[QUOTE=Llivavin;24021362]There's no proof that he even actually existed[/QUOTE]
This is why I said 'If he existed' as opposed to 'when he existed'.
[QUOTE=Llivavin;24021362]There's no proof that he even actually existed[/QUOTE]
Yes, there is, actually.
[QUOTE=Stopper;24021418]Yes, there is, actually.[/QUOTE]
/arguement.
Contribute content, please.
I thought yawning (as well as swallowing) helped balance the pressure in your ears. When you do either of these actions you can feel it in your ears. For another example, when you are in an aeroplane and your ears start to feel weird, if you keep swallowing, it should get rid of that feeling.
[QUOTE=David29;24020841]Not true. I have to use a water filter if I want any water from the tap - and I live in an urbanised area, not the middle of nowhere, so the water [i]should[/i] be clean. It isn't. You should see the crap that builds up in the filter.[/QUOTE]
Same.
We have a filter in the kitchen but not in the bathroom. Bathroom water tastes like shit. And if you leave it overnight, it's terrible.
[QUOTE=Stopper;24021418]Yes, there is, actually.[/QUOTE]
Prove it.
[QUOTE=Llivavin;24021362]There's no proof that he even actually existed[/QUOTE]
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus[/url]
there's some proof
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googled "proof that jesus existed" and clicked the first wiki link
[QUOTE=Llivavin;24021463]Prove it.[/QUOTE]
Do not derail the thread. I'm trying to keep it on the rails, here.
Ok lets not turn this into a Jesus is real/is not real thread.
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ooft, ninja'd
[QUOTE=FuhFuhFresh;24021428]/arguement.
Contribute content, please.[/QUOTE]
[U]Psychics[/U]
Right-o. I've unfortunately seen to mane people be baffled with this bullshit. [I]If[/I] someone was able to: Talk to the dead, see the future, read minds and/or anything else like that, would they really use it to help you "talk" to your long gone grandmother? Would they not... Go on the stock market/play in the lottery/save people in catastrophical events? No, why would they? :downs:
I've got quite a few:
[I]Men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E
Every 45 seconds, a house catches on fire in the United States
In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter."
In Philadelphia, you can't put pretzels in bags based on an Act of 1760
In Illinois, the law is that a car must be driven with the steering wheel
California law prohibits a woman from driving a car while dressed in a housecoat
In Memphis, Tennessee, a woman is not to drive a car unless a man warns approaching motorists or pedestrians by walking in front of the car that is being driven
In Tennessee, it is against the law to drive a car while sleeping
In Kentucky, it's the law that a person must take a bath once a year
In Providence, Rhode Island, it is against the law to jump off a bridge
In North Carolina, it is against the law for dogs and cats to fight
In Virginia, chickens cannot lay eggs before 8:00 a.m., and must be done before 4:00 p.m
In Washington State, you can't carry a concealed weapon that is over 6 feet in length
In Michigan, married couples must live together or be imprisoned
In California, a law created in 1925 makes it illegal to wiggle while dancing
In Utah, daylight must be visible between dancing couples
In North Carolina, it is against the law for a rabbit to race down the street
In Missouri, a man must have a permit to shave
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second![/I]
[B]NOTE:[/B] These are all from a website I found, these may or may not be true. This website can be found [url=http://www.strangefacts.com/]HERE[/url]
First one I already knew but the other two were interesting.
Also let me ask.
How would anyone know that we eat five to six spiders each year?
Which team of scientist watched someone for a year to measure that..
I tried to keep it from turning into that by lacing my posts with words that addressed both sides. Anyways, content now.
[U]The Pyramids were constructed entirely from sandstone[/U]
When you picture the pyramids, you probably imagine the square based pyramid structure coated with a sandy texture that blends in perfectly with the surrounding desert. Now, the biggest problem with this is that when you picture the Pharaohs, they loved the shiny gold stuff that made them look more extravagant, so why would they make the biggest ever symbol of their greatness so bland and dull? It turns out they didn't- the pyramids were actually coated with a light layer of limestone that was then polished to an almost mirror shine, that was said to be visislbe froma distance even in the pitch black night. You can find pictures where there's still some left over at the top. So why do the pyramids look the way they do now? Not because the limestone faded or anything to that effect (limestone doesn't do that), but instead the medieval era Egyptains ripped off all the limestone because they needed it for construction purposes.
[QUOTE=Zeraux;24021712]Also let me ask.
How would anyone know that we eat five to six spiders each year?
Which team of scientist watched someone for a year to measure that..[/QUOTE]
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These guys. They're dedicated to watching people sleep.
here's a picture of the popular depiction of Jesus made to look more Arab and short haired
[img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3430278/08%20-%20RealJesus.jpeg[/img_thumb]
also OP link the cracked article
I always learnt that yawning was a natural way of getting more oxygen into your body due to a build up of carbon dioxide in your lungs.
Yawning because someone else yawned was just a sign of social empathy.
For the Jesus one? Alright.
[url]http://www.cracked.com/article_18627_6-things-from-history-everyone-pictures-incorrectly.html[/url]
It also explains how ninjas never wore full black suits and how vikings didn't have horns on thier helmets. Before you call me a thief, remember what I said at the start - alot of this is coming from things like Cracked and Mythbusters.
Did anyone else yawn after reading the section on yawning?
