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A "show us yer bitch tits" contest.
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My dad used to tell us that he was the smartest guy in the world, but I knew I was the smartest guy in the world, so I knew it was bullshit.
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No, I never assumed anything about you, but your postings, including this last one, have fallen pretty far short of what I thought you might be capable of.
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Unbelievable
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They're all bark and no....
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I think we can all agree here that Palin's a cultist, totalitarian, asset raping shitbag. Thank you, and God Bless.
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Whatever, AK. You're making up both sides of your argument now, and you're not quite as on it as I thought you might be at first, so I'm done with you.
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In high school, I worked with a guy in the vineyards who claimed he was Jesus.
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I just wanted to take this opportunity to mention that I do not have a working TV so that you will all admire me for spending the 16 hours on average I would have spent watching Friends reruns creating great art, literature, and enlightening all of you here with fresh ideas that will create a better future for our planet and its inhabitants.
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Actually, the scientific community has had a working definition for what constitutes being alive for quite some time. You want short answer for a question that doesn't have one. I've asked a basic definitional question (which also doesn't have a short answer, but at least it has one) to assess your ability to meaningfully participate in a useful discussion. Otherwise, why waste our time? Clock's ticking. Quit nickle and diming and poking at it. Either admit you don't know or let's hear the complete answer. 1) made of 1 or more cells 2) contain DNA as genetic material 3) respond to stimuli 4) metabolize (take in energy and carbon and make waste) 5) reproduce 6) evolutionary change 1 year ago Source(s): "Biology", 5th edition; Campbell, Mitchell and Reece Pretty incomplete list, but good enough for discussion purposes. Under this definition, viruses are not alive, yet they are self-replicating organic structures. Nor are organelles, which were separate entities prior to being assimilated into single celled organisms during life's early phase of evolution. And then there's prions. So, given this plethora of sub-cellular entities, isn't the definition of what is 'alive' just a human construct developed for scientific, definitional, organization purposes? Yes. Religion has always bestowed God with the power of giving life, but being 'alive' is a purely human, arbitrary, mechanical and very recent definition that has nothing at all to do with God or religion. Our current definition of 'life' (say, the one you presented...good enough) is just one more step in a continuum of hierarchical, replicating, organic structures that go from amino acids lodged in interstellar amorphous ice using super nova radiation as an energy source to idiots like us who waste their time on the interwebs arguing. There is no 'big magic leap' from what is 'alive', no 'divine spark of life'. After all, the definition of 'alive is ours, not God's. So, how did life evolve? One tiny step at a time. Any undergrad can recreate the interstellar conditions and make their own amino acids. That's probably where the 'organic' part started. Or was it the creation of carbon in the first super novas? Or the Big Bang itself? And now researchers are poised to make cells, that is, 'living' organism, from scratch. Where, exactly, does the magic come in? I think you get the idea by now. We're no different from amino acids, viruses, or cells; we're just bigger, more complex, and more hierarchical organic machines. Hit a virus with a hot enough flame; it stops working. Throw one of us into a bonfire, and we stop working, too. Wonderful? Yes. Mystical? Only if that's what you need to believe for your own reasons.
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I don't want my tax dollars paying for your art. And, unlike you, I actually pay taxes. How much does a drama queen pull down anyway, FW?
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Were you sent here to reveal God's personal plan for me? That would be a bit arrogant, but that said, I'd like to believe that the bitch-tittie chiding kicked off a little personal fitness epiphany on your part...you are looking slimmer....dare I take credit? Believe whatever makes you happy. Given your religion, it seems that you're prone to it. I've always been as svelt, smooth and bronzed as a gazelle. Italian super-underwear model material. Ask any of my climbing partners. My narcissism requires it. The only affect on my personal life that some of you have had is to provide some great companionship, friendship, and of course copious subject material for my waste-of-life youtube presentations. You know who you are. I'm looking forward to another year digitally recording your strange behaviors. I'd also like to thank my long suffering mother, late father, the first human to ever leave the African continent, Microsoft for a their really shitty but nonetheless free-with-Office movie making application, and Universal Music Group for approving my use of "Dude Looks Like a Lady" for non-commercial purposes.
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I'm enjoying a delicious cooter melt right now.
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Were you sent here to reveal God's personal plan for me?
