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Comment on Snowy Castle (2010-03-08 23:02:04)
I think you're shit outta luck - isn't that Hogwarts?
Comment on Picture is worth 1000 words (2010-02-21 22:23:28)
Two seconds later, the alien parasite lodged in her trachea unleashed millions of flying larvae and infected everyone in the auditorium...
Comment on Spider on a stick (2010-02-02 18:15:32)
Yeah, it's an orb weaver. Scary as fuck but pretty harmless. They'll bite if you piss them off, but it'll just hurt - no serious harm done.
Comment on Difference Between Theists, Agnostics and Atheists (2009-11-22 20:32:54)
*blink* Since when have Christians been tolerant? Is this meant to be ironic?
Comment on two headed lizard (2009-10-25 17:49:44)
It's a shingleback lizard, aka a blue-tongue, native to almost all of Australia. Their tails are about the same size as their heads. I'm guessing it's so predators don't know which direction they're facing. They're really placid and cute. Here's another pic: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluebec/2936571461/
Comment on richard dawkins on why he\'s against religion (2009-09-09 21:31:37)
One last quick note... Why is it that when a religious person evangelises and tells non-believers (or different-believers) that they are wrong, hell-bound, sinful, and so on, then they are just expressing their faith, and the strength of their convictions is seen as a virtuous thing... ...but when an atheist publicly expresses logical reasons for not believing in magic invisible sky people, they are called smug, arrogant elitists? Hypocritical much?
Comment on richard dawkins on why he\'s against religion (2009-09-09 21:27:45)
What's the problem with it? The problem is when some idiot parents let a child die of diabetes because they'd rather pray over him than take him to a godless doctor. The problem is when people deny others basic human rights because they think god hates queers / blacks / muslims / women / anyone they don't like. The problem is when irrational faith is regarded with higher esteem than rationality, logic, and scientific process, leading to idiots demanding that children be taught that "God made it" is real science. The problem is when intelligence is seen as a vice and ignorance is seen as a virtue, in a fucked up bizarro world where calling someone "simple" is a compliment and calling someone a "college boy" is an insult. The problem is when blind, unquestioning obedience to authority is regarded as the status quo, and asking questions and expressing disagreement is regarded as dangerous assent. The problem is that when fuzzy, illogical, magical thinking is held up as a good thing, then it makes the whole fucking world dumber. There's the problem.
Comment on richard dawkins on why he\'s against religion (2009-09-09 03:25:05)
Precisely! The people of Judah thought leprosy was caused by your father's sins being punished by god, and that muscular tremors and seizures were caused by demonic possession. Scientific discovery occurs when someone refuses to accept "God did it" as an answer and sets out to discover the truth. If I went to a doctor with a case of leprosy, I'd be pretty dissatisfied if he said there was no treatment except praying to god for your father's sins to be forgiven.
Comment on richard dawkins on why he\'s against religion (2009-09-09 03:20:36)
Is that even remotely related to the image you have commented on? The point Dawkins is making is a very good one: religion fills gaps in our knowledge with rubbish, while science urges us to recognise gaps and find the truth. Religion says "I don't know... God did it!" Science says, "I don't know, but I want to find out." As for existence being meaningless; of course it is, at least in an objective sense. We are collections of cells, vast colonies working together to survive and propagate. In that sense, human existence is about avoiding death as long as possible and making as many copies of yourself as you can. Obviously, this is not terribly satisfying, so instead we can look at it subjectively. By many flukes of evolution, we have ended up with intelligence, emotion, and self-awareness. We can recognise where these things came from, accept that they evolved for a purpose, and work to increase our happiness and the happiness of others. It took a lot of hard work and deprogramming to accept that I will one day entirely cease to be. It's a terrifying thought - no eternity, no reward or punishment, not even darkness... total oblivion... I want to fit in all the living I can before that moment of eternal nothingness arrives. Here's a corollary to the ever-popular Pascal's wager: Imagine that the end of your life will be the utter end of your existence. Are you willing to bet that, despite the total lack of proof that some other form of life will follow this one, you are not wasting your single chance to live the best life you can, before you one day cease to exist entirely? If your very existence is a roll of cosmic dice, and the particular set of circumstances that make you who you are will never occur in that precise pattern ever again, don't you owe it to yourself to fill your life with the greatest amount of love, peace, happiness, and experience that you possibly can?
Comment on Lambuel and Friends (2009-04-28 20:50:37)
The Poes get harder and harder to distinguish every day. I was leaning toward parody on this one, then leaned toward genuine, and in the end was completely stumped.
Comment on mastershake4071 (2008-05-09 05:36:21)
Tony Stark!
Comment on Dive Class (2008-03-30 07:46:22)
How SCUBA divers reproduce. Look, they're spawning!
Comment on Casey Jones And A Turtle (2008-02-21 07:31:55)
He isn't a ninja. He's just... Casey Jones.
Comment on Obama's Experience (2008-02-19 05:32:03)
I'm confused... how many of the other candidates have experience being president?
Comment on Drive on the left (2008-02-02 09:32:57)
Pedals are the same, steering column controls are reversed (I kept turning on the windscreen wipers when turning corners). The two hardest things to get used to are having a door right beside you where there's normally the car interior (I kept banging my arm on the door) and remembering your orientation in the car for the purposes of staying in your lane. It took me some time to remember that I was on the opposite side of the car, so I would therfore be in the opposite side of the lane while driving - to start with, I was always straddling the lane markings.