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- Tue May 14, 2013 1:39 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Official Tyre Thread
- Replies: 1582
- Views: 275203
Re: Official Tyre Thread
Yes, the on-board shots were very telling indeed.
- Tue May 14, 2013 1:23 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Syria using Chemical Weapons - The Red Line has been Crossed
- Replies: 91
- Views: 24463
Re: Syria using Chemical Weapons - The Red Line has been Cro
Eating dead peoples hearts, be-heading, suicide bombs, chemical weapon use. Why does this part of the world take depravity to the ultimate level, accepting that, as in all cultures, the majority of people are decent. Anyway, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, I saw a documentary about Syria with...
- Tue May 14, 2013 11:03 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Syria using Chemical Weapons - The Red Line has been Crossed
- Replies: 91
- Views: 24463
Re: Syria using Chemical Weapons - The Red Line has been Cro
hmm I wonder if a video of a syrian rebel eating the heart of a government soldier would change the positioning of this "red line" at all? This depraved act (which in my book almost beats decapitations) will certainly make it harder for any politician to stand up and say that we should be supporting...
- Tue May 14, 2013 7:48 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Exploring the subconscious
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7087
Re: Exploring the subconscious
A USB stick would be better. Or better still, cloud storage.Nakojo wrote:If I compare the mind to a computer, I'd roughly translate it as follows:
Unconscious is bios
Subconscious is hard drive
Conscious is RAM
By meditation, I can slowly turn my hard drive into a flash disk...
- Mon May 13, 2013 8:54 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Exploring the subconscious
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7087
Re: Exploring the subconscious
I'm interested in the subconscious from a scientific point of view. The fact that we only understand the tip of the iceberg and that the vast majority of our brain-power is either not understood, or is left un-tapped. . Is that actually true? I thought the basis of that was a myth, and while you on...
- Mon May 13, 2013 8:16 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Exploring the subconscious
- Replies: 27
- Views: 7087
Re: Exploring the subconscious
I'm interested in the subconscious from a scientific point of view. The fact that we only understand the tip of the iceberg and that the vast majority of our brain-power is either not understood, or is left un-tapped. I'm skeptical as to whether meditation, for example, allows you to explore the sub...
- Wed May 08, 2013 8:07 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
Back to square one.. How do you know? I just do, all right? But how? I just do, now that's the end of it. But why? Because I said so. I guess that's the kind of short conversation you might have with a small child when you're fed up of difficult questions and just want to dismiss them. But wouldn't...
- Tue May 07, 2013 11:54 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: North Korea - Suicide by country?
- Replies: 156
- Views: 33989
Re: North Korea - Suicide by country?
mustn't forget the effect of the (food) sanctions though.
- Tue May 07, 2013 10:19 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
I agree whole-heartedly. Or at least I believe I do (I couldn't know for sure )
- Tue May 07, 2013 10:12 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
No, Nakajo, what you're saying is perfectly fine - you are exploring "yourself" and your "mind" or your "spirit" (whatever you call it) and have experienced personal benefits and truths about your own character and behaviour and how that affects yourself and presumably those around you. That in my b...
- Tue May 07, 2013 10:00 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
Back to square one.. How do you know? I just do, all right? But how? I just do, now that's the end of it. But why? Because I said so. I guess that's the kind of short conversation you might have with a small child when you're fed up of difficult questions and just want to dismiss them. Plus, we're b...
- Tue May 07, 2013 9:50 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
which bit wow?
- Tue May 07, 2013 9:29 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
On the basis that the existence of God defies all logic, trying to use logic to deny or support such existence is therefore pointless if you ask me. You either believe or you don't - that's it. I would also go as far as to say it takes equal amounts of blind faith to 'know' God does exist, or 'know...
