Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard? (Worm/MGLN) (Complete)
- Thread starter CmptrWz
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The only difference is public opinion. Religions are cults with good P.R. is all. I say this as an agnostic so everyone should take what I say with a grain of salt.
Nighzmarquls
The Endless Hunger
- Location
- United States
I was hoping for the nitrogen molecule the size of a asteroid discussion picking up more steam personally.
But eh I'll eat popcorn to either.
- Location
- Auckland, NZ
Inheritance.
Men don't get to say where the wealth is going if they:
- Don't get to own it
- Don't get to own the children to pass that ownership on (hence monogamy and ownership of women)
Kinsfire
Verified {Redacted}
- Location
- New Jersey
If you treat the words exactly, then they mean:
atheist - a-theist - non-theist, which translates to 'no god'
agnostic - a-gnostic - non-gnostic - not knowing. (Gnostic coming from Gnosis, meaning knowing or understanding. And if pronounced properly, instead of ag-nostic, it would be ay-nostic.)
Another way is that an atheist says that there is no deity, while an agnostic says, "I don't know if there is or not."
atheist - a-theist - non-theist, which translates to 'no god'
agnostic - a-gnostic - non-gnostic - not knowing. (Gnostic coming from Gnosis, meaning knowing or understanding. And if pronounced properly, instead of ag-nostic, it would be ay-nostic.)
Another way is that an atheist says that there is no deity, while an agnostic says, "I don't know if there is or not."
Damn that was scary to read, i can't imagine what it would be to Watch it live.
Now i can imagine all the analysts, presidents from differents Earths going to one big multidimensional bar to get drunk together to forget about the scary kingdom and avoid thinking about what it will do next.
Now i can imagine all the analysts, presidents from differents Earths going to one big multidimensional bar to get drunk together to forget about the scary kingdom and avoid thinking about what it will do next.
What intrigues me is how do we know what colour the nitrogen... crystal? is.
I was under the impression that the colour of significant numbers of nitrogen-nitrogen bonds was 'boom'.
Perhaps it's the colour of all of the lost eyebrows in the attempt? =)
I was under the impression that the colour of significant numbers of nitrogen-nitrogen bonds was 'boom'.
Perhaps it's the colour of all of the lost eyebrows in the attempt? =)
Personally, I say the difference is largely one of scale. A Religion is a cult that is too big to be unnacountable to its followers, and therefore must concede freedoms to them that it would prefer to keep.
I'll note here that I also make a distinction between religion and Religion. The former is your personal relationship with the cosmos and its mysteries, and is almost never bad unless it's actively destructive to yourself or others; the latter is an institution designed to teach others a particular viewpoint therein, which is pretty much inherently infringing on some freedom or another. Almost inevitably, that leads to some amount of baked in evil, even when done with the best intentions.
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That's a pretty logical assumption. Also wrong, but clearly they do have more knowledge than even the Belkans did, so ...
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
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- The Internet
Taylor... you have to stop terrorizing your own allies at some point. Hell, you're terrifying me with that 'asteroid turned into a giant mass of interconnected nitrogen atoms' bomb. Pardon me, I now have to change out of my brown pants. They previously had been blue.
I am sad that you have such a low opinion on relationships.
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In case of Taylor, I think that Warhammer already established that suitable title for this kind of believe is "God-Emperor".
Robin hasn't even booted up "HK" yet. He was considering doing so for the invading fleet, but it didn't turn out to be necessary.
Taylor only found out when the other automated systems said "hey, these systems are now people, so we've created an account for them and started paying them because they're currently happy continuing to do their now-jobs".
Yes, she preemptively automated recognizing when the automated systems broke through to being people.
And then you have to wonder when LawBot, in processing all the loophole attempts, becomes a person focused on finding ways to close the loopholes.
Similar to the Wookie one, they already have a matrix in place for that. It just hasn't come up as even remotely needed.
The asteroid was converted by a process that only works with ambient mana. AKA, the conversion process itself was magic, and the mana used was stabilizing it throughout the conversion. When the conversion finished that mana remained, but started to dissipate. When it dissipated enough the stabilization stopped being enough to keep things from remaining in the configuration that physics wasn't happy with.
She did expect it, and ensured that all of the shielding on the ships of the observers would be up to the task of protecting them. They could've landed on the asteroid instead of running away and would've just been pushed around a bit, even!
Not her fault they're all afraid of a massive explosion of gas that their ships and shields would practically ignore.
Of course, they were probably more worried about potential exotic effects from the impossible mega-molecule deciding to stop being a single mega-molecule. She really should've warned them that they'd already tested the whole thing and knew there wouldn't be a problem, no matter how impressive the explosion actually looked.
Or just that nobody awake/participating saw the parallels. I've seen online discussions go for weeks before someone has come in and said "uh, guys, are you aware of this?" and made the participants feel like idiots for missing the obvious.
Hecatonchires
Just an H-class cyborg with an octopus brain stem
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- The Gong, NSW, Australia
I think you're mixing up modern interpersonal one-on-one relationships with dynasty/clan/family. Historically, marrying for love is a pretty new thing. Mostly it was for for survival or politics. Sure they may have liked each other, but that was a secondary concern. You married whoever your family told you to marry. More so the higher up society you were ranked.
Dreamlord
Norse Pettifogger
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- Hogwarts
They are a Type II civilization on the Kardashev Scale. We are a Type 0. A single type difference is an insurmountable barrier. Oh, and they are moving toward Type III, and just haven't had the time to make it. They aren't missing any theoretically necessary technologies.
Yes, unlike what some politicians will claim while trying to con people into voting for them, it's this whole "love" and "freedom" thing that was the real death of "traditional" marriage.
(And it's been mostly gone for some time now - good riddance!)
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Maybe someone should mention that to the analysts…
Because then they have their threat relation scale
Not that the Kardashev Scale is anywhere close to perfect for that…
But on the scale it operates on and we operate, well, it's close enough.
Whiskas
This Thyme? Disco Time.
Is it really erasing a planet from existence if it never existed in the first place :thinkingemoji:
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Using some Imitation Brand Balefire to ret-gone a planet is very effective... but I wouldn't want to actually show it off to people. Because they might get ideas. Or try the experiment at home. Then you have Time Wars 2: The Seventeenth Last Time War.
Much to his displeasure, and the detriment of his empire.
I don't think they're missing anything to match the Culture at this point? Mostly just scale at this point. They're already roughly on par in general tech level and run by a network of hyper-intelligent ai. The only thing they haven't really done yet is let the new normal settle for a few generations to iron out all the unproductive assumptions built into our disfunctional modern cultures.
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Have the debates stopped? If so, good since that was approaching a level that might bring mods in.
On other news: spotted a small typo in the interlude.
In that context, it should be then
On other news: spotted a small typo in the interlude.
In that context, it should be then
What is the reference? It feels familiar.
Vhalidictes
(Verified Demon)
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- Las Vegas
(Many years from now, in a PITSK talk station)
"So, how did you end up becoming Prime Minister the first time?"
"Funny story. So, back when I was still referred to as LawBot, the Queen decided that since I was one of the few people actually trying to reduce her workload... Well, essentially she increased mine by making a job out of it."
"Truly, no good deed goes unpunished..."
"Indeed. More work, my greatest reward."
"So, how did you end up becoming Prime Minister the first time?"
"Funny story. So, back when I was still referred to as LawBot, the Queen decided that since I was one of the few people actually trying to reduce her workload... Well, essentially she increased mine by making a job out of it."
"Truly, no good deed goes unpunished..."
"Indeed. More work, my greatest reward."
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