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ObZen and Destroy Erase Improve are great albums by them as well, the former probably being their easiest to find. obZen was good apart from Combustion, which sounded like a groove metal Tool song. Can't stand Tool. Seriously? Combustion is the thrashiest track on that album, and Tool aren't thrashy at all. I can't say I ever thought of Tool while listening to that song. As for something insanely heavy, I'd try Suffocation, but I'm not sure how Christian-friendly the lyrics are. It's not like you can hear what Mullen is growling about anyway.

If you want to try some death metal: [hide=]Death Morbid Angel Obituary Demigod (finland) Lykathea Aflame Cannibal Corpse Bolt Thrower Suffocation Atheist Cynic Gorguts Demilich Malevolent Creation Carcass Carnage Decapitated Abhorrence Vader Deicide Gorod Severe Torture Pestilence Thanatos[/hide]

The Ten Commandments by Malevolent Creation: World Demise by Obituary:

It was a great match. Duminy did really well for South Africa, too.

Become a molecular biologist and contribute something to humanity through science. An ongoing goal would be to just have fun and make the most of life, because I'm not going to be here forever.

Agnosticism isn't about believing that the chances are 50/50. Agnosticism is purely about accepting that we don't know whether god exists or not. Breaking the term down, agnosticism basically means "without knowledge". As far as I'm concerned assigning probabilities to the existence of god is a pretty empty exercise. You have to have some experience of something to assign a probability of it happening, otherwise it's just meaningless. I can assign a 50/50 probability to the flip of a coin, but that's not because I'm guessing or assuming something - it's because through experience that's the probability I've determined.

The Ten Commandments by Malevolent Creation (album).

Brisbane, Australia is good enough for me. :thumbup: If anything I'd move 100km down the highway to the Gold Coast because I love the beach. If I had to choose somewhere else, I'd try Sweden, Canada, Bermuda, the Czech Republic, France, Italy or somewhere in California.

Killing With A Smile by Parkway Drive (album). Awesome. :thumbup:

How the police officer dealt with this scenario was obviously horrible, and I'd support any official inquiry into it. Having said that, very few police officers are actually like this. On the whole I've always been a supporter of the police force because I'd much rather have them around than not. As for these kind of things leading to totalitarianism, I seriously doubt it. I don't think that's likely to happen in America, or any modern western country, for that matter.

Its one thing to apply the anthropic principle to something like evolution, we know that other stars exist, but to theorise a multiverse with no evidence is surely as bad as theorising a god on no evidence? I'm not saying I think it's true or more evident than god for that matter, I'm just invoking another possibility to say why god isn't necessary (in reality I'd say neither are evident at all). As far as I'm concerned, the arguments for/against god don't definitively prove/disprove the idea at all. Perhaps we can start eliminating more illogical versions of god, but I don't think we can prove/disprove the basic idea.

Right, so I can't have a contrary opinion now? First of all, I said that I didn't find it that funny. Is that what got under your skin? It's not like I only came in to say I think it's spam. Besides, why can't I protest a topic if I think there's something wrong with it? The OP is a cartoon that looks like it took 2 minutes to draw in paint, for christ's sake. Am I to take it that I can post anything I draw or any cartoon I want so long as I say "comment" underneath it? There's nothing spamming nor anything hypocritical about me commenting on the merits of a thread.

I'm checking them out too, same album. Never heard of them before now. Sounds very interesting and unique.

Just out of curiosity, what reasons do you have to disbelieve? And no, I don't mean the burden of proof - I mean what makes you want to be an atheist. I don't know about you, but the idea that we have something 'sheltering' over humanity sounds comforting. Firstly, there's no good evidence of a god. Second, there is no need for a god. The best argument is probably the argument from first cause, but still, the answer to that problem can just as easily be that there's no god and the universe "has always been". Another decent argument is that the universe's fundamental constants were fine-tuned for life, but it could just as easily be the case that we're part of some greater multiverse and any percieved "fine-tuning" is due to anthropocentrism. Third, gods are often used in a "god-of-the-gaps" fashion, which I detest in every way. If we don't know something, that doesn't automatically mean that some god is the answer. The problem I see here is two-fold: science can and has answered questions that were once attributed to god, and, in principle you can use god as a scapegoat for anything purely because it's a supernatural being and can't be scrutinised or tested by natural means. It's always going to be out of reach to any criticism simply "because it's god". If we're talking about specific gods, like the Judeo-Christian God, I don't believe for the above reasons, but also because I don't believe that this universe is the product of an all-loving being at all. It seems to cold, harsh and uncaring to me. Added, some of the instructions in the Bible aren't at all the product of a morally perfect being as far as I'm concerned. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- All that aside, I'm not the kind of person to believe in something because of the perceived benefits. I'll judge the merits of an idea based on whether I think it's true or not. For example, it would be just great if the economic crisis ended tomorrow, but believing that it will isn't going to make it true no matter how much we want it to be. Trust me, I'd love to talk to god and know everything there is to know about the way the universe works. I just don't believe that will ever happen.

