BTGBullseye

Oh, can I sell bootleg copies and then give all the money to you?

JK

I'll take them... This place needs more precipitation anyways. (officially a desert)

you should see Southern California. The people here are hilariously unused to water coming from the sky in any form.

 

Then again, we only have 2 seasons. Summer and lesser summer. Nice and sunny all year around.

I started driving in Phoenix, AZ... A light sprinkle, and people thought the world was being flooded again.

Where I live, we have two seasons: Rain and Snow.

 

It's hell for someone with arthritis and migraines.

I love snow and rain... My favorite times of year.

Religion or not, wouldn't have changed that people kill other people. They used religion as an excuse, not a motivator.

True, but there were still more peaceable solutions to the problem, as India and Canada can attest. The Americans? Violence of course. And you didn't bother to refute the very valid things Doom Shepard said about how revolutions/civil wars commonly turn countries into crapsack worlds.

And I won't.

Unfortunately humans will NEVER stop being assholes, especially those at the top.

Yup. Violent revolution keeps them away for about 200 years, so we now have a schedule for our revolutions... Once every 200 years...

That's normal believe it or not... It's just how often it happens that defines whether it's abnormal. (it always sucks though)

If time works the way it should, you can go forward as much as you want, and never change anything, but even a nanosecond backwards and you go off on an alternate timeline. (my thinking)

Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath

Doing an audio comparison of lossy audio codecs for best overall quality capability with lower file size than FLAC at compression level 8.

So do I, but then again I'm in an area that doesn't know what it is in the first place. (I'm from South Dakota, so I know weather, but I live in Pueblo, CO, and they get about as much precipitation as Phoenix, AZ)

Orange Juice, and going to go figure out what I want to eat later...

1: God said to A & E: “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Yet, he let them roam around like rosy idiots without knowing anything and even unable to tell good from evil - how could they rule over anything if they knew bugger all?

They had to figure it out... Adam named every animal there was before God even made Eve... Back before they got kicked out of the garden, there wasn't any death. (and no risk of injury either) Most of what occurred in the garden wasn't included because it was irrelevant at the time. (ie. what import is it what names he gave the animals?)

2. "Be fruitful" can only mean making a beast of two backs and having lots of babies. Yet, sex is what the religions equate to sin - how did that come about?

I can think of no religion that equates sex to sin, unless you're talking about Necromongers... Sex outside of marriage, yes, but not sex in general.

When God told A & E out for eating his apple - did he say anything about sex? I couldn't find it anywhere...

Why would he? There's even an implication that they already had children while in the garden... God told them that child birth would be painful, which due to the wording meant it previously wasn't, and they had dealt with it.

God and Man walked together... Like good buddies, not like someone that worshiped the other.

 

Not how I read it. Not like buddies, more like a village idiot who is supposed to do all the dirty work without realising he is being exploited. After all, it is when God has kicked A & E sorry asses out of Eden that he said - “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil."

Interpretations are a curse. You have to look for what was intended, not what it sounds like now that it's been translated through 2-3 languages, and several versions of the languages.

However, to be fair, the Lord God did make garments of skin for Adam and his wife and did cloth them before they left. Which makes me think he wasn't *that* upset about the whole Tree of Knowledge affair and maybe he had that planned all along...

He's God... I seriously doubt he wouldn't be prepared for every possible eventuality.

P.S. Excuse me for the light-hearted tone of my post. I hope I don't sound too irreverent, given the subject involved - if I offended anyone, I apologise, please let me know...

You offended the Mighty Whatsit religion... You must now suffer the consequences. Now you must LIVE!!! AND DIE EVENTUALLY!!!

1929 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929

The end of the "Roaring Twenties", and the beginning of the Great Depression. (caused by the Wall Street Crash, which tells you just how much power people that do nothing have over this country)

Hello, I'm Adrián, I'm from Mexico and I'm an alcoholic .....

Hi, nice to meet you... You can take me out for a drink some other time, and I'll drive you home when I drink you under the table. (I'm not alcoholic, but I can drink like one)

Hello, I've been here a little while. I like games and I'm an unbeatable procrastinator.

Come over here, and I'll beat you, procrastinator or not...

My Dad's HDD trying to wear itself out.

Xalder, I know the feeling completely... (the same thing as when I worked at Target in the electronics department, since they cover electronics, toys, multimedia and, if there's no dedicated sporting goods section, they even cover bikes, sports equipment, automotive, and the seasonal area with just two people)

Hey, maybe we can get minor voice roles in the movie that Ross is going to make... It would be a good place to start a career.

I'm just sitting here being bored.

