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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jun 10, 2016 - 11:57am PT
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I would have thought of it... if only I would've thought of it:
Sci Fi meets theology (Abrahamic theology)... X-Men: Apocalypse.
In fine theaters everywhere. lol
In less than two generations, sacred theology has been
trivialized. So that shows the power of this information age, and
it's only going to strengthen. Hold on to your hat!
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jun 10, 2016 - 05:44pm PT
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"The only way to build Göbekli Tepe was for thousands of foragers belonging to different bands and tribes to cooperate over an extended period of time. Only a sophisticated religious or ideological system could sustain such efforts."
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobekli_Tepe
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Jun 10, 2016 - 08:24pm PT
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(Relieving the pressure on HFCS to keep this thread alive)
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jun 12, 2016 - 12:02pm PT
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What are their names and to which planets do these bodies belong?
C'mon you stoopians...
Most of these should be easy to get for you science types.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jun 12, 2016 - 05:49pm PT
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It's not a good day for America right now I know.
Just thought I'd try and distract a few with that moon quiz.
There aren't any actual stoopians (stoopians?) on this thread,
but I know there a are few amateur space freaks like me
who enjoy trying to wrap their brains around astronomy.
That big universe out there makes the petty squabbles
here on our little rock look pretty insignificant sometimes.
Besides that quiz was easy peazy for the 'real' scientists here.
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Jun 12, 2016 - 08:45pm PT
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Looks like Mateen had a degree in science. Classic!!!! (witch)
Had he been a philosopher he would never have gotten to the point of doing anything, arguing with himself endlessly as he spiraled into an intellectual rabbit hole.
Lesson here, folks.
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PSP also PP
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jun 12, 2016 - 09:20pm PT
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Nice post MH2!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Jun 13, 2016 - 07:15am PT
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I have faith in reason and I see no reason to have "faith."
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Jun 13, 2016 - 08:10am PT
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jd, nice to see you are distinguishing faith from "faith"
Faith, esp evidence-based faith (or trust) is too good a word/concept to leave to religions. We all know their use of this word/concept means non-evidenced based, also non-reason based. That is the worst kind. It's time we take this word/concept back. In time it will happen. The sooner the better.
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Gay Marriage isn't Special Rights, it's Equal Rights. 'Special Rights' are for political churches that don't pay taxes. -John Fugelsang
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WBraun
climber
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Jun 13, 2016 - 08:22am PT
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The fool claims there is no God then simultaneously imitates God in every way all while masquerading as full of knowledge .....
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Jun 13, 2016 - 09:41am PT
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Alasdair Gray: But Duncan, what men believe isn’t important - it’s our actions which make us right or wrong.
Alas, if this were only true. Living a good life would be so much more unambiguous and certain. Historical renditioning, cultural relativism, education, various humanistic analyses, and conflicting legal principles tend to shift the morality of any action from one evaluation to another. it’s instructive to see such things, how everything shifts and morphs from one thing to another.
I know it might seem ludicrous and incredible, but it might be best to relinquish ties to right and wrong. Righteousness tends to make people miserable at the end of the day.
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jun 13, 2016 - 05:07pm PT
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MikeL
The line you attribute to Alasdair Gray is Alasdair Gray, the author, writing in the voice of Duncan's father. Alasdair Gray writes his novel Lanark in many voices, often opposing each other, and does not give any voice priority. That is up to you. As you put it:
it’s instructive to see ... how everything shifts and morphs from one thing to another
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Jun 13, 2016 - 05:07pm PT
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Jeremy:
Yes. Cochise Stronghold is on my list once the weather lets up a bit, and I get fully settled. I've heard the area is very good. We haven't gotten outside on a rope for 10 years, but I thought we'd rummage around and look at the place first! We are not more than 30-40 miles away. (Hell, then maybe we'll buy a rope.)
Thanks much for your thought.
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Jun 13, 2016 - 05:08pm PT
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Thanks, MH2. As usual, I'm not completely sure what I'm talking about. :-|
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eeyonkee
Trad climber
Golden, CO
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Jun 13, 2016 - 05:34pm PT
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Had he been a philosopher he would never have gotten to the point of doing anything, arguing with himself endlessly as he spiraled into an intellectual rabbit hole.
jGill is onto something! Let's export our outdated, ancient Greek-based metaphysical constructs to the jihadists.
It'll be like that Star Trek episode where the superior alien intelligence infected the ship computer, but Captain Kirk directed the computer to calculate pi to the nth decimal place. They might get into some kind of recursive loop (I like the word, eddy) that they can't break out of. Add a little gratuitous sex and it can't miss with the male Muslim jihadist crowd (possibly).
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MH2
Boulder climber
Andy Cairns
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Jun 13, 2016 - 06:32pm PT
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Welcome to the Mountain Daylight Tribe, Mike.
Be careful of girlfriends you meet by hitting them with your car at 3 am.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jun 13, 2016 - 09:40pm PT
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Answers to the 'Name the Moons Quiz'
Amalthea/Jupiter/moon
Phobos/Mars/moon
Europa/Jupiter/moon
Titan/Saturn/moon
Apricot/Earth/fruit
Charon/Pluto/moon
Triton/Neptune/moon
Saturn/Hyperion/moon
Apricot/Earth/fruit
You're Welcome!
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jgill
Boulder climber
The high prairie of southern Colorado
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Jun 14, 2016 - 09:37pm PT
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Be careful of girlfriends you meet by hitting them with your car at 3 am
If you're taken to lockup be prepared to wear pink.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jun 14, 2016 - 11:30pm PT
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That's a pretty good apricot resembling earth there Bushy!
there's something reveling there why the planets are so round, and the asteroids are not. so why is that apricot or my brain, so round?
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