User talk:TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa

Welcome!

Hello, TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers:

I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! — flamingspinach | (talk) 22:51, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)

I've skimmed quite a few of the pages you've linked already. To be honest, I was kind of frightened when I saw I had my first message. I was expecting something more along the lines of an angry user complaining about an edit I made. Thanks for making my first talk message so welcoming instead! TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa 08:28, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)

No problem! :) My talk page was started off in the same way, so I decided to pass it forward. There's so many great traditions on Wikipedia (such as this {{hello}} one) that aren't really visible when you first join - I'm still discovering new ones! O_O In any case, welcome to Wikipedia. :) — flamingspinach | (talk) 15:14, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)

An Invitation

Hello TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa,

Here's an invitation to visit Wikipedia:Japanese Wikipedians' notice board. There, you can meet other Wikipedians of all nationalities working on articles related to Japan. You'll find lists of new articles, projects, and resources such as Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles). Hope to see you there!

Best regards, Fg2 10:38, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation! Right now I don't feel competent to do much more than simple edits to the Japan-related articles. My Japanese language skills are poor, and my Japanese history and culture skills are abyssmal, but I'll try to generally keep an eye on the WP:JAWNB and help in any minor way I can. Again, thanks! TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa 14:17, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

MN

I've put a second coat of polish on the article. You didn't like the format of the quotations, so I rolled them into the criticism section as part of the narative. [1] Comments appreciated. FuelWagon 20:10, 19 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Joshuaschroeder is attempting to merge Methodological naturalism into naturalism. Another editor put the article up for AFD to vote whether it should be kept/merged/deleted. FuelWagon 14:49, 7 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Felix Felicis

Way to make a good citation! You rock my world! :-) Ëvilphoenix ^Burn! 04:42, 19 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just a compliment

Great username! Makes me chuckle quite hardly. :) ☢ Ҡieff⌇↯ 09:02, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Evolution

Why is evolution on the list of philosophy topics? TheIncredibleEdibleOompaLoompa 10:46, 2 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Possibly because things other than animals evolve, like ethics or political systems? Endomion 03:50, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Evolutionism (the theory of evolution) is one of the most philosophical concepts there is! It changed the whole philosophical landscape, shifting the emphasis of philosophical thought from the metaphysical to the materialistic epistemological. It's because of the evolutionism vs creationism debate. Darwin stabbed God right in the heart with his theory of natural selection, thrusting evolutionism into the center of metaphysical discussion and bringing the whole God issue into quesion. How can God exist in the face of evolution? Did God evolve too? Doesn't religion (and God) evolve every time we come up with something new, like evolution? What if man takes control of his own evolution, and creates the posthuman? What will that do to the dogma of the theists? How will they evolve their religions to compensate for that! What about intelligent design? Did God create evolution?

And look at what evolution did for philosophy: it kicked atheism, agnosticism, and agnostic atheism into high gear. As doubting God came into vogue, we needed theories of knowledge verification to replace blind faith. Evolutionism gave a major boost to the deveopment of the Scientific Method, one of the most important products of philosophy. Now, as a basic assumption, evolutionism is an integral part of modern (analytic) philosophy and of the most promising emergent philosophies. Evolutionism helps form the foundation of several atheistic philosophical schools of thought, including Nihilism, Existentialism, Pragmatism, Humanism, Extropianism, and Transhumanism, to name but a few.

And getting back to metaphysics, if we evolved, making His being obsolete, then God gets sliced by Occam's Razor, which means that there is no soul either, right? And no afterlife. So, what we see is what we get. Which means it is up to society to determine what is morally right and wrong, for due to evolution, there is no higher (supernatural) authority to pass down commandments nor sit in judgement over us for our sins. Which means men have been doing this all along, as false spokesmen for a god that doesn't exist. But now, we won't take their word that something is right just "because it is God's will": we will want to know the reasoning behind it. As Nietzsche said, "God is dead". So, make the best of this life pal, it's the only one you've got! You'll never get out of this life alive!!! Or as Ben Franklin once said: "Dost thou love life? Then waste not time, for time is the stuff that life is made of!" Go for it! 16:56, 8 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Argument_from_evolution#Some_examples_of_use_of_this_term

I just added this section. It's a list of sources that use the term "Argument from evolution". The term is used to refer to an astonishingly wide range of arguments. I thought you might be interested in this, so I'm reminding you of the page. JesseW, the juggling janitor 09:52, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CreationWiki

As a contributor to the page CreationWiki, I feel it fair to warn you that it has been nominated for deletion. Please make your opinion known. PrometheusX303 21:01, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

About Japanese

I just switched over from IE to Firefox, but I can't quite get it to see Japanese text correctly (I'm still using the default text settings). Can you recommend a good font and a good IME for Firefox 1.5 on XP? Sweetfreek 20:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

ArbCom elections are now open!

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