nordin dk

Dark City...yeah, nice film. Weird, but good. One more Rutger Hauer Film (besides Blade Runner): Salute of the Jugger Remember that one?

...share your thoughts on the following topic. What is the meaning of life? Should the discussion digress into more mundane topics, such as Infinity, Religion, Gravity, Timetravel, Immortaly, Death, Alternate Worlds, Teleportation, Love, Telepathy etc, I shall not object, although references to "42" will be frowned upon

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bosun @ May 07 2002,19:10)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">"In our soul everything moves, guided by a mysterious hand understandable, not speaking, we know nothing of our own souls. The deepest words of the wise men teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows, or the sound of water when it flows..." Â Â -A. Machadi nordin dk....you don't reallly believe that..what you spoke of computers bringing us answers....do you.<span id='postcolor'> I didn't speak of my beliefs yet, I am just thinking out loud. But, computers will have enduring effect on the development of man, of that I am certain. Did you know that devices are commercially available that allow you to control simple computerprograms with your mind? Since only a few of the many thousands of different species of animal die shortly after reproducing, I don't think we can generalize and call this typical behaviour for living organisms. What is typical is reproducing and evolving, and these two things go hand in hand, or so they have traditionally. With cloning (reproducing without evolving), and cybernetics (evolving without reproducing) they have become seperate entities. Cloning in it's outmost consequence, is therefore hazardous to any species submitted to it, if you believe evolution is good that is. more later...

Amen to that! No bad people could possibly live here...

I find it to be pretty sickening, but I guess the authors of the flash animation needed to vent some air. And that's hopefully all there is to it.

Aargh! Don't make me slap you Hil. And besides you are wrong, THGTTG stated that a gigantic computer was asked to calculate the answer to "the question about life, the universe and everything", and the answer it came up with was 42. Back to the thread @Bosun Although I like your sentiment, I can't help but ask for a more specific definition. Are we just supposed to love anyone or anything, or is it predestined who we love? Maybe "love" is a mechanism incoporated in man, to ensure that he continues to procreate. Since man evolved into a state of universal selfawareness (and with that, the concept or idea of God emerged), we've become so selfabsorbed that it might have helped us stay focused on the job at hand: procreation. Sort of natures way of saying "Stop looking at the sky, and get back to doing the naked pretzel!" Then to speculate about the purpose of procreation. With every generation of man, we evolve slightly. And as we do, we forcefully change the world around us, or so it seems. Following the current trend, one might imagine mankind to be permanently attached to computers some time in the future. Perhaps we will be able to upload our consciousness (as sf writers and scientists are already suggesting) and merely exist as streams of data, but then how do we procreate? We don't, we can only then clone our consciousness, and transfer it from cpu to cpu. If that is a viable outcome of current developments, it means that procreation is not the purpose of man. Another possibility, is that we adapt more to the life with computers but remain mostly flesh. Then perhaps computers are ultimately here to assist us in reaching our destination, our procreational apex, if there is such a thing. With the help of computers, we can calculate the best and most efficient ways of procreation, we can rid the planet of disease, we can genetically engineer 'perfect' humans. In a billion years, if we manage to stay alive, man will be a very different species. We perhaps become beings of extreme intelligence, and ultimately a God, that is to say, a singular being powerful enough to comprehend and control every action in the universe. More later...

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FetishFool @ May 07 2002,02:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I think that all species used to die after giving birth at one time. Right now, if a creature gave birth too many times, they'd eventually die because of it. So that leads to the assumption that creatures used to be weaker at one stage of evolution. Â A time when it was a 100% chance that the female would die immediately.<span id='postcolor'> So you believe God created us to procreate and nothing else? That we are an experiment at the hands of an allmighty deity, who wishes to see what happens if we continue to procreate without any other purpose? We are a sort of science project? Then you reduce God to a geek with too much time on his hands... What is God trying to achieve? What does he wish to learn from this little experiment then?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ChickenHawk @ May 07 2002,02:23)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">IMHO I think creation was a mistake. Therefore bkus we werent meant to happen we can make what we want of our life. So, Life=whatever the hell we want it to be.<span id='postcolor'> Do you think the creation of man was a mistake? That would be a long line of continuous mistakes then? Or, if you believe the word of the Bible, God created all the plants and animals, but then by an extreme fluke happened to create man, instead, perhaps, of the nice dry martini he had be trying to make?? Or do you think the creation of life was a mistake? I'd rather call it a coincidence. Mistake implies that there was a will behind the action, and that the will was attempting something else than what actually did happen. You might say creation of life was a conincidence, but what would then be the meaning of a universe void of life? (assuming that can be considered an alternative...)

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (FetishFool @ May 07 2002,01:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Females of all species usually die after giving birth.<span id='postcolor'> This is absolutely false.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (ale2999 @ May 06 2002,09:20)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">But It might take  a while b4 it catches on as Episode 1 suked because of JAR JAR.<span id='postcolor'> Since you had to remind me of that hideous creature, allow me to share a few photos:

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Bart.Jan @ May 07 2002,00:34)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Life is meaningless, in my opinion.<span id='postcolor'> The concept of life is in itself hard to define. living, on the other hand, I would define as "posessing life", and you might say the purpose of living is to procreate, but if that were true, wouldn't any creature logically perish once procreation had been ensured? Perhaps we are closing in on a definition of life as we get better and better at creating living beings 'from scratch' so to speak. Also, the research into A.I. and practical realisations of same, will teach us more about life, or at least about our concept of life.

