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Obsidian

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  1. If that was supposed to be a metaphor for humans asking the purpose of the existence of God, then you've contradicted your claims to free will. Hamlet could never ask about the purpose of Shakespeare's existence unless Shakespeare himself deemed it so. In fact, he couldn't do anything without Shakespeare commanding it. Therefore, Hamlet has no free will.

    We are free to choose between serving God or not serving God. By my beliefs, there is a correct answer.

     

    Ah, so this is the one issue in life without a gray zone in between the options. That doesn't exactly fly by me, personally, but I'm not going to try to argue against it since that would probably just derail the thread. However, I feel you've unjustly simplified the issue of the meaning of life to two options, eliminating the capabilities of the individual and saying he or she exists to do no more than serve God (which I'm assuming is limited to the God influenced by your beliefs, so very few religions can serve what you believe to be life's purpose). I'm fine with people serving that purpose in their life, but as you said, we're born a tabula rasa, a blank slate. If we're not free to devote our lives to other causes, then I submit we're not free to do anything (especially with the coercive elements surrounding spiritual faith at times). In addition, and as much as it pains me to say this, there are too many individuals for there to be one universally correct answer to the question "What's the meaning to life?". Sure, you can argue for things such as universal ethics and universal rights, but I think you'd have a hard time logically defending the idea that there's only one purpose to life that applies to every living organism (bear in mind Humans aren't the only living things in this world).

  2. I own a PS3 and love it. I've never felt like I'm missing out on anything big from sticking with that. I used to use it as a media hub, too (I went as far as to upgrade the internal drive to 640 GB), but I don't anymore since I got a more power efficient device specifically for streaming. I prefer console gaming to PC gaming, tbh. I never have to worry about hardware, so long as the box has a PS3/2/1 logo on it.

     

    Got Battlefield 3 on PS3, probably good thing too since I heard EA completely dicked up the PC version.

     

    Hell naw, I played the PC version at Armageddon and it beats the living shit out of the PS3 version.

     

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    Can't you just buy an external Hard Drive for your Xbox :/ that's what I did for my PS3.

     

    Yeah, I'd have to agree with the PC BF3>PS3 BF3. BF3 runs better on hardware far greater than what the PS3 currently offers (it still boggles my mind how little RAM the thing has).

     

    Depends on what he needs to use the HDD space for. It might not be possible for the 360 to boot games off the external drive, depending on how the permissions from DRM are laid out and other technical details (kind of like how you can't boot XP from an external USB drive). If you just want the extra space to watch movies (why anyone would on the 360, though; no offense 360 owners, but video support on the console isn't really that good), then I'd imagine you could do that. I'd recommend going the streaming route with both systems if your hardware can dish up the content.

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