Because we all know people are nice, calm, cool, collected, and never violent when it comes to their religious beliefs or non-beliefs.
Because we all know people are nice, calm, cool, collected, and never violent when it comes to their religious beliefs or non-beliefs.
I'm going to prepare some criticisms of both answers and maybe add a few suggestions of my own, then post it in the morning. That's right, it's going to take all night to sort this mess out 
Also, unless I pick up anymore major flaws, I believe that TB's answer is TheBest. Sorry Liam, but it actually is!!
Also, unless I pick up anymore major flaws, I believe that TB's answer is TheBest. Sorry Liam, but it actually is!!
I think that's partly down to it being so open to debate. Proof would end the debating.
Laim has mentally obliterated God.
I think he wins.
I think he wins.
Liam do you seriously believe that people are going to take kindly to you when you come and say to them that the beliefs they hold, which are have been the very foundation of their society for thousands of years, are wrong?
Only really works if, the answer is Yes.
If the answer is No, it won't change a thing, people have faith in God(s).
Absence of proof is not proof of absence they will say.
If the answer is No, it won't change a thing, people have faith in God(s).
Absence of proof is not proof of absence they will say.
I think you fail to realise that you would not be the first in history to claim that there is a God, nor be the first to claim to have spoken with him. Proof? What proof? "He told me himself! See? I got proof!" I dont agree with AdZz about you causing major problems in the world though, as you would be just like any other person claiming to have seen the light and stuff like that.
Liam, it's unbelievably naive to expect people to be so open to this information. Faith is a funny thing, and it tends not to react well to solid proof that this faith is wrong. Alternatively, the issues you would have if there was a God could be just as much. Either way, you are shredding the hopes of many and causing unparallelled disruption. Think this through, think how powerful religion is, in all areas of the world, and how corrosive the answer could be, it works on both sides.
Yes, you'd find a load of people who are interested in the news, those people are called not religious.
Yes, you'd find a load of people who are interested in the news, those people are called not religious.
Even if it's a yes then it would cause outright war, people aren't going to suddenly abandon their own beliefs no matter how strong the proof is. Even if they did then you'd get people like the Christian Defence League going into overdrive and out killing sinners in the name of god.
How would it effect society? the rich and powerful wouldn't suddenly just give away their wealth, would capitalism immediately fall due to fear of sinning?
So in summary Liam, either you'll become the new Richard Dawkins and you'll be assassinated for your blasphemy or you'll destroy the very fabric of society and science, get the CDL elected to the white house and cause the second coming of the crusades!!!
Well done!!!
It wasn't disproved. Just certain parts of it were a bit daft, he used the wrong terminology and forgot/didn't understand that nuclear fusion is already a thing
and you don't need to invent it, it's not a raw material problem holding it back (Hydrogen is pretty abundant).
Given that he's not an actual scientist or doesn't maybe know how to say it properly in English I think we collectively let him off. Mainly because at the core he does understand that we can't currently use Nuclear fusion in a reactor and the solution to that problem would be very useful.
What we really should have picked on was the amount of ball licking God does in his 'dream'.
I mean wtf.
See, it's your inability to see or understand why your plans are bad, that get's us here. You are set on this conspiracy that everyone loves TB, and is supporting the village retard for some reason, it's simply because his answers have not been as bad. Maybe they aren't good, but they just aren't bad. His question was pretty wasted as it's something we don't have to have, but it can have positive impacts. Your question will answer billions of peoples fears or hopes, but it won't satisfy the majority of the population. This is an answer you do not want to give people, as it can enable them, or strip them of something so deep and personal. With your news you have negative consequences in the god damn millions at least, there will be deaths and violent reactions to your news, and your proof will be rejected by a huge portion whether it's 'yes or no'. You'd likely be assasinated fairly quickly.
To be fair to Liam, I think that would be the best question you could ask.
It would cause chaos at first but it would end many wars and save the most amount of people any question could in the end.
That was my first thought I had aswell reading the question.
It would cause chaos at first but it would end many wars and save the most amount of people any question could in the end.
That was my first thought I had aswell reading the question.
"You are the nicest and most honest human being"
He's so weird.
He's so weird.No, I'm fairly certain it wouldn't.
This thread will be posted in the mains as the CMOv1 was and it will further tarnish the reputation of the newbies, Liam you need to improve and fast. If this was a boxing game it would have been called off by now - quoting EA FIFA commentators.
My first thought was, how to travel faster than light in a vessel capable of transporting humans without killing them / is there away to fold space time to travel vast distances in space without taking as much time as conventional travel.
But if the answer is no, it's totally wasted and I never bothered to think of an alternative.
But if the answer is no, it's totally wasted and I never bothered to think of an alternative.
You could even ask if there was a cure for something like Cancer, which would clearly save more lives than asking whether a God existed. Even if the answer was no, it wouldn't kill anyone.
Or even "Where can we find life on other planets?"
feck it, let this god-like man decide
"What are the 5 most helpful things you know that would serve mankind greatly if only we knew? Please write down your answers fully and provide your working out................"
