add the total number of months each person who has been active recently (past month)/ number of active members (past month) = mean + 1 month = vet
Haven't you ever taken statistics?
Pretty sure most people have constant characteristics they define the core of their personality. So while new information may change your perceptions, everyone is who they are that evening as they were that morning. As for my soul, well I sold that to the devil for a SNES back in '94. Oh, how I...
I'm agnostic, but I've had a few Muslim friends in the past. Us non-muslims aren't all bad, but it'll take more people like you to change the perceptions of the many to avoid such nonsense in the future.
I think first we would have to establish what is meant by a "Machine" god. Something constructed by another civilization, or something off the wall like a silicon based entity?
To pull a double necro even though you're apparently gone, the first one in Webster's is pretty sufficient. For future reference to anyone who wants to revisit this.
That was a nod Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
"The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
"'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance...
Christian God = Death? Well that's just one aspect isn't it? He's also a creative force, so he would be the God of life AND death. Liberation = Godlike? How so? Liberation just means you're free, doesn't imply that you have any power, just that you're not bound to whatever it your liberated...
'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
So if god revealed himself, people would know he existed not needing faith, and he would then promptly vanish due to his own logic. Because without faith he couldn't exist.