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What is the question you would most like to see answered? Besides what am I going to have for dinner or why did you post this thread, what do you really want to know that you cant, and probably wont, find an answer for? Id like to know how the internet and increasing computerization are going to shape the future but I probably wont know until it happens. How about you's guys?
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| # ? Nov 22, 2009 00:28 |
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If there's anything after death. \/ \/Yeah, that'll probably fail the won't find out clause eventually, but that's the question that would give me the most relief in definitively knowing whether it's yes or no. Probably wouldn't really change anything though.
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 04:37 |
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What's the formula for making a potion to becoming an all-powerful God?
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 05:13 |
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Where is the Spanish gold buried?
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 05:22 |
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How the hell do self-made men/women like Trump and Oprah do it?
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 05:59 |
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Goddamn posted:If there's anything after death. \/ what if you could have this answered but it turned out to be just "yes" with no further explanation
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 06:11 |
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Meaning of life? Really, do we exist just to exist or is there some higher purpose we should be going for.
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 06:28 |
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Goddamn posted:If there's anything after death. \/ I'll give up my answer to hope this NEVER gets answered. Look at the religious wars we got now, I don't even want to see what happens when the fanatics get proof of an afterlife. 
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 09:44 |
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Brickhouse Betty posted:I'll give up my answer to hope this NEVER gets answered. Look at the religious wars we got now, I don't even want to see what happens when the fanatics get proof of an afterlife. The great thing about this question is that everyone gets to know the answer someday. How did it all begin? is a good question I think. We know, for the most part, how it all began but theres tiny tiny fraction of a second that we dont know what the gently caress. SanitysEdge fucked around with this message at Nov 06, 2009 around 10:06 |
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Brickhouse Betty posted:I don't even want to see what happens when the fanatics get proof of an afterlife. Proof would rather end those wars, don't you think? If anything, the biggest issue is the high level of restrictions most religions technically put on our daily lives (but no one follows them except for extremists). So, whatever one turned out to be right, it would suck at least a bit to follow their poo poo or get damned eternally or whatever.
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 11:46 |
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What the gently caress are the god drat Nazca lines for? I haven't heard a hypothesis that doesn't sound sketchy at best (no pun intended), but I refuse to believe they were just made for the hell of it.
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 13:22 |
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What the hell is wrong with people? Seriously.
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 13:56 |
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I would like to know once and for all who let the dogs out?
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 15:44 |
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Where did I put my keys?!
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 17:39 |
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How do I access Bill Gates' bank account?
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 17:45 |
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Will human civilization ever leave Earth (via either extinction or exodus)? If so, when?
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 18:27 |
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Why are nickels bigger than dimes?
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 18:33 |
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 What is the deal with airplane peanuts?
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 18:45 |
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HiFiSi posted:
Why did anyone ever enjoy this man
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 19:20 |
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Will I be admitted into the university next year?
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 19:22 |
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potato! posted:How the hell do self-made men/women like Trump and Oprah do it? Pro tip: They pretty much all write books about it or have books ghost-written on how they did it.
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 19:36 |
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Urban Renewal posted:what if you could have this answered but it turned out to be just "yes" with no further explanation Well, it'd be better than no answer, and I guess I'd be a tiny bit happier for it. I mean, it might insinuate we're all going to burn for eternity or something, but that's still more interesting than nothing, and it might mean something more palatable either. But such an answer would just raise a whole lot more troubling questions, really. Like whether you'd be missing out on something far grander by trying to extend your lifespan, or whether you'd be avoiding a bad outcome.
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 19:36 |
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Lexical Unit posted:What the hell is wrong with people? Seriously. This, pretty much. I thought about the thread subject for a few minutes, trying to think of a real humdinger--something that has plagued me my whole life--and this is really all it boils down to.
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 20:02 |
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Is the owner of a lonely heart really much better than the owner of a broken heart?
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 20:11 |
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Is the universe deterministic?
