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I agree with iNow, life in general doesn't really have any inherent purpose, just arbitrarily assigned values. One wonders why there has to be some purpose to it....

I think that has been established long ago. I literally was laughing out loud when I read the OP post. And how do we know that this guy is really a he? It could be a she, or a bot...

I cannot believe I forgot this one: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space by Carl Sagan

From what I remember, the supernova or the gamma ray burst has to be really close do to any damage to the Earth's ecosystem. Somewhere around 100 light years or so.

Well, I wouldn't go that far, but the one thing that I do notice is that people are getting quite defensive and way more aggressive now.

I take it you got a lot of time on your hands and no hobbies...

The photons coming out of my computer screen have mustaches

So..... why is this thread even in this section in the first place, shouldn't it go in the speculations and pseudoscience section (if not the trash section)? Or at the very least in the General Discussion section... I have yet to see how any of this is related to the topic of psychology.

I'm going to bet that this thread will be inevitably locked by tomorrow, at the very latest.

Define "better". One person's paradise is another person's hell.

I read some of their threads. While they were hilarious, I'm not so certain that they were as paranoid as this guy. However, Extrasense's claims of goats on Mars made me laugh.

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Pangloss: Some old guy

So in other words, you don't really know. Do you mind providing details on how any of this is a direct result of the Patriot Act; that is, that these successes would have been impossible without it?

I think we should sticky this thread, as this is the crown jewel of all crackpot threads.

duck duck duck duck......goose....

Maybe somebody dug a hole?

To expand on what iNow posted, here's a whole list of them: http://www2.corepower.com:8080/~relfaq/experiments.html

I think you are right. Every single thread he has started has a link to the same site.

Officially they were deists. They believed that God was nothing more than somewhat of a "celestial watchmaker", so to speak, meaning that they believed that God did create the universe, and then afterwards just left.

How so? I don't think any of us here claim that, other than saying that religion and everything else isn't provable by any means. Well, that's not really different from any other religion, especially that of the Abrahamic religions. From my observations, atheists generally do not damn non-believers to hell.

Some more for you guys here: -Surely You're Joking Mr.Feynman along with his sequel What do YOU Care What Other People Think -Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays by Steven Hawking -Contact by Carl Sagan *On the side note, I had a teacher (in high school) who lived on the same street as Carl Sagan at one time.

Well, they can already listen on to your conversations or search your property without warrents. And I've read up on several psychological studies that it is very easy to lead people to committing atrocious acts. Milgram's experiments anyone? I do get a bit concerned with the actions of the Federal Government, but even more than that I get concerned with the apparent lack of interest among the general public.

Inanimate objects and physical laws have motivations ?! =========================================== I see that you guys can't seem to agree on what exactly a "why" question is. My position so far on it is that a "why" question, well, can be both one of the most important and the most worthless of them all. One of the things that I do agree with Dawkins with, is that most theologians and/or people who are primarily religious sometimes don't recgonize that some questions just don't have any answers. They also tend to be some of the least important ones too.....

So, yeah, anyways....