"… We live in a world where John Lennon was murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues to put out f***ing albums. G**-dammit! If you're gonna kill somebody, have some f***ing taste. I'll drive you to Kenny Rogers' house." - Bill Hicks

And we have the WINNER! That is the BEST quote to encode!

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. -Clarke's first law

We all seem to have a Clarke quote:

"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: One, it's completely impossible. Two, it's possible, but it's not worth doing. Three, I said it was a good idea all along." – Arthur C. Clarke

One of my favorites from the man is

"I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait.

I do not think we will have to wait for long"

I am what I am. -Popeye

Redundant!

I believe the quote is, "I think, therefore I am." Cogito ergo sum, by philosopher Rene Descartes.

I think, therefore I'm single.

Would that be, Cognito ergo uno?

Nemo nostrum per visum.

You break it, you buy it.

or "'Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.'"

"All kind of knowledge, eventually becomes self knowledge."

"Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."

Bruce Lee

THIS is the winner. Stop the contest. this is the one.

You must unlearn what you have learned. ~ Yoda

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -- Mahatma Gandhi

"Trust me, I'm a limo driver!" ~ Dumb and Dumber

I've fallen and I can't get up.

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the clapper!

42!

my comment must be longer, so I've added this worthless sentence.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is a second theory which states that this has already happened.

"The Bible is not a science book, but, whenever it touches on matters of science it is accurate."

Except in times when one needs to speculate about the meaning of each word used and the context in which it's used... A day is a day, if it was supposed to mean months or eons then the newer translations should say what is meant.

You and I may believe the Earth was created over a long period of time, but many adherents to the Bible do in fact believe the Earth was created in (6) 24 hour days (lest we forget that God rested on the last day), 6000 years ago.

Which scientists, have you read Genisis? because the order of creation stated cannot happen,

Genesis 1:3–2:4

The creation week consists of eight divine commands executed over six days, followed by a seventh day of rest.

• First day: God (Elohim) creates light ("Let there be light!")^{[Gen 1:3]}—the first divine command. The light is divided from the darkness, and "day" and "night" are named. (see fourth day how can you have light without the Sun? Seems God comes back to this on the fourth day, maybe it was his holiness that the light came from)
• Second day: God creates a firmament ("Let a firmament be...!")^{[Gen 1:6–7]}—the second command—to divide the waters above from the waters below. The firmament is named "skies".
• Third day: God commands the waters below to be gathered together in one place, and dry land to appear (the third command).^{[Gen 1:9–10]} "earth" and "sea" are named. God commands the earth to bring forth grass, plants, and fruit-bearing trees (the fourth command).
• Fourth day: God creates lights in the firmament (the fifth command)^{[Gen 1:14–15]} to separate light from darkness and to mark days, seasons and years. Two great lights are made (most likely the Sun and Moon, but not named), and the stars.
• Fifth day: God commands the sea to "teem with living creatures", and birds to fly across the heavens (sixth command)^{[Gen 1:20–21]} He creates birds and sea creatures, and commands them to be fruitful and multiply.
• Sixth day: God commands the land to bring forth living creatures (seventh command);^{[Gen 1:24–25]} He makes wild beasts, livestock and reptiles. He then creates humanity in His "image" and "likeness" (eighth command).^{[Gen 1:26–28]} They are told to "be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it." The totality of creation is described by God as "very good."
• Seventh day: God, having completed the heavens and the earth, rests from His work, and blesses and sanctifies the seventh day.

What is funny is that Genesis is very generic, it says what God did, not exactly how he made it, as in the process involved in its creation (example you know that a car is made from parts and assembled but do you know the processes involved in making all those parts and how they interact to make it into its final usable product).

Also one question that flies over peoples heads is this:

What is a day to God, we measure time as a 24 hour period because it takes the earth 24 hours to do one full rotation. So what is a day to God who doesnt live on a planet? Who is the Alpha and Omega and has always been and always will be?

I find it mind boggling that people measure the days God used to create things as 24 hours, what about before the earth was made how long was that day? If God does exist then evolution and the big bang would fit very nicely as it is basically the same process but over billions of years. Would a day to God be a billion years? 4 billion?

Its all about Common sense, most things in the bible are metephors and cannot be take in a literal sense because when you place the laws of physics and how things work in the real world and add basic Common sense it all breaks down into a good story with SOME good messages (and that applies mainly to the new testament)

I have asked pastors for explanations such as to Noah and how he feed all those animals, reptiles, birds, anphibians, insects (all the species on the planet and two of each) for 40 days and nights, the carnavores, the herbavors)? I mean really how big of a boat, there is no way he could provide for all the needs, what about waste?

You know what I was told? That God provided for them, sorry but I dont remember the bible saying that. How can a person conjecture that but then rip people for doing the same thing about other passages.

Its more likely that there was a local flood and he put all his own animals in the ark. Common sense questions can get no logical answers.

Indeed PirateC, would it not have been beneficial to have the "God provided for them" part included in the book? It seems to me that the flood story, more than most oral traditions, has lost much of the message over time. We know there have been massive flood events from geologic evidence, and it's understandable that Noah's story has gotten so much attention. We humans do not want to be wiped off the planet. And who among us doesn't absolutely hate being generalized and grouped in with the rest of the garbage? Anyways, in the dimensions provided in the bible there is absolutely NO WAY Noah, or anyone for that matter, could have gotten two of each animal on the planet into that small of a space (even if there was half as much genetic diversity as there is today). And that's only the animals, that doesn't account for food or water or space for waste or shovels to remove the waste or living space for the people. The arc just isn't big enough. For the whole thing to make any sense (and I'm going WAY out on a limb here) the arc would have had to have been similar to Doctor Who's phone booth.

And, one of those things I've always wondered, If the Sun and Moon were made the fourth day, what was the day measurement before that?

As for the ark, maybe Noah was part "giant" and therefore had bigger limbs for measurement? But it still doesn't explain why the lions and tigers and crocodiles didn't eat everything else.

I like just the first part ""Hate, war, poverty and injustice infect our world; but I did this because I could." it could be applied to so many places

Freedom is the path of all nations if they want to survive into the future, with the way we are all connected it is getting to where it is impossible for people to not hear, see messages of freedom, it is easier for people to be connected to organize uprisings, just look at how facebook and other social networking sites have been used to do this.

This is an amazing time, history is being made. Leaders had best wake up because eventually they will have to answer to their peoples cries for freedom.

The world is changing, hopefully for the better. As long as people are not afraid to stand up for liberty then soon the entire world culture will be on a path to change for the betterment of humanity.

Excellent comment Pirate C. Very eloquent and poignant. I hope you are right and the world is changing for the better. Long live liberty!

Especially my dog because he is a Beagle and he has an addiction problem it is called food. He loves food so muhc that he would eat himself into a coma. Which is why I monitor his food intake. I am also immune to his OMG I am starving Puppy Dog stare.