miguelkuk

In this thread you can post riddles for other users to try and solve. Out of curiosity you can also post interesting paradoxes for others to enjoy. Rules are: 1- If you post a riddle, make sure you come back regularly to check if someone has solved it. 2- If someone solves a riddle, another one can be posted, or a paradox can be posted. 3- If someone posts a riddle that takes an unusually long amount of time (or posts) to solve (i.e. a couple of pages) and no one manages to solve it, the person who posted it should post its solution so the thread can continue. 4- Keep it clean, and clear for other users to understand it. That's it then. I'll start with a riddle then: You're dead and you get to the spiritual plane. In front of you are 2 doors, one that leads to Hell and the other one to Heaven. In front of each door is a guardian spirit. The one in front of the door to Heaven will only tell the truth, and the other one will only tell lies. You're allowed to ask only one question to one of them to figure out how to enter Heaven. What do you ask and who do you ask it to?

I've just realised I've started this thread in the wrong section. I'm opening it again in the right one: Forum Games. Moderators are free to end this thread

But you don't know which door is which.

Well, Miguel is my first name. Not too hard to figure it out. K is a long story that I can't tell because this is a PG-13 site. and UK because I live in the UK.

Originally posted by: Tropod Wackee I can still truly believe that the Earth is flat because I have not seen it from space for myself. Sure the evidence is there, photos etc, but knowing of something can never replace the experience of something.quote> I could comment on several things here but I'll focus just on this: Following your logic, you also don't believe there's a country called Sudan or Madagascar, since you've never been there. And you probably think all the members of Simtropolis are also non-existent since most likely you've never met any of them. What about your liver or pancreas? I'm sure you've never seen them either. You sure they exist? Originally posted by: Hahayoudied If anyone read the Bible, one sentence of it says that anyone that doesn't believe in god are fools and the second sentence says that all non religious people does nothing good. There are loads of famous people, people who did good things, and regular people who aren't religous. Also, in 1997, more than 75 % of the people in jail were religous.quote> Not to mention all the hideous crimes committed in the name of god by people who believed in him. It has been mentioned several times that believing in god means you'll be saved and not believing will damn you. The thing everyone seems to forget is that believing or not believing does not depend on oneself. You either do or you don't. You can't force yourself to believe in something no matter how much you try. If I told you to believe in santa claus, could you force yourself to do so? No. The same goes for believing in god(s). Having said that, if believing is something you have no control of, how can you be judged upon it, and your eternal fate decided upon it? It seems irrational, ilogical, unjust, and just plain crazy. Also, the fact that one can't disprove god's existence is no evidence for his existence. I can't prove fairies or dragons or gremlins don't exist either and that doesn't prove they do.

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How would he know if it was 666 or 999 upside down on his hand?

for having way more posts than me even though i joined ST way before

Originally posted by: panthersimcity4 Seriously, I think the book was written in codes and symbols because God knew that idiots in the future would abuse it if they knew too much, and that people should just worry about real problems. The thing I like about God is that he knows we're complete imbeciles.quote> One thing that really bugs me is how Christians can so easily overlook their religion's contradictions and are able to happily concile two opposing ideas. If God knows the future, it implies that it is already set. Each individual has therefore their own destiny already traced, which completely eliminates free will. If mankind has no free will, how can God judge you for your actions since all of everyone's actions have been determined from the beginning, and thus created by God making Him the sole responsible for Men's actions. Another thing, you say that God knows we're imbecils. Well, if He made us imbecils it was His fault, and besides, that would also make him responsible for our sins and mistakes: we're just imbecils...

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Come On Man! Played All Night Yet? (a bit naff, but hey...) OSMOSIS

Originally posted by: Frankie_Grove If you remember, his original "vision" of humanity had no "evil". But the evils were released or whatever...similar to Pandora's Box..Therefore humanity has brought the evils upon themselves, and therefore must not be rid of them yet.quote> God was nevertheless responsible for making it possible for "the evils to be released" in the first place. If God intended for Man to be good, he would have made sure he could not turn evil by creating evil in the first place. This is assuming God exists, of course, which I personally think is far fetched. If God created man with the possibility to either be good or evil, then He is responsible for that. It is all very easy for God to preach goodness and resistance to temptation, since He is perfect and therefore not prone to become evil. In other words, if God is perfect and good, He cannot by definition be tempted by evil. This makes it very easy for him to preach righteousness without first hand knowledge of what it means to be imperfect.