Have you ever seen it snow when it is above freezing? It was 39 degrees this morning, and it was snowing... I drove my Mom to work in it, then on the way back, it switched to rain, then back to snow...

It keeps other people off the road, and looks beautiful... I love it!

In fact, from Christian Mythology I'd be much more interested in having a conversation with Lucifer, who was cast out of heaven for disagreeing with God.

He didn't "disagree with God" he wanted to become God. He wanted to take power, not to just have things done differently.

I'm a little fuzzy on the information but isn't he the one that thought to give humans knowledge?

No. He did it to spite God, and ruin the relationship between God and Man.

Imagine it like this: A guy and his friend get in a fight because they both want to be captain of the football team, the one that is already the Captain wins the fight, so they become enemies. Later on, the Captain gets a girlfriend, so the enemy decides to get back at the Captain by making them break up. It works, but they remain friends. The Captain knows that it was his enemy that caused the breakup, and tells his ex to be wary of him, and even tells her what sort of tricks he uses to try and manipulate people. The enemy decides to try and make the ex-girlfriend fall for him, just to rub it in.

Do you understand at least a little?

Personally I'd take knowledge and wonder over eternal "bliss" and being forced to worship some divine being who created the world, gave us free will, but never wanted us to exercise the ability of free will.

Actually, before being thrown out of the garden, God and Man walked together... Like good buddies, not like someone that worshiped the other. Man had, and used free will, but didn't have the "knowledge of good and evil" which if IIRC is a bad translation of the words that described the idea... It was something closer to "the urge to do bad things, despite knowing that it was bad". (you can't see where the light shines, unless there's dark somewhere)

It's extremely hard to put this type of idea into words.

Surely someone would eventually have eaten the forbidden fruit, assuming Adam and Eve were ever allowed to reproduce which I suppose might not have ever happened had they remained in "paradise."

Why? Before that, they had no urges to even try the forbidden fruit... (if someone says that one type of apple will kill you, but the rest of the extremely plentiful fruit around you would be good, would you risk it?) That was introduced by the serpent when he said "surely you will not die". (serpent, not snake; it was probly closer to a dragon than a snake if the original wording, and historical references are to be believed)

I could also get into what God and the devil meant when they talked about dying, but suffice to say that, once you lose innocence, you can never regain it... Innocence can die without you physically dying. You can cease to be who you are, without physical death.

Speaking of which there was also the whole deal with giving "education" to native americans which included forcing the bible and the christian religion onto them. I also can't stand bigotry. I don't like to hate people, but people that spread hate are absolutely despicable. Convincing gay people that there's something wrong with them and to hate themselves for having emotions for a member of the same sex is just disgusting. I'd say it's the worst but there's a lot of bad things people have done in the name of religion.

Doing it in the name of a religion doesn't mean that it's actually following the teachings of said religion. Taking things out of context can give radically different meanings to what is actually intended. (and that is where a vast majority of the wrongs attributed to certain religions come from)

I think there's already a thread about the religion stuff, but I don't remember for sure. I'd be happy to discuss the topic with you there if you want.

One thing that I don't understand then is why all the fuss with sciences then? I mean if the overriding supremacy of the book is accepted as absolute, wouldn't then any attempt to find corroborating evidence signify a weakness of convictions? Especially, if the methods used for finding and providing such evidence obviously don't withstand the scientific scrutiny? One just needs to say "all your facts to the contrary are illusions" and get on with their lives...

 

Regards

Actually, back in the day, Christians were the leading scientists. (science is the study of everything, and therefore the study of God)

Does the mainstream media ever covers PMC shooting people for no goddamn reason?

No.

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2

Forced AA makes it look MUCH better.

Nope... Not that either... I just don't want to go through and post a reply again concerning that aspect of this subject... As a matter of fact, I don't even want to post this, but not doing so would leave you with the wrong idea of me.

Ok, I'll reply to the first part of Doom's post at least...

We separated from England, and that separated us from those who were both influenced heavily by the corporations, and from those that influenced the corporations heavily. In addition, it separated us from the crown's excessive taxes and tariffs that they imposed on virtually everything. (some of which were increased even further by certain corporations, and then pocketed)

And his last reply:

“Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it” - George Santayana (a revolution is going to happen again and again until the people in charge learn to quit being assholes)

Well, if you ever need any northern midwest American male voices with just a touch of southwest for any of your videos, I'm your extraterrestrial!

The FM voicepack would be enough to get me to play DotA2 again, so it looks like I won't be playing any time soon.

It would be nice to see you do a few other games' "minds" after you finish FM, but don't feel obligated...