What's on your mind today?

[Wraitchel]

I have to comment on the smoking thread. I gave myself asthma in my mid twenties by smoking. My mother died of second hand smoke exposure. She never smoked. If you really think second hand smoke is easy to avoid or harmless, do some research...just look it up. For every twenty smokers who die of smoking related illness, they take down one non-smoker with them. Smokers delude themselves by believing what they want to instead of looking at the hard facts. Smoking is like playing Russian roulette with two bullets in a six shooter. Would you do that? Once you get lung cancer, asthma, emphysema, or COPD, it is too late. I'm not asking you to stop. That's your biz. But don't delude yourself that it's harmless. I can't walk past a smoker now without getting asthma unless I have just used my inhaler. If you accept that science obtains a more realistic and true world view, you shouldn't dismiss it when science says smoking kills 1/3 of the people who do it.

[curiosityandthecat]

I like the blur. It has a mild mind-altering effect. I suspect that was what you were going for. The poster makes me feel off balance. Is the dude Maori?

Why, yes he is! At least, he's go the ta moko to make him look like one.

[chuff]

I'm going to visit a pretty girl tomorrow for the majority of the day, and I'm afraid to tell her how I feel about the subject of god. I'm thinking I'll let the relationship go for as long as I can before being forced to confront the topic.

[bowmore]

I have to comment on the smoking thread.

I'll chime in as well.

I'm not a smoker.

That's not entirely correct. I do occasionally smoke a cigar (Havanas preferably   ), or a pipe. I inhale neither (I'd have a coughing fit if I did).
For me it's all abour ritual and aroma.
Occasionally would mean : about 10 cigars per year.

Most of those are smoked during summer. Even though I don't inhale I do feel some effect, and when I've smoked two days in a row, I really feel the urge to smoke again the day after. I have until now (and this for several years) managed to dodge the addiction though, and have kept my yearly quotum. I'm aware that even at these small amounts there is a risk (health and addiction wise).

[MommaSquid]

My brother and his family had a birthday cake for Jesus.  



That was my crissmas laugh yesterday.

[BadPoison]

I'm going to visit a pretty girl tomorrow for the majority of the day, and I'm afraid to tell her how I feel about the subject of god. I'm thinking I'll let the relationship go for as long as I can before being forced to confront the topic.

I know entirely know what you mean. See my introductory post for reference:
http://www.happyatheistforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2280

I really think you should be honest with her up front - don't go crazy telling her every single reason you're an unbeliever, but let her know that you find the likelyhood of there being a god far less than 50% and leave it at that. She'll most likely respond with something like "Well how do you explain..." or a personal story of hers - a 'testimony' of sorts. TMy best advice is to just ask her to leave it alone for now, and then see where things go. Later on, when she really learns to like you / love you for who you are, and not what you believe (or don't believe) you'll be in a much better place to talk about these things. But you're right in not getting deep into it right now in the beginning of your relationship. Just don't surprise her later. Let her know, but don't scare her off with too much information. Short and sweet.

[mDarkPoet]

Hmm, well what's on my mind is coffee, making it, getting it, uh, consuming it. *tired face*  

[curiosityandthecat]

I'm still here. Been busy and out of town. Just FYI, all!   A gift, in apology:

[Rastelin]

Hotter than Hell?
The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26,

    "Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days."

Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition 7*7 (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or 50 times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one 1/10,000 of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that ... The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where i.e., Heaven loses 50 times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E) temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed ... [However] Revelations 21:8 says

    "But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone."

A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.

[Steve Reason]

^^ LOL Sweet!

In other news...

Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Whoopi Goldberg are really, really, really, really, really, really, dumb. Really!  

[bowmore]

First off, I know this isn't intended to be serious, you can regard my answer in the same light.

The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed ... [However] Revelations 21:8 says

    "But the fearful, and unbelieving ... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone."

A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, 444.6C. We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C.

We must note however that the boiling point changes when atmospheric pressure changes, so the temperature in hell cannot be established.  

[Rastelin]

Air pressure is the force exerted on you by the weight of tiny particles of air. When it's compressed, air is said to be "under high pressure". Air at sea level is what we're used to, in fact, we're so used to it that we forget we're actually feeling air pressure all the time!

But you see! This is science and don’t apply in hell

[ewomack]

I am a tiny universe of microorganisms. That both comforts and alarms me.

[Rastelin]

I am a tiny universe of microorganisms. That both comforts and alarms me.

What worries me is if those micro organisms may have some religious dispute going on in my body

[Steve Reason]

I would really like to have an OLED hdtv. The picture is simply stunning.