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by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-07 08:52pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Sherlock Holmes "subtly atheistic"
Replies: 42
Views: 4773

Re: Sherlock Holmes "subtly atheistic"

I took the view that it was supposed to suggest OMG DEVILZ at the start, but was actually in some was Moriarty related.
I dunno, I guess that it could be. Has Moriarty ever been associated with crows before? I never read the novels.
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-07 07:15pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Sherlock Holmes "subtly atheistic"
Replies: 42
Views: 4773

Re: Sherlock Holmes "subtly atheistic"

Blackwood was never described as doing 'satans work'. He's an I Can't Believe It's Not Freemasonry guy, not a devil worshipper. lol. You know what I meant. I don't remember any chain 'breaking free on it's own', they were on a dangerous elevated construction site. All I'm saying is that it was fair...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-07 07:05pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Sherlock Holmes "subtly atheistic"
Replies: 42
Views: 4773

Re: Sherlock Holmes "subtly atheistic"

Why? The crow is just a symbol of death (or Blackwoods puppetmaster). I don't recall anything supernatural at all, just comic irony. A crow that just happens to conveniently follow the villian around the whole movie while he's allegedly doing Satan's work? Strikes me as being a tad suspicious. :win...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-07 06:51pm
Forum: News and Politics
Topic: Sherlock Holmes "subtly atheistic"
Replies: 42
Views: 4773

Re: Sherlock Holmes "subtly atheistic"

There is also this...
Spoiler
It is heavily implied during the final battle between Blackwood and Holmes that the villian's grisly death by hanging was due to some kind of supernatural vengence for dabbling in the occult under false pretenses.

...Which seems to derail the article's argument.
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-07 05:42pm
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

Wrong. You are totally misrepresenting my argument. I've pointed out that your position contains a logical inconsistency, while mine does not. As Simon as been pointing out to Kuroneko for at least a page and a half, there is no logical inconsistency inherent to asking "why" the universe ...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-07 12:57am
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

I am correctly using the word. You are not. In other words, you are manufacturing your own undefined made-up cosmology as you go along, ignoring the real one, and trying to pretend that this bullshit is acceptable because you don't know anything. Uhhh...No, we simply seem to be addressing completel...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-05 08:25pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Best SciFi Movie of 2000s - Nominations
Replies: 170
Views: 10945

Re: Best SciFi Movie of 2000s - Nominations

Can we second more than one flick?
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-05 08:22pm
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

Without the ability to provide that answer, we are not justified in calling the question incoherent simply because we don't care about providing an answer. Exactly. This was my primary problem with Wong's argument. It certainly represents a viewpoint which could conceivably be defended as being a r...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-05 01:16am
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

So, basically, you don't care if your argument has no backing in reality? Basically, I don't "care" if the people I'm arguing against are so hung up on lingo and jargon that they allow it to get in the way of actual debate. I'm not an astro-physicist, so sue me. I never claimed to be. The...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-05 12:08am
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

A far more "literalist" approach to a scientific theory like the Big Bang, which can only be correctly interpreted in a literal sense? No, a far more "literalist" approach to such subjective issues as "existence" and "time." You seem to quite literally equate...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-04 10:15pm
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

Wrong, imbecile. Nothing about the Big Bang theory requires a time when the universe did not exist. I already pointed out earlier that time itself is an aspect of the universe; to imagine time without the universe is like imagining music without sound. Then it would appear that we are not talking a...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-04 09:53pm
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

it did not "come to be". There was no time when it did not exist, you stupid asshole. And you can prove this....How exactly? In fact, the Big Bang and Big Crunch theories would essentially seem to directly contradict such a statement. How are you quantifying "existence" here? Ar...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-04 09:32pm
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

That is manifestly untrue, because the universe's existence is a fact, while God's existence is a meaningless statement which is not even properly defined Once again, no one is questioning that the universe exists. What we are debating here is how this came to be. By claiming not only that the univ...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-04 08:32pm
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

