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Trevelyan_06 wrote:You're all incorrect. Pie is a delicious pastry crust filled with various delicious fillings for your eating pleasure.

Peanut butter pie with chocolate chips. Best pie there is. Anyone who disagrees with me is wrong because I say so.

biggiy05 wrote:Peanut butter pie with chocolate chips. Best pie there is. Anyone who disagrees with me is wrong because I say so.

It could be because I've been drinking alot at this point, but the above sounds incredibly delicious at this point in time.

Trevelyan_06 wrote:It could be because I've been drinking alot at this point, but the above sounds incredibly delicious at this point in time.

I could really go for some of that pie right now as well

I filled my gas tank up Friday evening. It's now Sunday and by 1am I have driven 190 miles and I'm at half a tank. I swear ever since I bought this truck all I do is drive. I just want to save my gas!

rock_nog wrote:Bwer? What sort of Voodoo language are you speaking, Bel? I am seriously confused here.

Just goofing around, using calculus style terminology to make an absurd statement.

Ah, well, carry on then. As for myself, I just read up on some alien abduction stories, and I'm off to bed to have horrible nightmares about greys. Why did I do that?

I had sleep paralysis last night. Fun stuff. No really, it was. It started out bad, but I was able to convince myself that what I was seeing wasn't real, then I started thinking about God, then I started seeing good things instead of bad things, I felt love instead of pure terror, and then I fell asleep. I woke up feeling very happy and confused. 😃

Having a sky daddy must be fun.

Heh, I remember one time, when I was a teenager, back when I was still a Christian, I stayed up late one night puzzling over God, when I suddenly had this realization. It was all about the Big Bang, the formation of galaxies, stars, planets, Earth, the incredibleness of a group of molecules being able to arrange themselves in such a way as to be able to duplicate themselves, the evolution of life, the existence of us... Really, it was just the most awe-inspiring thing ever, and the most incredible part was the fact that it was all governed by a simple set of rules, without any outside interference.

I guess it was also my first step toward atheism, because I suddenly realized "Screw magical sky daddies, this is so much more incredible than any deity a bunch of desert-dwelling nomads could concoct." In my terms at the time, I saw God not as a bearded dude who lives in the sky, but rather, the sum total of those forces which created us. And really, I still basically think in those terms today, just only without the word God, because that implies that there's some sentient being behind it, which I find to be an incredibly naive view.

rock_nog wrote:In my terms at the time, I saw God not as a bearded dude who lives in the sky...

To quote Paul F. Tompkins, "Well no one believes that, you condescending dick. Stop saying that. There's no religion that thinks that...It's not written down anywhere."

O: I had to post that. It fit. But maybe some people do believe God is an old man who sits on a cloud… I dunno. I just like pulling quotes from stand-up comics.

Shazza Dani wrote:To quote Paul F. Tompkins, "Well no one believes that, you condescending dick. Stop saying that. There's no religion that thinks that...It's not written down anywhere."

That's Jesus. He is the human manifestation of God (allegedly). Believing Jesus is God isn't the same as having that "father time" image of an old bloke with a long white beard in the sky. No religion depicts God that way.

Look, I didn't mean literally an old man with a beard. I was getting at more the traditional view of God, as this all-powerful father figure who watches over us and has special rules that he wants us to follow.

Aha… ._.

According to basic, Protestant and Catholic Christianity, Jesus is god. Jesus has a beard. Someday, he will descend from the sky, which is where Heaven is.

Beldaran wrote:Someday, he will descend from the sky, which is where Heaven is.

And he shall say: "Everyone eat pie"

I hate religious discussions so much, why am I even a part of this? ;___;

For the record, again, I'm not religious. Anyway… *changes subject*

Fawnia Mondey!

Oh, one last point regarding God as an old man with a beard.

But enough of this - goddamnit, I really hate when you're in a science lab class and you get stuck with a group who has no clue what the hell they're doing. It's like they're beyond useless - they try to help, but whenever they do they end up screwing things up and you just wanna be like "Okay, get the hell away from the experiment and let me record all the data. And process it. And do the write-up. Because dear God, what you people are doing is frightening."

Okay, I know I shouldn't bitch too much - I mean, they're just first-years, maybe I'm being a little hard on them, but still, ugh, it's just aggravating.

Yeah, Rock, that's why I've built up my reputation as "that nerdy guy who always knows what to do."
That way they're all just like "so, what do we do now?" and I'm like "...prepare a .1 M solution by putting the 2.34 grams we massed out into 40 mL of water, kaaaay?"
and they're like *shrug*

I always find it amusing how 99.99% of being "that nerdy guy who always knows what to do" is simply following the directions. Really, just WTF? You sit there, and carefully explain what they should do, and then they turn around and just start mixing random crap in a beaker.

Shazza Dani wrote:I hate religious discussions so much, why am I even a part of this? ;___;

For the record, again, I'm not religious. Anyway� *changes subject*

Fawnia Mondey!

you have some fetish for body builder chicks?

rock_nog wrote:Look, I didn't mean literally an old man with a beard. I was getting at more the traditional view of God, as this all-powerful father figure who watches over us and has special rules that he wants us to follow.

odinson wrote:you have some fetish for body builder chicks?

I don't think it's female.

No, I have respect and appreciation for women with hard bodies. Men too, but women especially.

EDIT: Yes, she is female. O:<

While I'm not into the all out crazy bodybuilder types, I think strong, muscular women are totally hot and sexy.

Beldaran wrote:While I'm not into the all out crazy bodybuilder types, I think strong, muscular women are totally hot and sexy.

Strong, muscular women are sexy but you have to draw the line somewhere. This is not sexy.

Shazza Dani wrote:Fawnia Mondey!

Also, rock_nog, I will add this rather obvious thought to your thoughts on what God is, at the formation of the universe: Something had to be there for it all to have began, even before the big bang. If the big bang was a stick of dynamite exploding, who lit the fuse? Who put the dynamite where it was? Who built the dynamite? Hell, who thought up the dynamite in the first place? So yes, up until all of that, I am agnostic. But the more "behind the scenes" you get, the harder and harder it gets to deny a God of some sort doing all of that. It's all well and good that the Big Bang explains a lot of what God already has been said to have done, but what caused the big bang?

Honestly, I'd take a body builder chick over some skinny malnourished... thing who thinks being 50 lbs (exaggeration... or is it? O.o) underweight is attractive/pretty/etc. However, ultimately I'd be happy with a girl who's... thick, i guess is the word. Not round/fat, but prolly someone oh... 20-30 lbs (well, that they appear to be that much) overweight.

Yes I'm weird, so sue me. (You won't get much) >:O

EDIT: Weird and PICKY X_x

Why is it so hard to say we don't yet know what caused the big bang? Why is that such a hang-up with religious people? Why must we say "Well we don't know, so that MUST mean it's GOD!!!" No, I'm not going to do it. Maybe there's a God, maybe he's responsible, but without any evidence, it's positively asinine to claim that somehow the God hypothesis is more credible than anything else.

At any rate, that's a dangerous place to go. Attributing it to God is saying "We don't need to investigate further, let's just give up." And besides that, given that we know absolutely nothing about God, that answer tells us absolutely nothing about the universe. It's completely worthless.

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