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I want there to be Emotion, yet Peace. Ignorance, yet Knowledge. Passion, yet Serenity. Paradox after paradox filling the curvy outline of a woman. Perfect. Also, according to this, she'd be a Jedi.

If Man were to create a super-computer that could chart every single particle existent on earth, and calculate what science dictates to be the outcome, Man too could have the power to predict the future. But that would not change our ability to choose. It's just that what we choose has already been known. Anyway, I have a question. When you say God limits his power to allow us free will, does he limit the full extent of our decisions? Does he cut short the chain reactions? As we breathe and move, we jostle atoms which jostle other atoms, wave after wave of particular collision until the atomic dominoes result in a tidal wave or a storm, everything on Earth a result of just our actions at any one time. If he does not limit the Butterfly Effect, he has no power here on Earth. We do.

Kilo wasn't bad. I liked Enygmata, African Amber, and Dark Temptations.

Can this really happen with humans? For some reason, I'm doubting it. I've only read about it occurring in animals like sharks ( Jesus-shark, Jawsus, ah, so many jokes) and Komodo Dragons. And in Dragons, its a contingency method of reproduction when there are no males around. And the fatherless birth is guaranteed to yield a male. But these animals use odd chromosomes (like, a Z chromosome where we have X and Y). If it ever happened to a mammal, I am ignorant of the fact. And to answer a previous question, since a mother's unused polar bodies (they are results of sex-cell production that are usually useless) suddenly play a part in parthenogenesis, and no Y chromosome is present within, I do not think a male can be borne of a fatherless birth.

No. Nothing beyond nature. Everything odd you see or feel should be explained in time. I refuse to relegate events, visions, or dreams to the category of 'unknowable'.

Arabs pronounce it 'Uh-rub'. Usually very guttural. This is Kuwait, though, and the dialect is ALL guttural. I think in Egypt it'd be 'Ah-rab'. I think those pronunciations are reserved for members of the culture though.

Dying in a fight does seem more glorious than dying while restrained by steel and impersonal instruments of slaughter. But I still fall back on an irrational feeling at the bottom of my gut that this kind of forced fighting is wrong. I don't know what it is.

Hopefully we can get over this problem once we conquer mortality. Good read.

They seriously are. I just watched a Holi celebration in a hindi movie (Bhaghban), and it was awesome. "Holi khele raghuveera avadh mein, holi khele raghuveera!" [yt]1_P2_WlFVME[/yt]

By saying that morality comes from a supernatural source, you reveal a sad lack of faith in your own race. People are moral because they are moral. Humans are compelled biologically to aid other humans when it is necessary. Hell, we even nurture things not of our species simply because our brain acknowledges them as human-like. We, as a social species, harbor an altruism that lies not in some ethereal construct like the 'mind' or 'soul', but in fully tangible molecules coiling in your every cell. Perhaps our intelligence overrides this instinct at times, but primal urges have some serious weight in every decision we take.

Wait, are we talking about the same type of pirates that stole a ship of Russian tanks? Be on your guard, and do a good job sweeping those thieves up. Good luck. I'm sure that, while you will miss your family terribly, this sadness will be made up for by the feeling of brotherhood between you and your comrades.

And it is a sign of arrogance to completely discount an idea as beneath you. When something is unknown, there is an infinite number of possibilities to explain the thing's nature. None of them can be disregarded, and all must be acknowledged as equally wrong until evidence is presented. Don't discount anything until the moment of truth--the moment when you die.

Institutionalized prostitution sounds good-- it can be taxed, safety measures can be kicked in, and there will be a lot less underground business in which laws cannot enforce business deals and anything can happen. Several of you fear that such an act will reduce the sanctity of sex--and this is true. It will suddenly be commercialized, a supply to meet a biological demand rather than a union of two personalities into one loving act. But the atmosphere around the subject of sex has already changed to this in several developed countries. Sex is now an event rather than a physical manifestation of love, and many other countries are accelerating towards this viewpoint as well. As soon as prostitution is mandated by government, it's just a signal that this societal idea has reached it's final stages.

Who said anything was created? Things formed, coalesced, revolved, rotated--but as far as we know, no creation took place. Since the Universe contains time within it, and is not contained within time, it is essentially timeless. It has no alpha or omega, no beginning, or end. Neither a creation or a destruction. It just is.

Born in Michigan, lived in Houston and Florida, currently living in Kuwait--and of Bangladeshi heritage.

As long as Mods keep consistent and abide by the rules set by whoever built this place, it's fine. People would be unhappy with the rules, not the Mods themselves. Though yes, I agree, Mods do have a hard time mediating between what the forum law dictates and what the forum population wants. Feel free to bash the OP for making a stupid topic, that's a freedom we all have, but there is no need to call Mods useless for simply following the rules and not locking it down. If this thread is as stupid as several of you say it is, it will be ignored and eventually fall from the front page and into obscurity.

About as much discussion value as that odd Tooth-Brush/ Bear Combat thread. And that thread was kept open. Don't present a double-standard here.

[hide=] absolute zero, zero kelvin or approximately -273 celcius, at that point everything stops moving at a molecular level. But it is possible to get colder then that, yes? Nope, that's impossible and so it reaching absolute zero. Atoms and other sub-atomic units stop moving at that time. Theoretically, should we ever reach absolute zero, the object would not be affected by gravity or any other forces either. How would forces suddenly stop working? It's not that they stop working, it's just that the two, 0K and gravity can't exist at the same time. Neither can any other forces or energies, such as heat. For, if they were to exist, a material object or external force would cause some event or friction producing energy greater than that of zero. Therefor we can say, theoretically that any object that does reach 0K cannot be affected by forces such as that of gravity, heat, etc.[/hide] You make it sound as if it's impervious to forces. You mean to say that anything at absolute zero is not affected by any force, because such a thing would lend it some type of energy, right? Its just that anything at absolute zero does not have any forces acting upon it. Not like an 'absolute zero object' can pass through Earth's gravity well unaffected. Its just that it ceases being classified as an 'absolute zero object' once it reaches that point. Is this what you mean to say?

Its something unknown, something unexplored. So its important in that it's just another thing to learn about.

And failing any in-world attempts at adventure, there's always death. There probably is no afterlife, but if there is, then that would be quite an amazing trip.

Adventure? I crave it. But in another time? No. That's why I'm looking into astronautics, psychonautics,and hydronautics. I will sail through the pin-[puncture]ed blackness of space-- sail through the mysteries of the mind and human consciousness, and dive into the deepest of waters. Our time isn't bad. At what other point could someone base their life around a working trip to Mars?

Was that a Fable reference? Or a reference to something that Fable also references?

For those who want to know about the details of how the Monster was taken out: [hide=]Monster is probably replaced by Doc Manhattan, or his abilities (which Veidt studies). You can see a blue energy field in the trailer similar to one that explodes out of Manhattan when he teleports. And no Ratchet, the glowing blue genitalia shall be swinging in full view.[/hide]

All you people saying Video Games only affect the weak-minded... are you serious? So none of you have ever thought: "Hmm... I would want this, the honor and glory of fighting for good, the thrill"? From all the shooters and adventures you've played, you've never wanted to wield a weapon and enter a dangerous conflict? If so, you've been affected. If not, you're very dull. You have to admit that even on the smallest of scales, something like a video-game will affect your thoughts upon the subject of war.

Nathan has always tried to be the good guy.