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DF Suggestions / Re: Usage for wax
« on: January 24, 2011, 06:25:24 am »
Wax is good for keeping stuff tightly corked, so perhaps it could be used to make special containers for future substances which degrade or explode on contact with the air?

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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 24, 2011, 06:06:28 am »
Quote from: Siquo on January 24, 2011, 05:57:16 am
Quote from: Shambling Zombie on January 24, 2011, 05:52:40 am
solid evidence [..]reasonable people
Subjective terms. Hardcore literalists consider the bible as Word Of God as "solid evidence", and everyone who agrees with them "reasonable". Lucky for you and I, that group is rather small (yet vocal :( ).

I guess my meaning of "reasonable" was those who are willing to give other's points of view an honest consideration, and to challenge their own beliefs if new information or evidence comes to light. Not folks who point at something, say it's Word of God, and declare it final.

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General Discussion / Re: Cannibalism
« on: January 24, 2011, 05:59:16 am »
Quote from: Heliman on January 24, 2011, 03:39:19 am

Quote from: Shambling Zombie on January 23, 2011, 08:13:14 pm
I have a feeling starvation would eventually break all but the most strong-willed of people into resorting to extreme measures like cannibalism.

Although, if you are stuck on an island, lack of drinking water would probably kill you before you got that hungry.
Untrue, there have been many starvation cases where people have entirely refused to eat one-another for food.

Still fine with desperation cannibalism though. Om nom nom.

I hope that I would have the strength to be like those people and resist the starvation pangs. Not too keen on testing it out though.

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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 24, 2011, 05:52:40 am »
I like it how there are a very large amount of reasonable people of faith who look at various scientific theories which are backed up by the evidence and say "Yeah, that must be how <deity or cosmic force> made it to be."

It may differ on the idea of why it is so (natural forces vs supernatural guidance) but I admire those willing to decide based on solid evidence.

I like reasonable people.  :)

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Need a project to focus on.
« on: January 24, 2011, 03:15:56 am »
I wonder if it would be possible to carve out an upside-down pyramid, supported at its tip by a single support.

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General Discussion / Re: Cannibalism
« on: January 24, 2011, 03:12:48 am »
Quote from: smigenboger on January 24, 2011, 03:08:57 am
No Sweeney Todd references?

Um... er.... lets see.

More meat pies! *stamp! stamp! stamp!*

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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 24, 2011, 03:11:05 am »
Hehehe, I too never thought I'd see fundie Agnosticism. I too stand corrected.

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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 24, 2011, 01:29:03 am »
Quote from: Farmerbob on January 24, 2011, 01:25:53 am
Quote from: G-Flex on January 24, 2011, 01:03:40 am
Quote from: Farmerbob on January 24, 2011, 01:01:09 am
Theists believe in a god.  Atheists do not.  Agnostics do not believe or disbelieve.

These aren't actually the definitions you provided.

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Atheism and Agnosticism have almost NOTHING in common.

Then you don't know what the words mean, and apparently refuse to see what they mean even after it's been explained to you about a half-dozen times. I suggest you stop trying to argue the point. It's a dead horse, and its legs were broken to begin with.

Let's see, we aren't allowed to use dictionary definitions because we need to use foofoo from Doctor Fantastic's big guide to religion.

So let's go to the basic roots of the words, which I absolutely defy you to refute.

Almost everyone here understands what a prefix is, I hope, so I won't go into it in terrible detail:

Gnosis (the greek root not the religion) refers to knowledge.  Agnostic refers to a lack of knowledge.

Theism refers to belief in a deity, Atheism refers to a lack of belief in a deity.

These two terms are NOT interchangeable in any way, shape, or form.

Unless you have a lack of belief in a deity based on a lack of knowledge.

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General Discussion / Re: Goodbye Olbermann
« on: January 24, 2011, 01:25:40 am »
Quote from: Max White on January 23, 2011, 06:02:21 am
Across the pacific, Liberals are guys that swim out into the ocean in less then enough clothing and try and stop boat people.

That's funny! That dude was creepy.

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General Discussion / Re: [:3] Things that made you HAPPY today thread. Auuu~!
« on: January 24, 2011, 01:23:09 am »
Quote from: Naxza on January 24, 2011, 01:14:01 am
As of about fourteen minutes ago, I am now seventeen years of age. This makes me happy.

Congrats and Happy Birthday!

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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 24, 2011, 01:02:32 am »
Quote from: optimumtact on January 24, 2011, 12:56:08 am
Here's a mental exercise

Lets assume there is a god who is fully in control of our universe in a similar way to the Christian/Muslim/Jewish God.

How then do we justify the day to day happenings of earth?
I.E. how is is possible for him to stand aside and let us kill/rape/torture/pillage.

That is the faint evidence I spoke of earlier. There are pointlessly cruel and nasty things which happen, which simply wouldn't happen if such a being ruled over the universe and was perfect and omnipotent.
Some put forward the idea that it is all for a higher purpose, or perhaps to teach the rest of us important lessons. I personally think a perfect being would be capable of teaching us just find without any torture happening.

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General Discussion / Re: Atheism Redux [READ THE FIRST POST]
« on: January 24, 2011, 12:42:29 am »
Quote from: KaguroDraven on January 24, 2011, 12:26:56 am
And yet none of those definitions fit me. I doupt any form of deity exists, but I am open to the idea that I'm wrong about it. This is becouse while yes it is true there is absolutely no evidence of a deity, there is no true evidence saying one, or more, doesn't exist.

Isn't that Agnostic, or perhaps Explicit Weak Atheist?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What's going on in your fort?
« on: January 24, 2011, 12:00:46 am »
My in-fortress well is beginning to overflow, and it's not bothering my dwarfs at all. They're bathing int the overflow, bucketing it for patients and generally ignoring that the well is overflowing.

In other matters, the latest goblin siege's bloody results are being cleaned up and dumped in my trusty trash compactor. We're saving the goblinite and a few bits of neat clothing, the rest is gonna be smashed. Finally, one of my dwarfs got possessed and may a shist ring studded with gems and gold.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Craziest Forgotten Beast
« on: January 23, 2011, 11:55:28 pm »
Brown, hairy gigantic crocodile with mandibles instead of a mouth, and armed with a deadly sting to beware was my strangest one yet.

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DF General Discussion / Re: Hand to hand combat
« on: January 23, 2011, 11:52:17 pm »
I notice the biting as mostly weird, kicks and punches seem fairly realistic to me.

I still think the biting should stay in though, just because it's funny to see one of my dwarfs charge into combat with a Dragon and bite it on the foreleg, and latch on firmly. One of my wrestlers killed a Giant Earthworm by biting it and shaking it around.

A possible fix I could think of is making humanoid bite attacks at legs, feet and lower body always miss, since you'd have to squat to do that and just get a knee in the face.

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