sphinxor86

I with you on the gay pride march thing, I'm gay, but find the whole gay pride march rather over the top. Half-naked (well more than half!) men trawling up and down the street, lots of pink and feather boas... its just too extreme. There's a difference between being proud and shouting it from the rooftops.

I read an interesting article about why Science and Religion conflict... http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/indepth/39951 It essentially rests on how you perceive science (either as a process or as a set of beliefs) and similarly how you perceive religion with the same criteria (process or belief set). And depending on how you see them, you will find them to conflict or coexist.

My fault for saying that prayer to God(s) wouldn't fix global warming....

You're wrong, the cycles you're talking about are Milakovic cycles and are completely to do with Earth's rotational dynamics and have nothing to do with CO2 levels. Just the earth wobbling around in space, getting slightly closer and then slightly further from the sun, completely independent of CO2 levels.

That's absolute rubbish, low level ozone never makes it into the upper atmosphere, thus it will never help to replenish the ozone layer. It is in fact responsible for aggravating respiratory diseases/conditions. Yes global warming is part of a natural cycle, but you're missing the point!!! Natural global warming happens on a cycle of hundreds of thousands to millions of years, and the resulting climate change is a gradual process, giving most life a chance to adapt. Right now, humans are exponentially adding CO2 to the atmosphere and pressing the fast forward button on the system, some species are already struggling to adapt, amphibians as a group, as well as mammals... a hotter climate favours reptilian and insect life... and we're mammals :ugeek:

Erm a meteor wouldn't exactly curb global warming : Some Physics: CO2 whilst being a small percentage of the atmosphere, is a well mixed gas. This means you can find it permeating the whole atmosphere, unlike for example Ozone which is found almost only in a layer at the top of the atmosphere. And just because its a small percentage, it doesn't mean it produces a small effect. Everything adds up. A flask of CO2 absorbs more infra-red light (heat) which is then re-released to the surroundings than a flask of ordinary air would. Its not just CO2 that contributes, Methane is highly warming, and water vapour is also a very powerful greenhouse gas. Take for example one day, the extra amount of heat absorbed by the extra CO2 will be tiny, but not enough will escape into space at night (when the half the earth faces away from the sun) before the next day arrives, so a slightly warmer atmosphere then absorbs slightly more heat, adding and adding, more warming then creates more evaporation, adding to the effect. Rain would normally wash CO2 out of the atmosphere given enough time, but we aren't allowing enough time for that to happen.

If mankind is going to survive we have to at least TRY! This is my point, for example, Global Warming is a major issue and we all need to try to do our best to curb our energy use. No amount of praying will get rid of global warming, we have to do it ourselves.

Eh, we humans suck. I'll keep my faith out of humanity. We humans are capable of both fantastic achievements and co-operation: space exploration since the fall of the USSR being a good example, CERN and other international collaborative projects, but we are also capable of very very low actions: torture, murder, war, genocide etc. Perhaps if we had more faith in ourselves to better the world in which we live in we could shift the balance further to the good things.

Leave Hugh alone, he's yummy, and should be in the things that you love thread :P

ROFL, not intentionally! But I can see the similarity :lol: I don't believe in god(s) anyway.

What if all the Gods in the respective world religions are real, and recruiting our souls after death to fight out a bitter eternal war in the afterlife against one another.... Its better to be an atheist :lol:

Cheddar cheese and raspberry jam sandwiches! : (seriously, just try them)

In fact the vast majority are NOT "out of the norm attention seekers" and its that very reason why you seem surprised to discover that your teacher is a lesbian. Its the "flaming queen" minority that give the negative stereotype for the rest of us. It is similar to the way you seem to always see "gun-toting gangster" black music artists perpetuating negative stereotypes of black people, when I know full well that the vast majority of black people are not gun-toting gangsters. The ones in a group that are most prominent give you a false impression of the group as a whole.

