Hows that again?

Nickelplate said:
As for what caused the Big Bang? Answer: God. :rolleyes:

my next question: What is it that makes us BE? or what is it to BE? If we ceased to know that we existed, would we cease to exist?

You ask two distinct questions in one sentence my Missouri friend. As for the first part, I am not gifted enough in the human speech mannerisms to clearly define the answer so I will skip to part 2.

If you do not know you exist you can still be. There are many autistic, and the severely autistic who have no clues about anything and they be, just fine. As far as I know, none have ceased to be, just because they are unaware of their existence.

Philosophically speaking, I think you are asking rhetorical semi-inquiries.

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I'm speaking philosophically! What is it to BE?

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Nickelplate said:
I'm speaking philosophically! What is it to BE?

You are askin un-questions.

Most consider me to BE an asshole. Those that know me, know that I woefully inadequate to the task.

I think you need to define what you mean by "Be"

I be dumbfounded, so far.

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BE as in belgium?

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Orpheus said:
You are askin un-questions.

No, I'm asking a question that you have to THINK about. I'm not a standardised test, so i'm not gonna mek it easy for retards. lol. It is a philosophy question, there is no right answer. When i say "what is it to be?" i mean, "How does one be?" and it's YOUR own philosophy that you wil answer with. Like Aristotle said that "the ability to think makes me be." and Nietzsche says "to do is to be" by doing things, he exists. what's your take on the whole thing?

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Nickelplate said:
I'm not a standardised test, so i'm not gonna mek it easy for retards.

You know, I know you meant no offense but, the very fact that I am confused here tells me that you just called me a retard. :sad:

What if for the moment, you needed to make it simple, for this retard?
anyways, I need to run for a while.

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"I think therefore i AM."

Actually, Rene Descartes said this. He was a philosopher of the
period of Enlightenment in 17th/18th century Europe. It's basically a
summary of the ideas of the time - people were applying rational
thought and "laws" to how the world works, and this statement is saying
"because I think, I am giving reasonable explanation for my existence".

So nyah :razz:

Orph: I didnt call you a retard. The fact that you cannot read that witohut taking offense means that you are kinda insecure.

Gwil: My bad. I have not been in philosophy class for almost 2 years now. I get a lot of crap mixed up. Oh well. and "Nyah" yerself, welshie! :biggrin:

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Nickelplate said:
Orph: I didnt call you a retard. The fact that you cannot read that witohut taking offense means that you are kinda insecure.

Don't hand me that. Blame shifting isn't a new concept and you aren't particularly good at it anyway. :biggrin:

You said specifically that you wouldn't make it simple enough for a retard. If I am confused, ergo, retarded enough, then you won't be able to make me understand.

See, I can warp replies to people. :heee:
Besides, you've seen me offended. This wasn't.

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To be is the ability to acknowledge one's own existence.

Since I cannot fully acknowledge anyone else's existence, I therefore
have no proof that they exist. The only one I can fully
acknowledge is myself, so I therefore know that I exist.

Oh, and BTW, I just made a new tutorial, can you auth it for me, Gwil?

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Stadric said:
Oh, and BTW, I just made a new tutorial, can you auth it for me, Gwil?

Its customary to wait 24 hours before we whine.

Believe me, the admin knows its there when they log in.

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How does a program like WinRAR make a file smaller without losing data?

I don't know much about compression, and it is a rather complex area to look into to be honest, but the basic concepts are fairly simple. One aspect is to reduce data chunks to pattern and length, to avoid redundant repetition. For example, if you had the data 00000000000000000111001100000000000011111, then rather than store all that you could just store 17x0, 3x1, 2x0, 2x1, 12x0, 5x1. Obviously that would also have to be reduced to binary which bumps up the length, but it's still potentially a huge amount of saving. The patterns don't just have to be blocks of the same value either; you could have 0011001100110011 and reduce it to simply 4X0011.

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There's no time like the present

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Is superman's brain superfast too?

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Nickelplate said:
Is superman's brain superfast too?

No, because otherwise he wouldn't be fighting for truth, justice, and the american way, he'd just be fighting for truth and justice.

:shocked:

haha, I love it :biggrin:

oh, haw haw... :rolleyes:

I really do tire of the "stupid american" stereotype.

Here's a Question: Whatever happened to blondes and pollacks being stupid?

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Blame hollywood :smile:

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Q: What does buddha mode do?

Q: What does buddha mode do?

Makes you invincible. You go down to 1 hp but don't die.

how does the golden mean and pi relate? What other things is pi thought to relate with/to?

PI is related to my birthday, whish is 3/14, it's also Einstien's birthday.

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how does the golden mean and pi relate? What other things is pi thought to relate with/to?

Why not watch Pi and try to figure it out?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

Wikipedia is very good for mathematical topics. It seems that the two values are unrelated.

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How does Golden Showers relate to Pi?

jk

Why is having sex with lots of different people considered "cool?"

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Nickelplate said:
Why is having sex with lots of different people considered "cool?"

it's only considered cool if you're a guy. if you're a girl you're considered to be a slut.

has to do with the don juan attitude and status, or if you want to go back to genes: to the ability to spread your genes as much as possible

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all you have to do to "spread your jeans" is get really fat. and that's not cool.

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Most important question of all:

Why are some people ass holes?

