Posts by twomers

You know maths? There are real numbers and imaginary numbers? The imaginary numbers are said to be on the imaginary plane. That kind of idea?

>> slipping more into meals than should be there
There was a story once where I live where someone was working in a bar and it was his/her last night and they thought they'd do something they hadn't done before so they put a dishwasher tablet into someone's drink. The person lost the sight in one of their eyes then.

But why are they in jail? Were they in court already? What happened to due-process?

>> A good sense of humor is often helpful. Most likely part of the brain.
Well. Brains and personality were put in the same hat. But I'm not certain if they go hand-in-hand. Anyone watch House?

>> Followed closely by scotland, i believe (fattest nation in europe)
I was working there last summer and within ... 10 minutes of starting work there someone asked me out. I'm not astronomically handsome or anything but this one was very very odd ... I said 'erm ... maybe. I'll let ya know', cause I was so shocked and did my best to stay away from her for the summer. Then she started to give me love letters ... So I've branded Scotland as the most forward country of them all now :)

>> I think I've convinced about half my friends that I'm anorexic.
This happens to me a lot - I find myself not having eaten in about 20 hours without intentionally having done so.

>> there is no difference between the people who sacrifce a goat to their god of the sky and a christian who pray to christ to protect the plane.

I think you're somewhat biased here, Wolf. There are four cases you must consider for this arguement (of only god to whom they sacrificed a goat and the Christians'. Obviously the options scale up and up and up if you wish to introduce more).

I) There are no gods
II) There is one (lets say the god of the sky)
III) There is one (lets say the Christians' God)
IV) There are two (in case II, and III above).

If you wish to argue sensibly you have to be objective about your beliefs. You mentioned that your beliefs are of case I above. In that case you are right. Sacrifice and prayer are useless.
If II exists and the god of the sky demands sacrifice then sacrificing goats would be more effective than prayer.
If III exists then the prayer should have more weight than a goat.
And if the case is IV then it depends I guess.
And you cannot use your beliefs as a bases on which to judge every eventuality. Just suppose for one instance that you are wrong and that either case II or III is correct... Anyway.

God-threads always go bad so I'm going to leave this here.

Well.
I dunno. Maybe.

>> you are wrong. not less means more.
Well if that's how you view the wording then I am wrong. But it is not what I meant.

"Aught not be less". Doesn't have to be less. Could me more. Could be the same. Still could be less.

It was first suggested that prayer should be less effective than sacrifice. So I put forward the opinion prayer doesn't have to be less effective than sacrifice if the god to whom you pray doesn't require sacrifice.

>> you never had that problem?
Nope. Never.
Maybe I'm just lucky.
Or attract smart people who don't pretent to not me smart.
Or maybe they're trying to be stupid but they're so smart that their respective stupid is smart ...

No. That's not what I said.
While it is what I believe (I don't see any reason to deny that), my post said: "prayer aught not be less effective than a sacrifice", from the arguement I put forward in the same. I did not say "my religion is right", or anything suggesting my beliefs being the only correct ones. I didn't even say anything about my beliefs.

What I did was acknowledge that my religion and beliefs may not be right (or rather that others believe in other beliefs). I said "aught not be less effective", not "the only way".

Wolf, I wasn't attacking your athesism and I would appreciate it if you wouldn't put words in my mouth.

>> what if she tricks you into thinking she is intelligent?
Maybe she is intelligent then. I might give her a chance :)

>> what if she is intelligent but then pretends to be stupid?
One week. I've never had that problem before though. That'd be annoying.

My mother told me I was 'a pleasent surprise'.

Well. I haven't read the rest of these pages but I don't think I could stand dating someone who didn't interest me intellectually. I would definitely get bored after a week (from experience). Without a doubt personality/intelligence would be near the top of my 'list', while looks do not hold such a high proiority. Sure, both would be good though :)

>> the prayer aught to be less effective [than the sacrifice].
Well that would make sense if both the religions were the same and the god to which you sacrifice ... it's like comparing apples and oranges. Sure they have similar properties (weight etc) ... (the apples and oranges that is), but many clear cut differences.

So no. The prayer aught not be less effective than a sacrifice.

That's a joke ... right?
Talk about a power-abuse!

It depends on what kinds of books you like to read - do you like to-the-point ones, or aesthetic ones? I personally perfer the latter but like both.

doormat

>> I didn't read your post close enough
Don't worry about it. I'm sure if Ireland boasted an army of more than ... 30 we'd be in there too!

#8, sir, are a cad.

>> Please name some (other than the obvious Iraq)
>> >> * don't take that too seriously.

I was being sarcastic, Dragon! I didn't actually mean it. Against the certain possibility that my sarcasm wasn't recognised I even put an astrix with a footnote there.

But Iraq.

You may be ginger, but at least I'm not stupid enough to post in a thread which insults me as the replier.

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I didn't say I didn't enjoy it (I did), but I thought it would be a lot better. I heard a lot of people talking about it before I read it.

Yes. But I was in a bus and a car crashed into us. Busses == safe. I thought we drove across a pothole.

Ever get injured playing sports?

Well dictatorships have a horrible tradition of getting into wars and democracies have a horrible tradition of starting them ... I don't know which is better.*

* don't take that too seriously.

