Rhelamos

Nesrie that was a fair post, save for one, tiny part that I bet you didn't even think about when you wrote it. "I hope that makes you feel better". I love how unnecessary this little sentence is, since your argument without this statement is quite reasonable. With this single sentence you prove me right and everything you say as hypocritical and based on a false perception of yourself. I WIN TEH INTERNETZ!!

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="21" id="2313352"] A man will always be expected to give his life for a women when the choice is between the two. And a man would not be expected to give his life for another man?[/quote] You're evading the point, but I'll bite. More factors come into play here... i'll put it like this. Characteristic of "Child" - trumps all Characteristic of "Woman" - trumps man</

[quote who="Scoutdog" reply="19" id="2313342"] How about this. When I am no longer expected to be one of the people that die so that women and children can escape from a sinking ship or burning building, then I'll go ahead and say that things are starting to equalize. They don't save people depending on gender/age anymore. I'm waiting.....[/quote] I'm not talking about people being saved based on it, i'm talking about the expectation .&

[quote who="ManSh00ter" reply="8" id="2312204"]Eh... no. Captain America is a delusional patriot. Superman is a delusional humanist. There's a difference. [/quote] So Batman would just be delusional, paranoid fellow? I like that... Let me say that this thread makes me want to watch the old Batman: The Animated Series I watched when I was a kid. Good times, good times.

How about this. When I am no longer expected to be one of the people that die so that women and children can escape from a sinking ship or burning building, then I'll go ahead and say that things are starting to equalize. Until that point, anyone going around telling me that because I'm a man I'm part of some secret plot to use society-established gender roles to further some agenda of fascist oppression can go set themselves on fire. Equality comes from giv

Bats is one of the most intelligent characters in the canon universe. He's created scenarios and plans for getting rid of superheroes all over the place because he's paranoid and doesn't trust any of them not to go nuts and rampant. Superman is definitely number 1 on that list. Abilities aside, superman isn't all that smart and Bats outdoes him 100-fold. Batman's strength isn't in his resources, it's in his problem-solving and anticipa

Same thing would happen that would happen if we ran out of fuel: autonomous systems of petty warlords, you might think of them as "gangs" but it's a bit different than that. See... this sort of thing kinda actually already happened. 410 ad the vandals sack Rome. After that Charlamagne comes round for a time, then his empire gets split apart. From then on... you have what you can take and what you can hold onto.

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="16" id="2304026"] Quoting Zyxpsilon, reply 4Almost pornpics, lipsticks, tattooes... getting outa of hands, are we? To think that all it took was the word "Girls" to open the usual pandora box of subtle junkies, it's not so far fetched some would even try calling anybody pedophiles or perverts. Lemme give you a trick; 2008 years old membership is a copout. It's the default nice to know you "care.". I could care

well as a high school teacher there are a couple things that really get to me... 1. Make a statement that is blatantly wrong, then insist upon it without any proof to back it up or any consideration for alternative views whatsoever. This is the absolute worst. I had a kid do this to me constantly this last year. Rarely have I ever been compelled to strike a student, but when this kid looked me in the face and yelled at me about how Jews

What does dirt and dust have to do with the notion of energy being the unifying element of the universe? Energy IS the thing we're all made up of. Period. It's fact. That is where I got that idea from. Also, consider that the story of human creation from dust/bones etc., there's actually the exact same story in northern Germanic pagan legend that preceeds the bible by a thousand years or more. I wonder... who got ideas from who?<

For those that say God created us in his image, I just got this to throw out there, maybe it'll throw your mind into a new track... We are, at our basest element, all made up of energy. It is a fact of nature. So technically, were God an omnipresent field of energy, in a word " everything ", then bam, we've already met the "in own image" characteristic there.

