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    #5072
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    304821.jpg


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    #5073
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    I love that Aboriginal "Dreamtime" is out on it's own in terms of being uninfluenced by any other religion, and also not influencing.......


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    #5074
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,365 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    That'd be down to geography.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #5075
    Obliq
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,371 ✭✭✭Obliq


    ninja900 wrote: »
    That'd be down to geography.

    Yes. Australia appeals to me - so much expanse, so few people :cool:


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    #5076
    Sulla Felix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,442 ✭✭✭Sulla Felix


    Obliq wrote: »
    Yes. Australia appeals to me - so much expanse, so few people :cool:

    There's a reason there's so few people though.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNCYNlx4iso


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    #5077
    darjeeling
    Registered Users Posts: 962 ✭✭✭darjeeling


    robindch wrote: »
    <religious evolutionary tree>

    If this is true then where are all the transitional religions? :eek::confused::D:pac:


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    #5078
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    darjeeling wrote: »
    If this is true then where are all the transitional religions? :eek::confused::D:pac:
    If god had wanted transitional religions, He would have Created them!


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    #5079
    nagirrac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭nagirrac


    Pantheism, right there at the beginning and still going strong 20,000 years later. First and best, everything else is a transitional religion between old and new Pan(en)theism..


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    #5080
    pauldla
    Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    nagirrac wrote: »
    Pantheism, right there at the beginning and still going strong 20,000 years later. First and best, everything else is a transitional religion between old and new Pan(en)theism..

    That's all well and good, but you have no funky headgear! Pantheism cannot compete with any of the established religions in that regard. Even the Mormons have their underpants.


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    #5081
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,993 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    What if you turn your underpants inside out, and then wear them for another few days. Is that old or new pantheism?


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    #5082
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I'm believe that my wok can cook anything. Is that Frying-pantheism?


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    #5083
    Bellatori
    Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭Bellatori


    I really liked the diagram above. It made me think of another diagram I saw which I particularly liked and related to religion.
    Today, most Christian theologians will say that the Bible should not be interpreted literally as many fundamentalists do, but allegorically, with emphasis on morals and parables. That’s fine for the enlightened scholar, but this is certainly not how the Bible is taught. Throughout my first 8 years of Catholic school, the Bible was indeed taught very literally, and what I noticed very early on was the copious contractions to be found.

    I can affirm that these many inconsistencies, coupled with the fact that they were ridiculous and taught as fact, led me headlong towards atheism and science, where I now firmly reside. Atheists such as myself may be quick to point out to the literal believer these inconsistencies, but because most of us don’t carry around Bibles or memorize enough of it as to make our points absolutely clear, I think it is more useful as a visual.

    sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/a-visual-representation-of-biblical-contradictions/

    It is an amazing visualisation of the contradictions in the bible.


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    #5084
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,261 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    kylith wrote: »
    I'm believe that my wok can cook anything. Is that Frying-pantheism?

    Fundamental error. 'You' can cook anything. The wok is simply a totem.


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    #5085
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    Bellatori wrote: »
    I really liked the diagram above. It made me think of another diagram I saw which I particularly liked and related to religion.



    sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/a-visual-representation-of-biblical-contradictions/

    It is an amazing visualisation of the contradictions in the bible.

    Wow.

    That's... big. I'd try and describe it better but I don't there are words. Definitely would make a load-bearing poster if you were remodelling a house.


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    #5086
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Cracked dot com readers address forty myths that get perpetrated on the interwebs.

    http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_883_40-myths-we-believe-now-due-to-tiny-mistakes-years-ago/?fb_action_ids=778912025461358&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=like


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    #5087
    kylith
    Registered Users Posts: 17,736 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    endacl wrote: »
    Fundamental error. 'You' can cook anything. The wok is simply a totem.

    I have faith in my wok.


