Recent content by drifblim70

  1. Serious Evolution/Creation debate

    What's the motivation for challenging Evolutionists (as Creationists call them)? I ask because it obviously takes a lot of philosophical effort to get we Evolutionists to express support for a Creationism without evolution. Are there improvements in standards of living or other politics that...
  2. Woman dies after drinking 10 litres of coke per day

    Water cuts through rock, how is that even legal? Poor lady though. Just don't drink a gallon of soda daily and you'll be alright, it screws around with your teeth though.
  3. Rank the trainer battle music across the generations

    For me it's 1>5=3>2>4. Gen 1 is good in its own right without even the blind nostalgia to help it, 5 is pretty decent and 3 is too, they both grew on me after a while. Originally I had 2 ranked higher but then I realized that I had nostalgia'd a bit too hard there (at least with the trainer...
  4. The Everything NHL Thread

    Speaking as a Bruins fan from birth albeit not a very hardcore one, go Boston, and I do think we have a pretty good chance of winning this series, we're certainly keeping it close anyway. Burrows should've been suspended, speaking as a butthurt Boston fan here... he may cost us Game 2, and I...
  5. Your most Memorable moment from Gold/Silver

    These are all from when I was about nine years old-- --Quilava evolving into Typhlosion on Route 12 or 13 (i.e. before the 4th gym), me having fought wild Pokemon and caught random whatever for...must've been hours, spread out over weeks, because I couldn't figure out that I needed the...
  6. first world problems

    I'm trying to learn linear algebra at my state university in Massachusetts for my physics major but my primary and secondary math education has poisoned my comprehension of the material with half-truths and oversimplifications. My school-provided WiFi is not correctly configured for Pokemon...
  7. Boss Battles: Which is your favorite of all time?

    Shades/Kitaniji (human form) in TWEWY, the summoning Wizzrobe from the Wind Temple in Zelda: Wind Waker, Ganon in that game and A Link to the Past, Bowser in Super Mario World for nostalgia points...Red in the original G/S/C but not the remakes, Champion Blue in R/B/Y, and ah, definitely "the...
  8. Political Compass

    Economic Left/Right: -4.38 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.72 so yeah, basically the same results
  9. What IS the "meaning of life"? Does it differ person-to-person?

    i think i posted earlier in this thread, but whatevs, my friends. bullshit there's no such thing as hope. Do you submit to the void or do you attack it? To paraphrase my earlier point: the void of set "purpose" in one's life is something to be grateful for, not something to angst about. It...
  10. Getting a cavity

    yeah i had two fillings today. cavities are probably the most over-feared dental event ever, it's really no big deal, when they show up get 'em filled and you're done. the most I have to complain about right now is a numb lower jaw, no lingering pain or anything. i mean i might just have a good...
  11. What IS the "meaning of life"? Does it differ person-to-person?

    Part of the meaning of life is that is so seemingly meaningless. If a life is intended toward one particular purpose or goal, what sort of life is that? If a chicken is raised on a farm to be slaughtered for food, its purpose/meaning is to provide nutrition to someone, and i sure as hell...
  12. Suicide and the media

    If the rates of suicide coverage go up after a suicide is reported, then go ahead, obscure the reporting a bit. The practical solution is the best one as far as I'm concerned with human life, as opposed to an idealogical "information should be free" stance, although I'm not sure if anyone is...
  13. Jealousy: Love or Insecurity?

    I didn't know jealousy =/= envy, but ah, ok. As far as relationships go I haven't had many of them to be honest (straight-up romantic ones), so ah, I'll just take a few jabs at the concept in general: someone gets envious when they wish they could have something nicer than what they have, or...
  14. P != NP: Has it been finally proven?

    this is one of those big unsolved mathematical question things, right? think I saw it on wikipedia at some point and barely understood it, can someone explain what P!=NP means (or would mean) and what it would mean if it was proven (like the consequences of it)? I just finished first year...
  15. Prop 8: Great riddance, or GREATEST riddance?

    I'm a little worried about it going all the way to this Supreme Court, I mean, they've been looking pretty conservative lately (the whole corporations=individuals in terms of buying ad space for compaigns ruling specifically, and there was another one this year involving gun control legislation...
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