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#52 Aug 03 2005 at 7:47 PM Rating: Good
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How'd I miss this gem of psuedobabble?

austieblmremora wrote:
I say i believe in God, you say prove it, i would say that the only proff I need is the fact that i am here.

So, let me ask you aquestion.

lets take a hypo situation. I ask you to prove to me that your great, great, great great grandfather existed. thier is no known picture, no one knows where he is burried. all that exists are written documents where people have atested to his existance.

How would you prove to me that he ever was?


That's an irrelevant question. The point is that I don't use the existance/words/beliefs of my great great great great whatever grandfather to tell everyone else on the planet what to believe and how to live their lives.

Get it? The need for proof of something is directly proportional to the degree to which that something affects me directly. So the moment you try to argue that my kids should learn your beliefs in school, that affects me and I'm going to need a bit more then "The bible says so" for proof.
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#53 Aug 04 2005 at 9:19 PM Rating: Decent
1.) I'd tell ALL the Africans (to be wary of the Europeans and other races that would eventually enslave them)

2.) Then tell them not to sell their brothers

3.) Help Micheal Jackson to grow up to be a Catholic Priest

4.) Save JFK

5.) Invent Windows

#54 Aug 04 2005 at 11:47 PM Rating: Default
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I'm trying to think of a way to stop the human race from creating religion.


Humans have a unquenchable curiosity you cant stop them from trying to figure out how stuff works early religon was what helped them explain it.

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i would stop Adam and Eve from sinning, therefore preventing sin from entering the world, therefore no death, no war, no evil, no poverty, no sickness, ever!


It wouldve happened eventually anyways...

The main historical event I would want changed is when all the other countries decided to stop slavery america would've gone along with it causing a slightly better world today because groups like the kkk would've given up after a couple hundred years. Other then that not much...

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Help Micheal Jackson to grow up to be a Catholic Priest
a black catholic priest? rofl
#55 Aug 05 2005 at 6:32 AM Rating: Default
Pseudo-intelligence is rampant on this board.

--Like some how all of this country’s troubles started with the Election on GW?

--Religion created all the ones that GW didn’t cause?

--Slavery is what has caused all of Africa’s problems?

Come on, you guys can’t really believe this crap. These statements are bogus garbage being repeated for the sake of sounding cool. THINK FOR YOUR SELVES.

Uhm Badly, There are many black Catholic Priests.
#56 Aug 05 2005 at 9:03 AM Rating: Decent
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I would have stopped the Romans from conquering the Gauls.
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#57 Aug 05 2005 at 10:00 AM Rating: Decent
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I'd go back to 1759, tell Montcalm and his armies to stop wearing those bright blue suits and to stop fighting in ******* ranks to kick Wolfe's British *** out of Quebec.
#58 Aug 06 2005 at 11:00 PM Rating: Good
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American Independence.

You don't deserve it.


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Oh, and skull fu[b][/b]ck You Dave!
#59 Aug 07 2005 at 12:06 AM Rating: Default
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Go back in time and keep my sister from being born, leaving me an only, and happy child.
#60 Aug 07 2005 at 12:10 AM Rating: Good
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Humans have a unquenchable curiosity you cant stop them from trying to figure out how stuff works early religon was what helped them explain it.
If humans really had unquenchable curiosity, we'd never accept such a cop out of an answer as "a big invisible man in the sky did it, and he's so mysterious there's no way we can understand him and why or how he does what he does."
#61 Aug 07 2005 at 2:38 AM Rating: Default
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I'd turn Hitler into a Jewish person right as his hatred for the Jewish people hit it's max.


For the record, Hitler was actually 1/4th Jewish, which, according to his own rules, made him Jewish enough to be sent to a concentration camp and tortured/killed. I guess you could make him fully Jewish, but I still don't think he would've cared. He wasn't big on the whole "sanity" thing.

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i would save hundreds of thousands of human lives, the integrity of our country, and billions of tax payer dollars. i would change the results of the 2000 elections.


Shadow whined about the evil President again. Anyone surprised? Me neither.

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Shooting hitler just before he became the german leader would also be a good idea.


That is a horrible idea. Haven't you ever played Red Alert? ::eyeroll::

As for what I would change: Nothing. Humanity has made it this far using our current timeline. I don't think I would risk ending existence just because I don't like a particular aspect of life.
#62 Aug 07 2005 at 2:41 AM Rating: Good
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If you could go back in time and change any historical event, what would you do?


Duh, powerball.
#63 Aug 07 2005 at 3:01 AM Rating: Decent
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Due to a few years studying quantum crap...I wouldn't change anything. Why? (g)od knows the results.

