Mike Teavee

12 minutes ago, rumak said:

well,  i for one can not understand why people get upset when others post different viewpoints.   you at least see the humor.   you have my vote for POTY   555

I guess i should always start my posts with :  i'm sorry if i cause any offense 

oh well................  maybe wrong thread here for humor.   i'll slink away  (clap emojis from ?)

I voted Yinn ("Vote Hottie, not OAP"), but having seen NCC's Pussies I'm regretting my decision & then reading CannuckMuck's tales of JJ I'm now wishing I voted for him... 

2 minutes ago, AsianAtHeart said:

Perfect!  I'm a hobbyist programmer, too.

 

Suppose you had your googleplex of monkeys hammering at computer keyboards for you--do you think one of them might accidentally, randomly, come up with your computer code for you that would solve your issues?

 

Computers are almost as finicky as the human organism with respect to their codes.  If just one character (letter) is out of place, the program will fail to run.  I remember hunting fruitlessly for hours for the cause of one particular failure, until I finally discovered a single apostrophe or backtick (I don't remember which, now) at the beginning of the file.  Argh!

 

I don't believe those monkeys would ever in eternity come up with your code by random chance.  Now, if you were to teach them your programming skills....ah, but then we are back to the "design" element.

I do believe they'd eventually come up with my code, and that's probably not a good thing! - And can well remember wasting nearly 1 day on a full stop (Period) in my COBOL 1 days on the IBM Mainframes - Also remember sitting scratching my head as I watched my VB code add 1 to a number but it didn't change (learnt that day that in the US when it's exactly .5, they only round the Odd (I think it is) numbers up, in the UK we round them all) 

I do take your point & as I said I think there is something there that we don't (and possibly will never) know, I just don't subscribe to the "All Mighty Being" theory... 

10 minutes ago, AsianAtHeart said:

Biologists who also do a little reasonable math will soon see that the current dogma of naturalistic evolution which claims all life evolved from some single spark of life that happened miraculously somehow is actually a total impossibility.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  The DNA could never have developed in that way, mathematically speaking.

 

Because chemicals, molecules, and atoms are subject to natural laws which include such things as the laws of diffusion and of entropy, "Mother Earth," as many like to say, is actually against the type of organization that would promote life or the development of any organism's genetic code.  Organization requires action and cannot possibly be accomplished passively.  It would be as easy to believe that the waves of the sea had beat upon the sand and shaped it into a sand castle (as opposed to a flattened beach) as to believe that the DNA of even the simplest organism had come about due to random chance.  Any random "mutations" of the DNA result in a more disordered code. 

 

To use another example, suppose you have a radio.  You turn the radio on and look for a channel to tune into.  Unless there is a radio station near enough broadcasting on a particular frequency, what do you hear?  Noise.  The further you go away from the station, the noisier its signal gets.  Why does this signal not, instead, become clearer, or perhaps mutate into a different language?  Preposterous, you say?  Of course.  But it is exactly that same level of preposterous that the charlatans of so-called science have asked us to believe.  The evolution of humans from an amoeba is so far out of the realm of possibility that it beggars belief in even the sanity of the ones who propose it.

 

Suppose you had a googleplex (1 followed by 100 zeros) monkeys bashing away at the same number of typewrites, do you not think that at least one of them would come up with the works of Shakespeare?

That number is irrelevant compared to the possibilities of atoms/protons/neurons/elements colliding over the billions of years that the Earth existed before the 1st life evolved... 

You're the expert (I am (was) just an IT Geek), but surely DNA evolved... if you compare our DNA to the DNA of those of the single cell amoebas surely  you can see evolution at work... or did man really just suddenly appear... Whoosh.. 

3 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

removed

Why? it wasn't offensive... those "...ines" really did have my head spinning but I should have got Ursine

I can't quite remember the cryptic crossword clue but the question had something to do with fur coats & the answer included something to do with bears... But even easier that that we have Ursa Major (The "Great Bear")... 

Those other 3 were new to me, that's what I love about reading random threads on TVF, everyday I lean a new word (& I thought I had a pretty extensive vocabulary & can usually attribute some random fact to the etymology of the word to get some understanding of what it means, but every day somebody posts a blinder on here that I have to go Google & add it to the bank ???? )

I'm sorry if I caused any offence with my posts last night/ this morning, a few beerios too many at my mates (& mine) leaving Singapore party last night... Honestly didn't mean to offend with my posts... 

