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Although life is already full of unanswerable questions, like what to watch tonight or what you would like to eat, they are not entertaining in the very least. So, we got this idea to harness these tough questions, dig around a bit more, and find rhetorical questions that are actually entertaining, good conversation starters, and nice topics for deep pondering. Et Voila - our selection of funny unanswerable questions for you to enjoy!

Another awesome thing about these questions with no answers is that they will require you to actually slow down, take a breather, and think about them (instead of thinking about which TV series to choose or why your cat is staring at the ceiling). And these days, everything that allows you to slow down is well appreciated! Also, these inquiries touch various subjects - from material things to travels - so we’re pretty certain you’ll find ones that you’d like to ponder for a while on. Yet, if you’re a fan of unanswerable philosophical questions, your curiosity will also be satisfied in this list. So, as far as questions that are unanswerable go, this is probably where all of them come to in the end. 

Right, so our selection of questions with no answers is just a smidgen down below; you should absolutely check them out. Who knows, picking such a question might even become a nice evening tradition. But before it does, the best questions will have to find their way to the top of this list, and you can help them by giving them your vote!

#1

Why does Tarzan never have a beard?

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Vix Spiderthrust
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Because a British gentleman must uphold certain standards, and being abandoned by your family in a jungle and raised by apes is no excuse.

Phred
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In the original book, Tarzan was adopted by apes after his parents died. When he was young, Tarzan found the cabin his father had built. There was a knife in the cabin, and at some point Tarzan taught himself to shave because he feared he was turning into an ape when hair started growing on his face.

Victoria Anderson
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And he cut his hair short, to keep it out of his eyes, using a shell he sharpened on a rock.

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Ambry Petersen
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He got tired of the gorillas trying to pick fleas from his facial hair...or the gorillas teased him about only being able to grow hair on his face which is one of the only places they don't have hair.

Joi Cain
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He doesn't have body hair either so he can't grow a beard. Same with my husband.

Pym Cat
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3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually cheetah is his beard

Jeff Gabrisl
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Munkee with ruff tung lick it off

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    #2

    If you have fun wasting time, is it time wasted?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. (John Lennon answered this one.)

    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We're on BoredPanda - silly question!!

    3 Owls In A Coat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Comedy Central tv channel in Canada had the slogan “time well wasted” and I always liked that thought :) some “wastes of time” are a much better waste of time than others!

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The answer depends on what you think your life is for.

    Colette Bembenek
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way......' ~ Pink Floyd - TIME

    Matt Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe if you're doing it on the clock at work...

    #3

    Where do the missing socks go?

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    Me myself and I
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To the same place as tupperware lids

    Mer☕️🧭☕️
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They elope with the missing tupperware lids.

    Ashbug
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They become random lids in your container drawer that don't fit anything

    JPotts
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beat me to it. Ask a veterinary tech the highest number of socks they have removed from a dog.

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    MJ
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A wormhole to a planet where the inhabitants have one foot. They wait patiently for the magic socks from beyond to fall from the sky.

    Ashley Deane
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've been trying to solve this for 29 years!

    Summer Warsitz
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They turn into tupperware lids that dont fit anything!

    Amaya
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think there's a world where all lost things go and there is an angel of death(grim reaper) to take those things to another world.🤪

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    #4

    Who is the world in debt to if humans invented money?

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    3 Owls In A Coat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Me. Y’all owe me. Gimme.

    Emma Kilcup
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am grateful to be in the presence of 3 owls that get along together and don't die while being stuffed into a coat. Have my life savings, 1 dime.

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    Ian Conelley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's all an illusion. Money is a made up, imaginary concept. The ultimate scam.

    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Mr. Spock would think the question is lacking in logic...

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well that depends on whether or not you believe in theology.

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    #5

    Why does the Easter Bunny bring eggs when rabbits don’t lay eggs?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You wouldn't want them sacrificing their own children, would you?

    Deborah Harris2
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a symbol of fertility taken from the pagan rites of celebrating Ostara, which is the Spring equinox. Ostara the goddess of Spring found a dying sparrow and out of love turned it into a Hare. One day a year the Hare was given the ability to lay eggs in memory of it's bird form and allow it to give eggs to those attending the Ostara Spring festivals.

    Matthew Stark
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stranger than fiction.... And now... you know! Be very careful as to how you will use this new found knowledge! You have been warned!

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    Jasmin Ki
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He's a thief and hides his bounty

    Angie Falzarano
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the Easter bunny doesn't want anyone to know his girlfriend is a chic

    Angie Falzarano
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry phone cut out.. he doesn't want anyone to know his girlfriend is a chicken

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    Keagyn
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He is keeping all the special chickens hostage until he gets the perfect eggs.......

    Remi (He/Him)
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Roosters are the ones to lay the easter eggs in some places. Right species but it puts a weird mpreg 'miracle' spin on the whole thing

    Bec
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They both represent fertility and birth.

    Samira Peri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because Easter comes from the fertility goddess Ishtar. Her symbol was the rabbit.

    Jameel Shabazz
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The rabbit represents sex , and the eggs represents the woman. Easter is a pagan holiday and it is originally pronounced Ishtar after the goddess of sex.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bunnies and chickens symbolize stuff....so do eggs.

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    #6

    In the word 'scent', which letter is silent? S or C?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd say the c is silent, because the word comes from latin sentire.

    Peign Gaming
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    3 years ago

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    But scent and cent are spoken the same, so it could be the s is silent.

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    Joss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neither. They work together to bring more nuance than sent or cent could because scents are such a visceral experience.

    Colette Bembenek
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many English words sound the same, but spelled differently and mean differently.

    Biliegh they/them
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They need to stop this downvote c**p. This is just getting ridiculous now

    Keagyn
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sent, cent, or scent? Hmmmmm. I got to think hard on this one.......

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    #7

    If God sneezed, what would you say?

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    Bec
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Go bless yourself

    Mentally unstable on a table
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But say it in the same way as 'go f**k yourself' and its 100% better

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    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That depends on the particular deity and their nasal intensity. Don't hang around when Ganesh sneezes, and don't worry too much when Artemis snorts primly. But be kind. Deities can be easily offended. Yikes.

    Jeff Gabrisl
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Put on a mask you c*nt, what are you doing? Trying to get all of us sick?

    Joss
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    3 years ago

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    Ashley Deane
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does God sneeze?? I feel like that's the bigger question here

    Doctor Strange
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same thing I say to people who sneeze. Godzilla. Its non-denominational

    Cihan Ekizoglu
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From God's perspective in space-time, our entire timeline is in the blink of an eye, as when someone sneezes. So if God sneezed while we were there, he would never be aware of us.

    ThatNerdZoe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    THATS HOW COVID STARTED! He started sneezing! (/J ofc!!)

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    #8

    Are child actors in adult-rated movies allowed to watch the film?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. (Happened to Brooke Shields, but maybe the laws have changed)

    Paulo Freitas
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The poor thing was 10 or 11 years old and was allready staring in " erotic " movies ( pretty baby ) and again with 14 in " the blue lagoon " .

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    ItsJess
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Im guessing OP means R rated films that are made for adults, not "adult films", per SE. And everything I've read seems to say it depends on the child and on the child's parents.

    Matt Smith
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If not, one wonders why they're allowed to be in the movie in the first place

    Cihan Ekizoglu
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think they're only allowed to act their own lines. They don't know the whole content of the script or what exactly happens in the scene at that time.

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they are, they probably shouldn't.

    and_a_touch_of_the_’tism
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They shouldn’t be in them in the first place. And no.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would they want to watch that filth?

    Arunei Shade
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The question means R rated movies, not adult films. If it was the latter it would be CP, which is obviously illegal.

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    #9

    Why do people say that they "slept like a baby" if they slept through the night when babies are known for not sleeping?

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    Alex Mosby
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Slept without worry or stress.

    ItsJess
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When babies are fully asleep, they sleep pretty soundly, even if it's only for an hour or two. That's why you can rock them, handle them, what have you, while they're asleep.

    Random Eddy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually this comes from not being bothered by external influences, most of the time when a baby wakes they have needs (Not wants, a baby literally has only needs, they don't want food they need it, they don't want comfort, they need comfort). So a baby wakes for hunger and being soiled, cold or scared. But they rarely wake from hoovering, kettle boiling and normal busy noise, trust me when their siblings are being loud it's amazing, however, unnatural sounds such as creeping, cause the issue, same as moving them, be gentle and they wake, be matter of fact and strong holds and they rarely wake.

    Lisa Leaberry
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol... Well, a baby can sleep soundly through things too. And they look peaceful, so maybe they mean a restful and peaceful sleep.

    Samira Peri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Slept like a baby, waking up screaming every couple of hours."

    Lorraine Liggera
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Meaning that babies are innocent of all the worries of the world that keep the rest of us awake.

    Ashley Deane
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Babies can sleep HARD. Not just at night. I would be able to vacuum and play pretty loud music while my son napped in his room which was in front of the dining room and living room. That time to myself kept me sane

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because when babies do sleep it is peacefully...which is usually during daylight hours, they are often awake at night due to colic and other issues. Why those issues take place at night I have no idea.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just another advertising gimmick for mattresses and sleep meds.

    #10

    Why are bread square and sandwich meat round?

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    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not all bread is square and not all sandwich meat is round.

    Victoria Anderson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The only square sandwich meat is Spam, aptly named 🤮

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's easier to make square bread and round meat products.

    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because you are buying cheap processed meat and should stop before it affects your health.

    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because cold meats where made with pig intestins, have you ever seen an animal with square intestines??? And there are squared shape cold meats, like ham from the leg ( i have no clue how its called on English )

    Arunei Shade
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on the meat, since s lot of stuff from the deli isn't round and is more of an oblong oval, which is somehow worse than just being a circle.

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    #11

    What do people who are born deaf hear when they think?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read that they think in words if they are literate, and in images if not. Maybe someone will answer with personal experience.

    Cihan Ekizoglu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think they can hear their thoughts. Thought doesn't really need a language or imaginary sounds. The non-deaf can also experience this the same way.

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never thought of that one before. What about those who are deaf and blind like Hellen Keller.

    Su Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry, I didn't hear what you wrote 🤔

    Nat Middlebrooks Langford
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, how would you describe a color to a blind person?

    Bananaramamama
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seems like you could just ask them

    #12

    Did we invent math or did we discover it?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We discovered maths and invented a way to talk about it.

    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Inventions are often simply... discoveries!

    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I guess both. We had to come up with a way of "counting" but along the way we discovered different ways to work out various numbers. (such as Pythagoras theorem)

    Holly Benedict
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We invented a language to express the laws we discovered

    Tihsyloh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neither the great god Mathematicus handed down the tablets of ten numbers from high atop the mountain.

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Math was an invention made for commerce and for explaining the physical world.

    Mat Hall
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think you're missing the philosophical nature of the question.

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    Kyle Eldridge
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We invented it. discovering is only for something that's already there. Math in base 10 is our representation of the world around us. But there isn't a need for it to have been base 10 to describe your world

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    #13

    If we learn and improve from our mistakes, why are we so afraid to make mistakes?

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    Helena
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are actually trained out of seeing mistakes as a natural part of learning and to see it as absolute bad. Think of grades in school. How many things depend on the outcome of your grades? Every mistake is counted and tallied. Your worth being summed up by a letter. Participation in activities depending on it, likely parts of your home life depending on it. If your grades are bad, you're seen as a bad kid/person. As an adult, if you make a mistake you are seen as a failure. One mistake and you're homeless and others see you as less than. Everyone is one mistake from fired. One mistake from dead. One mistake from ostracized. Honestly, we'd be better as a society if we encouraged trial and error, more scientific method coupled with compassion, less worth measuring by who made the fewest mistakes. That really only encourages people to live so far inside the box they fear touching the walls.

    Victoria Anderson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly. So we never expand our comfort zones; on the contrary, we build our own walls within the box and stay inside those, too anxious or depressed to leave or even ask permission to leave. Then we get slapped with labels and/or drugged into submission or death.

