Do You Have a Thinking Problem?
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UPDATED: Friday, April 24, 2026 00:33
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Well, what about dragons, then?
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I don't know about Dragons, but Bush has a pet Condeliza Rice that breathes fire when she's walking around in her hooker boots.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I don't know about Dragons, but Bush has a pet Condeliza Rice that breathes fire when she's walking around in her hooker boots.
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Quote:It wasn’t even widely held during the Middle Ages. There were a small number of theologians who regarded the Earth as flat: mostly fundamentalists who rejected the classical works, but no one took them seriously and the vast majority of Middle Age Christian authors held to the classical notion of a round earth. But such detractors from the round-earth theory had always existed; they weren’t unique to the Middle Ages and hadn’t been an important voice on this matter since the pre-Classical period. The flat-earth notion that has become identified with Christian thinking actually immerged during the 19th century, well after the Middle Ages, as consequents of Victorian humanism. Another shameful example of history being twisted to suit political ambitions and misconceptions.
Originally posted by antimason:
which ancestors believed that the earth was flat? the greeks? the babylonians? the egyptians or sumerians? if youll recall, the ancients had a more intricate understanding of the universe then even our more recent ancestors. it was only a brief period during the middle ages that such beliefs were held, and it has become a stereotype of blind faith ever since; since the bible doesnt even say that the the earth is flat or the center of the universe.
As far as dragons are concerned, there really isn’t a distinction between dinosaurs. We know that dinosaur fossils were probably the inspiration for dragons; the rest is imagination. And if we were to be honest with ourselves, the majority of our conception of dinosaurs today is largely imagination as well. Paleontology has allowed us to make better guess then our ancestors, but it is still wrought with assumptions.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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So you're saying the world isn't flat.......
Riiiiiiiiight..... sure thing guy.
Next you'll be telling me that smoking isn't good for you.
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Dragons did exist. They were feathered like birds, had huge wings for lift, hollow bones, and a methane bladder that aided in lift(lighter than air). That same methane bladder also allowed them to exhale fire. Some could even spit acid (It was really just their gastric fluids). They ate berries and other fruits, not humans. They got protein and fat from fish. Their eyes were crystalline, allowing dragons to see far into the night sky.
Some say they still inhabit parts of Fausagunia(I doubt that). Throughout history Man and Dragon have not been able to peacefully coexist, therefore we have lost the ancient wisdom they were going to bestow upon us. They like to share knowledge. Well, it could be true! Ever hear of Puff the magic dragon...Some try to tell me he's made-up
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Quote:If it is, NASA has some explaining to do, what with the pictures and what not.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
So you're saying the world isn't flat.......
Riiiiiiiiight..... sure thing guy.
Next you'll be telling me that smoking isn't good for you.
As for the smoking thing, I honestly couldn’t tell you as a fact. I don’t smoke. Unless someone sets me on fire, then yeah, it’s probably not good for me.
Although, I don't think there is any conclusive proof that second-hand Finn is bad for you.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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Thinking a lot makes me go to the bathroom.
I remember the last time I thunk'sumpin to much I found myself squatting over a toilet bowl. I started to THINK, what am I doing here? Then I began to get sick all over again. My father was a thinker, and my mother too.So it's a family problem. Don't be hard on yourself. There's plenty of ppl in government that want you to be a non-thinker like themselves. Just remember WE at FFfan.net are here for you.
Z
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Quote:Hey, Finn.
Originally posted by Finn mac Cumhal:
There are simply things that are not knowable, and arguing from any direction on this requires a commitment of faith to something, whether that faith is in science, god or something less defined.
Sorry for getting a little hysterical with you in my last post.
To whom it may concern: anyone want to freak HK out just tell him he's trying to silence people and force his "religion" on others.
I think our argument, Finn, is over where the threshold of the unknowable lies. I think it's a little farther off than you do. There is a lot in the West that is considered unknowable that is common knowledge around the world.
Life after death, for instance. That some aspect of us exists beyond death in some manner or other, is knowable and perceptible, I think. I'm not talking about faith (please, hear that), I'm talking about near death experiences, past life recall, messages from the dead. These are all things I've witnessed and experienced myself. Confirmation of past life experience can be very difficult, but folks have done it over the centuries. (BTW, prolly the quickest way to unsettle your don't know/can't know point of view would be to undergo past-life regression.)
The Christian Church has put out enormous effort over the centuries to demonize and marginalize anything that interferes with their own hierarchical vision of the Universe. Christianity, in the guise of the "one true way," has succeeded in destroying many of the ways human beings have had of genuinely connecting to their world. It's a great irony to me, that Western Scientific Materialism is a definitively Post-Christian ideology grown out of the Church's own pro-Western bigotry and spiritual hegemony.
HKCavalier
Hey, hey, hey, don't be mean. We don't have to be mean, because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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