Does God exist? (9 Viewers)

[Captain Gh3y]

God made a plan, but it was rejected by the local council...

 

[HalcyonSky]

goliwog = troll right?

 

[Slidey]

goliwog = troll right?

yeah.

 

[Slidey]

only troll around here is captain gh3y. who's not even a captain

Or gay.

 

[Captain Gh3y]

wat.

 

[goliwog]

God made a plan, but it was rejected by the local council...

LOL its funny because the bible actually says that

 

[bigboyjames]

God made a plan, but it was rejected by the local council...

LOL its funny because the bible actually says that

LOL!

 

[Slidey]

http://largehardoncollider.com/

hilarious site

 

[Riet]

Yeah shit, this is going to be another fucking Black Mesa.

Everybody pick up a crowbar.

prepare for unforseen circumstances.

.

 

[Slidey]

Gordon! It's a trap!

 

[Riet]

No one should be allowed to post in this thread until they read and understand this:
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.html
And with that I'm going to stop posting ITT because that shit is just amazingly incomprehensible and awesome.

 

[Slidey]

Also excellent: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/selfdelusion.html

It raises some rather interesting sociological/psychological questions, while leaving you a dry, soulless husk at the end, much like 1984. I imagine Schroedinger and NTB would appreciate it.

On the other hand, a more mathematical mindfuck is: http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:Q74ccZdRoiEJ:www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/workbk/infinity/inhotel.html
Scott Aaronson's version: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/pancake.html

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kronecker

 

[smartbrother]

oh you edit. good to know you know where im coming from, but do you know what its like to come from that position?

Funny thing, i thought u didnt, my mistake. The point i would like to get at to other people is that reliigon is man made, people have to search within themselves and look at what is missing. I too have a relationship with God, and i have accepted him. lol i think we're on the same page now.

 

[Slidey]

Funny thing, i thought u didnt, my mistake. The point i would like to get at to other people is that reliigon is man made, people have to search within themselves and look at what is missing. I too have a relationship with God, and i have accepted him. lol i think we're on the same page now.

No, you're not, because 3unitz is trolling you - he's an atheist.

 

[KFunk]

Also excellent: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/selfdelusion.html

It raises some rather interesting sociological/psychological questions, while leaving you a dry, soulless husk at the end, much like 1984. I imagine Schroedinger and NTB would appreciate it.

Skeptical Romanticism is such a hard line to walk, but I feel it is doable. On the other hand, I can't say as much for mysticism. I loved this little analytic moment:

Six months before I was to become bat mitzvah, I learned something puzzling in Hebrew school. It seemed that the Ten Commandments, contrary to popular belief, weren't handed down on stone tablets with rounded tops; instead, the tablets were rectangular and sapphire, with the writing carved all the way through. Checking and rechecking the Hebrew alphabet above the blackboard, I hesitantly raised my hand. "But what about mem and samech?" I asked. "Those letters are shaped like an 'O'—I mean, topologically."

 

[Slidey]

Indeed. It pulls in so many different aspects of philosophy, metaphysics, psychology, theology and sociology so seamlessly. I really love that page. I first read at 15 and it was mind-blowing at the time, because it covered pretty much all the issues I was feeling at the time (15 was about the time I was having my little existential crisis).

 

[Slidey]

Read it man: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/selfdelusion.html

 

[KFunk]

I seem to remember you tossing the 'pancake at the bottom' my way some time ago. The concept of infinity and associated paradoxes = fun.

 

[Riet]

Is it actually? The first bit seemed like the musings of some psycho bitch.

 

[Slidey]

Is it actually? The first bit seemed like the musings of some psycho bitch.

a) that's part of the idea what with the juxtaposition of change w.r.t. the end and all
b) it's written by a guy - it's not real.

Fucking stop being so "oh noes! words bad" for a second. I mean it's written by a fucking mathematics Ph.D while maintaining a nice word flow and poignancy. I mean, how much further from arty farty can I give you?