sithlrd98: thanks very much

There used to be a mod (I think) that allowed you to organize plugins in a certain way so that you could start the game using only selected plugins and not others... Anyone know what I mean and where to get it?

simphonian: I believe the Bible also says "Judge not and thou shalt not be judged", so why do christians insist on judging others all the time? teddycole: I use that Epicurus quote all the time. I also like "We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." (Richard Dawkins) and "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." (Isaac Asimov)

Can Humans Outdo Computers On Learning And Teaching Electronics? MIGUEL

Originally posted by: saltandsauce atheism is a religion in the sense that a group of people force their ideas on everyone else and preaching that religion is false and enslaving and thus they are hypocrites atheism is the religion without faith i don't mind you being atheist but please shut up, get over yourself and keep your crap to yourselfquote> a·the·ism –noun 1. the doctrine or belief that there is no God. 2. disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings. [French athéisme, from athée, atheist, from Greek atheos, godless : a-, without; see a-1 + theos, god; see dh?s- in Indo-European roots.] re·li·gion –noun 1. a. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe. b. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship. 2. The life or condition of a person in a religious order. 3. A set of beliefs, values, and practices based on the teachings of a spiritual leader. 4. A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion. I don't think you can call atheism a religion. It is by definition the lack of religion. Just as you cannot call baldness a hair style.

In Europe: London, Paris, Strasbourg, Cologne, Prague, Florence, Venice, Amsterdam, Krakow, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Lisbon In Asia: Dubai, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok In America: San Francisco, Vancouver, Las Vegas, New York, Washington, Miami, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires In Oceania: Perth I cannot list any city I haven't been in so I won't list any in Africa and skip Sydney

Originally posted by: mayor of the manor It says something about our compassion for other creatures we pity. Of course people in the World will have varying levels of compassion but compassion none the less for other humans, organisms and sometimes even inanimate objects.quote> If we didn't help avoid these extinctions, we might well become endangered too. The ecosystems of the world would suffer a tremendous blow and become way too unstable for major changes not to occur. And ultimately these major changes would catch up with us and probably make life impossible for humans. As such, saving other species from extinction is far from "human compassion". It's a selfish act to save our own species and maintain equilibrium within Earth's ecosystems.

Originally posted by: Mikeaut1 Originally posted by: Micah It doesn't matter either way. Christianity isn't a religion. It's a lifestyle.quote> WELL SAID!!! I believe in Creationism. Evolution has some great points, but some of it is bizzarre, like we once were primates. I don't believe that, I think we were just created by God.quote> We STILL are primates, as we are mammals, as we are animals... Originally posted by: schm0 Originally posted by: PathE Originally posted by: nealos101 I believe god when he tells me he created everything in six days, and I'll believe a scientist when he says that the earth was created in so many million years...(edit)....So I shall beilieve them both becuase A) God is my diety and I trust him and B) Scientists are my fellow men and women and I trust them. I don't try to mix them... It doesn't really work that way... Maybe put one before the other... But don't ever try to mix them up. ...You'll get confused if you do. N.quote> How do you reconcile the two? Don't they cancel each other out? Herein lies one of the fundamental questions: who do our youth turn to for their information about the beginnings of our planet and the life contained on it?quote> quote> You don't need science to contradict religion. Religion does a pretty good job at contradicting itself. As Isaac Asimov once said :"Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." And "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then he is evil!" (Epicurus)

How ridiculous!!! The thing is, I don't say this to criticize the company for selling this. If it has a market, why shouldn't they exploit it? What I find ridiculous is the fact that there IS a market for this. If they can make money out of people's stupidity, let them. It's up to people to wise up...

Wow! I spent about a week going through the whole journal. I never thought it would be this long. But well enjoyed time though.

Why not Merry Holidays? He hehe

This is great! Obviously being from London I enjoy this immensely. Will you try to recreate the whole city or just specific areas? There have been a few attempts already but all have stagnated after a while. I don't blame them. It's quite a challenge...