Reveilled

Useless info: The lack of an Evolution thread in which I can fake a non-christian creationist viewpoint to irritate extremist trolls is annoying me. Useful info: Everyone pretending to be a non-christian and derailing an evolution thread into an argument over which creation story is correct is a particularly fun way to annoy and get rid of creationist trolls only interested in starting a flamewar.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes, that was the only word I could think of. But if that is the word intended, wouldn't the correct phrasing be "giant load of b...t"? I mean, you'd say "that's a load of crap" or "that's crap", you wouldn't say "That's a giant crap", unless you weren't using it as a metaphor. Same thing for b...t, right?

I've been playing Pokemon Silver. Lots o' Fun.

What a giant b...t. Han was a cadet in Naval Academy and beciome a lieutenant in Imperial Navy before he was kicked out becouse of chewbacca scandal. Kyle Katarn was a stormtrooper... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "Giant b...t?" I'm not quite sure what the censored word is meant to be, since the only word I can think of like that has quite different phrasing, but either way, why be so hostile over it? I never stated it as fact, indeed, the way I worded it left open the possibility I was wrong, so simply telling me so was all that's necessary. I think you need to tone down your anger and not get so worked up over something so trivial as the background of a film character.

Shouldn't that be "innocent youngling", Darth?

I'm virtually certain that Stormtroopers are not clones. For starters, all the present clones would be retired due to old age, which would mean more would have to be cloned, when the fact that there wasn't a massive civil war going on (just a nusciance rebellion) would probably mean that the Empire could go back to the pre-Clone Wars practise of voluntary service or a compulsory draft instead. Second, I'm pretty sure that before he became a smuggler, Han was a Stormtrooper who was discharged for protecting a Wookie from another group of stormtroopers. Third, there are plenty of officers in the Fleet that are clearly not clones, when during the Clone Wars even these command posts were mostly filled by Clones too.

Now that's just horrible. Some people might cry themselves to sleep after reading that. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> What about snorting it up the nose and regurgitating it in the mouth? There are some things that Man was not meant to see. Compared to what I have seen, gazing upon the Great Old Ones themselves would be rather dull and usual.

EXTREMELY USEFUL CAREER INFORMATION: You can still be a Pirate! Well, I know what I'm doing in my Gap Year.

I never even started. Last exam on Friday.

Useless Info: Superman is a ****.

Just to throw an idea out there on the USSR thing and whether or not people are better off as a result, it wasn't just the Russians who were in the Soviet Union. Sure, they may have made up the majority of the Soviets, and they might be no better off than they were before, but what about the Georgians or the Ukranians? I'm not saying whether that would be worth it or not, I'm just pointing out somewhere you don't seem to have looked.

Useless Information: Graveller only evolves into Golem when traded.

How do you know so much about swallows? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

I just had an odd thought. You know how the line "Search your feelings" (or a variation) is said like fifty times in this film? Well, if they used that line from ESB over and over, why not use the line that traditionally goes after it too? And what is that line? "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" Coincidence? I think not! It would have been better if that particular dialogue went: Vader: Is Padme alright? Sidious: It seems you killed her in your anger. Padme is dead. Vader: That's not true! That's IMPOSSIBLE! Sidious: Search your feelings, you know it to be true! Vader: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

I think it stands for Fionavar Likes old Swing Dancing, Only before Eating.

What does AotS stand for? Fionavar uses that acronym whenever she closes a thread.

Exactly! An all powerful deity would speak to us directly. And who can tell me which deity is the only deity that speaks directly to all of her followers? In fact, if you check the Useless Information Thread, I once posted the parable of the free Hot Dog, which Eris herself revealed to me some months ago: "Many years ago, when the son of the goddess was walking around his Imperial Capital of San Francisco, he became endowed with a righteous and almighty hunger. Seeking to satiate the holy hole in his stomach, he did enter an estabishment which did sell the foods of the common man. And the Emperor did strike up a bargain with the man at the counter and said "My Good man, would you give your Emperor a hamburger?", whereupon the spotty faced teenager did reply "Of course, your majesty," and did present him with a burger, saying "That shall be ten cents, my Lord." The Emperor did begin to look sad, and said unto the boy at the counter "Alas, my young subject, I have but five cents with me." The boy, not wishing his emperor to go hungry, did then present him with a hot dog, saying "Well, your grace, the hot dog is only five cents." At this, the Emperor did become solemn, and suddenly did he take the hot dog and toss it in a most righteous manner out of the establishment. Taking the burger in hand, he said unto the boy "The hamburger is five cents, the hot dog is free." And so did the boy become enlightened."

