Recent content by Iridium

Silver Incubus, you have not answered my question. By the way, if any of you are fervent enough believers in these conspiracy theories that you want to formally debate them, I welcome you to do so at IIDB: http://www.iidb.org/vbb/forumdisplay.php?f=75

I only have Unquestionable Presence and Piece of Time. The former is definitely more refined, but slightly less aggressive. If you seek a better overall incorporation of jazz elements in thrash/death metal, then Unquestionable Presence is what you want. However, this does not detract from the...

I have a question for conspiray theorists: what is the minimum number of people it would take to execute one of the aforementioned conspiracies?

"Sola Fide I," from Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice, though I think you're pretty screwed here.

At least nowadays you can score a sweet job at your local coffee shop with a degree in philosophy. :)

What the fuck? Can someone sum up the argument presented in that piece for me? I seem to be missing the point.

All the Nevermore that I've heard has sounded about 2 hours of child sodomy short of nu-metal. I enjoy Sanctuary, though. Children of Bodom have amazed me with the boredom they induce with their incessant solos.

Religion has always mixed with the politics of a country. Our state was meant to not be religiously oppressive. This does not mean that it was meant to be entirely and completely secular. Bush asking the (Christians of) the country to pray with him is merely his way of reassuring some 70% of the...

What pisses me off about the Katrina disaster was the fact that due to the mayor's incompetence in utilizing his evacuation procedure, and some celebrities ascribing to malice and racism what is aptly described by simple incompetence and inefficiency, the government has bent over backwards and...

You misassumed: I enjoy philosophy (I don't claim to be an expert, but I do have some knowledge of it), but individuals who master it cannot change the world in our time and it does not make a product, so it is economically useless. What you quoted was my point - I don't see what the rest of...

In defense of diverting funds to string theory, it could help us understand the quantum level of matter, and how to potentially use it to our benefit. Such discoveries are far from today, but the initial seeds of knowledge must be set for them to be discovered and their potential realized...

Mediocre and about as exciting as a dental filling...

Exactly. So it's really quite pointless speculating on whether our universe was created by an intelligent designer. Since, until positive evidence is presented, a positive claim is false, it's safe, reasonable, and practical to assume that no intelligent designer was present, and that we should...

Evolution also happens genotypically, not phenotypically (a point you've missed time and again). The observable points of evolution are observable because there is a clear (in only a few myriad cases - most evolution occurs unseen) difference between what was and what is. Still, the number of...

It would be impossible to determine whether our universe was created by an intelligent designer or not, since in order to achieve a control sample, we would need another universe that we knew was not created in order to compare to ours.