Thank you for the above post, it is always good to have a reasonable conversation about faith without people putting their hands over their ears and screaming or getting angry. EDIT Additionally, I am fully aware of the social, economic, and spiritual nature of ancient history and why slavery would be considered so important at the time of the Bible's creation, I was merely using it as an example to make the point that such things, in this case the society that created

That's the thing in the U.S. though isn't it, one of the scariest things for life and law here... The courts can choose to ignore issues even when they are against the U.S. Constitution if there is a precedent to back it up. It takes a hell of a lot to finally back courts into a corner and get them to pronounce something as unconstitutional. Case in point, the civil rights movements of the mid 20th century. Having a precedent for an action i

[quote who="NoTrace" reply="7" id="2157726"] Genisis 4:1-2 1 Adam [a] lay with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. [b] She said, "With the help of the LORD I have brought forth [c] a man." 2 Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. [/quote] Unless you can quote in the original language it was written in, none of this means anything. Even if God himse

[quote who="NoTrace" reply="5" id="2157657"]Even so, never has the Bible been unable to stand against any test, never has any flaw been found in it... Can any human author a book so perfectly? Simply put, The answer is no. [/quote] You are obviously not a historian. The Bible is full of flaws and inconsistances! Within a second of reading your post I already thought of one. Where do the wives/relat

Except that the two, science and religion, need not be necessarily apart from one another. Why is God, who is often defined as a being capable of anything, not capable of designing a system, a universe with laws and systems of governance, more complex than we think? It seems to me the only two arguments being thrown around are: "God created it in 7 days verbatim from a badly translated text that, at BEST, is merely inspi

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="6" id="2157611"] Quoting Rhelamos, reply 5... In essence, they are guilty of thinking bad thoughts. They got jail time for thinking that piracy is ok and making it possible for people to pirate, NOT. FOR. PIRATING. .... I'm neither a lawyer nor a supporter of current (c) laws (I obey, but I hate it), but I'm pretty sure you're tossing a red herring here. They did not *directly* pirate software, but neither did they simply think pi

[quote who="Evil Muppet" reply="4" id="2157450"]I'm glad these guys got jail time. Everyone has the right to profit from their creations. It doesn't matter if its only a copy, its still immoral to take the product of someone's hard work and creativity without their permission. The ability for a person to make a living out of doing something creative is heavily dependant on copyright, and to violate that is to actively attempt to deprive someone of that ability. Its an awful thing to do to som

[quote who="mcbond" reply="25" id="2149816"] Except that PIRACY IS THEFT! Not really. Pirates don't take anyone's possesions -- all the copies of the game that were legally put up for sale are still there when the pirates get finished. They're violating copyright, which is different (that's why there are a different set of laws for theft versus copyright infringement.) I don't think what they do is right, morally speaking, but just mindlessly equating

[quote who="psychoak" reply="19" id="2151713"]You guys are hilarous. Some where else a guy calls fans for a game with dissappointing sales a bunch of fags, and a philosophical discussion on homosexuality pops out.[/quote] Isn't that a sign of the drive for intellectual advancement? What, exactly, is wrong with that? Why should everything be limited to the stupid and inane? To be honest, I love<

[quote who="BeaverwithaGun" reply="18" id="2150783"]We have actually recorded something moving 10,000 times greater then the speed of light. From the May 2009 issue of Discover Magazine: In 1997 University of Geneva phsicist Nicolas Gisin sent two entangled photons zooming along optical fibers until they were seven miles apart. One photon then hit a two-way mirror where it had a choice: either bounce off or go through

[quote who="GW Swicord" reply="15" id="2151220"] Quoting landisaurus, reply 11seriously, why are we talking about this? I mean, why is the sexual preferences of anybody even being brought up. That's private business. If nobody brought it up, then there wouldn't be a sub-group. Everybody would have their sexual preferences and be happy (or not) about it without having to worry about what others thought. In terms of the law, I'm a staunch supporter of bedroom

You know, I've been sitting around for a long time wracking my brain trying to figure out why nobody has done this before... but I think this would make an excellent game: A combination of sandbox industry building of X2/X3, gameplay like that of the X-Wing series, and vehicle use the like of GTA or a Battlefield/Battlefront game, and strategic elements the like of Battlestations Midway to create a sandbox Star Wars sim. Actually, come to think of it... it'd be

The chances of something happening within a near-infinite universe are nearly 100%. Something like %99.99999999999999999--- Saying there's no other life with the facts of the thing staring straight the hell at us is like standing in a hurricane screaming "BOY BAD WEATHER NEVER HAPPENS HERE WHAT WOULD I POSSIBLY NEED INSURANCE FOR!!??!!?1?12)