So far this is not progressing as planned

I know there are sites that offer free games, especially older ones, and I don't mean warez-, but commercial sites. So if someone knew of a site where HL can be found for free, this is what I'm looking for. I'm not out to get a warez version.

Is HL CS available for free anywhere? (PM me if you are concerned about this turning into a warez type discussion, that's not my intention.)

He was one of the most dangerous kind of hatemongerers, namely one who himself was a victim of hate. I can't say it changes a whole lot, it was only a matter of time before someone fell victim to the tension in Europe. I'm glad it didn't happen in Denmark, although a couple of politicians here are be likely candidates for something similar I'm afraid. He will be a most peculiar martyr.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (AntiPastaCowboyNoodle @ May 06 2002,21:43)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Scorpio @ May 06 2002,18:25)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">nuke attack = heaven. Â <span id='postcolor'> erm is this supposed to be funny or something? maybe your backwater little country won't be directly affected but a nuclear attack on the United States will severely destabilize the world<span id='postcolor'> Lol, Scorpio's "backwater" country happens to be the UK. Get off your anthill buddy... A nuclear attack on <span style='font-size:17pt;line-height:100%'>ANY</span> country would severely destabilize the world... Besides, nuke attack = heaven/hell depending on your current lifestyle If you believe in those things, which b.t.w. I don't, but imagine if it was true...

Toto & Nihil, detective agency. Anyway, I hope the story can stay free for comments on The Story, otherwise it doesn't make sense. Mods, since you have nothing better todo could you erase any comment that isn't part of The Story?

...but nothing happened. "This is odd", thought the author, who had been expecting the story to take yet another peculiar turn at the push of that button. "Perhaps", he then thought, "something is happening, but in such a way that I do not feel it?" "Somewhere where I cannot see, hear, smell, touch or taste it, something extraordinary is happening. That must be it" "Somewhere far away, somewhere exotic". He closed his bespeckled eyes and leaned back in his chair. He breathed slowly through his nose, and imagined a marble beach blurring and dancing in the tropical heat. But as he so dreamed, he negated his own idea, for something had happened, only it had happened inside him. By a bizarre coincidence, his dream of beaches and sunbeams caused a chemical known as hypodermaclutosis to emerge from his petuetary gland, and this chemical again triggered receptors in thousands and thousands of nano-robots in his blood. These receptors clicked imperceptible digital clicks and thus every robot suddenly knew what to do. Every robot knew all of a sudden, that it was to be part of a larger robot, and it knew that this robot was to be assembled in a part of the authors body, known to the robots only as "Sector Xc45-8", or 100101010 0101101 10011 to be more specific. To the author, this part of his body was known as the right testicle. Within the next few days, he would experience a growing itch in said testicle, and he would scratch himself more and more furiously, till the point where he was thrown out of his local postoffice monday morning. On monday afternoon he decided to investigate this cursed scratching, and soon discovered an area slightly swollen on the backside of the testicle. As he stroked it and poked it, suddenly a sharp black needle protruded from the swelling. It grew longer and longer as it emerged from his testicle, and moments later a shining, ebony-black sowing needle lay on his pillow next to his testicle. "The scratch is gone is gone", he thought, "but what the hell is this?" Then he heard a delicate voice from the needle. The voice actually emerged from tiny speakes on the head of the needle. This is what the author heard the delicate voice say: <span style='color:blue'>"Use me to sow a pair trousers. When the trousers are complete they will grant whoever wears them the ability to recieve and understand all messages emitted from the planet of VHhedrcxxxoply in the tetra quadrant of this galaxy."</span> The author, by making the snap decision to sow the trousers instead of going insane, unknowingly saved the lifes of billions of innocent earthlings. And here's why:

Your history man, remove it quickly if you have any sense...

Star Wars...

I'm not sure what statement you wish to make with that image Wobble?

See, now you are just spamming...

In a way, yes. He is very skilled at posting a lot of mindless topics without the mods bugging him about it. But, if spamming is merely in reference to the postcount, then redstorm, BlackOp, Ruskie and Damage Inc are good spammers, because they have (or had) very high postcounts. Why do they take pride in this? a) Because it is a game that is played wherein the participating spammers encourage eachother to see how far they can go without being moderated. This is a fun game, and it can lead to a lot of creativity. b) They develop comon references, form a sort of insider's club, find solidarity and common ground by referring to each other as "old school", "l337", "Mighty5" etc. etc. much like any other exclusive club. c) By living out the role as "best spammer" or similar, they have found their place in the intricate web of characters that inhabit this forum. That gives a security and sense of belonging to the forum. Which means that the forum becomes for them what it is supposed to be: a social place.

lol, what was that?

Don't get too cocky Aculaud. You too have "spammed" and will probably do so again, several times.