Supergrunch
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Why, just because he laughed at you? Who thinks he'll call me a knob now? ;p
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Happy birthday... Yes, happy birthday.
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I have to admit, the second series of American Dad is awesome. However, I think the two shows are going for a slightly different style- American Dad is very "with it" and political, whereas Family Guy is just utterly mental. And I've always been a fan of surreality.
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Life's Other Secret is more about biology than maths... it's about how underlying physical laws control life more than we think. Stewart thinks that in the future, a form of maths will do for biology what calculus did for physics. I wish it were so, but I find it highly unlikely.
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Oh my god, I'm so sorry. So many horrible occurences this year...
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Ian Stewart = win. Have you read Life's Other Secret? That God thing was originally known as Pascal's wager, but yes, it was in Discworld. You rephrased it in such a mathematical way that I didn't recognise it... :wink:
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First one: x + y = 3 xy = 2 y = 2/x (rearrange second equation) x + (2/x) = 3 (substitute into first) ((x^2)/x) + (2/x) = 3 (multiply top and bottom of first fraction by x) (x^2) + 2 = 3x (multiply through by x) Solve this quadratic for x, substitute the value you get back into one of the original equations for y. Second one: x - y = 3 xy + 10x + y = 150 y = x - 3 (rearrange first equation) x(x - 3) + 10x + (x - 3) = 150 (substitute into second equation) Solve this quadratic for x, substitute the value you get back into one of the original equations for y.
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No, not when I'm into a book. It gradually becomes like watching a film, that my head produces. Something similar happens with manga- the pictures start to move.
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I don't talk to myself out loud or in my head... most of the time I don't think in words. However, occasionally when I am all alone in the house I say "I am talking to myself. I am doing this because I am able to, and nobody will know I'm doing it and it will be of no benefit to me whatsoever. But I am nevertheless doing so."
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That's like saying "I don't know why America doesn't interest me all that much, because I like American films."
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Only from a mathematician... :wink: I think that fails because people aren't happy to bet that there is a god. They want to be faithful.
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Brilliant. It's the best "comedy American cartoon" in my opinion, if that's even a genre.
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Yes, but it isn't an argument, which is what I was getting at.
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Has the forum become part of your daily life?
Supergrunch replied to THE ganondorflol's topic in General Chit Chat
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From the OED: "A superhuman person who is worshipped as having power over nature and the fortunes of mankind; a deity." Doesn't exclude an evil god. Some might consider you a messiah...
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What if he creates us so he can get pleasure from watching us suffer?
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Those spoilers are for the movies. The manga and anime have a different ending.
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Silence! This is philosophy. It isn't supposed to get anywhere.
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Who would want clouds of shit?
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I think The3rdChildren should lay off himself or he's going to get banned. :wink:
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Yeah, I think we're talking about the same thing. Do you know the ending of the films? That's better in a way, but more cliched and predictable.
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I'm not trying to claim that THE ganondorf has good arguments, but you should perhaps lay off him a bit- it's obvious you're offending him, even if it may seem like a joke to you. Also, he interprets what you are saying as laughing at his religion (even if you aren't).
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If I were to laugh at everything you believe (or don't believe) in, would I be justified in saying "religion and atheism do not mix" if you didn't find it funny?
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Wasn't Einstein's quote merely a semi-joke, to show that he didn't believe in quantum mechanics? A little like a less extreme version of Schroedinger's cat... Anyway, I disagree with vitalism. I think life is an emergent property of chemical laws, one so emergent that it takes on bizzare, sometimes undefinable, characteristics of its own.