Posts by iggy_the

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Got the Flu i think

by KW13 in

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the past couple of days, my eyes seem a bit watery and feel strained, my nose and everything else is blocked up with snotty stuff and i got a sore throat .

also can i add that food tastes rubbish.

sympathy and ideas here lol..

iggy_the_fish

I'm sorry to tell you this, but I'm afraid what you have is pretty serious and you will probably die*.

(*in about 60-70 years' time)

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Why would God speak in symbols if he really wanted us to understand?

by rebel8 in

if i was a deity and wanted people to know "the truth", i would just say it in plain language instead of veiling everything in symbolism, innuendo, and vague hints.

what does that method of communication accomplish?.

if i remember correctly, the borg answer to that is this method of communicating tricks the bad people but the good people can figure it out just fine.

I would agree rebel. To my (current anyway) way of thinking, if there were a God then life would be a bit like living in a permanent big brother series, where we clearly and unambiguously understood the rules before we went in.

So for instance, if I was observed coveting my neighbours ox or ass, making graven images or committing some other kind of sin (I dunno, looking at other men's bums or something) then some deep booming and impressive sounding voice would ring out and summon me to some kind of diary room where some kind of punishment would be handed out (probably death for the looking at men's bums one).

I have sometimes thought that if I ever run my own company or organisation, it might be quite fun to form the organisation rules and/or employee contracts in pseudo-biblical symbolic language. Then I could have fun visiting the people with various pestillences and smitings if they failed to comply with the ambiguous/unintelligable rules.

That having been said, I guess if I had written the bible, it would have been rather more dull

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Why would God speak in symbols if he really wanted us to understand?

by rebel8 in

if i was a deity and wanted people to know "the truth", i would just say it in plain language instead of veiling everything in symbolism, innuendo, and vague hints.

what does that method of communication accomplish?.

if i remember correctly, the borg answer to that is this method of communicating tricks the bad people but the good people can figure it out just fine.

iggy_the_fish

I would agree rebel. To my (current anyway) way of thinking, if there were a God then life would be a bit like living in a permanent big brother series, where we clearly and unambiguously understood the rules before we went in.

So for instance, if I was observed coveting my neighbours ox or ass, making graven images or committing some other kind of sin (I dunno, looking at other men's bums or something) then some deep booming and impressive sounding voice would ring out and summon me to some kind of diary room where some kind of punishment would be handed out (probably death for the looking at men's bums one).

I have sometimes thought that if I ever run my own company or organisation, it might be quite fun to form the organisation rules and/or employee contracts in pseudo-biblical symbolic language. Then I could have fun visiting the people with various pestillences and smitings if they failed to comply with the ambiguous/unintelligable rules.

That having been said, I guess if I had written the bible, it would have been rather more dull

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FLUFFY FLUFF FLUFFY...What is your pets name?????

by mama1119 in

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this is a follow up to yesterdays pet thread.

what are your pets names, and why did you name them that??.

my oldest dog is baylor...from the book ya ya sisterhood (he was the little brother, i just loved the name).

iggy_the_fish

we have a cat called Bugs, because when we got him he was infested with bugs.

we also have a horse called Araldite*.

ig

*this may or may not be true

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Read What Others are Saying

by JW_Researcher in

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iggy_the_fish

dammit - someone's going to have to dumb it (the first cartoon) down a bit so I can understand it.

What am I missing?

ig (who hates never getting these things and is all cross now)

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Give me your best conspiracy theories.

by XJW4EVR in

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the thread on the wt$ and the illuminati got me to think, and since i have to write a term paper in my sociology class i thought why not research some conspiracy theories.

please help be listing some of your favorite ones.

i only ask that you not tell me about 9/11, or the kennedy clan assassinations.

iggy_the_fish

crop circles being made by aliens, and add to that absolutely anything else to do with aliens.

At work we get books of abstracts of recently published scientific papers, and we found an abstract for some recent research which talked about the danger of extra terrestrial signals (the sort of thing being listened out for by the SETI project) possibly containing virus like data which could infect or contaminate our own terrestrial systems. So, somewhere in this world there is research money being spent on virus checking alien signals, and I for one sleep more soundly in my bed knowing that this work is being carried out.

ig

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How do you combat laziness?

by AlmostAtheist in

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i didn't say "unmotivated" or "lacking direction" or any of the other euphemisms i typically apply to it.

i said what i meant, and i do mean it.. but i can't imagine it has to be this way.

surely there's something i can do to combat it.

iggy_the_fish

the only reliable way I've ever found to combat my own almost terminal inertia is to get myself in situations where people are relying on me to do something, or if the fruits of my labour will be on display somehow. That's not necessarily very healthy - but I've never yet found any sort of way to motivate myself to do anything so AA you have my sympathy. Unfortunately, I've got myself into some situations where I've promised other people more than I could deliver which has definitely not been healthy, but there are also other odd times where it's worked ok. I have an envy for self motivated people. Hope you find something that works.

ig

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