the shared genetic markers between archaic and modern humans, pointing to an ancestral origin of the traits originating 500,000 to 800,000 years ago."

     

    But, of course, if the Universe is only 6 or 7 thousand years old this is all an illusion.

    Well, I can go into several aspects of how current dating methods are so corrupt that they can't get a true date on anything that wasn't observed and recorded when it actually was... I could also go into that stupid assumption that because the bible says that Adam & Eve were kicked out of the garden 6000 years ago, that it also means that the age of earth/the universe is the same...

     

    I think I'll let you decide what I should reply to first.

     

    You are so far off base, I can't even figure out where to begin...

     

    That's why I qualified my earlier post(s) on that... After all, RE was not the most prominent part of the Soviet school curriculum and, quite frankly, I never bothered to investigate the subject in more details as I just don't see the need. Also, I live in the UK now and people here generally did nothing to correct my misconceptions. However, seeing as they historically view the Papists with some suspicions and disapproval, there may be a bias here as well :-)

    Yeah, you've got two sides of bias pushing you to completely dismiss as untrue anything that doesn't meet their political agenda. (the king is the head of the church in the UK, and Russia has a history of controlling the religion with an iron fist)

     

    That is beside the things, which if true in the Book, must necessarily mean that what we see around us is an illusion.

     

    Where do you get that from?

     

    Isn't that the only logical conclusion? If the source seen as absolutely and infallibly true says "A" and your observations say "B", there follows that "B" is an illusion.

    Sometimes we just don't see how two seemingly conflicting sets of facts can be true at the same time. Doesn't mean either observation/fact is wrong, it just means we don't know HOW it works.

     

    "Oh but what if it is this way and you're going to go to hell for not believing?"

     

    That's the Pascal's Wager! It is better to believe that God exists, then if you win you win a place in Paradise and if you lose - it doesn't matter, however, if you don't believe in God and lose - you go to Hell for a very long time...

     

    The trouble is what if you chose to believe on the basis of that rational argument and God really exists and he sees your mental calculations and disqualifies you for the opportunism?

     

     

    This is why I choose to believe that if the christian god is the real one, he's a lot more reasonable than people make him out to be. I was actually raised catholic and took weekly classes over the course of, I dunno, 5 or so years at the church in our faith. I think it actually helped me with defining my own beliefs, taking some ideas and throwing out others until I found a system that I personally believe in and allows me to live the way I want to.

     

    The way I see it, if I'm going to hell because of my beliefs, then God is a jackass and doesn't deserve my love anyway. I won't know any of that until I'm dead, and my own beliefs gives me a different idea of what will happen after death, so what if I'm right? That's the thing about faith, it's all about what you choose to and choose not to believe. Changing the way the bible is written won't accomplish anything other than giving people yet another series of things to argue about.

     

    In fact, surely there are many people who would be fully against changing the translation, because they think that this version of the bible is the really real one. Again, it's all subjective and nothing's ever going to change that.

    And you have every right to believe that. Everybody has the right to believe what they believe, I'm just trying (hopefully) to provide a more accurate view of what the Catholic faith is. (there are so many misconceptions that even 90% of Catholics are wrong about what the faith's teachings actually are)

    Vent

    in Free-For-All

    Posted

    Or look it up, and learn how to fix it... (what I'm going to have to do for some of the repairs for my bike)

    Im so glad google exists.... and that I can access it on my phone. Dont know how many times that has saved me...

     

     

    Im too lazy to fix my front brake and the only thing holding my other break (rear wheel) in place is a rubber band... slightly worried that it will snap while Im going downhill

    Agreed. Might want to fix one of them, just for safety concerns. (it's really easy when you get a couple parts)

    Big Bang possibly confirmed

    in Serious Topic Discussion

    Posted

    Obviously I'm able to convey my ideas in text form. Have you taken any classes on writing argumentative essays or... writing in general? It's amazing how much having some further education after High School helps with this sort of thing.

    I have extensive schooling for it, but I was never very good at doing anything beyond technical writing. (I could condense a 30 page essay on almost anything down to a page or two of pros and cons, and my personal opinion, but I could never get significantly past that)

     

    Speaking of poorly conveying ideas, it seems like you're directly insulting me and anyone who is able to properly convey an idea in text form. How is an ability to communicate through text delusional? Clearly you must have meant something else. I know you know that insulting people is against the rules unless it's an obvious joke, and I'm not seeing the joke.

    I apologize for my wording, I apparently was more tired than I thought I was at the time. I meant to say that I had significant difficulty, and that the vast majority of other people do as well. (especially when trying to convey an idea that requires an assumption or belief that the recipient is unwilling to have for whatever reason)

    Big money controlling news in USA

    in Civilization Problems

    Posted

    Do people not realize that every area of the planet has different cyclic climate changes? Central Arizona has a 4 year, 40 year, and 400 year cyclic change. That is what most people are calling "global climate change" now... It isn't a permanent change, it's a natural cycle that has been going for so long that we simply don't have records of most of the long-term cycles. (the ones in AZ are mostly from the natives, and the farmers)

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_oscillation

     

    Climate oscillation is not caused by humans, but can be minimally affected by certain "greenhouse gas" emissions. (not all, just some)

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