Lasty

if you can't laugh at a good fart.

Screw you, you superstitious old man! I JUST WANNA DANCE

It's just an idea, one hypothesis. Just like intrinsic purpose.... ^__^ Anywho, who knows what resource distribution is like throughout the cosmos? We could have something rare for all we know. Hard to tell without visiting exoplanets. ;3

"Hey! Here's a planet full of mineral deposits and other resources. It's even got these violent monkeys we can get addicted to shiny things and teach how to use basic tools. Now all we have to do is wait a couple hundred thousand years, they'll have killed themselves off and mined everything up out of the ground into nice, neat, easy to recycle piles for us." Of course, if there were older civilizations, there's no reason to suspect we wouldn't see some kind of evidence of that. What is stopping a civilization from becoming advanced that far in the past? I honestly think we should be seeing ancient dyson swarms around distant stars.

Prove it

All online games are garbage, so there's a hole in all of your points, there. Single player ftw

xbox peeps are the snobs... bunch of jocks who throw their money away for the same Halo and sports games over and over again with new paint. They have no leg to stand on and swear xbox is the best. PC, on the other hand, is objectively, inherently superior with as many legs to stand on as a centipede.

He's right.

Star Wars has been dead since the prequels. This shit is not cannon as far as I'm concerned.

Do you even grammar, bro?

Galaxy wide means the entire galaxy, the thing our solar system orbits around in... You can never care too much. Also, caring and not caring is not mutually inclusive or mutually exclusive with being atheist, theist, or agnostic.

0.5 - 0.5 = 0 1+1= 50 The principle of emergence is a powerful thing. What can be accomplished working together is much greater than what will eventually happen if you take from others without concern for their being. If you take, half your effort is devoted to taking and not to caring for oneself, you might not even win, and it is a process that will destroy much that everyone is dependent upon in the long run...

No, but you are a traitor and a member of the rebel alliance. Take him away!

I can't not put these on!

You could check in with those respective agencies to inquire.

There's no such thing as that anymore.... Alpha male or not, you shouldn't worry about upsetting people if it's your name. That's what's important. You have to take care of you however you can. Your reasons for wanting to change your name sound pretty legit, and anyone who can't identify with that can go ahead and be upset if it suits them.

If he asks, just tell it was a whim.

Make sure I have a protective case for my glasses. Also, stock up on extra sets of glasses. There WILL be time...

I'm an agnostic, like everyone who looks at things scientifically. Atheists are the same as theists at least insofar as they claim to have definitive answers about things we cannot test for presently. What I've got is a set of hypotheses... hypotheses based on my experience. It tends to lean toward atheism, but some of my grand scheme of things ideas aren't exactly in holding with the notion that this physical reality and this universe are all there is, or death means an infinite nothingness for eternity. I just find that just because there's more to the picture doesn't mean that the parts of reality we can't see (most of it) are more or less special than we are in any way.

Would you have to spell it again after the first time? Who is rearranging your fridge magnets? gasp! It's a g-g-g-GHO oh wait we just came from there... >___>

inb4 repercussions

Koans are a kind of reverse psychology, as far as I can tell. If you just explain the proposition directly, it usually confuses people. If you ask a student a stupid question and they try to answer it seriously, they didn't know it was a stupid question, revealing their stupidity. Then they sarcastically avoid the issue until the student arrives at the logical conclusion by way of process of elimination. It's faster than the western method of repeatedly pointing to the thing itself as far as philosophical understanding goes, but western science has changed the world more in the last 50 years than the amount of change that has occurred throughout the rest of human history combined. Granted, not all for the better, but most. What we screwed up we can fix. If you point at the moon and someone mistakes your finger for the moon, just grab their head and point it at the moon while pointing, or point at objects they already know while naming them until they wrap their head around the concept of pointing, then point at the moon.

I don't know, and neither do you. Questions that require evidence we will never be able to collect are what I like to call stupid questions. ^__^