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If the bin men ever look in my bin they'll shit themselves! LOL That's unlucky mate. I've never had any bother and I chuck dozens of carcases, skins and heads in mine. Hums a bit in the warmer weather, HAHA.
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FM, that's an interesting view. I like that you have put some serious thought into faith/theism and come up with a rational explanation based on your fundamental theistic belief. I too believe that theism is a built in part of the human psychology. Difference is I adhere to my own natural explanation for it (merely a musing of my own, nothing substantially scientific). I say evolution, you say creation, and the argument comes full circle! LOL And don't worry about me dying having rejected God. I believe I'm to leave this world permanently, my mind as dead as my body, upsetting that fel
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I'm happy with that. Seems reasonable. What I consider unreasonable however is having to renew it at all. A car license lasts for more than 5 years so why exactly should a shotgun or firearms license last for less? I can't see any reason not to completely remove the burden of renewals! -
TC, how many people do you think that medium has seen and given some sort of random 'fact'? 100?......1000?.......10'000? Now, how many do you think it would take until one came true? People never remember the unimpressive results of chance, only the amazing ones. When viewed as a complete set it suddenly seems a lot less amazing.
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It's a little difficult to believe in any of that crap when I see no reason to believe there is an afterlife full stop. I'm firmly of the belief the mind is a function of the body and as such dies with it.
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QB, when you write something and click on the 'post' button, just click it once! The more times you click it before it loads the more times it will add that particular post to the thread.
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Well errrmmm speak for yourself! I think I'm cool as f**k! Just have a problem convincing women of that.....
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Agreed but in the pursuit of truth you must also have faith..... Two fleas arguing on the back of a dog about the genetic make up and atoms that go to make up the dog, They are different in that one believes there is something else other than the dog the other doesn't or won't because science can't prove it. I'm more a flea who says forget the dog, where does the dog come form. ATB Yet! Have faith! LOL. In time you won't need it because you will have the truth. Even if that truth does turn out to be divine in its nature.
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A little thought on faith; Faith is belief in the absence of proof, right? But it's a mistake to think all faith is equal. It varies with evidence, between complete faith in a statement that has zero supporting evidence to approaching no faith for a statement that has so much supporting evidence that it's as close to being 100% proven as possible with all other possibilities impossible. The more evidence a claim gathers the less faith is required to believe it and the more trust you have in it. You could consider trust the inverse of faith, as one diminishes the other grows with neither ex
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As little as I know Seeker, I know that science can not and does not explain everything to date. I believe that one day it will though. The problem is that people involve their emotions in these things and let their pride get in the way of reality. More people need to say "We don't yet know...". In the pursuit of truth, you HAVE to be objective. Emotion and pride has no place in science.
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The most significant point and the one the vast majority on the street do not understand! Was the Big Bang the origin of the universe? It is a common misconception that the Big Bang was the origin of the universe. In reality, the Big Bang scenario is completely silent about how the universe came into existence in the first place. In fact, the closer we look to time "zero," the less certain we are about what actually happened, because our current description of physical laws do not yet apply to such extremes of nature. The Big Bang scenario simply assumes that space, time, and energ
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Did we also 'invent' the rest of the physical laws? Forces? Mass? Energy? I'm sorry fella, but you're just wrong.
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For anyone interested in the big bang, expansion and cosmological understanding of the Universe and spacetime I have just found this site full of short Q&As. https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/seuforum/faq.htm#s1 A few topical questions; Did the Universe expand from a point? If so, doesn't the universe have to have an edge? No. The Big Bang was not an explosion IN space. It was a process that involved ALL of space. This misconception causes more confusion than any other in cosmology. Unfortunately, many students, teachers, and scientists(!) mistakenly picture the "Big Bang" as an
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Grant, I don't think anybody is calling this alleged Marine a liar. They can't, his name isn't publicly known. We're simply calling into question whether this story is even true. If the chap chose to come forward it would give this claim some serious credibility because as of now it's just an article in the Sun based on anonymous sources..... hardly bullet proof court material is it?
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Blackbriar, I'm not sure how to respond to that. Time is a real measureable quantity, it very much exists! You don't study psychology to understand time, you study physics! Time existed before humans, just like gravity did. Time is NOT dependant on human existence.
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Does time exist though, or is it just a figment of the human imagination? Even hawking cannot say for certain that it exists which is why he's unsure that the speed of light is a boundary. If time doesn't exist there theoretically should be no boundaries. As he says, we may be seeing something that's not there or is completely different to what we think we see.. The problem is, we cannot look, we only see what we see. We need to be able to see what we cannot see ....yet. As for the dimensions of space, that's only relative to the matter in space. Just because the matter we see behave
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I'm only really interested in talking physics, so I'm going to avoid the prove god exists doesn't exist business. I need a shower and bed so ill carry this on tomorrow.
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Well, not strictly true mate. Even if you take all the matter out of the universe you are still left with the dimensions of space and time which are very real boundaries for any matter or energy that might be present. So the universe still exists, it's just empty. The big bang was an expansion of space with the progression of time. All the energy in the universe today was present then, no less no more. Following the expansion of the space dimensions, post big bang, that energy 'evolved' into matter following the laws of physics and eventually billions of years later into the universe we see t
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No idea, probably a few clever Germans or yanks. To be honest all that quantum crap I found a complete chore, some folks take to it though. Them fuckers aren't right upstairs mind... not like me! LOL
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You're getting into string theory and M-theory now which is quite advanced quantum physics. I'm not afraid to say it's well above my pay grade! I was sticking more to simpler cosmology but yeah string theory in its many flavours is one hope to try to understand what is going on better, tying together cosmology and quantum physics. I doubt any of us will see the day though.
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Don't think so, the big bang created the planets and solar systems. The universe as such doesn't exist, it's nothing and nowhere. If god created everything where was he before he did? The universe is our space time and all the energy (and matter, which is a form of energy). It's entirely possible there is a world outside of our universe (space time) which is responsible for the 'creation' of ours. The big bang theory tells us how our current universe was built from its earliest known origins as a physical singularity but it does not tell us how our space time and the energy in it came to be.
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what is the theory now mateVery simply, the universe (space-time and all the its energy) several billions years ago expanded from a physical singularity. Everything we have in the universe now has evolved from that singularity. And despite the bullshit, that theory has been thoroughly tested and as so accepted as fact.No where in any of mainstream science is something or anything claimed to be created from nothing! The big bang theory does NOT claim to explain how the universe was created, only how what we have and see today has developed and came to be. The events prior to the singularity are
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This is where is becomes conceptually quite difficult to grasp. There isn't a center... everything is expanding away from everything as if it was the center like dots on the surface of a inflating balloon! Mad as f**k right? Imagine you are a dot on the surface of a balloon, as the balloon inflates you see all the other dots get further away from you making you feel like the center of expansion, yet this effect is the same no matter which dot on the balloon you are! The only rational explanation for this is that space/the universe does not have a center or an edge in the conventional 3
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Where did the universe come from? f**k knows. Give us another 100 years and we might be able to tell you.
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what is the theory now mate Very simply, the universe (space-time and all the its energy) several billions years ago expanded from a physical singularity. Everything we have in the universe now has evolved from that singularity. And despite the bullshit, that theory has been thoroughly tested and as so accepted as fact. No where in any of mainstream science is something or anything claimed to be created from nothing! The big bang theory does NOT claim to explain how the universe was created, only how what we have and see today has developed and came to be. The events prior to the singulari
