Thanks for the link, Eric. That's comforting.

And I'm very glad his monster of a mother was prosecuted.

I'm always reminded of my oldest boy when he was about 2 and we were in the 1.5-foot-deep tiny kiddie pool standing right next to him. He seemingly bent down to touch the drain by his feet, but as his face went into the water he just left it there and didn't move. There was no jumping or waving or losing control; in fact, he was still standing up on his feet, just in a bending-over position with his face in the water and his arms not moving.

I guess his body immediately went into some kind of paralysis when he was probably still breathing in as he stuck his face in the water.

I'll never forget that horror.

So, what? About 13 to 14 new kiddie pools per week? That cheap plastic doesn't handle the cold well.

Now all you need is a kiddy pool, a ton of salt, and an indigo child to float in the pool; in an effort to perform random astral projection, locate and match people up to play D&D. Then dump a thousand d20s in the pool and have the child telekinetically randomize the rolls.

I'm certain there's a method to create randomization via shock therapy. We just need children to experiment on. Perhaps if we administer LSD to pregnant women in hospitals during ongoing double blind tests on a global scale, we can increase our chances of creating super human children for the strict purpose of more authentically randomized D&D.

I mean, it's not just the rolls that need to be given more randomization, the world creation and random events that are generated by human creativity aren't truly randomized --

But if we inundate developing fetuses with hallucinogens and then hook them up to machines and float them in saline solutions, we stand a chance at creating some truly frightening... err, creative D&D worlds.

I'd like to see the results of a kiddie pool centered directly on the equator with exactly half on either side. I assume if they tried the experiment that way several times the water would be expected to drain in a random direction.

Am I right?

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

His next jump will involve him landing in a kiddie pool


Hopefully, full of Jell-O and Bavaroise.

His next jump will involve him landing in a kiddie pool

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@Boise_Lib, your services are needed.

I love this vid. I watched it maybe 10 times the first time it was posted. Such joy.

I would imagine a sloppy pop in a kiddie pool in broad daylight would classify as public indecency.

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>> ^Deano:
>> ^shinyblurry:
>> ^Deano:
>> ^shinyblurry:
Proposal that I must accept? Please. The argument isn't even coherent. A lot of jawjacking which adds up basically to Mr Harris's incredulity that you could go from having a damaged brain to another existence intact. Well, if you have a soul then obviously the brain isn't the center and it doesn't really matter what happens to it.
Having a soul means there is a creator who gave you one. Why should it be too hard for God to move you from one place to the other. That is why this argument just breaks down. It doesn't consider the logical implications of what it's talking about. It picks and chooses and ends up with nothing but inconsistancy. Really what he is after is to try to isolate the question of the soul so as to gain ground on the question of God. Sorry, Sam, they're inseperable. When you bring the question around to what it's really asking, could God do this, then there really isn't anything to debate about anymore is there.

Good to see we have an expert on the soul here on the Sift!
It's more likely that every bit of EVIDENCE we have is that brain is undoubtedly "you". It's the conscious and unconscious and your sense of self.
Not much evidence for anything else, soul, god or any other guff. But I could be wrong of course. Maybe the soul is running a backup copy every day.

There's plenty of evidence, just not from sources you would accept. My experience confirms there is a soul, your mileage may vary. If you would like to think of yourself of some vague conglomeration of wiring and chemicals, having no life but this one, it being nothing more than the product of random chance, having no intrinsic meaning, but rather subject to happenstance and absurdity, have at it.
To me, the materialist perspective is the most primitive. There is more going on beneath the surface of things than anyone could know or see; the barest glimpse of it will convince you everything you know is wrong. If you're lucky, you might realize that you are actually loved and always have been. Good luck.

I'm afraid with logic like that you can believe in anything and of course that means your "evidence" is utterly unreliable. And that's a self-deluding and potentially dangerous path to embark on.


Fortunately God works by direct revelation, so we don't need to sit around and wonder. Anyone who has experienced that doesn't doubt anymore that He is real. The logic I spoke of was to open your mind. The material universe is the thinnest of veils. The curtain was rent when God stepped down to become one of us. When I was agnostic, I did not perceive the Spirit and thought more like you do. I can see why people doubt, because I thought it was all nonsense. I didn't see it. When I did see I realized immediately that the entirety of my knowledge didn't amount to a whole lot. I wish everyone could have that moment and expand their awareness because it is an evolution of understanding of many orders of magnitude. It makes you pretty humble when you thought you had it down and had a grip on what is and isn't, and then learn you've been playing in the kiddie pool this whole time and didn't really know how to swim.

>> ^Drachen_Jager:
The moon landings were faked. The secret service was complicit in the Kennedy assassination. UFOs regularly abduct and anal probe people.
Pick any of the above. Believe what you want, if you won't hold rational beliefs there's no point in trying to discuss anything with you.



This is exaclty how I feel. Quotes and speeches like this (the vid) are just a mark of unoriginal thought and recycled rhetoric. This vid could have come straight out of the 60s.

People who buy into this crap have the Historial depth of a kiddie pool and a narrow-minded and mule-stubborn understanding of geo-politics.

People like this believe they are liberal and open-minded when in fact they're just as fanatic and close-minded as right-wing tea-baggers.


Peace and love!!!! War is bad, everyone put down their weapons, think of the mothers and crying babies and think of..."Wait....Whats that?"

Apparently Im only allowed to continue this comment in Chinese due to new regulations from the newly conquered and created Peoples Republic of America.

Somebody forgot to send them the memo about the Man and War being the real enemy.

Well I suppose Free Speech had a good run.