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[Zakatak]

This is why Luke remains my favorite Cracked writer, well, besides Seanbaby.

http://www.cracked.c...t-god-particle/

I rarely agree with everything someone says, but I pretty much entirely agree about what he says. What do you guys think about the Higgs Boson project?

[Fabe]

To be honest I don't think I got any idea of what the Higgs Boson project or the God particle are but that article does help prove my belief the society is sliding back toward scientific ignorance and superstition. Soon we'll back to making human sacrifices to try and get a good harvest.

Edited by Fabe, 03 August 2012 - 03:21 PM.

[Cencius]

Whoever coined the term the "god particle" made a grave mistake.

The popular media is taking every opportunity it can to misuse this buzzword and drive further a wedge between scientific and religious communities.

[Fabe]

Cencius, on 03 August 2012 - 03:49 PM, said:

Whoever coined the term the "god particle" made a grave mistake.

The popular media is taking every opportunity it can to misuse this buzzword and drive further a wedge between scientific and religious communities.

I think it was originally called the "******* particle" by some reporter but Their editor made them change it. But yeah the name has been causing problems.

[Lightdragon]

who cares if it does or doesnt drive a wedge between them all religion does is breed ignorance anyways

[LogicalTightRope]

Lightdragon, on 04 August 2012 - 05:36 AM, said:

who cares if it does or doesnt drive a wedge between them all religion does is breed ignorance anyways

That's ironic, because that's a pretty ignorant statement right there.

The vocal minority of Christians, at least, tend to make idiotic claims about religion explaining everything instead of science, but for me and every Christian I know, it helps us to live more...fulfilling, i suppose is the word, lives. It helps us to have more compassion and to be more optimistic and happy, but not idiots. An atheist is just as likely to be an *****. Any person that has a brain cell, religious or not, understands that things simply can't be explained totally by religion. Filter out those that do think so, because they aren't worth anyone's time.

[Lightdragon]

hey if believing in an imaginary friend helps you sleep better at night then who am i to judge...still see you as fools

[H Minus]

I don't exactly know what we will get out of it, but I know its the proper path in exploration. If we can't explore outwards, we must explore inwards, and maybe that will give us the energy source to explore outwards. Exploration is how we find our potential for progress.

[SOG66]

Oh great .....
Someone who thinks he is the holder of all knowledge of how the "Real" universe is and all of it's secrets. Just because you don't believe in another persons beliefs, it gives you no right to go around trying to voice how much of a fool you think they are.

If you are going to discuss your beliefs try to at least not be insulting, insults and name calling is the refuge of a person that really isn't sure of his own viewpoint. If you have to resort to insults, just be quiet and have a nice day.

Just because it is called a GOD particle it does not prove or disprove the existance of a higher being, just like the the missing link proving evolution also proves or disproves the same higher being.

I think it is cool that there is such a particle, the possibilities and importance to our civilization is amazing, and by the way ......

Have a nice day


Nuff Said

Edited by SOG66, 04 August 2012 - 12:46 PM.

[FaIIen]

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LogicalTightRope, on 04 August 2012 - 10:29 AM, said:

That's ironic, because that's a pretty ignorant statement right there.

I can't resist but to tell you that use used the word ironic wrong; I think your looking for the word hypocritical.




Also, to end all your alleged profound and presumed logical arguments - is it not perfectly possible that both the Big Bang and the Bible are both true? The bible has plenty of room for it to be true and has been proven in several instances to not be an entirely factual writing.

Edited by FaIIen, 04 August 2012 - 01:01 PM.

[feetjai]

Well, Science has good and bad ideas. Here both sides of an idea and judge yourself what is right or most plausible.

One example would be Darwin and the counter ideas. A person who explains that Dawins idea is not plausible:

[Jack Dalton]

Their god rules from heaven, your god from Wall Street and Hollywood.

Don't be so quick to turn on each other, fellow insignificant bags of flesh.

Edited by Jack Dalton, 04 August 2012 - 01:21 PM.

[Lightdragon]

Jack Dalton, on 04 August 2012 - 01:19 PM, said:

Their god rules from heaven, your god from Wall Street and Hollywood.

