But how do you know that the Bible wasn't written by the Devil, hoping to fool people who were afraid to decide good and evil for themselves to follow his plan? The only real way to determine what is good and evil is to try things, and see what works best. That which helps the most is good, and that which hurts the most is evil.
On the bright side that means 15-20 dollar generics.
However, Nintendo's products are, from what I've seen, superior to the generic ones. I have 6 N64 controllers, 2 generic and 4 Nintendo. The generics' control sticks are loose and the controllers are barely playable, while the first Nintendo controller is almost at good as the day I bought it.
Cool graphics can take you a long way, but if the gameplay sucks...
You, my good sir, are entirely correct.
After all, they missed two of the best games of all time: ZZT and Exile. ZZT was especially cool, because it had an overhead view, ran in text mode, and was easy to make good worlds for:)
Odd. I had this problem with some N64 controllers made by other companies, but never with Nintendo's. I now have 6 controllers: 4 Nintendo-made ones, which work fine, and 2 other controllers, with loose control sticks.
Actually, it's a combination of Bernoulli's Principle and the angle of attack. Here is a nice program you can use to model airfoils and see exactly how it works.
"...the convection currents have more area in that plane through which to travel.
ANY type of currents would have more area to travel through, and so not push the shower curtain inwards. This applies to the low-pressure explanation, too.
Sorry, but I had to say that. When I was young, I read everything in sight and then some. I was only told one time that I couldn't read something (Mission Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard) until I was older, but I read it soon afterwards, anyway. And I was the better for it.
Certainly, there was a lot of violent and sexual material in some of the things I read. Because of reading it, however, I got rid of any insane ideas I had on almost any subject. I can deal rationally with many things that cloud other people's judgment. If aliens started blasting people's heads off, I wouldn't panic. I would be able to rationally run to the nearest gun store and blast some aliens. I wouldn't freeze in fear, I wouldn't run around like a chicken with its head cut off, I wouldn't do anything insane. Many people I know would simply die if something like this happened, because they wouldn't be able to face it rationally.
At the same time, I am not fixated on any of these subjects. I do not think porn is something inherently evil; I do not think it is the greatest thing in the world. I think it is erotic pictures of naked people.
As I said in a previous post, people learn to live by living. The example of the kid scared of a ghost story in that essay is a good example of this. He was sheltered from ghost stories, and other scary stories. Result: he was unable to cope with a ghost story he heard. One of the books I read when I was young was Fear, also by LRH. It's a decently scary book. I read many other scary books, some of which scared me at first, but no longer affect me badly. When I found a book of "scary, not for young kids" ghost stories, I thought they were rather tame and wasn't scared by them in the least.
Basically, I'm saying that experience is good. It's like eating hot foods: someone who has never eaten anything hot will be blown away by tabasco sauce, while someone who regularly eats hot foods will be able to easily cope with tabasco sauce.
If someone doesn't go out and live, they will not be able to cope with life when it comes knocking on their door.
And WHY does an 11 year old not have the mental development to handle the things she could get into? Simple. 11 year olds usually haven't been allowed to get into anything yet.
People learn how to live by living, not by being parented. I'm 16 years old, and I've found this to be true over my entire life. When I was very young, I was encouraged to learn, to live, not to be a kid. Result: I still had plenty of fun as a kid, but I was reading by the age of TWO.
The areas that I've had trouble in are those areas where I've been "sheltered". If I could change one thing in my life, I would remove any "sheltering" I've ever had. I bet I could have been an adult, mentally, by the age of 10 or younger.
Let people use the 'net on their own, and they will gain the ability to use the 'net on their own. This does not mean that you refuse to help them, but simply that you don't guide and protect them all the time. Constantly protecting and guiding your daughter on the 'net wouldn't teach her how to use the 'net responsibly, just how to click on links.
Let her touch the fire, and she will thereafter avoid touching it. Keep her away from the fire, tell her it is bad, etc., and she will run for it the moment you turn your back. Either that, or she will be insanely frightened of fire, to the point where she will eventually freeze rather than sit by a fire to keep warm.
I know what you mean. My brother has been buying a lot of the "new, cool" games recently. I'm working on beating the original Zork games. I love the Exile series, but I can't stand Final Fantasy. Graphics, while nice, don't matter nearly as much as gameplay. Unfortunately, too many great games are ignored simply because they don't have great graphics.
He probably wouldn't expect to be blamed for the incompetently-built wall collapsing, and then for every instance of someone harming a wall ever after.
That's basically what happened in his case, just with a different example.
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Excuse me, but you are wrong.
See this
Easy to say that. Now prove it.
