Re:Is Final Fantasy Evil?
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Read again. The Final Fantasy post was a Troll Riposte, and a damn fine one at that. A shame that there are no -real- fundies active in this thread, I love a good high farce argument.
Obligation nothing, it's simple busking. Find free (beer) music, enjoy music, send money (or equivalent) to artist, artist makes more music, wannabes encouraged to learn guitar chords. It worked a thousand years ago, and it will work in 2100AD. Time to start building the B-Ark..
Bah. Patents get in the way of 'small inventors' to the leech-like benefit of corporates and lawyers everywhere. Here's what Don Lancaster thinks of patents.
Fighting is not the way, what the whole damn world should do about loons like this is just ignore them. Laugh in their faces. Poke them in the eye and walk slowly away, shaking your head sadly. If summonsed to court, reply politely with the insistent belief that the whole thing is an April Fool's or a prank by the guys from the office, asking that they knock it off now because it's starting to get old. If physically dragged into court, demand jury trial and request a nullification. Just whatever you do, never, ever take it seriously. Never treat it as real. It only encourages them and breeds lawyers.
Unless I missed something and my world is actually identical to feudal Japan?
That's like that middle ages guy saying, "Let's make it our goal that by 2000 half the world knows how to read and knows how to operate printing presses, binding machines and book distribution."
No, no, it's like him saying "Let's make it our goal that by 2000 we will have invented the typewriter and photocopier", and if more people had thought like that they'd have been here in half the time.
Programming can be a natural human skill that everyone takes for granted, we just need to develop better ways of doing it, ways that make the operation of a program as tangible to an inquisitive four year old as the eviscerated remains of his clockwork toys.
Speaking as a Geek, the one thing that would horrify me so deeply as to leave my soul forever twisted and burned out of human form, would be to 'graduate to lord of all I survey' with centuries of fundamentalists invoking my name as they violently campaign against the existence of every other belief in the world and write endless Jack Chick cartoons. I hope for Jesus' sake that he is safely and mortally dead and unknowing.
I'm afraid of having my mind infected with 'Answers' that I cannot question because they bear the label 'Word of God' or 'Truth of Jesus', and thus becoming static and effectively dead. I fear stasism. Where my own judgement is as yet insufficient, I prefer to keep in mind that I don't know, and continue to question and grow.
You are assuming that the hypothetical God that 'shows up' (Wether in person or on some kind of metamathematical radar display) would be precisely that God that is imagined by the congregation at your average small American mid-west town. As an atheist, I'd expect any actual, existential God or Gods to be just a tad more impressive than that one. Particularly in terms of intelligence, emotional maturity, empathy and sense of humour.
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Read again. The Final Fantasy post was a Troll Riposte, and a damn fine one at that. A shame that there are no -real- fundies active in this thread, I love a good high farce argument.
J.C. Herz, either in Joystick Nation or an interview.
Obligation nothing, it's simple busking. Find free (beer) music, enjoy music, send money (or equivalent) to artist, artist makes more music, wannabes encouraged to learn guitar chords. It worked a thousand years ago, and it will work in 2100AD. Time to start building the B-Ark..
Bah. Patents get in the way of 'small inventors' to the leech-like benefit of corporates and lawyers everywhere. Here's what Don Lancaster thinks of patents.
Fighting is not the way, what the whole damn world should do about loons like this is just ignore them. Laugh in their faces. Poke them in the eye and walk slowly away, shaking your head sadly. If summonsed to court, reply politely with the insistent belief that the whole thing is an April Fool's or a prank by the guys from the office, asking that they knock it off now because it's starting to get old. If physically dragged into court, demand jury trial and request a nullification. Just whatever you do, never, ever take it seriously. Never treat it as real. It only encourages them and breeds lawyers.
Unless I missed something and my world is actually identical to feudal Japan?
That's like that middle ages guy saying, "Let's make it our goal that by 2000 half the world knows how to read and knows how to operate printing presses, binding machines and book distribution."
No, no, it's like him saying "Let's make it our goal that by 2000 we will have invented the typewriter and photocopier", and if more people had thought like that they'd have been here in half the time.
Programming can be a natural human skill that everyone takes for granted, we just need to develop better ways of doing it, ways that make the operation of a program as tangible to an inquisitive four year old as the eviscerated remains of his clockwork toys.
Speaking as a Geek, the one thing that would horrify me so deeply as to leave my soul forever twisted and burned out of human form, would be to 'graduate to lord of all I survey' with centuries of fundamentalists invoking my name as they violently campaign against the existence of every other belief in the world and write endless Jack Chick cartoons. I hope for Jesus' sake that he is safely and mortally dead and unknowing.
I'm afraid of having my mind infected with 'Answers' that I cannot question because they bear the label 'Word of God' or 'Truth of Jesus', and thus becoming static and effectively dead. I fear stasism. Where my own judgement is as yet insufficient, I prefer to keep in mind that I don't know, and continue to question and grow.
You are assuming that the hypothetical God that 'shows up' (Wether in person or on some kind of metamathematical radar display) would be precisely that God that is imagined by the congregation at your average small American mid-west town. As an atheist, I'd expect any actual, existential God or Gods to be just a tad more impressive than that one. Particularly in terms of intelligence, emotional maturity, empathy and sense of humour.