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To squid or not to squid; that is the squid.TurboSquid Posted:
Bidsquid is an octopus, and not a squid at all. Bidsquid has no mantle. (view post) |
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Giving out friend requests for freequangntenemy Posted: |
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YOUR THREADS ARE ALL DUMB, WHEREAS MINE HAVE COOL THINGS, SO YOURE STUPIDCool things like ostriches?
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Apparently There is Not Enough Draginz in my Klan PageThis one grew up today: Log in to see images! (view post) |
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ITT: Pictures of Ostriches, with special guest appearances by spammers.Log in to see images! (view post) |
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Dear Kittie (like Dear Abby only with bad advice)My ostrich keeps looking at me like this: Log in to see images!
What is he trying to say? (view post) |
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IF U SEE THIS THREAD U HAVE 2 REPLY OR U WILL DIE IN 7 DAYSLog in to see images! (view post) |
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ITT: Pictures of Ostriches, with special guest appearances by spammers.Log in to see images! (view post) |
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Something weird happened to me todaySandwich Chef Posted:
It’s called an “acrostic” dumbbum, use your words. (view post) |
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ET, When will .........I don’t think production on Episode 3 has even started yet, and we won’t really have any idea until he starts coding. I hope he tells us when he starts on Ep 3 though. (view post) |
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ITT: Pictures of Ostriches, with special guest appearances by spammers.Log in to see images! (view post) |
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New Game! Exclusive screenshots inside!I do have to point out that of all the people on Flamebate, I may be the easiest to work into a fantasy RPG or suchlike. (view post) |
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ITT: Pictures of Ostriches, with special guest appearances by spammers.Log in to see images! (view post) |
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ITT: Pictures of Ostriches, with special guest appearances by spammers.Log in to see images! (view post) |
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Apparently There is Not Enough Draginz in my Klan PageI grew up another adult since the last time you asked, enjoy. I may have more in a couple of days.
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Religious playersShii Posted:
Well….
The “law of conservation of mbum” is widely known to be false, it is constantly violated on a subatomic level and doing so actually is what holds the nuclei of atoms together. It’s one of those artifacts of clbumical physics that is entirely irrelevant in modern science.
The second law of thermodynamics says nothing about whether or not a system can be infinite. It says that for any system which is not at equilibrium, it will change in such a way that maximizes entropy, with the maximal entropy occurring at equilibrium. It’s entirely compatible with infinite systems.
So I don’t really agree with your reasoning here.
The most important thing you’re missing is that there is no law of conversion of mbum, the universe cheats all the time. Particle/anti-particle production pairs are common and measureable, occasionally entirely out of nowhere a particle and its antiparticle will appear (e.g. an electron and a positron, two photons, etc.). It’s widely believed that the origins of the universe were actually due to a mbumive scale vacuum fluctuation, which created an equal (large) amount of hydrogen and anti-hydrogen and some force caused a broken symmetry that caused some of the anti-matter to change into matter and after the annihilation process, there was matter leftover and the universe went on its merry way. However, since there’s a lot of mysterious processes at work here (What’s up with a vacuum fluctuation of that magnitude? What caused the symmetry to break?) that most mature intelligent people have no trouble granting that you can attribute the cause to some unknown named force, if you so choose.
Really, it would be baffling to believe in any sort of deity that creates the universe and doesn’t actually shape it using the principles on which the physical universe actually operates. Sure, you can appear as a burning bush if you want, but it’s more elegant to actually use the machinery that’s already in place. Bushes don’t normally spontaneously combust, but vacuum fluctuations are comically frequent for something as counterintuitive as they are. (view post) |
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Religious playersWell, as a thoughtful scientist with a heavy background in analytic philosophy, I put a lot of stock into the “web of belief” idea put forward by W.V.O. Quine in “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.” Essentially, because theories face the jury of empirical evidence holistically it is impossible to fully separate “metaphysics” from “science” and so Quine advocates a sort of Pragmatic Empiricism that I heartily endorse. Essentially, that you judge theories not only on their ability to jive fully with experimental evidence, but also in their fecundity, predictive power, and aesthetic appeal in addition to other things.
To that end, I see no problem in attributing at least some of the (at least empistemlogical, possibly ontological) randomness we see in the physical universe to the machinations of a impersonal, uncaring, thing I can give a name to, at least insofar as “doing so amuses me.” Since, in terms of “polluting the web of belief” from a Quinean perspective, the cost for doing so is entirely negligible. There’s no real predictive or descriptive advantage to this model, but it has its aesthetic appeal (so probably more acceptable in a Kuhnian sense than a Quinean sense, but I digress). Since it’s an entirely disorganized and private religion, it avoids all of the harms of organized religion while still supplying “warm fuzzies” and other benefits of spirituality, and doesn’t really offer any of the common mental traps supplied by various popular dogmas (in fact, I prefer to parodize them). So from a purely pragmatic sense, it’s entirely logical, if we can ascribe some sort of logic to “things that make me happy.” (view post) |
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Question concerning booksMC Banhammer Posted: Hmmm… when I was going through episode 2, I got the Democrat book from Reilly O’Bill and couldn’t equip it because I hadn’t unlocked the bookstore yet. I knew I couldn’t equip it because it went under “Unequippable Items”, and so I sold it at Ppwn thinking it was some sort of Troll-specific item. I now regret selling it for like 12 flezz. Are you telling me that I should have been able to equip it? Any chance I can get that book back without paying Kyoubai prices? Log in to see images! (view post) |
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Religious playersI have a graduate degree, have never lived south of the mason-dixon line, and I worship the Greco-Roman Goddess of Chaos.
Nice to meet you. (view post) |
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No Trolling: Poll about DragonsAntiRules187 Posted:
Not to try to drag this topic, but why don’t people just click “disable signatures in Flamebate” like I did, five minutes after I made my account. (view post) |
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