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I dunno... my understanding was that in low-grav bones weaken, even in adults, so bean would have a weaker skeleton than others. the real question is whether that would stay after he got back to earth...

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I'd also suppose that Bean would have it HARDER than those on earthh because he grew up in a low-grav environment

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i'd say catcher falls in with gatsby and such: the focus is on writing, not plot

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eh. don't stress it. it just goes to show how right we are

though it is odd to see the two of us agreeing

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I agree with syphon. A good story doesn't mean much if the writing isn't great. However, I can think of many examples of lame plots with great writing: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The Great Gatsby, just about anything by Anton Chekov, and so on. There are few, if any, books where a great...

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Well... it depends of the viewpoint of the observer. If the observer is at system center, they just see a ring rotating. If the observer is on the ring, they just see the ring rotating around the center. If the observer is traveling towards system center (or vice versa, it doesn't matter) time dilat...

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Candy makes positive associations w/ kids... they get hooked on church when their brains are tender... and BLAM! Instant converts! Passing on the "faith"!

works like a charm

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...I'm pretty sure there aren't an infinite number of religions. Sorry, just wanted to pick that nit. As we are defining religion, there are mutually exclusive religions (i.e. if one is right, the other can't be). Therefore, for any value of reality, there is at least one extant religion that doesn...

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Wow. Driving through Arizona and up through California was VERY different from what I'm used to. The desert was all in bloom, and central Cali was GREEN. Spring indeed.

Not in Oregon though...

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Let me say this as clearly as I can so that you understand:

Wrong f****** FORUM!

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but what sound does ÃŸ make, i ask you?

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Well... it's nice and warm down here in Phoenix... I can't complain. Better than Oregon

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Ooooh! I <3 this! And I'm surprised it wasn't a RickRoll.

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You have a point...

Though I wonder if there aren't more rational ways of seeking happiness, given your premise.

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I guess I'm just phrasing it with words that aren't value-neutral. So, as AM said, spiritual thought is an attempt to grasp at happiness in a fundamentally unhappy life. I think that we can say that's a fair assessment. I believe that that's an immature approach, but my belief doesn't belong here.

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Yeah... I've still got rain. February was nicer.

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Maybe you're reflecting your biases and the subtlety I missed was the neutral tone. :p

Neither of us is totally right here, so let's not argue it.

Perhaps I should have said:
"So from one extreme it could be said that religion is an immature reaction to reality."

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discuss:

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Could I paraphrase that and say that religion is an immature reaction to the harsh realities of life, or am I missing a subtlety of your argument?

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But why believe before death? It's not gonna do you any good, right?

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so then where the hell does religion come from? If we can agree on what BB said, then we have to acknowledge that religion is arbitrary.

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lol.

Yeah... it's not all that fun. Why would it be?

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Scorch is the school mascot.

Obviously, you need to take more math classes. And why not just use ≠?

'cause it's an extended unicode character, which source code doesn't like :p

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... assuming that there's a life after death. Where do you get that?

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(The error? Yeah... it's that the definition of "God" is arbitrary. If you define God as existing, he exists)

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Believing in atheism or agnosticism is as much a stance on believing as deism or theism. I'm not even gonna read anything following that sentence. In short, you're an idiot. We've been over it. You can't prove a negative, okay? Get over it. Anyway... I'll ask again: why believe in something that ca...

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no, you can't say I'm playing the game. Why? Because I'm not, and I've told you that. I do not proclaim my status of winning or losing. I do not inform others about it. I do not insist other play it. I don't follow the rules. I'm not playing. So... getting back to the topic, how is the missionary j...

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I think we will all miss him. You said it much better than I could ever hope to.

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me me me!

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Oh yikes! Cognitive dissonance! I would never have guessed... but it oddly makes sense.

Anyway, congrats Syphon/bc

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So... A short story that seems appropriate to this thread: I'm on a week long trip, and I consciously decided not to bring a razor. Part of it was because I want to see just how thick my facial hair grows in, but the other part is that I wanna intimidate guys on the lacrosse field. Anyway... the poi...

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Helen... are you implying what I think you're implying?

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speaking of which...

http://fffff.at/rolltube

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I have a laptop running Linux. I can't play any games, except for the only one that matters: Nethack. It rocks.

Too true. I def. compiled it from source on OS X

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