sphinxor86

Oh, I didn't think that you did! That's great :D

It occurred to me that if you drink a super strength potion it boosts your strength levels.... sooooo... what happens to someone who is 99 strength and they drink a s. strength potion? Nothing? Or do they still get a boost?

I still disagree. YOU may not understand gravity, but many eminent theoretical Physicists routinely think in a 4-dimensional curved spacetime, without the need of putting pen to paper. The best example of this would be Professor Stephen Hawking who physically cannot write and has learned to envisage and manipulate complicated equations as images in his mind. And the real head cases routinely think in 10+1 dimensions (space+time) although don't ask me exactly how that works. With all due respect I hardly think that the progress of science has lead to the moronic celebrity culture that stalks the west. Religion has always stood in the way of anything and everything that did not conform to its outmoded principles and ideals. During the Black Death, people were encouraged to gather in Church to pray for repentance to be cured, instead of being encouraged to maintain quarantine. And more recently with the Pakistan earthquake a few years ago, weeks after the event, people were still sat on the rubble of their homes just saying "God wills it". The power of humanity lies within itself, not some ethereal fog that hangs over our heads. People should abandon religion, stop finding divisive and destructive ways to segregate from one another, and club together to help one another and better the world.

Faith and belief in the sense that you and I are using, are DIFFERENT things. Faith is based on nothing but personal instincts, prejudices and preferences. Belief, at least in my sense and the sense that can be applied to science, is based on evidence and fact. It is a leap of logic, not a leap of emotion or personal And contrary to your opinion of . Evidence and facts, are pure and independent, anyone and everyone of sound mind would agree that apples fall from trees, and that these events happen without there needing to be people present or collaboration between people. Its not some grand delusion. We do understand Gravity, exceedingly well in fact. If tomorrow we all woke up on the ceiling, then some major rethinking would be needed. But considering that nothing of that nature has happened in thousands of years, we do not expect that it will happen anytime soon either, and we therefore conclude that our current explanation of gravity is a satisfactory one. Of course more people have died in the past 100 years, there are more people alive now than there are people who are dead (across human history). Statistically, you'd expect more :P That's rubbish, the reason why people go hungry and stay ill in this world is because of rich countries wanting to stay rich and pharmaceutical companies profiteering. Its politics and finance which imbalance the world. The world in which we live in, is not one created by Science, it is one where science has been allowed to flourish, and where science has been manipulated for political and military gain (DARPA for example). I can guarantee you that if scientists had political power, the world would be a very different place.

CLAPTRAP! Evolution is independent of whether or not scientists are there to observe it. Your whole argument is flawed. Bacterial life evolved into complex plants and animals, which in turn evolved into amphibians/reptiles/dinosaurs etc etc, all without humans having to be there to watch it all. Anthropic stances are intrinsically flawed because they put the cart before the horse. The existence (of anything) is intrinsic. Descartes was wrong, rocks, for example, exist, but they do not think. They are made of atoms which are detectable and measurable. And just because they are measurable, that does NOT mean that they require to be measured to actually exist. Scientists do not have faith. If you see something fall, over and over again, in repeatable circumstances, (apples from trees etc) you make a LOGICAL leap that this will always happen. There is no faith, no wishful thinking, or hope, or anything else entangled with the assumption that it will always happen. It is merely a conclusion based on evidence and facts. In prehistorical times everything was mystical, God was the simplest and quickest solution to everything. But God is not an explanation, you learn nothing if you explain something with God, all you are doing is being intellectually lazy. If we explain water flowing downhill as God, we learn nothing, if we explain it as gravity, they we also understand why and how it rains downwards, why and how objects fall, and ultimately why and how planets and heavenly objects orbit. It takes a lot more effort to truly explain something. If you fast-forward human development and learning, God becomes the solution to less and less, and Science becomes the solution AND the explanation to more and more. I see no reason why this will not continue, Science explaining more and more until the concept of God becomes irrelevant. God is a human concept, in a world where many things were unknown, fear ruled, and the concept of a God would have been a comforting thought. Knowing that there was someone/something pulling all the strings with a "grand plan" making everything happen for a reason. Just because people want God to exist, it doesn't mean that he does. A lot of people are too scared to even contemplate that he does not exist.

That is an oxymoron, atheism is non-belief, that is specifically what it means. You sound like a Deist to me.

Hah, spoil the pattern :P I'll go for Death 7755 but the chances are remote :ugeek:

Amberite, a new rock that you can make clasps out of, to attach to your armour/weapons giving you skill boosts. But which skill requires either a high level magic spell, or a herblore potion to "direct" the clasps to a chosen skill. Or alternatively instead of special attacks with weapons have "special defences" with armour...

Thanks!! :D

Combat in this quest is irrelevant, what you need is the extended run boost from Ooglog pools, I wouldn't have succeeded without it!! :D

Wit respect to the "big tease" article, it was these annoying things, plus tip.it that made me want to join members... oh you can only do this on a members world, that would be soooo much easier on a members world, you could make so much more money on a members world etc. So eventually I got fed up of f2p and signed up to p2p around this time last year I think....

Just finished Devious Minds with a little help from Dwarven Stout :D Mourning End p2 *shudders* WGS Rocking Out left I need more skills.....

Dealing with Scabaras ticked off the list :D 4 left....

YAY, done, and I only died once :)

Am on the 3rd room of Summer's End!!!!!!!! :?

I life ring "died" the first time, teleported out the second time, and then life-died from the poison. And got the bug-ger on the 3rd time. :) Scabaras is easier?! It looks harder, I've started it, but thought I might give Summer's End a go.

Just finished contact! zomg that was hard....

Back to my roots and Grim Tales done :D 7 left to go!!

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C++ is the root of all evil, it is satanic and must be burned at the stake!!!!!! :evil: I had to "learn" it at Uni in my first and second year... everyone seemed to get it.... but not me, am thick when it comes to programming in C++. Its like cerebral marmite, your brain either loves or hates it, in my case HATE.

Yay to the Fabregas sig, he's HOT :D

I think that is the freakiest avatar I have ever seen IeatWindex!!!!! =D>

I might be being a noob, but what the hell is 26K tricking?!

Ooops, silly me, I thought you meant God Wars *slaps head*

BANDOS THRONE ROOM??!! How do you manage that with your stats??!!