BS: What If ?

Subject: BS: What If ?
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 11:57 AM

http://what-if.xkcd.com/archive/


What if a pitcher could throw a baseball At 90% the speed of light?


What if catters understood the point of other people's posts?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 12:08 PM

What if there really was a God? Would I then be in an awful lot of trouble?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: olddude
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 01:09 PM

You are steve

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: olddude
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 01:10 PM

YourmMrs caught youin her cchocolate

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 01:36 PM

Not yet she hasn't. I can prove it: my testicles are still intact.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 02:38 PM

1. It would be a bugger to hit and

2. No. 1 is far more likely :-)

But, Donuel, yours make far more sense than many!

Thanks.

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 06:06 PM

What if there were not a God.....we would not be here to discuss it....

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 06:37 PM

How do you know?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: michaelr
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 07:05 PM

What if there were no hypothetical questions?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: olddude
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 08:34 PM

Well don't matter what anyone else believes but my prayer today helped me land that six pound steelhead.. Wooo what a beautiful fish.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 17 Apr 16 - 09:43 PM

Your question is answered in the book "What If?" by the xkcd author. Briefly, there would be an explosion equal to a small nuclear weapon.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 04:29 AM

But what if your magnificent steelhead had prayed that he wouldn't be caught by that big ugly yank at the side of the water? 🤔

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 05:19 AM

I just typed a post; but was dissatisfied on rereading so deleted it unsent. What if I hadn't, but had posted it -- would the entire future history of the world have been altered?

I just typed 'wortld' first off, but noticed and corrected it. What if I hadn't? Would anyone have suffered as a consequence?

& so ad ∞∞∞∞

≈M≈

Questions like this have bugged me all my life. I recall falling asleep in early childhood worrying about them? Still do, sometimes. Does everyone, or just me? Do you?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: TheSnail
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 06:00 AM

The steelhead believed that evolution is true, just didn't realise that it only applies to species not individuals.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 08:26 AM

No it didn't. Belief has no place in the truth.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 08:31 AM

What if olddude wastes his beautiful trout by baking it with rows of almonds down it, 1970s-style?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 10:15 AM

Steve, you asked:

What if there really was a God? Would I then be in an awful lot of trouble?

That depends whether the "a God" was really all-knowing, to be
aware of your unbelief.
    and
Whether the "a God" gives a durn whether you believe in him/her/it.
    and
Whether the "a God" has and chooses to exercise the power
to punish you, putting you in an awful lot of trouble.

The putative existence of the generic "a God" does not necessarily entail positive answers to any or all of the above.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 10:28 AM

But what if he really existed, he was all-knowing and felt irritated by my scornful attitude to his flock? Would he let me give him an argument?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: TheSnail
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 10:32 AM

Yep. The steelhead was wrong. That's why it got caught.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 10:34 AM

Well I've never been caught.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 10:52 AM

It all sounds a bit fishy..groan..

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 12:20 PM

In cod we trust.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Will Fly
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 12:25 PM

FIN!

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 12:26 PM

Sole-ly?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 01:30 PM

Cue Franz Schubert's "Die Forelle."

Poor dear Schubert. "Die Forelle" is such a wussy poem. It's anti-angler, if you've ever looked over the text. A Pro-Fish poet stands at water's edge, watching the angler muddy the river ("tükkisch trübe") so that the trout doesn't see the fishhook. And in the final verse, O! the betrayed little fishie! "Das Fischlein, das Fischlein...die Betrogne," wriggling on the line, while Schubert's piano part has the accompanist's hands going FLAPFLAPFLAPFLAP on the piano keys.

So why did Schubert set it to music in the first place?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 02:07 PM

He does similar in the Trout Quintet in that variation movement that Classic FM plays to death. A blind spot of mine, unlike that much finer Quintet in C that's coming to the desert island with me.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: keberoxu
Date: 18 Apr 16 - 03:48 PM

Okay, my apologies for hijacking a BS thread with classical Lieder. I'm taking "Die Forelle" upstairs where it belongs, poor little betrayed fischlein. Do carry on.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 03:18 AM

What if? What if someone is on earth simply for the benefit of someone else with no regard for their own well-being? (I have too much time on my hands.)