- Tue May 07, 2013 7:00 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
... Let me break my logic down in simple steps and feel free to correct me: 1. An atheist either (A) fully understands the concept of god or (B) doesn’t. 1.B. If the atheist doesn’t fully understand the concept of god it’s absurd to claim that he doesn’t believe in the existence of what he doesn’t ...
- Mon May 06, 2013 1:36 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Syria using Chemical Weapons - The Red Line has been Crossed
- Replies: 91
- Views: 24463
Re: Syria using Chemical Weapons - The Red Line has been Cro
The plot thickens. Testimony from victims of the Syrian conflict suggests rebels have used the nerve agent sarin, according to a leading United Nations investigator. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22424188 Yes, interesting, but not unexpected. US & UK governments assume government forc...
- Mon May 06, 2013 12:28 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
So what is rational about believing something without evidence just because it's possible? Why don't you ask an atheist (or yourself, if you're one)? Have you ever thought about the absurdity of the atheist stance that “believing without proof or evidence is absurd” when one of the main foundations...
- Sat May 04, 2013 2:15 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
So what is rational about believing something without evidence just because it's possible? Why don't you ask an atheist (or yourself, if you're one)? Have you ever thought about the absurdity of the atheist stance that “believing without proof or evidence is absurd” when one of the main foundations...
- Fri May 03, 2013 1:17 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
I didn't know that there is a "popular atheistic ideology that an atheist cannot believe in something". An atheist does not believe in the existence of a deity, usually because they employ rational thinking and concludes that, based on the (lack of) evidence, there is no reason to believe in one. S...
- Fri May 03, 2013 12:26 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
I didn't know that there is a "popular atheistic ideology that an atheist cannot believe in something". An atheist does not believe in the existence of a deity, usually because they employ rational thinking and concludes that, based on the (lack of) evidence, there is no reason to believe in one. Su...
- Fri May 03, 2013 11:41 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
I had edited my post above, but since it was a new angle on things, I'll paste it down here too. Might be fun discussing. The one thing I would say is that Hawking says that the universe can create itself. If at the bottom line that's due to gravity somehow, then that has nothing to do with a Suprem...
- Fri May 03, 2013 8:12 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
I admire the patience of you guys - personally I've given up reading Prema's posts because for the life of me I can't understand what on earth he / she is getting at, apart from going round in circles using semantics to shift definitions, misrepresent things that other people have written and then s...
- Thu May 02, 2013 3:09 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
it's not making my post mute - it's making a particular part of one part of one definition, taken from an online and popular english dictionary, mute - in your opinion.
- Thu May 02, 2013 2:29 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
yes. It's odd that God would choose to put us here on this one tiny insignificant planet on the outer spiral arm of an insignificant galaxy. Maybe he got bored quickly and couldn't be bothered to fill up the rest of the space.
- Thu May 02, 2013 12:52 pm
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- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
Why is god always 'he'? It is a feature of literary style in Arabic that a person may refer to himself by the pronoun nahnu (we) for respect or glorification. He may also use the word ana (I), indicating one person, or the third person huwa (he). All three styles are used in the Qur'an, where Allaa...
- Thu May 02, 2013 12:50 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
From Twitter: http://i.imgur.com/wjkio24.jpg Apart from the slogan at the end, which I'm not sure why it's there, that's exactly the same as the video Balibari posted a few pages back. But there's still the little bit in the second to last picture of using the term 'observable universe'. I think th...
- Thu May 02, 2013 12:47 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Most annoying phrase on an add.
- Replies: 127
- Views: 32215
Re: Most annoying phrase on an add.
amongst the worst adds are those which are shown on German RTL during the F1 - and what makes it ESPECIALLY bad, is that for the last round of adverts with about 5 laps to go, they continue to show the F1 in a small box on the top right, just to give you an idea of what you're missing!! I have no id...
- Thu May 02, 2013 10:36 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
Noone yet in 21 pages has established a good reason for "believing" that a deity exists. In fact, noone has even attempted to explain why they think one does, from a personal experience which they have attributed to God, presumably because they accepted the possibility of His existence already. But...
