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by Matty
Sat Jul 14, 2007 1:55 am
Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
Topic: Aaaaaah!!! It's real!
Replies: 59
Views: 30548

I'm still kind of concerned that OSC hasn't yet wrung the last shred of marketable story from this universe. For instance, what happened to that guy Ender eats dinner with the first day in Battle School? I demand to know his backstory! How about a romance (first-base only, of course) between Teenage...
by Matty
Sun Jul 01, 2007 10:41 pm
Forum: EnderVerse Novels and Stories
Topic: Aaaaaah!!! It's real!
Replies: 59
Views: 30548

Aaaaaah!!! It's real!

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765312824/hatrackriver The horror is upon us. The "Christmas at Battle School" book arrives this fall. I know OSC has to pay the bills, but he probably could've just threatened to publish this thing unless we all went out and bought an extra copy of ...
by Matty
Wed May 30, 2007 4:08 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: You're in a desert
Replies: 30
Views: 14892

Because I read a book by Kilgore Trout telling me that I am the only thinking being, with free will, in the universe. The tortoise is a robot, put there for my amusement. Why not tip it over?
by Matty
Mon May 14, 2007 6:03 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Things that I hate
Replies: 3021
Views: 759711

Those at Fox who canceled "Firefly." They're going to burn in a very special level of hell, with the child molesters and people who talk in the theater.
by Matty
Wed May 02, 2007 6:02 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Wiccan Headstones
Replies: 15
Views: 8029

I like the Russian Orthodox cross. It looks like a street sign at some kind of crazy six-way intersection.
by Matty
Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:35 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Hell
Replies: 85
Views: 34003

Or the Pope could say that if you enter a certain church, you will automatically go to heaven. A mildly funny series of events acted out in deadpan could result.
by Matty
Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:23 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: More quackery from the Vatican:
Replies: 24
Views: 13920

Don't expect him to come back. He doesn't usually return to threads where he's been shown wrong.
And I don't usually return to threads in which I've kicked ass, but I've made an exception. :D
by Matty
Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:47 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: More quackery from the Vatican:
Replies: 24
Views: 13920

No, the distinction is very clear, and it's very important. A good analogy: I'm giving a speech on the evils of drug abuse. Among my points: 1. Binge drinking is bad because it leads to poor judgement, increased risk of injury to self or others, increased risk of sexual abuse, bad long-term health e...
by Matty
Thu Apr 26, 2007 6:14 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: More quackery from the Vatican:
Replies: 24
Views: 13920

If terrorism didn't have a human face, I'd be confused when the robots and/or dolphins took over. Maybe they meant "humane face?" Evil =/= wrong. There is so many people who i think they are taking the wrong course of action, that they are wrong in to many accounts... but that doesn't eve...
by Matty
Wed Apr 25, 2007 3:52 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: More quackery from the Vatican:
Replies: 24
Views: 13920

Sparrow, Read the quote again. The Vatican compares abortion and euthanasia with terrorism, but only calls homosexuality evil. In other words, the Catholic Church thinks homosexuality is wrong (which should come as no surprise). The comparison to terrorism, however, is reserved for practices that th...
by Matty
Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:59 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Help Kim Decide What to Take to Africa
Replies: 10
Views: 5726

I hear they always need food over there.
Yeah. And bring some infrastructure.
by Matty
Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:11 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: The Enemy's Gate is Down
Replies: 13
Views: 5951

This was the first time I'd heard of xkcd. I just read the entire archive. Wow. I have no words.
by Matty
Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:00 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: The New Geek Jokes Thread
Replies: 52
Views: 21234

Ten things you will never, ever hear your physics professor say: "Neglecting air resistance, relativistic effects, and conservation of energy..." "Chemists use a different notation for this. It's more intuitive and elegant, so I'll use it." "It seems as if you could just use...
by Matty
Tue Mar 20, 2007 2:41 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: There's conspiracy theories, and then there's WEIRD
Replies: 34
Views: 12991

*Weeps for humanity. Gives in at last to the temptation to believe that people with an education are better than people without one.*
by Matty
Sun Mar 18, 2007 12:15 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: The New Geek Jokes Thread
Replies: 52
Views: 21234

"Using models of stellar evolution," said the astronomer, "we can predict that the sun will go out in about 5 billion years." "How long did you say?" asked the alarmed student. "Five billion years." "Oh, thank God. I thought you had said five million year...
by Matty
Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:41 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: No Taxation Without Representation
Replies: 59
Views: 22394

As only one other state has less people than DC (Wyoming), and that only two others are anywhere near it (Alaska and North Dakota), I would like to see more information about this bill, too. It would seem a tad... unfair... to give Washington DC representation that is comparable to other small stat...
by Matty
Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:11 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: A new type of matter?
Replies: 12
Views: 8580

Obviously this is a hoax -- the only states of matter mentioned in the Bible are solid, liquid, and gas, and any attempt to create a new state is nothing more than an attack on people of faith.

