If even one thing stayed the same forever, it would eventually become boring. And if you liked that thing, having it become boring would be worse than it ending.
This is coincidentally why I think that the traditional idea of Heaven would actually be Hell. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman put it best:
“On Eternity:
I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the universe, and once every thousand years there's this little bird-"
"What little bird?" said Aziraphale suspiciously.
"This little bird I'm talking about. And every thousand years-"
"The same bird every thousand years?"
Crowley hesitated. "Yeah," he said.
"Bloody ancient bird, then."
"Okay. And every thousand years this bird flies-"
"-limps-"
"flies all the way to this mountain and sharpens its beak-"
"Hold on. You can't do that. Between here and the end of the universe there's loads of-" The angel waved a hand expansively, if a little unsteadily. "Loads of buggerall, dear boy."
"But it gets there anyway," Crowley persevered.
"How?"
"It doesn't matter!"
"It could use a space ship," said the angel.
Crowley subsided a bit. "Yeah," he said. "If you like. Anyway, this bird-"
"Only it is the end of the universe we're talking about," said Aziraphale. "So it'd have to be one of those space ships where your descendants are the ones who get out at the other end. You have to tell your descendants, you say, When you get to the Mountain, you've got to-" He hesitated. "What have they got to do?"
"Sharpen its beak on the mountain," said Crowley. "And then it flies back-"
"-in the space ship-"
"And after a thousand years it goes and does it all again," said Crowley quickly.
There was a moment of drunken silence,
"Seems a lot of effort just to sharpen a beak," mused Aziraphale.
"Listen," said Crowley urgently, "the point is that when the bird has worn the mountain down to nothing, right, then-"
Aziraphale opened his mouth. Crowley just knew he was going to make some point about the relative hardness of birds' beaks and granite mountains, and plunged on quickly.
"-then you still won't have finished watching The Sound of Music."
Aziraphale froze.
"And you'll enjoy it," Crowley said relentlessly. "You really will."
"My dear boy-"
"You won't have a choice."
"Listen"
"Heaven has no taste."
"Now-"
"And not one single sushi restaurant."
A look of pain crossed the angel's suddenly very serious face.
Statement A: "All the things we know came into being."
Statement B: "Coming into being is a change of condition."
Conclusion: "Change of condition is inherent to all the things we know."
I once learned propositional calculus, and even though I have remembered nothing from it, I have a hunch the statement and conclusion is untrue.
Something REALLY freaky just happened. I was lying on my bed when my door started rattling like someone was trying to get in. I thought it was one of my sisters trying to annoy me, but I never heard anyone running away. Eventually, I got up from my bed and opened the door. Nobody.
Something REALLY freaky just happened. I was lying on my bed when my door started rattling like someone was trying to get in. I thought it was one of my sisters trying to annoy me, but I never heard anyone running away. Eventually, I got up from my bed and opened the door. Nobody.
Something REALLY freaky just happened. I was lying on my bed when my door started rattling like someone was trying to get in. I thought it was one of my sisters trying to annoy me, but I never heard anyone running away. Eventually, I got up from my bed and opened the door. Nobody.
Haunted by who? Has anyone you know or love died recently?
Cause if so, it's probably them trying to get in contact with you. Also, my condolences.
My brother died a while ago, but I don’t believe that it’s a kind of ghost you would think it is. I believe in ghosts, it’s just that the kind of ghosts that haunt houses aren’t “troubled spirits,” as people believe. I believe that what we would believe to be “ghosts” are angels and demons.
Well today is the day when a crazy person fills our shoes with candy. He is hoping to stop us from leaving the house but he usually fills them with enough stuff that you can clearly see it before you put on the shoes. Maybe it was him?
If I listen to Howard Shore's Misty Mountains theme one more time, my head will probably explode because of all the repetition. Can't stop though. Just_can't.
Part of our promotional will be offering a 50$ Coupon to anyone who buys at least 200$ in services from our event planning and catering group. Combined with the hobnobbing and business contacts we make, it should be good.
The difference being that Elwood didn't walk up and down the psychiatric ward trying to disprove everybody else's delusions while simultaneously propping up his own.
No, because it wasn't really a joke at all. It was an attempt to mock. And it's not funny.
If the attempt was to "mock" and not "make a joke", then it can hardly be blamed for not being a joke.
And since the the fellow with an inordinate amount of pride in his imaginary friend has decided to put on big boy pants and play Mister Skeptic, it's kind of deserving of mockery.
Just because I have faith, it doesn't mean I can't have scientific rationale. It also doesn't mean that everything has to default to having supernatural explanations. I didn't say it wasn't a ghost; it just occurred to me that my house has shaken before due to passing aircraft, which is a perfectly reasonable explanation.
Further, just because you're irretrievably bitter about your life, it doesn't excuse your mocking other people and throwing ill-timed temper tantrums.
Technically, Holy Ghost is a Catholic thing. A lot of other Christian churches got rid of it along with the saints because it smacks of polytheism.
Personally, I always thought that the Holy Ghost was a bedsheet with lots of holes when I was a kid.
On that topic, I would say the "Holy Spirit", not Holy Ghost. It isn't polytheistic though, because it's kind of like the difference between ice, steam, and water--which is to say they're the same thing which take different forms.