The Machinations of Dementia by Blotted Science (album). Excellent intrumental metal.

You didn't seem to understand the nature of science, so I corrected you. You're right that it's my opinion that science is the most accountable, malleable system of understanding we have (perhaps I should have added the word "objective" in there), but to say that it's a rock that can't be changed is simply wrong. Would you not find someone ignorant or stupid, if even for a moment, if they claimed that atoms were not made up or protons or neutrons? Even if it turned out they had irrefutable proof? Or say the same with gravity. At first, you'll be in extreme disbelief. You seem to have an open mind, so you'd accept it easily, but there are people that would still call this person stupid or ignorant, or argue with him. But you also seem to believe faith has to be blind and can only, well, blind people. That is just as wrong, in my eyes. If it was in fact the case that such people had irrefutable proof for opposing theories then no, I wouldn't find them to be stupid or ignorant at all, and neither would scientists. Science isn't a religion with dogmas or blasphemies; if a hypothesis or theory fails a test, then the nature of science says to revise it or throw it out. Mind you, it's not like the scenario you described is at all likely. Well established scientific paradigms generally take more than one person (and more than one finding) to topple over. The reason isn't that science is a rock that can't be moved as you claim, it's because the current explanations are so well supported by evidence and are so refined by constant revision that it would take way more new evidence to show that they're in need of major revision. Having said that, there have been paradigm shifts in the past and I'm sure there will be more in the future. As for the faith thing, yes, I think that faith in religion essentially boils down to nothing substantial at all, i.e. it's "blind". That's not to say that believers don't have their reasons for believing. Personally, I just don't have any good reason to believe.

Human by Death (album).

You didn't seem to understand the nature of science, so I corrected you. You're right that it's my opinion that science is the most accountable, malleable system of understanding we have (perhaps I should have added the word "objective" in there), but to say that it's a rock that can't be changed is simply wrong.

Your brain processes stuff when you sleep so if you have 2 days of school 1 day of break 2 days of school and 2 days of break it would work well. Even if the extra day off was in the middle of the week, many of the same problems would remain. I'd be more inclined to make school 6 days a week and make the days shorter. In that way, kid's minds are recharged every day and they wont be half-asleep by the end of the day. I think it's about right at the moment, though.

Well, I might just be talking semantics here but what if you did something to trigger the creation of infinity? For example, throwing a football in outer space. You only throw it once but it can go an infinite distance if it doesn't hit anything along the way. I know that's not "creating" anything but philosophically speaking it's along the same lines. Doesn't really apply here. We're talking about the assumption that an infinite number of levels exist in the make-up of matter right now, i.e. it was created.

"(well, that and the fact that they're from 2002 and apparently that's already totally out of date)." It looks like you proposed and solved your own problem all in the same post. Obviously, there is more than one way to come at an issue scientifically, otherwise science text books wouldn't need new editions every two years or so. Science isn't a rock that can't be wrong. Whoever told you that should be shot, because science is the most accountable, malleable system of understanding we have.

I don't see why it has to be. There could simply be a fundamental unit of matter that eventually makes up everything else. It's not really our place to disprove your idea wrong, but for you to prove it right. I don't see how you go from "infinite" to "it had to be created". Besides, how can an infinity of anything be created at all? That concept just doesn't make sense. You might be able to begin creating an infinite number of things, but by definition you couldn't end, in which case you wouldn't be creating an infinite number of things, but a progressively larger finite number of things.

Do you think it's their best? I hear they've done some good DM but I've not really checked out any of their albums yet. Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious by Carcass (album).

I definitely think a lot of the power and meaning in music comes from the music itself. At least I think it should. With a musical genre like death metal, for example, most of the lyrics are laughable and the vocals make them inaudible anyway. That's not to say that I don't like it - it's actually one of my favourite types of music. Having said that, I do like good, cleaverly written lyrics. Especially so in hip-hop, where it's one of the main requirements for the music to be considered good (well, good lyrics and delivery at the same time).

No, I don't think so. On the extra day off kids will more than likely be left alone, or if child care is used, it's not a good solution. In Australia, for example, finding a childcare spot at the moment is like finding a needle in a haystack. A flood of the childcare market like this would simply be impossible. Let's not forget how pissed off parents would be if they had to pay for childcare because of such a decision, too. I know I would be. Another thing I'd argue is that cramming extra material into 4 days rather then spreading it out over 5 makes for a worse education. Kids only have a certain attention span, and I vividly remember mine dwindling as the school day went on. By the end of it, I didn't want to learn any more, I just wanted to go home because I was getting tired. A nice big 3 day weekend sounds like the perfect time to forget all you learnt over the past 4 days, too.