Aaryan
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Dude, you can't just outsource your school stuff to us. If it's for a competition and you can't get it yourself or with friends, then you probably shouldn't win the competition anyway by using us.
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Sadly, no such revelation has occurred to me.
I don't expect you to believe in God just because I do. That's just the reason I believe in God instead of Allah, Zeus, etc. Something to think about though: you were talking about things being explained by science. Maybe you can explain everything by science. But what makes science work together the way it does? There are all these scientific laws/rules/etc. But they all work together just right so that we exist. Let's say you believe the Big Bang Theory (not saying I don't). There's a giant explosion that creates the universe and everything ends up where it is now. Earth isn't too close to the sun that we burn up or so far that we freeze. The atmosphere is just what we need to breathe. Gravity hasn't crushed us. If you believe in evolution, the first organism/cell/whatever found just the right environment it needed to survive. Then you've got all the "random" mutations it takes to get to us. So you could say that we're having this discussion because all these "random" events and mutations happened by chance. But that is a h*** of a lot of random events/mutations that worked out exactly the way they needed to lead to us. That doesn't prove that God exists. However, I find it difficult to believe that there isn't something out there driving all of that. Maybe you still believe there's no god/creator/being behind our existence. Your choice. I won't try to force God/my beliefs down your throat.
Obliged. This is the way most religious people should see things.
Evolutionists will argue that since the universe is theoretically infinite, an infinite number of circumstances may happen at any given place. This is entirely possible, but I think there is too much out there, unexplained, for there not to be a driving hand. Now, how beneficial and human-loving this hand is, is where most of religion lies. Trust me, if there was something - an instance of God speaking to me - I would love to throw myself wholeheartedly into religion. Unfortunately, no such event has occurred to me; and I also question everything. Faith is not my strong point, but I respect you and Kika for having it. FB, what you have is cool, too, but don't try to argue with a religious person. They have their own beliefs, you have your own. Neither is provable or disprovable, it's simply a matter of our own individuality giving us either the ability to be strong enough to have faith, or the ability to be strong enough to QUESTION faith.
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Granted. Phaze made 50 more cents
Thank youI wish for... World Peace
Granted, but assuming the human desire for violence still exists, money is poured into the violent-video game market as a release which ends up taking away money from more important investments, causing a global economic collapse, reversion to the bartering system, and a setback in terms of innovation due to lack of funding and interest in personal needs. People who still can't riot end up turning their violent urges on themselves, destroying 1/3 of the global population. During the ensuing lack-of-squabble, nobody can claim the loot in fear of angering others. At the same time, all relief aid to those in third-world countries ends and due to the internal problems, global trade shuts down. Oil, a non-necessary for survival, is no longer collected. People are back to the times of hunting-gathering.
I wish that Congress actually had the ability to, and indeed did - make decisions based on the preferences of the American people, in the aim of helping the common man, other countries, and the environment.
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If (and since) the Christian God is real, than we will know it. When we die, we will each stand before His throne and be fully aware that He is the one and only God. Having to admit to God that we never knew Him in our earthly life would definitely be something to worry about.
I don't see it as the Christian God, nor as the Muslim Allah, nor the Jewish Yahweh, nor as any of other religion's gods. I argue that all interpretations are correct, at least in human terms, and if you believe in the Christian God that's your thing. I don't deny "His" existence, but merely that there are many interpretations of the Creator and I choose not to subscribe to any of them.
If one needs to believe in a specific God to access heaven, the God can't be all that loving. If your argument is that non-believers of God have no moral guidance and are thus unworthy, then that's a mistake. I have a moral compass set by myself and my environment. Christians and all other religions have their own morals as well as the morals they have learned from their religion. As long as one behaves in life a good person, why should their beliefs in an intangible overseer bar them from bliss? Everyone has their own way of thinking, like Christians. I'm fine with that; but religion is like the male genitalia. It's great to have it and it's great to be proud of it, but please don't shove it down my throat.
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You people are trying to make sense of something that can make no sense.
KK and...KK(?), what you say is pretty valid. The Creator is out there, as far as humans know, this "thing". We don't and will never know what it is. I don't believe in the "Holy Father", but if that is your interpretation, go ahead.
fb, I also understand your point, but going under the assumption that there was something that instigated the infinite universe, we random carbon-based combinations of electronic signals on a tiny planet next to a medium-sized star in one of billions of galaxies (let me catch my breath) are not going to be able to get it, regardless of how advanced we seem. Let it be known, fb, that I single you out only because you seem to be going on the offensive.