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    Bec
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fear of the unknown, consequences

    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The person who makes no mistakes is not learning anything.

    Colette Bembenek
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Fear of belittlement from peers; being seen as an individual that makes bad decisions.

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because certain mistakes can be painful for yourself and others and most of humanity has a healthy dislike for pain.

    Matt Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on the mistake, and the consequences of said mistake

    Jordi Sharpe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because sometimes people hit you if you screw up.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the mistake police will find you and give you a pricey ticket or lock you up.

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    #14

    What would happen to the world’s oceans if every person on Earth jumped into the water at the same time?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The urine contain would go up

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    After the waves died down, the average sea level would rise a few inches/centimeters. Some would drown. Some would splash water on others. Some would wish they left their phones and valuables in the car or at home. Most will go home with stories to tell ther grandkids about that day.

    Samira Peri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wouldn't rise by that much. The total volume of humans is less than 10 km³. With oceans being in the hundreds of millions of km² by area, the rise would be in the ballpark of 1/10000000 km, or 1/10000 m. That's a tenth of a millimetre (which is more than I expected).

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    Cihan Ekizoglu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The oceans would be alright, the overpopulation problem can be solved to some extent.

    Amaya
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Swallowing too many will make them fat.👓

    Paul Nieder
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sharks would have an all you can eat buffet.

    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An older version of this asks: if everybody in China simultaneously jumped off one-meter-high ladders or whatever, would the impact along the Pacific Rim seismic zone trigger a San Andreas Fault earthquake that destroys California?

    M J
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    8,000,000,000 human bodies might be enough to detect a measurable rise in sea level. But I am sceptical.

    Samira Peri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not reliably, waves are larger than the rise.

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    Brittney Jessop
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sea level would rise as the population fell. Whoever managed to survive the Lemming Leap and get to shore would be faced with the task of surviving in a decimated world. Between all the flooding and the aquatic crowd crush, I'd say earth would be in be in better shape, environmentally. Yes, this idea has merit...

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would be contaminated with a highly unintelligent newly exstict species.

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    #15

    Are there any extraterrestrial beings?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Im 99.99% sure there are 1st because the history Chanel says there are lol, 2nd and more importantly because there is no way that in the vastness of the universe there is not another planet with similar conditions to the earth

    Zoe DiAnni
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Totally agree, to be extraterrestrial it doesn’t have to be a humanoid it could be single cell

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    Gabby Ghoul
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The surest evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence is that none of it has tried to contact us. 😆

    roepi
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Definitely. There has to be intelligent life somewhere in the universe and since there isn't any on this planet, it has to be out there.

    Will Cable
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, life finds a way in many forms

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably. It's just very unlikely that any exist that are as technologically advanced as us or moreso within the hundred or so light-year bubble around Earth that respresents the time we've been broadcasting into space.

    Chucky Cheezburger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or there could have been life and it went extinct a millennium before life on Earth was nothing more than a group of amino acids in a puddle of goo.

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    Pedantic Panda
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. More stars in the sky than grains of sand on all our beaches, most of these stars have planetary systems, dune of which will be in the "Goldilocks" zone. Those that aren't may still have life unlike anything we can fathom. We're not as special as we once thought we were.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Apparently they've stopped using the "sand on beaches" comparison because it turns out that, while counting stars is easy enough, nobody's really sure how you'd go about counting all the sand.

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    Samira Peri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Define "being". What's complex enough?

    ThatNerdZoe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes!! There has to be, the universe is so vast. :) (Don't downvote for my opinion please!)

    Holly Benedict
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We live on one planet in one solar system in one galaxy. We are but a speck. 8 billion specks on a larger speck. I got to see Bill Nye speak on his new book and he mentioned this too, the impossibility that we are alone in the universe. There was also a comment that, say we did receive communication from distant life, it could be thousands of years old by the time it reaches us and the civilization long gone. We aren't just talking about life throughout space, but also life throughout time in that space. It's truly filled with infinite possibilities.

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    #16

    Is your glass half-empty or half-full?

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    Will Cable
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Surley it depends on the state before the fluid was in it. If it was empty and you half filled it, it is half full, if it was full and you drank half then it is half empty.

    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the only proper explanation I've ever heard!

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    Helena
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The glass is too big. Engineering problem.

    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends if you've been drinking or pouring.

    Ba-Na-Na
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just be happy ya have a glass!!!

    John Barber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    None of your business!!. You keep track of YOUR glass, I'll watch mine.

    RiceRiceBaby 929
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember this being a question asked on some survey at school to determine whether you are a positive or negative person.

    G M
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It’s in the middle

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    #17

    How far up do bald people go when they wash their face?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dude.... Come on, bald people wash their face like every One else, i start at the chin and end at the back of my neck.

    John Barber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We prefer the term folically challenged.

    Chucky Cheezburger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, if I'm just washing my face, I start from my forehead and wash to my chin. Taking a shower, I start at the top and work my way down.

    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Quite a long way, sometimes, speaking personally.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on how long their arms are.

    #18

    Why do we dream and what does each dream represent?

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    Bec
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To organize thought, memories, and experiences from our day.

    Spyguy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then why are mine so random that I see myself falling up?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To convert short term memory to long term. They represent your brain trying to rationalize the stupid decisions we all make.

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I once dreamed I was driving a car with my family. The car was an open top jalopy, like in the Beverly Hillbillies. For most of the dream I was looking for enormous tree branches touching the ground in places, so that I could drive on the branches to get to otherwise inaccessible places. We ended up at an old brick building where they were secretly making chocolate in the basement. My day was not that interesting.

    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Simple, dreams are the way your brain " resets " it self, and your dreams are directly related to your life, may be events, fears, hopes, a miriad of things, but they are all related to your life, no matter how abstract they mau be.

    Markus Weiler
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the brain is always switched on...

    Tihsyloh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Dark slippery corridors where the creatures of whom we do not speak lurk. I think it represents my love of ice cream.

    MJ
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think dreams are how are our brains defrag

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do dreams always represent things? Because some if mine make no sense at all.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Purely for entertainment

    #19

    Why is there a fridge light but no freezer light?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What kind of psychopath raids the freezer at 2 am?

    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As does mine. I think it may simply be relative to age and/or price...

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    egracec
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on your freezer. The pull out drawer on mine has a light.

    Paul Nieder
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a light in my freezer. Fridges with freezers on the bottom usually have them.

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If your freezer is on the top, then probably more ambient light will reach the freezer than the lower part.

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Freezers are typically smaller so less light is required to see what's in them. Larger freezers actually do have lights in them.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    The bulb would burst from the extreme cold.

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    #20

    Why do we cook bacon and bake cookies?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can bake anything in an oven if it fits. You could cook cookies in a pan, but not vary many at the same time. The words are just conventions, like cows are living animals, from old english, but beef is from french.

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the English language is fun.

    Steven Bennett
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nice word play. I've heard the one that says, "why do you park in a driveway but drive on a parkway?", but never this version.

    Angie Falzarano
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can bake bacon in the oven. It's pretty good

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I cook bacon and cook cookies

    #21

    Can emotions ever be controlled via technology?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In a way, they are allready, if you are depressed, you can get anti depressivos, if you're anxious you can get an anti anxiety pill, só in a way technology allready controls your emoticons.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, yes. They're just chemical responses in your brain. We already have drugs that can do this in a blunt-force sort of way.

    Tihsyloh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Twitter. That's all I'm gonna say.

    Colette Bembenek
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If by chemicals from Big Pharma, yes.

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes and no. While there are medicines that can influence your emotions they do not control the root cause of said emotions. Some medicines can help.control depression and anxiety, but they do not cure it. Movies and music influence emotions by replicating situations that cause emotions, though not all of us react the same way to those situations.

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    #22

    To what degree have you been able to control the course that your life has taken?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A very high degree, not 100% but a good 85 to 90% thats why my life is só screwd up right now.

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Amen to that. I think most of us are that way.

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    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Conscious control? Sorry, I can't calculate a percentage. But chance events? Everything I've done in life produced consequences, often unintentional, but I've somehow muddled along. Writing software, I've been outsmarted by devices dumber than a cockroach -- if I can't control those, how could I program my life?

    Helena
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    20% maybe enough to nudge it, not enough to direct it.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are given free will and can use it again and again....

    $cagsy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True, but even with free will you can only choose from the options available to you at any given time. For example, if I'm on the plane, flying abroad for my holiday, I have the free will to which you refer, but I can't go scuba diving.

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    ️️Upvote faery️
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm able to control how I react, but not the course life has taken. Decisions lead to consequences and consequences are often not at all what was expected, so mostly we are reacting to consequences from a decision or two that we had made some length of time ago.

    IamMe
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    50%? Life is like reading a choose your own adventure book. You only really get to make life altering decisions at certain points. Oftentimes, important things, good or bad, just happen as part of the story and there's no choice involved.

    Amaya
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it is in our control to choose the course, either it is good or bad. Then it is up to us to follow our chosen path honestly.

    Samira Peri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not. If you have that much control you're lucky.

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    #23

    If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, will we ever know it?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Spelling is a convention. If other dictionaries have a different spelling, then maybe there is a mispelling, or it may be a different convention. For example, color versus colour.

    3 Owls In A Coat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Once I saw a quote that was something like “the dictionary does not define a language - the colloquial use is what defines a language” (which is why “irregardless” is now a word in the dictionary) 🙂

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's descriptivism. The alternative hypothesis, prescriptivism, states that language flows from authorities like dictionaries down into common use, and is quite, quite wrong.

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    Bonnie Fisher
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All I know is, I've seen the word "whoa" misspelled so many times that is misspelling has become an alternate spelling.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ask Google and you will get the correct spelling along with other words

    #24

    Why do we call them buildings if buildings are already built?

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The word “erections” used to be common instead of “buildings”, but it went out of style for some reason.

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same reason we use the name cookie and biscuit. Cookie, for something cooked, and biscuit from the italian word, biscotti, which means twice baked ('bis' means 'two', and contributes the first syllable of binary, binoculars, bicycle, etc.)

    Joss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Leavings are already left, too.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a word salad again. You would call them being built...not building...

    #25

    Will we ever find a universal cure for cancer?

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    Doctor Strange
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, because 'cancer' is not a single disease. The term cancer covers a surprisingly broad spectrum of ailments, with a large number of causes. It is impossible for a single cure to be effective for all types of cancer. The same way we can never cure the common cold, because it is a term for a number of different diseases with similar symptoms.

    ItsJess
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is usually my answer when someone tells me they're sure someone is withholding the cure for cancer to make money.

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    Jorie
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had uterine cancer over 35 years ago and I'm still here. My friend was diagnosed with uterine cancer a few years back, and was dead in no time at all. Total and complete different types, stages and grades of cancer, yet of the same organ. Still have survivor's guilt at times. And God forgive me, but cancer medicine and care are big business. Pharmaceutical and nursing facilities would take tremendous financial hits. Sorry, but it's true.

    ailee
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    im sorry. that must be really hard :(

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    Cuppa tea?
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. There are som many different types of cancer, and each affect person in different way. We might find cure for certain type of cancer, than might treat certain types of people, but universal cure - not a chance.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We probably could. Basically it would have to be something that inhibits errors in cell division. It might have the unfortunate side-effect of ending human evolution, leaving us vulnerable to all kinds of new disease. So swings and roundabouts.

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    Stephanie Case
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I personally believe we already have. But the general public will never know about it, because pharmaceutical companies make money treating diseases, not curing them.

    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even if we did, it'd be astronomically expensive.

    JPotts
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Effective treatment, yes. A cure, no.

    Paul Brown
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I read a multi-part article about cancer and cancer research. I guess it was kind of like conspiracy theory but it basically said a lot of researchers really don't want to find a cure because there's millions of dollars to be made just in cancer research. Im not saying it's true, just something I read.

    Mountainslady1
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We already have, just that the conventional drs shun it because conventional medicine pays Billions...