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Mr Red
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 03:59 AM

He? God was a woman!
cue changing mind jokes..............................

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Monique
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 04:08 AM

God was first a woman!

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 05:12 AM

Surely you should be saying that God was, is, and always will be a woman? What's with this '"was" malarkey?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: banjoman
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 05:38 AM

What if - My aunty had balls - then she would be my uncle

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Monique
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 05:42 AM

I'm not responsible for the humans' visions of God through history, Steve. Do read this guy's stuff , it's pretty interesting.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 05:51 AM

Sorry, Monique, but I can't take seriously a bloke who expresses this kind of certainty:

The world we know was undoubtedly shaped by God.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 10:14 AM

What if god evolved from a monkey deity... that'd really piss off the nutcase creationists... 🐒

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 10:14 AM

What if god evolved from a monkey deity... that'd really piss off the nutcase creationists... 🐒

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 10:21 AM

what if.. mudcat 'Preview' and 'Submit Message' functions worked properly all the time... ???? 😕

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: frogprince
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 11:22 AM

"The world we know was undoubtedly shaped by God."

I really think that, in context, the author is saying that culture worldwide is profoundly influenced by the overwhelming prevalence of conceptions of a god. It seems clear that he sees god as wholly the product of human imagination.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 12:13 PM

OK, I'll have another bash.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 01:35 PM

Whoa, egg on my face. I skimmed it way too skimmingly and grabbed the wrong end of the stick. Apologies to Monique. 😳

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 01:53 PM

Going back to the ball travelling at 90% the speed of light in the first post; that could cause havoc with the solar system as any object travelling at that speed will have enormous mass (mass increases with speed, see relativity).
I propose that there should be a new rule limiting the speed of the pitcher's delivery.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 02:28 PM

So, what if ewer pitching to God and the Devil was the catcher? Three strikes and God goes to the Dugout? Or would God beat the Devil out of it and score a Heaven Run on every swing?

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, and a little outside just in case it's a curve ball... at 0.634 Bmph, ya gotta anticipate eh?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 05:34 PM

I did,nt skim very far at all before I see what he believed....or maybe did,nt believe. Maybe "nutcase creationists" are quicker off the mark....

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Ed T
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 09:03 PM

What if there were no "be" in "belief"?
Would it make us "liefier"?

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Apr 16 - 09:22 PM

You can't not have "be," Ed. after all,

To be is to do - Socrates
To do is to be - Satre
Do be do be do - Sinatra

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 01:55 AM

In my opinion, if there is a God, It is a spirit. In a discussion with my brother, I enquired why everyone says "Father". Father is male- does that mean that God has testosterone? Has a penis?

My brother was not pleased.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: michaelr
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 02:49 AM

If mass does increase with speed, baseball should be outlawed.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 03:15 AM

Da do do do. Da dah dah dah. Police
Do dah do dah do dah. Police car.

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 05:27 AM

" I enquired why everyone says "Father". Father is male- does that mean that God has testosterone? Has a penis? "

He certainly does. And, as he's the Big Enchilada, he also has three testicles in order to put him one up on the rest of us. Moral? Steer clear of the lads' pub one-upmanship game, as you just might be messing with the Almighty:

Bloke sidles up confidentially to other bloke leaning on the bar.

"Hey, mate, between you and me we have five bollocks."

"Really? Have you only got the one then?"

Subject: RE: BS: What If ?
From: Pete from seven stars link
Date: 20 Apr 16 - 03:49 PM

So ebbie, was you asking your brother a serious question , or was being offensive. As you suggest God is spirit, and so no physical parts. However we are told that Jesus ascended to heaven so there may be some kind of body , but that is conjecture. We are also told that we are created in the image of God as male and female. So though Father , womanhood is not presented as inferior . Note too , that he is the original Father from which our parenthood is derived, not the other way round ....not withstanding modern fancies to the contrary.