04-19-2007, 07:50 AM
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GodlessHeathen wrote
That's not fair - you posted an actual scientist! Not that a woman that looks like the lab-coat chick couldn't be a scientists, but for some reason I don't think the woman in the picture actually is a scientist.
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But she has a lab coat........
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04-19-2007, 07:53 AM
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If religion were based on facts, it would be called science, and no one would believe it. -- Stephen Colbert
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04-19-2007, 08:07 AM
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robusthealthysoul wrote
Does science fiction count as science? I was a huge A.C. Clark/Asimov fan when I was a kid, and they wrote quite a few stories questioning faith or at least positing different interpretations of what faith is. This is what started me questioning religion. It was more a love of space that led me to science. Atheism was always kind of a given.
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My turning may have been partially induced by fantasy literature. The fact that someone thought religions up for enterntainment purposes kind of led me to question real-world religion. I've unfortunately not found the time to read any of Asimov's or Clark's production. It might be a similar phenomenon, though.
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." ~Albert Einstein
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04-19-2007, 09:52 AM
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I don't really know what happened to me. I guess I can blame it on the huge subscription to National Geographic (LOL) I've been collecting since 1994. Somewhere between 1994 and now I decided that I needed answers.
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04-19-2007, 10:03 AM
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hannahasbury1 wrote
I guess I can blame it on the huge subscription to National Geographic (LOL) I've been collecting since 1994.
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Query: What's so funny about a subscription to National Geographic?
If religion were based on facts, it would be called science, and no one would believe it. -- Stephen Colbert
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04-19-2007, 10:05 AM
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I Live Here
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Quote:
inkadu wrote
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hannahasbury1 wrote
I guess I can blame it on the huge subscription to National Geographic (LOL) I've been collecting since 1994.
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Query: What's so funny about a subscription to National Geographic?
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the same thing that is funny about all Hannah's posts........ NOTHING
You can always turn tricks for a few extra bucks. If looks are an issue, there's the glory hole option, but don't expect more than ... tips.
~ Philiboid Studge
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04-19-2007, 10:12 AM
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My Gran bought me a subscription to National Geographic. :P
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04-19-2007, 10:17 AM
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My doctor has a subscription to National Geographic. :rolleyes:
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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04-19-2007, 10:18 AM
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GaryM wrote
My Gran bought me a subscription to National Geographic. :P
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My parents collect 'em. The ones for 40-50-60's are interesting, but almost entirely for the advertisements. I love it that car advertisements used to try to convince people that they needed a car -- not a particular brand of car -- just any car. But NG doesn't have a lot of advertisng, so my parents would have been wiser to collect Time, Life or Newsweek. At least if they wanted to entertain their son...
My parents are still keeping all their NG's. Apparently NG is one of those magazines EVERYONE collects, because I keep finding decades worth of NG's in the library's free bin.
If religion were based on facts, it would be called science, and no one would believe it. -- Stephen Colbert
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04-19-2007, 10:28 AM
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National Geographic = Pure porn. Least it was back in the day, before Playboy.
"So many gods, so many creeds! So many paths that wind and wind, when just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs."
--Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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04-19-2007, 10:36 AM
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Quote:
inkadu wrote
Quote:
GaryM wrote
My Gran bought me a subscription to National Geographic. :P
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My parents collect 'em. The ones for 40-50-60's are interesting, but almost entirely for the advertisements. I love it that car advertisements used to try to convince people that they needed a car -- not a particular brand of car -- just any car. But NG doesn't have a lot of advertisng, so my parents would have been wiser to collect Time, Life or Newsweek. At least if they wanted to entertain their son...
My parents are still keeping all their NG's. Apparently NG is one of those magazines EVERYONE collects, because I keep finding decades worth of NG's in the library's free bin.
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In the ones I have, the overwhelming majority of ads are for cameras or photo printers, and the rest are for exotic holidays or "green" cars. There's also ads for energy companies that just say how eco-friendly they are, e.g. there's an ad where ExxonMobil points out it researches "new energy technologies".
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04-19-2007, 11:32 AM
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Quote:
Irreligious wrote
National Geographic = Pure porn. Least it was back in the day, before Playboy.
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That's how I knew I wasn't racist.
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If religion were based on facts, it would be called science, and no one would believe it. -- Stephen Colbert
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04-19-2007, 11:33 AM
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GaryM wrote
In the ones I have, the overwhelming majority of ads are for cameras or photo printers, and the rest are for exotic holidays or "green" cars. There's also ads for energy companies that just say how eco-friendly they are, e.g. there's an ad where ExxonMobil points out it researches "new energy technologies".
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And something about outrageously glossy advertisements doesn't scream, "environmentally friendly."
Judging from the advertisements, NG readers are fabulously wealthy, environmentally-minded and probably a little bit shallow.
If religion were based on facts, it would be called science, and no one would believe it. -- Stephen Colbert
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04-19-2007, 11:38 AM
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inkadu wrote
Judging from the advertisements, NG readers are fabulously wealthy, environmentally-minded and probably a little bit shallow.
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You do get the feeling that you should be driving around in a solar-powered car taking photos with a serious camera.
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04-19-2007, 11:46 AM
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Quote:
GaryM wrote
Quote:
inkadu wrote
Judging from the advertisements, NG readers are fabulously wealthy, environmentally-minded and probably a little bit shallow.
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You do get the feeling that you should be driving around in a solar-powered car taking photos with a serious camera.
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National Geographic: For people who work too hard to ever take a vacation, but if they did, hoo-boy, they'd have the right camera.
If religion were based on facts, it would be called science, and no one would believe it. -- Stephen Colbert
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