May 21 2011

[Van T]

Re: May 21 2011

Well I was gonna say it wasn't worth it to even acknowledge mans0n but that was entertaining enough to justify it

Also yeah pretty dumb to spend your life waiting on something that has so far been shown to never happen ever. I mean I've been watching over the world for a good 18 years now and I haven't seen any apocalypses yet. I don't have any proof though someone might have to validate me here

[Mans0n]

Re: May 21 2011

Two issues here:

1. I can just as easily flip this around on you.

What are you going to tell yourself when Jesus never returns, Christians are never saved, and you eventually die, now ceasing to exist and now and for the rest of eternity infinitely ignorant about the dumb shit you believed in when you were alive?

Or a more fun version: What are you going to tell yourself when millions of people (christians) get left on earth for believing in dumb shit? No vast amount of illogical reasoning will get you off earth and into the elite sky club of the atheists where we have disco parties with God and engage in science trivia! The bible is actually a test, put onto earth by God to keep gullible and illogical minds from ever entering his glorious kingdom!

See? Wasn't that fun? Don't complain about bashing when you post bigoted garbage like this.

2. The end of the world has been hypothesized thousands of times during human history. As history shows us, humans have been wrong every time.

Why on earth would it be any different this time, when it's clear that humans have absolutely no way of predicting the end of the world, and instead just love to engage in theory-apocalypsing to scare people.

See what you didn't get was I mean what I say regardless of what happens in may. I didn't hear about it until recently, Which is besides the point. It could happen in may it might not, I doubt it though because no one knows the day or time when the rapture will take place.
And if the rapture doesn't happen in my lifetime period, that just means it obviously wasn't the time yet. No where in the bible does it say the rapture is supposed to happen every generation.

And I don't think that makes me a bigot, I am completely tolerant of people of other faiths than my own, I have a shit load of friends who flat out don't believe in god as one example.

[igotrhythm]

Re: May 21 2011

Going off of a tangent I saw two pages ago to get some people's minds off the apocalypse: Y2K was REAL. It took hordes of computer programmers around the world working around the clock for months and consuming what I can only imagine were copious amounts of caffeine to patch most of its instances, but some were still missed. The story of the 104-year-old woman being asked to register for kindergarten is but one example.

Similar crises are on the horizon for the programming world, as well, as XKCD has shown us. The tubes are indeed getting clogged: We're running out of unique IP addresses, and World IPv6 Day on June 6th is a coordinated effort to launch a solution to this problem. Further down the road, the year 2038 will cause the rollover of 32-bit timestamps, which will be a problem on par with the aforementioned Y2K.

Instead of wasting our time worrying about world-ending scenarios based on mythology and religion, let's focus our energy on worrying about the ones based in science, as there's a big difference: The latter category can be reliably anticipated and averted.

[rushyrulz]

Re: May 21 2011

What rapture?

[kommisar]

Re: May 21 2011

I love you reach

[TD_Diarrhea]

Re: May 21 2011

Well, my prom is on the 19th, and I should be losing my virginity to my hot date, so I don't mind the world ending at all.

[customstuff]

Re: May 21 2011

I love you reach

Seconded.

[ddrxero64]

Re: May 21 2011

Another thread dominated by Reach. That was an awesome post, and not because I'm some sort of atheist, only because you reflected how egotistic some people are. I wonder who'll post here 11:59pm on May 21st.

Really not important, regarding the time discussion:

As for the second crystal thing someone said earlier. To be honest, sun dials were some of the first clocks. Philosophers had nothing better to do back in the day then to figure stuff out by hand, like they did with pi. I truly think they just kept finding things to use until they could come up with a way to organize it into a year. It probably took a long time, but look at America's metric system. Why do we use feet and not meters?

As for decimals being based on the number ten, it's not silly when you think about what point in our time it was created. They had nothing else to count on back in the day, why not their fingers?

A lot of people in ancient history spent years figuring stuff out, so when some realized a second, as defined by the post in this thread (go look at it), can be made into minutes and hours to make a day, they made up some bs to make the year. Over time someone realized we needed the leap year because the earth takes 365 1/4 days to make a full revolution. All trial and error really. I wouldn't be surprised if thousands of years from now we'll need to offset our clocks by a second.

[~kitty~]

Re: May 21 2011

isn't religion pretty irrelevant

I don't understand what you're trying to say. To the topic I was referring to, Religion is relevant. Are you trying to say it's not relevant to anything? What you posted, I don't see how it was relevant to most of what people said, except for the slight derailing of the thread, which makes it loosely relevant. Unless there's something else you were trying to say.

[Reincarnate]

Re: May 21 2011

I don't understand what you're trying to say. To the topic I was referring to, Religion is relevant. Are you trying to say it's not relevant to anything? What you posted, I don't see how it was relevant to most of what people said, except for the slight derailing of the thread, which makes it loosely relevant. Unless there's something else you were trying to say.

I'm saying religion is bullshit when it comes to making truth claims about our natural world. There's no reason to suspect the end of the world any time soon. Closest we've seen are certain gamma-ray bursters (which are angled away from the Earth) and the Apophis asteroid which is not likely to hit us.

[kommisar]

Re: May 21 2011

but climate change!!!!!

[Izzy]

Re: May 21 2011

Not like the earth gives a shit if we all die, actually I'm sure if the earth could think for itself it would be quite happy to see the end of humanity. So, the end of humanity will come much sooner than the end of the world.

[~kitty~]

Re: May 21 2011

I'm saying religion is bullshit when it comes to making truth claims about our natural world. There's no reason to suspect the end of the world any time soon. Closest we've seen are certain gamma-ray bursters (which are angled away from the Earth) and the Apophis asteroid which is not likely to hit us.

Oh, I was talking about relevancy to the topic itself, but the guy I'm talking about isn't using religion itself to make the truth claims, but science to make truth claims about religion. It was an aside, sort of, and I mentioned it to specifically one person.

[Reincarnate]

Re: May 21 2011

Oh, I was talking about relevancy to the topic itself, but the guy I'm talking about isn't using religion itself to make the truth claims, but science to make truth claims about religion. It was an aside, sort of, and I mentioned it to specifically one person.

You can use science to show things as true/false in religion all the time. Say, Noah's Flood. Demonstrably false.

[~kitty~]

Re: May 21 2011

You can use science to show things as true/false in religion all the time. Say, Noah's Flood. Demonstrably false.

You probably should talk to this guy I'm referring to yourself, because I can't speak on behalf of him. I was just saying.