Re:The RPG is dead! LONG LIVE MMORPG!
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Someone once said that in the real world, hotel designers put in insulation to keep people from eavesdropping on their neighbors, but in a virtual world, the designer has to programm eavesdropping in...
In an RPG, the GM can bring is real world experience to bear on each situation as it comes up, in a CRPG, everything is coded in advance. Anything the programmer didn't think of ain't gonna be there.
If you follow my sig, you'll find a telnet bbs that runs Nethack. It even has a function that lists the bones files. Pretty infrequent player base though. I have or used to have a Samurai ghost down near level 20 somewhere with tons of cool stuff. Let's just say that sacrificing a nurse to an enemy god with his priestess standing by is not such a good idea. She wasn't happy, my god wasn't happy, and the demon he summoned wasn't happy, either.
You're right of course. If you don't do it with enough emotion, then they shake their heads sadly and say "God works in mysterious ways, and not all prayers are answered." I've always wondered why chistians don't understand His ways, but they're pretty sure that the end He has in mind is a good one.
You are suggesting it has religious significance only because it says it does? So person reads the Bible, reads all the stories, and they're not expected to realize that it's the absolute truth. Then they get to the part where it explicitly *say* that, and they are supposed to...what exactly? If they don't believe yet that the book is absolutely true, why would they believe after reading this part?
God's mercy is to save you from a predicament of His own design, but even then you must offer him a payment of sorts.
He is less merciful than his creation, the Good Samaritan who helped a stranger without question. Read that parable and compare it to John 3:16. Or even compare John 3:16 with the actions of Jesus. How is it that Jesus is more merciful here on Earth than he is in Heaven?
If he doesn't torture poeple, then what goes on there? This is certainly a concept of hell i've never heard of.
He doesn't like to do torture, but he set it up so that billions get tortured for eternity...
He honors us by sending us to Hell. Puke.
I have known two who have died innocent. Of christ as well as of sin.
You also misunderstand non-believers. They don't reject god, they are skeptics, or have a completely different idea.
When spanish missionaries landed in America, they were eager to tell the head of a tribe the story in the scriptures. The leader sat down and listened attentively. When the priests were finished, the leader remarked that it was a wonderful story. Then he said that his story was a good one too, and recounted his peoples tales of the beginning of the Earth. Do you imagine that the priests' reactions were in kind with the leaders?
The scripture is complete and accurate, because it says so? Need I point out the flaw in that argument?
In 1st John 2:3-5 we learn of the knowledge of God's law.
The Bible and God's Universe suggest there is more to God's law than the commandments.
Please read John 3:16-18
But of course God's son is really God, so God is sacrificing himself to himself (if not then who?). Then he gets out of it 3 days later. What kind of God requires a sacrafice anyway? Is His mood changed by the taste of blood, like the Greek gods?
John 14:2-3
God is saving us from a predicament of his own creation. That's not charity, it's a racket. Read the parable of the good Samaritan again. A good heart saves without question or qualification. The good Samaritan is a better heart than God. No wonder he doesn't believe.
We don't know who's "doing" it was. Nature is there and that stuff happens.
God is still in control, He hasn't left the throne.
Which is it?
Again, death MUST happen so we don't live in an imperfect world forever. That's just an example of why you need to be right with God. You don't know when you're almost finished here on earth!
but God does.
Because they specifically chose to disobey God.
So God created creatures with free will, but the only way to remain in His good graces is to not exercise it.
It's hard to fathom how Satan got the idea he could overthrow God
Not too hard, apparantly god mad him with a good measure of hubris. It seems to me that if you can make an angel with free will and alot of hubris, you can make an angel with free will and not much hubris. Why did God choose one over the other?
Or they were mis-heard, or later mis interpreted, or it was a fantasy created around real men... there are plenty of possiblities that don't require fraud.
So, if I fail to ask him, he turns his back on me. This is justice? Justice means doing whats right. Whats fair. It is not fair that a murderer who repents goes to heaven, but a saint who doesn't know jesus goes to hell. And what is the point of punishing someone for misbehaving, with no "Your cured mate" or "here's time off for good behaviour." What exactly is the point? Is God sadistic? Is he happy knowing that he torturing billions of souls for all eternity? What about people who never misbehaved? Do they go to heaven, even if they don't know christ?