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I think some people are that way because thier inner insecurities make them think that they have to act like everyone else is inferior. This is why (except for the most rare of cases) the "popular" and "cool" kids are complete and utter a-holes. You wonder "why on earth do people like this guy so much?" ever think that?
Fact is, when the ones that other people aspire to be like act this way, it becomes the way that people aspire to be. The first high school i went to was like a huge popularity contest in which everyone was trying to be "cool" by putting down everyone else. It was a festering stinking mass of insecurity and animosity. Almost nobody was happy. When you're not happy, you're an a-hole.
For any of you that have read "The Wheel of Time" series by Robert Jordan, being an a-hole is like Mashadar, the evil that spread through Shadar Logoth (Aridhol). Once one person starts, it just spreads and eventually everyone finds themselves hopelessly alienated.<br style="color: white;">

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omegaslayer said:
Most important question of all:
Why are some people ass holes?

Well, you'll never get an answer that makes sense until you find a universally accepted definition of the word. Sadly, one of the things I dislike the MOST about the internet is its lack of universalness.

Diversity is all well and good, but when I say blue, I do not want "Blue on an April summer day" vs "Blue of a nice Mitsubishi"

Anyway, define asshole, then ask why.

Personally, I find asshole to be a rather mild derogatory comment. If I were to pick my all time worse cuss word I have ever heard, or used it would be "Screwed"

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As far as I know, everyone knows the defintion of an asshole.

All time worse cuss word = screwed? That's way milder than asshole :smile:

c**t is pretty bad. Or douchebag, that's another bad one.

I'm with AtM here; I use screwed on a daily basis probably, and to be honest I don't even consider it a cuss word. I don't really know the context in which you mean it though, as if you say "you're screwed" it is merely discribing circumstances and wouldn't be considered swearing by many, whereas "screw you" isn't the exact word you were saying so I'm not sure if it is what you meant.

I personally also despise the word douchebag; not because I find it insulting, but because I just find it to be a s**te word.

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Addicted to Morphine said:
As far as I know, everyone knows the defintion of an asshole.

All time worse cuss word = screwed? That's way milder than asshole :smile:

c**t is pretty bad. Or douchebag, that's another bad one.

Its all in how you look at it I reckon.

I do not even bat an eye whenever someone calls me an asshole because in order to know for sure, they would have to know me intimately and no one but my wife would know me that well.

Screwed on the other hand. You do not have to know them at all to screw someone badly. When someone says "Your screwed".. It hits you much harder.

Your other two examples are children's names. I do not know many adults who say either TBH.. When we were in school however, both were fairly common.

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I recently learned that a lady I work with had a boob job. :biggrin:

Also, while looking for a suitably unhelpful smartass answer for Orpheus, fingernails are generated by the Lunula... also that thumb nails grow faster than fingernails. :biggrin:

[edit: I obviously got the ass part of being a smartass, given that this belongs in Recently Learned.]

Mephs said:
Also, while looking for a suitably unhelpful smartass answer for Orpheus, fingernails are generated by the Lunula... also that thumb nails grow faster than fingernails. :biggrin:

Speaking of which. I heard the best smartass comment I have ever heard today on the FM radio. I am not sure of its exact origin, but I think its from "King of the hill"

"Every time I think I have heard the dumbest thing ever, one of you starts talking again"

You wouldn't believe exactly how often I think something similar when I read some of these replies.

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Mephs said:
I work with

YOU GOT THE JOB! CONGRATS!!

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on topic:

what i always wanted to know is how flight 93 exactly crashed on 9/11. read

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Baron von Snickers said:
Can animals like dogs and cats "see" what's on a television when they look at it? Or is their brain and sense of sight so different that they can't make sense of it?

I believe Animals sense of spacial awareness hasn't adapted like ours to accept TV's as being 3D entertainment. They just see it as 2D, which is far less interesting to them. I do however have a cat that you can quite happily sit on its back on the sofa and it will watch TV, depending on whats on.

Also aren't interested in mirrors either- down to smell and other senses not recieving signals, I'm sure they just aren't interested/fussed in the slightest.

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On a related note, I wonder what runs through a dogs head as it sits in a car and stares out the window excitedly.

Doggies are actually picking up all the new smells that are rammed into thier nose like a supercharger. Dogs love smells.<br style="color: white;">

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BlisTer said:
what i always wanted to know is how flight 93 exactly crashed on 9/11. read

I think youll find that it crashed into the ground.

I'd like to know why many people are so quick to beleive conspiracy theories.

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Because they're insecure about the thought that terrorists could invade
them on a whim, so they find security in thinking that their government
was responsible.

I blame Canada, eh.

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so you all believe that the passengers were heroes and that the F16s close-by had nothing to do with it. ok. i'm just saying it's plausible, given they knew the white house was under threat and that Cheney later reported to the news that they gave authorization.

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Either way it would have crashed and everyone on board would have probably died.

Why don't people begin to attack Western governments on their
demonstrated policies as opposed to conspiracy theory? Theres a whole
lot more ammunition in what they see fit to tell us than you would dare
to realise.

Prepare to be derailed.

This has been bugging me for ages.

Sight seems to have a weird "static"-like effect in the background.
This is particularly noticeable when you're sitting in a very dark
room or when you close your eyes. Sometimes when you keep your eyes
shut for more than a few minutes you can see colored sparks, like
fireworks on the back of your eye-lids, that I think are neural
discharges. Anyone else noticed these and the before mentioned static?

I know, I always try to form shapes of the colored stuff when I close
my eyes like that. If you consentrate hard enough you can do it.

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Mine is concentric rings of color that collapse into eachother. Purple and Lime green. Trippy.... I think it's just the eye's way of keeping from going blind. If you see absolutely NOTHING, i think you go blind.<br style="color: white;">

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Okay, nest question.

You know in a 3-ring binder, how you push those two flaps down and the rings open...

How the hell does that work?