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Something for all you Europeans
Great_Satan:
See
http://forum.faithfreedom.org/
suselinux:
quote:Originally posted by Great_Satan:
See
http://forum.faithfreedom.org/
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COOL!
Faust:
Alright sorry about the anti texan racial slur. I'll blame it on... eskimos? Surely there are no eskimos on the forums likely to be offended? If there are I'll go with Tasmanians. :D It was a joke guys, I guess I should be less flippant.
And I guess Flap has a point with the inbreeding - it's only wrong if theres an intent to / not enough protection against have / ing children. But was Einstein trying to avoid having children with his cousin or was he giving it his best? Did they even *have* decent protection back then?
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Well, as you said, scientists know better today.
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In Newtons day when people tried using past explanations of gravitational effect (such as the belief that heavier objects would fall faster than lighter ones) to show people that science could be wrong they would have said the same. In 2000 years when Einsteins theories have been improved upon (likely replaced completely) they will also say "we know better now." Indeed, some of Feynamns work is starting to be seen as improvements upon Einsteins. Science is a process which a)constantly evolves and b)is never *absolutely* correct. I agree we know *better* now but we still dont know much at all either. In mathematical terms the truth generated by science N is a limit as N approachs T (absolute truth.) It's kinda an assymptopic thing. ;) Basically you _cannot_ use science to argue against the "God issue" as it is inherently fallible.
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Again, scientific rigour has evolved since then.
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No it hasn't. The *equipment* has evolved but scientists are still very excitable boffins in lab coats. (alright maybe not, but you get the point.) Scientists are *people.* They always will be people and they are as fallible as the rest of us. The ultimate progression towards scientific exactitude was performed by Rene Descartes in the 18th century (This is the guy you should be blaming for a lot of cartesian geometry btw.) Do you want to know the *one* thing that the most rigorous piece of scientific rigour can prove? Cogito ergo sum. Thats _it_. No knowledge that your body exists, no knowledge that the sky is blue, no knowledge that god does / does not exist, no knowledge that there is not a powerful demon attempting to fool you, no knowledge that you do not live inside a "matrix." We know _nothing_.
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Sorry, I meant a semester.
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Sorry we obviously have much different definitions of "session." Stupid cultural gap. :( Anyway it still doesn't make you an "expert in the field."
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I know the whole Greek alphabet
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I just look it up in the back of my specialist maths book, no need learn the thing. ;)
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Well, it is infinite, but... in a finite way.
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War is peace, slavery is freedom kinda thing? Infinity is not a member of the reals dude, and finite numbers are wholly contained within the reals. Thus infinity != any finite number, nor is it even comparable.
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finite because is is not bigger than the size at a given moment
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This quality applies to infinity too. (Stupid keyboards why they have no infinity symbol?) If n = Infinity then n^n will still equal infinity, as it is already as big as it can be. Indeed maple tells me:
> infinity*infinity;
infinity
(and of course I trust the computer without looking it up...)
BTW an interesting question, what is infinity - infinity? I believe it is infinity, and maple gives me "undefined," anyone care to have a stab at 0?
Please don't take any of this personally, I'm quite enjoying the mental stimulation, much better than debating with most people I know. Most of my friends assume that debating = arguing and raising your voice = winning the argument. :(
Faust:
Oh the time I'll waste while waiting for a few gigs of mp3s to turn into oggs... (oh man some divine intervention from God (in the form of a free RAID array) would be nice here...)
Back to the original topic:
French intolerance of religions as tame as JW's and the scientologists is lamo and immoral.
jasonlane:
quote:Originally posted by Faust:
Oh the time I'll waste while waiting for a few gigs of mp3s to turn into oggs... (oh man some divine intervention from God (in the form of a free RAID array) would be nice here...)
Back to the original topic:
French intolerance of religions as tame as JW's and the scientologists is lamo and immoral.
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heheh
:D
Yup but what do you do when you have CRAZY (French) cults like the those solar temple guys that kill each other, or top themself???
Actually there's quite a Templar revival going on in the UK. If your the romantic nut you'd love it.
Question: What will the French try and ban next?
:D
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