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I've been addicted to two substances through my life. One is caffeine. I don't give a shit. I'm addicted. Deal with it. The other was Tylenol PM, after a nasty break up a decade ago. I realized I was addicted, went cold turkey. It sucked for a weekend. No sleep, headaches, and I felt feverish...

He's a fucker, using new-aged, spiritual bullshit to fool people. Maybe he actually believes it, too, I dunno. It's bullshit all the same.

Actually, the lightwave is redshifted both by objects moving away and cosmological expansion. Because cosmological expansion is increased steadily the farther away something is, you can use it to determine distance and speed.

Not. I eat really slowly.

So what? Why be careful? Careful of what?

Re: Big Bang: Expansion Accellerating It doesn't. That's a different question.

So can it or can it not do a different job if one piece is missing?

I had considered it, though. It seems less likely to be the case. I never said it's not, only that it's less likely. The reason is because mass/energy simply would not just hang out in the form of a hyper-compressed space all on it's own. It would instantly begin expanding from internal pressure...

We can what-if all day. What seems to be the case, though?

Re: Big Bang: Expansion Accellerating Let's say we have sss. Now, every t, an s doubles. Thus, after one t, we have ssssss. After one more t, we have ssssssssssss. Then, ssssssssssssssssssssssss. Notice how, if we began measuring our s from the leftmost s to the rightmost s, The farther s seems...

Frankly, my best answer is; I don't know, and I'm not even sure the question makes sense in the first place. When the universe started existing was the same moment time started existing. There's no such thing as "before" that such that a cause for it could exist.

Actually, I did read the thread, which is why most of my post was the tangent about Specified Complexity. Second, if we use the definition of IC that Teax provided, then why does it even matter? What importance would such a concept ever have?

That sure seems like a glaring golden mean fallacy. Just because they're not in the extremes doesn't mean they're any more or less rational. They may have a more solid basis for prior information equating to future trends, thus making their decisions easier to make, maybe, but a person is...

Things which are claimed to be irreducibly complex have been shown to distinctly not be (by biologists), thus the idea holds no water. IC is not based on facts, because no item claimed to be irreducibly complex, well, is irreducibly complex. The flagellum, as the flagship example, can be reduced...

I agree, for the most part. However, ID and IC are not based on any factual evidence, thus Wookie's beliefs regarding it are, in fact, unreasonable. Yes, he thinks it's rational, but then either he is wrong, or I am. How do we determine who is correct? Or is that your point, that he will believe...

Your claim seems to insinuate that people in good situations are more rational than those in bad, which I see no evidence of. Further, your father seems to have lied to you about how the military works, because it does not work the way you say it does. You say your father was in the Army (not in...

Everybody thinks their beliefs are reasonable. How do we determine they actually are?

It sucked for both enlistments. Finally sucked too much to keep going. I've been out for a few weeks, and it's awesome.

Wookie, I'm just curious about something; Do you actually believe in this IC thing, or are you arguing for crap's sake?

This is still getting discussed here? *facepalm*

You're blowing this out of proportion. The worst thing that can happen with a flu vaccine, assuming it's terrible super-flu, is that people just get the flu. They test to ensure against that, too. I mean, they make sure it's a vaccine, not just a flu-injection. You're also ignoring that there's...

Because it's no different from any other vaccine? They're not including anything chemically experimental in it. It's just like any other vaccine, it just has dead flu in it. It's not a brand new medicine that requires experimentation to determine if it's safe. We already know it's safe. It's...

We played again last night. His curiosity about the rules and the game world astound me. He's a sponge, trying to absorb everything. He's so interested that he derailed the actual events of the game a few times trying to understand it.

The flu is a very chaotic virus. It mutates fast, with several new strains dominating every single year. It's impossible to properly test a flu vaccine for more than one year because then, by the time the vaccine gets used, the strain it immunizes against has already mutated into a new one that...

"Possibility" is just a way of saying "I'm not aware of every causal interaction in the universe, thus I cannot perfectly predict truth or future events.", thus it has nothing to do with how reality works except that we're ignorant beings.