So, my perspective is:
We're not gonna get it. Why worry about it?
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Granted. However, a routine police check finds that you have been driving with a BA level 3 times higher than the legal limit. You go to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect 200 dollars.
I wish to be immortal, in body and mind, having the same form as I do now, for all of time, unless i should so which to change, and then only how so I would wish to change. Also included would be the ability to heal from any wound, such as having a limb burned off, I would grow a new one, exactly the same as it had been before being burned off, having any chopped off parts reattach themselves or regrow, and even being able to reintegrate should I be disintegrated.
Excellent, you live for five billion years until the sun burns up and consumes the Earth, at which point you float through space for eternity. Oh, and during that time you live the lives of several men, making friends and loved ones and watch each and every single one of them die, unable to tell them you are immortal. Also, you get to disappear from peoples' lives several times in order to stop them from wondering just what kind of facial cream you use to keep yourself looking so young. Also during this five billion years time, your chance of being trapped or incapacitated in some way jumps from very little to approximately 100%, which also happens to coincide with your boredom level and eventual insanity.
I wish for three more wishes. And if not that, three more genies.
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Eleven.
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I'm assuming this is some kind of geography thing, relative to Australia. So I'll leave this to other Aussies and people who have more drive to do this.
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Chicken/roadkill
Abseiling
Eureka + tower
View/lobby
Possibly Eureka, Victoria, in keeping with Australia theme.
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With a resounding splash, you leap in and begin following him as he swims deeper and deeper into the water. As you swim, you marvel at the colorful marine life around you. Bright corals, neon-colored fish and swirling weeds make an underwater wonderland. He snaps you back to reality and pushes something into your hands.
"If anything goes wrong, use this."
You look at the small, hollow tube he gave you and pocket it carefully.
A last, you come up to a murky cave.
"You must pass through this cave to reach Atlantis's gate." the merman tells you. "Beware, a horrendous monster lives within. I will help you to navigate your way around the most dangerous areas. But remember to be on you guard. There is no knowing when it may-"
Suddenly, a giant mottled tentacle whips out of the cave mouth and wraps itself around the merman, dragging him into the darkness.
Speechless, you are forced to make a split-second decision. Remembering the merman's words, you pull out the tube and, deciding that it was a whistle, blow into it. You hear no immediate sound, but a moment later a deafening creak -yes, creak- fills the water around you.
Then that mottled tentacle shoots out of the cave once more, but even before it grabs you, you feel an immensely powerful blast of water below you, knocking away the tentacle, and something huge appears under your feet. The creak is emitted from the massive creature's mouth again, and before you know it you're riding a sperm whale into battle with the kraken.
The whale uses its teeth to dig into the now-numb tentacle, pulling back sharply and dragging out the squid. The creature fights, but with (you like to think) some encouraging from you, the whale heaves and out comes the squid.
The creatures both recoil, preparing to fight. Suddenly and without warning, the whale, with you still on it, charges head first at its opponent. The squid's tentacles latch onto the gray back of the whale, but the mammal keeps pushing, driving the squid into the cave wall. The squid lashes out, almost catching you with a tentacle, but you dodge it as the whale continues to barrage the squid. Finally, the thrashing stops and the kraken stays still. The whale, with sucker marks all over its skin, pulls away and makes the distinctive creak, as if triumphant. But then a battered squid (yum!) appears, shooting ink out of its underside. Your eyes are covered with the mucky...thing, and so are the whale's.
Then the squid attacks, latching onto the whale and squeezing. The whale makes a pained sound and you hang on for life. Then the squid's hold slips on the slick ink (say that five times fast) and the whale takes the opportunity to bring its tail fin around and slam the squid into the ground. The whale then flips, making you fall off its back, and turns around. After some questionable-looking/smelling bubbles meet you, it swims away, into the deep.
The merman comes out of the cave, panting. "Good job," he gasped. Covered in ink, flatulated on by a sperm whale, you whimper.
My magnum opus.
