Fortune telling of the weather
Meterology has always been a very probabilistic profession. You can get something like 70-80% accuracy by just stating "Today's weather will be more-or-less the same as yesterday's". The science of meterology, for all the millions poured into it, can only do 10 odd ...

While He is pleased with your apparent dedication to the cause, Skittles! demands action!

Bump

After His long absence, Skittles has decided to grace CC's forums with His divine presence once again. He formally requests the tithe of a Premium unto Him as a means toward this end.

Any takers?

Why is that? Do tell... the Wager is a big part of my argument.

In addition to what Balsifen said, the mercenary attitude displayed in consciously (or unconsciously) accepting Pascal's Wager is what's going to prevent you from getting into any hypothetical heaven. You're not in it because of ...

John, it seems to me that every point you raise (well, every rational one; Pascal's Wager hasn't held any water since about thirty seconds before it was first coined) can be rebutted by two words: Occam's Razor.
Why should we suppose a deity to explain the universe when a theory without this ...

I believe that God is beyond logic because God is beyond time. God being the creator of all things is also the creator of logic, thus is makes sense that God's existence violates logic.

I am not proposing this as an argument that God exists, I am just a little uncomfortable with the claim that ...

OA, I agree that any answer to "what came before the universe" is illogical, simply because the question is as well. You are talking about an event with a time co-ordinate that preceeds (whatever that means, given the context) the existence of a time axis. It's like asking "What is north of the ...

I agree. That was my original goal. I wanted to look at evolution and creation as a whole. Start to finish. Too many times I would be talking about 1 area and 15 other people would start talking about 20 other things. Now I am not mad that this happened, I just could not keep up with all of the ...

-Says that everything came from nothing by some unknown naturalistic means (but there is no proof and no scientific reason to think so except to deny a Creator)

Heh? What reason is there to assume a creator? You're trying to explain a mystery... with another mystery. Humanity has no knowledge of ...

'Nark, you still didn't answer my question. Why do you suddently claim to have not investigated Ani dispite the very fact that you claimed to have done so was rather integral to the events of Day 5...?

Night 1 - Ditocoaf (Which is why I backed him up)
2 - Skittles! (Which is why I believed him to be the Princess)
3 - Can't find my result, so I'm unsure if I sent one in then or not
4 - Definitely did not send one in.
5 - Ani
6 - Militant

No action, 'eh? Despite the fact I rather specifically ...

How did you miss the night 5 action if Neutrino got you visiting militant? Pardon me if this is incorrect but when neutrino meant "both nights" I assume that he means night 5 and 6. So that means you tracked him 3 times and always got militant(please correct me if im wrong).

Yeah, that's right ...

Not wanting to let go of any potential lead, I followed AD both nights and got the same result: militant. AD does claim to have investigated Militant once, but twice? Why'd you waste two on 'im, AD? I think this lends a little credence to William's theory last page about Nark being a mafia doc, or ...

Too... much...text...

I'm playing too, apparently!

Firstly, I'm not Ares, and anybody that could investigate me can see that I am obviously town.

Secondly, how the hell would I know what happened? I sent in my 'investigation/psychic reading' on Animorpher due to his completely useless role claim. It came back as scum. If something happened that ...

Hold Ze Presses!

I may have been totally ineffective this whole game and mildly submarining to boot, but I finally have something concrete to contribute. AD is not being wholely truthful here. Or maybe his investigation was altered in some way, I don't know, but I *do* know he didn't investigate ...

*cough*
Ok, since the deadline looms large and everyone participating in this game seems to have suffered total existence failure, I think I shall Vote: Ace . Partly because my (admittedly hazy) votecount indicated he was closest to lynch, but also because what Animorpherv said last page has a ring ...

While this may seem like (and, in fact, is) metagaming to the extreme, I'm marginally inclined to trust Reed. I've seen a couple of instances where he was complaining to Skoffin about his extremely boring role. Mafia roles (or any kind of scum, really), as a general rule, aren't boring. Now, it may ...

Ok, after something like 5 days worth of re-reading, I have finally conquered this thread. I think I deserve a medal.

Anyways, don't we think we're being a little hasty with this Clive bandwagon? I, for one, find it a little excessive for a single line (admittedly a blindingly stupid and completely ...

... why the aliens can't find something a little more interesting to do.
60 years, minimum. That's a long time for an arbitrarilary advanced (yet curiously humanoid...) race to stick around, probing rednecks. Humanity managed to decode its own genome in that time; I'm sure these aliens with their ...

A child needs the guidance from both sexes of parents as they grow up. Too many young boys no longer get to spend enough time with their father and the resulting mess is now on our streets.

I think you're mistaking "children need love and attention that single parents are generally unable to ...

Juan, I was responding to this post, more specifically the bolded part. You contended that "The right to bear arms is our only check", I set about proving why that was not true.


Seriously.....

Says who? Armed citizens have fought off oppression recently ...

The right to bear arms is our only ...

Obviously you know nothing about space envelopes otherwise you would know that if time travel was possible we could only go forward. So dragging books into the past isn't a problem.

Surprisingly, I was aware of this rather obvious limitation. It was an example that had little to nothing to do ...

Firstly, prove it.

You want me to start a rebellion singlehandedly? That may prove a little difficult.


Secondly, we've seen modern armys defeated by single action rifles.

By "Modern" I meant "up to date". I would most definately like to see proof of a significant portion of one of the ...