Cthulhu Has Captured You - Now Choose ONE Thing To Keep You Company

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  1. Asyncritus

    Asyncritus Expert on everything

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    I thought of all these things as well. I already dislike fish, and if that was the only meat I had for 100 years, I would detest it so completely long before the 100 years was even one tenth over that I would go completely crazy.

    And the same thing could be said of only three fruits and three vegetables. Even though you get to choose your favorites, you're going to be hating them so bad within two or three years that you will want to kill yourself.

    And the computer would have to evolve immensely just in order to "connect to internet." Can you imagine how much internet will change in 100 years? You can maybe postulate that you could download the needed programs, but would the computer be able to run them? You need a minimum of Windows XP to do much on the internet today. What if all you had was an old 286: How would you ever run Windows XP on it? And that was brand new a mere 30 years ago.

    Basically, this amounts to putting you in an absolutely unbearable situation, and seeing how you think you would prepare for it.

  2. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    That's the thing, if the computer upgrades to keep up with the internet, and the outside world develops nanites, then, you've got your own nanites.
  3. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    I figure, if that dummy on "Bizarre Foods", can brace himself for eating poopy intestines, I can tough out cycling potatoes through every imaginable recipe.
    :shrug:

    ...until I gain control of the nanites, and can molecularize some Lindt, and Jelly-Belly.
  4. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee Straight Awesome

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    You're stupid. Read what he posted again, and again, and again, until you "get" it.
  5. $corp

    $corp Dirty Old Chinaman

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    The kitchen does not include oil. Olives it is! I am Cthulhu.

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  6. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee Straight Awesome

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    Can Cthulhu be my companion?
  7. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    So "unlike Jewish theology" really means "exactly like Jewish theology" in Asyncspeak? Well, no wonder.

    But thanks for reposting this. Maybe if Async reads it again and again and again, God will knock him off his high horse.

    Neither are you. :P
  8. Sean the Puritan

    Sean the Puritan Endut! Hoch Hech!

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    Nope. Not remotely. I admit that it was possibly worded a little awkwardly, but I'm not a professional writer and I was able to figure it out. I figured you'd be able to as well.


    Let me dumb it down for you.

    Contrary to Early Third Century Christian theology, sex is not bad.

    Early Third Century Christian theology (unlike Jewish theology) held that sex was bad.

    Contrary to Early Third Century Christian theology (which itself contradicted Jewish theology), the Bible does not indicate that sex is bad.
  9. $corp

    $corp Dirty Old Chinaman

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    And garamet, though I can see where you might think this was suppose to be a Garden of Eden scenario, when I created it, it was simply a question of whether someone would choose knowledge and entertainment or human companionship during isolation. It wasn't meant to be a debate on religion, though I suppose I don't mind what is being discussed now.

    Christians see God in everything.

    Atheists also see God in everything. :diacanu:
  10. Ward

    Ward A Stepford Husband

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    You ever read Song of Solomon, for instance? :shrug:

    Async has never sounded "anti-sex" to me.
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  11. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee Straight Awesome

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    Ultimately, Garamet wants God to know how angry she is at him.
  12. Ward

    Ward A Stepford Husband

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    apparently. We all certainly do.
  13. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    A snack is allowed now?

    Well shit, a baggie of every Jelly Belly, including the Harry Potter ones.

    I can melt them down, and infuse the flavor essences into infinite combinations, in infinite recipes, and the "sick of food", problem goes right away.

    :drool:
  14. Tamar Garish

    Tamar Garish Wanna Snuggle? Deceased Member

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    So anxious to take shots at Asyncritus you completely fail to comprehend what he actually said. :jayzus:
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  15. Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee

    Scott Hamilton Robert E Ron Paul Lee Straight Awesome

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  16. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    So you're saying what Async really meant to say was what you just said.

    Pity he's unable to say so himself.

    A good writer is able to make himself understood.
  17. Sean the Puritan

    Sean the Puritan Endut! Hoch Hech!

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    No, Async really said what I just said.

    Actually, he did say so himself.

    If I missed the part where Async ever claimed to be a writer, I apologize, but in all fairness he must not have done too bad of a job because everyone around here except you seems to have understood him just fine.

    You, however, have no excuse. It obviously means and says exactly what I claim it says, yet your reading comprehension seems to have failed you.

    I can only conclude that you are either not as intelligent as I once gave you credit for, or you're not trying at all, or you understand fully what he meant to say (and did say) and you are just acting dense on purpose.
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  18. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    Dude! One does not fuck with Cthulhu. That way lies madness and worse, inconceivable non-euclidian horrors from the antediluvian pits of forgotten time.
  19. Tamar Garish

    Tamar Garish Wanna Snuggle? Deceased Member

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    Funny how only the one person who seems to spend day and night resenting his intelligence and personal opinions is the only one who didn't understand what he said. :marathon:
  20. Tamar Garish

    Tamar Garish Wanna Snuggle? Deceased Member

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    He's gonna send Pthalo Bluemoon back? Nooooooo! :diacanu:
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  21. Akuma

    Akuma Where I walk, I leave madness

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    And what know you of the Elder Gods, little man?
  22. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    What the . . . ?

    And whose dual are you?
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  23. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    Where?

    Where?

    Anyone who writes is a writer and, as I recall, Async has mentioned that he does write professionally.
  24. $corp

    $corp Dirty Old Chinaman

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    Umm, just wondering, does Judiasm say anything bad about sex?
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  25. Asyncritus

    Asyncritus Expert on everything

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    I am indeed a published author. I have never hidden that fact, though I don't bring it up all the time, either. But my published works are all in French, and are not known in English-speaking countries.

  26. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    Yeah, but writing "We surrender" five hundred times on a blackboard doesn't really count, now does it? :nyer:
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  27. Asyncritus

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    Nope. Unlike Christianity, which took on a bad dose of dualism in the second and third centuries and got into a "sex is bad" rut that a large sector of of it never got out of, Judaism does not say anything bad about sex. Judaism celebrates sex. Sex is good in Jewish thinking (and, therefore, in the Bible), and not just as a means of procreation.

    The only thing that Judaism prohibits where sex is concerned is the same thing it prohibits in every other area of life: acting in a way that is harmful to others. IOW, when sex is just using someone for your own pleasure, that's bad. But sex in itself, as an expression of true love, is always seen as a positive thing in the Bible.

  28. garamet

    garamet "The whole world is watching."

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    See, now, that's much clearer. Thank you.

    Ever wonder how different Christianity would be if Saul hadn't had epilepsy?

    No? Didn't think so.
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  29. Paladin

    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    Christianity on a low-Saul diet?

    Maybe better with a little less Augustine, too.
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  30. Sean the Puritan

    Sean the Puritan Endut! Hoch Hech!

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    Is this sort of thing conducive to productive discourse?