Maybe gender doesn't matter, and you should just be you.

I'm already traveling forward through time. Backwards is the tricky part. It's like going the wrong way on the highway; All you do is crash into stuff, wreck up your car, and get huge medical bills.

Herd immunity is for chumps. My hometown is breaking out, too. Remember back when we were virtually rid of measles and whooping cough? Those were they days. But sure, it's the parents right to put people with immune-deficiency disorders at risk. Right? RIGHT?! Fuck anti-science fucks.

It probably is part of my long- range evil plan, though even I admit that's mostly run by the Greater Trick-Play and, thus, I have no real control over it. And thanks.

A thought's source is irrelevant. An innovative man is an imaginative man, and a vivid imagination does not require actual experience to find new ideas. However, new experience or knowledge of reality is useful in imagining more relevant ideas.

I got in a bar fight. I did kung-fu and breathed lightning. I killed 11 dudes. On a completely unrelated note; If you're walking into a building's automatic door, and it swings instead of sliding, and they open the direction you're walking from, don't glance over too far and let the door out...

Meh, forget and forgive. In that order. If I held grudges I'd be one angry dude.

I like the term "evolution advocate". I call them "guys who are sick of assholes trying to deny a scientific fact with misrepresentations of truth and outright lies". And now there's this whole anti-vax movement, which is the direct result of people thinking it's okay to presume they know...

Genius is nothing more than being in the top 2.5% of people in terms of pattern recognition. It just means you learn quicker than other people, in a more lay-way. Anyone can learn basically anything, it just takes less effort the higher your IQ is.

The contest is basically just opposed skill rolls. I don't want to start an edition war about edition warring, and I've only built one character in 5e, and only played one session, but I've looked through the PHB... man, it lacks... the fun that 4e has. Vancian casting is back, non-casters are...

I read through a few threads, but, frankly, I don't have the patience for a debate about ID or critisizing/helping with making a tabletop game (still working on my own, anyway). So here it is... I played D&D with my son for the first time today. He loved it. It was natural to him. He took to...

As you may have seen in my other thread, I play Magic; The Gathering. My son also plays. The problem is that my son is nine. He's a smart boy, but he has fewer cards than me, less experience playing, only a badic grasp of the rules, and minimal strategic awareness. I want to build a deck that he...

So I have a deck I'm calling "Genesis Forge" for now. It's a Green/Red Enters-the-Battlefield deck and, historically, it sucks. It takes too long to build up the momentum necessary for it's survival. However, it was a really fun deck to play. I odered a few cards to improve it slightly, added...

Isn't Paupers commons and uncommons? Also; https://spaceyeti.wordpress.com/2014/08/27/deck-v-deck-weenie-v-plus-ones/

So I played Magic in early high school, back in the days of Ice Age and Mirage and 4 and fifth edition. My friends and I fell out of playing, but the game persisted. Almost 20 years later, I find myself playing again. Now that I'm not a broke-ass high school freshman, I can actually afford not...

Is it rude to move your head and look around someone whose walking in front of the TV?

Just as much as renting. As I said, you can leave. Leaving your rented home is inconvenient, so is leaving the country. Being a bum sucks, so does living on a raft in international waters.

The study of the mind.

Yes, information of the kind you mention exists. I call it "matter", though the "projection" part doesn't make sense. What gets projected, and from where?

What information? Define "information".

The government's.

Because it doesn't. Reality, by definition, is not a hallucination. A hallucination is something you see, yet is not there.

If you don't pay rent, your landlord can evict you, even if you lived there your whole life. Or if you think he's charging too much. Basically, this isn't your house. Live by the owners rules or leave.

Nope, that's nueropsychology. Also, I prefer to read your name as "anal-izer".

Put it in her butt. I wish I had a problem with women being emotionally unavailable. My wife has so many emotions that I have to deal with them more than I have to deal with my own. She cares about all this stuff, and I don't know why, and I try to be as understanding as possible, but it's...