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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Hold on a Second You goblins
« on: January 25, 2011, 05:03:07 am »
Bird-like wings, or bat-like wings?
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General Discussion / Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread. Auuu~!
« on: January 25, 2011, 05:00:22 am »
I'm happy becausing I'm reading a book about how to survive a zombie apocalypse, playing Dwarf Fortress and discussing stuff on these boards all at the same time.
Life is good.
Life is good.
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 25, 2011, 04:46:25 am »
I like that I asked a question about religious stuff, and got multiple though-provoking answers that were all quite lucid and civil.
Doesn't happen too much on religious debates. I like these forums.
Doesn't happen too much on religious debates. I like these forums.
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 25, 2011, 02:32:36 am »
We're avoiding debate about religious issues in this thread? 
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 25, 2011, 01:59:20 am »Ignoring the debate over the existance of a soul.
Everything your soul knows, it has seen, heard and felt through your body. In that way, your body defines your soul more then your soul defines your body. Therefor, suffering of the body is suffering of the soul.
Another interesting point is with brain damage. If the soul is the True You and the body merely a vessel, why can brain damage cause major changes in personality, morality, worldview and sometimes complete memory loss?
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 25, 2011, 12:49:28 am »
I've never heard of the "God loves you but doesn't care about your mortal suffering" theory before, but it does fit more with how the world is, I guess. That sort of a deity -would- allow the aforementioned fire, so the fire happening isn't evidence against Him.
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General Discussion / Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread. Auuu~!
« on: January 24, 2011, 11:57:34 pm »I think the wakeup call was when I woke up in the tops and everyone was dead.
You make that sound like a bad thing. I reckon they had it coming.
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 24, 2011, 10:49:31 pm »WRT* God's benevolent nature; if we are to God as insects on the windshield are to us, God is not benevolent. I am not benevolent toward the insects that impact my windshield, or insects in general (beyond what I understand to be necessary to support the ecosystem, since I live there, but even that wouldn't apply to an omnipotent deity).
*Meaning With Respect To, not White Raven Tactics [/mildly obscure joke]
I agree.
On the topic of mythology, it's hard not to be at least mildly curious about tales of heroism, betrayal and other such struggles. Even better if it features a lady who can turn people into pigs, and a cyclops who gets his eye poked out.
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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Melting, shmelting, and skills
« on: January 24, 2011, 09:25:42 pm »
The screen above would only appear if you set a weapons rack or armour stand to be a barracks.
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 24, 2011, 08:49:57 pm »Yes, it is. As horrifying as those events seem to you, it is impossible to guess what God thinks of that. I mean, how abhorred are you at the family of insects on the windshield of your car? It's that distance, from you to insect, times infinity. That's how far his thoughts are from yours. So yeah, I think that's hubris. Or egocentric.Oh, I'm a deist, not an atheist. I believe there is a God (through experience, so I've got EVIDENCE), but am completely unsure as to his nature. Or of the nature of anything, including my experience. But you need some sense of reality to survive in this reality, I guess.So uh... it's hubris to try and speculate on the nature of God, but not hubris to think that you and only you have experienced this completely impossible to understand being?
Well, Siquo didn't claim to be the only one as such to have such an experience, but I get what you're saying.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Superweapon Idea
« on: January 24, 2011, 07:11:28 pm »
Maybe you could flood the whole outdoors with pumped water from a stream or somesuch, after sealing the entrance of your fort. The wonderous domain of the sea dwarfs.
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DF Suggestions / Re: Regarding Dwarfs Thirsting
« on: January 24, 2011, 07:05:25 pm »
Small side question related to thirsting, do dwarfs drink milk?
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 24, 2011, 06:25:34 pm »Is it really hubris to hear about a family dying in a house fire, then hear people talking of an omnipotent, benevolent diety and think "That doesn't make sense."?Yes, it is. As horrifying as those events seem to you, it is impossible to guess what God thinks of that. I mean, how abhorred are you at the family of insects on the windshield of your car? It's that distance, from you to insect, times infinity. That's how far his thoughts are from yours. So yeah, I think that's hubris. Or egocentric.
Fair enough. Although I would still have difficulty applying "benevolent" to a being which allows burning someone alive. Just because a bug is tiny and unintelligent by comparison to a human, doesn't make pulling its legs off slowly an ok thing to do, at least in my mind.
Wouldn't WWJD be just as hubristic though, to think that anyone could know what a divine being wants them to do or be?
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What's going on in your fort?
« on: January 24, 2011, 04:26:59 pm »
In my current DF world, one of my dwarf's main deities, one of gems and metals, is depicted as a naked mole rat. In a previous world, a monarch butterfly was the deity of destruction and lies.
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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 24, 2011, 04:18:23 pm »
Is it really hubris to hear about a family dying in a house fire, then hear people talking of an omnipotent, benevolent diety and think "That doesn't make sense."?