So when an avalanche buries a village in the alps, thats Satan's doing or Man's or whose? and god is powerless to fix this problem because...why? And eating from the tree corrupted the world....why? Where did Satan's evil come from, who created Satan? The fingers all point in one direction....
Or words were put into his mouth that were not his own...
Or the story was made up...
Or they were just a bunch of hucksters, but still managed to pass on good moral lessons...
Or else they were good, wise, men, who thought they could change the world with a little white lie...
"God's outside of time" "God only created the universe" In four dimensionsal perfection I suspect.
Your "God" is no more than the first cause of the universe and nothing else. You are suggesting that all those stories about god aren't true, that god doesn't care for us, that he doesn't talk to anybody. Not much of a god is he?
Let's revise the parable: A few blind ants lived in a pile of elephant dung...
In the same bible it says God is patient and slow to anger. In other words, He gives us about a zillion chances to believe in him. He isn't going to condemn someone because they ignored a post of Slashdot.
How many posts does it take, how slow is god to anger? 10 posts, 20? 100? at what point does Allah say, "he's been reading pro-Islam posts on Slashdot all day, but died in a car accident without believing in me. To hell with him."
BTW, a god that gets angry because somebody doesn't believe in him is a prick.
Heaven is a surer bet than the lottery and there are many people that believe that they might win millions of dollars in the lottery that they will go and purchase a ticket. How is it that they can't believe in God enough to follow his simple laws.
How sure is the bet? Lets assume that it's a good bet. What are the laws of God? How can you be certain you know all of them? I doubt you would claim to understand the nature of God, so how can you claim to know that following His laws is a good idea? What if the end he has in mind for us is evil and not good? Or worse, he doesn't really care for us at all, but is using us for some unknown end? Certainly his methods have been less than heartening on that score...
BTW, you seemed to have purposely left the sun off your list, since the sun and moon were created in the same sentence.
4. Birds made before reptiles, etc....
Some simple things anyone could understand, but somehow they missed. Like the earth is round, matter is made of atoms, the planets are whole other worlds...(Imagine what the Greeks could have done with that bit of knowledge.)
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In an RPG, the GM can bring is real world experience to bear on each situation as it comes up, in a CRPG, everything is coded in advance. Anything the programmer didn't think of ain't gonna be there.
If you follow my sig, you'll find a telnet bbs that runs Nethack. It even has a function that lists the bones files. Pretty infrequent player base though. I have or used to have a Samurai ghost down near level 20 somewhere with tons of cool stuff. Let's just say that sacrificing a nurse to an enemy god with his priestess standing by is not such a good idea. She wasn't happy, my god wasn't happy, and the demon he summoned wasn't happy, either.
On the other hand, I agree with you. They do call us the Soviet of Washington, but this would be a little too draconian.
Why not? It's hardly more reasonable than the myriad religious beliefs that you and I would laugh at.
You need to check more highways. Plus, on some so. cal. freeways, cops are so rare you might as well be driving the autobahn.
That's not the scuttlebutt.
You're right of course. If you don't do it with enough emotion, then they shake their heads sadly and say "God works in mysterious ways, and not all prayers are answered." I've always wondered why chistians don't understand His ways, but they're pretty sure that the end He has in mind is a good one.
You are suggesting it has religious significance only because it says it does? So person reads the Bible, reads all the stories, and they're not expected to realize that it's the absolute truth. Then they get to the part where it explicitly *say* that, and they are supposed to...what exactly? If they don't believe yet that the book is absolutely true, why would they believe after reading this part?
He is less merciful than his creation, the Good Samaritan who helped a stranger without question. Read that parable and compare it to John 3:16. Or even compare John 3:16 with the actions of Jesus. How is it that Jesus is more merciful here on Earth than he is in Heaven?
"*Somebody's* got to be punished" is about as far from justice as you can get.
He doesn't like to do torture, but he set it up so that billions get tortured for eternity...
He honors us by sending us to Hell. Puke.
I have known two who have died innocent. Of christ as well as of sin.
You also misunderstand non-believers. They don't reject god, they are skeptics, or have a completely different idea.
