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quangntenemy Posted:

Btw just to let you know CZ is working on a new pet dragon system so you can have these cool pets in your collection:

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No one gives a **** about your stupid dragons, stfu.

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Inertia Posted:

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Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer!

Zeta Posted:

Why do people drop pennies on the ground so much?

Because not enough people are posting on this ****ty thread of mine.

Why don’t dime or nickels get dropped insted?

God doesn't exist you fools.

Inertia Posted:

Once I asked my mum that if in the afterlife I went to Hell and she went to Heaven, would she feel sorrow. She paused a while and said that she cannot feel sorrow in heaven, and our family bond would be broken anyway.

I pressed on and said that if you cannot feel sorrow then you would not feel joy also because those feelings are the result of the change in mood, not the mood itself. She gave up.

Wow, that’s deep. How long ago did you say this?

God doesn't exist you fools.

BirdofPrey Posted:

”sometimes the answer is no”

Coincidence.

God doesn't exist you fools.

Ok, I could have been a little more trolly in the title, but you gety the point.

And yes, I know there’s already a thread on this, but I feel like starting my own.

Statistically analyze prayer

The fact is, God never answers any prayers. The entire idea that “God answers prayers” is an illusion created by human imagination.

How do we know that “answered prayers” are illusions? We simply perform scientific experiments. We ask a group of believers to pray for something and then we watch what happens. What we find, whenever we test the efficacy of prayer scientifically, is that prayer has zero effect:

It does not matter who prays.

It does not matter if we pray to God, Allah, Vishnu, Zeus, Ra or any other human god.

It does not matter what we pray about.

If we perform scientific, double-blind tests on prayer, and if the prayers involve something concrete and measurable (for example, healing people with cancer), we know that there is zero effect from prayer. Every single “answered prayer” is nothing more than a coincidence. Both scientific experiments and your everyday observations of the world show this to be the case every single time.

For example, this article says:

One of the most scientifically rigorous studies yet, published earlier this month, found that the prayers of a distant congregation did not reduce the major complications or death rate in patients hospitalized for heart treatments.

And:

A review of 17 past studies of ’’distant healing,” published in 2003 by a British researcher, found no significant effect for prayer or other healing methods.

This article from March, 2006 discusses the fact that the same conclusion was reached in another study:

In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that having people pray for heart bypbum surgery patients had no effect on their recovery. In fact, patients who knew they were being prayed for had a slightly higher rate of complications.

In this article we find an amazing quote where theologians and religious leaders declare that prayer has no actual effect:

Religious leaders will breathe a sigh of relief at the news that so-called intercessory prayer is medically ineffective. In a large and much touted scientific study, one group of patients was told that strangers would pray for them, a second group was told strangers might or might not pray for them, and a third group was not prayed for at all. The $2.4 million study found that the strangers’ prayers did not help patients’ recovery.

This is a remarkable example of “positive spin” — religious leaders are “breathing a sigh of relief” because prayer has been shown to be meaningless. The fact that prayer is a total waste of time does not matter to them. It does not matter that all of Jesus’ promises about prayer in the Bible have been proven completely false.

A peer-reviewed scientific study published in 2001 did indicate that prayer works. According to this article:

“On October 2, 2001, the New York Times reported that researchers at prestigious Columbia University Medical Center in New York had discovered something quite extraordinary. Using virtually foolproof scientific methods the researchers had demonstrated that infertile women who were prayed for by Christian prayer groups became pregnant twice as often as those who did not have people praying for them. The study was published in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine. Even the researchers were shocked. The study’s results could only be described as miraculous.”

This study was later proven to be completely fraudulent. However, everyone who cut out the original article in the NYTimes and posted it on their refrigerators still has that article as “proof” that prayer works.

This article entitled A prayer before dying uncovers another case where a “scientific study” of prayer is unmasked as fraudulent.

It’s not just prayer that is ineffective. Not even a hopeful attitude helps. According to this article:

A positive attitude does not improve the chances of surviving cancer and doctors who encourage patients to keep up hope may be burdening them, according to the results of research released Monday.

The dictionary defines the word “superstition” in this way:

An irrational belief that an object, action, or cirgreat timesstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome. [ref]

The belief in prayer is a superstition. It has been proven scientifically over and over again. When a prayer appears to be answered, it is a coincidence. Quite simply, prayer has absolutely no effect on the outcome of any event. The “power of prayer” is actually “the power of coincidence.”

