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Is it normal that reading that post made me want to choke you? Yes. Another attempt made by me to make someone laugh. I can hear your sounds of mirth over the internet. Whatever, I thought it was hilarious.

Yeah I heard the WHO head give the announcement speech a couple of days ago. Well, damn.

That makes me feel guilty for burning insects with a magnifying glass for laughs. I don't really think killing pests are bad at all, I mean, pests are only here to ruin your day, so kill them. They're just doing what they're supposed to to stay alive. Just like humans aren't consciously destroying the ecosystem. We're just doing.

If there truly is a Multiverse, I guess the expansion of our Universe really does have a beginning. The existence of something outside what we know as totality kind of breaks down my way of thinking. Physical laws that apply in this Universe wouldn't apply in the next, and something like Time would be difficult to think about. My problem is that I still cannot conceive of Time as something physical--something interwoven with space and filling out the Universe. I still think of it with a layman's mind: the ticking of seconds, the passing of days, etc. It was easy to explain when I thought of it as something whole and within something else (within the Universe). I'll need to read up on some more theoretical physics--right now I'm the purest example of a layman. For the explanation that doesn't entail a Multiverse: Even if Time had boundaries (the Big Bang and then the End, however that would play out), the whole of it would be encompassed by the Universe. Things within the Universe would 'move' through it, going through beginning to end. But the Universe would remain timeless, as it exists outside of Time. (And if the concept of Time is consistent within the larger system of Universes, then that system would also exist 'outside' of Time. So you could say the Multiverse is timeless.)

Also to add, "creation" is a property of time which is in turn a property of matter. Chances are, matter didn't exist before the big bang so time didn't exist and the act of being created didn't either. The Big Bang explains the expansion of space and time, not their creation. EDIT: But yeah, you definitely get the idea. Since the Universe is everything, the concept of 'creation' shouldn't apply. Edited. Seemed like I was berating you-- I wasn't

The Universe is totality. All matter, all space, and all time. Meaning, the Universe encompasses Time, not the other way around. The Universe does not move through Time, since one of the constituents of the Universe is Time. So the Universe essentially never 'happened'. It has no place in a temporal beginning or end, because it is all beginnings and all ends.

When we speak of origins we can either say that God is without beginning or end or that the Universe is without beginning or end. I've already explained how we already know that the Universe is timeless. It makes sense just to disregard God--he isn't needed to explain anything.

Am I the only one here who feels guilty for killing insects? There they are, innocently flitting about, and all of a sudden those legs and wings that were so full of life just stop. Feels like loss. Odd. Even odder that we put more stock in the lives of things that are cute. Though it makes perfect sense biologically.

That is not cool. You may have been well-intentioned, seeking 'retribution' for all the poor kids who had their underwear wedged too far up their cracks--but you basically ruined this guy's school record, and by extension, his life. You've taken 'an eye for an eye' to 'a future for a swirly'.

Adobe Album Starter automatically recognizes videos as 'pictures' to catalog. Whenever a flash drive is inserted, it pops up with a request to begin cataloging them. I always say 'no'-- and begin to delete the videos off of my flash drive to make room for more. This time, even after I deleted them off the drive, the videos, inexplicably, still took up memory. And so my flash drive is host to files I cant even access and delete. I tried to 'Get Photos' using the Adobe Album Starter, and allow it to extract the files to a place where I could easily delete them. I did so, and the option 'Remove Files from Camera/Memory device?' popped up. I clicked Yes, but it gave me an error message. The flash drive is still used up. Now I cant even access the videos through Adobe Album Starter. Any clue on how to fix this? All I want to do is get rid of the files videos on the drive. EDIT: After shoving the flash drive in and out of the port a couple of times, they started showing up in Adobe Album Starter again. Extracting and deleting now. Though I still have a question: What exactly causes the videos to remain on the disk even after you delete them? Is there any way to prevent this behavior in the future? v Thank you-- I'll do that. No point bumping this up at the time being, except to express gratitude.

I think that's the idea.

