Adam007

I still have my original tinderbox from tutorial island in '02. Long live that box. Lonnggg livvvee that box...

You were drunk. You were tired. Under the influence things tend to spin. Any chance there was a dark object and it just seemed to spin forward to the ceiling? If not, if people are seriously enough sleep deprived they can begin having hallucinations, long enough and they become as strong as you'd experience as if you were on LSD. There are so many things that can seem supernatural, and there are plenty, probably even more explanations. Previously thought things such as Near Death Experiences our Out of Body Experiences or whatever they're called used to be on TV all the time, but recently science has proven that because of a lack of oxygen to the brain (or whatever the reason was, I'm not positive) one can sometimes experience a type of hallucination before death. To the person, it seems extremely real. I mean when you're dreaming everything is unquestionably real. It isn't until the explanation is given to you that you realize there is an explanation for every paranormal event. The output or end event you see you think is caused by one thing, but there are a multitude of other possible explanations you're unaware of that could cause you to perceive things the way they aren't. Combine your heightened sense of awareness/fear with a scary/dark environment, and your mind, being the powerful thing it is, sets up nonexistant scenarios for you. But they're only simulations. You just have to use your rationale to figure this out and dismiss these scary things for what they really are. Your mind taking things and distorting them to paint a false picture.

XplsvBam, do you realize how much in the minority you are here? I'm not saying the minority view is wrong - I'm saying that you're so out of touch with reality on so many issues. How can you be against technology like this? Your using the internet itself is so hypocritical. Instead of reading what everyone here has to say in such disagreement with you, I think you'd be much happier reading a bible, or if you've already exhausted that and continue using our technology, I'll try to find you a religious forum to test the waters in. I'm not saying I dislike religious views - I'm somewhat religious myself. But you are just so fallacious and illogical I'm at a loss for words. Succession does not equal technology. First of all, your definition is that of a biological succession, in no way referring to technology. I have no idea what you were doing on http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Succession or if you even got it from there, but you took one giant leap in taking a biological term of succession (which in this case references forest destruction and regrowth, a continuous process), and applied it to the advancement of technology as a whole. I don't know if the hundreds of thousands of years of human-kind history isn't enough for you, but humans have always been evolving our technology. Fire probably was scary at first. People probably thought it was the end of safety as they knew it. People feared machinery, people feared steam boats, people feared most new technologies. But there's no reason to! Technology never destroyed us. As much as the technology seems to get scarier to you, the defenses against this technology also increases. We won't be facing any apocalypse any time soon, don't worry. Technology is in no way a continuous destructive process that can only lead to our downfall as much as you'd like to think it is. Technology aides in our daily lives and only makes life that much better.

You can't disprove there isn't a china teapot (a Utah teapot, for modellers) orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. That is not an argument for its existence though. You got me. I've been wasting all this time trying to disprove this. Wth is wrong with me. As silly as this teapot example sounds to you, the existence of a God seems to Parabola. Beyond that, his point is that you can't just defend everything because you can't prove against it. That's just weak argument. You can't does disregard proof if you're trying to have a logical argument.

Not only is that false, but it's comical if you think about your path of logic. I should put this is my signature: At 3:21.32pm, March 10 of the year 2007 C.E, a 19 year old American going by the name of trapical will "post" on the "Internet" at a site known as the Tip.It forums; he will be using a Dell laptop and should have been doing a paper for his Genetics class but he got bored. Five billion years in the past, the chance of the above prediction coming true would be 1 in 10^4,478,296,292,402,399,323,135,237,469,741,579,753,235,908 Wow, its incredible that even with those odds it happened! I think assassin linked this. You should read it. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html "They calculate the probability of the formation of a "modern" protein, or even a complete bacterium with all "modern" proteins, by random events. This is not the abiogenesis theory at all." So my signature is very accurate. It is impossible for a cell to 'occur' by chance. Of course a cell doesn't just occur by chance. It started smaller than that. I can't remember exactly, but before RNA there were just small chains of molecules that were able to self replicate. Really simple things. Even if the chance of them occuring is so extremely rare, know that if given billions of years, it's bound to happen, even if the odds are extremely low. Claiming that the odds of this happening could exist itself is acknowledging the possibility of it happening. And given the billions of years it took for life to appear, why's it seem so far-fetched to you?

