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devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer

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Jul 27, 2014

by Lowtax
sigh

texaholic
Sep 16, 2007

Well it's floodin' down in Texas
All of the telephone lines are down
how do I upvote your post?

Tercio
Jan 30, 2003

our focus group decided to go with the "more like total shitscuit" reply

let it mellow
Jun 1, 2000

Dinosaur Gum
how do you eat pasta op?

anime was right
Jun 27, 2008

death is certain
keep yr cool
chinese people have been eating noodles with pencil like objects for centuries. maybe tb has heard of them? they're called 'chopsticks'.

fuck the ROW
Aug 29, 2008

by zen death robot
maybe its british spaghetti, and thats how u eat it... anyone know

Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



that seems like a reasonable thing to say. gotta have that knife to butter your bread with

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

it prbably has something to do with his rear end cancer

Woof Blitzer
Dec 29, 2012

[-]

texaholic posted:

how do I upvote your post?

Upvote by clicking here

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





Did you watch Ping Pong the movie?

edit: it owned.

YourHealthyColon
Nov 21, 2013
personally i stick my fork in the pasta and then rotate the fork so it makes a sorta pasta ball and then i shove it in my mouth. Somebody tell me about this pasta knife business im intrigued

FrostedButts
Dec 30, 2011
"Isn't it TRUE, Mr. Biscuit, that you consume spaghetti with a fork AND a knife? I'll remind you that you are under oath."
*an awed hush over the jury of gamer culture representatives*

devtesla
Jan 2, 2012


Grimey Drawer

Pawn 17 posted:

Did you watch Ping Pong the movie?

edit: it owned.

I have read and watched Ping Pong in three different formats and all of them owned, but I liked the anime the best.

Cthulu Carl
Apr 16, 2006

What kind of bitch uses a knife for their spaghetti?

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot
yes, shoving them into your mouth with your bare loving hands works so much better

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





The Devil Tesla posted:

I have read and watched Ping Pong in three different formats and all of them owned, but I liked the anime the best.

I haven't watched an anime in years; I'm tempted to check it out though.

fuck the ROW
Aug 29, 2008

by zen death robot

The Mad Archivist posted:

yes, shoving them into your mouth with your bare loving hands works so much better

god drat what the gently caress r u so mad about it... eating with your hands is fine and in fact its cool now

Tubgirl Cosplay
Jan 10, 2011

by Ion Helmet
Is this the guy who found out some game dev flunky didn't like him and so called up his boss and tried to get him fired all DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM, I HAVE TEN MILLION YOUTUBE FOLLOWERS

BombiTheZombie
Mar 27, 2010
TB has cancer of the rear end, and thats funny

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
Huh, weird, the guy who spent a year bleeding out the rear end before going to the doctor about it is dumb? That's nuts, thanks OP.

unlimited shrimp
Aug 30, 2008
i eat spaghetti with a fork and spoon namaste

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen
how could a man with an IQ of 155 be dumb, huh? answer that smartass

TOILETLORD
Nov 13, 2012

by XyloJW
seems like the simple solution is to just buy rotini.

Haverchuck
May 6, 2005

the coolest

roymorrison
Jul 26, 2005
what do you do with the knife?

Tercio
Jan 30, 2003

roymorrison posted:

what do you do with the knife?

cut the pasta you savage

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

i dont really mind if he eats pasta in a weird way

Carol Pizzamom
Jul 13, 2006

a bear you feed is a bear and a steed

SirDan3k
Jan 6, 2001

Trust me, you are taking this a lot more seriously then I am.

That's some motherfucking class right there son.

not an endorsement
Mar 14, 2008


Personally, I think it's problematic that a sitting Senator has a racial slur for a last name.



flerp
Feb 25, 2014
I too am mad that a person does a thing differently, especially because said person is relatively well known

TOILETLORD
Nov 13, 2012

by XyloJW
unless you are thin slicing meat you have teeth for cutting things.

ANIME IS BLOOD
Sep 4, 2008

by zen death robot
congratulations on being a mangy animal tearing apart your food with your teeth then

10,000 years of evolution all to come full circle, gg

LethalGeek
Nov 4, 2009

Wow this is so interesting OP please tell me more about rear end cancer man

Spanish Manlove
Aug 31, 2008

HAILGAYSATAN

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Jul 27, 2014

by Lowtax

The Mad Archivist posted:

yes, shoving them into your mouth with your bare loving hands works so much better

um yes and in fact was common practice for hundreds and thousands of years u loving retarded bitch

Horniest Manticore
Nov 23, 2013

Hello, you!
Lipstick Apathy
Let's get this out here right now. I'm a 23 year old law graduate with an IQ of 155. My political beliefs are liberal and leftist, I listen to Metal and I enjoy violent movies, books and videogames, and I've been a Christian since birth. Baptised, confirmed of my own free will, son of a priest (who are pretty notorious for rebelling against their father's religious beliefs just for the sake of it). I'm part of the Anglican Church of England, which is pretty much the result of Henry the 8th getting pissed off with the catholics not allowing him to divorce his wife(s). We're the state religion of the UK, if you could even say the UK has one, we're pretty liberal about most things, women priests, gay priests, homosexuals in general, sex before marriage, contraception, we take the modern, reasonable way of looking at all of them. At the end of the day, the Bible taught us about forgiveness and being excellent to one another. It had a bit of a round-about way of doing it but what do you expect for a 2000 year old book written entirely by clerical males? It's gonna be a bit out of date, you've gotta read it in context.