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. See others' answers for information on how "cancer" is not one disease. Also bear in mind that although the USA has for-profit medicine, not all countries do, amd that hiding a cure for cancer would make no financial sense for those countries.

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    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No.... that cancer fella sure is clever....

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    #26

    Why is a pizza box square when a pizza is round?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Space and transportation... Why are ship containers " square " when they carry furniture or Cars??? Come on....

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's cheaper to make a square box.

    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you had to assemble a round one, it could take longer than making the pizza!

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    Paul Brown
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why are goods on a train called a shipment and goods on a boat called cargo?

    Chucky Cheezburger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And why do you park in a driveway but drive on a parkway?

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    Victoria Anderson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    1. It's cheaper, so your pizza is too. 2. So you actually have room to pick up a slice without plunging your thumb into molten cheese to grip it.

    Emily Kerkstra
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    they are more structurally sound as squares

    Gabby Ghoul
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because they are easier to make. Round ones would probably start with square material that would get cut off and wasted anyway.

    Jasmin Ki
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I heard apple trademarked round pizza boxes to use on their campus

    Richard Low
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They were originally designed for smuggling guns during ww2

    Lisa Leaberry
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So your hands have space to pick up a piece, maybe?;

    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We dined tonight on a rectangular pizza packed in a rectangular box. Such is life.

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    #27

    How do we know we all see the same colours in the same way?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a friend that sees purple as pink

    Holly Benedict
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just imagine if everyone saw a color as some other color , say I saw blue but I learned that color was called Pink and my friend saw yellow and learned that color was called Pink because the person who taught us also was taught the color they saw was called Pink. It's impossible to know. Explain that to your high friends, it will be great .

    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Remember that blue and black dress and the white and golden dress??? That Alone should answer your question.

    3 Owls In A Coat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That was less colour perception and more the fact that some people’s eyes can look at a photo and understand how to “white balance” the image (for lack of a better term lol I’m not that smart) and some people cannot! Hence the people who thought it was gold and white - they just couldn’t see the lighting difference and their brain interpreted the colours literally. Very interesting phenomenon :)

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In fact, we know that we don't.

    ItsJess
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just like that Danny Gonzalez song...

    Tyler Bulmer
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Im colorblind and when I get a color wrong and people correct me I tell them to "prove it". they can't, they just point to it.

    John Barber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Rods and cones and science and stuff.

    Joss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This reminds me of the time my family were gathered at my parents' house about to leave for somewhere and someone asked if anyone had seen a certain sweater or something and my colorblind brother said, "yeah, it's on the purple couch." Dead silence as we all stared at him. He started to look confused and concerned while mom's face worked into a comforting expressin. "sweetie, we don't have a purple couch. It's blue." He looked like the rug had been pulled out from under him, then, grasping for some sense that things were still normal, he asked "but Joss' couch is really purple, right?" We all laughed and assured him that my couch was indeed sporting a purple cover and he looked somewhat relieved. He recently got some glasses that filter light for his type of colorblindness so he can see colors the way we see them and we've each tried wearing them for a bit to see how different the effec is...we don't see things the way he does through them, but we see how differently he sees from us

    Ila Callya
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do not think we do. I have chromesthesia, we don't see the same colors for the same sound ever. How do people survive without this ability?

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    #28

    Why do we say spineless snake when a snake has a spine?

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do we say sweating like a pig when cows don’t bark anyway?

    Jamie Lynn Hamlin-Hammoudeh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is the most intelligent thing I have read in this article 😆

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    Erin Ward
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A spineless snake would be useless, basically it's an insult that sounds more interesting then "you're useless "

    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You might say that, I've never actually heard anyone ever say that, must be a regional thing

    Aaron Pierce
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a double insult. Spineless means cowardly. While snake means conniving or sneaky.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because to say a spineless invertebrate would be a tautology.

    Bonnie Fisher
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because spineless is an added descriptor, otherwise it would just be "snake". The person is both spineless and a snake, they are not a snake without a spine.

    Joss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've only heard spineless and snake used separately where I'm from

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because snakes slither and lets one think they have no spine.

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    #29

    Why is vanilla ice cream color white when vanilla itself is color brown?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the ingredients are mostly light colored. Cream is a light yellow shade.

    Charlie Simpson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you put enough vanilla in to make it brown good luck eating it

    Angie Falzarano
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well not all vanilla is brown. There is a cooking vanilla more for baking that is clear.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because vanilla is also a color.....vanilla beans are brown.

    Cihan Ekizoglu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because flavored foods are often colored to resemble their well-known image. In this case it is white, like the vanilla orchid.

    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because it only takes a little to add flavor

    #30

    Are soulmates a real thing?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you think feelings are a real thing, then, yes. But it doesn't mean there is only one soulmate out there.

    Ashley Deane
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Entirely yes. Finding them is another story.

    Joss
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, but they're not always romantic and there's more than one of them out there.

    Holly Benedict
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not likely, but if you believe in a soulmate, then you must also believe that they can exist anywhere in the world at any given time as the soul is not bound to time or geography. If you found your "soul mate" within a 20 mile radius, you might want to question a few things.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No...just something someone made up to make you feel that your wife/husband was waiting breathlessly for you to come along and save them

    #31

    What exactly is consciousness? Are animals also conscious?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One definition could be: an organism that reacts to its surroundings is concious. But plants react to thier surroundings in various ways. I once had a concussion, during which I was walking around, talking with people, but I don't remember any of it. I woke up the next morning not remembering going to bed. Was I conscious during that time? I think conciousness should include the ability to remember experience, but maybe that's too much.

    Deborah Harris2
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Being aware of and responding to our surroundings. Of course animals are conscious.

    Zeyno
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doing something with your freewill. Yes, animals are conscious too. But some of talents have been given when they were created. They do this automatically. For example, making honey for honey bees, making a spider net for spiders...

    IamMe
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think consciousness is an awareness of the world around you, and the ability to think and remember. I think mammals and birds are very conscious, based just on personal observation. They are a lot like us. Fish, reptiles and insects I'm not so sure about. Maybe they do, but in a different way than us.

    M J
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Surely animals are conscious. And humans usually are. Alcoholic blackout and some head injuries seem to nullify consciousness.

    M J
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Aware of being in the world=consciousness.

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    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Animals are conscious....of being deprived of a treat when you give another animal a treat in front of them.....as in dogs....just try that one and see if the other dog has consciousness and wants a treat, too.

    ailee
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i saw some of your commebts saying youre deaf and dumb but i cant reply because theyve been downvoted. dumb as in cant speak?

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    Willa L
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sheep have no sense of self

    #32

    Can someone blind from birth see in their dreams?

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As they have never seen anything while awake, I would think they have absolutely no idea what the word ‘see’ means. So, they would probably say they didn’t know.

    Zeyno
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They can perceive the shapes with other senses as I know. So it might seem possible. See Eşref Armagan' life (blind artist) in Wikipedia.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    I don't know....I'm deaf and dumb.......

    #33

    If a cave has a cave-in, is it still called a cave?

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    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it desperately wants to be empty again, I would call it a crave(ing).

    Samira Peri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends. If it's a large enough cave-in the cave is no more.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's called a solid mass of dirt.

    #34

    How long will you be remembered after the day that you die?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Until your family splits up your stuff

    Joss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Until the people who love me die or get dimentia

    Doctor Strange
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not so much as a single day. People don't even remember me now when I'm alive, why would they when I'm dead?

    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is all explained in the movie Coco.

    ThatNerdZoe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You gotta die in a crazy way and get a Darwin award ofc! /s

    Holly Benedict
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    For as long as you leave behind memories

    OneHappyPuppy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Until the last person that knew you dies

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    #35

    What is freedom and does it really exist?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No One is completelly free, we all have laws, morals, ethics etc, that makes that none of us are actually free, we have some freedoms, but none of us are free.

    Markus Weiler
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would vote it but my autist doesn't like 'nome'

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    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    FREEDOM: another word for nothing left to lose.

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can do anything you want, then suffer the consequences if you are too selfish (which means hurting others).

    David Szczytko
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    3 years ago

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    M J
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some quasi famous sage (can't remember who) said most of us will never understand freedom until we lose it. I don't necessarily agree with said wise person, and I don't disagree either.

    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A fantasy which by definition doesn't exist

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Freedom is more than just doing what you want all the time with no regard for others. Constant self indulgence can become its own kind of prison.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Freedom does not exist...it's highly overrated.

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    #36

    If you punch yourself and it hurts, are you wear or are you strong?

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    Helena
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pain isn't an indication of weakness.

    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's an indicator of possible bodily damage

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    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, but it might mean you are relatively dumb, or possibly drunk.

    Paul Nieder
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Stop hitting yourself! Stop hitting yourself!"

    VM37
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pain is a response of your nerv ends to some sort of damage, be it machanical, termal of chemical. A tooth without a nerv doesn't hurt no matter what state it is in

    Skara Brae
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you gently poke a feather in your eye, are you weak?

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are a dumbbell and should not be allowed in polite society

    #37

    How would you know if time had been altered in some way?

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    Paul Nieder
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When a black cat walks by a doorway the exact same way, twice in a row.

    Joss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It goes faster every fuckng year and I've definitely noticed that

    Ian Conelley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In theory, quantum information can't be destroyed... so you'd retain memories from alternate timelines, but you'd write these memories off as the "Mandela effect", so you'd refuse to acknowledge them as real.

    Stephanie Case
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because all of a sudden Berenstein would be spelled Berenstain.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You would keep seeing yourself coming and going...

    #38

    Will the world be better off with relatively more countries or relatively fewer?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    More, definitely. Diversity is good, as long as we are all intelligent enough to be interested in others.

    Bec
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Having more doesn't mean they would be accepting of their neighbors differences though

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    Wilko Pebesma
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If humans were more social less. Countries, borders and ownership of land is territorial behavior. The strongest, most powerful rules over all who are allowed in is territory. With the current human behaviour more countries would be better as there would be less layers in hierarchy needed with could reduce the gap between the people at the bottom and the people at the top

    John Barber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The USA should break up into 7 different countries.

    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Considering how many countries have indigenous populations, probably more, so that everyone has a share of land and the right to practice their culture.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every man has his castle....so we need a few billion castles then

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The number of countries in constantly shifting through history and the ride and fall of empires is ironically rarely completely controlled by man.

    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago

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    It would be better off with an asteroid

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    #39

    Will we still have today’s style of nation-state countries 1,000 years from now?

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    Deborah Harris2
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, 1,000 years from now humans will no longer live on Earth, we would have either destroyed our whole race by then or the planet itself.

    Jeff Gabrisl
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, but will the apes have nation-states? Also, we won't destroy the planet unless we develop a "Death Star". We might ruin it for a bit, killing everything, but it will still be here

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably not, look at the Italian, or the French, none of those countries existed 400 years ago, they where a bunch of city states similar to de ancient Greeks, then they ended up as a big country, Im preety sure that in a few Hundred years that Will happen again, for instances in Europe, look at the laws the rulles there are even talks for an European army, in my mind i believe that in a few centuries Europe Will end up as One big country.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't see why not, they've been around a damn sight longer.

    IamMe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some will still be around, some will change, and some will completely disappear. Like all the civilizations that have come before us.

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on society and if future generations will learn from our drama obsessed stupidity and mistakes.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The world will revert back to nature if the ninnies of today have anything better to do.

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    #40

    How much time do we have left on Earth?

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    Deborah Harris2
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Less than a thousand years

    Wilko Pebesma
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's what I believed 20 years ago. Now I fear my niece and nephew will see humanity end.

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    Paul Nieder
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ask the Mayans. I heard they're good at these kind of predictions.

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, I wouldn't start any boxsets.

    John Barber
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We?. I don't know. I have plenty of time.

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on too many variables to accurately predict.

    Dan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In about a billion years the sun will be putting out enough energy to boil off all the oceans.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Probably a few minutes if the libs have their way....

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Congratulations on the first truly stupid answer on this thread.

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    #41

    When was the time created?