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    #5088
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Stephen Fry discusses the evolution of language. Also pwns Jonathon Woss.

    http://www.wimp.com/modernlanguage/


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    #5089
    pauldla
    Registered Users Posts: 2,247 ✭✭✭pauldla


    Turtwig wrote: »
    Cracked dot com readers address forty myths that get perpetrated on the interwebs.

    http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_883_40-myths-we-believe-now-due-to-tiny-mistakes-years-ago/?fb_action_ids=778912025461358&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=like

    A lot of those I'd seen before, but nice to see them all in one place. I liked the one about the Sistine Chapel being a huge 'f.u.', and I'd never noticed that about the seat belts incident in Jurassic Park. Nature finds a way indeed!


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    #5090
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Top 5 Reasons Why You Sound Crazy When You Denounce GMOs

    http://oldpiano.org/?p=400


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    #5091
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,365 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    America's Real Criminal Element: Lead
    Gasoline lead may explain as much as 90 percent of the rise and fall of violent crime over the past half century.

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #5092
    KyussBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    ninja900 wrote: »
    America's Real Criminal Element: Lead
    There is a really great/interesting story behind this too, which I posted about some time ago:
    KyussBishop wrote: »
    ... (below)
    Saw the Wiki article on Thomas Midgley Jr. just earlier today; he discovered that 'tetraethyllead' mixed with petrol (i.e. leaded petrol), improved the performance of engines, and with this invention he contributed enormously to the pollution of cities and the atmosphere around the world for decades (even, with recent discoveries, triggering a significant increase in violent criminal behaviour in countries using leaded petrol).

    He also was part of the team that invented CFC's, thus also personally contributing to the massive depletion of the Ozone layer and to global warming; a good quote on the wiki page:
    J. R. McNeill, an environmental historian, has remarked that Midgley "had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth's history."

    Another one of his inventions, which he developed after contracting polio, was "an elaborate system of strings and pulleys to help others lift him from bed" - which he eventually got entangled in, strangling himself to death.


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    #5093
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Open to correction here but's my understanding that CFCs have very little to GHG contribution.


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    #5094
    KyussBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    Turtwig wrote: »
    Open to correction here but's my understanding that CFCs have very little to GHG contribution.
    Even though they're a very potent GHG, yes, their overall contribution is likely to be pretty small compared to CO2.


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    #5095
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Brilliant article on science inquiry and society.

    Worth a read, grab a coffee first and enjoy.


    Me thinks me must get the book. :)


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    #5096
    KyussBishop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭KyussBishop


    In the 1970s, Scientists Discovered a 2 Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor in West Africa


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    #5097
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    I've read about that Oklo reactor before, it's a fascinating place. Here's a line from the article that you rarely see in a scientific piece "To date, this work is consistent with these constants being constant":D


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    #5098
    Bellatori
    Registered Users Posts: 276 ✭✭Bellatori


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I've read about that Oklo reactor before, it's a fascinating place. Here's a line from the article that you rarely see in a scientific piece "To date, this work is consistent with these constants being constant":D

    I found that very interesting to read. For a moment when I saw the post I thought it would be another alien conspiracy web site!! In that context (the proper one not the Alien Conspiracy!) the comment about constants makes perfect sense.


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    #5099
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    KyussBishop wrote: »
    In the 1970s, Scientists Discovered a 2 Billion-Year-Old Nuclear Reactor in West Africa
    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    I've read about that Oklo reactor before, it's a fascinating place. Here's a line from the article that you rarely see in a scientific piece "To date, this work is consistent with these constants being constant":D
    Bellatori wrote: »
    I found that very interesting to read. For a moment when I saw the post I thought it would be another alien conspiracy web site!! In that context (the proper one not the Alien Conspiracy!) the comment about constants makes perfect sense.

    That's one of the many advantages of being a Terry Pratchett fan, I first read about this all the way back in 2001, where it was discussed in the first Science of Discworld book.


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    #5100
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 24,600 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    Brian Shanahan wrote: »
    That's one of the many advantages of being a Terry Pratchett fan, I first read about this all the way back in 2001, where it was discussed in the first Science of Discworld book.

    So it is or isn't ficticious?


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    #5101
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    CramCycle wrote: »
    So it is or isn't ficticious?

    The natural nuclear reactor at Oklo is fictional, the natural thaumaturgical reactor is real. Everybody knows Roundworld is simply a fantasy, silly.


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