"What are the 5 most helpful things you know that would serve mankind greatly if only we knew? Please write down your answers fully and provide your working out................"
"Here is a 10TB HDD, please write down in notepad everything you know. I mean everything."
I'm sorry but all this talk of religious wars etc is totally missing the point. If you asked 'is there a god?' And this omniscient superbeing said 'yes' you would know absolutely nothing further. The superbeing could be talking about itself, it could be referring to whatever energy/physics created the universe, it could be referring to a mystical tree in Vanuatu, there is no definition of god so it is an utterly pointless question.
If he answered 'no' then you'd still know nothing further as you don't know whether the superbeing has made some assumptions about what you mean by 'god'.
fecking retarded question.
If he answered 'no' then you'd still know nothing further as you don't know whether the superbeing has made some assumptions about what you mean by 'god'.
fecking retarded question.
Oh my god. I'm not expecting people to be open to it, but with proof, more people would be more understanding.
My question is the question that the majority of the population would ask, definitely. Yet it's wrong apparently. feck it.
It doesn't have to be posted there.
Again, rubbish. Can we travel faster than light? "No." Wasted question, absolutely pointless, at least mine provides information.
Right, the answer's no, complete waste of a question, useless to everyone. I mean, completely useless. The answer's yes, it doesn't really help. We only know there is a cure, we still don't know what it is.
Because most people would ask this (Something you can't possibly verify), it makes it right to ask it over an infinite amount of questions? Seriously Liam, that's not a reason to justify your question, because everyone else might ask it. That's really retarded.
So the Answer to 'is there a cure for Cancer', is 'yes' and the proof is explained, yet you are telling me this doesn't really help? And I thought you were retarded just a minute ago.
So the Answer to 'is there a cure for Cancer', is 'yes' and the proof is explained, yet you are telling me this doesn't really help? And I thought you were retarded just a minute ago.
More people would be understanding? Than what? The fecking tens of millions of anguised souls whose lives you've just ruined?
Oh yeah I forgot it got proved. Still, my answer is guaranteed to have an impact on the world, yes, bad at times, but still the biggest discovery ever. You get a no, and it's the biggest waste of an opportunity ever. Of all the things we could've discovered, or ruled out, we'd just know that we can't properly cure cancer (which we actually can by the way).
You say that people would've come together and killed me if I'd asked the McCann thing, shows that everyone knows I'm asking a question. So another reason for me asking that question, is that it's what a majority wants (I know I can't actually prove it, so I'll just say that more people would ask that than TB's). In fact, more people would be much angrier if I'd asked the electricity thing over the god one. We have the opportunity to find out once and for all if God exists, and I ask if we can get infinite electricity?
You may aswell have asked if Santa was real Liam.
Your problem is you don't read things liam.
- Your answer would have guaranteed have an impact on the world - Either answer, would have had a guranteed negative impact with the deaths of thousands of people. At worst, you would have severely upset a major portion of the entire population of Earth. Being the biggest discovery ever is pretty shit if goes hand in hand with death and misery.
- You get a yes for Cancer, which is clearly the more likely of the two answers, and you've cured the greatest killer of man in the world. You've single-handedly advanced medicine to a stage where we can't even conceive yet. It's a two-minute example of how there are clearly much better answers to ask. It might not be on everyones lips, but it has a better consequence then yours.
- fecking read Liam. I already answered this when you said it before. It doesn't show that everyone knows you are asking a question, that entire premise is ridiculous. It shows you asked a question, and tried to convince people of the answer afterward. The idea is that after you've been given your answer, you would tell people, word would spread. You are also basing part of your thinking for me saying 'the world would collectively massacre you' or something, which was obviously in jest.
- NO! It is never, never, once mentioned that the majority know your question, have asked a question, have even stated what they want. They know nothing about this until you make it public knowledge. It makes no fecking difference if more people wanted your question or not, the fact of the matter is your answer includes a very negative consequence, despite it being yes or no, with guaranteed a high number of people dying as a result, TB's simply doesn't have that risk.
- Your answer would have guaranteed have an impact on the world - Either answer, would have had a guranteed negative impact with the deaths of thousands of people. At worst, you would have severely upset a major portion of the entire population of Earth. Being the biggest discovery ever is pretty shit if goes hand in hand with death and misery.
- You get a yes for Cancer, which is clearly the more likely of the two answers, and you've cured the greatest killer of man in the world. You've single-handedly advanced medicine to a stage where we can't even conceive yet. It's a two-minute example of how there are clearly much better answers to ask. It might not be on everyones lips, but it has a better consequence then yours.
- fecking read Liam. I already answered this when you said it before. It doesn't show that everyone knows you are asking a question, that entire premise is ridiculous. It shows you asked a question, and tried to convince people of the answer afterward. The idea is that after you've been given your answer, you would tell people, word would spread. You are also basing part of your thinking for me saying 'the world would collectively massacre you' or something, which was obviously in jest.
- NO! It is never, never, once mentioned that the majority know your question, have asked a question, have even stated what they want. They know nothing about this until you make it public knowledge. It makes no fecking difference if more people wanted your question or not, the fact of the matter is your answer includes a very negative consequence, despite it being yes or no, with guaranteed a high number of people dying as a result, TB's simply doesn't have that risk.
