The Idiot

wokring on it....give me a few more weeks at the gym and i'll have a sixpack ready.

I'll drop the macho bull$hit and let you pick out my clothes.

alright, i'll drop the macho bullshit, too, then.

The great French mathematician and astronomer Laplace (1749-1827) did some ground-breaking work on the movent of celestial bodies, using Newtonian mechanics. There is a story, possibly apocryphal, that Laplace presented his work to Napoleon, who asked him where God fitted in.
Lapllace's reply was 'I had no need for that hypothesis.'

Lapolace's observation is a clear example of redundancy.God had no place in his account of the movement of the planets, not because he had proved God doesn't exsist, nor that God does nat have certain powers, but simply beacause there was no place for God in the system- God was redundant because the explanation was complete without him.

i'm stealing this for my Heathen Club thread.

Cool.

I didn't write it.

Here!!!! LOOK HERE!

http://www.able2know.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=112929

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avOiTUcD4Y

Ahhhhaaaaa HAHAHAH

I had a couple of jobs just like that.

iv'e decided I'm going to go live with the monkeys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qThmM5-y_Ok&feature=related

nice. very nice. calms a stormy soul right dowm, it does. yes it does.

Does this mean you will come live with me and the monkeys?

you have more than one monkey???

I'm afraid I had to abandon the monkey commune.....for now.

"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

Aeschylus

http://www.able2know.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=119142

Not without sacrifice.

It is my view that:

a) Human nature is evil.
b) A utopia is without evil.

Ergo, in order to have a utopia, one must remove human nature.

This can be done in many ways, examples of which can be taken from science fiction.

In "A Brave New World", all suffering is taken away. Suffering is part of human nature. To live a life without suffering is to not live at all.

In "Equilibrium", emotion is taken away. Emotion is part of human nature. To live a life without emotion is to not live at all.

Some stories go so far as to remove human beings themselves, and replace them with more perfect beings, such as transgenics or androids.

Note that "human nature" can be replaced with "humanity" to the same end.

One might argue that human nature is required for a utopia, therefore creating a paradox where a utopia is indeed impossible, for a utopia requires human nature and lack of evil, but human nature is evil. If this is the case, what we are left with in the examples are dystopias.

What do you think?

Merry Andrew speaksI think the answer to your question -- is Utopia possible -- is contained in the definition of the word. Utopia literally means Nowhere. We speak of something impossible as a "Utopian dream." Of course Utopia is not possible. I'm not sure, though, whether this is due to the "evil" in human nature (that's a very subjective term) or just the cussedness of the way things are.

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Of all the people I have talked to on A2K.....Merry Andrew, Is the man to listen to.

Look at his history!!!!! Something by his character he tells me it is true and he tells the truth.

If Merry Andrew is a LIER?!?!?.........Then I am a Lier too.

Comming Soon

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AMAZING TRAVEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What some may call "human nature" will become another malleable parameter in man's reach to become more godlike.