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Topic Started: Nov 30 2006, 09:06 PM (1,530 Views)
Michel
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I was hoping for a more philosophical definition, but okay.
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my turn...
are h*ll/heaven real places? or are they just imaginary places that many people believe they will go to in the after life?
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H*ll was, it was this trash dump outside some ancient city that religious texts have based their descriptions on.
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Why is h*ll censored. If h*ll is censored Heaven should be too.

And Michel if you said that too some devout Christian people I bet they'd drop their bibles and jump you.
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It's true, that's what the h*ll we know today was based on.
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What the h*ll are you talking about?
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Michel
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Bandar, we are discussing the origin of the ideas of h*ll and heaven.
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Eh...technically...no. You see, the scientific definition of 'smartness', or intelligence, is measured with the brain:body size ratio. Thus animals with large brains/small bodies are considered intelligent, and organisms with large bodies/small brains are not so smart. So when you say 'usn's with the small brains be smarter than them there big-brained yokels', you are actually not getting every fact right.

And when you people classify boys as stupid, and girls as smart, you also need to look at your facts. Now I know that you may say 'no, look at all the examples to the contrary!', but that comment is easily dismissed with a single word: hormones. Boys' hormones, on average, around about now, tend to spike, and basically shut off their self-control, thus making them seem 'stupid'. They are not. Since they have such little self-control, and are thus blurting out, running around, and generally making fools of themselves, they tend to seem stupid. Girls, on the other hand, are generally more calm, and such, thus seeming smarter. But I have seen moronic girls and boys, as well as very smart girls and boys. Some examples: look at the Trig class, there are both genders there. And in math 8, there are also both genders. So don't go around classifying genders or brain sizes under intelligence levels.


No, it isn't. For instance, females generally have smaller brains, but they use a larger percent of them than guys do. The scientific definition of intelligence is not the brain: body size ratio, but rather what percent of their brain they use and what type of "higher level thinking" one does. The actual size of a brain depends on all sorts of other factors, and has no effect on your level of intelligence. In addition, yes, boys have hormones, but so do girls, and simply arguing that because boys are undergoing hormonal surges means that they act stupid is moronic. Both boys AND girls undergo puberty, and girls generally experience it earlier, but you may notice that most girls do not engage in the same aggressive activities that boys do. While some of the agressiveness has developed from such stuff as competing for mates in the wild, etc., one must acknowledge that some of it is simply part of being either male or female. In addition, your closing sentence, "don't go around classifying genders or brain size under intelligence levels" contradicts your beginning sentence, "animals with large brains...are considered intelligent," proving your entire repetoire of arguments confused and incorrect. Finally, I would like to make a point:

There are 30 girls on the All A Honor Role, and 16 boys.

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I wrote that? I don't remember that.....wow.

Anyhoo, if I did indeed...hmm....all I can say is: meh. I don't feel like arguing with you now.
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Thalia
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Yeah, it was in an earlier page. I love it when you give in!

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Yeah yeah, it's 10:08, give me a break. Maybe later, as in after I've slept, if I ever get around to it. I think I'll stay up late so I can sleep in more...
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Thalia
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I can't sleep in tonight– I must go Christmas and Hannukah presents shopping tomorrow at 8:00. yech...

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Ha ha, that's another good reason for not celebrating holidays. And if Santa brings you presents, then why do people go Christmas shopping, doesn't that dispel the myth?
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Thalia
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Does anyone actually believe in Santa except as some old Hungarian/Turkish guy who dropped gold down chimneys for these dowry-less girls/hallucinations of Inuit drunk off of fermented reindeer pee?

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I knew the latter one, but I didn't know the former. And what do you mean believe in Santa, he's real...right?
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