Posts by HintOfLime

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What does your sleep position reveal about your personality?

by Think About It in

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friends

mine is the yearner position.. .

fetus position - a whopping 41% of participants sleep in this curled-up manner.

women are twice as likely to rest like this and it is listed as the most common position.

HintOfLime

If you find yourself sleeping in all of these positions, often diagonally or side-ways across the bed...it means you should probably lay off the booze.

- Lime

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Brazilian Wax ... is it JW approved?

by sacolton in

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friends

what is the current "light" on this hairy subject?

is it okay for a jw to have a brazilian wax?.

HintOfLime

Seems to me that the only men who would find this preferable over "nature" would be men predisposed toward prepubescent girls.

Immature men not fully psychologically developed can't make the step up to a real woman. Just my opinion.

Some "immature men" like women who wear deodorant as well.

Fashion styles and tastes change. You're from a different generation of style, and that's really all there is to this.

- Lime

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Ebert: Why I Hate 3-D (And You Should Too)

by leavingwt in

roger ebert.

why i hate 3-d (and you should too)3-d is a waste of a perfectly good dimension.

hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal.

I think once the novelty of 3D wears off, we'll see a growing library of movies that put it to good effect. I thought Avatar did a good job of using the technology in a non-gimicky way, but rather just adding stereo perspective in the same sort of shot's you'd want in a 2D format. I think it's best for directors to avoid objects appearing too close to the viewer - as those objects tend to break immersion and remind you that you are watching a 3D movie. As more film projects pick up the technologies, directors will develop styles and 'rules' that make the most of the medium.

A few of my friends work in film industry, and they are very excited to see the technology become standardized and more available. None of them give a rat's ass about what Ebert says (and neither do I). He is from a different generation, he's critized an entire medium (video games) from a position of complete ignorance, and his opinion on the future of media is becomming less relevant each day.

"Color is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood's current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience."

- Lime

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Have They Found Noah's Ark ? - Again.....

by BluesBrother in

"there is a story circulating around the net, started by a group called noahs ark ministries, which claims they have found noahs ark on mount ararat in turkey.. a group of chinese and turkish evangelical explorers say they have brought back wood specimens from atop mount ararat in turkey that they believe to be from noahs ark.

claiming they found a wood structure with compartments and samples that date carbon date to 4,800 years ago, they say it is 99% certain it is the ark of biblical fame.

http://thepostanything.gather.com/viewarticle.action?articleid=281474978201133&grpid=3659174697244816.

HintOfLime

(RE: The Pyramids) Construction Unequaled by Modern Technology

Sad. There are people that believe this pile of stacked rocks:

Requires superior technology and engineering skills to build than THIS:

Certainly, it was a well-engineered structure for it's time, and even centuries to come. But superior to modern engineering? Not by any stretch of the imagination.

- Lime

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Is Darwinism True?

by Perry in

a scientific dissent from darwinism2 www.dissentfromdarwin.org .

a scientific dissent from darwinism3 www.dissentfromdarwin.org .

a scientific dissent from darwinism4 www.dissentfromdarwin.org .

HintOfLime

Project Steve

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Project Steve is a list of scientists with the given name Stephen or a variation thereof (e.g., Stephanie, Stefan, Esteban, etc.) who "support evolution". It was originally created by the National Center for Science Education as a "tongue-in-cheek parody" of creationist attempts to collect a list of scientists who "doubt evolution," such as the Answers in Genesis' list of scientists who accept the biblical account of the Genesis creation myth [1] or the Discovery Institute's A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism. The list pokes fun at such endeavors in a "light-hearted" manner to make it clear that, "We did not wish to mislead the public into thinking that scientific issues are decided by who has the longer list of scientists!" [2]

However, at the same time the project is a genuine collection of scientists. Despite the list's restriction to only scientists with names like "Steve", which in the United States limits the list to roughly 1 percent of the total population, [3] Project Steve is longer and contains many more eminent scientists than any creationist list. In particular, Project Steve contains many more biologists than the creationist lists, since about 51% of the listed Steves are biologists. [4]

The "Steve-o-meter" webpage provides an updated total of scientist "Steves" that have signed the list.

As of 30 March 2010, the Steve-o-meter registered 1,138 Steves

The point is, as with ANYTHING, you can find people that disagree, but typically that number is very small (I think the last formal suvey found that >99% of scientists polled supported the theory of evolution.)

You cannot establish truth by counting how many people 'believe it'.

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V has a great new video up on freeminds.org

by besty in

http://www.freeminds.org/blogs/watchtower-comments/searching-for-jehovah-s-witnesses.html.

check it out and send it on!.

HintOfLime

Cool idea, but personally, I wish it had a little more meat to it.

And ugh... that music.