Skill total: 1514 Net worth (not in gp, phats): 1.1bil Might have to adjust that graph of yours, or just call me an outlier. :P

Haha funny. If all I saw was "rhubarb rhubarb" I wouldn't have aced my 4 semesters of Physics :lol:. Anyways your answer to what causes the attraction of masses is gravity. Which is validated through scientific circular reasoning. My answer is God. So your answer is that only through God can we uncover every truth in life? As to what causes particles to be attracted to each other, why are you assuming that since we haven't discovered every detail about gravity, then the answer only lies in God? How can we advance anywhere if we can only find truths through God if we can't make any communication with him? All we have is the bible - unless you're saying the only piece of truth is the bible.

I just saw it. Plotwise and character-wise it wasn't astounding, but if it's violence, gore, and sex you want, this movie is like 100% made of it. I did love the visuals, and it was really artistic and each shot was excellently done, especially with the fighting choreography.

There has always been a single click option on rs, so right clicking wouldn't be a problem.

Well thanks for not assuming it is actually naturally possible, at least. But anything is theoretically possible if you add the word 'miraculously' before it!

... What...? :uhh: I know what you mean, it's just the thought of custom babies that makes me want to hurl. Yeah, in that regard I agree with you. You've known me long enough to know I support most scientific advancement to the fullest extent, but if you saw that one thread about human genetic engineering (which I wish you would have posted on), surprisingly the majority of people(at least of those who posted) supported aesthetically engineering people, which I do find wrong. But as I'd hope you'd agree, genetic engineering itself isn't an immoral science as many believe it to be.

Yeah that atomic bomb is awesome! There's a fine line between technology helping us and us using technology to change our every circumstance expecting it to fix all of life's problems. When you're using an external thing (technology) to fix internal problems then problems start to arise. I guess I had that one coming with such a generic phrase. But overall you can't bash technology just because bad things can come from it. Bad things can come from anything, it's just the bad things that can come from technology are unknown so people tend to fear it over other 'bad things.'

Where did you take the illogical leap of technology equating to danger? You've let Hollywood make you think that. I know it's naturally human to fear technology, since every technological breakthrough has been faced with massive fear, but just think logically. Technology won't take over the world. Technology can only make the world a better place. This isn't Terminator, GATTACA, or Jurassic Park we're living in.

Can you consider changing the description from "no what if topics" to refining what types of what-if topics are allowed? A few times I've seen really interesting threads go locked because they discussed hypothetical issues. Maybe rewrite "no what ifs" to "what ifs are only allowed if the thread provides information and prompts intelligent discussion" - or possibly only allow what-if's in the debate forum because the prerequisite for threads there are that they have to be intelligent.

They have EVERY right to say it, normally if a white person said that in a comedy tour on HBO it would be bleeped, but black people can have tours called "go away you racist N-word hating cracker" I wasn't commenting on whether or not they have the right to say it or not. I'm just saying since you never hear white people say it it just sounds really weird.

I think it'd be nice to have your TV set to picture-in-picture with one screen having runescape while you train, the other a TV show/movie. The final version of Opera's browser will be out soon - let's hope it'll support java.

I was playing on a German server and making a real effort to try speaking/understanding them. I was using a translator and everything, and i felt like within an hour I was learning and picking up on things. I think if I played as much as I used to I would eventually get a good hold on the language.

Like you, I heard it was good and just rented it last week. I've been wanting to for awhile, since it's #1 on imbd. I had extremely high expectations and wasn't really overly impressed or anything. I mean it's an alright movie - I think I just set my expectations too high. I think if I saw it again I'd start to appreciate elements of it though. I had that feeling at the end.

I thought it was absolutely hilarious. A little weird hearing white people on TV say some of the stuff they were saying tho.

Well supply and demand are separate things. For whatever reason the demand of any item is different. Whether or not the supply is high or low does not effect the amount of demand for it.

They're not a waste, nor are they not useful. There's no item in the game of runescape that's more useful than a party hat. I repeat. No item in runescape is more useful than a party hat or similar rare. I invested about 20million into rares in rsc, now I have a 1bil+ networth. How can you call that a waste? How can you call that useless?

Since people can faint just from getting blood drawn, I'd say it wouldn't take much. And it's not necessarily just from seeing blood. I had my blood drawn and didn't look at my blood, but had that 'half faint' feeling you're talking about and had to lie down. They gave me sucker after that to get sugar into me or something.

It's perfectly fine that you can see your ribs. Most 11 year males (I believe) haven't even started puberty yet. This shouldn't even be on your mind yet. Are you even in middle school yet? Don't worry about how you look right now - even I can see the frame of my ribs and I'm 18.

It has a four player party mode with 40 multiplayer games, which aren't anything overly special, but they're alright.

I just got it and played for about two hours. It's fun I guess. The voice acting and storyline are laughable at times. And for some reason, certain aspects of it just make me miss thumbpads, or whatever they're called. Overall it's a decent game though.