Rama OH , 18,29

[EmersonHerrmann]

Go Rama! You so deserved this!

 

[Joël]

Congratulations Rama!

I thank God for my skills.

1) Who/what is "God"?
2) What makes you think "God" favoured you over me (and everyone else) to give you these skills?

 

[isaacthecuber]

I thank God for my skills.

All I got to say is: Wipe Out!
Seriously though, I am very happy with my results there, I got two personal bests for 3x3x3 (10.11 seconds) and 3x3x3 OH (18.29 seconds).

I love that song! We play that song at the basketball games at my school!

...anyway, amazing average! You rock!

 

[Lofty]

Congratulations Rama!

I thank God for my skills.

1) Who/what is "God"?
2) What makes you think "God" favoured you over me (and everyone else) to give you these skills?

1.) God is the universe's creator and sustainer plus the only Savior there is no one greater. Hes Triune, holy, omnipotent, omniscient, absolute. Loving, sovereign and righteous are a few of His attributes.
Part of a hip hop song I like and memorized.
2.)It could have been arbitrary. Being God He could have known that Rama would rightfully attribute the skills to God and point to Jesus while you would not so picked Rama.

 

[KConny]

Don't discuss religion here, please.

 

[Dene]

Congratulations Rama!

I thank God for my skills.

1) Who/what is "God"?
2) What makes you think "God" favoured you over me (and everyone else) to give you these skills?

1.) God is the universe's creator and sustainer plus the only Savior there is no one greater. Hes Triune, holy, omnipotent, omniscient, absolute. Loving, sovereign and righteous are a few of His attributes.
Part of a hip hop song I like and memorized.
2.)It could have been arbitrary. Being God He could have known that Rama would rightfully attribute the skills to God and point to Jesus while you would not so picked Rama.

You forgot "infinite"

For 2 I would say:
2: God favoured Rama because Rama is in God's favour through his bilief and all that, while you, Joel, are not

 

[Ton]

Congratulations Rama!

I thank God for my skills.

1) Who/what is "God"?
2) What makes you think "God" favoured you over me (and everyone else) to give you these skills?

Ha well, it is a stupid story if you believe in God, died for our sins etc , create live etc, still it is the answer of so many question you have about live. Just take a leap in the unknown even if it is so unlikely.

 

[Rama]

I thank God for my skills.

All I got to say is: Wipe Out!
Seriously though, I am very happy with my results there, I got two personal bests for 3x3x3 (10.11 seconds) and 3x3x3 OH (18.29 seconds).

I love that song! We play that song at the basketball games at my school!

...anyway, amazing average! You rock!

Basketball rocks... Wipe Out rocks... I love rocks. xD
If we only had something like basketball-, soccer/football- and etc... teams in our Dutch schools.

 

[Sebastien]

Congratulations Rama!

I thank God for my skills.

1) Who/what is "God"?
2) What makes you think "God" favoured you over me (and everyone else) to give you these skills?

Maybe "God" ist just the name of Rama's OH-Cube, or the name for his guitar thats traines his fingers. Finally "God" could also be a brand of cornflakes with a lot of Vitamin E that Rama eats every morning, so that his fingers can move so well. Just take a choice

 

[AvGalen]

Congratulations Rama!

I thank God for my skills.

1) Who/what is "God"?
2) What makes you think "God" favoured you over me (and everyone else) to give you these skills?

Ha well, it is a stupid story if you believe in God, died for our sins etc , create live etc, still it is the answer of so many question you have about live. Just take a leap in the unknown even if it is so unlikely.

I have never seen this approach by you Ton. I really like the way you approach religion and enjoyed some of the discussions I had with you (believer) and Ron (extremely sceptic) about this topic. I like the way that you, Rama and Maria practice religion and take lessons from it while also being able to enjoy and create jokes about it.

Why did I mention all of this? I thought it would be a nice introduction for Rama's new nickname. Rama will from now on be referred to as: Son of Maria

(P.S. Rama just avoided PLL's as much as he could)

 

[Joël]

Don't discuss religion here, please.

