One of the premises of the initial prediction is that the said society will still exist. But no religion has ever died out with the society still intact. Yes thing have changes drastically in terms of technology but not enough to completely invalidate this observation.
Should religions in general die out it will be in a more dramatic way as Bob A predicts.
Let's see: greek mythology, roman mythology, celtic mythology, germanic mythology, slavic mythology, egyptian polytheism, various other north african and middle eastern folk religions...
I only predicted that for islam. christianity and hinduism aren't that militaristic.
Interesting but I must disagree. For christianity at least, the belief that Jesus is the messiah and died for everyones since would be the main point. As long as that is the basis of a religion, it will be a form of christianity. The rest is far less relevant. This point in itself will prevent it from being watered down to the point of being indistinguishable from secular culture.
Even that doctrine is being watered down. Witness the growth of the idea of universal salvation.
People will eventually realise that some things are unknown, and the fakey religious explanations are unsatisfactory. I'm pretty sure that (organised) religion will die out eventually, though superstition and charlantry will probably live on forever in some degree.
Prediction: Islam will be the last religion to die out, perhaps in a spectacular manner.
It's true that religions evolve, but they only evolve to come closer in line with secular culture. The more this happens, the more religion loses importance, and the easier it is for people to deconvert. Evangelical christians, for example, sometimes wonder what the point of christianity is if significant chunks of it are thrown out, and I'm inclined to agree.
I'm inclined to agree with Fabian about Europe, but about the U.S. seems less probable. It may just be wishful thinking, though.
About the pizza thing: I can see how it could sort of make fun of Jesus, but I'm not sure I'd call that disrespect. I guess it falls into the same category as this.
Dacicus wrote:
This isn't an issue because of divine inspiration. I think it would be nice if people asked those questions about so-called "scientific" knowledge, however, such as the so-called "proof" for evolution, which definitely doesn't claim to be inspired by God. We could make a whole other thread just about that, though.
Evolution has been thoroughly proven; it's supported by mountains of evidence.
Dacicus wrote:
Science requires large amounts of faith to work, too. For example, scientists must have faith that the universe exists, that it consistently follows rules/laws, and that we have the capability to understand those laws. You can't scientifically prove that any of those are true, since they could just be errors with how you perceive things. For example, solipsists are a rather extreme example of people who do not believe those things, since they believe that only the mind exists. So, faith is required in order to accept any type of response, not just a religious one.
That's not faith at all. Faith is a process of non-thinking whereby one accepts beliefs passed down through tradition with no evidence, or even against the evidence. None of those things require faith; they can demonstrated scientifically (through inductive reasoning), not to mention that they're all glaringly obvious. Also, in my view it's futile to speculate about whether reality "really" exists; we can perceive it, and that's all that matters.
X3 was the only one i ever really played. I've played all the sfc ones, and i think some of the fc ones. They're all pretty much the same, each one being a minor upgrade of the last.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'second quest'. I'm thinking you should do the whole thing in one movie, since doing two would seem unnecessarily cumbersome.
I think I've mostly figured out the optimal route for a 100% tas in metroid limit. I'm too lasy/unskilled to make a test run, though, so I'll list the outline here.
- If you want to skip the ceres escape, fall onto the broken glass and die, and restart.
- Get the missiles, morphball, bombs, and others.
- Skip the ice beam and get the grapple beam.
- Get the ice beam and everything else in the area, and move on to the varia suit.
- Go to norfair and get the power bombs.
- Go back to brinstar and get the high-jump boots, super missiles, and wave beam. Kraid can still be killed in one round without the super missiles.
- Go back to norfair and use the power bombs to get to the spring ball skipping everything else in that area (except the missile set).
- Get the speed booster.
- Go to maridia and kill draygon.
- The fastest way to get to the plasma beam room (from the previous one) is to walljump up the right wall.
- In the speedblock room, it may be possible to get the first missile set the second time through by freezing an enemy in exactly the right place, but I'm not sure.
- Anyway, get the gravity suit and everything else, and then head to lower norfair.
- Kill ridley, get the x-ray scope, kill the gold torizo, and shinespark out of the room.
- Go back to norfair and get the spazer beam.
- Get the missile set next to the speedbooster area gravity jump out of acid, preparing for a crystal flash.
- Go back to the crocomire's area and use a crystal flash to get past the super missile block in the first room. Get everything else.
- Finnish the game.
I'm missing one missile set, but it probably won't affect the route much.
I don't see why all that information about the muppets doesn't belong on wikipedia. The latter is supposed to be a collection of all human knowledge. This is why you have subpages, and disambiguation pages are not a problem.
The thing about dos games, on the other hand, might belong on wikibooks.
Oh, right. Didn't remember the name of that hack.
It doesn't seem to me like it's notable. seeing as it was the only article on List of NES ROM hacks, which is about to get deleted, it doesn't seem that any hack is currently notable enough for wikipedia.
NON-FICTION
Carl Menger, Principles of Economics (Grundsätze der Volkswirtschaftslehre)
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der reinen Vernunft)
Gustave de Molinari, Les Soirées de la Rue Saint-Lazare
Euclid of Alexandria, Elements (Etoikheia)
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government
Just a few I can think of at the moment.
Question: how do you manipulate luck? I tried this run a little while back, and I couldn't kill the three soldiers in the inn after running through about 100 frames (exactly how I tried I forgot, but I must have got something wrong).