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That is what most of us believe here - that god is a creation of human thinking. (not what you meant though - I know) Like talking Donkeys, creation in 7 days, hatred of gays, miracles that didn't happen and plain straight contradictions from one part to another? - how many times have you actually read it through? What facts are we missing that make all this BS seem logical?

Here is an evolutionary speculation as to why. Could it be about winning mates? (and social approval in general). Modern day sports people that get cheered on by a team of cheerleaders might subconsciously perform better as they know that if they win or make a good play it will get them noticed and more likely to get a decent pick of a mate from those that are cheering them on. The encouragement they receive from their cheerleaders could be giving them excellent positive confirmation of the reward they will receive if they win/perform well. - so they try harder and get the adrenaline boost they need when presented with potential mates to impress. - this is a VERY basic premise and I am sure it is more complex, but this basic drive to impress and win could be maximised if there is a little promise of reward for winning... so, in any event or sport, maybe our brains take the cheering on as positive encouragement to go for it a bit more to get your reward. ? - maybe. Maybe I do not think I explained my speculation very well - I think I'd need to writer more to explain it and it is probably wrong anyway - although I would expect it might be a small component as to why peer encouragement and being cheered on could increase performance. Obviously this isn't just about sex and mates.... A tribal leader or hero might fight better against a sabre tooth tiger for the same kinds of rewards - social improvement and acceptance, confirmation of your prowess to be a leader or a fine mate. Anyway - just speculation I was thinking about due to someone saying that they were 'cheering me on from the sidelines' at work yesterday. Maybe the desire to please others is innate in us for many evolutionary benefits and this cheering on that we receive really does give us the mental boost we need to 'get into the zone' as we know that others are watching so we boost our performance. Any sporty types out there will know what I am talking about I am sure. I have another good example of adrenaline vs cortisol from my own personal experience of being in a running club a few years back and, in particularly, having a coach cherr you on during a race. This post is getting a little long though and I might share it later when I get the time.

You should make that painful imo.... Growing pains are painful anyway... imagine all those years of painful growth experienced in a few seconds of mutation as skin cracks and extends, flesh and bone crack and grow out of a stump. - I think it would be painful. You could have it so that it is normally painful... but sometimes a freshly grown nerve is a bit sensitive and fresh and is very sore or maybe a nerve gets trapped in the accelerated growth process leaving the arm in agony until it is re-grown or re-shaped or whatever BS is happening, lol. Sounds like it could be a darkish comedy sci-fi.

I was surprised I hadn't heard of it as I did a ChemPhysics degree in the 1990's and they are pretty heavy on the maths. I am surprised I never heard of it doing A-Level maths. Maybe I did and just forgot it as a useless piece of information - I have never used the knowledge so could have forgotten the definition I suppose... a few decades have passed. I suspect it is something I have just never come across.

Never knew it was a number classification. You learn something new everyday (or something old in this case).

Transcendental?

Supporting evidence for the existence of a creator?

Here we finally have it! Proof of the existence of a creator? Best evidence yet!

I hear you here - but my point is that 2 IDENTICALLY classed boxers that fight a close match will 'feel' very different afterward... not due to the number of punches thrown or energy conserved, but due to the real physical kick it gives you being a looser or a winner.... this physical kick comes from the adrenaline from winning or the cortisol from loosing. A classic example: Look at Sally Gunnel winning the Olympic gold medal and breaking the world record for the 400M hurdles in 1992 vs Farmer-Patrick I think, the previous WR holder from the US. Falmer-Patrick was WR holder and current champ... she was top of her game. The 2 finished with barely half a second between them... they are both very capable athletes. For athletes such as these running this WR time (they both broke the former WR) would be exhausting.... but they have trained their lives for it. Both should be exhausted, but both should still be able to walk off the track. Falmer-Patrick dropped like a sack, as though she'd been shot and had to be stretchered off the second she crossed the line.... Gunnell literally SPRINTS round the track, faster than most normal people could run it after training to do so, holding the British flag over her heard all the way. Not a sign of fatigue on her. The difference between our brain rewarding our win with adrenaline or a loss with cortisol.

