Favourite AC Quote?

[CivLuvah]

Though I am not an Atheist, I wonder where all the intolerant Atheists blowing themselves to peices in the name of science are, or agnostics screaming for their blood are.

I think you've talked to too many Atheists on the internet. ^^;

Um. I respect agnostics because they are weaker atheists & they are just curious about wether there is a god or not. And I agree with you about the intolerant atheists who blew them up into peices thing. I change my signature every week.

 

[Serenity42]

"Optical computers, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules--forget all of that. It's when you see a megaton of steel suspended over your head by a thread the thickness of a human hair that you really find God in technology."

Never get tired of that one.

 

[Shylock]

Free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

It's a Lal quote, from the Planetary Datalinks.

I like it because it's true.

As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

Commissioner Pravin Lal
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"

Painfully true today.

 

[CivLuvah]

As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

Commissioner Pravin Lal
"U.N. Declaration of Rights"

Painfully true today.

Really does show the power of free speech & mass media.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

That's #1 on my list.


"The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain. What it can do is describe the underlying fractal pattern which creates them."

Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
"Nonlinear Genetics"


"Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. That means you can't, for example, insert "the genes for an elephant's trunk" into a giraffe and get a giraffe with a trunk. There -are- no genes for trunks. What you CAN do with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals. For instance, we can in theory splice the native plants' talent for nitrogen fixation into a terran plant."

Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
"Nonlinear Genetics"


These highlight people's common misassumption about the nature of genes. I'm thinking of you, Dawkins.

 

[CivLuvah]

That's #1 on my list.


"The genetic code does not, and cannot, specify the nature and position of every capillary in the body or every neuron in the brain. What it can do is describe the underlying fractal pattern which creates them."

Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
"Nonlinear Genetics"


"Remember, genes are NOT blueprints. That means you can't, for example, insert "the genes for an elephant's trunk" into a giraffe and get a giraffe with a trunk. There -are- no genes for trunks. What you CAN do with genes is chemistry, since DNA codes for chemicals. For instance, we can in theory splice the native plants' talent for nitrogen fixation into a terran plant."

Academician Prokhor Zakharov,
"Nonlinear Genetics"


These highlight people's common misassumption about the nature of genes. I'm thinking of you, Dawkins.

I hate Richard Dawkins. Are you in love with him? Iww. I think Zakharov is agnostic or still Orthodox Christian with no sense of ethics. He stated in one of his quotes, "God has not been proven not to exist, therefore he must exist." Zakharov is following the "If you can't see it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist" principle.

 

[Thorvald of Lym]

I hate Richard Dawkins. Are you in love with him? Iww.

Re-read my statement. Dawkins bases his theories on biology and evolution on the basis that genes are the be-all and end-all explanation to life and evolution, which Zakharov (rightly) argues against.

I think Zakharov is agnostic or still Orthodox Christian with no sense of ethics.

I set that post up for ideological hijacking, didn't I?

 

[CivLuvah]

Re-read my statement. Dawkins bases his theories on biology and evolution on the basis that genes are the be-all and end-all explanation to life and evolution, which Zakharov (rightly) argues against.

I set that post up for ideological hijacking, didn't I?

No I'm just curious. What is Zakharov's religion?

 

[Anon Zytose]

Here's a handful of somewhat thought-provoking ones that I don't think I've seen here yet. Sorry if this post is too long. ^^;;


"Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective."

Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"A Social History of Planet"


"Humans: Correct in making leap from wealth as currency to wealth as energy. But logic failure : wealth ultimately is extension of desire, fluctuating with emotions and state of mind. Desires : when all are supported in purely adaptable
system, true wealth is achieved."

Usurper Judaa Marr,
"Human : Nature"


"The Morgans fear what may not be purchased, for a trader cannot comprehend a thing that is priceless."

Sister Miriam Godwinson,
"The Collected Sermons"


"I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome. With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower, not of physical strength."

Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
"Essays on Mind and Matter"


"Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called 'moral value' of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements."

CEO Nwabudike Morgan,
"The Ethics of Greed"

 

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No I'm just curious. What is Zakharov's religion?

If I had to guess, based on the II quote, I'd say he's agnostic.

 

[CivLuvah]

Here's a handful of somewhat thought-provoking ones that I don't think I've seen here yet. Sorry if this post is too long. ^^;;


"Once a man has changed the relationship between himself and his environment, he cannot return to the blissful ignorance he left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective."

Commissioner Pravin Lal,
"A Social History of Planet"


"Humans: Correct in making leap from wealth as currency to wealth as energy. But logic failure : wealth ultimately is extension of desire, fluctuating with emotions and state of mind. Desires : when all are supported in purely adaptable
system, true wealth is achieved."

Usurper Judaa Marr,
"Human : Nature"


"The Morgans fear what may not be purchased, for a trader cannot comprehend a thing that is priceless."

Sister Miriam Godwinson,
"The Collected Sermons"


"I maintain nonetheless that yin-yang dualism can be overcome. With sufficient enlightenment we can give substance to any distinction: mind without body, north without south, pleasure without pain. Remember, enlightenment is a function of willpower, not of physical strength."

Chairman Sheng-ji Yang,
"Essays on Mind and Matter"


"Look at any photograph or work of art. If you could duplicate exactly the first tiny dot of color, and then the next and the next, you would end with a perfect copy of the whole, indistinguishable from the original in every way, including the so-called 'moral value' of the art itself. Nothing can transcend its smallest elements."

CEO Nwabudike Morgan,
"The Ethics of Greed"

Where did you get that SMAX quote?????

 

[MormegilGr]

That sunny dome! Those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge


I find this poem about Kumblai Khan to be so surreal when viewed in the AC context.

 

[GooglyBoogly]

Originally Posted by Civ4luvah2484
No I'm just curious. What is Zakharov's religion?

"Humans unfailing capacity to believe in what he prefers rather than what the evidence whows to be likely and possible has always astounded me. We long for caring universe which will save us from uor childish mistakes and in the mountains of evidence we will pin all uor hopes on the slimmest of doubts. God has not been proven not to exist, therefore it must exist..."

Academician Prokhost Zakharov "For I have tasted the truth"

[Itellectual Integrity tech]

I think this pretty much sums up the religious beliefs of Zakharov:
He is a firm Atheist

 

[CivLuvah]

I think this pretty much sums up the religious beliefs of Zakharov:
He is a firm Atheist

No way. He's an agnostic. Why not we ask the man himself? What's his telephone number? Or e-mail address?

 

[GooglyBoogly]

If you could hear the sarcasm in his voice when he says this quote, it would be more clear of the contempt he holds for those who believe in a god given the lack of scientific evidence.

 

[CivLuvah]

If you could hear the sarcasm in his voice when he says this quote, it would be more clear of the contempt he holds for those who believe in a god given the lack of scientific evidence.

Phshaw. LIES!!!! ALL LIES!!!!! He was born after the Soviet Union fell. DUH!!!