Well, I tried -- but I really think this thread belongs in the Science section. :D
by Matty
Wed Mar 14, 2007 6:30 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Mandatory Organ Donation
Replies: 29
Views: 15586

Mandatory Organ Donation

Different countries have different systems governing organ donation. Some, like Spain and Austria, automatically sign up everyone as an organ donor, but have an option to opt out of the system. As a result, those countries have very high levels of organ donation, much shorter waiting lists, and much...
by Matty
Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:36 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: The New Geek Jokes Thread
Replies: 52
Views: 21234

Remember, "quark" rhymes with "dork."

Many less-technically-sophisticated cultures have only obtained approximate values for well-known constants. For example, the number 3 is known as Eskimo pi.
by Matty
Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:42 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Laser Powered Propulsion
Replies: 0
Views: 3566

Meh. It requires too much power, falls off with distance, exhaust occludes the beam, etc. This thing suffers the fate of most gosh-wow space speculative technologies: the :twisted: is in the details.
by Matty
Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:46 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: The New Geek Jokes Thread
Replies: 52
Views: 21234

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by Matty
Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:32 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: UFO Technologies for Climate Control
Replies: 4
Views: 5068

If I had known that, that would've made my post pretty clever. :)
by Matty
Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:58 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: UFO Technologies for Climate Control
Replies: 4
Views: 5068

Also, why isn't the government utilizing unicorn-hair resources in the fight against AIDS? Or fighting inflation by injecting leprechaun gold into the economy? Or researching the medical benefits of prayer?
by Matty
Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:29 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Population Control.
Replies: 84
Views: 31893

jotabe wrote:
You are running into a historical phallacy.
Is that like the Washington Monument?
by Matty
Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:04 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Determinism.
Replies: 130
Views: 60862

Matty that's good and all but it has no conclusive evidence to be that way. God has to experience time sequentially. How else could he have created the world in 7 days? Surely he understands and experiences time the same as we do. No. If you assume that God is omniscient and omnipotent, then him ex...
by Matty
Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:04 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: The Cultural Archtype Hero
Replies: 60
Views: 19636

I'm thinking that America's cultural hero is the Soldier. The young, fresh-faced kid defending freedom in a foreign land, with nothing to rely on but his buddies and the best military training in the world, kicking ass against hordes of bad guys and passing out chocolate bars to the shell-shocked lo...
by Matty
Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:46 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: FOX's 'God Warrior' new episode strikes a nerve.
Replies: 26
Views: 14788

*Sits for hours, mesmerized by Tsashon's avatar*
by Matty
Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:43 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Determinism.
Replies: 130
Views: 60862

Responding to the original question. The best resolution I've heard of the perfect knowlege/free will paradox comes from C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. It goes like this: First, an observation. If God did not know the future, there would be no problem, because he could only watch us as we acted. An...
by Matty
Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:11 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Population Control.
Replies: 84
Views: 31893

That's not such a bad thing for the other living things on the planet. Maybe the next species to rule the planet will be a little more friendly to the other inhabitants. People say things like that because they see "humanity" this large, abstract thing, and you're allowed to not have comp...
by Matty
Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:19 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Population Control.
Replies: 84
Views: 31893

Fish, You're right that less people would have less impact on the environment. But to get back to "sustainable" (medieval) levels, where everyone farms what they eat and only reusable resources are used, you need dramatic, catastrophic drops in population. Several billion people would have...
by Matty
Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:36 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: And I also kept my virginity...
Replies: 25
Views: 8666

"kept my virginity"
On behalf of philotic web and the sci-fi internet forum community at large, I'd like to say "you're welcome" for our help with that achievement.


I'm a jerk.
by Matty
Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:23 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Technological Singularity
Replies: 20
Views: 11276

Umm, haven't humans already gotten an intelligence capable of technological improvement? How would a computer intelligence that could invent things be any different from human invention? You're just applying the reasoning justifying humans reaching singularity, but replacing humans with computers. ...
by Matty
Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:03 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: If you had the chance to change yourself; would you?
Replies: 25
Views: 10909

I'd make myself physically and mentally perfect. Then I'd give myself the psycological strength I would've gained by attaining those things the hard way. :D If superficialities aren't important, they aren't important. Why wouldn't you give them up to be able to get through your days easier? After al...
by Matty
Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:48 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: FOX's 'God Warrior' new episode strikes a nerve.
Replies: 26
Views: 14788

I am getting angry now so I will end at this: Why is it acceptable when there is racism against whites, and not when it's 'vice versa'? And why is racism of any kind being promoted!? My opinion, as a guilty liberal white kid: No idea is inherently too dangerous to express. Some ideas are bad and de...
by Matty
Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:41 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: The Sanctity of Marriage
Replies: 56
Views: 21167

The reason the majority of Americans disapprove of gay marriage absolutely is the issue--it determines whether or not their argument is constitutionally viable and, if not, the courts (who are often the ones to order a change in the status quo on serious issues) have the duty to strike down every l...

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