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Were dinosaurs religious?

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    #32
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Galvasean wrote: »
    If you think T. rex's arms were small, spare a thought for poor disgruntled Carnotaurus who just has paws with fused immovable 'fingers' where his arms should be...
    http://www.geocities.ws/monchromon/carnotaurus01.jpg

    God really didn't give Dinos a chance did he?


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    #33
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    Jernal wrote: »
    God really didn't give Dinos a chance did he?

    Well, going by conventional numbers, he gave them approximately 800 times longer on this Earth than human beings have had so far.


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    #34
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Zillah wrote: »
    Well, going by conventional numbers, he gave them approximately 800 times longer on this Earth than human beings have had so far.

    To survive maybe, but to have fun?


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    #35
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    I think that Raptors probably enjoyed themselves.


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    #36
    iDave
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    God works in mysterious ways. Now lets just leave it at that.


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    #37
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    iDave wrote: »
    God works in mysterious ways. Now lets just leave it at that.

    Amen iDave, you're preaching to the converted here. Like an iPad owner to iPhone owners.:)


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    #38
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Birroc wrote: »
    Is this guy the dinosaur devil? or divil?

    2271513-devil_dinosaur_skaar_king_of_the_savage_land_1.jpg
    Jernal wrote: »
    To survive maybe, but to have fun?

    Who needs hands when you have..... THIS!

    kosemen%2Bstego.jpg


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    #39
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    mono45ko.gif


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    #40
    Zillah
    Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    What the hell am I looking at in that first image?


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    #41
    Birroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Birroc


    Zillah wrote: »
    What the hell am I looking at in that first image?

    A big white dinosaur cock?


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    #42
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Zillah wrote: »
    What the hell am I looking at in that first image?

    Devil dinosaur.


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    #43
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Yup.
    That's a big 'un.....


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    #44
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    robindch wrote: »
    Find a copy of:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

    You might enjoy it :)

    The ending of that book really pissed me off, as it's one of the things I always hated about catholic theology, even when I still believed.

    For those who haven't read the book don't open the following:
    telling a person who is dying horribly that ending their suffering early is wrong is the worst form of immorality IMO


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    #45
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,404 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    Brian Shanahan wrote: »
    The ending of that book really pissed me off, as it's one of the things I always hated about catholic theology, even when I still believed.
    Thought the ending, so far as I remember it -- sharks et al, wasn't it? -- was pretty good.

    The sanctity of suffering though - what a hideous thought, and certainly one worth thinking on the day the Supreme Court rejected Marie Fleming's appeal, while leaving open the possibility that the Dail might do something about it:

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/marie-fleming-appeal-on-assisted-suicide-rejected-1.1376352


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    #46
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    robindch wrote: »
    Thought the ending, so far as I remember it -- sharks et al, wasn't it? -- was pretty good.

    The sanctity of suffering though - what a hideous thought, and certainly one worth thinking on the day the Supreme Court rejected Marie Fleming's appeal, while leaving open the possibility that the Dail might do something about it:

    http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/marie-fleming-appeal-on-assisted-suicide-rejected-1.1376352

    *snort*


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    #47
    Pherekydes
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    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    *snort*

    Yep, I can really see an FG-led government voting for (limited) euthanasia*.




    *Except in the case of suicide ideation, because euthanasia is never a solution to suicide.


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    #48
    Galvasean
    Registered Users Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    "What next Joe? Suicide on demand!"


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    #49
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    robindch wrote: »
    Thought the ending, so far as I remember it -- sharks et al, wasn't it? -- was pretty good.

    I forgot about the shark, which was actually a coda to the book, not really a true ending.

    The true ending came a bit earlier when the Abbot was arguing with a government scientist, and the girl's mother, over the morality of euthanising a young girl dying of radiation sickness. His piousness was sickening.


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    #50
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Brian Shanahan wrote: »
    I forgot about the shark, which was actually a coda to the book, not really a true ending.

    The true ending came a bit earlier when the Abbot was arguing with a government scientist, and the girl's mother, over the morality of euthanising a young girl dying of radiation sickness. His piousness was sickening.

    Scratch book off reading list as blabber mouths have given away the ending. :mad:


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    #51
    Brian Shanahan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,232 ✭✭✭Brian Shanahan


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Scratch book off reading list as blabber mouths have given away the ending. :mad:

    Read Tiger! Tiger! instead. In that book the solar system's governments had the good sense to ban religion altogether, and a cathedral gets used for its proper purpose, i.e. housing the circus of a wastrel playboy multi-millionaire.


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    #52
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    There was (might still be, it was ages ago) a great restaurant up in Donegal somewhere that was a retrofitted church. It was so much easier to appreciate the architecture while eating delicious food instead of a stale bit of rice paper that stuck to your mouth like peanut butter crossed with thrush...


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    #53
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Sarky wrote: »
    There was (might still be, it was ages ago) a great restaurant up in Donegal somewhere that was a retrofitted church. It was so much easier to appreciate the architecture while eating delicious food instead of a stale bit of rice paper that stuck to your mouth like peanut butter crossed with thrush...

    and you know what this tastes like how?


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    #54
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    You're talking to a chap who, at 27, developed a thyroid autoimmune problem normally associated with 60 year old women. You'd be amazed at the improbable medical adventures I've had.


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    #55
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Sarky wrote: »
    You're talking to a chap who, at 27, developed a thyroid autoimmune problem normally associated with 60 year old women. You'd be amazed at the improbable medical adventures I've had.

    fair enough.

    Due to gall stones and associated infection plus months on chemo for cancer I can confirm that most foods taste the same coming up as going down.


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    #56
    Birroc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,070 ✭✭✭Birroc


    Are we a little off topic? :rolleyes:


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    #57
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Birroc wrote: »
    Are we a little off topic?

    You'll find we have a very broad interpretation of the word 'topic' in these here parts and will often meander into areas that may seem off 'topic' but are in fact part of a wider knowledge tapestry.





    Just a little - yeah.


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    #58
    PopePalpatine
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    We'll need 6 doctors to certify if we're off-topic. :pac:


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    #59
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    PopePalpatine wrote: »
    We'll need 6 doctors to certify if we're off-topic. :pac:


    Can we appeal their decision ?


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    #60
    Bannasidhe
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,219 Mod ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Lapin wrote: »
    Can we appeal their decision ?

    Not... Dispute resolution....:eek:


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    #61
    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Lapin wrote: »
    Can we appeal their decision ?

    Yep but it goes before a panel of 3 moderators. Who then pass their recommendation up to admins who consult with Category Mods who then reconsult with mods who've forgotten what the appeal was about in the first place.
    It's a Vogon bureaucracy!


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