2 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I don't "follow" "a" god. Follow indicates rules and leaders and such which I reject. I believe in "God", creator of life the universe and everything, from the largest sun, to the smallest of living things.

 

Given that no human was around at the big bang, or the solidification of the gas cloud that became Earth, or when life started, it's all supposition, isn't it? Just one opinion among many. I choose to believe that "God" planted the first living organism in the oceans to become every living thing on the planet.

I don't follow the Bible, but that doesn't mean that there is nothing relevant to belief in it.

Apologies... I read the last sentence in your earlier post about the Bible in a different way that it was obviously intended... 

As I've said before, I believe there is (obviously) something there that we're yet to "know" (can't see it happening in my life time & possibly nobody ever will), but I reject the religious dogma that (As somebody said in a previous post) "The Guys With the Pointy Hats" put around it... 

Peace out ???? 

12 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Agreed that all life started from one thing, but wasn't it smaller than an amoeba?

Those that believe have no problem believing that no life existed on planet Earth before "God" put the first living thing into the oceans. That thing evolved to become every living thing today, so every living thing was created by "God", just as it says in the Bible.

Confused... I thought you were more of a "Spiritual" follower of a "God" rather than the Bible following kind... 

Life on Earth has existed since the Earth was created as It was all part of the same "Genesis Event" that created the planet... What that "Event" was & how it came to happen is a different discussion, but the origin of species was created as part of the Earth's creation.

1 hour ago, AsianAtHeart said:

There is absolutely no evidence that any organism has ever evolved on its own outside of its kind.

I liked most of your post but as a biologist/scientist how can you really say this?

Or do you not believe in evolution or the "evidence" that suggests every species evolved from single cell amoebas?

By your logic the Earth must have started with bovines, porcines, felines, equines, passerines, elapines, murines, ursines [I'll admit I had to Google the last 4], piscines etc...  or they couldn't exist today (which is one thing that we can all agree that they do)... 

So where did they come from? Out of an ark or something?

Edit: I can't believe I had to Google Ursine, simple crossword clue around fur coats, but Passerines, Elapines & Murines had me reaching for the search button... Piscines is obvious so sanity restored... 

50 minutes ago, Sunmaster said:

How do you know?

Actually, nevermind...you're going on the ignore list anyway.

If you ever get there... 

Just now, Sunmaster said:

He took the time to explain something that you could have easily looked up using Google or Bing. The very  least you could do is not to make fun of it.

Explained what... The Mumbo Jumbo from his particular "Church" (and how many are there).

I won't post another clip from Life of Brian as clearly it causes offence on this thread but the Christian religions can be summed up as "Follow the Gourd, NO follow the shoe"

I asked a simple question about why Christians believe in Jesus & not God & got some story about how Jesus was really God reborn, in that case why was was it his Father's Kingdom,.. Oh wait, because he rebirthed himself to a virgin mother)...

Making it up as they go along... 

Given up even trying to debate with people who cannot hold a decent argument but revert to calling names...

1 minute ago, mauGR1 said:

Ahh, i'm not having the balls, nice of you.

Your sensible questions are a joke, but what you fail to understand, is that you are kidding yourself.

No Ms... You're sadly deluding yourself, but if you get some kind of benefit/peace from it then good to luck to you... [And I honestly mean that]

Have a nice life (There's fck all waiting for you on the otherside)

Just now, canuckamuck said:

I gave you good answers and you gave me Monty Python.

And Google has lots of info on the basic tenants of all religions. How is that ridiculous?

You really thing you gave me good answers?

<deleted> I should have asked Bing... 

1 minute ago, canuckamuck said:

 If you are just havin a laff, try a few emoji's to give a hint.

I'm serious, if I was having a giraffe I would have used a few emojis... 

You're making it up as you go along 

1 minute ago, mauGR1 said:

What i find slightly irritating is that some of us are trying to have a honest debate, like a game of chess, then a brat comes, overturn the table and yell: "victory !"

.. If you complain, they call you names..????