You are now justifying your answer on the basis that more people would want your question, over TB's. I mean the ridiculousness behind it is so clearly evident, so visual but you always manage to look right past it.
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fecking hell Liam. I said if you asked the Maddie question, the world would batter you. Now you've taken that to mean that the world collectively knows your thoughts.
Stop being such a literaral retard. Very clearly it was explained to you.
Stop being such a literaral retard. Very clearly it was explained to you.
You already asked this bullshit, which I responded to in the next post. Why are you claiming ignorance now?
Liam, stop being an ignorant on purpose. Clearly I said TB's answer is better because it doesn't jeopardize a major portion of our population, compared to yours which does. Also his has considerable benefit for the world over, your's doesn't. I didn't say TB's answer was the best because it doesn't harm anyone. You read all of that post and pick out those two bits, which were already answered in that very post?
Under the sofa cushions with the TV remote, some spare change, 2 M&M's, a cheeto, and some girls panties.
Right, fine.
And yes, your answer would guaranteed have been responsible for deaths, despair and destruction around the world. Mind you Liam, don't read that to mean 'your answer would destruct the world'. That's also not to say there are no benefits from your question, obviously there are. But likewise, you are going to have clear negatives as well.
There will be proof provided to the answer either way, yes or no.
I have no doubt your right, more people would ask on the existence of god(s) rather than something practical like how to harness nuclear fusion. It still doesn't take away from the fact that it's not a very good question.
Think about it.
Proof that God Exists, what like? a location? photographs of his holiday in Hawaii ?
What if god is much more abstract than we expect, it's not a big bearded guy in the clouds but more a prevailing force that ties us, everything, together, like gravity but sexier.
The majority of Christians (for example, not singling them out or anything) have Jesus down as this brown haired well kept pasty skinned white boy. He's a Jew, living in the middle east he would have had a tan at the least. Logic isn't their strong suit. If it doesn't live up to their idealistic view they are going to be hard to convince.
The existence of God is not direct access to God, some people will never be convinced until he slaps them in the face.
Also, they argue over the differences and interpretation of God's word now and they already believe in it. Having proof isn't going to change much, also which god Yaweh, God, Vishnu, Odin, Allah ?
If No, what proof can their truly be to prove something does not exist ? there can't be even if you have a video recording of the beginning of the universe and what cam before. They still would believe in their faith, you might get the odd convert but the majority will carry on, it's a very comforting notion and one not easily discarded.
I have no doubt your right, more people would ask on the existence of god(s) rather than something practical like how to harness nuclear fusion. It still doesn't take away from the fact that it's not a very good question.
Think about it.
Proof that God Exists, what like? a location? photographs of his holiday in Hawaii ?
What if god is much more abstract than we expect, it's not a big bearded guy in the clouds but more a prevailing force that ties us, everything, together, like gravity but sexier.
The majority of Christians (for example, not singling them out or anything) have Jesus down as this brown haired well kept pasty skinned white boy. He's a Jew, living in the middle east he would have had a tan at the least. Logic isn't their strong suit. If it doesn't live up to their idealistic view they are going to be hard to convince.
The existence of God is not direct access to God, some people will never be convinced until he slaps them in the face.
Also, they argue over the differences and interpretation of God's word now and they already believe in it. Having proof isn't going to change much, also which god Yaweh, God, Vishnu, Odin, Allah ?
If No, what proof can their truly be to prove something does not exist ? there can't be even if you have a video recording of the beginning of the universe and what cam before. They still would believe in their faith, you might get the odd convert but the majority will carry on, it's a very comforting notion and one not easily discarded.
A man says to God, "What's a millions years to you?"
God says, "A second"
A man says to God, "What's a million dollars to you?"
God says, "A Penny"
The man says to God, "Can you give me a penny?"
God says, "Yes I will.....................
....in a second"
Or even better from our friends at "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
"The Babel fish" said The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his bestselling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
God says, "A second"
A man says to God, "What's a million dollars to you?"
God says, "A Penny"
The man says to God, "Can you give me a penny?"
God says, "Yes I will.....................
....in a second"
Or even better from our friends at "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
"The Babel fish" said The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quietly, "is small, yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his bestselling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
Liam asks God, "Do you exist"
God says "No"
Liam shouts "Aha I knew you were not real, let me run and tell everyone"
Liam stands on the street corner shouting "God, does not exist"
A passerby asks "How do you know?"
Liam says "Because he told me he didn't"
.......
The crowd of people beat Liam to death...thereby proving his question would cause at least one death.....
God says "No"
Liam shouts "Aha I knew you were not real, let me run and tell everyone"
Liam stands on the street corner shouting "God, does not exist"
A passerby asks "How do you know?"
Liam says "Because he told me he didn't"
.......
The crowd of people beat Liam to death...thereby proving his question would cause at least one death.....
After following this thread for a while, I am starting to realise why Hectic is closing in on 50 000 posts.
AdZz is taking this over for a while, I won't be here. For questions and general stuff speak to him.