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The universe isn't evil. It just is. And it's just fucked up. The mass extinction which wiped out 95% of all species on earth is a case in point. Kind of a waste of a lot of effort, doncha think? It happened hundreds of millions of years before man evolved to wrestle with his conscience about things like God and free will. It was God practicing for when Man came along. Finally, a creature with the intelligence and imagination to be really fucked with.
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Actually, the scientific community has had a working definition for what constitutes being alive for quite some time. You want short answer for a question that doesn't have one. I've asked a basic definitional question (which also doesn't have a short answer, but at least it has one) to assess your ability to meaningfully participate in a useful discussion. Otherwise, why waste our time? Clock's ticking. Quit nickle and diming and poking at it. Either admit you don't know or let's hear the complete answer.
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umm, am i misremebering the greek myth of wasn't naricissus in love w/ his image? and so, if ttk was in fact what you accuse him of being, wouldn't your hell for him be more heavenly? really, everything i needed to know about god i learned from reading Oolon Colluphid s series of philosophical blockbusters ("Where God Went Wrong", "Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes", "Who is this God Person Anyway?" and "That About Wraps it Up for God") God has a special place for his larger, smarter creatures.
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Moe signing off.
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Amazingly, KKK's brain couldn't operate FW's pancreas. His survival skills are excellent however; somehow he's snagged a job that requires zero performance.
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Hmmm, let's see: I just finished Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor; and did a reread of The Monkey Wrench Gang. When is the last time you looked outside your box? A thought provoking reading list to be sure...if you've been in a coma the past 20 years, perhaps. FW uses less than a handful of stone simple rhetorical devices over, and over, and over. His favorite is FIND THE CHINK, for which he conveniently provides what liberals believe so we don't have to. One you'll never hear from this chickenshit is THIS IS MY THESIS. Why is Palin or McCain good for the country, exactly? He just doesn't have the neural power, balls, or both to come up with a defensible argument, so all you'll here is the kind of standard liberal carping that Rush Limbaugh capitalized on so well over the past 20 years. His driving emotional need? Prove the liberals wrong!!!! for which he provides a 3 year old's understanding of liberal thought so he is guaranteed victory in his own mind. But FW's history of 'being right' is something completely different. If one had all four limbs removed and had nothing else to do, one could simply track his predictions regarding, say, the Iraq war and quickly realize that this self styled 'free thinker' is nothing more than an tinny amplifier with a blown out speaker for the GOP propoganda. If he ever had an original idea pop out of his barely functioning brainstem, it never made it to this forum.
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You don't know FW, but I certainly do. He's not able hold more than 1/2 an idea in his forebrain at any one time, so slow it down for him. SHE DIDN"T DO IT, SO IT'S ALL A LIE AND LIBERALS ARE BAD AND PALIN IS OK AND SHE'S ALSO BEING PERSECUTED FOR NOTHING BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T DO IT, WHATEVER IT IS, BUT SOME LIBERAL SAID SHE DID ONCE, SO ALL LIBERALS ARE LIARS, OK????? GET IT????? The idea that Palin's actions indicate that she wanted to ban books, and therefore believes in banning books, which is a basic way of thinking that may be antithetical to a free society, is just not going to register in FW's pea brain because ALL LIBERALS ARE LIARS!!!!!!! It's like trying to teach a pit bull not to lick its anus. Good luck.
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At least I'm damned to spend my brief corporal existence armed with a sense of humor. Jebus, talk about getting a life. Fucking drama queens. BTW, thanks for spending your valuable time watching my waste of time youtube presentations. Hope you weren't late for church. Of course, the implicit assumption here is that the ridiculous five year old's fairyland you believe in is any more legitimate than the one I presented. I beg to differ.
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Yes, we should kill all those who are inconvenient or flawed. Otherwise, it's indicative of "bad judgement". You'd make a fine Aryan. You're one Down's Syndrome baby the world could have done without.
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[TR] Forbidden Peak - North Ridge 9/5/2008
tvashtarkatena replied to JoshK's topic in North Cascades
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Online Slideshow: North American Alpinism in 2008
tvashtarkatena replied to tvashtarkatena's topic in Events Forum
Right now I'm like a short order cook: I may not be able to poach, but I can sure scramble.