Don't be silly! In a world like this?

Man, watching this reminds me how long it's been since I've been to a water park.  I should plan a trip to Hurricane Harbor one summer.

so there were 3 supreme court justices trapped out on a small boat. Although they were only 1/2 mile offshore, the boat was taking on water rapidly. They had to make a decision quickly, it was either row vs wade...

Aren't dogs great? This one's a little big, though.

Typically, I would pick a dog over a person most any day
Not always though...

Dogs are great because they are so easily pleased. Watching this makes me happy.

That dog has a better quality of life than I do. I've never felt lower. *solemnly eyes a length of rope*

Don't fret it. The average dog probably has a quality of life that very few humans ever get to, so you're not alone there.

HAHAHA!

Dogs rule and Cats Drool!!

I surely couldn't picture a crocodile or a whip scorpion doing anything resembling that behavior (playfulness). It's interesting that mammals share that common behavior, despite the intelligence differences.

still think about it, but I ruled out suicide a long time ago. I couldn't hurt my family like that. Theoretically, I could try and take out my family as well, but that would only cause even more pain. The more people die, the bigger the impact. Ultimately it would be cruel to perform anything short of total annihilation of all human life, and that would require quite a bit of planning - all sorts of things to factor in, like people who are hermetically sealed away through some method, astronauts in orbit, etcetera. I can't think of any technology that is likely to be available within the next century that could pull everything off - even nanotechnology horrors like gray goo probably aren't sufficient.

wait, I mean:

oh, what a cute doggie!

Time to party like it's 1997 all over again.

Wait a minute, I'm confused. Was the above part really written by Dais, or did it somehow get transplanted from a Jodo Kast post?

That's more like it.

That video is fantastic. I want a water slide. And to be a dog.

You would also have to contend with RNA and any space rocks that contain phosphorus. Although eliminating every human that exists right now would bring things to a halt, the randomness of evolution would not be concerned with your efforts. We, or something similar, would be produced again.

Jodo, I read somewhere that silicon is incredibly similar to carbon, one of the main things that forms life. What is your take on this? If humans developed as silicon based beings rather than carbon, what do you think would be different?

carbon fiber is cool on bike frames,, but not in boobs...

Dammit, this thread needs more kitten.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQj2ohqCBk

and a parrot telling you to STFU!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6klZx7IhwsI

How about spiders?
On drugs...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

Or the love between a boy and his dog . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hMI2-yqXWU

damn... that boy was screaming as if he was getting slaughtered...
I do have to wonder though, who the hell was recording that and what the hell where they doing just standing there? Perhaps doggie humps are a normal part of a messed-up household?

The kid was probably more startled than he was hurt. Part of growing up, boy. He learned several valuable life lessons there.

Lessons, as in spay/neuter your pet??
and never rely on the guy with the camera for any help...

Um...I don't want to spoil the fun here, but that Boy & His Dog movie is quite old already and has been established to be a set-up.
The kid is OBVIOUSLY getting the dog to do his "trick" here, which is why the person behind the camera isn't reacting either.

That's . . . . actually very disturbing. Amazingu!! You ruin everything you touch!

That's what she sai......no, wait, scratch that :S

keep in mind I'm considering omnicide (thanks wikipedia) from a personal basis - a suicide without "survivors", so to speak. I don't possess any notions about the inherent pain or misery of living, and I find those who feel that way a rather silly bunch. We have so little knowledge and insight into our own physical construction, it's absurd to even propose the idea that other species - especially other potential species - would suffer from the same problems we do (rather, the ones that make complete termination a desirable course of action).

Really, if you want to propose such a concept as an inevitable condition of human misery, you're going to have to make your working definition of the universe known - is it infinite in size and/or duration? Is it defined in a materialistic manner to the extent that all actions are essentially predetermined?

It was a set-up? You just can't trust anyone these days...
Of course that explains why the boy was screaming as if the dog was biting his penis off. And why the guy in the camera was filming as if he was enjoying this debauchery... which he probably was.

Well, I guess I'll have to stick to the doberman in the pool vid! No doubt, that dog was having a blast, and who can blame him!

cheers,

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If one were to run a human life backwards, then it could be argued that actions are predetermined, since all causes would be evident. But time runs forward, which leaves one to speculate what the causes of actions are.

I'm not sure if the universe is infinite in size or duration. I can think of two scenarios that would be quite disturbing:

1. The night sky is solid white.
2. The night sky contains no stars other than the sun.*

*While the sun is not technically in the night sky, we can infer its existence via the reflection from the moon. It's too bad that our ancient ancestors didn't realize that, since such a realization might have led to an earlier formation of scientific investigation. It was commonly believed for a long time that the moon generated its own light.

No, you can not rerun life backwards. You see, this would violate the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy is only zero for a reversible, adiabatic process. Your actions are not reversible.

The observable Universe is believed to be finite in both size and duration. The size is not known,  since we can not see to the end, however the age is quite well determined to be 13.7 billion years.

1)see Olber's paradox
2)this is how most humans have lived, with the idea that the sky has only the Sun (other stars were not believed to be similar to the Sun) -you might also be interested in the Dark Ages of the early Universe.

cheers,

-avatar!

Are you purposely trying to irritate me? Don't you ever have any fun with thought experiments?

I was referring to the multiverse. We don't know how old that is, or even if it exists.

I know. That's why if the night sky were solid white, we'd have a problem. It would intimate the universe is infinite in size.

Yes, awful what game such a young child got to play there on the Wii.

First I've heard of it.
What's on the other end then?

Milk and cookies.