"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
"Genuine self-esteem, however, consists not of causeless feelings, but of certain knowledge about yourself.
It rests on the conviction that you — by your choices, effort and actions — have made yourself into the
kind of person able to deal with reality. It is the conviction — based on the evidence of your own volitional
functioning — that you are fundamentally able to succeed in life and, therefore, are deserving of that success."
- Onkar Ghate
Bisqwit wrote:
That's not a SuperMetroid hack and it won't run on a SNES-Emulator. The graphics in that video are way too demanding for a SNES.
They did reuse some sprites from SM, but that's about it.
It'll probably turn out to be a windows exe. (either that or a hoax :p)
like Accent Stove & Spa except a billion times worse
I also left the commentary in by accident, which I think makes it better. warning: the end of video has some loud sound corruption.
also: it was windy
You totaly sound like Nicolas Cage. Are you Nicolas Cage?
I'm actually sick and my voice is screwed up, but if you want to describe "crappy, scratchy, gives out a lot" as "Nicolas Cage" then by all means.
In other news, that video has attracted quite a bit of comments from random users somehow, most of which don't seem to realize that while the movie is five minutes long, they can close the window and go away at any time...
That is funny because this video actually proves natural selection. The banana has been domesticated, meaning over generations it has been selected by humans to be as good as a food source as it can be. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana#History) This is not natural selection, because it is humans driving the change, it is still the same principle.
This type of selection has occurred for virtually all staple crops, some of the bigger changes are corn. Originally corn was very small and hardly edible but over time it has been domesticated to what it is today. Note, that just like dogs, cows, etc people do not need even need to be aware (and usually they aren't) that they are domesticating the animals/crop and executing evolution. This is because it is beneficial to the food to be eaten because in the process its seeds are dispersed and planted in well fertilized spots (shit).
The author also goes on to pick every coincidence about the banana as proof that god wants to make our life's easy and wonderful. However by choosing only the coincidences that support your theory and ignoring all the ones that don't you can prove anything you want.
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The banana guy is setting up for one hell of a money shot.
Am I the only one with a dirty enough mind to put that spin on it? When I first saw that video, I thought it was a joke intended to be taken that way. I guess I could be wrong.
This is not natural selection, because it is humans driving the change,
It's supernatural selection. Most creationists accept natural selection and microevolution... they don't go against the ID theory.
I think Ray is joking a little about the banana, but he's also half serious.
So wait, does that mean the coconut and pineapple are proof that God is a dickhead? Or possibly just a moron?
I hate these videos. They use poor examples, coincidence, and to try and support a weak point.
The debunking video is EVEN LINKED at the top of your video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLqQttJinjo&feature=related
The peanut butter one pisses me off the worst. The arguments against it sum up to, how does the internals of a peanut butter jar correctly match the earth's environment and atmosphere 6 billion years ago?
Even, given that we all know spontaneous genesis of life does not occur inside a peanut butter jar, I can be damn sure that if you went through a peanut butter jar WITH A MICROSCOPE, it would have microbes in it anyway!! What is he expecting? An arm to come out and strangle him?
So his whole argument is DOUBLY FLAWED!
Sage advice from a friend of Jim: So put your tinfoil hat back in the closet, open your eyes to the truth, and realize that the government is in fact causing austismal cancer with it's 9/11 fluoride vaccinations of your water supply.
So wait, does that mean the coconut and pineapple are proof that God is a dickhead? Or possibly just a moron?
No, it just proves that you don't know how to laugh.
So wait, the pineapple and coconut are god's joke? Guess I didn't get the punchline.
Sage advice from a friend of Jim: So put your tinfoil hat back in the closet, open your eyes to the truth, and realize that the government is in fact causing austismal cancer with it's 9/11 fluoride vaccinations of your water supply.
