The following questions were sent to me, and I have dutifully answered them:
Millitant Agnostic Atheist. Existential & Moral Nihilist....Why need so many words to describe your 'Religious Views'?
I guess to be specific in what I consider my "religious views" are. I could put "atheist", but that only describes my stance on belief in God. Adding "agnostic" demonstrates that I don't make any claims of knowledge about the non-existence of any Gods, and I'm pretty militant about my agnosticism (and atheism) as well. I think that if you can argue that everyone is subjective, knowledge is essentially unknowable. What one person thinks as "truth" could be something completely different through the different perception of another person. If we don't have any objective way of evaluating truth, we must all be agnostic.
I used to have the phrase "I can't know, and neither can you." as a sort of addendum, but that changed to "Existential & Moral Nihilist" once I became convinced that given the subjectivity of nature, existence and morality are ultimately as meaningless as "knowledge".
Do you own any guns?; if so, what kind?
No, I don't own any guns. I don't think I would even if they were legal in this country. Like my position on drugs, I support the legalisation of all of them, but I'd never use them. I just don't have a need for them.
The closest I get to guns are in video games
Why do you make penis snowman in the winter time? Do you do it to piss people off, or do you do it to be cheeky?
For those who are unaware of this story, please see this picture, and this picture.
In answer to the question, I did it for a bit of fun, and I suppose to be slightly cheeky and daring. Building standard snowmen is boring (unless you make them 7.2 feet tall and name them Sir Frostalot), so I thought I'd make a snow penis and put it in our front garden. It got nicked overnight though, which was a bit disappointing.
Speaking of disappointment, and other "daring" things, I got hold of a BNP support poster and displayed it lovingly in my window, waiting for some kind of reaction. Finally, after three long months, it got egged.
What motivates you to add emoticons to the site?
Boredom. Seriously, if anyone wants me to add more, send me some links and I'll get around to it the next time I'm looking for something other than revision to do.
How did you manage to get into Cambridge?
Because I have an IQ of over 155 and apparently they liked my application, which is humourous considering I didn't exactly put much effort into it and they gave me the offer without an interview. Then again, my best friend and I created a pandemic tracking application for mobile phones last year, and Cambridge asked us to come up and demonstrate it because apparently they hadn't been able to make one. They've offered us summer jobs as interns as well, which should be cool.
Whether I end up accepting the offer from Cambridge is actually a bit of a dilemma for me, since I've already got a great offer from the Information Security Group at my current university. It's a toss up between doing a masters in Advanced Computer Science (i.e not a specialty) at Cambridge, a world renowned university, or doing a masters in Information Security (a specialty) at the ISG, a world renowned information security department. I'm honestly at the moment leaning strongly towards the ISG degree, seeing as Information Security is what I love doing and the degree sounds far more interesting than the Cambridge one. My friends all think I'm insane, but then you don't meet many people who got into Cambridge and then rejected the offer...
Do you commonly watch films (with english (or other languages you understand) subtitles) where the speech is in a language you often don't understand? Extending this... do you commonly listen to music (songs) in other languages?
I can't stand subtitles. They are only ever useful when there is a small scene with some foreigners and what they are saying is important to the plot. Otherwise, I'd prefer to watch a dubbed movie any day. I hate having to read and watch action at the same time...it kinda takes the point of actually watching a movie for me.
I think the only movie(s) I've actually enjoyed that have subtitles are the Battle Royale movies, but then again if the main focus of the story is a bunch of Japanese school children massacring each other, what they say is irrelevant. By the way, if you haven't seen Battle Royale, watch it.
As for music, I have a few songs on Spotify that are sung in French. They are mainly there because my Belgian housemate sent them to me.
Would you consider extending this "get to know your staff" into a larger forum-wide thing if "get to now your staff" works out well?
If people want to organise that amongst themselves, I'm fine with people sending PMs to each other with questions and then writing long posts answering the questions. It's up to you guys. I won't have any part in it unless it's asking questions.
Was it a banana who stole your virginity from you?
No. Nobody stole my virginity from me. I had an active hand in it and was quite pleased to see it go
What was the biggest WTF moment you have ever had in the Atheist Forums?
Bozo once accused me of being a racist. That was a pretty big WTF moment. Other than that, some of the shit people come up with here as arguments (and that includes atheists). I won't mention any names though.
Marry one, fuck one, kill one, UK prime ministers and your reason for each.
This is actually a hard one seeing as I actually probably know more about American Presidents than UK Prime Ministers, however, I shall go with who first came to mind.
Marry: Winston Churchill - because he pwned in World War II and he's also quite a handsome fellow.
Fuck: Margaret Thatcher - I'd fuck her once, but it wouldn't be a lasting relationship like my marriage to Churchill.
Kill: Gordon Brown - by far the easiest to pick, the unelected socialist cunt.
In terms of Presidents:
Marry: Thomas Jefferson - he is one of my heroes as a member of the enlightenment and because of this line he wrote in the Declaration of Independence (and which I hold to be the most important sentence ever written):
Fuck: George Washington - Epic defeat of the English; he deserves it.
Kill: George Bush - Do I even have to explain this one?
What is the place you would most like to visit and experience that you have not yet visited?
Antarctica. I want to watch the penguins do their march thing...would be a wonderful sight to behold.
Ok, well those were my questions all sorted out. The next person you shall be asking will be Darwinian, so please PM the questions to him by Friday at midnight.
