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Original pringles are the most boring flavour ever. Pizza flavour every time, although I haven't seen a tube of them in years.... :(

It is indeed rather nice especially for the price... but turn it over and read the amount of saturated fat in those bars... its shocking... but I still eat them LOL

You've just made concessions. If you believed abortion was morally 'black' and always wrong, you'd never make concessions, so clearly even you are willing to blur the edges.

ROFL

ZOMG Lindor, I should've put that on my list.... YUMMMMM :D Although if you're Portuguese Lindor is a brand of adult nappy (diaper to you Americans), not quite so tasty :oops: ...

Unfortunately, unlike many religious people seem to think, moral are not fixed, nor are they black and white. Abortion being a very good example. A lot of people are vehemently against abortion because they see it as murder and nothing else. For the record, I am pro-choice, and I shall explain why: If a woman were to be raped for example, and then became pregnant as a result, she may wish to abort the child. Quite a lot of right-wing Christians would demand that she keep it and give birth to that child. Now, I know that in no way does that unborn child bear any guilt for what happened to its mother, BUT the mother will always look at her child knowing how it came about. This is a burden that I feel it is up to the mother to choose to take. Also, eventually this child will ask about its heritage, does the mother tell the child? How will the child react? This sort of case is the morally grey situations that right-wing religious people refuse to acknowledge actually exist, or at the very least refuse to entertain any other possibility for a solution that is not their own. There are numerous other situations: accidental death in the case of self-defence, the right to commit suicide in the face of terminal illness, abortion of a severely disabled unborn child, sex before marriage, anything gay (religious groups seem to have a lot of problems relating to consensual sex) etc.

I think the biggest flaw in most "Intelligent" Design arguments is time. If there is someone pulling the strings, guiding evolution to ultimately reach us.... why take 4.5 billion years to do it?!! It could be done so much faster.

Evolution is completely random, given the exact same starting conditions, and the exact same major events, there is absolutely no guarantee that we'd be here at all. Remember that it is ultimately one freak individual that spawns a dynasty of species. The first creature to produce milk, (probably an echidna-like creature), would have been the first mammal, but if she had been eaten by a predator before producing offspring (random chance), no mammals would ever had existed. And even if at a later stage another similar animal had developed a milk production mutation (extremely unlikely) there's no guarantee that at that future time it would be an advantage.

I have just finished WHILE GUTHIX SLEEPS!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D That stone of Jas was sooo cool, I want one permanently ;) Just one left :) Unfortunately you need level 65 in a skill to use the xp boost you get in the quest... my smithing is only 63... sigh, quite a bit of work to do to finish the FINAL quest...

LOL, what a bad advert for BritTain... :P Although I am in favour of favour.

Partial eclipses happen only because sun earth and moon are slightly out of alignment at that spot on the Earth. North America may be getting partial, but Cuba may be getting total. The fact remains that the relative sizes of Sun and Moon in the sky are identical or very very near-identical (withing a fraction of a percent). And that for this to happen accidentally is extremely unlikely. This setup hasn't always been so (the moon is moving steadily further away due to tidal friction, at about the same rate your fingernails grow), so it may be that this particular conifiguration leads to a particularly stable balance of gravitational effects of sun and moon, allowing a more stable climate, allowing complex and sentient life to evolve.... pure speculation, but it would mean that being astounded by this would be inappropriate, seeing as this setup would have been necessary for us to even see it.

simple answer no. I'm only willing to accept two *possible* pieces of evidence for the *possible* existence of god/designer of the Universe. 1) the existence of the Universe. 2) the fact that the moon exactly covers the same area of the sun in a total eclipse. Now, 1) science cannot conclusively explain... yet. and 2) is amazingly unlikely to happen by chance, but it could still be chance. Winning the lottery is amazingly unlikely, but people still do.

awww :( I thought not, but thanks for clarifying :)

Both the wizard mind bomb (mature) and the magic potion raise magic level by +4 (if above lvl 49). My question is do they stack? If I drink one then the other do I get +8?? (I'm guessing no....)

Also, "As a first resort" is a really really useful quest because it gives access to pools that give +8 prayer boost (this doesn't fade, it holds until you use prayers), hp boost (again temporary, this fades slowly back to your regular hp), temporary infinite run (cuts off after a while and you return to normal run), a hunter boosting pool (fades), and a Bandos pool (cuts off eventually) which is useful for GodWars Dungeon.

definitely fairy tale part 1 and then start part 2 (you don't need to meet the requirements or complete the quest) so you can use all those fairy rings. You'll wonder how you ever got around runescape before. Any quests that give good bonuses are advisable. The quest that gives you the ectophial is very useful as its a one-click teleport that doesn't cost anything. Or if you're like me, do all of them. I nearly have (got 2 left!)

Being a guy Chocolate, Coffee, Great desserts (like tiramisu) Hot toned/slim guys preferably in their mid-20's and with a dash of stubble *melts* Physics! Atheism!

