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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Pattern Anomaly
« on: January 18, 2011, 01:20:03 pm »Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Pattern Anomaly
« on: January 18, 2011, 12:40:09 pm »Find the file with forbidden concepts and manually delete it. Don't make it clear to turing that's what you are abaut to do as it'd probably be obliged to stop you.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: January 18, 2011, 12:32:38 pm »I equipped my wife-beater (vest for those of you in the UK, I believe it is) and looked in the mirror.Eat more fastfood
I am ridiculously thin.
It's horrible. D:
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Mafia / Re: Live Mafia on IRC with a great moderator Bot.
« on: January 18, 2011, 12:26:20 pm »Is repeatedly getting killed on N0 as town a good thing?Well you get to rest a lot. In peace even.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Magma rose
« on: January 18, 2011, 12:22:57 pm »On what level did you breach the magma? Don't forget pressure.There is no pressure in magma. Yet.
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I keep reading this thread title and thinking it's a kind of plant that grows in magma. Which would be awesome.
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux
« on: January 18, 2011, 12:14:43 pm »It's just the way humans work, as a general population, we tend to either seek out or create groups in order to associate with like minded persons.Stop making me doubt my humanity! Or rather, go on!
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux
« on: January 18, 2011, 12:13:11 pm »
The definition of a religion is kinda fuzzy. While any belief involving a god of sorts is a religion (unless of course it's the rejection of one, yadda yadda), what about non-theistic stuff?
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux
« on: January 18, 2011, 12:07:01 pm »
I'm all for renaming it "Idontbelievethereisagod-ism"
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux
« on: January 18, 2011, 12:02:10 pm »Well, weak atheism does include agnosticism, yes.Damn over-generalization making everything confusing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit_and_explicit_atheism
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux
« on: January 18, 2011, 11:57:26 am »
Weak atheism seems like agnosticism to me*. That's the thing with vocabulary, everybody has their own definition of certain words.
*Or people who have no concept of God.
*Or people who have no concept of God.
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux
« on: January 18, 2011, 11:54:18 am »That's true, but until then, something that doesn't affect it's surroundings is practically nonexistent.Eh, I'm afraid you have lost me, I've never mentioned any specific god. Unless you believe I think that photons are god? I'll respond if you are clearer in your statement.
You described a particular god, one that is omniscient, omnipotent, and actively hides its existence from us. That god's existence is irrelevant. We will not discover it in any time frame, because it is willing and able to prevent us from doing so. Not that god. I said nothing about the significance of any god, just the one you described.
Ah, I see your point, however it's unfounded. We can't know that said Deity isn't planning on making itself known tomorrow, or in a week, next decade, or a million years from now. Perhaps it's waiting for us to grow up as a race, and wants to let us do it mostly by ourselves.
But in that case, how do we know it's God? Or a god for that matter?
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux
« on: January 18, 2011, 11:47:33 am »
So yay, I finally know the name of my affiliation.
I've just noticed that I've been actually participating in a discussion about a serious topic. Only happens once or twice a year.
I've just noticed that I've been actually participating in a discussion about a serious topic. Only happens once or twice a year.
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Forum Games and Roleplaying / Re: Pattern Anomaly
« on: January 18, 2011, 11:43:50 am »
Get the hell outta dodge!
>Disable all ventilation systems!
>Disable all ventilation systems!
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux
« on: January 18, 2011, 11:42:36 am »Well, if you're applying a ridiculously loose definition of a religion and a crazily tight definition of atheism... sure, I guess I'm not an atheist. Wow!Actually I meant that Atheism is the total rejection of any concept of god. You accept the possibility, so you're evidently not rejecting.
On the other hand, that means that, say, Richard Dawkins isn't an atheist either.
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux
« on: January 18, 2011, 11:39:02 am »An atheist does NOT have to believe that there is no possibility of a god. To be an atheist, you just have to not believe in one.And that's where you're wrong.