Was that aimed at me??? [Noticed you didn't have the balls to quote anybody]

I'm asking sensible questions & giving my viewpoint, but because they don't fit in with yours, you disparage, without having the b0llax to come out and say it... 

Oh & come on, being told to Google "God"!!! wasn't a 4ckin ridiculous suggestion??? 

1 minute ago, canuckamuck said:

There is some foundational stuff that is common to most Christians, but there are some major disagreements as well. I am sure that you could find some basic explanations on Google.

Protestants don't consider Mary other than another Biblical character. Catholics have deified her based on some extra-Biblical ideas.

But I think the Catholics and the Protestants and the Orthodox agree on God being three aspects, the flesh, the spirit, and the Identity of God. The same as you are body, mind, and spirit.

As opposoed to the Father, Mother & Holy Ghost?

Seriously... Now I know you guys are just making it up as you go along..

I'm still struggling to work out who the Christians actually worship... 

I thought it was "God", but on this thread I've learnt that the Catholic worships Mother Mary & the Christians worship her son, who was also the re-embodiment of God... Who came down to earth to remind people about his father's kingdom, which was his Kingdom... 

Do you guys ever stop, take a & look at what you're actually saying???

No Idea who said https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/03/20/devil/ but He was second (maybe 3rd Place).... The Great Trick every played was (at least a couple of times) before Lucifer ever got onto the Scene (Dante?)

.. 

3 hours ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

That's not true. Google is your friend.

 

^ Quote from the 'Guardian'.

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I can't publish a link in case I break TV rules. Many others thought it a terrible movie as I did. But other sheeple didn't, such as yourself.

LMFAO when somebody quotes "The Guardian" to back-up their argument.... 

Sorry, I'll stop laughing for just long enough to ask you to share with (enlighten) us on your top 3-5 movies...

Edit: I'll add mine (In no particular order) 

Usual Suspects

Se7en

John Wick / Taken 1

Most of the Bond Movies 

More of less any Sherlock Holmes movie/TV series... I'm a huge fan, Basil Rathbone would be the Sean Connery equivalent, Jeremy Brett the Roger Moore & Jonny L Miller the Daniel Craig

Edit 2: Movies I thought were pants that other people enjoyed

• All of the Starwar movies after the Empire Strikes back (Being a little unfair here as I haven't managed to sit through a full screening of any of them, well I did one but that was only because I fell asleep in the CInema, they do make those Gold Class seats very comfortable)
• Most 1st/2nd World War Movies (I did enjoy Saving Private Ryan, but Tom Hanks is great to watch in most movies) 
• Any "Period" Movie/Drama (Boring zzz) 
• John Wick / Taken 2 & 3 (Not sure this qualifies as I've never heard anybody say they were good movies)
• Most Anthony Hopkins movies (Except Silence of the Lambs & even that I thought Brian Cox played him better in Manhunter... AH had much better lines) 

3 hours ago, canthai55 said:

The Nightcrawlers 2019

The 'War on Drugs" at its finest

When I 1st read your post I thought of Nightcrawler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightcrawler_(film) ... Terrible movie.

But this one sounds very interesting, I'll add it to the "List".... 

Thanks ???? 

23 minutes ago, Sunmaster said:

I'm certainly no bible expert, but it seems that what the Catholics worship in Mother Mary is no other than the feminine aspect of God, just like the Shekhinah in Judaism or Shakti in Hinduism.

 

Which brings me to an interesting question...
What gender do you think God is?
 

Oh come on, you know God is non-binary which makes "Them" a "They" ???? 

Can you believe that "They" is M-W's word of the year for 2019... https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year/they

We really are living in the "End of Times"...

I thought ( & again, I mean no offence by this, this is just my understanding) that the whole point of Jesus "coming to earth" was to remind man about God & his Father's kingdom... 

So isn't Christianity sort of like worshipping the Promo-Guy rather than the "Product"... And what does it say in the bible about idolatry, won't the real "God" (Big G) send you to Hell for worshipping another "god" (small g)  

You couldn't make this stuff up (oh wait, somebody did.... a couple of millennia ago) 

PS. My Mum's name is Mary & I do worship her, doesn't make me a Catholic ???? 

