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« on: October 07, 2013, 05:58:44 pm »
The idea of that scares me.
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« on: October 03, 2013, 11:42:38 pm »
It's armour that would have most likely been used by the richer officers in the Mycenaean army  It is possible that, should the battle of Troy happened (which seems pretty likely, really), Achilles may have been equipped in this armour. And as you can note, the only exceedingly vulnerable area is the back of the legs.
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« on: October 02, 2013, 01:11:45 pm »
As much as people will deny it, evolution is basically a religion on it's own, with all the poor evidence it has.
I would ask how this is that Evolution has such poor evidence? I can think of several very good examples within relatively recent timeframes. The most popular example is Human breeding of dogs from wolves. However, Humans have also done the same with Horses. Horses as recent as the Roman eras were little more than ponies barely suitable for riding. That's why in early Bronze Age history, horses were used for chariots, they couldn't support the weight of Humans. True war horses weren't available until around the 18th century, iirc. The there's the conceptual side of things. DNA is like source code. We know DNA mutates (at it's core, it's point mutations that drive all of evolution). The only thing that separates life forms from one another is DNA. Since we know DNA defines the organism, and that changes in DNA can be passed down, as you change the DNA, you change the organism. Eventually you get to a point a group with such different DNA that it cannot reproduce with others of the same species, and thus it becomes their own species. Where's the hole in that?
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« on: October 02, 2013, 12:32:40 pm »
It looks cool but I never understood why they have a broom on the head.* Streetwalker runs I would assume it would be useful for identification. Roman Velites wore wolf pelts for this reason  It also might aid in intimidation.
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« on: October 01, 2013, 11:23:43 pm »
This is something I really want to try and recreate one day  For those of you who don't know what that is (pretty much most of you ), that is Dendra Panoply which is an armour used by the Mycenaeans in the Bronze Age.
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« on: October 01, 2013, 09:26:03 pm »
@Darl181:That's pretty cool, but where's the Death Star? 
The Death Star is too large to fit. People have been asking him to make a smaller scale version for large space stations like the Death Star and such.
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« on: October 01, 2013, 07:26:34 pm »
Well, I don't hate Muslims, but Islam has violent precepts at it's core. The reason why it's progressing so fast is because of that : Islam encourages the use of violence to spread itself. BTW if you look at terrorists then most of them are Islam fanatics.
Another thing is how they treat women. They consider that women are inferior to men and are here only for sex, reproduction and home tasks. While I don't consider women nor anybody else equal to me (we are all different and one of a kind), I believe that no hierarchy exists between human beings.
Christianity used to be like that too. Also the groups you're talking about are extremists. I guess you could argue about how Muslims are the most extremist, but I believe Christianity also had its fair share of extremists. There's lots of examples of Christian terrorists as much as good Muslim people.
A thing to note here, Christianity has been more well known in the Western world for longer time. Islam has only recently started spreading and setting policy that would allow more people to see into their scripture and beliefs. For instance, it was only recently that the Koran was allowed to be translated outside of Arabic. The Western world is equipped with a chisel. It's had a long time to wear down Christianity and smooth its rough edges, getting rid of a lot of the violent backwards aspects of the religion. Islam has not had that kind of exposure, and but now is in full view. Eventually the rough edges will be worn down.
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« on: October 01, 2013, 02:55:07 pm »
I'm not going to take any approach on telling you which I am for, but one thing you need to understand is that everything we think is morally right or wrong, is just our perspective of it. Some other people/things/beings. Could find think of morals in an entirely different way, and it would be "right" for them, including letting people die. No one idea/perspective could or is right or wrong, and nothing/no one has the authority to make that choice. 
I understand morals are relative but people don't have to die. The only one thing death is good for is evolution. If we were created by a god, death wouldn't exist.
We don't (and honestly cannot) understand the true nature of death until we, ourselves, pass on. So for that, I would have to think might not be the case. For instance, I believe that when a soul is created, there's nothing differentiating itself from other newly created souls. Well, before I continue I'll define what I consider to be a soul. A soul would be a construct existing in a higher dimension that is composed of at least an observer object able to "view" the Universe in an abstract way as well as a drive for will power to act upon what is seen. The soul can possess other attributes as well, but is ultimately shaped by memory and experience. Note that last part, I believe our souls exist on a higher plane with a much larger "view" of the Universe. However, between two different souls that view is largely similar. Memory and experience won't diverge a lot between souls, leading to a group of individuals with all the same opinions and ideas. This is not useful. So thus, in living in mortal bodies in the 4D, we experience drastically different views of the Universe and can come to much different conclusions. When we die, because our souls are shaped by memory, we keep these opinions an views with us. This is something to consider if there is an afterlife. The afterlife would be where we spend the vast majority of our existence. It's basically like mortal life is similar to grade school and the afterlife is similar to our adult lives.
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« on: October 01, 2013, 11:45:03 am »
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/W32TeX)
I feel it should be mandatory that every versioned software should have a version 3.1415926
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« on: September 30, 2013, 12:28:33 pm »
Yep it's totally real and it's not even done by genetic modification but just by sticking them on top of each other
LOL pretty cool. Though that's a bit cheating.
Not really, grafting can result in a viable hybrid organism. Granny Smith Apples, for instance.
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« on: September 30, 2013, 09:34:22 am »
They even have SpaceBall One in there!  I love how the Titan-class ships dwarf everything.
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« on: September 27, 2013, 11:59:59 am »
I think I'm in love. His arguments are irrefutable!
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« on: September 26, 2013, 09:10:19 pm »
Saw this on FB just now 
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« on: September 26, 2013, 03:13:09 pm »
Yeah, I'll never question Human creativity ever again.
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« on: September 18, 2013, 07:06:26 pm »
So I made this.. It's an overdone meme, yes. But I'm surprised no one's thought of this. 
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