But the mechanism isn't known... it could well be related to the 'positive vibes' people feel when cheered on, praised, are thinking positively, have been told they will perform better if they do some superstitious thing or get well from a disease. Something chemical must happen deep within us that is triggered by our psychological status... even if we have been tricked or tricked ourselves with positive thinking... ..... maybe, I don't think anything conclusive has been confirmed scientifically either way. The adrenalin increase is real and scientific.... the opposite true for the player getting put down (increases on cortisone? Cortisol?). Classic examples of a sports person's psychological state influencing their bodies can often be seen after boxing matches and running races. The losers, flooded with cortisol, can barely stand and often collapse in fatigue whilst the winners, who have been through the same exhausting procedure, suddenly get a new burst of strength from the adrenaline surge they receive. This adrenaline from winning can give the boxer strength to shrug off his tiredness and bruises enough to dance around the ring athletically and jump up on the ropes and carries a look of freshness and strength, an athlete runs a lap of honour..... whilst the loosing boxer is carried off in a stretcher and the second place runner can barely stand and needs help walking off the track.

I get that he is in your heart. <3 He is in mine too,x He is in your heart - good. It isn't reality though - do you not see that? Is it just your belief in Christ keeping you from murdering and raping? If so then you need to work on your morals and self control and love for your fellow man - maybe you need Jesus to stop you being total bastard - if so - good, keep him close. The doctor comes to treat the sick. But actual reality and honest history it is not. Stay saintly, keep repenting from your sins and try to be nice people. Open your eyes and drop the moronic belief in ancient superstitions long proven to be nonsense.

New Testament scholars maybe - because they study the bible and believe it. Historians?.... nah.... they study history, not made up stories. I'll have to look up and get sources to back up my claim because I am at work and can't research it here - but I am pretty sure actual real historians (not the ones that study fictional books) do not believe the claptrap that is claimed by the new testament. It is debatable whether Jesus even existed as a man.... there is absolutely no evidence outside of some bloke claiming it in a book that he was crucified and raised from the dead. Even if such claim was made by some guy 300 years after the event... there is no reason to actually believe it - there have been many many spurious and nonsense claims by many people over the last few thousand years.

Then there are echoes. The louder the sound the longer the 'residue' or echo is left behind. I remember reading at school that mount Krakatoa was heard 7 times as the sound wave from the initial explosion travelled around the planet over and over. If you want fiction, then yea - you can come up with any plausible sciencey sounding stuff. You could say that the protean in our hair in the fine structure records the patterns of the vibrations in the air - thus recording every sound we hear for life on a molecular level... but it wouldn't be real. You need something that will deform under the sound wave and then hold it's shape so that the wave can be copied or replicated or played back.

Only if it is recorded in a media. Like with footprints - you only see them if the surface the person walked on is soft enough to take the print - on concrete, no. With sound, you can get it to vibrate a needle that leaves a trace in something plastic. You can then vibrate a similar needle in the grooves of the plastic to recover the sound. It isn't going to hang around in the air, it isn't viscous enough. Or you can get it to vibrate a membrane with a magnet on it as it passes over some magnetic tape. When the tape passes over a similar magnet you can cause it to vibrate. Attach it to a speaker and you hear your original recording.

or of course an audio cassette or any other sound recording device.

It 'may' do - they say that a butterfly flapping it's wings could cause a hurricane somewhere else. I doubt it though - it would have to be a very big sound. Also - how would you trace it? It is all so convoluted. I expect it is impossible. How would you trace it back through the air. Air dissipates quickly and any wave or 'picture' of the sound wave in the air will be no more after the event. It would be like trying to write your name on puddle of water - it dissipates. I guess an avalanche caused by a big bang is the result of sonic vibration... but you would be hard pressed (probably impossible) to trace the cause of the avalanche back to any particular noise. How would you trace it? Other examples I can think of would be shouting at a bowl of water - you could look at the patterns of the ripples to get some info regarding how loud your shout was. A glass breaking at the right frequency is a physical observation of sound effecting matter. A giant digeridoo blasted at the ground in a dessert might give a distinctive pattern in the sand. An injured eardrum from a loud noise is evidence of said noise possibly..... but none of this is what you are describing and I can't think of an example of where it is possible. What did you have in mind? - sorry - reading this back I am drivelling rubbish and just random thoughts about the OP. I think I know what he is getting at and it isn't possible from what I can tell beyond the sound wave actually physically marking a dusty surface or making a wave in a liquid. How about a shock wave frozen in a gel like solid?

