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My guide to installing Firefox in Windows:
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@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If it was a Nokia, he'd need a new wall.
The Nokia Brick
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If it was a Nokia, he'd need a new wall.
The Nokia Brick
You could literally build a wall out of them!
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
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@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If it was a Nokia, he'd need a new wall.
The Nokia Brick
You could literally build a wall out of them!
Hmmm.... I hear there's one in the South that needs some building materials.
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@nadnerB haha too funny!
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@Obsolesce said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
I don't see the two as mutually exclusive, lol.
But your list is not wrong.
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@Obsolesce but is there any major religion that makes scientific claims? This is something people say all of the time, but I actually don't think it's a thing. People who claim to be religious and claim to follow a religion often make their own claims about scientific things and lie about it being based on their faith, but that's extremely different than the religion itself saying it. There are plenty of tiny cults that have sprung up around any number of false "scientific" beliefs, that is obvious. But of major world religions, I'm pretty sure that this kind of stuff is just avoided.
Example... a region or local sect claiming to be Christian might claim X about dinosaurs, but Christianity as a whole has no opinion on the matter and leaves it entirely to science.
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@scottalanmiller scientology
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@DustinB3403 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller scientology
Exactly. A little, local, niche cult. They get publicity because of celebrities being easy targets for cults. But other than that, no one knows them.
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Also worth noting, Scientology is often not even legally accepted as a religion, let alone socially. In the EU, for example, they are classified as a business rather than a religion.
More like a Chick-fil-a than a church, per se.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@Obsolesce but is there any major religion that makes scientific claims? This is something people say all of the time, but I actually don't think it's a thing. People who claim to be religious and claim to follow a religion often make their own claims about scientific things and lie about it being based on their faith, but that's extremely different than the religion itself saying it. There are plenty of tiny cults that have sprung up around any number of false "scientific" beliefs, that is obvious. But of major world religions, I'm pretty sure that this kind of stuff is just avoided.
Example... a region or local sect claiming to be Christian might claim X about dinosaurs, but Christianity as a whole has no opinion on the matter and leaves it entirely to science.
Although tangential, I find this interesting that the discovery of the barometer is a good example of how science in the shadow of religion can shine through. If I remember correctly, there was, at the time, the belief that there was no such thing as nothing, and by extension, a vacuum. "God created everything, he didn't create nothing." Yet, it was by creating a vacuum or nearly so, that the barometer was created. It helped change the thinking of the time.
