1981
Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Music as energy.
« on: December 13, 2013, 04:59:05 AM »
Based on what little you present it sounds utterly ridiculous.
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1982
Flat Earth Community / Re: BREAKING: Cooling system fails on the space station.
« on: December 12, 2013, 08:15:14 AM »
Quite the entertaining little fantasy story. I wonder how much NASA pays its writers to come out with top-notch drama like this.
If I may critique, I would put some kind of life-threatening obstacle in the astronauts' way, just to punch it up a bit. But the way they're releasing the story slowly over time gives it just the right level of suspense; I may get that life-threatening situation yet, and the tension will be even stronger, since I wasn't expecting it. I do suppose that NASA can't make their stories too exciting too much of the time, or they risk breaking the audience's suspension of disbelief (even as easy an audience as this proves to be, by definition, that is still a valid concern for them). But a little bit of heroics is never a bad thing, and I question if the promise of a spacewalk will be enough to satisfy my thirst for adventure. 2.5 stars out of 5, but if they are able to wake me up a bit in the second act I may increase that grade.
If I may critique, I would put some kind of life-threatening obstacle in the astronauts' way, just to punch it up a bit. But the way they're releasing the story slowly over time gives it just the right level of suspense; I may get that life-threatening situation yet, and the tension will be even stronger, since I wasn't expecting it. I do suppose that NASA can't make their stories too exciting too much of the time, or they risk breaking the audience's suspension of disbelief (even as easy an audience as this proves to be, by definition, that is still a valid concern for them). But a little bit of heroics is never a bad thing, and I question if the promise of a spacewalk will be enough to satisfy my thirst for adventure. 2.5 stars out of 5, but if they are able to wake me up a bit in the second act I may increase that grade.
1983
Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Nominate 5 names for the council.
« on: December 11, 2013, 01:41:48 AM »Tom BishopDude, have a day off.
Secret User
Thork
Roundy
pizaaplanet
Do you have any idea how much FE work and promotion she has done?
I support Secret User. She's another one who was seriously slighted on John Davis's list.
1984
Arts & Entertainment / Re: Community
« on: December 10, 2013, 06:45:58 PM »
I read he's playing the teacher this year.
The other teacher, I guess.
The other teacher, I guess.
1985
Flat Earth Theory / Re: On this day ...
« on: December 09, 2013, 04:45:43 AM »
Well, some say that it goes back to the Bavarian Globemakers Guild.
1986
Announcements / Re: What this forum stands for
« on: December 09, 2013, 04:42:28 AM »Twats still didn't make me a mod though, did they?Ya know Thork, you have started to win me over. I mean, you posted a song from the South Park movie on the .org site, and I giggled for a good five minutes about it.Am I still allowed to express if I hate someone? Because I really hate Thork. Fuck him.But I'm a really nice guy. You went on a walk with Thork before right? I'm a lovely sensitive man. I have issues of course, but being an oddball is the reason I fit in with all of you.
You don't deserve the power. Ha ha ha.
1987
Flat Earth Theory / Re: Gravity vs. Universal Acceleration
« on: December 09, 2013, 03:44:11 AM »
I'm not sure if universal acceleration exists. All I know for sure is that from my perspective, things fall. We can measure the rate at which these things fall. It seems like idle speculation that leads to the conclusion that this is because we are accelerating upwards. As for what it is, you can call it gravity if you like, but I'm not at all convinced that it's necessarily the same force that is responsible for the movement of the celestial bodies above us. Believing that requires a leap of faith that I'm not prepared to take.
1988
Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?
« on: December 09, 2013, 02:35:59 AM »
The act is starting to unravel, Yaakov. It was fun while it lasted. 
1989
Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Flat Earth Calendar
« on: December 08, 2013, 11:19:45 PM »This might be too obvious, but I think that there ought to be some indication of whether the event of a specific date is to be celebrated or mourned.Would a smiley suffice?
