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opinion: respecting one's tasty animals

Submitted by shehal on Sat, 01/15/2011 - 13:09

people eat various tasty animals. they also don't eat various tasty animals. of these the ones that don't eat are of significance because the reason to not to eat a type of meat most often is religious or based on strong principles that matter to the person. this blog post to assholes in the hospitality industry who tend to fuck-up their orders because they don't pay attention to detail.

opinion: science is a form of prophecy

Submitted by shehal on Fri, 01/14/2011 - 20:03

one of the cool things in science is its ability to predict future events. we apply various theories (sometimes hypotheses) 'hoping' to obtain results as predicted by them. for example, we sit on a chair hoping that i would not break. if the chair seems broken we do not sit on it (unless you are paris hilton). prophesying is about predicting a specific event in the future. since science is able to predict and most often accurately then i feel that it is a form of prophecy.

opinion: epicurus' quote on "why call him/her/it/them god(s)"?

Submitted by shehal on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 22:20

Epicurus says...
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

the hypotheses

  1. god is willing to prevent evil, but not able to
  2. god is able, but not willing
  3. god is both able and willing
  4. god is not able nor willing

opinion: what does science regard as a natural phenomenon?

Submitted by shehal on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 17:19

i was asked once by my girl friend: "I question the definition of "Natural Phenomenon" because if Science has failed to explain the laws of nature then throwing the term 'natural phenomenon' and all its elements around for its own purposes is quite presumptuous "

to which i replied:
what science considers a natural phenomenon is something that is observable or measured repeatedly yielding similar results.
(i can't find a citation for this. i made this up based on my understand of science. you are obviously free to challenge it :p)