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I am religious and believe in free will

71 (27.7%)

I am religious and do not believe in free will

10 (3.9%)

I am not religious and believe in free will

114 (44.5%)

I am not religious and do not believe in free will

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Total Members Voted: 251

[Frumple]

Beyond that, there's a number of sentient oranges in media. Plenty of 'em get the treatment.

[Orange Wizard]

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What is that, exactly? For research purposes only, I assure you.

[scrdest]

Without daring to invoke the terror of internet rule #34, i'll just post this picture of a unique form of citrus (while not an orange, that's a technicality), and let you draw your own conclusions about how possible pornography with it would be.

That's just to citruses what Cthulhu is to humans.

[Frumple]

...

What is that, exactly? For research purposes only, I assure you.

Check the image name

If you're talking about the fruit, anyway. Kinda' amusing, actually, considering the thread.

[Bohandas]

Marx severely underestimated the influence of psychosis, idle speculation, wishful thinking, and pathological lying on the development of religion.

[Brank]

I am a Christian!

[Orange Wizard]

I am a Christian!

Hello! Welcome! Read the thread if you dare - it's basically just sixty pages of mushrooms and crisis of faith.

...

If you're talking about the fruit, anyway. Kinda' amusing, actually, considering the thread.

Of course I'm talking about the fruit. It looks fantastic.

[Arx]

I am a Christian!

Hello! Welcome! Read the thread if you dare - it's basically just sixty pages of mushrooms and crisis of faith.

* Arx puts his hand up.

And there is the old thread, if you're bored, I guess.

[Grek]

Totally Relevant:

This comic always annoyed me because it makes be wonder why Kim didn't do the obvious thing and dissolve Mark Twain's bones in acid. If spin is inversely proportional to the mass of the skeleton, we can get incredible efficiency by using very tiny bones!

No, I'm not crazy, why do you ask?

[wierd]

It's a kind of citron, (Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis) commonly called Buddha's Hand.

Being a citron, it is mostly rind. However, this makes it IDEAL for making zest.  I have never eaten one myself, but I understand that it is very fragrant, and a bit tart. I have eaten european style citrons (grapefruit sized outside, orange sized inside, very thick rind), which are very tart-- but not unpleasant like a sour miniature orange (Those are sour like a lemon!). 

Western cuisine uses the buddha's hand as a premium source of orange-like flavored zest for things like orange flavored cakes, cookies, and confectionary glazes.

Western citrons can be crossed with oranges, IIRC-- So it might be possible, with selective hybrid culture, to produce a fingered orange if someone really wanted to.

[scrdest]

Totally Relevant:

This comic always annoyed me because it makes be wonder why Kim didn't do the obvious thing and dissolve Mark Twain's bones in acid. If spin is inversely proportional to the mass of the skeleton, we can get incredible efficiency by using very tiny bones!

No, I'm not crazy, why do you ask?

Because very tiny bones would spin faster, but exert less force.

[wierd]

Also, due to fluid dynamics, more of the rotational energy would end up being converted into thermal energy, so less overall efficient. (He did mention DISSOLVING the bones, after all.)

Now, the interesting question-- would there be a net overall rotation for POWDERED bones?

[Frumple]

... I'd ask what all this had to do with religion, but then I realized funerary rites are actually a non-negligible part of religious officiary actions, so... I guess it's pertinent, though I don't foresee any substantiative religious movements in the near future supporting the use of the dead for power generation. Which is probably a bit of a waste, we might be able to get some roundabout biofuels out of it as is.

... does make me curious, though. What are the varying religious reasons for burial over, say, cremation or fertilizer or somethin'? What I can usually remember is that it trends to be more tradition than canon based, or hinged on some kind of nebulous "respect for the dead" sentiment...

[Arx]

I think in Christianity/Judaism there is a certain amount of "physical resurrection" stuff that makes some people nervous of cremation.

Personally, if God's bringing my dead body back to life I'm sure He can do it from ash and teeth as well as bones.

[wierd]

There's even some precident for that in the bible.

The new testament story of christ restoring sight to the blind man by making spitball-mudballs, and shoving them into the guy's empty eye sockets and making new eyeballs that way pretty much sums up the "Burnination makes the corpse unressurectable" as being just shit created by the church later, and not really established with biblical precedent.

The real reason was to distance themselves from practices of other faiths, out of religious snobbery.