The "Ask Beaker" thread.

[beaker]

I did...but found the answers less than convincing...maybe we need to send you to font of knowledge classes

Maybe you just didn't hear what you wanted to hear? Sometimes the truth is confronting and unconfortable

[daviejones]

Maybe you just didn't hear what you wanted to hear? Sometimes the truth is confronting and unconfortable

The truth? You can't handle the truth...I eat my brekkie 3 yards from people that want to kill me...

[realityhack]

The truth? You can't handle the truth...I eat my brekkie 3 yards from people that want to kill me...

The permies can't be that bitter, surely?

[daviejones]

The permies can't be that bitter, surely?

Nah, just underpaid and motivationless...

[sasguru]

The truth? You can't handle the truth...I eat my brekkie 3 yards from people that want to kill me...

That's not saying much, most of humanity feels that way.

[daviejones]

That's not saying much, most of humanity feels that way.

About you yes...but as an outsider, what do you think of the human race so far?

[Pondlife]

A question for Beaker

Where is El Duder these days?

[beaker]

Where is El Duder these days?

El Duder has been banned from this place. He's taken his wild sexual fantasies elsewhere. Some people say that he lives on using another name. But that is the stuff of legends

[daviejones]

The Admins should be able to tell us. I know Ferret hinted about it a few times...

[SandyDown]

Who was it that said something along the lines of

I cannot prove whether or not God exists but since if he does, the benefit of belief is eternal happiness in heaven and the cost of not believing is hell, and if he doesn't exist the cost or benefit is nothing, then there is infinite reason to believe.

Was it Newton? I'm sure he expressed it much better than I just did.

hmmm somthign a long the same lines said by CS Lewis, but much simpler: “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”