7 hours ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

Just finished 'Joker' and I thought it pretty tame, nigh on rubbish, am I the only one?

Did Mr grumpy pants not get his cookies this evening... 

Personally thought Joker was an excellent movie (a great twist on an old story) as does just about every other person on the planet who's commented about it... 

Care to enlighten us with your top 3-5 movies so we can better understand what meets your "Standards"

7 hours ago, CMNightRider said:

Referring to the Pope or the Catholic religion isn't a very good example of Christianly.  These people don't follow the Bible and use a lot of paganism in their church.  

 

Unless you are planning on moving to some radical Muslim country, no one is going to stone you for drinking beer, smoking a joint or participating in your man love fantasies.  You may want to consider you own advise but thanks for sharing.

Care to share a more recognised example of Christianity than the Catholic church!?! - I honestly thought the 2 were synonymous with each other (and I'm not being facetious here, that's what I honestly think/thought but am always happy to learn & be corrected)

The reference to drinking beer & smoking weed comes from a 2pac song (Ghetto Gospel) , the verse goes somewhere along the lines of... 

If I upset you, don't stress, never forget that God isn't finished with me yet

I feel his hand on my brain when I write rhymes, I go blind & let the Lord do his thing

But am I less holy, because I chose to puff a blunt & drink a beer with my homies... 

The reference to "Man Love" is because your religion personally attacks my (Gay) brother....

Funny story,  when he "Came out to me" (whilst walking back from a Christmas Eve drinking session, so actually Christmas day at this point) my exact words were... "It just leaves more rampant totty for us real men", which is a line from Blackadder, probably means nothing to you but was a popular TV show in the UK at that time & I knew my brother would get the joke & more importantly knew it would put him at ease... I know it wasn't easy for him to tell me that

6 hours ago, CMNightRider said:

What, "Mother Earth," Lol.  I think I may have blown that one.  I pooped in the woods a few times before knowing Mother Earth was in charge of my destiny.  Thanks for the heads up.  

 

Mother Earth you say, interesting.  So Mother Earth created the Universe, Earth (herself), all plant life, sea life, animals, and us.  Please return to my post and re-read the part about common sense.  You may want to give that one a little thought.  

You're either a dedicated wind-up merchant (troll) or a sadly deluded man... 

Stone me to death because I like a beer, smoke a bit of weed, or maybe I'm gay... But fiddle a couple of kiddies, say sorry & "God is ok with that"?!?!

What kind of fk'd-up world do you live in?

Grow up

Care to share with the class what the Pope (Decent guy if you ask me) has very recently done re: Child sex abuse claims in the Catholic church... No stone to hide under anymore...

On 12/18/2019 at 3:20 PM, giddyup said:

Thought Sandler was perfect as the frenetic compulsive gambler, trying to stay one step ahead of the loan sharks. Problem is people only want to see him in comedy roles.

Enjoying this (Uncut Jems) & think Sandler is perfect in the role (sort of reminds me of Jim Carey when he did Number 23 & later a very dark thriller (just googled, Dark Crimes), once you got the "Loveable Idiot" (not meant as an offence, more the part they perfectly played) out of your head you realise they're very talented actors... 

9 minutes ago, IvorBiggun2 said:

It wasn't true car chases but a cartoon.

 

 

 

You not like Tom & Jerry? Roadrunner???

It was fun, entertaining & made you gasp at times, who cares whether it was real or not....  

Edit... Let's just agree to disagree, from now on I'll only comment on Real Life Docu/Dramas.... Speaking of which am I the only one waiting for the final episode of Temptation Island 2 (Now they should make a cartoon of that ???? )

4 minutes ago, giddyup said:

The difference is that both Bullitt and French connection were done without CGI, I would hazard a guess that most of the stunts/effects in 6 Underground were 90% CGI.

Obviously they would have to be, it's not humanly possible to do a car chase scene like that... but I still found it thoroughly enjoyable & like Ryan Reynolds Dead Pan (Dead Pool) character... 

Sue me... I enjoyed the movie & was enjoying it the 2nd time before my TV decided it needed to do a software update & reboot (We didn't have that when I watched Steve McQ or Gene Hack either!!!)... 

Change is (not always) good ????