I have no problems with anyone's beliefs. Be whatever you want, as long as you believe (or don't believe) for a good reason. But here's what I really don't like, trend-atheism/trend-theism (also referred to as e-atheism, since it seems to be most prevelant in the domain of anonymous blogspammers and Digg-users).

In my late teens, I spent a long time thinking. Yeah, just sitting around and thinking, thinking about faith. Thinking about what it is that I believe in. Rationalizing the various conflicts and contradictions that faith presents us with, looking at the viewpoints of other faiths, or those with no faith at all, taking into account the new things we discover every day and factoring in the influence of science. Some people would claim that, if I had indeed done that, I'd have come to the conclusion, as an intellectual, rational thinker, that God does not exist. They would of course, be wrong.

My beliefs center around several factors. Firstly, it is important for us as human-beings to realize our own limits, and the limits of our understanding. Centuries ago we believed the world was flat. "The Bible told us so!", would be the first cry. Wrong, it really didn't. In the Old Testament, Job 26:7 explains that the earth is suspended in space, the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon. The Old Testament, you remember that one? The one with the fiery bushes, the pillar's of salt, the cool plagues and such? Even that managed to get it right. There's a few more references as well to the 'round' earth (and before you say anything, flat is not a shape, it could have been a flat octagon for all they knew) but I'm not going to go into that yet. We've had computers for less than a century, powered flight for just over a century and of course our amazing horseless carriages. Genetics, electricity, nuclear-bombs, toaster-strudel, the world is in the palm of our hands! And it didn't take us too long did it?

Reality-check, we're still primitives. In the great scheme of things this technology is a mere blip on the historical radar. We've got an awful long way to go before we're able to dissect and understand the mysteries of the universe. We haven't even put a man on Mars yet, let alone left our solar system to find out what exactly is out there. How can it be that we have suddenly, so recently, become so arrogant as to believe we know more than we really do? The Laws of Science are written by man, based on our understanding of how things work. They are theories that, while prove true today, may be debunked by another amazing discovery tomorrow. Which leads onto my next point.

Name this quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". Arthur C Clarke, physicist and author, smart fellow. It also hilights the point I'm making. Our understanding of the universe is peerless only amongst ourselves. We are not as smart as we think we are. Just as fire wowed the neanderthals, what would it take to wow us? What would make our jaws drop and our minds boggle? Well, any sufficiently advanced technology of course. And what is technology after-all? Man-made machines. The concept of technology is a human concept, a concept that may, in other parts of the universe, not even exist, replaced by something even more advanced than that, so advanced that we cannot comprehend it. Not surprising really as we mammals only use 10% of our brains.

So where am I going with this? Simple really, take yourself off of your high-horse, you, and the human race, is not as smart as it thinks it is. Now, open your mind a little, and let's explore some possibilities.



The definition of a God. Let us turn to the good book.

Wikipedia.

"God most commonly refers to the deity worshipped by followers of monotheistic and monolatrist religions, whom they believe to be the creator and ruler of the universe. Theologians have ascribed a variety of attributes to the various conceptions of God. The most common among these include omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, perfect goodness, divine simplicity, and eternal and necessary existence. God has also been conceived as being incorporeal, a personal being, the source of all moral obligation, and the "greatest conceivable existent"

Hmm, a tall order one might think. Could such a being exist? Some argue that logically, he could not, however, there is very little logic in denying the possibility that a being or beings of such power and advancement exist that they could indeed, be considered 'God' within our definition. That's not to say that God is a small green alien with a flying saucer and a phaser though that would give some of the overzealous fundamentalists something to sweat over, much to our amusement. But what is this God? A creator? Sure, we create. We create technology, we're getting to the stage of being able to create life in one form or another, using the basic building blocks of nature. Could it not be surmised therefore that it is entirely within the realms of possibility that someone or something created those building blocks? Like a programmer creates a new program, someone must have also created the coding language in which he created it. We scramble for answers. We come up with theories. Some believe in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. Some believe a man in the sky created it everything in 6 days and then mooched around on the 7th. Which is valid?