I did it with 61 agility and potions Make sure you take plenty of prayer potions and a holy wrench, you can do it without food, I did. Also a one click tp is NECESSARY!!

I see I've been merged, I spose its the right course of action :lol:

In light of Scully_Sc's fantastic "Things that you LOVE" thread, I thought I'd counter that with a "things that you hate" thread... Buggy mummies who are too thick to realise that they take up far too much space, and take their kids to oxford street on Boxing day sales, or try and squeeze the nth buggy onto a bus. Religious Fundamentalists. People who are "ARTISTS" and who do anything and say anything just because they think its "art" when it BLOODY WELL ISN'T, and then get [bleeping] paid millions for it!!!!!! Yes I mean you Tracey Emin, and you Damien Hirst. Cyclists who can't see red lights. Self-interested money hungry expense claiming politicians. The current Archbishop of Canterbury Prince Charles

I love being right (how arrogant does that sound!), but it is a nice feeling when you are, smugness :lol:

Apparently Zanik's crossbow can now take more types of bolts, anyone know which?

The good old nature vs nurture debate. I honestly think that it has a very strong genetic influence.... I knew since around 9 years old, don't ask me how, I just did. (Am 23 now). And thinking back to my childhood, I can pinpoint many qualities/events as 'evidence' that I was gay even at a younger age than 9. I don't think I was made gay by external factors, the main reason being that if that were possible, it could feasibly be undone by appropriate countermeasures, and I don't think it can. There have been studies attempting to pinpoint physical differences between homosexual and heterosexual men, and apparently there are some (all on average of course): Gay men are more likely to have their hair patterns swirling in the opposite direction to straight men, and (apparently) gay men are more likely to have larger penises than straight men. I don't know how true that is, but I certainly like the sound of it! :lol:

Thanks pirate_felix :) Oh and for reference, I was brought up Catholic. And now am an Atheist. Homosexuality and science are two major reasons for renouncing my religion (I'm also a trained Physicist with a degree in Theoretical Physics).

As a gay man, I think homosexuality is neither right nor wrong, it just is. There's nothing wrong with two men (or two women) who are attracted to one another, and are mutually consenting, to express it through sex. There isn't anything "right" about it either. Just like there's nothing "right" with a man and a woman expressing themselves in the same way. So long as its safe, and not in public! :lol: So it might not be what you're used to, and yes its not the convention of the majority of the general public, but that doesn't mean anything, the same could be said for many other aspects of human behaviour. Oh and before someone starts quoting biblical dogma at me, nowhere in the bible does it say homosexuality is wrong, if you read it carefully, it talks about homosexual rape. Which of course is completely different because one of the parties is NOT consenting. And anyway, in the New Testament Jesus reaches out to and makes friends with prostitutes, tax collectors, and other members of the societal 'underclass' including homosexuals. There is a reference somewhere to a man with a slave, and the term they use in describing this slave, is just like the male equivalent of 'concubine' (essentially a sex slave).

You could use it on other skills too... fletching, crafting I'm not suggesting you should get to do it all in one go, it should still take the same amount of physical time that cleaning each herb and mixing each potion takes, just without the need for bank logins and logouts. Example, if it takes 2 seconds to clean a herb, 2 seconds to mix into in a vial and 2 seconds to add the secondary ingredient, so 6 seconds in all, and you want to make 100 potions, the bank operation should last 600 seconds (10 minutes).

Now, how many of you out there are herblore-ists? And you've got loads of herbs in your bank? There should be a way to log in to your bank, and then perform "bank operations", so lets say for example you have 100 grimy snapdragons, 100 vials of water and 100 red spiders eggs in your bank, you should be able to click on an icon called "bank operation" and clean all your snaps, make up all your vials and add all the eggs, without having to incessantly log in and out over and over again...

I've had: A sheep Hans Wise Old Man and My Arm

Has anyone tried the Random option in the Contact NPC table? (Lunar Magics) Its very funny :lol: