Bullshit, yes.

And yes, .33 recurring is the same as 1/3 as 1/3 can't be written, so it's written as .33 recurring.

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i have a good thing to blow your mind.

back in the times of the aztecs, lived a civilization of people known as the 'mayans'
(you astronomers and scientists will already know where im going)
the mayans were incredible intelligent and were trained astronomers.
they made a calender, and it has predicted 5 cycles of the earth.
now, they predicted that on the day that WE call 21/12/2012
the sun will line up with the direct center of the milky way galaxy, at that time the 5th cycle will finish, and also, it will be the end of the world


freaky, no?

That's not blowing my mind. Everyone knows this. And it's bullshit, I can guarantee.

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i have a good thing to blow your mind.

back in the times of the aztecs, lived a civilization of people known as the 'mayans'
(you astronomers and scientists will already know where im going)
the mayans were incredible intelligent and were trained astronomers.
they made a calender, and it has predicted 5 cycles of the earth.
now, they predicted that on the day that WE call 21/12/2012
the sun will line up with the direct center of the milky way galaxy, at that time the 5th cycle will finish, and also, it will be the end of the world


freaky, no?

no. .

haha, he says it like it's news to the world.


Okay, I know some have already heard this one, but:

copypasta from wiki:

Can God create a stone so heavy that even he can not lift?

1. Either God can create a stone which he cannot lift, or he cannot create a stone which he cannot lift.
2. If God can create a stone which he cannot lift, then he is not omnipotent (since he cannot lift the stone in question).
3. If God cannot create a stone which he cannot lift, then he is not omnipotent (since he cannot create the stone in question).
4. Therefore God is not omnipotent.

There is no God.

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Left-handed people are more likely to die than right-handed people.

No. Both left-handed people and right-handed people have 100% chance of dying. Left handed people do it sooner, though, because we burn them for witchcraft.

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haha, he says it like it's news to the world.


Okay, I know some have already heard this one, but:

copypasta from wiki:

Can God create a stone so heavy that even he can not lift?

1. Either God can create a stone which he cannot lift, or he cannot create a stone which he cannot lift.
2. If God can create a stone which he cannot lift, then he is not omnipotent (since he cannot lift the stone in question).
3. If God cannot create a stone which he cannot lift, then he is not omnipotent (since he cannot create the stone in question).
4. Therefore God is not omnipotent.

There is a similar one known as the epicurean contradiction, going somewhere along the lines of:

If God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
then he is not omnipotent
Is god able to prevent evil, but not willing?
then he is malevolent
Is god both able and willing?
then why is there evil?
Is god neither able nor willing?
then why call him god?

now for everyone to get angry at how someone turned yet another thread into a bash religion thread. grrr.

the universe being all big and stuff


the bottom half has always depressed me. awwwwwwww humans.

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Can God create a stone so heavy that even he can not lift?

1. Either God can create a stone which he cannot lift, or he cannot create a stone which he cannot lift.
2. If God can create a stone which he cannot lift, then he is not omnipotent (since he cannot lift the stone in question).
3. If God cannot create a stone which he cannot lift, then he is not omnipotent (since he cannot create the stone in question).
4. Therefore God is not omnipotent.

It's a simple play on words.

God can create a stone of any heaviness and still lift it, there is no stone too big that God cannot lift. The question disguises a question of ability with a question of inability. The statement says nothing about God, it is simple nonsense. You cannot define something into reality, it's a nonsensical string of words. God can still remain omnipotent, He just "cannot cannot" lift a stone too heavy for Him. If God is omnipotent then He can remove his omnipotence and then create a stone too heavy for him to lift but this still makes Him omnipotent.

You imply being omnipotent requires strengths and a weakness, the weakness being that God can't lift a stone. How is this omnipotent? Sure, being omnipotent is about doing everything but it also is about not being weak. Therefore, the word "omnipotent" is a contradiction of itself.

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There is a similar one known as the epicurean contradiction,...now for everyone to get angry at how someone turned yet another thread into a bash religion thread. grrr.

That's the inconsistant triad, alive. Can't remember the epicurean one. They might actually be the same, now I think about it.

Zeno's paradox: to get across a room, you first have to reach the half way point. To get to the half way point you will first have to get half way to that. And so on. Therefore, motion is impossible because you have to do infinitely many things to get started.

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Zeno's paradox: to get across a room, you first have to reach the half way point. To get to the half way point you will first have to get half way to that. And so on. Therefore, motion is impossible because you have to do infinitely many things to get started.

That's debated, many scientists believe we skip points in space to get anywhere.

I'm not sure what I believe on that.

Things get grainy down at the planck length so the universe is sorta pixelated, but if you don't know quantum it's a nearly mind-confusing kind of paradox.

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That's the inconsistant triad, alive. Can't remember the epicurean one. They might actually be the same, now I think about it.

Zeno's paradox: to get across a room, you first have to reach the half way point. To get to the half way point you will first have to get half way to that. And so on. Therefore, motion is impossible because you have to do infinitely many things to get started.

It's not the inconsistent triad, it's a inconsistent triad. An inconsistent triad is any proposition where you have three premises and only two (or less) of them can logically be true.

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It's not the inconsistent triad, it's a inconsistent triad. A consistent triad is any proposition where you have three premises and only two (or less) of them can logically be true.

Alright but we're getting caught up in semantics. Maybe we're both right.

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i have a good thing to blow your mind.

back in the times of the aztecs, lived a civilization of people known as the 'mayans'
(you astronomers and scientists will already know where im going)
the mayans were incredible intelligent and were trained astronomers.
they made a calender, and it has predicted 5 cycles of the earth.
now, they predicted that on the day that WE call 21/12/2012
the sun will line up with the direct center of the milky way galaxy, at that time the 5th cycle will finish, and also, it will be the end of the world


freaky, no?

It's always lined up with the direct center of the galaxy, dipshit.

Do you know what an orbit is?