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    Will Cable
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    02:06 on a wet Tuesday morning

    Ila Callya
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And there wasn't even coffee or anything... It was savage

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    $cagsy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's a theory that time is an illusion. We can't interact with the past or the future, only with the present. So does the past and future really exist at all outside of ourselves and the things we have interacted with? You could say that last week you took your dog to the park. That may be true, but you didn't take your dog for a walk in the past (because you can't interact with the past), you walked him in that single moment that was the present last week. So rather than referring to past, present and future, we could really be forgiven for referring to a constant stream of infinitesimally small 'presents'. Which reminds me, I need to get some gift wrap.

    Jacob Foster
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time is considered in physics to be the 4th dimension. So time in that sense would have been created at the same moment as the other three dimensions. Our perception and usage of time may have a specific date in history, however time itself has been here regardless of our thought to measure it.

    AM Character
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time is a result of matter in space: therefore, time has existed as long as matter has.

    Cihan Ekizoglu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The question is paradoxal. If there has been a time when time was created, what was time in the first place? (I think the answer is, time is an invention of a conscious mind and it doesn't exist if there is no one to observe.)

    XenoMurph
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Atoms lose heat, and radioactive elements degrade over time. Time is independent of the viewer.

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    Holly Benedict
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time is a human construct designed by us to unify and make sense of our existence we need the concept of time. Now it's manly used to chain us to a work and sleep schedule

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Way way way way way back then...and not before

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    #42

    Why are cars made that go faster than the worlds speed limits?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because Germany thats why, imagine if you buy a car in the US or Canadá for example, but later in your life you have to move to Germany, there are zones of the autobhan that don't have a speed limit, i mean, its preety onvious lol ( Im of course kidding, i have no frikking idea )

    Lisa B
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree, I drove a Mercedes Benz on vacation once and it was like ithe car was made for high speeds on the highway!

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    Will Cable
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd sooner have a car that has a higher top speed than one where the top speed is the speed limit, just so the engine doesn't work as hard and is less noisy.

    Cihan Ekizoglu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because speed limits are only valid in the traffic zone. Person decides where to use the car and to comply with the law.

    Helena
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Then brakes aren't your only option for avoiding a collision, you also have the option of accelerating out of a possible collision, even if you only went that fast for a couple seconds.

    John Barber
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So the cops can chase them and act like they are actually DOING something.

    Joss
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's an emergency preparation. Those speeds are only intended to be used in the event of a zombie apocalypse or similar when you used to outpace something truly horrible.

    ._.
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To escape stuff like tornadoes, murderers, the cops

    Markus Weiler
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "higher, faster, further" is the attitude

    Shelley Reilly
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because some people have the ability to recognize stupid laws and others do not

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Originally for emergency vehicles, but the general public got jealous and wanted them too.

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    #43

    Why does the early bird get the worm, but patience is a virtue?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the early bird got up early and had the Patience to wait for the worm.

    judools Amika
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    8 months ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese

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    Pedantic Panda
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If the worm had the patience to not go out early...

    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The early bird still has to wait for the worm to show up

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Same thing.

    #44

    What shape is your field of vision?

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    Paulo Freitas
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Conical, dude its called the cone of vision for a reason...

    Isaac Bowers
    Community Member
    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, I think mine is rectangular…

    Sarah Marie
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    oh no. paulo is getting frustated with the dumb questions lol

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Plowed in straight lines

    #45

    Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

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    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on if you let it dry in there or not.

    Joss
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't know why you're being downvoted, it still being moist in the container is exactly why it doesn't stick. You have to wait for glue to dry for things you're gluing to be stuck together, after all.

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    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because it is not exposed to air or oxygen.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the case of superglue, because it gets sticky when it oxidises.

    #46

    Why do black olives come in cans and green ones in jars?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only in your country lol, in mine they all come on jars.

    3 Owls In A Coat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And in my part of the world, our small grocery store only has cans!

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    M J
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've heard black olives are not really black. That may or may not be correct, but I won't look it up.

    Samira Peri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    AFAIK there are both actual black olives and green olives that have been dyed black.

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    Paul Nieder
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the olive industry is prejudiced.

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    https://www.nwfdailynews.com/story/news/2015/12/19/if-you-ask-me-why/32853832007/

    Karnevil4
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because black ones need full pasteurization

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The black ones need to be out of the light...the green ones are always put in the fridge anyway

    #47

    What exactly is gravity?

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    joe black
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or it's the exchange of small particles called gravitons. There are three forces that govern the universe "strong force, electro week force, and gravity". The strong force keeps the nucleus of an atom together, the electro week force keeps similar atoms together and governs electricity, and gravity keeps large bodies of atoms together. Strong force and electric weak force are both governed by the exchanging of particles. Like two people tossing a tennis ball to each other it's easier to do when you're close together. The nuclear strong force has strong but short-lived particles thus keeping the nucleus extremely tight and the electro weak force has weaker but longer lived particles. All three forces are working the exact same way and so we would assume that there would be graviton particle that would keep large bodies of atoms together but we've never observed a graviton. Those series of gravity work perfectly fine and can be used to describe an explore our universe.

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    VM37
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of universes main forces.

    Ila Callya
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Gravity isn't a force, it's a incoherent magnetic field...go play with some magnets...

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    Paul Nieder
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's a great movie starring Sandra Bullock...

    Will Cable
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is what I originally thought the Bee Gee's were singing about, turned out to be Tragedy

    Ila Callya
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's incoherent magnetism.. gravity does not exist, just one of those lies they tell so you continue to pay for energy harvested from aether.. which is free.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    When you throw a frying pan at your husband it always lands on his head and then the floor.

    Ian Conelley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's not gravity, that's abuse. He's a victim and you're a criminal.

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    #48

    Will it ever be possible to communicate with people from the past or from the future?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People communicate with people from the future all the time. It's just one-way.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We do that now....via movies and recorded music.....music from 1600 is speaking to us thru composers all the time....

    Kenneth McCartney
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    WTF is up with these downvotes? Downvotes are a tool to be used against abusive posts or spam. C'mon, now!

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, time travel hás allready been debunked.

    Isaac Bowers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time travel to the future is possible, just u have to go at high speed. And only a little bit of time at a time

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you read a journal or historical document you are communicating with the past. When you write a journal you are communicating with the future.

    #49

    Is the opposite of opposite the same or opposite?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same, otherwise it would be opposite.

    3 Owls In A Coat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Opposite, otherwise it would be the same ;)

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    Joss
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The opposite of left is right and the opposite of right is wrong and left and wrong aren't the same or opposite...

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You know when you're taking a test or exam and there's a question where you think 'I really haven't studied hard enough to answer this right now so I'm gonna leave it until the end so future-me can deal with it'? I'm there.

    XenoMurph
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It does not have to be binary. Travel 100 miles North. Then travel 100 miles South. You assume you end up in exactly the same spot. But if you started 100 miles from the North pole, you head 100 miles North. you reach the pole, then any direction is South, you could travel 100 miles South in the opposite direction. I'm sure there are any number of similar "opposites". In politics, far right, and far left are equally totalitarian and oppressive.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The question is "is the opposite of 'opposite' opposite?" not "is the opposite of an opposite opposite?'.

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    Cihan Ekizoglu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Opposite of opposite can be independent from the original, like "Sunny > Cloudy > Cloudless"

    #50

    How do we know that a new dogfood has an "improved taste"?

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    assdog
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Knew a guy who worked in one of the factories and he told me that almost all cat/dog food is made for human consumption so they can test it. He invited me up to said workplace to prove it. To this day there are things i can never un-see and NO i didn't try any. As far as i know he is still single to this day. Story was from about 25 years ago.

    Joss
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The secret is out, shape shifters are real and have a specialty employment niche.

    MJ
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bingo the taste-testing dog, of course. If he’s presented with the old food and the new food and doesnt hoover both, the taste has not improved…. Or he just wasn't given enough time.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When a human tastes it as a dog can't tell either way if the taste is improved....just another advertising gimmick.

    #51

    If you can be allergic to anything, can you have an allergy to water?

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    Pedantic Panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes you can, Aquagenic urticaria. Very rare but also very painful. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquagenic_urticaria

    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are documented cases of that

    Isaac Bowers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think I’m allergic to my sister

    ThatNerdZoe
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My ex must have this. His hair is so greasy I can't even. And he was a blonde and dyed it black so it looks even greasier 🤢 (I'm being sarcastic about the water allergy but not anything else and I know it's off topic sorry pls don't downvote)

    Angie Falzarano
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know if it counts but for some drinking cold water causes them to choke or hacking. like an allergic reaction. But fine when it's room temp

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why not? People are allergic to the craziest things.

    Skara Brae
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    An allergy is a biologic reaction to other biology. Water is not biologic, but it can contain biologic impurities.

    #52

    Is there an end to the universe, or does it just keep going?

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    Erin
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah and there’s a really great restaurant there

    Dan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You could consider the heat death of the universe an ending.

    Isaac Bowers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes and no. The universe expands at 1,000,000 miles per minute. So yes, there is one, no we cannot reach it

    M J
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If there was a physical end, and it went no further, what would be beyond that? Nothing?

    JPotts
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe to our universe. There is an infinite number of universes to take it's place.

    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The universe is finite yes, but its expanding, and One day os also going to end

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Considering science cannot find the end of the universe, I'd say it keeps going. After all matter itself cannot truly be destroyed.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    There is an end to the universe....It says Dead End on a huge sign.

    #53

    Will it be possible for countries to operate without prisons in the future?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Easy to answer this one. NO. Never happen here in the US the judicial system is way too corrupt to ever be fixed. They are mostly privately owned for profit prisons with politicians as share holders that basically use prisoners as slave labor, and they will never give up their revenue streams.

    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    could happen in countries besides the US though. but I don't think its a good idea, I think that prisons should be focused more on rehabilitation and education for the most part though, except for constant re-offenders... and child abusers/r**ists. there's a special place in hell for those. lock them in a dark windowless room and don't let them out.

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yea, if we adopt something in the style of the hunger games, but with criminals.

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only when everyone is happy.

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    3 years ago

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    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No because no matter how hard you try there will always be people who do bad things, so unless Christ comes and knocks some sense into humanity, we remain stuck with our own stupidity sadly.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No....because everyone in the future will be in prison

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    #54

    Are animals that don’t live in houses homeless?

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    3 Owls In A Coat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They are houseless but probably not homeless

    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Snails are never homeless, so… depends on the animal.

    Deborah Harris2
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If they are abandoned yes, but if they live in their own natural habitat then no/

    Bonnie Fisher
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or, we could refer to homeless people as "feral humans".

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They don't know what the word homeless means....they just know they have conned some human into taking care of them. Raccoons, possums, skunks don't know they are homeless but would gladly share your home with you.

    #55

    A tomato is a fruit, so why is ketchup not called a smoothie?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Too much vinegar, not enough sugar.

    John Barber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tomatoes are NOT fruit, they are vegetables.

    Paul Nieder
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the term smoothie was invented a lot later than ketchup was.

    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Smoothies are never crunchy, so ketchup is not a smoothie.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's generally considered a veggie but technically a fruit.

    #56

    Is it possible to know if something is good or bad?

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    Isaac Bowers
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or maybe just go to a gas station bath room lol

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or tasting month old milk...or having appendicitis.

    #57

    Did Adam and Eve have a bellybutton?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The omphalos question (omphalos is Greek for navel). It was a big theological issue in the middle ages. Some believed that, not being born, Adam and Eve would not have navels; others contended that they would have been created to appear normal. The *actual* answer is, of course, that Adam and Eve didn't exist (mitochondrial Eve is a metaphor).

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Something to.ask the Lord once we meet him.

    Dread Hyena
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you believe the entire human race spawned from just 2 people 6000 years ago, you maybe shouldn't be pondering questions deeper than whether or not you want fries with that.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Why do you need to know that trivia when they were not around other people....

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes they were, they had kids. That's the whole point of them. (If they were real, obviously). The question is about how god thinks. Did he create them as their kids would look, i.e. with navels even though they weren't born, or did he prefer that the difference should be apparent?