Don't be so quick to turn on each other, fellow insignificant bags of flesh.

lol....there is no god there is only yourselves you and you alone affect what happens in your own life stop trying to blame things you dont understand on your imaginary friends

[Mchawkeye]

Oddly, for some reason, I thought the MWO forums would be more...enlightened.

[Zakatak]

You know, this thread was more of a test of the community to see how a "What do you believe?" thread would go. Well, it looks like I won't be making one.

[Jack Dalton]

Lightdragon, on 04 August 2012 - 02:03 PM, said:

lol....there is no god there is only yourselves you and you alone affect what happens in your own life stop trying to blame things you dont understand on your imaginary friends

[sumdumfu]

stuff like this only serves to bring out the closed-mindedness in everyone. most people make a choice in beliefs and then frame their whole lives around it, and then refuse to accept even the possbility they could be wrong. this goes for all sides and is the great failing of humanity - ego. erroneous ideas get stuck in human consciousness because people won't accept they were wrong about it and propagate that failure to anyone around who will listen.

[Exilyth]

Actually, what is quite funny... if you look at science as a tool to understand gods creation, everyone who is against science becomes a heretic.

Then again, All affirmations are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.

[Bloodweaver]

H Minus, on 04 August 2012 - 12:19 PM, said:

I don't exactly know what we will get out of it, but I know its the proper path in exploration. If we can't explore outwards, we must explore inwards, and maybe that will give us the energy source to explore outwards. Exploration is how we find our potential for progress.

Very true. Everything moves in cycles, and this includes both the progress of a society and the development of an individual's character, persona, and achievements. Here the cycle moves between expansion and refinement - external growth and internal consolidation. The character shown by the proselytizing atheists -speaking here only of those most fervent anti-religious crusaders against faith, the ones who can hardly hear the words "religion" or "god" without starting to hand out lectures- shows a complete abandonment of the internal in favor of things that are discernibly quantifiable, to the extent of allowing nothing else. This shows nothing more than an inability, or more accurately, unwillingness, to trust. "Trusting" in what can be proven is, obviously, not trust at all. It is their prerogative to live in this manner, if they so choose, but it is by no means ideal to cut out all that is unnecessary in one's life. We are not robots, or beasts. Unless we choose to be so.

Jack Dalton, on 04 August 2012 - 01:19 PM, said:

Their god rules from heaven, your god from Wall Street and Hollywood.

Don't be so quick to turn on each other, fellow insignificant bags of flesh.

Indeed. All men live by a code - some choose to live by a code that was taken as a conscious decision, and tailor their behavior to it as best they can. Others never choose a code, but this lack of choice is a choice in and of itself - to live according to one's base urges. All men are servile to something; the only choice we have is what that something entails. There is only one thing that we, as human beings, can know with absolute, unerring certainty, and it applies to every single one of us that has ever come into this existence: we will die. We do not what will happen to us in our lives, nor do we know what happens once we die. But we know that we do die. All of us. This is our only guarantee. Where one goes from that starting point, what he makes from that vast field of unknowing, is what determines his character as a man.

Lightdragon, on 04 August 2012 - 02:03 PM, said:

lol....there is no god there is only yourselves you and you alone affect what happens in your own life stop trying to blame things you dont understand on your imaginary friends

The idea that only you affect your life is patently untrue. Everything in existence affects everything else, to varying degrees. Should any form of divinity exist -and you do not know whether or not it does, only that you cannot prove that it does- that will affect your life as well, regardless of your acknowledgement thereof. Using god as a scapegoat for one's failures in life is an error, but it is quite rare. I've never witnessed it outside of bad TV. Most people, both religious and not, understand that every man is to blame for his own failures.

[Mr T]

Fabe, on 03 August 2012 - 03:20 PM, said:

To be honest I don't think I got any idea of what the Higgs Boson project or the God particle are but that article does help prove my belief the society is sliding back toward scientific ignorance and superstition. Soon we'll back to making human sacrifices to try and get a good harvest.

Ehh, don't worry dude. I know it looks that way, but its actually the opposite. The only difference is thanks to the internet and technology's persistent drive towards the user friendly, it has become incredibly easy for such idiots to get there verbal vomit all over the places the more rationale thinking tend to conglomerate. So its not so much that there are more *****'s its just that they're soooo much easier to find these days that you don't even have to try, they just find you.