Life the Universe & everything

[Guest]

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5 medals heh? Wow, what an athlete. So tell me your secret. Is it talent, doping, or just pure training ???

But the Lit Olympics was truly a great idea. Always a fun-read and no story sucked so far.
(And i'm pretty confident that I will be in Liar's story I guess)

Snoopy

I think I'll put it down to the training. One fellow athlete (who also has the same amount of medals - pure coincidence, I'm sure!) has been setting me a rigorous training schedule.

Thank you, glad you think so. I completely agree, all of the stories have been of very high quality.

I hope you will be in Liar's story and also one or two others.

Lou

 

[dr_mabeuse]

The supposed debate about angel-overcrowding on the head of a pin is apocryphal and never happened. It’s meant to satirize medieval scholasticism which did treat with these kinds of problems, which seem ludicrous to us today, but were kind of like the hunt for the Higgs boson of their day: an attempt by scholars to reason their way to an understanding of ultimate reality.

Thomas Aquinas did ask whether it was possible for angels to travel from point A to point C without going through point B. This also seems like silly pedantism to us, but he was really asking whether it was ultimately possible to know the means by which God operated in the world. If Angels had to go through point B on the way from A to C, then that implied that God played by the same physical rules that humans knew, and that it might be possible to understand His plan. If not, then God played by His own rules, and all bets were off. We’d could never hope to understand the Big Picture.

Sorry, but I always find this stuff fascinating.

---dr.M.

P.S. Thommy A. also handled the thorny problems of whether there's excrement in heaven, and whether one's hair and nails continue to grow in paradise. Don't know how he came down on those two, though.

 

[SnoopDog]

I think I'll put it down to the training. One fellow athlete (who also has the same amount of medals - pure coincidence, I'm sure!) has been setting me a rigorous training schedule.

Thank you, glad you think so. I completely agree, all of the stories have been of very high quality.

I hope you will be in Liar's story and also one or two others.

Lou

Training, I see.

Thnx sweetie, I'm gonna go to dreamland soon. Hope you have a great night, read you soon.

Bye, bye,
Snoopy, snuggle

 

[Liar]

Re: at the same time?

Shit Liar

They're fuckin angels they can fit as many as they want onto a pinhead at any time. Non-corporeal beings by definition don't take up any space!

What if it's a non-corporeal pinhead?

 

[Guest]

Or a human pinhead? P.

 

[Guest]

Or Pinhead from Hellraiser.

 

[lewdandlicentious]

The supposed debate about angel-overcrowding on the head of a pin is apocryphal and never happened. It’s meant to satirize medieval scholasticism which did treat with these kinds of problems, which seem ludicrous to us today, but were kind of like the hunt for the Higgs boson of their day: an attempt by scholars to reason their way to an understanding of ultimate reality.

Thomas Aquinas did ask whether it was possible for angels to travel from point A to point C without going through point B. This also seems like silly pedantism to us, but he was really asking whether it was ultimately possible to know the means by which God operated in the world. If Angels had to go through point B on the way from A to C, then that implied that God played by the same physical rules that humans knew, and that it might be possible to understand His plan. If not, then God played by His own rules, and all bets were off. We’d could never hope to understand the Big Picture.

Sorry, but I always find this stuff fascinating.

---dr.M.

P.S. Thommy A. also handled the thorny problems of whether there's excrement in heaven, and whether one's hair and nails continue to grow in paradise. Don't know how he came down on those two, though.

Did anyone write the health and safety rules for maximum pinhead population at any one time????

 

[Carl East]

Life the universe and everything.

Does this include my unmade bed, because I can explain my tardiness. I can also explain the meaning of the universe, but I wouldn't want to bore anyone. It's a little bit long winded, and besides we all get to do this all over again one day. Now if you want to know about Chaos theory, or time relative to when Ladies panties came into fashion, I'm ya man.

I can even explain crotchless knickers, only you probably wouldn't believe that one.

Carl

 

[Lovepotion69]

I have a feeling I'm far too tired to even understand half of the questions raised in the first post... Not to mention my vocabulary doesn't include long words like the one included in the last question...(can you tell my mind's blurry?)

 

[stray_girl]

The question was "What do you get when you multiply 6 times 9?"

Where did you get 6 times 9?

 

[stray_girl]

My, my, an impatient Scotsbloke. I think of anthropomorphism as a device of the mindl, vs. an entity.

If you're really interested in the meaning of life there's always the "17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation" next week in Dublin.

Perdita

I Wish I could go. *sighs*

Hawking Changes His Mind on Black Holes
AP - Fri Jul 16, 9:08 AM ET
After almost 30 years of arguing that a black hole swallows up everything that falls into it, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking backpedaled Thursday. In doing so, he lost one of the most famous bets in recent scientific history.

"I've been thinking about this problem for the last 30 years, and I think I now have the answer to it," Hawking told the British Broadcasting Corp.'s "Newsnight" program.

"A black hole only appears to form but later opens up and releases information about what fell inside. So we can be sure of the past and predict the future."

The findings, which Hawking is due to present at the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Dublin, Ireland, on July 21, could help solve the "black hole information paradox," which is a crucial puzzle of modern physics.

Full Article

 

[SnoopDog]

Or Pinhead from Hellraiser.

*Yikes*

Snoopy, terryfied

 

[haldir]

THANKS

Sorry I had to bale last night but I was goosed and needed sleep (and food).

What an interesting collection of responses!

Think on my lovelies

 

[Tathagata]

If the answer is 42 then what is the question?


how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop??



How many angels can you get on the head of a pin?

one and they dont like it




What do you understand by anthropomorphic entities?

they hide my porn