Archimage, you're living in a fantasy world where nothing is real. Evidence is not subjective. Evidence is objective, it is the interpretation of evidence that becomes subjective. During the day it is clear that the sun moves across the sky, the interpretation of what that means has been different in the past. We now have MUCH MORE evidence that the correct/most likely interpretation is that the Earth's rotation relative to the sun is what creates the effect of the sun moving across the sky. You clearly do not understand what the Higg's Boson is all about, go and do some group theory, the some electro-weak unification, and then you can comment. It has got nothing to do with gravity. And just because we haven't discovered it yet, it does not mean that it does not exist, and if we do not find it, it doesn't mean that our theories are wrong, it just means we've supplemented them incorrectly. Quantum field theory (QFT) is accurate to about 15 decimal places and has so far been successful with every experimental test performed on it. But we know that it is not yet complete, as there are things it does not explain. In QFT all particles are massless, but we measure them to have mass, so we know that these two have to be reconciled. The Higg's Boson *may* be the solution, or it may not be. I personally don't think that the Higgs mechanism is the correct one, but if they do find it, I'll be happy to say that it is. Scientists favour the Higgs option because it is the easiest. Scientists would not "dive into a depression" if someone conclusively proved that the Higgs did not exist, some would be disappointed, but most would be excited by it, because it would mean a rethink, a hotbed of new ideas. An experimental result that comes out of the blue is the BEST thing for science, it creates progress. If you have survived accidents, all you have done is been lucky. Its blind chance if you die or live on a lot of accidents. I myself have had a car accident and survived, that doesn't make me more malleable to belief in some god. Science is objective, but scientists are not. We often cling to theories that we like, or feel comfortable with. I hate quantum theory, but I am forced to accept it because it provides testable predictions that give correct answers. Green does exist, its a particular wavelength of light!! It doesn't matter how we see it, it will always have that wavelength. What rubbish! Constant interaction is what creates the vibrancy, exchange of ideas, culture, technology, food, history, knowledge.... etc. Isolation would result in the grey paste, no new input, people stagnating in their own filth. If we had machines to do everything people wouldn't have to work and could pursue whatever they wanted to pursue, money wouldn't be an issue. Nuclear power is perfectly sensible, when we develop fusion power stations, they would power us for an indefinite amount of time with no environmental side-effects. Archimage, you have this 'interpretation' of science that is way off the mark. You have probably not experienced science properly. I have grown up in a religious environment and family, and I can't stand it, I see the ineptitude of religion and how inadequate it is for the job that it professes to do.

Just defeated Bork, its necessary for WGS... although the quest calc doesn't say so, RS does. Gonna go penguin spotting to use on smithing. Farm/herb should be done relatively soon. 75 mage might take a while.

Mourning's End Part 2 complete!! :D It wasn't so hard, just complex and inventory punishing. Lots of prayer boosting armour and holy wrench (no food) was just fine for me. Step by step obviously... 2 quests left :)

You misunderstand me. Hitler used it as justification, that doesn't mean that it really was justified. He used Judaism because it was easy for him to use, he could have quite easily chosen something else to segregate people, and then justified that. But because religious people stick to their ideals and principles - no matter what - it makes them easy to single out, attack and undermine.

Wrong. We should encourage segregation and local control. NO!!!! The more segregation that exists, the more that "us and them" mentality rears its head, and that only leads to conflict. BITTER conflict. Almost all wars and genocide, with the exception of WW1 and 2, have been driven, justified and sanctioned by religion. The Inquisition, the crusades, the Moors, the ongoing palestinian-israeli conflict, conquest of the Americas, colonization in Africa, slavery for crying out loud was sanctioned by the Anglican church. Even (but to a lesser extent) the Holocaust. Had there been no Judaism, Hitler would have found it much harder to justify what he was doing. Most "weapons" that science has invented actually came from a practical use, any handheld weapon has its origins in animal hunting, a necessity for survival. It is not a gun that is evil, it is the person pulling the trigger. Gunpowder was a tonic for eternal life, not a weapon. TNT was originally invented to help miners obtain ore, once Alfred Nobel realized that people were using it destructively he came up with the Nobel prize to try and counter the problem. The nuclear bomb is the only exception, this was a weapon designed to be so from the start, and considering the extremely limited use as such, especially during the Cold War, I'd argue that people have realized the magnitude of the potential for disaster. Having said that, scientists have found a use for it also, in Nuclear power, the thing that may eventually come to save the world. Science advances, and in that advancement, yes we create problems, but we also find solutions to those problems as the advancement continues. Science learns and grows. Religion doesn't create problems because it doesn't advance, it just sits there harking back to the "good old days", don't do this, don't do that, its "wrong". If we lived our lives by religion, the world would still be biblical, and people would do their father's job etc etc. Religion has always been the prohibiter, and Science the enabler.

NO!!! There IS gravity in space!! It is a common misconception that there is no gravity in space. If there were no gravity, how would things stay in orbit? :P Basically you happen to be accelerating at the same 'rate' that gravity does. (from a Newtonian picture), this acceleration cancels out the sensation of gravity, so you feel weightless. Think of a lift falling really quickly, you, and everything else in it would 'levitate' and you would feel weightless, but the Earth is still pulling you toward it, and you therefore still have a weight. For a General Relativity picture, all that needs to be noted is that in space, close to *any* object the space is curved (ball on a rubber sheet idea), and you are in the 'well' created by this curve. To stop yourself from falling in you must travel at a certain speed (orbit), since you are not traveling inward you don't feel gravity, BUT the space around you is still curved, so the force of gravity is still there. To be in a place with no gravity, you'd have to get a region of space that was flat (ie: extremely far away from anything). This is a simplified picture, to explain it properly I'd need to talk about inertial reference frames, and I'm not going to!

I'm asking the peoples of Tip.it which is best: ROFL (rolling on floor laughing) or LMAO (laughing my [wagon] off) I'm completely undecided....

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