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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: December 24, 2013, 11:10:54 PM »

I respect your beliefs, for a start. I don't understand why you consider coincidences, general good luck and things you can't explain as proof, however. Today there are many things we know that we didn't know in the past, examples aren't needed, it's all around you, and there will be much more we'll know in the future. Things you may be using at the moment as personal reason to believe will probably be some of these things we will someday know, providing we don't die out as a species. Lack of knowledge, almost intentional ignorance and misinterpretation are huge in keeping faiths afloat in the modern times, and they're not decent at all.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: December 24, 2013, 08:39:55 PM »

Why choose faith over facts, logic and reason?

There's no logical reason to do so.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Daily Contact Prayers in the 3 Major Faiths

« on: December 24, 2013, 07:10:27 PM »

How exactly does what you just said go against what I said? Sure, you can pray more when scared out of your wits all the damn time, but that doesn't mean you'll necessarily pray at any specific time. I think they pray at those times simply because. Good points of progress throughout the day.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Daily Contact Prayers in the 3 Major Faiths

« on: December 24, 2013, 05:54:27 PM »

I don't think it has any significant relevance, to be honest. They pray at different times of the day because different times of the day, don't you think?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Survivor2299

« on: December 23, 2013, 09:21:48 PM »

I've tried to play the older Fallouts. Terribly bad by today's standards, really. I've come to expect more than the games give.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Star Trek

« on: December 22, 2013, 05:17:40 PM »

And I have seen none.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: December 22, 2013, 01:55:28 PM »

The only reason I do it @ all is because it gives me great personal satisfaction to see him hoist himself on his own pitard. Every time he opens his yap & misspells something 6 ways from Saturday he makes himself look like an even bigger ass. It's entertaining to me to point that out. I have agreed to avoid 'low content' posts, so from now on I shall only notate his orthographical errors in the context of an otherwise content rich post. As much as I don't personally re: that as necessary or even desirable (since the content distracts from pointing out what an idiot he is), I recognise forum rules, & will follow them, even when I disagree w/ them.

Mother Mary and Joseph... you are something else.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Saddam's Troll concerns

« on: December 20, 2013, 05:11:17 PM »

Just put him into a group that only allows posting in the two nonsense forums. Once he stops posting nonsense, increase his privileges.

That is corrective, not exclusive.

I'm for this. Enough is enough, really.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Saddam's Troll concerns

« on: December 20, 2013, 01:33:31 PM »

Acting in such a way that is disruptive, and that fails to contribute to a thread that would be otherwise succeed as a place for serious discussion is not allowed. Acting consistently in this manner will lead to a warning, then the removal of your posts and related in that thread, then a ban. Should a ban be given, evidence of disruptive and clearly troll-like behaviour will be shown, to ensure this rule cannot be abused by staff who may dislike a member for personal reasons.


I dunno, musing. Also, the ban would be temporary, I picture, at first.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Duck Dynasty Controversy

« on: December 19, 2013, 11:40:13 PM »

It ain't like it's the government kicking him out of the country.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: December 19, 2013, 09:43:32 PM »

All black people are African Americans, why is this hard to understand?

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Survivor2299

« on: December 19, 2013, 07:49:54 PM »

that just makes it all the more annoying that there's no real in-universe motivation for the Courier to be going on this trip

Using this logic you can more or less destroy every Bethesda game ever made. "Why the fuck am I even doing this, again?"

Because evil dragon

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Survivor2299

« on: December 18, 2013, 10:29:54 PM »

-Three Dog talking about Lone Wanderer's actions & choices

what

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Forum rules: Draft 1

« on: December 18, 2013, 09:50:46 PM »

They're pretty good. I like the part about the alts, too. They don't have to be a bad thing. They can be anywhere from harmless funny to contributive.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Now Playing (the Video Game Version)

« on: December 16, 2013, 10:08:02 PM »

Dead Money... motherf-ing Dead Money. Ugh... *curls up into ball*

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Democratic People's Republic of Korea executes 2nd most powerful man.

« on: December 16, 2013, 04:56:29 PM »

Didn't buy his nephew a x-mas present.

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Technology & Information / Re: SteamOS is out

« on: December 16, 2013, 04:40:03 PM »

If it's not Windows, it's not good

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Yet another one

« on: December 14, 2013, 01:40:17 AM »

The proper way would be to purge those of faulted psychology, preferably by crucifixion.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Teen let off the hook because of bad parenting

« on: December 12, 2013, 10:54:22 PM »

Q. Are rich people better than poor people?

A. Yes, they are.

Q. Are rich people smarter than poor people?

A. Yes, they are.

Q. I disagree. There are plenty of poor scientists and starving professionals out in the world.

A. Well, if they were so smart they wouldn't be poor now, would they?

Q. But what about Brittany Spears, surely she is just a dumb blonde who got lucky. How can you say that she is better than anyone else?

A. Brittany Spears spent years of her life training to become a singer and had the wherewithal to get herself to the top. She made the right connections and had the drive to succeed, unlike you.

Q. What about all of the people who were just born into money. You can't really say that they are smarter or better than a poor person.

A. Yes you can. When parents reproduce they are really just making copies of themselves. The people born into wealth are copies of their parents who worked hard and succeeded. Children are a continuation of one's [successful] self

Q. But poor people don't really have the opportunity to make it. When you are born into poverty it's hard to get out of poverty.

A. That excuse may have worked in the middle ages, but these days there are endless opportunities available. One does not even need to go to college to educate themselves in a field. With the internet and free public libraries it is possible to self educate yourself in fields like technology, law, or business. There are countless self-educated techs and businessmen out there. Abraham Lincoln passed the Bar Exam without ever setting a foot into Law School, after all.

It is also possible to start a business these days without a heavy investment in capital. Internet businesses are regularly run out of bedrooms.

Q. But how can poor people get themselves out of poverty when they are holding a full time job?

A. If you are working from 8 to 5 and turn on the TV when you get home then you obviously do not have a drive to succeed. It's your fault that you are poor, clearly.

noooo...!!

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Survivor2299

« on: December 12, 2013, 09:02:53 PM »

I really want lonesome road. I want to do a new Legion Save and get a lot of the Lanius-copy gear. It's unique enough that it fits into the Legion Style without looking like you're a rip off. Actually, it might be good to RP receiving it for saving Caesar's life, if you do. And the Blade of the West will be good stuff.