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    #58

    Is the world eternal?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It depends on your perspective. When you eat something, the atoms don't dissappear, they just go different places.

    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eternity is like infinity, merely an admission that you don't know when or where to stop counting.

    Pedantic Panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The world as we know it, no. Life cycle of our start will see to it in roughly 4 billion years.

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    AM Character
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The universe shows clear signs of having a beginning and clear signs that there will be an end (entropy) due to the fine tuning theory. So, no.

    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    time is eternal, yes. But out world, as in, our earth, or our galaxy, perhaps even our universe? Maybe not. The idea of nothingness is a concept that both intrigues and terrifies me. (like.. what is the nothingness when your life is over, for example. like when we cease to exist?)

    Samira Peri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time isn't eternal. It requires the increase of entropy, which has a limit. Eventually time will stop.

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    #59

    Is there life after death?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, you die and that's it, unless you take the walking dead as a documentáry....

    Erin
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That’s what I believe too, but we can’t say it’s a fact.

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    Ariom Dahl
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now this one IS unanswerable. No one really knows, although we all have our own beliefs. I think in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books (fiction) those who died met Death (who always spoke in capitals) and mostly experienced what they expected.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most of the time, yes. Particularly in Small Gods...the desert that you have to walk alone. But some characters, like Mr Pounder in Maskerade, get surprised.

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    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who can know for sure? Everyone has their own beliefs. I'm torn between the fact that it's non-existence and WHAT EVEN ISTHAT, and the idea of rebirth, because I can't fathom the nothingness of not existing after I die.

    GES
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Let's find out together shall we?

    Dread Hyena
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons, even death may die. - Abdul Alhazred No that did not answer the question but I do love that quote so, you know, yeah.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage" - Mrs White in Clue

    Richard Low
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is there a Life before death ?

    OneHappyPuppy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Physically or mentally? Physically yes, all energy circles and transforms from one form into another, so the flesh that rots and is eaten by bacteria will eventually feed the plants etc... Mentally probably not, your thoughts and feelings are all little electric signals in your brain, much like the 0s and 1s in a computer, if the powers off, so is the machine. Philosophically, no one knows for sure...

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    #60

    Is it really possible to experience anything objectively?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, math is objective, no matter what your fellings are, the math Will always be objective.

    Tihsyloh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I disagree. But to elaborate would take too long.

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    Doctor Strange
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Science is true whether you believe it or not

    Bill Erichson
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No it isn't. In fact we change scientific beliefs as we think and learn more. Newton was eclipsed by Einstein.

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    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You need to forgo emotions first.

    Ian Conelley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't know why you got downvoted, this is true. Have an upvote.

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    #61

    Isn’t the word "queue" just the letter Q followed by four silent letters?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. The letter Q when read as a word would be prononuced "c".

    Levi Tanner
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No the other four letters are just waiting in line for there turn

    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not if you pronounce it “Kweh-ooh-ee.”

    #62

    Are we the only life in the universe?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Almost certainly not, but we may well not live near enough to any other life to ever discover it.

    ailee
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    no! in fact we might have other life in our own solar system! other lofe can even be bacteria and they have found signs of it on one of jupiters moons and maybe even mars

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Not by any means. There are at least 5 different ET's that visit the earth on a regular basis....

    #63

    Will the world be better off without "bad people"?

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    Erin Ward
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who gets to pick who the good people are and who the bad people are?

    ItsJess
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seriously. I know that I'm a good person, but I'm not religious, and I've had some people say I can't know good from bad without a God and therefore can't be one. Good and bad is somewhat subjective.

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would be better off with no people, are trying to ask if human civilization would be better off then yes

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How will you know when you are happy without bad people?

    Zeyno
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We can not call people as bad just because of the mistakes they did. Because people change.

    Dread Hyena
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is the light without the dark?

    David Phillips
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe just selectively eliminate a few, and leave the rest for reference.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Most definitely....get rid of all the bad people and leave only the good people would be a wonderful world.

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    #64

    Is something trying to teach humanity a lesson?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If só, its failing miserably.

    MJ
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or humanity is failing miserable at learning the lesson 😅

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The only lesson for all of life is the consequences of our actions and inactions. If you are religious, the ultimate consequences are unknowable (in this universe), because "faith" is another word for "hope", not "knowledge".

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unfortunately humanity is not very good at learning things.

    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pain is an efficient teacher. Some humans learn not to hammer nails through their hands. Pain is not 'trying' at anything, but actions have consequences, so don't lie down on a bed of hot coals.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. GOD....but us humans pay him no attention.

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm agnostic but I don't think that downvoting a person because of their beliefs is really the path to follow. There seems to be a lot more 'haters' on BP lately, or is it just me?

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    Deborah Harris2
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, I think they have given up on us for ignoring all the warning signs

    #65

    If God is watching us, why doesn’t He stop us from doing bad things like killing each other?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is called the problem of evil. If god is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent then he can and should stop evil things from happening. If he does not stop evil things happening then either he can't stop them, in which case he is not omnipotent; he doesn't know about them, in which case he is not omniscient; or he doesn't care enough to stop them, in which case he is not omnibenevolent. If any or all of these things are true then god, as we define him, does not exist. Most people try to wriggle out of this by appealing to "free will", conveniently forgetting that many evils of the world - such as diseases and natural disasters - are not the products of human action.

    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The same reason your other imaginary friends can't hand you the remote

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the question is better rephrased as: if there is a god, why doesn't he/she/it care what happens to people. I was sitting in a church once where the speaker explained that everyting that happens is god's will. One man got very upset and angrily retorted, "You're saying it was god's will that my children died in a fire? I could hear them screaming." The church speaker responded, "yes,"

    3 Owls In A Coat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow…..how is that version of god any better than the devil then? Man I’m so grateful I was raised agnostic.

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    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    AFAIK 'god' is a job title, not a proper name. Humans have invented many, many gods. We see how well that works out. ;(

    Nezuko_Chan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because there isn’t something that god will be truly mad at you for doing if you kill someone they will go to god and I’m pretty sure god doesn’t mind. Killing a person (in my opinion) probably wouldn’t actually be wrong to god

    Julianna Myers
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sin. And God never created sin, it was created by man. God created Adam and Eve to be with Him, but by their choice, they sinned. Love is a choice, you can never truly love anything or anyone without choosing to do so. When Adam and Eve chose not to love God and go their own way, they were punished, and sin forever entered the world. God does not cause the bad things to happen, but he doesn't stop it because in the end it is man's choice, it's where the term "free will" comes in. Free Love.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So wrong it's not even funny. Cutting to the chase of my previous answers, Adam and Eve couldn't have known what right and wrong were until AFTER they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, so god deliberately set them up to fail. No free will was involved.

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    Deborah Harris2
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why would he? He gave up on us thousands of years ago

    shan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    God let’s things play out in a human way. We all have free will to make our choices.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wrong. See my comment above. "Free will" is a cop-out answer. An omnipotent god could give us free will without the requirement for evil.

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    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago

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    God gives us free will, not immunity of consequences.

    Katie Cahill
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    3 years ago

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    Sin's curse brought evil into the world. Of course I wonder to myself, even as someone with a deeply intimate relationship with Jesus, why Jesus has not yet returned to stop all the evil. But then, I don't have to know the answer. I have seen Him work in my life in miraculous ways, and I know He is good. I still get angry at Him sometimes, and I'm completely honest with Him about it, and He brings me peace that surpasses my undersranding, and yes, even answers and clarity about why He allows specific hard things in my life. It's important to note I believe contradictions do coexist: that we have free will...and yet God is in charge (and knows every choice we will ever make)...that horrific things happen...yet He works them together for our good... Just because things contradict each other doesn't mean they can't be true.

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    *summarising other comments* if god is omnipotent then he is responsible for sin.

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    #66

    When you forget a thought, where does it go?

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    Cihan Ekizoglu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It doesn't go away, stay or disappear. You rebuild a thought so that you remember.

    David Phillips
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nowhere. Like your keys - they're still where you left them.

    Dread Hyena
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Into a pocket dimension with left socks, car keys and the name of that (insert a media or person) you were talking about.

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All forgotten thoughts and missing socks go to a place called the Hozone.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It runs off and hides in the closet until you remember it.

    #67

    How can you describe something indescribable?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Everything can be described, accuracy is the issue

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do the best you can.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Start by using a thesaurus for one.

    #68

    If you are bald, can you get dandruff?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, but you get sunburn on your head. (Personal experience)

    Dan allen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, because dandruff is the over production of skin cells, not hair cells.

    John Barber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's the 2nd bald question. What's the agenda here?.

    Dan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seborrheic dermatitis

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't see why not.....your head skin can harbor a lot of stuff...including very fine hair.

    #69

    If anything is possible, can anything be impossible?

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    bi mermaid (she/her/hers)
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    1 year ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If everything is possible, it's impossible for something to be impossible, so not everything is possible.

    Holly Benedict
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Few things are impossible, most things are improbable

    Viktorija Dimitrova
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course, if you think that's impossible it will be

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Yes...it's impossible to change someone's mind when they are adamant.

    #70

    Why are we called humans?

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    Pedantic Panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From Latin(?) humus meaning earth, made from earth and will return to

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. From homo, "man". The root word for earth, "phgem", is much older than Latin - proto-Indian.

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because English has Latin roots for many words.

    John Barber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am called John. Sometimes Mr.Barber.

    Wilko Pebesma
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is a valid question for any word that is not a composition of other words. As soon as we started communicating with sound we started making things. Even animals do.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because we are not polar bears....

    #71

    Why do people have to die?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Biologically, because our cellular processes can't maintain themselves forever. Also, if we didn't die everyone would starve, so dying permits children to live.

    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    exactly, at now over 8 billion people on the planet we're already massively overpopulated. Imagine the hellscape if 8 billion people continued to live and not die, whilst adding billions of more to the population? yikes. It would also mean I'd be jobless an my studies would be for nothing, given I'm in mortuary work. xP

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    Nezuko_Chan
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because god made it like that

    GES
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The circle of life.

    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you want a technical answer, or a political response? ;)

    Wilko Pebesma
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because we reproduce. Even now we are on/close to unsustainable numbers.

    VM37
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cells devide to create New cells to replace damage ones. Dna is replicated in this process. Dna can replicated only certain number of times before itself is damaged. When this hapennes no New cells can be created. Damage to the live beeing is non fixable, and the beeing dies.

    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ever watched " altered carbon " if not, go watch it, they really show it to you on a way.

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who wants to be stuck.in immortality forever.

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    #72

    If you expect the unexpected, doesn’t that make the unexpected expected?

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    Richard Low
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And how can you half expect something?

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It means you are highly likely to be surprised.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    No....it makes the expected more worthwhile when it does happen.

    #73

    Why is the objective of golf to play the least amount of golf?

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    Holly Benedict
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Imagine the drunk Scott's man that came up with the game with his buddies. " I bet you i can hit this tiny ball with this stick to that patch of grass way over there." And his buddy said " okay but can you do it with a bunch of trees, sand pits and a pond in the way?" And then they competed to see who could do it better than the other.

    Cihan Ekizoglu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because golf is for killing time with style. So if you do it for sport, it better be fast.

    Justin Trouble
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the rules were decided while drunk?

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To goof off as much as possible while pretending to play a game.

    #74

    If Cinderella’s shoe fit her perfectly, then why did it fall off?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because it helped the plot structure

    GES
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She stumbled really hard on those steps. That's what made the shoe fly off like a cheap sandal.

    Dread Hyena
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I feel like the more important question is: What kind of psycho runs around his kingdom slapping a (let's be honest) swampy-a*s glass slipper on people? I'm not kink shaming but goddamn, that is one helluva foot fetish. No judgement on the fetish.

    Dana Lovstrom
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the original version of the story, the ball was multiple nights long and she kept leaving, so the prince spread pitch on the stairs the last night to stop her. Obviously she just kept running and wound up leaving a shoe behind.

    Paul Nieder
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She forgot to tighten the strap.

