Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
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They are basically proposing that God created the universe about 6000 years ago and then went to extreme lengths to make it look like it's much, much older. For what purpose?
Did anyone say why Adam was created as a mature man? Simply because that was good in God's eyes. The same is with the rest things. Everything was created mature, but there's still a process of birth for the newer things.
And talking about the word 'day', if you accept that those days weren't just one dark part and one bright part and that's it, if you think that those days lasted for millions of days each (which isn't what the Bible says already), then you come up with the idea of DEATH, that existed until everything got evoluted from everything and has been promoting the evolution process itself. While we know that death appeared only at the end of that God's week.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Maybe we should move the debate to a more appropriate thread, since this one is supposed to be for asking Bisqwit questions.
Bisqwit: What's your favorite hymn?
I don't think I have one. Also, it is highly language and songbook specific if I understand the question right.
I wish there was a way to increase the value of this reply.
Nowadays I'm fond of (some) Hebrew songs. I particularly like the one that goes "Baruch Haba B'Shem Adonai".
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Evolution is blind boring brute force. Creation is superhuman entertaining TAS.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
So you're poor student. Evolution has an established mechanism called "natural selection", which makes it at least "a self-modifying Lua bot". As for "creation", you forget that someone has to provide tools for you to create anything.
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But tools can't be provided by bruteforce either.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
hey bisqwit,
how do you feel when you notice that someone has 666 posts?
At that point they are about 1/3 way to having 2000 posts. Commence a third of a congratulation, rounded down. Here goes: Cong.
Also, in base-36, they've got II posts. In base-666, they finally have 10 posts.
pirate_sephiroth wrote:
OK I was saving this one for a special moment because I think it's very funny
① Isaiah 40:28 [...] God [...] fainteth not, neither is weary V.S. Ex. 31:17 [...] on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
② Matthew 19:26 ... but with God all things are possible V.S. Judges 1:19 And the Lord was with Judah, and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
On the risk of stating the obvious...
① Anyone likes resting, whether they're weary or not. When you wake up at morning, you are supposedly very refreshed and not weary in any way (at least if you slept well). In that situation, which scenery would you more like to observe, as you open the curtains: a busy street with chaotic traffic and honking, or this one? Which one would refresh you, despite you being not weary in any way? That's what God did: On the seventh day he rested (as in defense may rest in a courtroom), and observed everything he had created, which was good. And he set us an example. I don't see a contradiction here. (Tangential: The Finnish translation uses, rather than "was refreshed", a word which simultaneously means to breathe and something to do with his spirit/soul. The original Hebrew text shares this dual meaning, except stronger. However, I found this claim of contradiction perfectly debunkable without such detailed study.)
② Logical argument: All things being possible does not mean all things do happen. Literally minded argument: The verse does not say that Lord was with Judah when he tried to drive out the inhabitants of the valley; only that He was with him when drave out the inhabitants of the mountain. The wording in the Finnish version makes this more obvious than the somewhat ambiguous English version ("for he was not able" rather than "but could not"). However, a relationship to God is not an open license to do-what-you-damn-please and he will bless you and you will succeed. It is always with a notion of "as long as you stick to my plans" (which, as Isaiah 55:8 puts it, are completely alien to men's plans). Which, cynically taken, really makes for a fantastic fatalistic counter-argument to almost any argument about God's actions.
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Hide the hyperlink under URL tag. Also, the numbers break the layout, you can just divide them by line breaks.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Warning: When making decisions, I try to collect as much data as possible before actually deciding. I try to abstract away and see the principles behind real world events and people's opinions. I try to generalize them and turn into something clear and reusable. I hate depending on unpredictable and having to make lottery guesses. Any problem can be solved by systems thinking and acting.
Temp lock so I can effectively split this.
EDIT: Alright. Topic split. This thread is no longer for religious debate. If you have specific questions for Bisqwit about his religion, feel free to use this thread. DO NOT try and avoid this restriction by using Socratic-Method guiding questions as an attempt to disprove his religion.
I will censor your post. There is a specific thread now available to you. Bisqwit is free to participate or not in that one.
To return this to on topic:
Bisqwit, do you think TASing will still be relevant and/or popular in 20 years? Do you think people will stop caring about SMB1, SMW, and SM64 after a certain amount of time? Where do you think the community you started will be in 20 years?
Sage advice from a friend of Jim: So put your tinfoil hat back in the closet, open your eyes to the truth, and realize that the government is in fact causing austismal cancer with it's 9/11 fluoride vaccinations of your water supply.
Bisqwit, do you think religious debates are meaningful? :v
AzumaK wrote: I swear my 1 year old daughter's favorite TASVideo is your R4MI run :3
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Help improving TASVideos!
Also, since the religious debate topic is moved, I'll ask my question (that was a part of a post in that topic) again. What do you feel about people arguing in a topic made for you?
Also, earlier, when I asked about the URL thing, that was a part of the religious debate too. I'm not sure why it's still here.
Bisqwit, do you think TASing will still be relevant and/or popular in 20 years? Do you think people will stop caring about SMB1, SMW, and SM64 after a certain amount of time? Where do you think the community you started will be in 20 years?
I presume that interest in certain games will gradually wither as the population who grew with them outgrows the practicality of following that topic, but there will always be some historic interest, and it will not be a forgotten art. Interest in TASes for SMB1, SMW and SM64 will gradually die as a combination of that and those TASes becoming frame-perfect, however long it might take. 20 years might however be a too short time for that. 20 years goes past surprisingly fast. We are already nearly 10 years ahead from when TASVideos was created. If the question was about 50 years, I would see it more relevant. The answer would still be the same.
These techniques will continue to exist for newer consoles and for new platforms that we do not yet imagine, so I don't think TAS as an art form will ever die as long as the technology and tools are available for it. I take it as something as fundamental as the film is to threatre.
EDIT: Also, thanks for taking the effort to moderate the thread. 11 pages is a lot of effort to sift through.
Have you played Alice: Madness Returns? That shit was awesome =D
I'm sciencing as fast as I can !
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There's an IMAGE tag as well.
