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The universe/ irony game (give an opinion)

The game is simple:
There is no base of operations
The way to play is to be an exeption to a supposed impossible

Example the platypus:
This is an animal that lays eggs has a bill and flat tail, has shootable poison, and finds food through electronic change.

Another is a black hole can live forever has more mass than possible time flows inward and so on

These things by our beliefs should not exist they are the exeptions. Now tell me if something is wrong with this or tell me your thoughts on it.

Topics: A Lot of Things Really Abandon Randomness Universal Truth a race to nowhere belief creativity impact philosophy reason
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  • Nathan Cook

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    Mar 22 2013: we shouldnt be so surprized but in awe. If you can imagine it it exists somewhere in the universe.

  • christopher wipperman

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    Mar 11 2013: There are also bacteria that live in acidic hot springs that would dissolve a human. There are tube worms at the bottom of the ocean in 650° water at pressure that would crush a human to the size of a soda can. This all reminds me how little we actually know about our world and the universe.
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    Andrew Magdy Kamal

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    Mar 11 2013: Well we can think of the universe as both paridoxal in terms of nature or both philosophical amd random in terms of theory.

  • george lockwood 20+

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    Mar 7 2013: Maybe Josh and None are both right and both wrong. That is the beauty of consider all options.
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    Josh S

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    Mar 7 2013: We made up all of these supposed exceptions, who's to say that the platypus is an exception? by our definition it is, which only means that our explanation isn't right. They came before we decided to put rules on 'what should' and 'should not' happen.
    You said it yourself, "by our beliefs". So anything can be an exception to us if we want to believe it. Or nothing is an exception, depending on what we believe.
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