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http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101112/bs_yblog_upshot/chinese-workers-build-15-story-hotel-in-just-six-days So the Chinese built a fully insulated, earthquake resistant (up to magnitude 9 reportedly), soundproof hotel in under a week. They did use prefabricated materials (which means...

I think this counts as a "Culture" post, but if I'm wrong any mod can move this wherever they see fit. Anyway, I want to learn a 2nd (and eventually 3rd, 4th etc) language. I feel knowing only a single language makes me fairly culturally ignorant considering the vast majority of the civilized...

This is an interesting discussion I've had with other atheists. If God, the one with a capital G, the Abrahamic creator of everything, was real would you follow his rules? Personally, I would not. I do not agree with his rules, I do not believe him worthy of worship based on his actions and...

Hi, my name is Yfelsung and I am a practical nihilist. What is practical nihilism? Well, it's nihilism on a level that doesn't cause you to curl into a ball and lament the pointlessness of it all. It's sort of, as Camus alludes to, accepting that reality is absurd and just trying your best to...

So what do you do when you become bored with pretty much everything? It's been creeping up on me the last few months and I've really just hit this wall recently. Everything just bores the shit out of me. Games, books, movies, music, forums, hanging out with friends, none of them entertain me...

In my old age of 27, I've effectively given up on arguing with theists seriously. It's an exercise in frustration most of the time and the age old saying "You can't fix stupid" applies often to the situation. So I've decided to create my own counter-religion to basically make theists...

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/63353/title/Video_mayhem_enlivens_decision__making Found this study today at the aforementioned source. I've been telling people this stuff FOR YEARS though I never had a study to back me up before. I've always found that I had faster problem solving...

So Relic has released a F2P Microtransaction version of Company of Heroes called Company of Heroes online. Company of Heroes is a WW2 RTS and is, in my opinion, the best RTS ever made. It's more complicated than Starcraft but it also slightly slower. It has a 3 resource system and ALL resources...

So I've begun the initial stages of a story/book I plan to write with the following premise: What if God is real? What if Satan was his equal, not his creation? What if God is the bad guy? I plan on running a very hard theme of nihilism throughout the book and the idea of humanity banding...

Hello fellow meat bags, I am finding myself slowly moving towards a position of strong atheism, in that I do not believe that an all powerful god is possible and I believe anything less than that should be defined as something other than a god. The problem I'm having is reconciling taking the...

Is it better to start a new topic on a subject that has been discussed in the past or to necro a thread that's almost a year old that deals with the topic?

Hello fellow sacks of rancid meat and dirty water, I was recently confronted with the situation of attempting to comfort someone after the death of their friend. Now, I am a life long atheist, and some would say borderline nihilist, and due to being stubborn about maintaining this stance even...