01-09-2003 12:16									#1
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As a tribute to Googlie on the 33th anniversary of landing on Chiron, we, the people shall thank and praise Googlie in creating and looking after us! I shall begin with a toast of Xenorum!

	01-09-2003 12:20									#2
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* Jamski is a commited atheiest *

-Jam

	01-09-2003 12:21									#3
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We MUST convert the atheiests!

	01-09-2003 12:25									#4
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Yes, copious amount of alcohol shall do the trick.

	01-09-2003 12:27									#5
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* Jamski sings drunkenly *

*hic* There ish no ggoogloeGod, 'ere isss na GoooglieeGarf *

-Jam

	01-09-2003 12:36									#6
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Throw him in the googliefier!

	01-09-2003 12:38									#7
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And hope that may he be judged worthy by the great Googlie.

	01-09-2003 12:43									#8
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* Jamski burns gently *

-Jam

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Heh it's a good thing not many people can see the internal hive googliefiest.

	01-09-2003 12:47									#10
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I thank my father for breathing into me life.

GooglieGod forever!

	01-09-2003 15:04									#11
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Wow, you people can really spam

* Drogue looks down upon the festivities and smiles, knowing that his Conversations with GooglieGod gives him a special outlet to worship.

	01-09-2003 17:37									#12
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Here ye landlubbers, I found these tablets floating near Mount Planet,

And in that funny alien language which we fed into our deciphering machine.
It read (though some disagree with the translation):

1 Thou shalt not have false Googliegods before me
2 Thou shalt not consult before meeting in game
3 Thou shal save a day free from work to play the game
4 Honour thy CMN and MarkG
5 Thou may kill most other factions
6 Thou may commit Miami
7 Thou may probe as much as you are able
8 But you must declare Vendetta if at truce, treaty or Pact unless permitted
9 Thou shalt covet thy neighbours SPs
10 Thou shalt covet thy neighbours bases

	02-09-2003 03:09									#13
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What's a Googlie?

* Lemmy runs back to his evil lair

	02-09-2003 05:49									#14
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EVERYONE, KILL THE INFIDEL!!!!

	02-09-2003 07:22									#15
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* Vev brandishes butterknife of mindworm infestation.

	02-09-2003 20:57									#16
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What a chaos place. I heard it was some kind of a fest? Hmmm... Where's the xenorum?

	02-09-2003 21:19									#17
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well, the mateys on board the ship supposed to deliver the finest quality of peace xenorum got thirsty halfway to mount planet, needless to say what happened next.

	02-09-2003 23:57									#18
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Tsk Tsk Tsk; I'm disappointed in all you Comrades trying to convert Jamski, the fundamental freedoms of the Human Hive clearly guarantee freedom of religion, and freedom from religion.

Besides he'll just spend eternity in hellfire for his blasphemy anyway, just like it says in the Book of Bob.

	03-09-2003 00:31									#19
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quote: Originally posted by Lemmy What's a Googlie?

* Method slaps Lemmy around a bit with 200 combat drones

	03-09-2003 03:54									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Voltaire the Book of Bob

	03-09-2003 03:55									#21
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Religion is the opiate of the masses, remember.

-Jam

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And xenorum is the preferred choice of the xeno-generation.

	03-09-2003 05:19									#23
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"Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries."

--Phillip Adams

	03-09-2003 11:53									#24
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The PUT hereby refuses to have any part in these celebrations. Religion of any kind is the antithesis of science, rationality, and reality, and as such we refuse to participate in any religious ceremonies.

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Phillip Adams was wrong. Religion is indeed numbing, dulling and soporific, as the word opiate suggests. It numbs the workers to the harsh realities of their slavery and comforts them with a vision of an afterlife where they can rest. Furthermore the idea of a creator god, or a controlling god fills the masses with the idea that they have been put in their lowly positions for a purpose, and that god has chosen others to be thier masters. The opiate prevents their striving against the social system, and contents the workers with their lot.

-Jam

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quote: Originally posted by GeneralTacticus The PUT hereby refuses to have any part in these celebrations. Religion of any kind is the antithesis of science, rationality, and reality, and as such we refuse to participate in any religious ceremonies.

Actually it isn't. Belief in a God with no evidence of their existance is irrational, however belief in a God whom you know to exist is not. We have evidence of GooglieGods existance, thus belief in him is rational. Worshipping and appeasing GooglieGod is also rational, since if someone has power over you, being nice to them is simple common sense

Extract from the introduction to Conversations with GooglieGod

quote: Arguments against religion are usually founded in the illogic in believing in something with no evidence, that almost defies common sense with it's existance. If you start from the position of knowing that God exists, as we know with GooglieGod (we all have regular conversations with him, unless that's just us - ed) then belief in him is not needed. I do not need to believe that I exist, as I know it to be true, and the same with GooglieGod. Therefore without the irrational and illogical belief, the appeasement of a being who has control over your fortunes is a logical course of action. The only illogical part of religion, the belief, has been removed.

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quote: Originally posted by Drogue Actually it isn't. Belief in a God with no evidence of their existance is irrational, however belief in a God whom you know to exist is not. We have evidence of GooglieGods existance, thus belief in him is rational. Worshipping and appeasing GooglieGod is also rational, since if someone has power over you, being nice to them is simple common sense Extract from the introduction to Conversations with GooglieGod

We know of the existence of a being known as 'Googlie'. We have, as yet, no evidence of his possessing any supernatural powers other than access to our computer networks, access which we granted him and which we can deny him.

	03-09-2003 16:33									#28
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That (religion as an opiate) may well have been a contributory factor in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe but there are and were other factors that prevent people striving against social systems. Knowledge is power.

Thankfully in PEACE we have a range of quality media - Shipping News for example and an education system for pirates funded by appropriate(d) grant schemes.

	03-09-2003 20:00									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Drogue Extract from the introduction to Conversations with GooglieGod quote: I do not need to believe that I exist, as I know it to be true, and the same with GooglieGod.

How do you know it is true that you exist? You think that you exist, but you may be simply a fictitious character in a made up world. You think you see things, hear things and feel things, but maybe it is just some electrical current or something similar that makes you to feel that way. How could one be sure of anything?

One day Zhou dreamed that he became a butterfly. But the next day he couldn't be sure if he was actually a butterfly who was dreaming that he became Zhou.

	03-09-2003 20:36									#30
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Words of wisdom, HongHu. (Though I assume most Chinese learns this from childhood.) I thought the same thing as you when I read Drogue's extract, but I didn't bother to respond at first because I don't want to point out the fallacies in our future 3D articles.

Drogue, even if you have lots of evidence of a certain phenomenon, you can never be a 100% sure something is "true". One can only work from the empirical data one has and make reasonable assumptions from that. But you can never be absolutely sure evidence to the contrary will appear. So it will always stay a belief. Absolute truths will never be known.

Anyway, I'll stop talking about my strange worldview mix of experimental science and oriental philosophy. Last time I did that I got into one of those many arguments with Archaic...