>> China swapped it to us for 99 years. We gave it back in 1997
And where's the rest of Ireland, huh?**

** don't take that too seriously either.

>> after she went missing implying that she was moved
Oh. Damn.

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That I did not know.

>> 1984
I was disappointed by that.

>> Da Vinci code
Eh ... I think Dan Brown's a very bad author.

I love classics (somtimes), and I have a great 150 year old collection of Dickens' works. It s great for reading during storms with a large cup of tea.

I have read a lot ... Probably well over my weight in books. Yet now that I'm thinking about what books would be my favourite I'm stomped ... There are tonnes I've enjoyed ... many I haven't ... but loved ... great books ...

Anyone remember "the big read"? I've read all the top 50 and enjoyed most of them.

I don't know ... I heard it said they (police), found blood in a car they (the parents), had rented ... if the child died from an (I heard) 'accidential overdose' then why would it be blood in a car? That doesn't make sense. But what does make sense is that children are clumsy. She might have fallen and cut herself or something.

I don't think we should jump to any conclusions about the guilt of the parents. It's a terrible situation, I think we'll all agree. If the parents are guilty ... it's an even worse one! I couldn't believe that might happen though. Or maybe I don't want to.

>> then the mother should be executed.
I don't know if they have the death penalty in Portugal or the UK.

>> wtf is a .stm file anyway?
Maybe synchronous transfer mode/module. I can't remember the last one.

Seeing as the rugby world cup is on: "Rugby is a game of tyrants played by gentlemen, football* is a game of gentlemen played by tyrants".

Can't remember where I heard it or who wrote it first. Also it's slightly paraphrased.

* ie soccer.

Favourite album: Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin. That was selected randomly from a list with three others. I couldn't pick a song. That depends on my mood. But HOTH, above, generally suits all moods, for me anyhow.

>> I fail to see why I should show up at school in my underwear unprepared for a test just because life is short.
I always believed that ... fantasy lacked in body the full humiliation which a true nightmere should bring to the dreamer -- at least you had something on. And who cares about the test. It's only the single test.

And besides ... you're asleep.

>> Thats the definition of a test.
Depends who sets it.
I know they're slightly separated but in some exams in university some profs simply reuse their last few exams and the students, being students who by definition (only kidding), are lazy, only learn off the last few years of exam papers. However other lecturers prefer to make up unique papers for every exam.
It depends much on the quiz-master, Sturm. But in most cases you are probably right.

It was interesting alright. I think those personality tests are cool, but I'm not sure what only four questions can tell ... I mean, and this may not be completely revavent here, some people do those tests with the intent to forge an answer according to what they want to hear and that mask is easy to maintain for four short questions ... Still interesting. The colour - person thing was interesting in two cases and completely off for the other ones for me.

^ Great dancer.

I once purposed to a lady friend and she said no ... broke me heart ... I still think about her. Sure we were like 7 but ... that's not the point.

Haha. This thread's still going!

I read this the other day and thought of here - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070824-hole-sky.html

^ Great body!

Doesn't the UK have some stupid laws about corporal punishment?

>> If there's not a penalty for misbehaving
But what's to say that hitting kids is the only penalty? Rather than hitting them and letting them go back to play or whatever why not take away their toys and make them miserable? Obviously it depends on the situation. I don't believe you should hit them if they do anything wrong ... maybe reserve the wooden spoon for serious matters of national security ... Mushy peas, please.

I recently got that Motorola phone that I can't remember the name of ... That slim one ... Flips ... memory card ... I like it though. Can do nearly everything, plus I put iTunes on it (even though I hate it :)), so it's just as good as an iphone :D -the wireless internet thing though.

Hey, on a side note what kind of deals do ye guys get with your phones? What are the call costs/sms/mms costs?

Why is this thread still open?

On another note does anyone do those virtual stock exchange things? I can't remember the URL to the site I'm on about, but a friend of mine mentioned it.

Might be a good guide to seeing how successful ye might be ... maybe

>> But people rarely have the right mindset, so most of the time.
That goes for a lot more than politics :/

Nurses always seem to be hot over here for some reason. It's a phenomenon I've observed over my lifetime.

853,325 :) I like this game. Must practise.

Well, there was that verse in the old testament ... not very appropriate to post on a public forum ... if I can find it I'll make reference to it.

On the contrary - best remake ever - Jimi eat world - Firestarter :) I don't like them normally, but I love that song.

If you'd like I could spice it up for you .... I mean for yee (see, two e's ... I've been working on it for a while. What'a think?)

229 ... ? I think ... seems very condensed here... I could be clostophobic if I was a prime number around that number!

>> That way you can spend more time here.
I dunno. There are some people on the forum who appear to be dating and spend quite a while here ... Maybe ...

Well. If I was drowning one thing I would like to do is be able to swim.

I got a Zen V+ the other day for free :) I like the look of the Zune though. Looks neat.

That really doesn't happen to me -- see us Irish have the ability to distinguish life from reality ... I mean ...

You can too in C++, but I don't think ye #include <iostream> in java, do ye?

Twice in one post, Josh. I should get paid.