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Gorgon

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  1. Science and religion are not flip sides of the same coin. In science you try to understand the world around you, using whatever tools are at your disposal. In religion you basically just give up and accept a 1000 year old template without question.
  2. Whatever do you mean. I don't know of any religion that discards dogma when faced with conflicting evidence.
  3. You could start by examining a few of the postulates of religion. Do human beings have immortal souls. Are they subject to Newton's three laws. If not, Why ?. Why would God re-invent the wheel during creation and use entirely incompatible hardware on his side. Doesn't seem practical. Besides, weren't we created in his image.
  4. Btw. can anyone tell me why my mouse has decided to doubleclick whenever I single click.
  5. You don't need to. Many religions can point to a variety of miracles that have been well documented. But since scientific method demands independent replication you simply can't consider metaphysical in scientific terms. That just leaves out miracles. What about the weight of a soul as it leaves the body. Considering that it holds the lifetime memory of an idividual it must be very complex, it also must be made up of particles of some kind. These can be measured, the experiment would be repeatable. String theory suggests particles can be several places at once, even belong to alternate universes. It's logical to assume heaven would be made of familiar and detectable particles. We could scan for it if we knew the particle signature of human souls.
  6. Why would one assume that the metaphysical cannot be observed with scientific means.
  7. One can reduce everything to relativity and suggest that nothing can be definitively observed or proven, but it kind of leaves one backed into a corner. Does that leave you with the following division : 1/3 that God is real. 1/3 that God is not real. 1/3 that nothing is real making either eventuality equally likely. In the latter event the reality of God would be decided on the number of believers vs. the number of non believers, meaning that one could either create God or destroy him if one could achieve a 100% coefficiency among individuals, whether more than one actually exist or not.
  8. But again the Atheist has the better position. It is logcial after all to demand proof of an on the face of it pretty outrageous claim. More logical certainly than to propose erecting an invisible wall between the imperical and the metaphysical and demanding that they not be allowed to affect one another. It's not a perfectly balanced dichotomy. One side is cheating by proposing that it need only supply anecdotal evidence of its existence.
  9. I wonder if a sea slug is haunted by questios of 'why.' The intelligent self aware man is.
  10. Does the one with a wireless adapter have a power cord or is it just a small usb dongle type thing. Are the batteries rechargable ? I assume the PC one works on the Xbox as well ?
  11. Do you need a special one for PC or is it USB. Actually with all the cords under my table the wireless one sounds good.
  12. Neither do I, but most games are designed for controllers these days. I tried Arkam Asylum and ran out of buttons on my mouse at about half what I needed. Besides controllers are in their element in a punching game.
  13. Should I get Arkham city + a PS controller.
  14. I think Rosbjerg mentioned the PC port was really ****ty.
  15. I'm so stoned. Got home and I'm eating plain rice with nothing on the side. All the snacks were gone. I swear it's delicious.
  16. Still haven't gotten anywhere in the missing link. Having my carefully crafted build ruined and having to do it all over again just didn't seem that interesting. The vanilla game is the best of its kind in a while.
  17. Don't think STEAM has anything I want at the moment.
  18. I've played them all. In any other setting that would make me a colossal nerd.
  19. At 1100 DKK it bloody ought to be the best keyboard known to man.
  20. Logitech g500 as well, although when that dies from **** buildup in the cracks between the buttons as laser mice are wont to do I will go with another brand. Logitech bundles their drivers with customer surveys and throw a nag screen at you untill you register the product. I don't truck with that, even if the mice are very good.
  21. The resource management disappears and it becomes a top view squad shooter. Not a fortunate combination in my opinion, shooter action on an RTS map.
  22. Fair point. A little sympathy is also common, but not on this occasion it would seem. [sheldon Cooper] There, there. It will be allright [sheldon Cooper]
  23. If you forget the bios password you can still use the reset switch on the motherboard to clear it, but it's not a bad idea. You can usually disable components in the BIOS to deal with possible hardware conflicts. Also, being on a local network with the machine in question kind of defeats the purpose of doing all this.
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