Because it doesn't make any sense for dead, unsuccessful organisms to pass on their genes. Maybe on another planet in another solar system, where heritable traits are passed on only through the bleeding fluids of the dead, another system exists. It would've, as you said, just wiped out the population. And organisms who passed on traits more efficiently would've arisen. Randomly. Huh: an evolution of an evolutionary process. Natural selection is the phenomenon in which things with the ability to survive do so, and pass on what they can. Because of an always narrowing gene pool (bad heritable traits are discarded with by death, good ones are not), populations tend to get better at surviving their circumstances. The evolution of consciousness is something that still escapes me. I think it's just an emergent phenomenon--the culmination of millions of years' worth of small changes. We decided to hunt, and to do so in packs. Those with forward facing eyes had better depth perception and could communicate better with others. Anything different died. Simple language became a big part of social interactions. Those who could not speak could not communicate. They died. Those of us who could strategize and react better to changing terrains and situations were well adapted to life. Those with less developed brains... died. ^This is extremely rough, and probably wrong in many places-- but just shows how our current state could have come about.

I fail to see how something so successful can be natural though. Life is so conditional and circumstantial that it baffles me how I have the ability to type this very sentence. It seems much more likely that natural evolution wasn't such a perfect system. I forget the term but it's something along the lines of "everything eventually fails". Evolution (natural) seems to be the opposite of this. Natural organisms are so successful because everything that wasn't is already dead. The failures are constantly sloughed off the population, and so, the gene pool. And so populations become more and more optimized as time goes on. Of course it isn't perfect. We depend on random mutations to stomach environmental changes. But it does work, and in the long run does create very efficient biological machines.

Or maybe bombs that blow a fine mist of water and brain-eating amoeba all over the place. The amoeba could then be later taken out by a virus or something. One that isn't harmful to us. That seems like a half-assed failsafe, but its not. >.> I propose clinical tests! Do zombies have enough fluid seeping from their heads to allow safe passage of the entamoeba? We'll see.

This is one of the only Topics on the entire forum where somewhat intelligent arguments are posted by the general posters on it, we need more threads on this forum with actual intelligent debate than spamish 4chan [cabbage] and news articles. I agree, I have learned a lot from threads like these. We need an "Intellectual Debate Forum". I.Q. of 90 or higher to enter. You don't need a high I.Q to make a good point. Would just take longer to analyze opposing points. A forum like this is conducive to such requirements. What we need is a humility requirement. Unfortunately something like that can't be quantized. Hmm, come to think of it-- intelligence cant either.

I really have nothing to say here, I just don't want Katsuro's word to be final. Oh wait, I do: Humans are nature, and our struggle to rise above all else is a natural one. The thing is that we were a little stupid at first, but are now trying to repair the planet because we realize we cant exactly live without it. We wont be so indifferent soon. Our lives are on the line.

Taking things out of context. This is the kind of thing that gives my life purpose. Anyway: I guess all the high tech solutions are out. EXCEPT-- I have something to add about explosions. Most of you say they have no effect unless shrapnel shreds the brain. But don't pressure waves cause a neural overload and body death? Grenades should work just fine.

Hmm... Feeding us bad ideas to take out the undead, appearing to have an outrageously overactive imagination when it comes to zombies.... Use of the word 'potion' in conjunction with 'zombie'... Oh, God. Prozac_Rehab is a necromancer. And his powers will destroy us all.

Yes, but it'd also be odd to own a pair of mittens specially designed to handle your plumbing.

They're all questions of endurance. Its always a competition-- Who can stomach the most intoxicating substances, Whose jaw is most hardened to impact, Whose tongue most resembles leather.

Ah, Tip.It. The one-time meeting place for Asperger's sufferers everywhere.

Bingo. No universe, no humans, no misery. Those are some great books, though. But I think desire wins it, in my view. Whether you desire love, power, (99 in a skill by tomorrow, perhaps?) whatever. If you cannot get it, you will eventually find misery. And without it, failure wouldn't be noticed, since there is no desire to achieve a task. Hey, if it is desire, let's all recognize misery as a tool that allows us to achieve greater things. Let's start to desire misery, and make for one humongous human thought paradox which will hopefully make our brains explode in spectacular, video-recordable fashion.

Unlimited wants. All it takes to be happy is to be content with what you have--but that also leads to stagnation. We need misery so we keep struggling for more. It is a motivator. A tool. It is useful.

How does that work? As in, what adverse effects would a cigarette have on an alcohol soaked body?

Is it truly 'nothing' that dogs bark at? Maybe it is something you cannot sense.