- Lime

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Putting the 'probability argument' against abiogenesis in the grave once and for all

by bohm in

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amongst the many arguments for and against creation the probability arguments stands out.

the improbability of generating the necessary proteins by chanceor the genetic information to produce themto balloon beyond comprehension.

... the odds of getting even one functional protein of modest length (150 amino acids) by chance from a prebioitc soup is no better than 1 chance in 10164. meyer continues, another way to say that is the probability of finding a functional protein by chance alone is a trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion times smaller than the odds of finding a single specific particle among all the particles in the universe.. the evidence for the probability of origin of life arising from darwins warm little pond seems to have vanished beyond the realm of any possibilityregardless of any early earth scenario.. i really, really want to put it in the grave because i think its an embaressment to the theists and thinking humans in general; its right up there with 'noahs ark has been found' and 'humans have less chromosomes than monkeys', but for some reason people dont see through it.

HintOfLime

Explain then, how inanimate elements became a thinking being.

One tiny chemical step at a time.... over approximately 3.8 billion years.

- Lime

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Respectable People in Hell - A "How To" Guide

by Perry in

disable fear of god.

now if any man have not the spirit of christ, he is none of his.

HintOfLime

(This story is fairly disturbing. Pretty much just like the bible.)

Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away - there was a man named Ted. Ted had a 9 year old son named Bobby. One day, Bobby was playing baseball in the yard and hit a fowl ball - send the baseball crashing through the living room window. Hearing the crash, Ted came out to inspect what had happened.

"Did you break this window, Bobby?" Ted asked.

Frightened by his father's anger and inexperienced Bobby defensively replied "no".

So, Ted took Bobby down into the basement, where he tied him to a chair. Ted poured gasoline all over Bobby, and all over the floor of the basement, scolded Bobby for lying, and then lit a match and dropped it on the floor. Ted closed the door of the basement.

But magically.. Bobby didn't die.

50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years later - long after the sun had burned up all of it's solar fuel, swallowed the planet, and in a giant supernova scattered the remains of the solar system across the universe; and one by one all the stars winked out of existence, until the whole universe was dark... and every day before and after that... Bobby was still screaming in agony.

Bobby had long since forgotten his name, he had forgotten what baseball was, he had forgotten how to speak. It had been so long since bobby wasn't in constant torment that he had even lost the ability to think. It had been trillions of years since he could formulate the tiniest shred of a thought about that fowl ball that led him here. But now, he no longer had any memory of anything - all he knew anymore was the unending agony of his own burning flesh.

That morning, the door creaked open. Ted walked into the room, poured a can of gasoline on Bobby, poured some out on the floor, and leaving the room, he lit it on fire.

- Lime

PS: It doesn't really matter if Bobby lied, or killed someone, or was Satan himself. The result is the same. At some point, the suffering caused by the 'sinner' is completely dwarfed and forgotten compared to the suffering caused by the torturer. And that is not "justice".

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Respectable People in Hell - A "How To" Guide

by Perry in

disable fear of god.

now if any man have not the spirit of christ, he is none of his.

HintOfLime

Now that we are free from all of the Watchtower misdirection that lead us to reject Jesus, this issue can be faced head on, without all the deception. There is no need to fear this issue or run from it.

Translation: Now that you are free from the Watchtower misdirection, subscribe to my misdirection instead!

I can only say, "F*ck off"

Amen. 'Hell' is nothing more than a cheap door-to-door insurance salesman's tactic of using fear to trick people into buying. "You don't want to burn in hell, do you? Well then you better buy my bullshit."

There is no evidence for hell. There is no evidence for heaven. There is no evidence for God. There is no evidence the bible was written by a god - and every indication it was written by men. Religion doesn't help or advance mankind. It has not made accurate predictions or provided new insights that we can use to make the world a better place. It is a dead end.

Science, on the other hand, has completely eliminated many diseases, saved billions from starvation, and greatly improved the quality of life for billions of people - and it's just getting started. Everything we have in our daily lives, we have thanks to science. No, we do not live forever, but someday through virtualization of the human brain or some other method that may become a reality. We are already beginning to imagine ways that could be technologically possible someday. Maybe we'll discover we don't want or need to live forever.

Look around your house, how many of those luxuries would you own without science and technology? Think back to the last time you got sick. Have you ever had a life-threatening condition.. or at least something that 200 years ago would have been life-threatening? I have.

We are so fucking lucky. All thanks to SCIENCE. Science works, an it gets results in the REAL WORLD (not in some imaginary form after you are dead). If we continue studing the natural laws and how the universe works - it can get even better, for all of us.

- Lime

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Respectable People in Hell - A "How To" Guide

by Perry in

disable fear of god.

now if any man have not the spirit of christ, he is none of his.

HintOfLime

Same kool-aid. Different flavor.

Yum!

- Lime