You're a fucking idiot. You do not need to provide a reason for the universe to exist because it obviously exists. Did I ever deny that it exists? The real question is "why" it exists and "how" this came to be the case. Simply throwing your hands up in the air and saying "I...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-04 08:12pm
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Best SciFi Movie of 2000s - Nominations
Replies: 170
Views: 10945

Re: Best SciFi Movie of 2000s - Nominations

I second Watchmen.
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-04 08:08pm
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

Which allows the existence of a non-causal universe... how, exactly? Why is there a universe? If the universe simply created itself, or if an eternal cycle of "big bangs" and "big crunches" have simply been perpetuating themselves forever without a God as some string theorists p...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-04 07:57pm
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

You have not understood my point correctly. My point was far more restricted: if the absence of time were an essential characteristic of Satan, then the idea of some point in time at which Satan had not rebelled against God is meaningless. However, this does not mean that God could not possibly hav...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-04 05:07pm
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

If the existence of something (be it the divine being or the universe itself) requires no creator or cause, which of the two is less contrived? I never denied that the one was more contrived than the other. However, considering the fact we are dealing with what effectively constitutes a mind boggli...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-04 03:01pm
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

Care to expand on that? I'm not sure I follow. If I am understanding your point correctly, you were saying that the absence of "time" being an essential characteristic of the natures of both God and Satan would mean that God and Satan existed simultaneously and that, therefore, neither co...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-04 11:59am
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

Ghettor Edit: The only way I can imagine is to throw out the concept of a non-causal God and go with a God of infinite computing power. That would allow one to anchor all divine interventions firmly on the timeline... with the catch that we need to do so, which would be very unappealing to the avera...
by Knobbyboy88
2010-01-04 11:52am
Forum: Parting Shots
Topic: [Knobbyboy88] Monotheistic religions and Time
Replies: 59
Views: 82329

Re: Monotheistic religions and Time

All this makes me wonder if Lucifer/the Devil is subject to Time. 1/ Yes : how could he have been created before our Universe and its Time was created ? 2/ No : then how could there be a "before rebellion towards God" and an "after rebellion towards God" ? That question applies ...
by Knobbyboy88
2009-12-20 01:32am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Avatar review thread
Replies: 1207
Views: 159019

Re: Avatar review thread - NO SPOILERS UNTIL FRIDAY

The Colonel's transport was a fuckoff huge ship that could carry a shitload of those knifefighting humvees-with-legs and could take on missiles exploding on it and stuff and had freaking infantry squads on top of it, with sandbags (or something) and machinegun mounts. I think that, yeah, it might'v...
by Knobbyboy88
2009-12-20 01:07am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Avatar review thread
Replies: 1207
Views: 159019

Re: Avatar review thread - NO SPOILERS UNTIL FRIDAY

I got the impression that we were simply greedy fucks. However, there were a few sly references thrown in here and there about "our dying world" and the like which might have implied otherwise.

"Unobtainium" might be the hot commodity it is for a reason you know. :D
by Knobbyboy88
2009-12-20 01:01am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Avatar review thread
Replies: 1207
Views: 159019

Re: Avatar review thread - NO SPOILERS UNTIL FRIDAY

I didn't really find that stuff really offensive at all since that stuff was practically a given, it's almost like disliking a romantic movie because the guy and the girl end up falling in love. again after their big fight, and then resolving their issues and living happily ever after or something....
by Knobbyboy88
2009-12-20 12:13am
Forum: Science Fiction
Topic: Avatar review thread
Replies: 1207
Views: 159019

Re: Avatar review thread - NO SPOILERS UNTIL FRIDAY

A pretty "meh" movie on the whole. The good: The scenery was great, the aliens looked pretty cool (Signorny Weaver's "Avatar" looked kind of creepy however), the fight scenes were INCREDIBLE , and I was even pleasantly surprised to see the stoneage aliens actually get their asses...