Clearly, the burning down of Charles K. Johnson's house was an unmitigated disaster and tragedy and shouldn't be observed in the same manner as the bestowal of Rowbotham's degree.
I like this idea. I propose
for births, 
for other significant positive events in the history of the FES, 
for deaths and catastrophic events in the FES's history, and either 
or 
for events dealing with NASA and the Conspiracy, depending on whether we want to convey our anger over their existence or their own cheekiness.
1990
Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?
« on: December 08, 2013, 11:09:29 PM »Accidents are unanticipated. If you have a set of laws that can predict the set of possible outcomes and each one in the set I s arrived at by a causal set of events then it would be an anticipated possibility.
So who anticipated it?
What did: the laws of physics.
How did an insentient concept anticipate something?
1991
Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?
« on: December 08, 2013, 10:53:11 PM »Accidents are unanticipated. If you have a set of laws that can predict the set of possible outcomes and each one in the set I s arrived at by a causal set of events then it would be an anticipated possibility.
So who anticipated it?
1992
Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Nelson Mandella is dead
« on: December 08, 2013, 05:22:43 PM »
“At the end of the day… violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.” ~ Nelson Mandela, 1959
Let's not whitewash history here.
Let's not whitewash history here.
1993
Suggestions & Concerns / Re: FES Video
« on: December 08, 2013, 05:15:21 PM »We should use EJ, he might help us get some more black people on the forums.AFRICAN AMERICAN!!! And yes we should. I would be happy to lend my voice
I don't think we should restrict membership to black people from the Americas, it seems a bit racist.
1994
Announcements / Re: Permanent forum staff assignments have been made
« on: December 08, 2013, 05:13:37 PM »
We have made a very ineffectual enemy!
1995
Suggestions & Concerns / Re: FES Video
« on: December 08, 2013, 04:58:59 PM »
We should use EJ, he might help us get some more black people on the forums.
1997
Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?
« on: December 07, 2013, 09:44:30 PM »Read the Torah. That makes it true.
That is pretty convenient that the Jews wrote a book that states that they have divine right to the land. Your argument boils down to, essentially, "The Jews say they have divine right, therefore they have divine right." I'm sure you can understand that nobody rational is going to take this kind of hooey seriously. If this is your reasoning, then you have no real reasoning.
1998
Suggestions & Concerns / Re: stats page
« on: December 07, 2013, 06:51:08 PM »
I think it was those balloons that really turned me off of that theme. If Thork would only have let them go it might have been decent.
1999
Arts & Entertainment / Re: Gateway Musicians
« on: December 07, 2013, 06:43:35 PM »
Danzig ruined a Metallica concert for me once. 
2000
Arts & Entertainment / Re: Gateway Musicians
« on: December 07, 2013, 05:01:27 AM »
My life changed when I first heard "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed. It sparked an interest in classic rock that has informed my taste in music to this day.
Guns n Roses, Metallica, and Van Halen (their early stuff, with David Lee Roth) probably deserve joint credit in getting me interested in heavy rock music. Van Halen more than the others I guess because I heard them first, but GnR and Metallica deserve mentioning because they were the first hard rock/metal groups I ever really got into.
Without The Clash's London Calling I may never have gotten over my opinion of punk music as nothing more than repetitive and amateurish; I now consider it my favorite genre of music. Moby's Play led to a similar epiphany regarding the merits of electronic music.
Guns n Roses, Metallica, and Van Halen (their early stuff, with David Lee Roth) probably deserve joint credit in getting me interested in heavy rock music. Van Halen more than the others I guess because I heard them first, but GnR and Metallica deserve mentioning because they were the first hard rock/metal groups I ever really got into.
Without The Clash's London Calling I may never have gotten over my opinion of punk music as nothing more than repetitive and amateurish; I now consider it my favorite genre of music. Moby's Play led to a similar epiphany regarding the merits of electronic music.