- Thu May 02, 2013 9:43 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
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Re: Do you think God exists?
i think a deity has some pretty well established characteristics. from dictionary.com: noun, plural de·i·ties. 1. a god or goddess. 2. divine character or nature, especially that of the Supreme Being; divinity. 3. the estate or rank of a god: The king attained deity after his death. 4. a person or t...
- Thu May 02, 2013 9:36 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Most annoying phrase on an add.
- Replies: 127
- Views: 32215
Re: Most annoying phrase on an add.
Any advert, particularly for makeup and hair products, which uses stupid made-up "technologies".
Pearl Whitening Face Cream Nano Technology
Nova C60 Radical Sponge (TM) Technology
Advanced Facial Cream With Ha-3 Technology
Weightless nutri-oil technology
etc
Pearl Whitening Face Cream Nano Technology
Nova C60 Radical Sponge (TM) Technology
Advanced Facial Cream With Ha-3 Technology
Weightless nutri-oil technology
etc
- Thu May 02, 2013 9:04 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
ALL atheists I have known are what I consider religious atheists, not in the sense used in this thread but in the sense that they don’t believe in the existence of a god as defined and described by any religion. This point has been raised here but to give my own version, I think that without religi...
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:28 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
Harris talks about a sense of "well-being" which could be the basis of morals. This covers mutual well-being as a means to further the species. This is similar to self-worth or "love" in many respects.
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 5:02 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
prema - the definition of atheism doesn't mention the supernatural, rather it specifically relates to deities (gods).. which means that one can be an atheist and also "believe" in the supernatural in general. A definition doesn't usually define what something is, as well as listing everything else i...
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:57 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
when you say "human population" and "at the time", you have to be careful. Jesus, if he existed at all (and we're relying on one tenuous reference to a name outside of the Bible), was by all accounts rather insignificant and didn't register on anyone's radar until after his death, through the work o...
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:49 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you believe in premonitions ?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7779
Re: Do you believe in premonitions ?
I don't think these things are "mathematically linked" because maths is just a tool to help us understand physical things. It doesn't "do" anything or have any physical properties or meaning. So when talking about these thoughts, we're talking about statistics and probabilities of events that have h...
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 12:22 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Syria using Chemical Weapons - The Red Line has been Crossed
- Replies: 91
- Views: 24463
Re: Syria using Chemical Weapons - The Red Line has been Cro
more fun from Syria http://news.sky.com/story/1084647/missiles-fired-at-passenger-jet-over-syria Hard to swallow, a commercial flight managing to take evasive action from a missile attack. Maybe a well timed msg, illustrating dom's point? "An unnamed source is understood to have said". Well that's ...
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:15 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
I'd believe in a female God if she revealed herself to me in all her glory.
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:23 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
I saw two funny ones yesterday. The first one was a teenage girl on youtube trying to ask the killer question for atheists: "If God isn't real, who wrote the Bible?" The second was "the earth must be 6000 years old because if you assume that the population doubles every x years, and then start with...
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:04 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Syria using Chemical Weapons - The Red Line has been Crossed
- Replies: 91
- Views: 24463
Re: Syria using Chemical Weapons - The Red Line has been Cro
These days though, the lazy (or politically motivated) mainstream media have a big part to play. I say lazy, because far more frequently the reporters are following around the "Free xzy Army" , reporting as fact anything they're being told by those people, whilst completely failling to get the other...
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:41 am
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- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
lol. Just a touch late, yes.
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 8:09 am
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- Topic: Do you think God exists?
- Replies: 1064
- Views: 216202
Re: Do you think God exists?
Yes I do believe Allah(the One god) exists there's so many signs we can contemplate on this earth. The rising of the sun, the moon, the water that falls from the clouds, how the earth orbits on it's on axis etc2 :). How can there be a creation when there's no creator? How do you know (I presume whe...