Prayer does not work because God is completely imaginary.

Understanding the Rationalizations

You can find many believers who will say, “The reason why scientific experiments fail to detect God is because God must remain hidden. He does not answer prayers if he knows that he will be detected.”

In order to see the truth, you need to accept that this explanation is silly. If God must remain hidden, then he cannot answer any prayers. Any “answered prayer” would expose God.

The whole notion that “God” must remain “hidden” is a total cross-threading of religious doctrine. On the one hand, believers will say that “God wrote the Bible, God incarnated himself and died on the cross for us, and God answers millions of prayers on earth every day.” Then in the next breath they will say, “God must remain hidden.” God obviously cannot “remain hidden” and “incarnate himself.” These two items are mutually exclusive. Therefore, the explanation that “God must remain hidden” is impossible. As soon as you accept how impossible it is, you can begin to see see that God is imaginary.

In order to see the truth, you need to accept the fact that the scientific evidence is accurate and irrefutable. We have scientifically proven that God does not answer any prayers on earth. Every single “answered prayer” is nothing more than a coincidence.

We can see reality by looking at a simple example. Imagine that the rate of remission for some particularly nasty type of cancer is 5%. That means that if 20 people get this type of cancer, it is almost always fatal. Only one in twenty of the people who get the disease will survive. Knowing this, you can see what happens if we actually analyze prayer:

20 believers contract the disease

All of them have read James 5:15, so all of them pray.

19 of them die

The one who lives proclaims, “I prayed to the Lord and the Lord answered my prayers! My disease is cured! It is a miracle! I KNEW God would answer my prayers!”

You never hear about the 19 who died. No one ever writes about them in a magazine. “Person prays, then dies” is not a great headline. And since they are dead, you will never hear from any of these people.

Therefore, if you don’t look at all the facts around the “answered prayer,” and you only hear about the one out of twenty prayers that succeed, it appears that prayer is successful.

The fact is, believers who pray die from this disease at exactly the same rate as people who do not.

We can see the reality of this situation simply by opening our eyes and looking at the data. But we do have to open our eyes — We have to look at both the successes AND the failures of prayer to see the reality of our world. When we take a scientific approach and we do look at both sides, we see what is really happening. God does not answer any prayers because God is imaginary.

TL;DR: Answered prayers are mere coincidences. (It’s worth a read though)

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Drunkenlazybastard Posted:

move to The Closet of Shame

Adapt Posted:

move to Full of Won

zigzagoon Posted:

move to canada

Wow.. that was somewhat special.

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bump.

Better web spiders?

Zeta Posted:

This would **** the .moar trading system in unimaginable ways. It should either be this or trading .moars, because you really can’t have both as people are asking for it.

Sorry, but I’m siding with the .moar system when it comes out. The only way I would support this is if it costed somewhere around the 10 – 20 million fleez zone, because at least then people would still have to work their bumes off for a while if they wanted it. Maybe the price should be even higher, because this would quite literally be the ultimate item. All you would need is this, and you can basically do make whatever you want.

Once you get this, though, there should only be three features:

1: It makes a list of .moar files that appear in a forum

2: It let’s you select which file you wish to get, and only parts from that file will be given. No “only get parts that you don’t have”. That would make it way too easy.

3: If you chose to use this to get only parts of a file you want, there needs to be a 5% chance of what I’m going to call file corruption. With file corruption, you don’t know it, but a piece that you get will be just that, corrupted, and you don’t know until you have all the parts and try to bumemble the file where you will be given an error message like “One or more parts of this file are corrupted. Deleting corupted files…”

Once that happens, you can go try again for the part you want.

Personally, I think this would be the only way this could be put in place along with the .moar trading system, as otherwise it would drive the price so far down they would be worthless.

You raise an interesting point. I agree with your three points(I really like the corrupted file idea a lot), but I never mentionned trading .moar parts. Without the trading, I don’t see why they would have to sell for more than 5 mil. flezz.

Anyways, it’s just an idea.

PatchTheDarknut doesn't want to be my friend anymore because I hanged his avatar.

Biff Weasley Posted:

I thought Patch’s woman's genitals was in his bum. New avatar confusing change please.

Lol. Someone should make a photo on MSpaint of a woman's genitals inside an bum or something. I’m too lazy to do it myself.