When spanish missionaries landed in America, they were eager to tell the head of a tribe the story in the scriptures. The leader sat down and listened attentively. When the priests were finished, the leader remarked that it was a wonderful story. Then he said that his story was a good one too, and recounted his peoples tales of the beginning of the Earth. Do you imagine that the priests' reactions were in kind with the leaders?
What do you mean by "gives credit to?" "Supports"? By all means, discuss away.
The scripture is complete and accurate, because it says so? Need I point out the flaw in that argument?
In 1st John 2:3-5 we learn of the knowledge of God's law.
The Bible and God's Universe suggest there is more to God's law than the commandments.
Please read John 3:16-18
But of course God's son is really God, so God is sacrificing himself to himself (if not then who?). Then he gets out of it 3 days later. What kind of God requires a sacrafice anyway? Is His mood changed by the taste of blood, like the Greek gods?
John 14:2-3
God is saving us from a predicament of his own creation. That's not charity, it's a racket. Read the parable of the good Samaritan again. A good heart saves without question or qualification. The good Samaritan is a better heart than God. No wonder he doesn't believe.
God is still in control, He hasn't left the throne.
Which is it?
Again, death MUST happen so we don't live in an imperfect world forever. That's just an example of why you need to be right with God. You don't know when you're almost finished here on earth!
but God does.
Because they specifically chose to disobey God.
So God created creatures with free will, but the only way to remain in His good graces is to not exercise it.
It's hard to fathom how Satan got the idea he could overthrow God
Not too hard, apparantly god mad him with a good measure of hubris. It seems to me that if you can make an angel with free will and alot of hubris, you can make an angel with free will and not much hubris. Why did God choose one over the other?
Or they were mis-heard, or later mis interpreted, or it was a fantasy created around real men... there are plenty of possiblities that don't require fraud.
So, if I fail to ask him, he turns his back on me. This is justice? Justice means doing whats right. Whats fair. It is not fair that a murderer who repents goes to heaven, but a saint who doesn't know jesus goes to hell. And what is the point of punishing someone for misbehaving, with no "Your cured mate" or "here's time off for good behaviour." What exactly is the point? Is God sadistic? Is he happy knowing that he torturing billions of souls for all eternity? What about people who never misbehaved? Do they go to heaven, even if they don't know christ?
Those who have submitted to christ sure have brought alot of peace to the world over the years, now if only the rest of them would see the light...
So when an avalanche buries a village in the alps, thats Satan's doing or Man's or whose? and god is powerless to fix this problem because...why? And eating from the tree corrupted the world....why? Where did Satan's evil come from, who created Satan? The fingers all point in one direction....
And playing the Valkyrie is like playing Bison in Street Fighter.
Or words were put into his mouth that were not his own... Or the story was made up... Or they were just a bunch of hucksters, but still managed to pass on good moral lessons... Or else they were good, wise, men, who thought they could change the world with a little white lie...
We had one of those in highschool. One year he ran the movie "Cliffhanger" on the week he was supposed to be teaching evolution.
Your "God" is no more than the first cause of the universe and nothing else. You are suggesting that all those stories about god aren't true, that god doesn't care for us, that he doesn't talk to anybody. Not much of a god is he?
Let's revise the parable: A few blind ants lived in a pile of elephant dung...
How many posts does it take, how slow is god to anger? 10 posts, 20? 100? at what point does Allah say, "he's been reading pro-Islam posts on Slashdot all day, but died in a car accident without believing in me. To hell with him."
BTW, a god that gets angry because somebody doesn't believe in him is a prick.
How sure is the bet? Lets assume that it's a good bet. What are the laws of God? How can you be certain you know all of them? I doubt you would claim to understand the nature of God, so how can you claim to know that following His laws is a good idea? What if the end he has in mind for us is evil and not good? Or worse, he doesn't really care for us at all, but is using us for some unknown end? Certainly his methods have been less than heartening on that score...
1. Earth made before sun
2. Light and Darkness made before sun.
3. *Plants* made before sun.
BTW, you seemed to have purposely left the sun off your list, since the sun and moon were created in the same sentence.
4. Birds made before reptiles, etc....
Some simple things anyone could understand, but somehow they missed. Like the earth is round, matter is made of atoms, the planets are whole other worlds...(Imagine what the Greeks could have done with that bit of knowledge.)