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Isn't hotel infomation confidential? The woman shouldn't have been able to tell you where KK was. Also, the obvious lack of furniture in the hotel room and the fact that
a) Discounting the fact that you somehow managed to be recaptured IN A CROWDED STREET, you definitely didn't leave the note
b) So your captors are playing a game? Not the same vibe as the first part
c) Bad rhyming, either a hint or just a lack of proper rhyming dictionary
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I am neither. I am a deist. I do not deny the existence of god. I question the active role they play.
I think I just found my religion.
Not quite.
God intentionally or unintentionally created our universe's existence. To bring order to the chaos, as seen in many faiths there seems to be a drive as such, they created a set of rules (or perhaps the rules exist as a result of how the universe was created). That is the extent for which God directly interacts with Earth. Think of the Christian creation myth but instead of looking at it applied to earth and humans, apply it to a grander scale--the creation of the universe and sentience.
If we take the Christian belief as God being an all-knowing, all-caring, all-powerful, all-present god then god would have known from the start everything that needed to be done to care for "his" humans and would have made sure that everything was in place (the master plan) at time of creation. If this is true, then what is the purpose of there presence? It can't be to watch someone get murdered (for that would contradict all-caring, it can't be to observe us make a decision and judge us, as that would contradict all-knowing since he already knows and therefore judged us, it can't be to ensure his laws are followed for that will contradict his all-powerful status as that would imply we superseded god's law. Therefore, including the characteristic of all-present in that matrix of how god 'is' produces a string of contradictions and hence, deist reject that defining aspect of god. Not saying that God is never present but always present in the minutiae of everything is unnecessary and illogical.
As for this, I don't think this God is a "person", per se. The word incomprehensible is what I said before, and is what I think describes the creator well.
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SCOURGE
BUDDIES(?)
HARMONY
FORGERS
GROVELS
MONSTER
MOBSTER
All right. We have seven, DD seems to have the lines down.
Also, just noticed that the bolded lines, have, in fact, 8. So they are special.
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First off, thanks to Family Guy for letting me recognize the name "Manet". That got me on the list of painters, and the rest is (art) history...
Fernand Cormon
Otto Dix
Rolf Nesch
Georges Braque
Edouard Manet
Robert Dowd
Sidney Nolan
Spells FORGERS.
The story so far:
SCOURGE
BUDDIES(?)
HARMONY
FORGERS
GROVELS
Notice anything? All seven letter words. Also, I think Y-san semi/hinted when she said that we are 1/7 done. 7 different paragraphs. Each paragraph is seven lines, each line of names is seven words (and using that as a springboard, EVERY LINE in a paragraph has seven words.) This has got to mean something.
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Starting to get the pattern of these types of riddles. Ozymandias was a character from the awesome Watchmen comics, btw.
On mobile now, good job Pickett. From what I know, we need to go step by step on this. First the names, then the weird capitalization in the paragraphs as well as the bolded sentences.
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Can anyone tell me how Darvinists or evolutioists explain first living thing ever formed?
Make what you like of this:
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Did requiring three volunteers really do anything except hurt my feelings
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You guys are thinking of the creator as some sort of person (the elephant thing was a joke, btw, referring to John Green's rant about elephants gestation). I think "it" is incomprehensible. Just sort of exists. If it is anthropomorphic, then it's probably got something to keep it occupied. A game of chess against himself with eternity on the clock would be rather fun.
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She mashed them all up then divided the mush into ten equal parts.
The potatoes, that is.
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Let's go.
"Initially spell out a clue"
Remember my #1 pro-tip? The letters spell "POKERHIGHCARD", which in this case is an ace. On the other hand, a high card can also refer to any non-listed poker hand. Not sure what to do with that, but it's there.
Last two seem important, but for the life of me not entirely sure.
Also, "hide words using capital letters". There are only three letters capitalized, so
FOX.
Unfortunately, I think I just solved and semi-solved, because for the rest I'm all
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I think I cracked it. kk, by listing them you gave me the idea
Lassie
Annie
Wall-E
Rocky
ET
Ned Kelly
Carrie
Emma
Othello
Forrest Gump
Now I use my number 1 pro-tip riddle-solver technique and read the first letter of each line (Benji does not fit the solution. Lassie, however, does...)
LAWRENCEOF
Lawrence of Arabia was another (fantastic) movie with the title as the main character's name. I believe that is our solution.
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Forrest Gump
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Uh, all right then.
Human origin" according to my own theory"
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Christianity has evidence and no holes in it and the others do? Wha...?
All religions have their problems...