Oh it wasn't that bad. No one's ideals were disemboweled.

There's still time.

But... Knut!!!

Godless killing machine without a soul... in training. Give him time, he'll murder soon enough.

Nature vs. nurture, Chaos. I'm sure that, given the opportunity, you could warp a polar bear's behaviour so that it would behave like a dog.

Also, I am offended that you preemptively demand the existence of a god as well as a soul. Care to deliver proof for existence or non-existence of either?

Also you assume that polar bears kill with malicious intent, which I highly doubt. They probably (note qualifier) kill for self-defense and food.

I am offended that you seem to denigrate a belief in God, by demanding proof of His existence, as if anyone who believes in Him is some kind of nutcase.

Proof is something not likely to ever happen for something so existential.

break19

toshiro, I know you're atheist (I think you said so recently, correct me if I'm wrong), so if you don't believe in God I don't know why it would matter to you that others do.

As for the quote, that's from Stephen Colbert. Bears, godless killing machines without souls, the number one threat to America. Just a joke from a funny TV show.

In an attempt to bring this full-circle, would it really be all that bad if we DID Nuke Norway?

That would accomplish Break's and LNH's glowing polar bears, the Doc's glassy coastline (Norway has a lot of beachfront with sand), give a few hundred thousand people the chance to see if there really WAS a God (for tosh), plus definitively answer this thread all in one neat, tidy action. Oh, plus it would alternatively melt (initially, heat of thermonuclear detonation) and accelerate cooling (later on, nuclear winter) - so it would give us a nice model for studying climate change.

We're ready for the lock, now. NINNY.

As long as there are still fjords.

Yes, there will be fjords, but they will be glowing, radioactive glass fjords. With glowing, pissed-off radioactive polar bears feasting on the dead humans, who until recently, were more worried about saving the polar bears and global warming, instead of more important things.

Sweet. I like the idea better and better. Glow in the dark fjords with glow in the dark murderous bears.

and for an added bonus, shoot them with tracer rounds.

Remember, LNH: tracer rounds work Both Ways...

Remember, leebs, bears don't shoot back.

That's right, it's much worse than that; they use teeth and claws. And they don't need the tracer rounds, they can smell you.

Those are pretty damn cool. Did anyone watch The Golden Compass? It was a very poorly made movie overall, but the fighting polar bears ("ice bears") were extra cool.

Did not see Golden Compass 'cause Nicole Kidman didn't get nekked.

But, yeah, maybe the nukes would turn the normal bears into super-smart "Ice Bears" that could use guns, then, yeah, we're pretty much fucked, just like the picture says.