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    #692
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    robindch wrote: »
    You -- though not Professor Plumb -- are allowed to post here in A+A on any relevant topic and your views will not be censored, once you stick to the forum charter which requires you, in broad terms, to (a) refrain from insulting other posters and (b) to engage in honest dialectic debate.
    Thank you Robin ... I wouldn't dream of insulting other posters ... and I hope that they will return the favour.


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    #693
    Byron85
    Registered Users Posts: 1,443 ✭✭✭Byron85


    J C wrote: »
    A Threads and I will definitely stay on topic on each of them while giving a Christian perspective on your discussions.


    I find that irrelevant and somewhat arrogant. Most of us would have been raised in a Christian setting so we know very well what it's like to look at things from a Christian perspective. You on the other hand have no experience of looking at things from an Atheistic point of view yet you still think that you are the one who needs to give their perspective to rest of us.

    It's the equivalent of an Irish person who is fluent in German deciding to visit some German people in order to tell them about their own culture and language. It's arrogance at it's very best.


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    #694
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    J C wrote: »
    I wouldn't dream of insulting other posters ... and I hope that they will return the favour.
    I'm sure nobody will, but please note the second part of what I said, about engaging in dialectic debate.

    Soapboxes and smilies don't cut it on this side of the fence.


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    #695
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    robindch wrote: »
    I'm sure nobody will, but please note the second part of what I said, about engaging in dialectic debate.

    Soapboxes and smilies don't cut it on this side of the fence.
    I can asssure you the debate will be precise and fortright and I accept your assurance, as moderator, that you will not allow personal insults to be directed at me and the debate will therefore concentrate on the issues and not the person (as per the Charter).


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    #696
    J C
    Registered Users Posts: 14,615 ✭✭✭✭J C


    T.W.H Byron wrote: »
    I find that irrelevant and somewhat arrogant. Most of us would have been raised in a Christian setting so we know very well what it's like to look at things from a Christian perspective. You on the other hand have no experience of looking at things from an Atheistic point of view yet you still think that you are the one who needs to give their perspective to rest of us.
    I'm here to learn about Atheism ... but obviously as a Christian, any comments I make will be from a Christian perspective.
    Why do you think that it is arrogant for me to express my Christian beliefs on your forum?


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    #697
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    It appears JC / Professor Plumb are no more.

    Back to the Interesting Stuff then...

    (:);):p:rolleyes::P:pac:)


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    #698
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Dades wrote: »
    It appears JC / Professor Plumb are no more.

    Back to the Interesting Stuff then...

    (:);):p:rolleyes::P:pac:)

    Wait, were they the same person?


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    #699
    token56
    Registered Users Posts: 2,601 ✭✭✭token56


    I'm not on boards for one weekend and the BCP thread is locked and J C comes over to the "dark" side for a chat, now that is interesting stuff.


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    #700
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    Wait, were they the same person?
    Indeed. A sort of holy Trinity, if you will, only with two.


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    #701
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    I was wondering. J C's demeanour seemed a lot different since they killed his lovechild.


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    #702
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Dades wrote: »
    It appears JC / Professor Plumb are no more.

    Back to the Interesting Stuff then...

    (:);):p:rolleyes::P:pac:)

    Hang on, does this mean the mystery about whether, JC is the genuine loony article or a really bizarre elaborate joke, is never going to be solved?


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    #703
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    Malty_T wrote: »
    Hang on, does this mean the mystery about whether, JC is the genuine loony article or a really bizarre elaborate joke, is never going to be solved?

    Possibly not, J C's only banned until July 11th: http://boards.ie/vbulletin/banlist.php
    04-07-2010, 8:34 J C 11-07-2010, 8:00 Signing up alt account to evade forum ban Silverfish

    I say possibly because we may never be able to answer the question whether he comes back or not. In all likelihood there'll always be some doubt over it. It's somewhat CS Lewis's trilemma of Lord, Liar or Lunatic except there are only two options: lunatic or troll.


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    #704
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    Galvasean wrote: »
    I was wondering. J C's demeanour seemed a lot different since they killed his lovechild.

    Yeah, I thought so too.


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    #705
    liamw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭liamw


    I honestly hope JC doesn't come back and ruin this forum with creationist crap. The last few threads have just been hijacked with twaddle..


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    #706
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,291 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    liamw wrote: »
    I honestly hope JC doesn't come back
    i think i read this book once, so at the risk of spoiling the ending on you - you're gonna be disappointed.


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    #707
    liamw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭liamw


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i think i read this book once, so at the risk of spoiling the ending on you - you're gonna be disappointed.

    at least it's 7 days, not 3 ;)


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    #708
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    planck460_1672565c.jpg
    Source

    Emm, sure looks like an explosion, doesn't it.


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    #709
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    The black bits are where God lives!


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    #710
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Mark Hamill wrote: »
    planck460_1672565c.jpg
    Source

    Emm, sure looks like an explosion, doesn't it.

    Just a slight bit of pedantry :

    First Planck Telescope Picture of the Entire Universe.:)


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    #711
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,291 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    how come i can't see my own house in it so?


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    #712
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    Malty_T wrote: »
    Just a slight bit of pedantry :

    First Planck Telescope Picture of the Entire Universe.:)

    Well to be completely accurate, its a Multi-frequency all-sky image of the microwave sky ;)


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    #713
    Mark Hamill
    Registered Users Posts: 7,771 ✭✭✭Mark Hamill


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    how come i can't see my own house in it so?

    Sure you can, its right there, near the side, beside the bit that looks a thing.


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    #714
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    how come i can't see my own house in it so?
    It's a question of perspective.

    2010-06-10.jpg


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    #715
    sponsoredwalk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭sponsoredwalk


    robindch wrote: »
    It's a question of perspective.

    2010-06-10.jpg

    19743-Clipart-Illustration-Of-A-Fast-Arrow-Hitting-The-Bullseye-Of-A-Target-During-Shooting-Practice-Symbolizing-Precision-Ambition-And-Goals.jpg

    :P

    EDIT: I still don't understand those kinds of pictures.

    The WMAP picture of the big bang;

    sky_wmap_big.jpg

    can make people cry, but to me I just don't see how they get spherical pictures when they're in the center of it.

    More study needed...


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    #716
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,291 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    the picture is just a 2D projection of a 3D surface; it's a similar problem to drawing the map of the world on a flat sheet of paper.


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    #717
    sonicthebadger*
    Registered Users Posts: 446 ✭✭sonicthebadger*


    As I understand it we're not at the centre but on the surface.


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    #718
    eoin5
    Registered Users Posts: 2,141 ✭✭✭eoin5


    sonicthebadger* wrote: »
    As I understand it we're not at the centre but on the surface.

    I think its like being on the surface of an expanding sphere but we cant see the way that space is curved with only our 3D perception.


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    #719
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,291 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    we're not in the picture at all; the imagery was taking looking outwards from the earth. it'd be analogous to looking at the surface of a globe, but from the inside.


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    #720
    sonicthebadger*
    Registered Users Posts: 446 ✭✭sonicthebadger*


    Fizziks is hrd. :pac:


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    #721
    liamw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,780 ✭✭✭liamw


    sonicthebadger* wrote: »
    Fizziks is hrd. :pac:

    Don't understand? Just call it God, it's easier


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