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Adrian@TORQEN

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  1. Just got myself red leather 370z seats of a 370z Ultimate Black Edition, my interior will be listed for sale
  2. I quite like the Amuse one, but it's big, ironing board!
  3. Hmmm interesting rear spoiler, what do you think guys?
  4. http://www.splparts.com/chassis-Z33.html#SPLRTAZ33 ?
  5. Me! Everyone else in here is a chicken!
  6. Yes, we left it there for advertising purposes for RT-P. The car belongs to me now Fluke, if you're interested in the interior, it will eventually go for sale. PM me if you want it
  7. Hmmm, this thread makes me consider selling my genuine Nismo body kit
  8. Glad I made the move to 370z league
  9. You just need the Custom Vortech Charge Pipe now :lol: Well done mate!
  10. Come on Vortech guys, get the last one available! Vortech27? TheChubbyNinja? Anyone else?
  11. Only one other 350z in the UK has them, guess the member and you get £100 discount!
  12. A bit like Politically Correctness?
  13. SOLD, please lock
  14. SOLD, please lock
  15. Has anyone bothered to read my earlier link? 1. GOD? Simply put, we cannot know if God exists or not. Both the atheists and believers are wrong in their proclamations, and the agnostics are right. True agnostics are simply being Cartesian about it, recognizing the epistemological issues involved and the limitations of human inquiry. We do not know enough about the inner workings of the universe to make any sort of grand claim about the nature of reality and whether or not a Prime Mover exists somewhere in the background. Many people defer to naturalism — the suggestion that the universe runs according to autonomous processes — but that doesn’t preclude the existence of a grand designer who set the whole thing in motion (what’s called deism). And as mentioned earlier, we may live in a simulation where the hacker gods control all the variables. Or perhaps the gnostics are right and powerful beings exist in some deeper reality that we’re unaware of. These aren’t necessarily the omniscient, omnipotent gods of the Abrahamic traditions — but they’re (hypothetically) powerful beings nonetheless. Again, these aren’t scientific questions per se — they’re more Platonic thought experiments that force us to confront the limits of human experience and inquiry. 2. DEATH? Before everyone gets excited, this is not a suggestion that we’ll all end up strumming harps on some fluffy white cloud, or find ourselves shoveling coal in the depths of Hell for eternity. Because we cannot ask the dead if there’s anything on the other side, we’re left guessing as to what happens next. Materialists assume that there’s no life after death, but it’s just that — an assumption that cannot necessarily be proven. Looking closer at the machinations of the universe (or multiverse), whether it be through a classical Newtonian/Einsteinian lens, or through the spooky filter of quantum mechanics, there’s no reason to believe that we only have one shot at this thing called life. It’s a question of metaphysics and the possibility that the cosmos (what Carl Sagan described as “all that is or ever was or ever will beâ€) cycles and percolates in such a way that lives are infinitely recycled. Hans Moravec put it best when, speaking in relation to the quantum Many Worlds Interpretation, said that non-observance of the universe is impossible; we must always find ourselves alive and observing the universe in some form or another. This is highly speculative stuff, but like the God problem, is one that science cannot yet tackle, leaving it to the philosophers. 3. UNIVERSE? This the classic Cartesian question. It essentially asks, how do we know that what we see around us is the real deal, and not some grand illusion perpetuated by an unseen force (who René Descartes referred to as the hypothesized ‘evil demon’)? More recently, the question has been reframed as the “brain in a vat†problem, or the Simulation Argument. And it could very well be that we’re the products of an elaborate simulation. A deeper question to ask, therefore, is whether the civilization running the simulation is also in a simulation — a kind of supercomputer regression (or simulationception). Moreover, we may not be who we think we are. Assuming that the people running the simulation are also taking part in it, our true identities may be temporarily suppressed, to heighten the realness of the experience. This philosophical conundrum also forces us to re-evaluate what we mean by “real.†Modal realists argue that if the universe around us seems rational (as opposed to it being dreamy, incoherent, or lawless), then we have no choice but to declare it as being real and genuine. Or maybe, as Cipher said after eating a piece of “simulated†steak in The Matrix, “Ignorance is bliss.â€
  16. Repost Good editing skills
  17. http://www.tomatobubble.com/putin_obama.html
  18. I'm so coming with you!
  19. Hellooooo, echo, echoooooo, hellooooo, anybody out there?
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