Neither, and both. They attempt to apply meaning to something where meaning may, or may not exist. Creationism and the Big Bang are in that sense, as bad as each other. They are both merely attempts for us to explain the unexplainable. The Big Bang contradicts our laws of physics (something most catalyse an explosion, therefore something must have been there in the first place, where did that come from, at which point your brain melts). The Creation Story contradicts our laws of physics (Same reasons, who created God after all?). Everything we've so far managed to come up with, from the sublime to the ridiculous, the complex to the simplistic, it's an exercise in desperate straw-clutching. At the end of the day, we don't know jack.

And that's ok. Someone once said that the journey matters more than the destination, it's not the winning, it's the taking part, at least ya tried sport. These explanations of where it all comes from, be they ancient or modern all boil down to the same need. To know. Who'd have thunk it, we've got brains for a reason, and they rather like being used. Those neurons like to be fired, the little grey matter likes a little exercise every once in a while. Just as the Creation Story was a way to explain an unexplainable concept, so is the Big Bang theory. If one were to compare the human mind to a computer, try feeding the Big Bang theory to the medieval man, and it's like trying to shove Bioshock into a Commodore Vic20. Good luck. And what will our children's children's children's grandchildren's children think of our Big Bang theory? My money's on exactly the same thing.

So what am I trying to tell you, stop asking questions, stop looking for answers and just believe whatever the hell suits ya? Absolutely not. Believe whatever suits you, but question it, never stop thinking, never stop asking or learning. In this day and age it seems people are way too willing to believe, or not believe. Belief, or non-belief should be a life-long arduous process and it should end involuntarily, when you fall over dead. Someone (there's a lot of talkative someone's aren't there?) once said 'Never stop believing', I say, "Never stop asking yourself what you believe, and why".

It's time to criticize, so let me load port and starboard cannon and fire a volley at both atheists and theists alike. Believing, or not believing, does not make you intelligent. Smart people do not come to a conclusion on the basis of insubstantial evidence. Smart people do not mindlessly attack other people's beliefs just because they don't conform to their own. Smart people do not assume that their own rigid, poorly formed definitions of logic and faith, reason and belief are mutually exclusive and that if one exists, the other cannot. Smart people think outside the box, not pick fights with those poor souls trapped in it.

What makes you intelligent, is knowing why you believe what you believe. Knowing that you are but one mind, and knowing that at any time you could be proven wrong, only for that person to be proven wrong ad infinitum as we as a race advance.

I suppose you're waiting for my personal beliefs, waiting for this to be some kind of sermon, preaching why my God is better than your God, or non-God. You'll be waiting a long time, because it's not coming. My personal beliefs are just that, personal, they're mine, they belong to me. You cannot take them away from me, only I can. What I can give you though, are my opinions.

Right now shots are being fired. They're not physical shots, they're bullets and shells of ignorance and bigottry. And it's no one-sided battle let me tell you that much. Factionalized camps everywhere you can imagine. Atheists, Theists, Satanists, Christians, Republicans, Democrats, Capitalists, Communists, every group you can imagine, all shouting 'Your God/Non-God sucks, mine is better!'. These days, the internet's become their battleground. So much for sharing knowledge, we're sharing ignorance.

The bigottry and the condemnation has to stop. The sad thing is, I'm having to condemn the condemners. Isn't it lowsy how you generally have to be a hypocrite in order to make a point these days? Food for thought. We can look at the extremes and see the simplistic, secular vs sacred, trend-atheists vs fundamentalist evangelical christians, the most common stereotypes. But in reality, it's so much more complicated than that. It's this stereotyping and narrow-minded attitude that prevents us as a race from achieving the greatness we can. I could make as many decrees as I wanted till I was blue in the face, and I'm going to just to let off a little steam mind you,

"Trend-atheist Digg users, shove your agendas where the sun don't shine, refusing the possibility of a supreme-being does not make you a genius or a radical thinker, it makes you a bloody sheep hiding behind a cloak of anonymity"

"Evangelical Fundamentalist morons, get your overly simplistic, judgmental, dogmatic Crayola God out of my face, you have about as much understanding of the universe as a wet lettuce. That does not make you holy, pure, or guaranteed a private booth at the big game in the sky, it makes you a bloody sheep hiding behind a cloak of propaganda that you only believe because you're told to"

Wow, that feels good, I can understand why you internet-bound condemners like it so much. Gives you that warm, fuzzy feeling doesn't it? What, I'm not allowed to indulge in such a guilty pleasure every once in a while? Play fair Wink

Where's my conclusion? Hell if I know. Did you have the mistaken impression this was some carefully constructed plea for tolerance? Absolutely not, it's an angry slap in the face to my peers. Wake the hell up and use your brain, because my God/Non-god/Explosion/Man-in-the-sky/Vic20 gave you it for a reason.

TB

Verisimilidude
Dec 20, 2006

Strike quick and hurry at him,
not caring to hit or miss.
So that you dishonor him before the judges



Totalbiscuit: a literal manchild

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total bitchcuit

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