Millitant Agnostic Atheist. Existential & Moral Nihilist....Why need so many words to describe your 'Religious Views'?
I guess to be specific in what I consider my "religious views" are. I could put "atheist", but that only describes my stance on belief in God. Adding "agnostic" demonstrates that I don't make any claims of knowledge about the non-existence of any Gods, and I'm pretty militant about my agnosticism (and atheism) as well. I think that if you can argue that everyone is subjective, knowledge is essentially unknowable. What one person thinks as "truth" could be something completely different through the different perception of another person. If we don't have any objective way of evaluating truth, we must all be agnostic.
I used to have the phrase "I can't know, and neither can you." as a sort of addendum, but that changed to "Existential & Moral Nihilist" once I became convinced that given the subjectivity of nature, existence and morality are ultimately as meaningless as "knowledge".
Do you own any guns?; if so, what kind?
No, I don't own any guns. I don't think I would even if they were legal in this country. Like my position on drugs, I support the legalisation of all of them, but I'd never use them. I just don't have a need for them.
The closest I get to guns are in video games
Why do you make penis snowman in the winter time? Do you do it to piss people off, or do you do it to be cheeky?
For those who are unaware of this story, please see this picture, and this picture.
In answer to the question, I did it for a bit of fun, and I suppose to be slightly cheeky and daring. Building standard snowmen is boring (unless you make them 7.2 feet tall and name them Sir Frostalot), so I thought I'd make a snow penis and put it in our front garden. It got nicked overnight though, which was a bit disappointing.
Speaking of disappointment, and other "daring" things, I got hold of a BNP support poster and displayed it lovingly in my window, waiting for some kind of reaction. Finally, after three long months, it got egged.
What motivates you to add emoticons to the site?
Boredom. Seriously, if anyone wants me to add more, send me some links and I'll get around to it the next time I'm looking for something other than revision to do.
How did you manage to get into Cambridge?
Because I have an IQ of over 155 and apparently they liked my application, which is humourous considering I didn't exactly put much effort into it and they gave me the offer without an interview. Then again, my best friend and I created a pandemic tracking application for mobile phones last year, and Cambridge asked us to come up and demonstrate it because apparently they hadn't been able to make one. They've offered us summer jobs as interns as well, which should be cool.
Whether I end up accepting the offer from Cambridge is actually a bit of a dilemma for me, since I've already got a great offer from the Information Security Group at my current university. It's a toss up between doing a masters in Advanced Computer Science (i.e not a specialty) at Cambridge, a world renowned university, or doing a masters in Information Security (a specialty) at the ISG, a world renowned information security department. I'm honestly at the moment leaning strongly towards the ISG degree, seeing as Information Security is what I love doing and the degree sounds far more interesting than the Cambridge one. My friends all think I'm insane, but then you don't meet many people who got into Cambridge and then rejected the offer...
Do you commonly watch films (with english (or other languages you understand) subtitles) where the speech is in a language you often don't understand? Extending this... do you commonly listen to music (songs) in other languages?
I can't stand subtitles. They are only ever useful when there is a small scene with some foreigners and what they are saying is important to the plot. Otherwise, I'd prefer to watch a dubbed movie any day. I hate having to read and watch action at the same time...it kinda takes the point of actually watching a movie for me.
I think the only movie(s) I've actually enjoyed that have subtitles are the Battle Royale movies, but then again if the main focus of the story is a bunch of Japanese school children massacring each other, what they say is irrelevant. By the way, if you haven't seen Battle Royale, watch it.
As for music, I have a few songs on Spotify that are sung in French. They are mainly there because my Belgian housemate sent them to me.
Would you consider extending this "get to know your staff" into a larger forum-wide thing if "get to now your staff" works out well?
If people want to organise that amongst themselves, I'm fine with people sending PMs to each other with questions and then writing long posts answering the questions. It's up to you guys. I won't have any part in it unless it's asking questions.
Was it a banana who stole your virginity from you?
No. Nobody stole my virginity from me. I had an active hand in it and was quite pleased to see it go
What was the biggest WTF moment you have ever had in the Atheist Forums?
Bozo once accused me of being a racist. That was a pretty big WTF moment. Other than that, some of the shit people come up with here as arguments (and that includes atheists). I won't mention any names though.
Marry one, fuck one, kill one, UK prime ministers and your reason for each.
This is actually a hard one seeing as I actually probably know more about American Presidents than UK Prime Ministers, however, I shall go with who first came to mind.
Marry: Winston Churchill - because he pwned in World War II and he's also quite a handsome fellow.
Fuck: Margaret Thatcher - I'd fuck her once, but it wouldn't be a lasting relationship like my marriage to Churchill.
Kill: Gordon Brown - by far the easiest to pick, the unelected socialist cunt.
In terms of Presidents:
Marry: Thomas Jefferson - he is one of my heroes as a member of the enlightenment and because of this line he wrote in the Declaration of Independence (and which I hold to be the most important sentence ever written):
Thomas Jefferson Wrote:We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Fuck: George Washington - Epic defeat of the English; he deserves it.
Kill: George Bush - Do I even have to explain this one?
What is the place you would most like to visit and experience that you have not yet visited?
Antarctica. I want to watch the penguins do their march thing...would be a wonderful sight to behold.
Ok, well those were my questions all sorted out. The next person you shall be asking will be Darwinian, so please PM the questions to him by Friday at midnight.
I cant help it I'm a Kudos whore. P.S. Jesus is a MYTH.