Only after chilli.

Solid, liquid or gas?

I get the love, forgiveness, restraint, mercy, peace and kindness.... I am not distracted by it at all. The use of religion to control people and politics is very real and I hate it. So much shit and death and intolerance and ignorance. Yuk! I wish all kids had a few years at sunday school to learn about Jesus and love and mercy and sacrifice etc... I think it would make the world a better place.... just no need for the lies and outrageous false claims imo. Nope - it was me talking to the holy ghost / god / Jesus. I spoke to him for many years.. all delusion. It was very positive for the most part - don't get me wrong - I loved/worshiped god - I was a Christian.... but mistaken - it is total nonsense.

... I've never been a fan of this - I get that faith is a leap of acceptance of something without proof... but when I was a believer I always tried to justify my 'belief' (I won't say faith) based upon evidences and reasoning. There are explanations for everything in the bible and all of gods actions if you 'accept' certain things to be true that you have no evidence for. When you believe it you sort of believe that you have the evidence... but it takes a step back again to analyse it properly and see that you are taking things to be true that are actually huge leaps of faith. I don't know - maybe I was an idiot or just plain crazy... I did have an extremely close imaginary friend for several decades. I forgive myself for it though... and understand how easy it is to believe something that isn't true based on what people say and the kindness/love they offer. Long story short - there is no evidence outside of personal testimonies of any being fitting the description of the god of the bible or any of the other religions that have books here on earth. The reason I don't believe it any more is not due to any conflict in morals or evil influence.... it is just clearly absolute bollocks and if you do believe it then I reckon you are either brainwashed/hypnotised, as I must have been, or you are just totally fucking dumb, because it is so obviously nonsense and trivially proven false that it just isn't really that funny anymore. Children see through it straight away and have to be conditioned through much brainwashing (prayer sessions) before they come round to believing it. Drop it - Drop the fear of the non existent hell for non belief - stop making excuses for a barbaric fictional being - see it for what it is, a way to control the masses - the truth will set you free.

'Faith' in a doctor is totally different - although you have faith in him - you KNOW that there is statistical probability of him succeeding or messing up your operation - you still have faith for him being the best man for the job because he has had many successes.... but obviously he has had failures too - that's doctoring. So, with doctoring, you look at the statistics and see which doc is best or, at very least, check to see that the doctor is trained and qualified. The doc can actually SHOW you his certificate to PROVE that he has been trained.... then you trust that he will do the best job he can and then roll the dice. Whereas, with the god of the bible the way Christianity describes it, there is absolutely NO evidence for it whatsoever. So I'd have to disagree with your analogy - it is totally different.

Yes - partial or half something.... it also gets used to mean a partial erection, thus my comment about not wanting to see Tesla's. ;-)

Yes they were - 10m was the height of the shadow..... thus the height of the small triangle (from the diagram in the question - figure 2.4.3.) 20m is the distance from the shadow to the point on the ground perpendicular to the light.... so the length of the base of the larger triangle is this 20m plus the length of the shadow, x = (x+ 20)m Look - See? It is in the diagram in the figure... Light source at D (y distance off the ground), shadow goes from C to A. Object Q at height 10m. It can be thought of as 2 triangles that are similar. The big one from ADE and the smaller one from ABC. The rest is just maths/algebra/calculus. Hope that helps. Bye.

also, it sounds a little rude..... I'm not sure I want to look at Tesla's semi thank you very much.

Then just buy a primer for steel straight off the shelf. If you are worried about corrosion then get one with high zinc content or a high content of zinc phosphate or aluminium tripolyphosphaste. What is the application? Is it somewhere warm and dry or exposed on a sea front or something? The location could effect the amount of corrosive attack it will get. Again - just read a few labels on standard primers that offer rust protection and follow their directions, you should be fine.