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i-Ron
7:52 Fri Jul 10
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mashed in maryland 7:36 Fri Jul 10
Re: Seeers, clairvoyants etc
Russ of the BML 9:17 Thu Jul 9
Would you be so willing to call someone pathetic for believing in God?
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I would.
And there's a direct link between countries in the lower average IQ scores, and less percentages of Atheists.
While atheism is higher in countries with higher IQ averages.
Not surprising.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2395972/Atheists-higher-IQs-Their-intelligence-makes-likely-dismiss-religion-irrational-unscientific.html
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mashed in maryland
7:44 Fri Jul 10
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I mean in real life.
I know countless reasonably clever people who believe in all sorts of shite.
Wouldn't dream of alienating them for the sake of it cos I thought my view of the universe was better than theirs.
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Nurse Ratched
7:39 Fri Jul 10
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I would.
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mashed in maryland
7:36 Fri Jul 10
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Russ of the BML 9:17 Thu Jul 9
Would you be so willing to call someone pathetic for believing in God?
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ohgodno
5:44 Thu Jul 9
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Infidel 9:37 Thu Jul 9
You do have a way of testing if it's a simulation or not. The level above will have limits to their simulation capacity (unless it's supernatural in which case all bets are off). If the simulations find a way to require a picture of the universe that takes too much power to generate the simulation will begin to glitch and break down. There's a book about that but I can't remember what its called.
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ohgodno
5:35 Thu Jul 9
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Pub Bigot 9:24 Thu Jul 9
One sign we were in a simulation would be seemingly arbitrary limits-reflecting the limits of the simulation rather than the universe itself.
There are about 8 seemingly arbitrary limits in the universe-the speed of light for example.
There's a cartoon about it but I can't find it. You're right though that explanation just pushes the problem one level up.
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Nurse Ratched
4:05 Thu Jul 9
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Don't be so quick to dismiss. Besides, in all the pictures I've seen of Jesus, he has very kind eyes. Lovely kind blue eyes.
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Pub Bigot
4:03 Thu Jul 9
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Soz, EC.
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Eerie Descent
3:08 Thu Jul 9
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It was more a slight on Infidel than you, Bigot.
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Pub Bigot
3:07 Thu Jul 9
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God? God's something that was nominated by someone with a get rich and powerful quick scheme.
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Nurse Ratched
3:02 Thu Jul 9
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Marston - Arf!
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Nurse Ratched
3:01 Thu Jul 9
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Or...
...God did it all.
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Pub Bigot
2:58 Thu Jul 9
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It's easy to understand on a basic level, but beyond our origins it's far from easy to understand. It would mean the theory could be multi layered and we're a simulation within a simulation within a simulation ad infinitum.
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Eerie Descent
2:56 Thu Jul 9
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The theory Infidel is coming out with is not a mind fuck, it's very easy to understand, and very easy to accept that we will never know the answer.
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Marston Hammer
2:52 Thu Jul 9
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My missus knew you were gonna say that
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Nurse Ratched
2:17 Thu Jul 9
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Many of you appear to have married or be shackled up with spectacularly stupid women.
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Billy Blagg
1:39 Thu Jul 9
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Coffee 1:30 Thu Jul 9
Being as I've been singing it since I posted I'm guessing the answer is no.
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Coffee
1:30 Thu Jul 9
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Is it possible to read the words "vestal virgins" without thinking of Procul Harem?
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Billy Blagg
1:28 Thu Jul 9
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I was due to go one of those Clairvoyant evenings round our local pub last week but it was cancelled due to unforseen circumstnaces.
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Billy Blagg
1:27 Thu Jul 9
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Isn't it all just a belief system anyway? I thought it was amusing that the Mrs was sounding off about a Terrorist believing they would die in glory and be given 20 vestal virgins or whatever then telling me her dead mother sent her a sign that her latest hospital test would reveal she is OK. I think I prefer to believe we were created by a Sentinel being with a white beard than to think I am a charachter in a cosmic computer game, but it's funny how normally sensible people will accept one as a possibility and throw the other out as preposterous.
I saw Colin Fry once - don't as!k - apart from anything else it was fecking boring evening.
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Pub Bigot
10:18 Thu Jul 9
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I've never seen the Matrix so I might find it and watch it.
I see what you're saying regarding a large computer, but everything had a beginning which is why it eventually leads back to a creator of some kind. It doesn't have to be a supernatural intelligence that created the simulator, rather an intelligence we cannot comprehend at our level and the Big Bang could partly explain "their" origins.
Mindfuck!
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