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Any myths in the ancient creation of chess?
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jtt96 wrote:
Has anyone besides the starter of this topic posted a post that is on topic?
I believe the idea of "on topic posts" is, in fact, a rather pernicious myth. We are trying to illustrate that by talking about penguins (or squirrels or pink digital cameras or zombie-Morphy or Bill O'Reilly or whatever it was we did in this thread).
Dec 16, 2011
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jtt96 wrote:
Has anyone besides the starter of this topic posted a post that is on topic?
Most of the posts that I've read reveal efforts to comprehend the original somewhat vague question. All of those that I've contributed have been such efforts.
A man went into a butcher store to buy a new brain. German brains were listed at $20/lb., French brains were $10/lb. Pollish brains were $100/lb. The man asked, "Why so much for Polish brains?" The butcher replied, "They've never been used." p.s. I'm Polish-American--Eddie.
oinquarki wrote:
blobby12 wrote:
I was wondering if anybody could tell me some myths about the creation of chess thousands of years ago. Thanks
Dude science has proven that the world is billions of years old.
Most Christians believe that the earth was created by God about 6000 years ago, as do I. Feel free to believe what you like, as will I.
Not all dinosaurs played Chess...only pterodactyls =P
eddiewsox wrote:
A man went into a butcher store to buy a new brain. German brains were listed at $20/lb., French brains were $10/lb. Pollish brains were $100/lb. The man asked, "Why so much for Polish brains?" The butcher replied, "They've never been used." p.s. I'm Polish-American--Eddie.
Love your self-effacing sense of humour , i will relay that joke to friends and have an aussie as the $100/lb brain cost character . HAVE A GOOD DAY .
Dec 16, 2011
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Nathanael_Greene wrote:
oinquarki wrote:
blobby12 wrote:
I was wondering if anybody could tell me some myths about the creation of chess thousands of years ago. Thanks
Dude science has proven that the world is billions of years old.
Most Christians believe that the earth was created by God about 6000 years ago, as do I. Feel free to believe what you like, as will I.
"Most Christians ..." utter nonsense. A handful of literalists believe such hooey, but the vast majority of Christians have better sense.
Ziryab wrote:
Nathanael_Greene wrote:
oinquarki wrote:
blobby12 wrote:
I was wondering if anybody could tell me some myths about the creation of chess thousands of years ago. Thanks
Dude science has proven that the world is billions of years old.
Most Christians believe that the earth was created by God about 6000 years ago, as do I. Feel free to believe what you like, as will I.
"Most Christians ..." utter nonsense. A handful of literalists believe such hooey, but the vast majority of Christians have better sense.
Fossil lol
trysts wrote:
We still don't have enough knowledge about dinosuar communities to assert that chess was not created by them. Therefore, using chess-creationism, we have to assume that dinosaurs did create chess. Many dinosaur chess books have not been recovered. We have to assume they were quite prodigious in writing chess books, based upon what little evidence there is of dinosaurs playing chess. And with no evidence whatsoever, it is agreed that dinosaurs ate while playing chess.
Corrections: The dinosaurs were in fact very smart. They knew that playing chess while eating could easily lead to undue distractions. Hence, they would rather finish first their meal before playing. Later on, this practice was also discontinued, as they soon found out that it could lead to indigestions...
Ya know, when I called my computer a dinosaur, I never considered the ramifications of my statement.
Here is a real myth, blobby:
As we all know, prior to the Big Bang, between 14 billion years ago and 300 trillion years ago, the singularity basically sat on it's butt, and did nothing. Obviously no chess was created during this time. But what took place earlier?
Scientists now agree that between 300 trillion years ago and 24 quintillion years ago, the singularity acquired a reputation for being a wild thing of the multiverse. Together with some 300 million other singularities it its vicinity, it established the Royal Singularity Society (RSS), where all they did was play proto-galactic chess. They used enormous gelopods to move galaxy-sized chess pieces in the multiverse eigenspace. A game of chess often lasted 300 billion years or more, but it was really a blink of an eye in their eyes (if they had any).
Naturally, many scientists deride this version of history as irrelevant, suggesting that the much more interesting proto-singularity epoch between 18 septillion years ago and 457 decillion years ago produced many more examples of chess creation. But there will always be malcontents...
Dec 17, 2011
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Slambang wrote:
trysts wrote:
We still don't have enough knowledge about dinosuar communities to assert that chess was not created by them. Therefore, using chess-creationism, we have to assume that dinosaurs did create chess. Many dinosaur chess books have not been recovered. We have to assume they were quite prodigious in writing chess books, based upon what little evidence there is of dinosaurs playing chess. And with no evidence whatsoever, it is agreed that dinosaurs ate while playing chess.
Corrections: The dinosaurs were in fact very smart. They knew that playing chess while eating could easily lead to undue distractions. Hence, they would rather finish first their meal before playing. Later on, this practice was also discontinued, as they soon found out that it could lead to indigestions...
How do you explain this famous painting, found in an ancient dinosaur hash-bar, which clearly shows a dinosaur telling the server to bring the entrees DURING the game?
I think I understand. God created fossils about 6,000 years ago.
trysts wrote:
Slambang wrote:
trysts wrote:
We still don't have enough knowledge about dinosuar communities to assert that chess was not created by them. Therefore, using chess-creationism, we have to assume that dinosaurs did create chess. Many dinosaur chess books have not been recovered. We have to assume they were quite prodigious in writing chess books, based upon what little evidence there is of dinosaurs playing chess. And with no evidence whatsoever, it is agreed that dinosaurs ate while playing chess.
Corrections: The dinosaurs were in fact very smart. They knew that playing chess while eating could easily lead to undue distractions. Hence, they would rather finish first their meal before playing. Later on, this practice was also discontinued, as they soon found out that it could lead to indigestions...
How do you explain this famous painting, found in an ancient dinosaur hash-bar, which clearly shows a dinosaur telling the server to bring the entrees DURING the game?
Very simple. The painting is in fact spaghetti, which is a favorite among dinosaurs...
Personally I think the whole story about dinosaurs playing chess is mere human invention, that is to say make-believe , ergo not really real. Perhaps even an attempt at humor. I call it the Ms. trysts myth. Say it three times fast.
Dec 17, 2011
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When confonted with no evidence whatsoever, highly developed people "believe anyway". In time, when you're done thinking, y'all will use your sixth sense: Faith
Dec 17, 2011
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MyCowsCanFly wrote:
I think I understand. God created fossils about 6,000 years ago.
At 4:00 AM Greenwich Mean Time on a Friday.
Has anyone besides the starter of this topic posted a post that is on topic?
Yes. I spoke of the "Dinosaurs Invented Chess!" myth.