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Interesting Stuff Thread

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  • #2222
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    shizz wrote: »
    Hey it looks like we might be god to something else.

    My thoughts exactly. Let's send some of it to other planets. :cool:


  • #2223
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Along with really vague instructions on how any of the new life forms that emerge are going to hell if they're gay?


  • #2224
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Sarky wrote: »
    Along with really vague instructions on how any of the new life forms that emerge are going to hell if they're gay?

    Nah it'd be far more interesting if it was vague instructions on how heterosexuals would be going to hell. :D


  • #2225
    recedite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,989 ✭✭✭✭recedite


    Jernal wrote: »
    Seemingly has no brain, no awareness of its own self existence, but seemingly is immortal!!:eek:

    More neoteny than immortality.


  • #2226
    Cossax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭Cossax


    'Eggless' chick laid by hen in Sri Lanka.


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  • #2227
    shizz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


    Cossax wrote: »
    'Eggless' chick laid by hen in Sri Lanka.

    Pity the hen died. Can't see this catching on through natural selection too quick if it straight up kills the mother.:pac:


  • #2228
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    Been listening to a good podcast lately called "Rationally Speaking".

    Easy to find on iTunes.

    Here's the website:http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/


  • #2229
    CerebralCortex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭CerebralCortex


    Gbear wrote: »
    Been listening to a good podcast lately called "Rationally Speaking".

    Easy to find on iTunes.

    Here's the website:http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/

    I can find Massimo Pigliucci stand offish.


  • #2230
    Roger Hassenforder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Hitch's memorial video:

    http://www.vanityfair.com/video/2012/04/1573674109001?playlistid=1569514829001


  • #2231
    CerebralCortex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭CerebralCortex


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7fGNHCIPN4


    Musings on the future, glad to see Krauss there to balance the talk.


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  • #2232
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    4542423536_fe582f5359_o.jpg

    So it should really read, "You were here.":)


  • #2233
    Sonics2k
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,036 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    *waves*


  • #2234
    Penn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,569 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Pfft.... typical hipster Mars Rover with their black & white photography...


  • #2235
    joseph brand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,540 ✭✭✭joseph brand


    RADIO PRESENTER RAY D’Arcy has refused to offer an apology or retraction to the “hierarchy of the Catholic Church” for telling listeners of his TodayFM show last week that the “Catholic Church, in many ways, has ****ed up this country”.
    However, D’Arcy did offer an apology to listeners for the language he used.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/no-apology-no-retraction-ray-darcy-on-catholic-church-f-bomb-426129-Apr2012/

    Good man Ray.


  • #2236
    Fortyniner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 79 ✭✭Fortyniner


    It's worth reading the comments, both on yesterday's and today's Journal articles. Good for the old heart..


  • #2237
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 52,151 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    The 'moral dumbfounding' behind our political choices
    Jonathan Haidt is a professor in social psychology and author of The Righteous Mind, an examination of the intuitive foundations of morality and its consequences. He has some disgusting stories for you.

    Imagine, if you will, a man going to a supermarket, buying a ready-to-cook chicken, taking it home, and having sexual intercourse with it. He then cooks it and eats it.

    Or imagine a brother and sister who go on holiday, and end up sleeping together. They feel that it brings them closer, and are very careful with birth control so there's no absolutely chance of pregnancy.

    Don't worry if you found these stories sick and wrong -- most people do. But trying to pin down what exactly is wrong with these stories can be tricky. No one is harmed, the food isn't wasted, the siblings are happy, yet it's somehow still wrong. This is "moral dumbfounding', the strong feeling that something is wrong without clear reasons as to why that is. According to Haidt, this offers a deep insight into human morality, and has profound implications for politics and religion.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #2238
    dmw07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭dmw07


    koth wrote: »
    The 'moral dumbfounding' behind our political choices
    A man buys a cooked chicken, makes sweet love to it and then cooks it.
    :confused:
    That's not very healthy, recooking a chicken.
    A brother mates with his sister, "there's no absolutely chance of pregnancy".
    Eh, what :confused::confused:
    Which birth control is 100% safe? Except abstinence and fiddling children of course.

    I haven't gotten over these two conundrums yet, never mind using my moral compass to decide anything.


  • #2239
    Delirium
    Moderators Posts: 52,151 ✭✭✭✭Delirium


    dmw07 wrote: »
    :confused:
    That's not very healthy, recooking a chicken.

    Eh, what :confused::confused:
    Which birth control is 100% safe? Except abstinence and fiddling children of course.

    I haven't gotten over these two conundrums yet, never mind using my moral compass to decide anything.

    It's a ready-to-cook chicken, not a cooked chicken ;)

    The second one is excluding pregnancy from the hypothetical.

    If you can read this, you're too close!



  • #2240
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    dmw07 wrote: »
    Which birth control is 100% safe? Except abstinence and fiddling children of course.
    let's say for the sake of argument that the brother is shooting blanks.


  • #2241
    Dave!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Or maybe he only does her in the bum-bum?


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  • #2242
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Maybe I'm some sort of apathetic immoral atheist but what two consenting adults choose to do to one another in their private lives is none of my business. Especially, if there's no harm to others.


  • #2243
    Genghiz Cohen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,182 ✭✭✭Genghiz Cohen


    Dave! wrote: »
    Or maybe he only does her in the bum-bum?

    SODOMY!
    /Outrage!


  • #2244
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭RichieC


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo1JY9eixI8


  • #2245
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,264 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Jernal wrote: »
    Maybe I'm some sort of apathetic immoral atheist but what two consenting adults choose to do to one another in their private lives is none of my business. Especially, if there's no harm to others.
    what if you found out they were both putting on masks made from a mould of your face while having sex and making squealing noises like pigs?
    surely the creepy feeling would be enough to give you a say in the matter.


  • #2246
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,622 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    dmw07 wrote: »
    Which birth control is 100% safe? Except abstinence and fiddling children of course.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=78081370

    owl-orly-300x225.jpg


  • #2247
    dmw07
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 238 ✭✭dmw07


    Dades wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=78081370

    owl-orly-300x225.jpg

    Shouldn't there be an A between the R and the L?

    :pac:


  • #2248
    robindch
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,473 Mod ✭✭✭✭robindch


    A+A's favourite hunk with a new angle:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oxTMUTOz0w


  • #2249
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Anyone who completes this gets my respect. :)


  • #2250
    shizz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,506 ✭✭✭shizz


    Couple of my friends are doing that in England in May. I was going to but decided I'm in no way fit enough haha


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  • #2251
    Gbear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭Gbear


    joseph brand wrote: »
    RADIO PRESENTER RAY D’Arcy has refused to offer an apology or retraction to the “hierarchy of the Catholic Church” for telling listeners of his TodayFM show last week that the “Catholic Church, in many ways, has ****ed up this country”.
    However, D’Arcy did offer an apology to listeners for the language he used.

    http://www.thejournal.ie/no-apology-no-retraction-ray-darcy-on-catholic-church-f-bomb-426129-Apr2012/

    Good man Ray.

    I always laugh when I hear Catholics going on about "media-wide anti-catholic agenda".

    Yeah, a media-wide agenda, like the one against rapists.:rolleyes:


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