    Cihan Ekizoglu
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cinderella didn't use her own shoes, the prince needed an excuse.

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The fairy godmother greased it so it could be used as a clue for the prince...as for that if everything disappeared at midnight, why didn't the shoes dissappear too?

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    She was running....or didn't you read the script? or the book?

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If shoes fit perfectly they don't fall off when you run...or didn't you read the question?

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    #75

    If life is so short, why do we do things that we don’t like and like so many things that we don’t do?

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    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doing the things we don't like aids in the pursuit of doing those we do. The former, unfortunately, usually thwarts the latter!

    Holly Benedict
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The increase in misery makes the few moments of joy more precious. But i think there is a tipping point where it just leads to depression because there is so little time and even less joy to be had

    Paul Nieder
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Don't do what you like but like what you do. One of my dad's favourite sayings.

    David Phillips
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That, my friend, is an excellent question.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Essentially it all boils down to money.....you do things you don't like...like going to work all day...

    #76

    Is there a risk to ever be completely dependent on AI?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, there is a risk to everything, but personally I hope AI behaves like terminator

    GES
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Watch any A.I. movie and see what happens to every single one of them.

    Holly Benedict
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm kind of hoping for a sentient AI keeps humans as well loved pets situation. It will be like living as a kid again only instead of your parents taking care of you it's a robot

    Pedantic Panda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The risk is not artificial intelligence, more natural ignorance. (I forget who said this originally)

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know, many members of the younger generations already don't know how to do alot of things for themselves, like writing a letter, or entertaining themselves without technology.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not if you live in third world countries.

    #77

    Is karma real or just a human construct?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Human construct and coincidences.

    GES
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Human Construct. Not just construct.

    Ashley Deane
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nah Karma's real. I've witnessed it so many times. Too many times. Like ironic karma instant karma.. just desserts

    Angie Falzarano
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No karma is real. And it can be a b***h

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know cause and effect is the most basic law of science. If you do an action the consequences will eventually occur. The consequences are subject to a high degree of variability.

    Stephen Ferris
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But the cause and effect here would be based on a human constructed religions rules of good and bad. Both the cause and effect are based off of human constructs.

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    3 years ago

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    Karma is real... I've proved it to myself many times....don't have enough room to extrapolate here though.

    #78

    Are there limits to human creativity?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You would've had to ask that question if the answer was no

    Matt Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    On an individual level, probably...

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No....just limits of their intelligence.

    #79

    How do you measure the worth of someone’s life?

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    Tihsyloh
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lifetime income+ value of societal contribution - lifetime use of resources.

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is no single answer, because different people will have different opinions, which will generally be different than their insurance company"s opinion.

    John Barber
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By their material possessions. At least that's how they do it here in the USA.

    Holly Benedict
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can not measure the value of another person's life as the meaning and purpose of life is for the individual to decide.

    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on how you define 'worth'. Is it cash, or good deeds, or vivid literature? I recall a cartoon of a funeral procession including a Brinks money-hauling truck. One bystander tells another, "He decided to take it with him." The deceased must have been worth something, hey?

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some would use the puppy rule: If you have been a positive influence in many puppies’ lives, you had a valuable life.

    Dread Hyena
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By the amount of valuables they're willing to part with rather than their life. But seriously, life is worthless. Hail Cthulhu you worthless maggots. Lulz.

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The worth of a life has no measure.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Very very carefully....taking into consideration a zillion different options.

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    #80

    How far east can you travel before you are travelling west?

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    Russell Bowman
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You will always travel east ... but, if you travel north you will eventually travel south

    Skara Brae
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You only go west if you turn around. To respond to your implied question, east becomes west, by convention, at 180 degrees longitude.

    MJ
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You’ll still be travelling east, you’ll just wind yourself in the west.

    Richard Low
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Standing on the north pole every direction is South, reversed for the south pole of course.

    Hypoxia Smurf
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Your GPS or compass can be defective and lead you in odd directions. Yikes.

    3 Owls In A Coat
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok for real though - last week I boarded a 10.5 hour flight in Bangkok at 12:00 midnight. About 4 hours into the flight I cracked the window shade open to take a peek and it was full sunlight outside. By the time I got to Vancouver 6 hours later, it was 6:00PM there and dark again. Did we fly against the earth’s rotation through an entire period of daylight in just a few hours?

    Ariom Dahl
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Consider what time it was in Vancouver (and which day) when it was midnight in Bangkok. Add 10.5 hours to that to work out the answer. And presumably you would have crossed the International Date Line as well. Hope this helps.

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    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Start walking around the earth and you will end up in either the North or South Pole....forget about east or west...

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    #81

    Are we living, or are we dying?

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    John Barber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I am living. I don't know about the rest of you.

    Holly Benedict
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are all dying, just at different rates

    Viktorija Dimitrova
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Depends on your health condition

    RoanTheMad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well, we all die. so I guess right from our birth we're (hopefully in the case of most of us) slowly dying, as if we're not killed in another way, we inevitably die simply of old age.

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This doesn't affect me because I'm immortal. Well, so far, so good anyway.

    Brittney Jessop
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's subjective. Kinda like Schrodinger's cat 🐈

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Schrodinger's cat isn't subjective. It's objective but indeterminate-until-observed. The cat isn't alive for some people and dead for others. But anyway the whole point of Schrodinger's cat is that it doesn't work. A cat can't be alive and dead simultaneously. Schrodinger was pointing out that quantum effects don't affect real-world physics.

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    #82

    Why do we count sheep before bed?

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    John Barber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Again with the "we". I have never counted sheep at any time for any reason.

    Enri Wells
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bc we have baaa'd sleeping habits

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it’s supposed to be boring enough to make you fall asleep

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not everyone does, although some mind calming exercises before bed can help you sleep better.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't count sheep.....

    #83

    Do we have free will or is everything predestined?

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    $cagsy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If everything was predestined for each individual on the planet, whoever was organising the predestining would need one heckin' big server to store all that data. I certainly wouldn't want to be the IT guy responsible for it.

    John Barber
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every action you take creates a universe in which that action took place.

    Pedantic Panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have free will to make choices but they are based on our genetic make up and life experiences.

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Freedom of Will and action, but not immunity from consequences.

    Angie Falzarano
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We have free will. I also don't believe in coincidences. Things happen for a reeason

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    We were given free will from God....only the devil insists things are predestined.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So all Biblical prophecies come from the devil then? Can't have prophecy without predestination. So that's the Book of Revelation gone for a start.

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    #84

    What is the purpose and meaning of time?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The universe needs neither purpose nor meaning. They are human constructs.

    Dread Hyena
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    FINALLY. Someone gets it too. I swear, I've wasted more "time" arguing with people about this very thing than I care to admit. Humans, it has to MEAN something. No. No it does not.

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From a physics perspective, time is a result of the entropy of the universe, where the enormous energy released at the (theoretical) big bang decays to absolute zero. From a personal perspective, it ought to be the amount of time we have to enjoy life.

    John Barber
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So I will know when Jeopardy is on.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To annoy humans who want to sleep in...but can't.

    #85

    What is the color of a mirror?

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    Ian Conelley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The coating on the back of a piece of glass which makes it a mirror is called silvering for a reason. Traditional mirrors are silver.

    Patrick Linnen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    depends on the reflecting surface. Black mirrors are a real thing.

    #86

    When does it stop being partly sunny and start to become partly cloudy?

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    Doctor Strange
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Partly sunny means that it is more clouds with some sun. Partly cloudy means it is more sun with some clouds. So the tipping point is when it is equal sunny and cloudy.

    Cihan Ekizoglu
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It stops being partly sunny when it's overcast. There may partly be clouds even if you don't see them clearly.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When the entire sky is overcast.

    #87

    How do you grow a seedless fruit?

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    $cagsy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't understand what mathematical charts have to do with fruit. I think you need to be more specific, like bar grafts, or line grafts or what?

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    Bec
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the case of watermelon they are grown adjacent to seeded versions, and of course, aren't completely truly seedless

    Skara Brae
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The parent plants are not seedless.

    Amanda
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just because the fruit is seedless doesn't mean it didn't come from a seed. Kind of like I had a child but won't be having grandchildren. Ya know

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    There is no such thing.....

    #88

    If you told someone to "be a leader and not a follower", wouldn’t they become a follower by following your advice?

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    Cihan Ekizoglu
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Leaders usually follow the instructions of advisors. Follower is not the opposite of leader, you can be either, both, or neither.

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It means that you should think for yourself, not just go after whatever fad happens to pop up.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not necessarily so.....they would blaze their own trail....

    #90

    Do today’s technologies make global conspiracies more or less feasible?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Equally unfeasible. Humans are intrinsically bad at cooperating. Technology does not change that. We're all tribalist morons.

    Erin
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well my group and I don’t believe that, so we aren’t going to listen to you or your ideas.

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    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In many ways more because it allows the tyrannically minded to find each other and commilunicate better. While they eventually destroy each other they also destroy most of thier societies while they are at it.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    More feasible as we now can see the failures of things much faster via the internet or tv

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    #91

    If people were given the option of starting a new country, what features, options or capabilities would make it more valuable than counties today?

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    $cagsy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe suggest that the inhabitants try not to kill each other? It's a start.

    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The bar is pretty low right now

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have politics be a civic duty with term and salary limits and not a high level career choice. And no appointed government positions either .

    #92

    Is there a limit to how smart one person can be?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Knowledge is limited by experience, whether personal, or learned from others. Insight is also limited by knowledge. For example, the smartest people in the world would not have understood that viruses inject thier dna into other cells to reproduce, even though they understood that something was being spread from person to person.

    Matt Smith
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    .......it's a simple "yes" or "no" question

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    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is no limit to.what you can learn. There is a limit in how well you apply it however.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No limit...your IQ can be well above 200 and your head won't explode.

    Justin Trouble
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, most brains can store about 1000 terabytes and that isn't enough memory to know everything

    #93

    Will it ever be possible for someone to live forever?

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    Spyguy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So that I can get as far away from this planet as possible

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    Paul Brown
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You can look this up, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the physicist said he believes that the first immortal person is already alive today.

    Sans Serif
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Skara Brae expressed it very well in another part of this list: "Biologically, our cellular processes can't maintain themselves forever. Also, if we didn't die everyone would starve, so dying permits children to live."

    Stephen Ferris
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The amount we would have to change our selves to accomplish that, or even just add 10x to our life span... would you still consider that person human?

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No one can live forever....their human body would quickly give out after age 150.

    #94

    Do we run the risk of becoming too dependent upon artificial intelligence?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't allow you to know that Dave

    Ashley Deane
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is like the third time they've repeated a question

    Pedantic Panda
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We do if it's leading to repeated posts.

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Until it fails and whoever survives learns to do things for themselves all.over again.

    Matt Smith
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Didn't you already ask this?

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No as certain things cannot be replicated by AI.

    #95

    What is our place in an infinite universe?

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Earth. Maybe some other planets someday. The universe doesn't care. Our place is whatever we can accomplish.

    Will Cable
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stuck behind the person who is arguing with the cashier about an expired coupon

    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Or behind the guy on his cell phone driving half of the speed limit!

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our place is somewhere far below dogs or cats

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Three planets from our sun indefinitely....

    #96

    What happens if we are stuck in a dream and have no way to come out of it?

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    $cagsy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One, two, he's coming for you, three, four, he's at your door...

    Dan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Five, six, grab your crucifix...

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    Nezuko_Chan
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    2 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You would be transferred to a hospital for either a coma or locked in syndrome

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Eventually you dream that you are awake, and you can't tell the difference.

    Patrick Linnen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Once I woke up three times in a row, only dreaming that I woke up twice. That was very weird.

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    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are possibly under some kind of medical sedation, or very ill and delirious.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Never happens you do wake up sooner or later.

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    #97

    Would time continue if everything in the world was frozen?

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    Doctor Strange
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time is just how human's percieve events. Even if everything was frozen, events would still happen. Humans are not so cosmically important that things would stop happening simply because we don't percieve them.

