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OrgoneConclusion
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When friendly aliens arrive
#14320652 - 04/19/11 11:28 PM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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all is cool until they start telling us about their religion and how superior it is. Then all bets are off.
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Midnight_Toker
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What if they have proof?
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LunarEclipse
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Quote:
Midnight_Toker said: What if they have proof?
Then all bets are off.
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DieCommie

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Quote:
Midnight_Toker said: What if they have proof?
Then it wouldn't be a religion.
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Diploid
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What if they have proof?
The Babel fish is small yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the unconscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them.
The practical upshot of this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.
Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
"Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly disappears in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is whte and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that did not stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best selling book 'Well That About Wraps It Up For God'.
Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different race and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.
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Re: When friendly aliens arrive [Re: DieCommie]
#14321915 - 04/20/11 08:24 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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DieCommie said:
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Midnight_Toker said: What if they have proof?
Then it wouldn't be a religion.

@ Diploid

doug ftw. a true sage
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Re: When friendly aliens arrive [Re: DieCommie]
#14321989 - 04/20/11 08:49 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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wait what if they had alien proof form another dimension that humans couldnt know about...
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Re: When friendly aliens arrive [Re: quinn]
#14322208 - 04/20/11 09:55 AM (12 years, 9 months ago) |
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Then they would post over at M&P.
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quinn
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i have the feeling that some of them already do
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LunarEclipse
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Edited by LunarEclipse (04/20/11 11:42 AM)
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