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[Karnewarrior]

Reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

What the..
I need to read this.

Yes.
Yes you do.
Hermione Granger forms an army. That is all you need to know to want to read this work. It. Is. GENIUS.

It was a brain-tree, in a brain forest.

I'm fairly certain someone said something along the lines of "I do not belive God gave us the ability to think just for us to not do so" or something like that, anyways.

[Euld]

It was a brain-tree, in a brain forest.

I'm fairly certain someone said something along the lines of "I do not belive God gave us the ability to think just for us to not do so" or something like that, anyways.

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
--Galileo Galilei
Learned that from Civ V

[Karnewarrior]

It was a brain-tree, in a brain forest.

I'm fairly certain someone said something along the lines of "I do not belive God gave us the ability to think just for us to not do so" or something like that, anyways.

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
--Galileo Galilei
Learned that from Civ V

Yeah, that's the one. Although I could have sworn it was Civ IV, not V... Scientific theory, IIRC.

[Vattic]

Spent the morning listening to Pixies albums. A friend suggested them and at first I wasn't overly impressed but they've grown on me a lot since then.

[Euld]

It was a brain-tree, in a brain forest.

I'm fairly certain someone said something along the lines of "I do not belive God gave us the ability to think just for us to not do so" or something like that, anyways.

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
--Galileo Galilei
Learned that from Civ V

Yeah, that's the one. Although I could have sworn it was Civ IV, not V... Scientific theory, IIRC.

Oh oops you're right, it's Civ IV.  I should have realized that right away, the quote is voiced by Leonard Nimoy in my head, as it is in the game.

[Leafsnail]

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
--Galileo Galilei
Learned that from Civ V

I love the sentiment, but I don't think it's actually valid logic.  You could just as easily say "I don't think God would give us rocks and the ability to kill each other with them if he didn't intend us to use them in that way".

Note that I'm not saying that reason and intellect are bad nor that killing people with rocks is good nor that God must want us to kill people with rocks.  Just that the logic doesn't seem to work.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
--Galileo Galilei
Learned that from Civ V

I love the sentiment, but I don't think it's actually valid logic.  You could just as easily say "I don't think God would give us rocks and the ability to kill each other with them if he didn't intend us to use them in that way".

Note that I'm not saying that reason and intellect are bad nor that killing people with rocks is good nor that God must want us to kill people with rocks.  Just that the logic doesn't seem to work.

I think the whole point is that God gave us free will, to do with what we will. He doesn't control, only judges.

Just my $0.02

[Jopax]

A storm rumbled trough the city, a proper summer storm, began before you realized it and ended even more abruptly.Now there is some sunshine as  the sun sets and everything is wet and shiny.

Also homemade ice cream, lots and lots of homemade ice cream

[Vattic]

Finished all the main light world Super Meat Boy levels and a good deal of the dark world ones. I'm still trying to get back up to my old skill level but enjoying every minute. The music is stuck in my head.

I love the sentiment, but I don't think it's actually valid logic.  You could just as easily say "I don't think God would give us rocks and the ability to kill each other with them if he didn't intend us to use them in that way".

Note that I'm not saying that reason and intellect are bad nor that killing people with rocks is good nor that God must want us to kill people with rocks.  Just that the logic doesn't seem to work.

I'm not sure killing people with rocks and reasoning are comparable actions. I see our mental faculties to be much the same as our physical ones.

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with legs has intended us to forgo their use."

Edit:Adding something on topic (sorry Janet).

[iceball3]

Holy freaking rails. Better fix them before Janet or somebody like me who cares about this topic flips their shit from such a derail. May I suggest someone make a new topic for this?

Happies, hmm...
Ohyeah. Ein appearantly can't handle Cat Planet. Too much happy jammed into it. X3
I'm still mystified though, how the hell does she know of Raocow, but missed that LP, out of all of them?

[ein]

I already told you, the man sends me into catatonia.

[Darvi]

I already told you, the man sends me into catatonia.

Whaaaaat? I don't believe it.

[Vector]

I believe the two major understandings were that it was either a quince, which does look like an apple, or a metaphor for conjugal relations.

Huh, I thought pomegranates were also on the table.  And apple = malus in Latin, i.e. "mal," i.e. evil... =/

What the..
I need to read this.

I went back and looked at some of the other stuff I'd been reading afterwards.  It simply does not compare.  This is... yeah, it's definitely my favorite Harry Potter fanfic, and full of both a. hilarity and b. science.

Basically, "What if the universe of Harry Potter were populated by scientists and mathematicians."

Go read :3

Edited to add example:

"Allow me to warn you that challenging my ingenuity is a dangerous sort of project, and may tend to make your life a lot more surreal."

[ein]

I already told you, the man sends me into catatonia.

Whaaaaat? I don't believe it.

Too much happy jammed into it. X3

Happiness is like drugs.
Drugs that make you vomit rainbows.

[Mindmaker]

Well, tomorrow is the day of my departure, will be gone for three weeks.

I'll miss that forum. Not because I post a lot here (which I do not), but because I enjoy reading many of the things written.
Maybe there'll be the means to go online, but that's no certainty.

I'll be here for some more hours.