Some responses are actaully smart on here. The rest...make me wonder about the number of brain cells per human. "make the south rise again"? I live here. It ain't all that great.
#64 Aug 07 2005 at 4:22 AM Rating: Default
I would go back to the time my parents were having sex for me and slap my dad real hard on his *** and scream "I'm your son from the future! HA HA!", and then run away.

Also, I'd /slap the first PS2er to ever set foot in Jeuno in a split-second.

Oh, and I will go and take credit for the invention of the chalupa.
#65 Aug 07 2005 at 5:07 AM Rating: Decent
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I'd assasinata Theodore Hertzel (the founder of the Zionist movement) before the first Zionist conference in Bazel, Switzerland.

No Zionist movement ---> No Israel (of which most Jews were opposed to the idea of in the very beginning)-----> No colonial and occupation-tinted country-----> No excuse for the oppressors in the Middle East to stay in power under the false claim that they're fighting Israel---> No US drain of credibility and Tax payers' money ----> More independence in the way US enforces it's policy in the Middle East ----> No lunatics taking it out on the US ----> No sep 11th ----> No invasion of Iraq ----> Bush would have probably been impeached for taking half the presidency off on vacation -----> Neo-Cons stay in their ranches and churches ....etc.

I'll get flamed I know. Oh well take it or leave it :)
#66 Aug 07 2005 at 5:18 AM Rating: Good
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I would go back to the time my parents were having sex for me and slap my dad real hard on his *** and scream "I'm your son from the future! HA HA!", and then run away.


Buddy, don't steal sh[b][/b]it. Dane Cook is funny, you, sir, are not. Be innovative, be witty, have fun; however, when you take someone else's words and make them your own, heed my advice and pelvic thrust into an active blender when naked and erect.... Please? Smiley: smile
#67 Aug 07 2005 at 9:48 AM Rating: Good
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heed my advice and pelvic thrust into an active blender when naked and erect.... Please?


Wow, Chand is really kicking his game into high gear.

Smiley: lol

Rawr!
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#68 Aug 07 2005 at 11:11 PM Rating: Good
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#69 Aug 08 2005 at 1:19 AM Rating: Decent
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You Mr. Chand, are my god. /me bows before the almighty Chand.
#70 Aug 09 2005 at 1:49 PM Rating: Decent
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I would be the one who invented playboy.

#71 Aug 09 2005 at 2:04 PM Rating: Decent
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That's an irrelevant question. The point is that I don't use the existance/words/beliefs of my great great great great whatever grandfather to tell everyone else on the planet what to believe and how to live their lives.

Get it? The need for proof of something is directly proportional to the degree to which that something affects me directly. So the moment you try to argue that my kids should learn your beliefs in school, that affects me and I'm going to need a bit more then "The bible says so" for proof.

Did i pass my belif on anybody, no. did I say your kids need to learn my beliefs in school? no. I spoke of what i felt, thats it. I didnt insult anyone for not beleiving the same, and btw, your confirming my exact point earler when you call it psuedobabble. thanks.

Edited, Tue Aug 9 15:04:34 2005 by austieblmremora
#72 Aug 09 2005 at 2:09 PM Rating: Decent
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Seriously, do yous think that if you killed some historical figure, that there wouldn't be another person to take their place?


Ayone else ever notice that ideas happen in global spurts? but like the single sperm to the egg.. one person get's to it first and gets the credit.
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#73 Aug 10 2005 at 10:25 AM Rating: Decent
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Hmm. We seem to have moved from changing a historical event to assassinating a historical figure...

For me...

St. Augustine. Figure it out.

If not that asshat, then Father Valentine Peter. Work it out.


-Nagafen
#74 Aug 10 2005 at 11:11 AM Rating: Excellent
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#75 Aug 10 2005 at 12:41 PM Rating: Decent
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What? Joph's gone crazy! He's just post farming with non-sensical of topic stuff.
#76 Aug 10 2005 at 6:32 PM Rating: Decent
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evilphysicist wrote:
um, even if you do believe in jesus, you have to admit genisis was a parable...i mean come on, do you really think the earth is 6k years old...(as traced by the lineage stated in the bible)


No, but I would believe mankind's (not monkeykind's, or sorta-looks-human-kind's) lineage to be 6k years old.

The creation of mankind by God happens on "day" 6. Since the actual timeframe for "day" is undefined, God still had the 5 "days" prior to actually create the universe.

And yes, faith in science is still just that...faith. Faith in carbon-dating, etc. I'm not saying carbon-dating is incorrect, but science is a faith of its own...faith in mankind's ability to figure out for ourselves how the heck things work...and we're often so incredibly wrong/naive/slow to figure out the truth, it's almost comical how everyone automatically believes what science tells them.

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Lots and lots of incest though right?


The Bible states only that Adam and Eve were the first humans created, not the only ones ;)

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