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Don't read them, never will. Sometimes I read penny-arcade or look at political comics on the interweb, but the only comics I read in real life are my Calvin and Hobbes collection.

Currently, you don't. I do. It happened because it has already happened, and will happen again in the future. It is going on right now. Something, from nothing.

Many democrats voted for the war in Iraq. It's possible that a claim by George about weapons of mass destruction or Iranian involvement in some kind of terror plot could convince even staunch anti-war democrats. If George Bush could convince the congress to approve a war in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction, that the US sold to him and taught him how to use, then he could probably convince the congress that Iran is a genuine threat.

It's like a google search, except very complicated. http://www.adultswim.com/shows/athf/

Yeah. I guess it makes sense that their marketing campaign is as crazy as their show. The real question is whether the huge amount of publicity ATHF will get is worth the inevitable fines which will be paid out by Cartoon Network.

With a little practice you can actually taste the increased chlorine in tap water, but most people can't tell the difference and the placebo affect accounts for "Mmmm...better than tap water!" when you drink it from a bottle. Also, some funny stuff here.

Only if there's a rule against expressing yourself...or being awesome. This is me. No exaggeration.

http://www.bostonist.com/archives/2007/ ... _force.php http://www.townonline.com/allston/homep ... 8914507775 It was hilarious to listen to all the talk radio hosts talk darkly about the "Suspicious packages" and watch how the news on TV spun headlines about the "Possible Terrorist threat in Boston(!)?". Being a Boston resident (and an Aqua Teen Hunger Force fan) I can safely say that this doesn't make me angry...it actually strikes me as a brilliant marketing tool.

God couldn't have created the universe, because he is the universe.

You're a clever little parrot, aren't you? http://911research.wtc7.net/

Skim the book as fast as possible. Don't try to learn anything. Then sleep with it under your pillow.

Because he is an abstract concept, and randomness is worth defending untill the end. God is everything. He is nothing. It makes more sense to defend his existence if you don't believe in him, given his extremely vengeful nature.

*Note to anyone who thinks I'm going offtopic: I'm defending muslims from the popular point of view, expressed in this article, that radical muslim extremists carried out 9/11 without help from the US government. I didn't know that, in fact, I would be surprised if you could support that with a source. The link was to an article by one person. Dr. Kevin Barrett, University of Wisconsin. It doesn't sound like you read it. Oh, thanks for the info. Way to stay on topic. I haven't presented a theory other than the one that our government consciously failed to act on 9/11, and in doing so helped the terrorists accomplish their goals. If you had actually read anything I had posted, or any of the article I had linked to, you might know that. Also, you might be able to think of a solid rebuttal instead of just saying "Nobody wants you here.".

Survey Response: There is no such thing as normal. As for lucid dreaming, the best technique to achieve the state of consciousness while dreaming is to treat life like a dream and treat going to bed as waking up. If you try hard enough, you can reverse the state of being awake with the state of being asleep, according to PaulT.

Around 30 thousand children starve to death in Africa on a daily basis. The US defense budget is over 500 billion dollars. It would not be a big deal, clearly, to end global hunger, the only thing holding us back is a pointless war started by the governments lies. The real enemy is the US government, and raising consciousness about the genocide in Sudan rather than the corruption in the US government is backward logic.

What if god didn't create all the random coincidences that led to the creation of the human species. What if he is all those coincidences? Evolution is his allegorical pinky finger and I am his nipple.

Bottled water is probably more dangerous than tap water. For example, dasani (owned by coca cola) was shown to have used extremely unsafe practices in its British marketplace. At least if people start getting sick from tap water, I'm unlikely to be the first one to drop dead. With bottled water, you never know.

No. There are no laws of physics that are definite, as none can be proven beyond reasonable doubt.

It was alot different before there were millions of players. In alot of ways you felt like Runescape was a small world. I remember when some players made their own inn above the bar in varrok. They charged people for using the rooms and they sold differents sorts of food. It was alot of fun to roleplay out situations that were actually entirely antithetical to Runescape's gameplay. Of course disruptive players just wandered around without paying for a room and refused to buy anything from the "Hotel owners" but it was still entertaining to experience somebody elses vision of what they wanted to do inside Runescape. The hotel remained in place for a few weeks then disappeared. Things like this, players setting up their own shops in abandoned buildings or dancing around drinking beer singing and partying in various ways, were more common a long time ago in Runescape, though the cabbage clan or whatever it's called is giving them a run for their money.

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Simply the best. Hemingway is the undisputed master at crafting beautiful and extremely straightforward prose. The books dialogue is in translated Spanish, ensuring that almost every other sentence has the word "Man" in it, and the swear words are all strange and ill-translated, making the dialogue seem alot more relaxed and contemporary than it actually is.

Even if severely abused, it's impossible to achieve many of the effects the government says that you can achieve by using marijuana. Marijuana became illegal because of racist claims that black people used it to rape white women, and a large dis-information campaign by Randolph Hearst, who also helped launch the Spanish-American war by manipulating the press, saying that marijuana led to insanity, murder, and death. Interestingly, existing industry (such as newspapermen, who helped fake the dangers of marijuana) had much to lose by leaving marijuana legal, as hemp was set to revolutionize the paper (as well as textile, energy, and health) industry. You can get three times as much paper from hemp plants as you can from the materials we currently use to create paper. Existing industry had much to lose by letting the hemp industry revolutionize almost every field of modern manufacturing techniques, which is why marijuana and hemp became illegal. Marijuana was just the device used by the corporations to make hemp illegal. Alcohol is a much more dangerous drug, and it is still legal. http://www.jackherer.com/popmech.html

Yeah. Whatever. You obviously aren't very educated about the earth today.

Obviously drugs don't change reality. They change your perception of reality. My point is that none of us ever experience reality, or know what it is. We are already viewing it through many filters, through a strange lense made up of social pressures, chemical changes in the brain, and of course primate logic. To understand this point of view you must view sentient thought as what it truly is: an adaptation of monkeys to allow them to absorb sunlight faster. Because we only experience reality within our own model of reality inside each of our minds, using drugs can alter your perception of reality (and hence reality) forever. For example, taking LSD has a profound and lifechanging effect on almost everyone people who take it. The altering of the logic functioning of the brain can be achieved by using acid or other drugs such as salvia. Now my question is this, if using certain substances permanently changes your perception of reality, haven't you essentially changed reality itself? When I took acid for the first time I drank alot of sobe energy drinks. Now whenever I drink them I feel amazingly stimulated, happy, and aware of my surroundings. Colors become more distinct and bright, I become alert and am able to learn things faster. This is an example of something being existent and non-existent at the same time; there is actually no psychadellic effect of drinking sobe energy drinks, but I get one all the same. Why? Because my brain has decided that's the way it's going to be and that's the way it is. Just like millions and millions of Christians are happier when they pray more or confess more.