I am sorry for bringing this up, but when people thank 'God' in this context, it sometimes gets my thoughts going.

Congratulations Rama!
God is the universe's creator and sustainer plus the only Savior there is no one greater. Hes Triune, holy, omnipotent, omniscient, absolute. Loving, sovereign and righteous are a few of His attributes.
Part of a hip hop song I like and memorized.

Giving me a list of attributes does not really help my understanding of what God actually is. I am 1.80m tall, I solve cubes, I like inline skating and driving cars. That doesn't tell what I am. I am a human being. What is God?

 

[Ton]

What is God?

It works just as mathematics, you must accept the axiom's before you can proof any thing or before you can work with it. God will proof him self always after you accept him and in many cases also just when you just reach out to him. After this you know....

 

[Karthik]

What is God?

It works just as mathematics, you must accept the axiom's before you can proof any thing or before you can work with it. God will proof him self always after you accept him and in many cases also just when you just reach out to him. After this you know....

We can't derive the rest of the mathematics if we don't accept the existence/correctness of the axioms. But can't we live without the notion of god? Is that all important for life as axioms are to mathematics?

 

[Joël]

What is God?

It works just as mathematics, you must accept the axiom's before you can proof any thing or before you can work with it. God will proof him self....

Notice that I didn't ask for 'proof' or 'evidence'. At the moment, I am not interested in that. Oh well, this is not a proper place to discuss these things anyway.

 

[mrbiggs]

What is God?

It works just as mathematics, you must accept the axiom's before you can proof any thing or before you can work with it. God will proof him self always after you accept him and in many cases also just when you just reach out to him. After this you know....

Getting MORE off topic, but that's not how it works in mathematics. There are several cases where a statement that seems intuitively obvious was accepted as an axiom and found to be self-consistent, but which is not necessarily true in the general case.

This is probably the most famous of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_postulate

 

[Laetitia]

What is God?

It works just as mathematics, you must accept the axiom's before you can proof any thing or before you can work with it. God will proof him self always after you accept him and in many cases also just when you just reach out to him. After this you know....

Getting MORE off topic, but that's not how it works in mathematics. There are several cases where a statement that seems intuitively obvious was accepted as an axiom and found to be self-consistent, but which is not necessarily true in the general case.

This is probably the most famous of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_postulate

Isn't that the same thing ?
If we accept this axiom, we are going to do Euclidean geometry.
If we don't accept this axiom and take another axiom instead of it, we are going to do non-Euclidean geometry.
In the two cases, you can make maths.
You can accept the axiom "God exist", or not.
In the two cases, you can live.

By the way, 18,29 is really impressive (and faster than me with two hands^^) so congrats Rama

 

[gogozerg]

I thank God for my skills.

It's fine if something helped you, but don't forget:

A5b) While inspecting or solving the puzzle, the competitor must not have any assistance from anyone or any object (other than the surface). Penalty: disqualification of the solve.

If you were helped while solving, God van Bruchem will DNF your times.

 

[Kenneth]

That man has recently retired as a WCA board member, so now he does not have to be that serious anymore.

Great fun Gilles

 

[Dene]

Giving me a list of attributes does not really help my understanding of what God actually is. I am 1.80m tall, I solve cubes, I like inline skating and driving cars. That doesn't tell what I am. I am a human being. What is God?

So what would you prefer, "God is a spiritual substance"? Or would you prefer to know the "functions" of God?
Telling an alien "I am a human being" does not tell the alien what you are, at least nothing informative. I think a list of attributes is far more informative than a specie-fication.

 

[Joël]

So what would you prefer, "God is a spiritual substance"? Or would you prefer to know the "functions" of God?
Telling an alien "I am a human being" does not tell the alien what you are, at least nothing informative. I think a list of attributes is far more informative than a specie-fication.

'Human being' is of course just the beginning of a coherent ontology.

The problem is that I am not actually sure what God *is*, and it's very hard to disbelieve in Him when all I get is a bunch of superpowers and attributes that tell me what He is NOT (non-material for example). I am now even doubting my atheistic position because of this.