But how do you know that the Bible wasn't written by the Devil, hoping to fool people who were afraid to decide good and evil for themselves to follow his plan? The only real way to determine what is good and evil is to try things, and see what works best. That which helps the most is good, and that which hurts the most is evil.
Why do I get the feeling that the two parent posts were both written by the same person?
On the bright side that means 15-20 dollar generics.
However, Nintendo's products are, from what I've seen, superior to the generic ones. I have 6 N64 controllers, 2 generic and 4 Nintendo. The generics' control sticks are loose and the controllers are barely playable, while the first Nintendo controller is almost at good as the day I bought it.
Nintendo: Like A Rock.
You, my good sir, are entirely correct.
After all, they missed two of the best games of all time: ZZT and Exile. ZZT was especially cool, because it had an overhead view, ran in text mode, and was easy to make good worlds for :)
I wonder if someone could write a virus that would pretend to be a Microsoft signed app...
Odd. I had this problem with some N64 controllers made by other companies, but never with Nintendo's. I now have 6 controllers: 4 Nintendo-made ones, which work fine, and 2 other controllers, with loose control sticks.
Hopefully, I didn't just make another mistake...
Actually, it's a combination of Bernoulli's Principle and the angle of attack. Here is a nice program you can use to model airfoils and see exactly how it works.
ANY type of currents would have more area to travel through, and so not push the shower curtain inwards. This applies to the low-pressure explanation, too.
Sorry, but I had to say that. When I was young, I read everything in sight and then some. I was only told one time that I couldn't read something (Mission Earth, by L. Ron Hubbard) until I was older, but I read it soon afterwards, anyway. And I was the better for it.
Certainly, there was a lot of violent and sexual material in some of the things I read. Because of reading it, however, I got rid of any insane ideas I had on almost any subject. I can deal rationally with many things that cloud other people's judgment. If aliens started blasting people's heads off, I wouldn't panic. I would be able to rationally run to the nearest gun store and blast some aliens. I wouldn't freeze in fear, I wouldn't run around like a chicken with its head cut off, I wouldn't do anything insane. Many people I know would simply die if something like this happened, because they wouldn't be able to face it rationally.
At the same time, I am not fixated on any of these subjects. I do not think porn is something inherently evil; I do not think it is the greatest thing in the world. I think it is erotic pictures of naked people.
As I said in a previous post, people learn to live by living. The example of the kid scared of a ghost story in that essay is a good example of this. He was sheltered from ghost stories, and other scary stories. Result: he was unable to cope with a ghost story he heard. One of the books I read when I was young was Fear, also by LRH. It's a decently scary book. I read many other scary books, some of which scared me at first, but no longer affect me badly. When I found a book of "scary, not for young kids" ghost stories, I thought they were rather tame and wasn't scared by them in the least.
Basically, I'm saying that experience is good. It's like eating hot foods: someone who has never eaten anything hot will be blown away by tabasco sauce, while someone who regularly eats hot foods will be able to easily cope with tabasco sauce.
If someone doesn't go out and live, they will not be able to cope with life when it comes knocking on their door.
So? The way I see it, this could mean one of four things:
1. Consumption of violence is one of the reasons for violent behavior.
2. Violent behavior is one of the reasons for consumption of violence.
3. There is a third factor which is one of the reasons for both consumption of violence and violent behavior.
4. Something else entirely, like faked studies.
Personally, I think it's either #2 or #3.
People learn how to live by living, not by being parented. I'm 16 years old, and I've found this to be true over my entire life. When I was very young, I was encouraged to learn, to live, not to be a kid. Result: I still had plenty of fun as a kid, but I was reading by the age of TWO.
The areas that I've had trouble in are those areas where I've been "sheltered". If I could change one thing in my life, I would remove any "sheltering" I've ever had. I bet I could have been an adult, mentally, by the age of 10 or younger.
Let people use the 'net on their own, and they will gain the ability to use the 'net on their own. This does not mean that you refuse to help them, but simply that you don't guide and protect them all the time. Constantly protecting and guiding your daughter on the 'net wouldn't teach her how to use the 'net responsibly, just how to click on links.
Let her touch the fire, and she will thereafter avoid touching it. Keep her away from the fire, tell her it is bad, etc., and she will run for it the moment you turn your back. Either that, or she will be insanely frightened of fire, to the point where she will eventually freeze rather than sit by a fire to keep warm.
I know what you mean. My brother has been buying a lot of the "new, cool" games recently. I'm working on beating the original Zork games. I love the Exile series, but I can't stand Final Fantasy. Graphics, while nice, don't matter nearly as much as gameplay. Unfortunately, too many great games are ignored simply because they don't have great graphics.
He probably wouldn't expect to be blamed for the incompetently-built wall collapsing, and then for every instance of someone harming a wall ever after.
That's basically what happened in his case, just with a different example.