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WHYYYYYYY?!!False Noses posted:This, pretty much. I thought about the thread subject for a few minutes, trying to think of a real humdinger--something that has plagued me my whole life--and this is really all it boils down to. VI think I'd like to know what the nature of "experience" is. How does an entity "perceive" at all?
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The Pope? How many divisions has he got? \ 
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cloudy music posted:Will human civilization ever leave Earth (via either extinction or exodus)? If so, when? gently caress that. Ask, instead: What are the complete blueprints to build a spaceship capable of travelling faster than light? That way, the answer to your question would be "yes" and "as soon as we build this thing."
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 21:18 |
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Is there a secret rich person cure for Type I diabetes, and could I have it just this once? 
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| # ? Nov 06, 2009 22:48 |
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How fast will the global population drop when there's eventually not enough fuel supply to meet energy demands even with the use of renewables? Also how much of the drop will be from lack of resources and how much will be from fighting for what's left?
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:03 |
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Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe?
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Elephanthead posted:I would like to know once and for all who let the dogs out? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...12212208AAYSDJo Here they suggest it was probably you when you were a child and have blocked out the traumatic memory. I want to know what is buried at the bottom of the oak island money pit. Someone went through a lot of trouble to create that shaft initially and put a lot of traps and barriers in the way. I want to know why and for what. axolotl farmer posted:Is there intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe? I can answer this one too! Almost certainly.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 00:50 |
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What is the question I would most like answered? Fake edit: Seriously though I'd probably ask something a bit mundane, like, would my ancestors be 'proud' of me? Of course if there was away for me to get such questions answered I'd probably turn into a real Faustian character 
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:33 |
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I want to know if acupuncture works
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 01:39 |
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Can I keep answering peoples' questions? I'm going to keep answering peoples' questions.Last Emperor posted:Fake edit: Seriously though I'd probably ask something a bit mundane, like, would my ancestors be 'proud' of me? Probably not, unless your ancestors were much more open minded than the average person of their day. They likely held bigoted views and would see you as being too open, accepting, and permissive for the same reason you'd think of them as being closed minded and brutal. Adrenochrome posted:I want to know if acupuncture works The evidence points to 'sometimes'. For some conditions real acupuncture has not proven more effective than sham treatments. Or even worse! For others, there is some evidence that it works slightly better than accepted mainstream treatments, or that it provides measurable benefits when used in addition to said treatments.
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| # ? Nov 07, 2009 02:07 |
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Adrenochrome posted:I want to know if acupuncture works Sticking needles in your skin has some local effects. Acupuncture points and meridians are nonsense. It's mostly useless.
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Goddamn posted:If there's anything after death. \/ No. There isn't anything after death. Everything that makes us identify to ourselves that we exist is our own conscious thoughts. When you die your brain stops producing conscious thoughts. So, nothing.
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axolotl farmer posted:Sticking needles in your skin has some local effects. Acupuncture points and meridians are nonsense. It's mostly useless. The studies I have read disagree with this point. Here is one that found that acupuncture conditionally worked somewhat better than standard drug treatment for migraines. http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/c...1218/frame.html It doesn't work for everything and needle placement isn't as finicky as practitioners believe but the evidence points to the the fact that it has a measurable affect when used as a treatment for certain conditions. It's difficult as gently caress to study though, since it isn't possible to set up a double blind experiment for it. T8R posted:No. There isn't anything after death. Everything that makes us identify to ourselves that we exist is our own conscious thoughts. When you die your brain stops producing conscious thoughts. So, nothing. This is your opinion. The matter isn't provable one way or the other. I think that your answer is the most likely one, however. I hope not because I don't enjoy the idea of ceasing to exist, but I suppose it won't matter when the time comes if its true. Nathilus fucked around with this message at Nov 07, 2009 around 03:23 |
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Can universal entropy be reversed? More seriously, if P=NP, how would the proof bring us any closer to solving NP-complete problems in polynomial time?
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Ensign Expendable posted:Can universal entropy be reversed? INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
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