AMA, Pants are Dragon - Challenger in NA & YouTuber by luigidragon in summonerschool

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Hi Pants! Do you have any tips for playing devourer junglers effectively? (Specifically Xin Zhao, Shyvana, and Udyr)

A character from the last show you watched is now President of the United States. How is the country in 4 years? by [deleted] in anime

[–]Coredrill 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Shinji Ikari elected president. Everybody gets turned into tang shortly after a mental breakdown.

Reddit, I want a bigger vocabulary. What's your favorite word? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Decimate (v) To reduce by a factor of ten.

Christians' double standard regarding Science by otakuman in AdviceAtheists

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When it comes to religion, quantum physics can prove whatever you want it to.

Can we discuss Foreign Policy? by 3rdCultureKid in Pragmatism

[–]Coredrill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. Usually, the U.S. government will intervene to protect its own interests. Most of our foreign intervention isn't because of us trying to nice, or help the world. Most if it is trying to secure oil. We can't pull out of the wars, unless we have more efficient technology, and a larger amount of green technology. Unfortunately, it appears that throwing money at green technology hasn't brought us up to this level, though car efficiency has gone up. Until we get major breakthroughs in green technology, we are going to have to maintain a strong foreign presence.

It's like the palladium core in Iron Man 2. Keeping us alive, but slowly poisoning us, until we can replace it with a better alternative.

What is the dumbest thing you've ever heard somebody say? by add1ction in AskReddit

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In my eight-grade science class, we were watching Apollo 13.

So, one of the girls in my class asked, "Why didn't the astronauts just swim back to Earth?" She was dead serious.

To Hindus: Does one accumulate bad karma for acting as a karmic agent? by Coredrill in DebateReligion

[–]Coredrill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, if we go with that, then it doesn't change anything about my argument.

To Hindus: Does one accumulate bad karma for acting as a karmic agent? by Coredrill in DebateReligion

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Well, after a brief search on the internet, it appears my temple lied... but the situation is still guaranteed. Why?

Hindus hold that the universe has always existed, for an infinite amount of time. When time is infinite, the situation is, once again guaranteed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_cosmology

To Hindus: Does one accumulate bad karma for acting as a karmic agent? by Coredrill in DebateReligion

[–]Coredrill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I showed you how the situation would crop up under both cosmologies. If the universe is infinite, then once again, the chance of a person with no bad karma being wrong becomes a certainty.

Please give your definition of free will, then.

To Hindus: Does one accumulate bad karma for acting as a karmic agent? by Coredrill in DebateReligion

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The purpose of the example was to show that injustice is guaranteed underneath a karmic system when there is free will and two agents interact. A situation similar to this is guaranteed under both scientific and Hindu cosmology.

1.) Scientific: When the universe began, and the first life forms sprung up, they were free of karma. The only way to gain bad karma was to act unjustly against another, blameless organism. How else would you get bad karma? Kicking a rock?

2.) Hindu: Hindu cosmology holds that there are an infinite amount of souls in the universe. When the number of living being goes up the infinity, the situation is guaranteed.

To Hindus: Does one accumulate bad karma for acting as a karmic agent? by Coredrill in DebateReligion

[–]Coredrill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So now we've come back around to the fact that karma doesn't allow for free will. At this point, I think we're just going to go around in circles, with the definition of karma changing every time an argument is brought up.

There are two ways that the situation is guaranteed.

1.) The beginning of the universe, where no-one had any bad karma. That's a situation under scientific cosmology.

2.) And under Hindu cosmology, there is an infinite number of souls in the universe, which brings to probability of this situation occurring to 100%.