Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Speculative biology is simultaneously a science and form of art in which one speculates on the possibilities of life and evolution. What could the world look like if dinosaurs had never gone extinct? What could alien lifeforms look like? What kinds of plants and animals might exist in the far future? These questions and more are tackled by speculative biologists, and the Speculative Evolution welcomes all relevant ideas, inquiries, and world-building projects alike. With a member base comprising users from across the world, our community is the largest and longest-running place of gathering for speculative biologists on the web.

While unregistered users are able to browse the forum on a basic level, registering an account provides additional forum access not visible to guests as well as the ability to join in discussions and contribute yourself! Registration is free and instantaneous.

Join our community today!

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Strangest Online Encounters
Topic Started: Dec 8 2015, 05:47 PM (6,964 Views)
trex841
Member Avatar
Entity
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
On a forum I went on before I found this place, someone named Dave joined up and started harassing another user that he apparently knew In Real Life. He insulted him for not joining the military and threatened to steal his girlfriend, including various descriptions of the sexual acts they would do together. Biggest event to ever happen there.
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs
A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.

At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Monster
Member Avatar
Space Oddity

Just got a really long...er. Not sure. He's having a conversation with me but its just his side? He's having a conversation about me with himself? I cannot tell. Whatever, it was on a knitting site which makes it seem even weirder. He was obviously very taken with the hats I knit : /
Flashlights, nightmares, sudden explosions.

'active'
{tumblr}
{Veles}
{10 Million Years of Rain]

Commissions: Open.



Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
GlarnBoudin
Member Avatar
Disgusting Skin Fetishist
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *
I don't know about the weirdest encounter I've had, but I've got some weird encounters.

I found this video where some dumbass claimed that dinosaurs were made by Satan when I saw a comment by a Christian saying just how ridiculous this was. I replied, agreeing with him. A couple weeks later, some guy called Dylan Tyt posted claiming that dinosaurs were in the Bible, using Leviathan as evidence. I countered by saying that it was probably either a whale or a crocodile. He then replied that I was obviously wrong because there was nothing in Jewish food laws saying that you could eat alligator. One thing led to another, and after a long debate that basically consisted of him screaming "REPENT!!" with several dozen exclamation points, I took a look at his profile.

He's a conspiracy theorist, an anti-vaxxer, a holocaust denier, a racist, and anti-Semitic, and thinks that GMO crops kill all of the plants around them. When I pointed out how stupid this was, he said:
"No, real plants absorb minerals and transfer minerals from the sun to the earth. GMOs take nutrients and don't give. You get no nutrients from eating them. Your a fool."
Never before have I injured myself so grievously via facepalm.


Here are some more quotes from the most mockable person in the world:
Spoiler: click to toggle
Quotes
Spoiler: click to toggle


Co-creator/corporate minion for the Pop Culture Monster Apocalypse!

My Projects
Spoiler: click to toggle

Coming Soon
Spoiler: click to toggle


My dA page.
My Fanfiction.net page.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Mr Mysterio
Member Avatar
Waiting...
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *
GlarnBoudin Why does this person talk like they are a living shitpost. This reads like something you'd see in a dril tweet.
Dumb Quotes


Coming Soon/To be Rebooted:

How To Hunt Gods - Everything you need to know about Gods and the art of God-killing.

Intrazoology - The world of semi-corporeal lifeforms. A world you walk through every day, without even knowing it.

The Dungeonverse - Magical creatures forced to adapt in huge, underground caverns, while surface-dwelling humans go dungeoneering for treasure.

Crossover - A mish-mash of worlds, with Earth smack in the middle of the chaos. What could go wrong?

no worries


Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Dragon
Member Avatar
/r/GamingCirclejerk is the best subreddit, don't @ me
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
My troll alarms are blaring at full blast. It's a good thing I'm not in a public place right now.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life," John 3:16

A neat pixel animation of a future cowboy


trex841
 
Hey, their right to get freaky ends when it goes up my nose.


I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now

Click for something good. Click this too.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Ànraich
Member Avatar
L'évolution Spéculative est moi

Mr Mysterio
Dec 9 2015, 03:35 AM
Then there was that girl on Deviantart who insisted that letting children drive a vehicle was more logical and safe than letting gay people get married.
Man, the internet is full of some great people.
I don't know about that but when I was in high school the age at which people first started legally driving was 14 and I feel like a disservice has been done by raising the driving age to 18. It's easy for older people to think that a 14 year old is going to be irresponsible but to be honest that's not what happens. I know, I lived it. I drove my first car at 14 and it terrified me so much that now I'm 23 and I'm still so scared of driving that I don't have a license. Despite popular opinion a young teenager feels far less invincible than a young adult. In your early teens you first start really coming to a realization of the true concept or mortality and the finality of death. In your late teens you've come to terms with the concept of mortality but you're also thrilled with the idea of being an adult and having your whole life ahead of you. It isn't until your early to mid 20's that you start to realize that "whole life ahead of you" can mean mere minutes because chances are by that point you've experience, first or second hand, serious injury or near death. And also the whole thing about not growing anymore and starting to realize that no, you won't just bounce back from injuries like you did in high school and that you won't necessarily die of old age.

