Recent content by Flyback

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    Kid goes 'demon' over MySpace addiction

    Children are irrational. Big news. What I find more pathetic is the worthless twat siblings who antagonize the kid and pass it off as some cool viral internet video dismissing MySpace while still rocking a scant facial hair and douchebag glasses. Way to go, champs.
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    Biggest number you can think of using 30 characters or less

    {absolute infinite} 19 characters. It's a set... not "an infinity" as per your rules reject... it just happens to contain that as one of it's elements :laugh:
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    New Facebook Photo hack!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Surely it goes against their ToS, but crafting a plain text URL is questionable as far as legality. A friend from Europe sent me this same link earlier and said he tried but it did not work. I am guessing this has spread to many thousands of people ... I do not think they would go after that...
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    Did you frame your degree? if yes

    I got both of mine framed for ~$80. What do they do? Sit under some papers on my desk. I always thought hanging them in your office looks kind of dorky.
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    So I started krav maga lessons last night

    "...I don't care what happens.. you know... it aches and if I fall down I have no fear of fainting in a gym because I know it could happen... I threw up many times while I was working out, but it doesn't matter... because it was all worth it." (@ 5:20) :laugh:
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    Saw Blade Runner for the first time the other day.

    The Vangelis soundtrack is amazing as-is the whole environment with the movie. The grit feel like a detective movie but placed in a scifi future is just awesome. There was a great documentary on Google Videos about the making of the movie and the trouble it went through. A really...
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    Just got fired

    Look at it as a chance to find that job you enjoy going to each morning.
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    Can God create a stone SO heavy not even he can lift it?

    If God is by definition an "uncaused mover", is He then not above and beyond our logic games to begin with?
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    History Channel Admits Anthrax Attacks = Inside Job.

    http://www.429truth.com/archives/3 Join the 4/29 truth movement :laugh:
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    Does Faith in the Divine = Stupidity?

    Says you. Your personal opinion. I sense you are making a very obvious value judgment here because I was hinting at the fact that they both fit the generic definition I gave and that is all I was stressing, while you seem to suggest something more all along (ie one type of faith is 'more...
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    Does Faith in the Divine = Stupidity?

    And what does empiricism rely on? Observation. And what does that rely on? Technology and apparatus in labs to carry out experiments, and the collection & interpretation of the collected datas. Are you suggesting that these don't rely on math in a foundational way? If they do, then I would...
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    Does Faith in the Divine = Stupidity?

    How can I be any more clear or willing? In my view faith is a "firm belief in something for which there is no proof". I think you are somehow imposing or suggesting that my view leaves everything open to faith. That is my position. You subsequently may interpret that as a problem or have all...
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    Does Faith in the Divine = Stupidity?

    What do you mean by the pronoun "I" at the start of your post? Saul Kripke has an interesting lecture on the first person. Now I am obviously being facetious but I hope you get the point. We could go into a regress on language and definitions of everything. Are there different sub-types...
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    Does Faith in the Divine = Stupidity?

    This conversation has gone too far off-topic. Unfortunately Gödel gets invoked too much in discussions, and that was not my intent. I firmly believe that faith (a belief in something without proof) is a strong part of every atheist's life in fundamental ways. I'll humor your interest...
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    Does Faith in the Divine = Stupidity?

    No, I was basically saying that that axioms and postulates, regarded as self-evident, are ultimately faith-based (we assume them to be true without 'proof'... I see that as faith). Self-evident and faith-based are not one in the same or interchangable. Sorry for the confusion if that was what...