(...Cue joke about how God changes shape when sufficiently heated or cooled. :P )
Just because I have faith, it doesn't mean I can't have scientific rationale. It also doesn't mean that everything has to default to having supernatural explanations.
Believing in the supernatural and then belittling people for believing in ghosts or zombies on the basis of science is ridiculous. You're dealing in the realm of things that have equal likelihood to have any basis in something reasonably similar to reality. When you take your talking snakes, pillars of salt, and omniscient and omnipotent beings into the game, it's best not to tell other people that their ball is stupid, and then claim the high ground when somebody calls you out on it.
Technically, Holy Ghost is a Catholic thing. A lot of other Christian churches got rid of it along with the saints because it smacks of polytheism.
Most protestant churches in the US are Trinitarian. They tend to prefer to say "Holy Spirit" rather than "Ghost", but the function is still the same. Trinitarianism tends to try and bullshit its way out of polytheism by referring to the three entities as the same, or as three expressions of the same.
I want Steam to let me give custom names to titles in my game list. Is this really such a hard thing to do? No I tell you, it is not. And do they do it? NO. Do they not know how useful it would be? How we could organise our games better? How we could call our games silly things like 'the lamest FPS in the world' and have a chuckle when we get notices telling us our friends are playing them? Gah!
Also, on a completely and utterly unrelated note, why is it "Lego Harry Potter" and "LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7"? Someone done gone screwed up there.
Believing in the supernatural and then belittling people for believing in ghosts or zombies on the basis of science is ridiculous.
I didn't belittle him for believing in ghosts. I asked a serious question that I considered to be of a reasonable explanation. I said nothing of whether or not his concern was valid.
And I didn't originally suggest this, because I knew I would get mocked for it, but since we started down that road anyway....
@Noname: If it really is a ghost, and you pray to God for protection from it, you will be protected. No joke. Totally serious.
Most protestant churches in the US are Trinitarian. They tend to prefer to say "Holy Spirit" rather than "Ghost", but the function is still the same. Trinitarianism tends to try and bullshit its way out of polytheism by referring to the three entities as the same, or as three expressions of the same.
Weird. I always had people telling me that I must be polytheistic most of my life. Now I wonder what church they were from.
Trinitarianism tends to try and bullshit its way out of polytheism by referring to the three entities as the same, or as three expressions of the same.
Sure, it's bullshit to work out that an omnipotent, omnipresent, omnitemporal being who created time and space itself is probably capable of revealing Himself to us in different ways--perhaps even in more than one way simultaneously.
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This is coincidentally why I think that the traditional idea of Heaven would actually be Hell. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman put it best:
Note to self: Don't mess with Alcoremortis's computer cables.
I once learned propositional calculus, and even though I have remembered nothing from it, I have a hunch the statement and conclusion is untrue.
When did your sisters take ninja lessons?
Except that if it were coolsome's, you would have forgotten the entire incident.
Aren't ghosts, like, immaterial and stuff? Also, if you look in the mirror and your face starts melting off, relax. It's probably not real.
Also if it was The Silence he has nothing to worry about now cos he killed it.
sounds like it'll be funney
Haunted by who? Has anyone you know or love died recently?
Cause if so, it's probably them trying to get in contact with you. Also, my condolences.
No, it was just I...
THE SHADOW
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Well, at least you're not The Spirit. Ugh, that movie was horrible.
My brother died a while ago, but I don’t believe that it’s a kind of ghost you would think it is. I believe in ghosts, it’s just that the kind of ghosts that haunt houses aren’t “troubled spirits,” as people believe. I believe that what we would believe to be “ghosts” are angels and demons.
HELL YES
Also, with my explanation it's still a ghost. The HOLY ghost! WoooOOOOoooOOOooOOoooo.
I never claimed that either any of the statements or the conclusion were true or even logically coherent.
Never watch Harvey again.
Therefore, you fail.
And since the the fellow with an inordinate amount of pride in his imaginary friend has decided to put on big boy pants and play Mister Skeptic, it's kind of deserving of mockery.
Further, just because you're irretrievably bitter about your life, it doesn't excuse your mocking other people and throwing ill-timed temper tantrums.
Technically, Holy Ghost is a Catholic thing. A lot of other Christian churches got rid of it along with the saints because it smacks of polytheism.
Personally, I always thought that the Holy Ghost was a bedsheet with lots of holes when I was a kid.
(...Cue joke about how God changes shape when sufficiently heated or cooled. :P )
Most protestant churches in the US are Trinitarian. They tend to prefer to say "Holy Spirit" rather than "Ghost", but the function is still the same. Trinitarianism tends to try and bullshit its way out of polytheism by referring to the three entities as the same, or as three expressions of the same.
Also, on a completely and utterly unrelated note, why is it "Lego Harry Potter" and "LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7"? Someone done gone screwed up there.
And I didn't originally suggest this, because I knew I would get mocked for it, but since we started down that road anyway....
@Noname: If it really is a ghost, and you pray to God for protection from it, you will be protected. No joke. Totally serious.
Weird. I always had people telling me that I must be polytheistic most of my life. Now I wonder what church they were from.