    Samira Peri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time is the increase of entropy and doesn't require an observer. Take for example the several billion years before humans existed. Would you claim time didn't exist then? Time is kinda important for physics to work.

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    Samira Peri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "World" in what sense? "Frozen" in what sense? If you mean "all of universe would be at absolute zero", the answer is no.

    Stephen Ferris
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If it makes you feel better, most all solids are considered frozen. So you don't need to freeze that much more to find out :)

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Time is an aspect of the universe, not dependent on the motion of objects.

    $cagsy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Humans can't interact with the past or the future, only the present. Time is a human invention to rationalise what went before and what may happen. As far as we know, the Universe should follow this notion and frozen or not, everything, everywhere, all at once, is experiencing their own versions of the present. Would time continue? Time does not exist. Which reminds me, I need to get a new battery for my watch.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Why not? Who has the power to freeze the world anyway?

    #98

    Do our human accomplishments have a long-term, universal significance, or when the world ends, do we all end with it, including what we’ve achieved?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only the junk we shot into space will be left

    Spyguy
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can only wish to be some junk shot into space then

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    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The significance of accomplishments is how much happier our decendents will be. For example, if you live in a house with a heating and cooling, you may live in a more comfortable place than royalty did 200 years ago. But the universe won't care no matter what we do to it.

    Holly Benedict
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No from the picture of the universe, what we as an individual accomplish means nothing except to other individuals

    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hummm let me think, grab the world Guiness book of records ( which we can agree contains mankind greatest achivements, and granted a lot of really dumb ones as well lol ) put it in a high temp. oven. Thats exactly the same thats going to happen to earth in a few Hundred million years when our sun becomes a red giant and incenerates the earth.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When the world ends....nothing will matter....kings, queens, dictators, will all be gone and never be remembered or acknowledged. Cheer up.....even the most diabolical human will be nothing in the end.

    #99

    When you get to heaven, do you look as you do at the age that you die?

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    Richard Low
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'd rather go to hell but unfortunately that doesn't exist either

    Dread Hyena
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If I go to heaven, I will raise hell. I didn't sign up for that s**t and I will not abide that aggression.

    Dana Lovstrom
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hope not. I'd rather be 8 and cute again!

    Angie Falzarano
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would think we would look like how we want to look

    Ashley Deane
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, haven't you ever seen Titanic??

    Hypoxia Smurf
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Locate your Heaven. Take photos. We await your findings.

    Deborah Harris2
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I always used to wonder that as a child

    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know we will find out when we get there.

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    #100

    What happens when an immovable objects meets an unstoppable force?

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    Stuart Haag
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The force transfers through the object like sending a croquet ball... the object stays fixed and the force doesn't stop

    Paul Brown
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Thats like asking can God make rock so heavy even he can't lift it.

    Stuart Haag
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Can Jesus microwave a burrito SO HOT that even he himself cannot eat it?

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    #101

    Will we ever be able to travel through time?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Forwards, at the rate of one second per second. Apart from that, no - because if time travel becomes possible at any point, it will, by definition, always have been possible.

    Phred
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are. It's called "living."

    Ian Conelley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Technically we've already time traveled. Time moves faster for astronauts, it's quite measurable. The farther you are from a gravity well, the faster time moves for you. If you could hang out near a magnetar or just inside the event horizon of a black hole, you could watch the universe fast-forward around you. You would have, effectively, time traveled into the future. Of course, there's no feasible way you could do either of these things and survive...yet.

    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our very existence proves the impossibility of traveling back through time. Why? Because people fock-up stuff. Some clumsy time traveler would aim for the Big Bang and would inevitably fock it up, ending space-time. Yikes.

    ItsJess
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I've read that future time travel is possible, but past time travel isn't (no idea how they were able to figure this out; it was in some science magazine in the 80s)

    Paulo Freitas
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No, debunked by Einstein in the theory of relativity.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually not true. Relativity allows for the existence of closed timelike loops.

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    Ambry Petersen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We are constantly traveling forward through time, backwards isn't something we are able to do.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    We can only travel back in time....not forward as the future has not happened yet

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    #102

    What will be the biggest human advancement on planet earth during your lifetime?

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    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Define 'achievement'. An engineering project? Political transformation? Extinction?

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bored Panda will fix their downvoting/banning system.

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Realizing your parents and those who came before you were not stupid

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Impossible to say in this day and age where everyone scams everyone else out of their money.

    #103

    What is the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The mystery is why anyone ever thought it was a mystery.

    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    People crave explanations. If there is no explanation they'll buy into theories and rumors - the seeds of mysteries.

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    Doctor Strange
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The mystery is how people are so bad at statistics. The Bermuda Triangle only has more missing ships than other areas because it is a high traffic area, and therefor has more ships overall. But percentage wise, it is no worse than any other part of the ocean.

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The weather patterns and currents that we haven't completely figured out yet

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Methane gas released from the ocean's bottom. What's so mysterious about that?

    #104

    Are there mysterious species hiding from humans?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you were an different species and saw how humans are wouldn't you hide as long as you could?

    Will Cable
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the UK they are called Doctors, we used to be able to see them but now......

    Stephen Ferris
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just because we haven't discovered something doesn't mean it's hiding.

    Erin
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most of the ocean is undiscovered. Who knows what kinds of incredible life forms are down there?

    Willa L
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Idk about “hiding” but it is estimated that there are over 5 million undiscovered species

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Yes....they are called ET's and live among us wearing their human suits. Yes....for real.

    #105

    Why do we make exceptions to rules if we all should follow the rules?

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    Doctor Strange
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because the universe is far too complex for any rule to be able to account for every possible contingency. Rules form the guidelines, but exceptions must be made for situations not planned for when the rules were created.

    Ian Conelley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you're rich, or a police officer, or a judge, etc, rules don't apply to you. Maybe that's just in the UK and the US...

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do we drop the kids off at the pool? There are a lot of tough questions out there.

    Matt Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because sometimes exceptions need to be made

    #106

    Can you have a daydream at night-time?

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    #107

    If the sky is the limit, then what is space?

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    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What is love? (Baby don’t hurt me, don’t hurt me, no more…)

    GES
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sky IS the limit that we can breathe. So yea.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just an extension of the sky.

    #108

    What are dreams?

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    Nezuko_Chan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    a state of consciousness characterized by sensory, cognitive and emotional occurrences during sleep.

    Dread Hyena
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you know what a defrag is? That. Dreams are the human equivalent of a hard drive defrag. Memory storage and organization. Put simply, if you will allow it.

    Stephanie Case
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A wish your heart makes (when you're fast asleep).

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As someone once said, “Dreams are just reams with little d’s in front of them.”

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Our subconscious entertaining us at night.

    #109

    Do you ever really do anything out of your own conscious choice, or are we always controlled by some external stimulation or motive?

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    Justin Trouble
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you think a victim ever made a conscious decision to be assaulted?

    Skara Brae
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Either one happens, but it's often both.

    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Everything you think, do, or say / Is in the pill you took today" --IN THE YEAR 2525

    Paulo Freitas
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I do what i want a lot of Times, and i don't give a flying f... what other people think, however not all the time, ( back track to my freedom answer )

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Only when you wear ear plugs are you not controlled....

    #110

    If killing people is wrong, then why do we kill people that kill people?

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    Sans Serif
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Theoretically, to dissuade additional killings.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In practice, because the mob enjoys its own violence.

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    Nezuko_Chan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t really think killing people is wrong

    Dread Hyena
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because we are simple creatures. We have gone to extraordinary lengths to convince ourselves we are not animals. Animals we are. And killing is natural. The human race seems to think it is better than its nature. It's ok to want and hope for better, just not terribly realistic.

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To stop th from killing even more people, when nothing else will get them to stop.

    Skara Brae
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So that the first killer stops killing.

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    #111

    What would a room made of mirrors look like if there was nothing inside that room to create a reflection?

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Nothing inside would mean it would be dark, so it would look like dark.

    Cihan Ekizoglu
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It would look like silver. If there is not even light in the room, the colour wouldn't matter. But if there was a perfect white light from an invisible source, it would seem like gradient shades of teal, because of the glass that made the mirror.

    Dana Lovstrom
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Something that isn't not perceived actively doesn't technically have an appearance.

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is always the ceiling and floor and lines where the different mirrors meet.

    #112

    Where do they put the Bible in libraries – fiction or non-fiction section?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Non-fiction, along with all other mythology.

    ItsJess
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is a religion section in the 200s according to the dewey decimal system

    Justin Trouble
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Haven't you been in a library, that's just sad

    Matt Smith
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably with other religious books

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most libraries don't actually contain scriptures of active religions as they are afraid of offending someone. However they do carry horror books and adult romance books and alot of other potentially offensive material.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    In the reference section.

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    #113

    Do you consider eyebrows facial hair?

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Which is why it is totally ok to tell a woman that her “facial hair looks good today.”

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes in the same category as beards and mustaches and sideburns.

    #114

    Do prison buses have emergency exits?

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    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By law they have to. But they are welded shut for obvious reasons.

    Willa L
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it really an exit if it is welded shut?

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    Nezuko_Chan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes I went to Alcatraz Island (an abandoned prison in San Francisco) and they had emergency exits (I think)

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I haven't been on one so I can't truthfully answer....but they probably do for safety reasons but would not be able to be operated by the inmates though.

    #115

    If the fountain of youth can make you live forever, can you drown in it and still die?

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    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I believe the fountain of youth rule is “Drink before you drown, have a night on the town. Drown before you drink, you’re as dead as one might think.”

    Hypoxia Smurf
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have you located said Fountain? Please post a route map. But I hope it's not in Florida. Yikes.

    blackberrycobbler
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I assume it reverts your aging process…but babies can drown. So you die.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You drink from it....now swim in it or drown in it.

    #116

    Who was the first person to milk a cow?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    ...and what did he think he was doing at the time? From an old Billy Connolly routine.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And what were they trying to do

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably some caveman

    #117

    Will it ever be possible to "replay events" that happened in the past?

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    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait. Was this list written before Edison invented the phonograph?

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The past already has a habit of repeating itself.

    Matt Smith
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What would that even look like?

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We already do with videos and movies

    #118

    Will the advancement of today’s technologies yield a positive or negative result?

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    Willa L
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think a mixture of both

    Sans Serif
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As one that watched "today’s technologies" come alive, I have some serious concerns!

    #119

    If someone altered your memory, how would you know?

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    Sans Serif
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wouldn't but, you can bet my ex wives would be all over that!

    Will Cable
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    If you had a physical record of something you'd surely know................wait, what , I didn't type that

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe under hypnosis.

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pictures and other physical records like a journal.

    #120

    Is poverty an inevitable part of every social structure?

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    Dana Lovstrom
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes. Someone will always be marginalized and so therefore left in poverty because we are a terrible species that does not look after one another as we should.

    Holly Benedict
    Community Member
    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It doesn't have to be but we are seemingly incapable of developing a social structure where basic human needs such as shelter, clean water, food, and health care are met with little to no difficulty. Perhaps if we prioritized the pursuit of knowledge and finding equilibrium in the world over the pursuit of money and expansion.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    YEs....and so is filthy rich on the other end.

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    #121

    At what point is a genetically enhanced human no longer human?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When they can think without superstitions

    Dread Hyena
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When they assimilate the Dawson's Creek Trapper Keeper Ultra Keeper Futura S 2000.

    Will Cable
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a kind of sub question I overheard, are doctors trying to cure something that is really evolution of the species

    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would have to say that when a “human“ can phase in and out of The Crystal Plateau, he is definitely no longer human.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When Dr. Frankenstein invents a new human.

    #122

    Which major corporations will no longer exist 20 years from now?

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    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Historically, many major companies from 20 years ago have gone on to live in a modified form through diversification. GE, Honeywell, IBM and RCA are some obvious examples. Some newer companies already evolving (and diversifying) from their initial business models are Amazon, Dell, HP and Microsoft.

    $cagsy
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True! The petrol corporation, 'Shell' are now selling broadband in the UK. I could hardly believe my eyes!

