Recent content by Carcosa

The man who claims that Jesus walks with him is no more credible than the man that claims his dead grandmother whispers in his ear. The woman who claims that she feels the presence of Allah is no more rational than the woman who believes that werewolves stalk the streets of London. I believe...

Just ruminating, not trying to say this is the way things are: After death, everything that is organic about us decays. If anything goes to another plane of existence (this "Heaven" deal) it has to be something completely separate from the bio-material that composes us. Whatever isn't organic...

An atheist believes in God but chooses not to do what God would have them do? I think you need to read up on atheism and agnosticism.

Can you prove that I'm not the robot leader of a crew of motley space pirates? Didn't think so. Please address me as Captain Cybernaut, and hand over your precious star rubies.

The moral of my favourite movie is as follows: "Game over, man! Game over!"

I've never seen an AI use nukes before. Did he build them himself?

Interesting Times and Men At Arms are my favourite Discworld novels. Remember, Dahl didn't just write for children... that man had quite the twisted mind!

The whales from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. William Shatner needs those to save the Earth.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Douglas Adams, Roald Dahl and (yes) Stephen King.

Respectability is the key element here, not practicality. The United States cannot present a moral high ground against Iran if they use nuclear weapons to thwart Iran's nuclear ambitions. The "war against terror" would have a massive setback due to the diplomatic fallout, quite separate from any...

And the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. Red Stranger's point of view is exactly the same as that of Iranians who wish "Death to America"... and he's either unaware of it, or he's fully aware and simply feels himself superior. Either way is scary.

Those are some amazing bombs that can reduce a country to the "stone age" yet don't cause any casualties. You don't have any sympathy for your own countrymen, then?

In his defense, it's a really nice uniform.

This may well be the best and most necessary poll in the history of polls. I'm voting Saladin. His hat is a medallion and turban and hood and crescent and dome all in one. It's the utility belt of the hat world, and by donning it, Saladin is The Hatman.

Yeah, I didn't like the Dinobots either. I mean, Transformers are cool, and robots are cool, and dinosaurs are cool, but combining them is just silly.