The sad thing is that I haven't matured much since then so I still feel like I'm at that stage.

A stunning revelation to everyone, I'm sure.

The bizzare thing is that, I've always thought, one of the clearest signs of childhood was insisting that you're all grown up when you clearly aren't ...

Phatscotty wrote:suxck me vbautuidful

Question:
If he was drunk enough to be typing like that, then how did he manage to make the "♥" symbol? Seems like he shouldn't have enough coordination left to manage that.

yep another reason to hang his ass

I don't get this position.

I'm trying to put in his place and try to understand, and three options come to mind:

1. Trolling
2. A real personality that "likes" to contradict everything and everyone.
3. A deep real fear off terrorism, feed by propaganda and ...

The moral case for our movement is predicated on the ability of organisms to feel pain (or pleasure). Intelligence is not a good barometer of whether a group deserves ethical protection.

Would you be in favour of genetically engineering animals so that they cannot experience pain?
If this were ...

The moral case for our movement is predicated on the ability of organisms to feel pain (or pleasure). Intelligence is not a good barometer of whether a group deserves ethical protection.

Would you be in favour of genetically engineering animals so that they cannot experience pain?
If this were ...

You know how there's a risk-clone minigame we can play when we get tired of posting on the forums? I haven't played it for ages.

It seems kind of pointless. I'm thinking maybe it should be closed and then the developers could focus all their efforts on improving the forum experience.

What do you ...

You know how there's a risk-clone minigame we can play when we get tired of posting on the forums? I haven't played it for ages.

It seems kind of pointless. I'm thinking maybe it should be closed and then the developers could focus all their efforts on improving the forum experience.

What do you ...

If we're choosing, I'd go with fully fueled private jet (complete with experienced pilot) + villa on private island with zero inhabitants and ample supplies.
Then I can just catch up on my reading and wait for the world to sort this whole zombie mess out.

The moral case for our movement is predicated on the ability of organisms to feel pain (or pleasure). Intelligence is not a good barometer of whether a group deserves ethical protection.

Would you be in favour of genetically engineering animals so that they cannot experience pain?
If this were ...

Is TeeGee a xylophone?

What does this do to the Vegetarian/Vegan movement (or at least that portion that doesn't eat animals for moral reasons)?

Nothing. The moral case for our movement is predicated on the ability of organisms to feel pain (or pleasure). Intelligence is not a good barometer of whether a group ...

karel wrote: well if you were talking about shit to blow something up or say certian words,or plans on killing the president,then you deserve to be tap with out warning,,with out the nsa we are less safer,so just get over it

Do you think the purpose of government is to make us as safe as possible?

I'm just trying to clarify. Wikipedia is a little bit confusing on the matter.


Many Taoist practitioners link the loss of ejaculatory fluids to the loss of vital life force: where excessive fluid loss results in premature aging, disease, and general fatigue. While some Taoists contend that one ...

Looking at the first panel, I thought it was going to be about the Kaaba . By the second panel, I thought "uh-oh", and then it was about the internet.

If they ever paint that thing like a rubik's cube I think I might have to convert.

Also:
http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/the_matrix_has_you_Neo ...

Where's that comic strip of the researchers conducting some study and making a very mild conclusion, and the newspaper exaggerates their conclusion?

This thread needs that. Maybe a 3rd frame for the forum poster who takes it even further from the truth.

You rang?

http://www.phdcomics.com ...

Are they discarded to a pile, destroyed or just wiped and set aside for possible re-use?

The ones that aren't picked up? They're just destroyed to free up the memory for new consciousnesses.


So God is dictating evolution???

No, he just set up the initial conditions and has some heuristic to ...

Ikiru was scary?

Guess it depends on the definition of scary.
Not scary in the "aahh it's a decapitated head" way, but scary in the "that actually represents the life of many people and it mind end up being mine as well" way.

Not sure if Ikiru was the best example of this, but it's the closest ...

ikiru

The universe is actually a program being run to create a diverse population of consciousnesses. Therefore, upon death, there are 2 options. If your consciousness was too similar to the ones that came before yours, yours will get discarded. If it was however sufficiently different, it will get picked ...