h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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dont you mean

one meat robot might follow a biological imperative and attempt procreation with another meat robot,

while other meat robots infected with the religion virus state "error does not compute re boot god, re do universe, out of cheese error!!!!!"

And speaking of masturbation...the New Scientist also features a device for preventing nocturnal emissions:
http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16624-science-museum-medical-objects



A standard test for impotance is 'The Stamp Test'. When a patient retires to bed, he is told to stick a row of stamps around his penis. If on waking he finds the stamps separated at the perforations, it shows that he is physiologically capable of erection. Cunning, no?

Jaysus! here's another one:

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16624-science-museum-medical-objects/12

'I'm a little teapot...'

and this is how they do it today

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hs=Lx8&q=penis%20piercing&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

This is a religious web site, you can find the cilice of your fancy. Get ready, Lent is coming!

http://www.cilice.co.uk/

Scroll down to see the Lent Offer
"The use of the cilice belt or hairshirt must not be undertaken lightly, it is essential that people seek spiritual guidance and instruction before using one. When used within a structured and disciplined prayer life and under the direction of a Parish Priest or spiritual advisor it can be used as an aid to worship. Any such penance performed in a spirit of pride and not humility will surely block us off from God."

slightly off topic but it just struck me

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why would life change the composition of the atmosphere, thus allowing for the evolution of man, if there were a creator in the first place, either he got it wrong or he does not exist....

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what about pleasure

2legs get away from the order screen RIGHT NOW

Can you imagine a lady asking that proper guidance they recommend to a priest about how to place the cilice around her body?


There´s a lot of erotic literature about that. Many based on real life, of course.

Well, it's somebody else's turn to bother you all.
You can always leave me a message

I just found a very interesting story which is a bit of humble-pie for any that think that learning and intelligence is some sort of special human thing:

'In their experiment, biophysicist Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Hokkaido University and colleagues manipulated the environment of Physarum slime-mold amoebas. As the cells crawled across an agar plate, the researchers subjected them to cold, dry conditions for the first 10 minutes of every hour. During these cool spells, the cells slowed down their motion. After three cold snaps the scientists stopped changing the temperature and humidity and watched to see whether the amoebas had learned the pattern. Sure enough, many of the cells throttled back right on the hour in anticipation of another bout of cold weather. When conditions stayed stable for a while, the slime-mold amoebas gave up on their hourly braking, but when another single jolt of cold was applied, they resumed the behavior and correctly recalled the 60-minute interval. The amoebas were also able to respond to other intervals, ranging from 30 to 90 minutes.'

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jan/071

slime machines rather than meat machines.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/7912212.stm

only god botherers are moral?????????explain that one then????

About the erotic literature I mentioned:

Priest Juan Bautista Girard went to jail because he cheated Catalina Cadiere. He was her spiritual advisor, but his "praxis" wasn´t much ortodox. He managed to have sex with her in a very peculiar( and eroticising way)

It happpened in France, in the XVIII century.

No need to look back that far...

http://religiousfreaks.com/2006/09/13/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-nun-scorned/

Let's see, nun shags priest, has two abortions, burns his house down and tries to kill him. She doesn't use birth control though, because she doesn't want to break Church rules.

how will this impact on intelligent design

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7920205.stm

'how will this impact on intelligent design'

Well, in the real world, intelligent design is a lie. How will anything impact that fact?

what i ment was that if the vatican pan ID where does it leave all the ID Fundies in the states????and their new "museum"

I very much doubt the ID fundies give two hoots what the vatican says.

Most non-catholics view the pope as a creature of satan

btw, religious who claim belief in the supernatural is compatible with science are fooling only themselves, something they are rather good at.

The Vatican isn't panning ID though - they have invited one anti-ID speaker to their conference, but I'm sure will give a ringing endorsement to the idea that evolution is 'God's plan'.

They are clearly panning 'traditional' creationism though - playing the 'we never said it' game again. ("Oh, yes, a few cardinals might have said a few things that might have implied to a few people that evolution and the Bible conflict, but we never actually made an actual formal statement that actually says so...")

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