What, you think I'm joking when I say that dill is quite silly for believing that this "God" figure created the Earth in six days? Even your so called "Science" agrees with the existence of Eris, as this blatantly out of context quote from metadigital's link clearly shows: Since Eris Discordia was a Greco-Roman god, this SCIENTIFIC CONFIRMATION* of polytheism clearly refutes the existence of both the monotheistic god you call "Evolution", and the monotheistic god dill uninventively calls "God". Now that I have refuted all your puny monotheistic arguments, would you like me to quote some scripture? It's very interesting. *I hope the capital letters show how utterly SERIOUS I AM.

Haven't you read the Five Commandments? " I - There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess. There is no Erisian Movement but The Erisian Movement and it is The Erisian Movement. And every Golden Apple Corps is the beloved home of a Golden Worm." Do you honestly believe that this "God" figure created the world in six days? Where do you think we got morals from if not from Eris?

But it wasn't created in six days. How can you believe that? Eris herself revealed in the Principia (Dogma III:History#2) that she birthed the Earth in one of her swellings, the gestation period of which is 55 years.

I have to agree with Dill here. The evidence in favour of Creationism is far stronger than that for Evolution. It's astounding that people still deny that Eris gave birth to the universe, and created humans fully formed on a boat in the Agean Sea. The fact that people are blind to this fact when the scripture in the Principia, which is Eris' divine word confirms it is mind-boggling. I mean, it's so obvious that She created it all, wouldn't you agree, Dill?

I have. ...What are you all giving me that look for?

The phrase "Let them eat cake" was not said by Marie Antoinette, and whoever it was actually said by, it is nowhere near as naive as it appears to a modern reader. At the time in France, in order to ensure that Bakers did not just bake cakes for the rich and to make sure that they baked bread for the poor to buy, there was a law that said that should a baker run out of regular bread, he had to sell his sweetbreads for the same price as his usual bread. Thus, at the time it may have been said, the phrase "Let them eat cake" would have been a perfectly valid response to the comment that the poor had no bread to eat.

Palpatine did arrange for Kenobi to be sent away, because he fed the council the location of Grievous through Anakin. He suggested Anakin go not because he knew the council would pick Kenobi because he suggested Anakin, but because he knew they were going to send Kenobi anyway, and by suggesting Anakin he could make Anakin distrust the Council further as they would refuse him. EDIT: Umm, basically what Shadowstrider said.

You miss my point. I use a calculator most (but not all) of the time, too. The point is that most people are innumerate to a lesser or greater degree. They have no appreciation for numbers, no idea what they represent. They have more idea about who is in bed with someone who can't sing, than the fact that if Jesus had been alive all this time, and played the Lottery every week, he would be about due for his first win. (Moses, on the other hand, would be due for his second.) People just think all big numbers and small probabilities are identical, because they are numerically illiterate. Hence flying is seen as dangerous by a majority of people, yet more people die from donkeys every year than are killed in aeroplane crashes. You can't have a rational conversation with someone about facts if the statistics are meaningless. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> And you miss mine. As I said, inability to interpret statistics I can understand is a problem, but all the other things you complained about don't really matter. Who cares if I can't find a cube root in my head? When in my entire lifetime am I likely to need to find a cube root? And if such a time comes, what are the chances the fact that I'd need a calculator to do it would be a problem? Statistics, yes, I can agree should be more closely taught. I always thought that merging Arithmetic and Mathematics into one subject was a bad idea for education. What would have been a better idea would be to put Statistics into Arithmetic and make that a compulsory subject in schools (like English), and split the rest of Maths back off into a seperate subject as an optional choice, like things like Physics, Biology and Music are. That way, anyone who is planning on going to University to do a Science can take Maths, while everyone else spends all that ultimately useless time learning calculus and such focusing on statistics and arithmetic. PS: Pythagoras Fermat Lobachevsky