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    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Facebook, TikTock, all social media will be dead and long gone in 20 years.

    #123

    What exactly makes us human?

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    ItsJess
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Knowledge of our own mortality

    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Many dogs would say we are actually hoomans.

    Ian Conelley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Compassion... so, most people aren't actually human, they're self serving predators of one kind or another.

    Ian Conelley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Edit: they're self serving parasites, not predators.

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    Matt Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Biology. Beyond that, no idea

    #124

    What comes after cryptocurrencies?

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    Will Cable
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Clean underwear when the bottom falls out of them

    Matt Smith
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A return to actual currency?

    Cihan Ekizoglu
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Decentralized trade (for everything possible). The end of currency trend.

    #125

    Why do people squint their eyes when they can’t see? Wouldn’t that just make it less space to see out of?

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    Sans Serif
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Squinting helps momentarily improve their eyesight by slightly changing the shape of the eye to make it rounder, which helps light properly reach the fovea."

    Hypoxia Smurf
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Squinting effectively reduces your eyes' apertures, increasing your optical DOF (Depth Of Field), the region that appears 'sharp' and detailed.

    #126

    What lies behind death, if anything at all?

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    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Behind death, or beyond it? Life is behind death; there is no beyond. You're gone. Bye.

    Richard Low
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When Mozart was buried he became a de-composer

    Ashley Deane
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hopefully more of a purgatory/different plane kind of thing rather than Heaven and Hell

    #127

    How do you know that you are not hallucinating?

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    RoanTheMad
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honestly, as a schizophrenic, sometimes its hard to tell. Even the pinching/biting method isn't foolproof (I have tactile hallucinations alongside visual and auditory hallucinations) sometimes i just have to reach right into myself and tell myself it isnt real. It's difficult.

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One f my worst fears is that this world isn’t real (the universe) and in the real world everything is different and im in a coma or im dreaming or im dead in the real world

    Sans Serif
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I hallucinate, it's so much worse than normal...

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When you bite your hand and it hurts.

    #129

    Will tomorrow ever come?

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    Dan
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is your hand getting tired?

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes...if you stay up long enough at night.....it sneaks up on you when you're busy.

    #130

    Is it possible to know everything?

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    Hypoxia Smurf
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a hard enough time remembering how I've tuned my 'ukuleles.

    Dan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    True knowledge lies not in knowing the right answers, but rather knowing the right questions.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No...I've read 5 different encyclopedias in my time and I still learn something new every day.

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    #131

    What is the purpose of death?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It doesn't need a purpose. That's anthropocentric thinking.

    Holly Benedict
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just watch the first part of the Lion King... He literally explained the circle of life. You're going to become the grass for the antelope or something.

    RoanTheMad
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    to stop us being overpopulated

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    To put an end to the human suit you have spiritually outgrown.

    #132

    When does the future begin?

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    Myriad Dunes
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There’s no past,present or future,only an eternal now,and if one can’t live there,one can’t live anywhere else.

    Dread Hyena
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All I can think of is Colonel Sanders and Dark Helmet watching Space Balls: The Movie. When is now? Just then.

    Matt Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now. Wait - now it begins....

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Tomorrow.

    #133

    Who decided what’s right and wrong?

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    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A$$holes that want to control people

    Nezuko_Chan
    Community Member
    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No one right and wrong don’t exist we just need something to keep the earth in check

    Ambry Petersen
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Humans are Social beings and like all Social creatures we have instinctive rules that allow us to coexist and work together for our survival. Any animal with Social tendencies in nature has its own set of instinctive rules that aid in thier survival. Wolves, lions, ants, naked mole rats, bees. All of them exhibit Social behaviors or rules that allow them to safely live together.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    God did....he gave Moses 12 commandments so humans can disobey him and know why.

    #134

    If data scientists had the ability to accurately predict who was more likely to commit crimes in the future, how should society respond to that information?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    They already can. The problem is the word "likely", and the fact that society doesn't want to spend the money.

    Patrick Linnen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The word 'accurately' does a lot of heavy lifting too.

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    Angie Falzarano
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Heard of concentration camps. Just because some scientist says who are more likely to commit crimes society would handle it the same way Hitler did. And let's not start that again

    #135

    Will people still own their own cars in the future?

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    Stephen Ferris
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean, some cars you don't technically own now. Sales are considered an "extended lease" and are still owned by the company.

    John Barber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not me. I haven't had a car since the 70s.

    Holly Benedict
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If inflation is anything to go by... No. Car ownership might go the way of homeownership.

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the future humans may well find the perfect blend of high technology and sustainability. So I think the question is, Will we all own our own Hover-Donkies in the future?

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    No...cars will be obsolete by decree

    #136

    Will we ever have an ability to measure artificial intelligence the way we measure horsepower?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Given that we can't accurately measure human intelligence, it's reasonable to say that any sufficiently advanced AI to actually be called "intelligent" would be too complex to measure according to a simple scale.

    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The operating speed of AI software on a given platform, as well as its data access capacity, can be measured. But equating those with 'intelligence' is IMHO flawed. Mea culpa: I played with various AI systems some time ago. Tedious stuff. ;(

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We will measure all intelligence IN horsepower. As in, “That guy is running at about two horsepower, if you get my drift.”

    #137

    How did the universe begin and why did it exist in the first place?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's two very different questions.

    Patrick Linnen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Two different branches of thought as well. One of science, and the other of philosophy.

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    Hypoxia Smurf
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Why', the search for motive, implies awareness. I see no evidence that the universe is conscious, aware, motivated. Sh!te happens, and here we are.

    GES
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Big Bang. And it just did.

    Richard Low
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did th big bang make a sound? If sounds can't be heard in space? Unless of course th big bang created th vacuum that stops sound waves.

    #138

    How is life on earth going to become extinct?

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    Dread Hyena
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Someone will ultimately choose not to rekindle the flame.

    Hypoxia Smurf
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Probably humans, but possibly a massive meteorite impact, and eventually the Sun will go nova. But if it turns out at ET aliens get us, I'll sure look silly. ;)

    Dan
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sun will grow hot enough in about a billion years to boil off the oceans.

    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Venemous spider invasion originating in the Alps.

    #139

    Are aliens ancient human beings?

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    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One could just as easily ask, “Are human aliens being ancient (s)?

    Patrick Linnen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One can ask 'Are future humans Alien?'

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Of course they are......

    #140

    Are aliens really visiting us in UFOs?

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    Doctor Strange
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm quite in favor of my father's theory on this one. The 'UFO' craze really came alive during the Cold War era. Suddenly people were seeing similar lights in the sky and reporting them as aliens. My father theorizes that the lights were likely military craft, possibly experimental planes. By encouraging the 'alien' discussions, it would keep suspicion of foreign governments off of the military activity. And if suddenly people in foreign countries saw those same 'ufos', well its not the US spying on them, its ALIENS. Obviously this is just speculation, but it is an interesting thought.

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Given that we now know that “UFOs” are actually just unidentified flying oaircraft, most would say the aliens are visiting us in “IFOs”.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Yes....they have for thousands and thousands of years.....

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    #141

    Where were we before we came to existence?

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where is that French panda guy who always posts his “oh yeah, well France has THREE ancient Roman coliseums” comments? We need him on this thread. He would say we were all in Paris before we existed. (And he always includes tiny pictures of the stuff he is bragging about, which is a plus.)

    #142

    Which came first: the sun or the earth?

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    Paulo Freitas
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sun....Come on..... These are supose to be " unanswerable questions... This One is in most science books from the 9th grade....

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sun, although both formed from the same accreted disc of matter.

    GES
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sigh... c'mon my guy you're kidding right? It's the Sun.

    Holly Benedict
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The sun. Without it's generational pull the rest of the matter that makes up our solar system would have drifted off to eventually be part of something else.

    Chri
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Genesis 1:1-3 [1]In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [2]Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. [3]And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah but I think the questioner meant in real life.

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    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    The sun as the earth is flat and the sun revolves around it.

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    #143

    What came first: the seed or the plant?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In the case of an individual plant, the seed. It is the same organism as the plant it births, and it came from a different one. In general terms, however, plants came before seeds. The oldest plant families, like mosses and ferns, reproduce by releasing spores. Seeds are a more recent evolutionary development.

    GES
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Seed. And the egg came first btw.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Egg. Lizards were laying eggs long before chickens evolved.

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you really mean seed? Or did you just misspell Steed? Because that is a horse and would completely change this question.

    #144

    How do you learn about something that doesn’t exist?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same way you learn about things that do exist: you read about them or somebody tells you.

    Nezuko_Chan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How do you learn about unicorns?

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course you can! Unicorns do not exist and never have, but you and I both know exactly what I mean by "unicorns".

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    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    You tell me.

    #145

    If the truth is different for each of us, how can we call it the truth?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It isn't. False premise. Just because you believe something doesn't make it true.

    Matt Smith
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And just because you don't believe it doesn't make it not true

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    #146

    Which came first: the universe or time?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Neither. Current thinking is that time started at the Big Bang, so the universe and time are conterminous.

    GES
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No such thing as time.

    Holly Benedict
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time is technically a human construct designed to make sense of our world. Time only truly exists of there is need to measure it.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    The universe

    #147

    Can you cry underwater?

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    #148

    Can God create a stone that is too heavy for even him to lift?

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    Nezuko_Chan
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    2 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    God doesn’t have a body, or a gender so god can lift anythign

    Hypoxia Smurf
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Which deity are you asking about? Most gods are probably busy micromanaging their realms and lack motive for creating useless rocks. Do you expect Jehovah or Ganesh or Freya or Kokopeli to bother? Yeah, sure.

    #149

    Is a question with no answer still called a question?

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    Ian Conelley
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, because a question answered is no longer a question.

    Ginger
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are no dumb questions

    #150

    Was there ever a time when nothing existed or has something always been in existence?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Since time requires matter to exist, no.

    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think time requires space to exist, not matter. But the answer's the same either way; no, because time started at the Big Bang.

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    M J
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Pre Big Bang, maybe there really was Nothing! I can't remember...

    #151

    How was a calendar even invented?

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    Vix Spiderthrust
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By watching the solar and lunar cycles. Obviously.

    Sans Serif
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And painfully recording the observations...

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Logic would suggest that someone noticed that the first letters of the months spell out the name JASON (January, February, etc.) and the calendar took off from there.

    #152

    A thousand years from now, which things will be possible and which ones will not?

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    Yuffa Kinazzo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You will be able to work but won't be able to have physical money in your possession.

    #153

    Is the Earth alive, as in a living, breathing organism?

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    kitten levels tokyo
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If you can stomp on it and dig in it and it doesn’t scream and shake all over, then, no, Earth is not alive.

    Ginger
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    3 years ago

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    Yes....and it can revolt against humans

    #154

    Will we ever have a definable form of measurement for the concept of truth?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Things are either true or not. There is no measurement, and there is no such thing as "alternative truth".

    Sans Serif
    Community Member
    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sadly, truth is a dissolving commodity, as of late!

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    Ginger
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not in my lifetime...sorry. Nowadays folks lie like rugs as there is no punishment for lying but telling the truth is not welcome any longer.

    #155

    Why do we keep time if time is endless and everything happens in its own time?

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    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “Keeping time” is simply a construct of the human Id. In multidimensional hemisphordal planes the entire notion of keeping time is actually quite ludicrous.

    Patrick Linnen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Time keeps everything from happening all at once.

    #156

    If you hate a hater, do you hate yourself?

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    Patrick Linnen
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No. See Popper's 'Paradox of Tolerance.'

    Justin Trouble
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes but for better reasons than I hate you

    kitten levels tokyo
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How much hate could a wood hater hate if a wood hater could hate wood? 🦫

    #157

    What forms of government will be better than democracy?

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    David Phillips
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Any one, except all the others (paraphrasing Winston Churchill)

    Vix Spiderthrust
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Churchill famously remarked that democracy was the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried.

    John Barber
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    3 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    World totalitarianism, with me as Grand High Emporer.