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23 Aug 2008, 5:02 pm

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The world has been in a horrible mess since any recorded history has been written. Whoever created the world obviously could not think. Therefore. in accord with DesCartes, a non-thinker is a non-exister.

Just looking at it another way...

:: The world has been in a horrible mess since any recorded history has been written.

Writing implies intelligence.
Recorded history implies advanced intelligence.
Humans record history.
Humans are intelligent.

The world has been in a horrible mess since humans acquired enough intelligence to record history.

Since human intelligence is clearly seen to be related to the state of the world, then it is only fair to propose that human intelligence is responsible for the current state of the world...

... Regardless of who made the world and how it was made.



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23 Aug 2008, 7:21 pm

So, if nothing were ever recorded, then everything would be fine. :skull:



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23 Aug 2008, 7:23 pm

If nothing was ever recorded, how could we aspire to learn from our mistakes?



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24 Aug 2008, 5:30 am

slowmutant wrote:
If nothing was ever recorded, how could we aspire to learn from our mistakes?


We, as a society, could not. The world is not a mess because we record what happens, we are just more aware of what happens because we record the information and share it. If you see the world as a mess, it's a mess with or without your acknowledging it, you simply won't complain if you don't know the mess is there. On the other hand, I see and accept the information and still don't view the world as a mess, which means I'm either stupid or enlightened. It's very difficult to tell the difference sometimes :P



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24 Aug 2008, 6:50 am

That sort of comes back to the so-called Autism epidemic, doesn't it? Because awareness is up; people think events and occurances are, too.
Scientists solved a 4000 year old murder - the victim was lured into the mountains and shot in the head with an arrow. Nobody knew until the scientists uncovered it; so it was as though it never happened simply because nobody recorded it.

But, comedy Inc. Is just a show. You Christians should really just buck up and take it with a grain of salt. Personally, I prefer skithouse.


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24 Aug 2008, 8:27 am

Skit house was good, sadley it didnt last very long. But yeah it is all for fun, the vid is not realy saying go out and do it, it is saying that the whole idea of doing something like that is stupid and to make fun of something that everyone likes. You should see the ones that they do about a popular morning news show hosts.


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24 Aug 2008, 8:58 am

Yeah, old bald people who think they're cool are always fun to ridicule.


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