I don't know. I barely participated in this years rapture, but I think it did end with his annual threat of leaving if he was wrong, and I haven't seen him around.

(November 4, 2015 at 9:27 am)Exian Wrote: I don't know. I barely participated in this years rapture, but I think it did end with his annual threat of leaving if he was wrong, and I haven't seen him around.

That's a very professor way to go indeed
Hopefully he'll get used to the world not having ended and will come back for more wild conspiracy theories.

Boethius is near and dear to my heart. As he sat in prison awaiting execution it was not to Jesus he turned but to philosophy. Tertullian, in his capacity as a public defender and not as an intellectual, is endearing; Augustine, when he's introspective, as a rhetorician is topnotch. Abelard and Origen, premier thinkers in their day, were decent, though I feel towards them what Nietzsche rightly felt towards Pascal: Christianity cannot be forgiven for what it did to them. Dostoyevsky is probably thee best author I have come across - so in whatever capacity his religion shines, there's something to admire. Come to think of it, virtually no writer until Hobbes is openly atheist, so pretty much of all the ancients that I'm fond of can be credited as being (poly)theists.

Quantum Wrote:

ignoramus Wrote:Without theists, we'd be sitting around all day talking about poop!

I think it was the other way around...

(November 4, 2015 at 5:37 am)robvalue Wrote: Poop would sit around all day talking about us...?

LOL Just reminds me of the joke from 4:28 minutes into this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR2TrxpQ_WQ

(November 4, 2015 at 9:57 am)Nestor Wrote: Boethius is near and dear to my heart. As he sat in prison awaiting execution it was not to Jesus he turned but to philosophy. Tertullian, in his capacity as a public defender and not as an intellectual, is endearing; Augustine, when he's introspective, as a rhetorician is topnotch. Abelard and Origen, premier thinkers in their day, were decent, though I feel towards them what Nietzsche rightly felt towards Pascal: Christianity cannot be forgiven for what it did to them. Dostoyevsky is probably thee best author I have come across - so in whatever capacity his religion shines, there's something to admire. Come to think of it, virtually no writer until Hobbes is openly atheist, so pretty much of all the ancients that I'm fond of can be credited as being (poly)theists.

Wow, those must be really ancient members. I don't recognize any of those usernames.

(November 4, 2015 at 5:37 am)robvalue Wrote: Poop would sit around all day talking about us...?

What is this, the ending to a Yakov Smirnow joke?

(November 4, 2015 at 10:19 am)robvalue Wrote: Wow, those must be really ancient members. I don't recognize any of those usernames.

(November 4, 2015 at 9:25 am)robvalue Wrote: Has he actually gone this time?

I couldn't understand him at all, but I liked the fact he wasn't hostile.

I haven't noticed anything after his delayed rapture date in early october. Doubtful that he learned his lesson. He's too far gone, but never hostile, as you already said.

(November 4, 2015 at 9:25 am)Quantum Wrote: Yes, the professor is one of a kind   Do we know where he's at?

Hell?

(November 4, 2015 at 11:58 am)Minimalist Wrote:

(November 4, 2015 at 9:25 am)Quantum Wrote: Yes, the professor is one of a kind   Do we know where he's at?

Hell?

No, he just ran to the supermarket for more tin foil. Don't worry. He'll be back.