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Sewblon

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Dango said:
Ahlycks said:
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English is a stupid language. No second person plurals? What were they thinking?
I am trying to learn ancient Greek right now, so tell me about it!( I don't mean "tell me about it" literally, I mean it as in "I wholeheartedly agree and sympathize.") I mean they had them back when Socrates was around, how did western civilization just plain forget something so important?
 

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Dango said:
Ahlycks said:
I have a 92 foot long shlong

Oh this is not about you? "whoops"
... Yet another reason to keep you away from that girl!

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English is a stupid language. No second person plurals? What were they thinking?
English is more tonal than Japanese. In English, a tone can completely change the meaning of a single sentence. In Japanese, it's all buried in the language itself.
 

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loc978 said:
To those who have discussed the assassination of Hitler (thereby validating Godwin's law):
Your views on time travel are not the only ones out there. If you examine your own views on time travel, you'll find they're intrinsically linked to your views on fate.
I am biased in favor of linear time because my upbringing stressed personal responsibility, and I love Terminator 2 and Back To The Future. But the closed loop theory is a good way of resolving the causality paradox. Know of any fiction that explores the closed loop theory?
 

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Chamale said:
Sewblon said:
adakias said:
Sewblon said:
Make sure you spoiler it, here is mine.
If time travel were possible someone would have stopped Hitler from coming to power.
Edit: Swollen Goat said I needed to edit my post, so I edited it.
Hitler's rise to power may have been ensured by a time-travelling Nazi.
A time traveling Nazi would have installed a leader who would have lead Germany to victory in World War 2. Besides time travel results in contradictions. If someone goes back in time to stop Hitler from rising to power, the time traveler would never have heard of Hitler so he would have never gone back in time to stop him from rising to power. So then Hitler would rise to power so the time traveler would go back in time to stop him. So Hitler both would and would not rise to power, and the time traveler both would and would not have prevented him from coming to power, which is absurd.
Another one:

There's no evidence that free will exists. It's an illusion, because everything in the Universe is bound by the laws of physics - even chemistry in your own brain.
If the thoughts in my head are the result of the random motions of the atoms that make up my brain, why should I believe them? Indeed, why should I believe that my brain is made of atoms?
 

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Everyone you know is a Freemason.
The Freemasons are controlled by the Illuminati.
You just lost the game.
 

lacktheknack

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Phlakes said:
Everyone you know is a Freemason.
The Freemasons are controlled by the Illuminati.
You just lost the game.
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
 

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Shocking Truth... Let's see.

Life is the meaniest ***** you ever encounter, she will stomp in your face several times before what you called a life is over... and you are also fat.
 

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You will never beat Simon.
Chamale said:
There's no evidence that free will exists. It's an illusion, because everything in the Universe is bound by the laws of physics - even chemistry in your own brain.
This realization changed my life for the worst. Logically, we do not have free will. A twist worthy of Shyamalan!
 

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Meg from Family Guy is voiced by Mila Kunis. So not only is she not unattractive in real life, she's actually really really good looking
 

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Your parents are going to die.
Oh my god. Am I going to die in 60-70 years?
Halo:Combat Evolved was co-created by Gearbox
 

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The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42.
42 is a consecutive 4 and 2.
"Four Two" in Japanese is pronounced "Shi Ni".
The Japanese word "Shini" means "to die".
Hence, the answer to life, the universe, and everything is TO DIE!
 

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Not going to use a spoiler, as I don't know how, but if you're on the second page of this topic, you have chosen to read several of them, one more won't kill you.

There is good and evil in all of us, it is how we choose to act on them that defines us. If you don't believe me, think back. I guarentee you that every one of you has had the desire to do something quite detestable, like kicking a purse-dog, and all of you have desired to do something good, like giving a homeless man a twenty. No matter how breif the thought was, it was there.

To anyone who doesn't believe in the power of free will: since no one has any choice in what they do, shouldn't we elliminate laws because people don't have a choice, and so they cannot be guilty. if they don't have a choice, they aren't responsible.

As for the time travel thing, any time traveler has already changed the "past," so the past we know, is the result of any time traveler manipulation that will ever happen. Perhaps a time traveler put Hitler in power because someone who you've never heard of had the same ideals and purposes, but wouldn't have failed, because he was a better strategist, or maybe he would have fooled churchill and had Brittain on the other side of the war. There are more possible outcomes to time-travel scenarios than i can imagine. Every time I think about time travel, I think of a new way it could work. Maybe time will protect itself from change, maybe each manipulation will just create an alternate timeline, maybe time travelers would be in some kind of alternate space and would be unable to effect the timeline. the list goes on.
 

FalloutJack

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Under the assumption that every choice in the world opens up parallel realities, it is possible that somewhere...there was an Adolf Hitler who saved the world from Allies of Evil (read as "The United States, the UK, and whatnot") with his nation of freedom-loving Germans, Jews, and Austrians.
 

Ham_authority95

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Enjoy
People who hate on anyone to the point of bringing them up in conversation are giving them free publicity.

Example: The Justin Bieber haters on this site. They make threads about him and bring him to the attention of dozens of people who would NEVER otherwise hear about him(or even worse, bring him to the attention of people who would actually be into his music)

It's free advertising, and a lot of artists thank you for that.

Also, spoilers drag peoples attention in more than not having it spoiled.
 

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FalloutJack said:
Under the assumption that every choice in the world opens up parallel realities, it is possible that somewhere...there was an Adolf Hitler who saved the world from Allies of Evil (read as "The United States, the UK, and whatnot") with his nation of freedom-loving Germans, Jews, and Austrians.
That would be the most amazing parallel universe ever.
 

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Sewblon said:
Make sure you spoiler it, here is mine.
If time travel were possible someone would have stopped Hitler from coming to power. Also, time travel results in contradictions. If someone goes back in time to stop Hitler from rising to power, the time traveler would never have heard of Hitler so he would have never gone back in time to stop him from rising to power. So then Hitler would rise to power so the time traveler would go back in time to stop him. So Hitler both would and would not rise to power, and the time traveler both would and would not have prevented him from coming to power, which is absurd.
Edit: Swollen Goat said I needed to edit my post, so I edited it.
i never really like the whole travel back in time and stop something bad from happening. what if what you stop is replaced by something worse like hitlers 2nd in command making hitler look like a cuddly little bear in comparasion. better the devil you know.

time travel is to complicated , risky and full of holes and loops for anyone to do it.

 

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Sewblon said:
Make sure you spoiler it, here is mine.
If time travel were possible someone would have stopped Hitler from coming to power. Also, time travel results in contradictions. If someone goes back in time to stop Hitler from rising to power, the time traveler would never have heard of Hitler so he would have never gone back in time to stop him from rising to power. So then Hitler would rise to power so the time traveler would go back in time to stop him. So Hitler both would and would not rise to power, and the time traveler both would and would not have prevented him from coming to power, which is absurd.
Edit: Swollen Goat said I needed to edit my post, so I edited it.
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey... stuff.