Also I found out I'm apparently Semitic on my biological father's side so I can officially take offense to that guy's comments and exclaim that there's nothing that says that Jews can't eat alligator. Clearly when it comes to eating large aquatic repitles, Deus does indeed Vult.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

Tree That Owns Itself
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Mr Mysterio
Member Avatar
Waiting...
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *
Parasky
Dec 10 2015, 11:52 PM
I don't know about that but when I was in high school the age at which people first started legally driving was 14 and I feel like a disservice has been done by raising the driving age to 18. It's easy for older people to think that a 14 year old is going to be irresponsible but to be honest that's not what happens. I know, I lived it.
I agree. A lot of my friends learned how to drive when they were around 14-15-ish (not me, though, as my disability makes it so the only thing I can drive is my wheelchair).
But this girl wasn't talking about 14-year-olds. She was specifically referring to children, as in 10 and under.
She was one of those weird deviantart people, where her gallery was like "anime drawing, anime drawing, anime drawing, stamp that says that equality is impossible, fan art, anime drawing, anime drawing, another stamp that says gay people are unnatural, anime drawing..."
Dumb Quotes


Coming Soon/To be Rebooted:

How To Hunt Gods - Everything you need to know about Gods and the art of God-killing.

Intrazoology - The world of semi-corporeal lifeforms. A world you walk through every day, without even knowing it.

The Dungeonverse - Magical creatures forced to adapt in huge, underground caverns, while surface-dwelling humans go dungeoneering for treasure.

Crossover - A mish-mash of worlds, with Earth smack in the middle of the chaos. What could go wrong?

no worries


Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Archipithecus
Member Avatar
Ruling Ape
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *
I would say that gay marriage is safer than letting anyone drive a car. I mean, those things go fast, and are really heaving. I've never heard of anyone being killed by gayness.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
 
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

My tumblr
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Ànraich
Member Avatar
L'évolution Spéculative est moi

Archipithecus
Dec 11 2015, 12:33 AM
I would say that gay marriage is safer than letting anyone drive a car. I mean, those things go fast, and are really heaving. I've never heard of anyone being killed by gayness.
Well there was Liberace. He was one of the few with the deadly combination of being too gay and too fabulous. It put too much strain on his heart, which is what did him in, not the HIV. RIP in peace Liberace. You were born too soon to be yourself, but at least now you're going on a world tour as a hologram, just like Tupac.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

Tree That Owns Itself
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Sayornis
Member Avatar
Neotenous
 *  *  *  *  *  *
Homophobes come up with the worst analogies. Two I saw when I was following political blog comments were someone comparing same-sex marriage to a person marrying a lawn chair, and another comparing it to letting your dog chew on a rare baseball card. This second one became something of a meme in our little blog-comment community.

GlarnBoudin
Dec 10 2015, 08:00 PM
I don't know about the weirdest encounter I've had, but I've got some weird encounters.

I found this video where some dumbass claimed that dinosaurs were made by Satan when I saw a comment by a Christian saying just how ridiculous this was.
Huh, I didn't know that creationists actually believed that. I'd only ever heard that claim (and similar ones about Satan planting fossils) from people making fun of creationists. Identifying the Biblical Behemoth and Leviathan as dinosaurs seems to be more typical from what I've read.

As for your other guy, even if he was trolling with the GM plant nonsense, the "PH balance cures cancer (and all other ills)" is a genuinely popular pseudoscience theory. One I've encountered online, and I'm sorry to say, offline. There's an "alkaline water" store not far from my home and they have a chart showing which foods are acidic or alkaline. The most alkaline include citrus fruit.
Edited by Sayornis, Dec 11 2015, 10:40 AM.
The Library is open. (Now under new management!)
Dr Nitwhite
Aug 19 2016, 07:42 PM
As I said before, the Library is like spec crack.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Dragon
Member Avatar
/r/GamingCirclejerk is the best subreddit, don't @ me
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
I know plenty of young earth creationists in real life, and not one believes that fossils were made by Satan.

Also, this whole pH balance crap reminds me a lot of the balancing of the humours stuff the ancient Greeks came up with.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life," John 3:16

A neat pixel animation of a future cowboy


trex841
 
Hey, their right to get freaky ends when it goes up my nose.


I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now

Click for something good. Click this too.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Canis Lupis
Member Avatar
Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

I know I believed that when I was a Young Earth Creationist. Those were dark days, folks
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Dragon
Member Avatar
/r/GamingCirclejerk is the best subreddit, don't @ me
 *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
They must have been pretty dark. The idea that Satan created fossils is actually heretical, since it implies that Satan has the power to create, when the bible says only God can do that. There's loads of other theological problems with the claims of young earth creationist organizations, but that's a discussion for another place and time.

Speaking of which, this entire website and everything on it is relevant to both the topic of young earth creationism and weird thing's I've read online. Be careful while on there.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life," John 3:16

A neat pixel animation of a future cowboy


trex841
 
Hey, their right to get freaky ends when it goes up my nose.


I think this describes what dinosaurs are like now

Click for something good. Click this too.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Canis Lupis
Member Avatar
Dinosaurs eat man, woman inherits the Earth.

Speaking of strange conspiracy sites:

http://www.thewatcherfiles.com
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
LittleLazyLass
Member Avatar
Proud quilt in a bag

I've seen internet nuts creationist and otherwise suggest most of palaeontology is fabricated and that dinosaurs never existed, not sure I see Satan pulled into that as often though.
totally not British, b-baka!
Posted Image You like me (Unlike)
I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
Me
What, you want me to tell you what these mean?
Read First
Words Maybe
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
ZetaBoards - Free Forum Hosting
Free Forums with no limits on posts or members.
Learn More · Register Now
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · General Discussion · Next Topic »
Add Reply