[QUOTE=TrouserDemon;24020716]You don't really "just use 10% of your brain". All of it is used.[/QUOTE]
Think of it like a CPU in a computer. It's all being used, but at any one time, not all of it is.
oh haven't seen that one
was thinking of this
[url]http://www.cracked.com/article_16241_6-most-frequently-quoted-bullsht-statistics.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Aasokeo;24021886]Did anyone else yawn after reading the section on yawning?[/QUOTE]
You avatar is perfect for the subject.
Yawning is when your body needs to cool down, but not to the extent of sweating, so it lets out a lot of warm air in one go which lets the body cool down a bit more.
You never yawn when it's cold do you?
[QUOTE=pieman;24021923]Yawning is when your body needs to cool down, but not to the extent of sweating, so it lets out a lot of warm air in one go which lets the body cool down a bit more.
You never yawn when it's cold do you?[/QUOTE]
I Yawn at night during the wintertime, especially when I'm shovelling snow from my driveway at 15C below.
[QUOTE=FuhFuhFresh;24021945]I Yawn at night during the wintertime, especially when I'm shovelling snow from my driveway at 15C below.[/QUOTE]
You're doing physical exercise, which is heating your body up.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;24020591]I have never heard that bottled water one in my entire life.[/QUOTE]
It's not exactly that, but some people have a belief that bottled water is cleaner than tap water (probably from ads). The thing is that bottled water is usually just water from the tap, put through a factory enviroment, and with the price raised by several times. From waht I hear it also has fewer regulations than tap water too.
[QUOTE=pieman;24021975]You're doing physical exercise, which is heating your body up.[/QUOTE]
But I still yawn even when I'm not doing that.
With the water, it's all about what type of tap water you have, if you have it straight from a reservoir via a cleaning plant, it's cleaner than bottled water. But it's kept in a tank on the roof of your building that you live in, it's generally going to be less clean.
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[QUOTE=FuhFuhFresh;24022009]But I still yawn even when I'm not doing that.[/QUOTE]
You're still going to be having excess heat from some activity you have been doing.
[QUOTE=meepugh;24019291]4chan caused 911.[/QUOTE]
Your avitar is scary meepugh, oh and I'm not so sure that 4chan caused 911...
Please don't post anymore of these, FuhFuh. Not only are your facts not even right, but religion is the leading cause of shit storms here.
[quote]Tap Water is Dirtier than Bottled Water.
You've probably heard this dozens of times from your family and friends, something along the lines of "You don't need to drink from the tap, there's bottled water in the fridge. It's cleaner." But the big point they're missing is that the bottled water was not in fact collected from a mountain spring in some far off mystical land like the label might have you believe. It was still mass produced in a factory setting by stone cold machines, then stored in a warehouse and eventually sent out to stores by diesel trucks. By Comparison, the water from your tap was collected from a local water source and purified, and paid for with your tax money and water bills. If the tap water was dirtier, why would the city even bother trying to compete with bottled water companies?[/quote]
The government doesn't compete with bottle water companies. The only thing the government has to do is make sure that your water is of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_water]Drinking Water[/url] standards. That means that tap water is perfectly, 100% safe and drinkable. In fact, chemicals containing fluoride are also added, which improves the health of your teeth. So tap water is healthier for you than bottled water.
[quote]You Yawn because you're tired.
This one sounds fair enough. Most people, like you, tend to yawn more when you need some sleep after staring at a computer moniter for 37 hours. And yet, science has yet to actually figure out why people yawn. Something so common and so simple doesn't actually have one confirmed explanation. The original theory was you yawn to expel excess air from your lungs, and you yawn more when you're tired because you actually breathe deeper. This went out the window when somebody did a fake yawn and realised they inhaled first, thus adding more oxygen to their lungs. The other major theory was that it was to expel excess carbon dioxide from the body. This makes sense, but then you realise you wouldn't have to do the mandatory breathe in before you yawn if that were the case.[/quote]
There are many [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory]theories[/url] as to why you yawn. In fact, many of them could be right. There are many triggers to yawning. Not just one, as everyone likes to tell everyone else. [url=http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/04/health/04iht-snvital.1.6485435.html]A study was done, demonstrating that yawning is a mechanism to regulate your brain temperature.[/url]
[quote]Jesus was a skinny white man.
First of all, do not rage out on me. I am not anti-christian or a bible basher or whatever other cute name you think can describe me in two words. This is just to correct what you might think about Jesus' Christs image - the recognisable white face with long brown hair and matching beard, coupled with a skinny figure. The facts we know about Jesus, if he existed, are described in the bible. The two most common are that he lived in the middle east, and that he was a carpenter.
Now, if he lived in the middle east, that would mean he would look, you know, middle eastern. Given what people looked like at the time, he typically would have had tanned skin and black hair. The reason he's pictured as white is because when pictures of him were drawn in Europe, he was figured to look like what most people knew the master race to look like. He has also been depicted as asian in China and South American in Brazil.
The other major fact is that he was a carpenter. Think about a carpenter's job for a second - it requires much, much physical labour. A very skinny man couldn't/wouldn't be a carpenter - he would grow muscles. Along with this, long hair would be a serious working hazard, even without power tools. It would constantly get in your way and obstruct your vision if leaning over something.[/quote]
I don't think there's anything to say about this one, but there's also evidence that the flying pink unicorn in the sky, may actually be purple, and that it may not even use wings at all, but rather flies with fairy dust and the dreams of children.
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