If your faith is in Him, the whole world going to Hell around you (literally and/or figuratively) should have no influence on your beliefs.
i am constantly in awe of religion. it can convince a man to sit around idly while the world 'goes to hell' around him, cause he knows that he will be granted 'everlasting life' because he believes literally in an obviously symbolic story. amazing.
i hate ties and dress pants, i can tolerate button shirts and i love tshirts... but if nothing else, shirts are much easier to hide a fat gut behind than a tshirt is... i have half a dozen cool tshirts that ill wear 24/7 once i 'just lose a few kilos'...
im really hoping that anyone that actually mods stuff like this as trolling has moderated for the last time. he is simply making an, admittedly flawed, point. i dont see how this is trolling. does the moderator even know what trolling is?
ill risk replying again even tho some moron is down moderating our posts... (they clearly dont realise that unless they are an admin or however this crap works, that the more that you moderate offtopic etc, the less chance of you moderating in the future, and if you are an admin moderating this down, you are a moron anyway)... but you have taken the standard christian argument of 'taking things out of context' to a new level... you have taken the two words 'my love' from the entire song of solomon and pretty much said that it is the basis for sex being a loving relationship between two commited people blah blah blah... good work... and dont say that ive assumed too much because that is what this thread is about, so im assuming that you are replying to the original arugment. whatever. ive stopped arguing with religious morons ages ago, unfortunately its kinda like cigarettes... you always want just one more, even tho you know its not a good idea...
As a zealous Christian, (dare I admit that I might be categorized as a 'fundie' by the/. crowd?)
I can say that I am not afraid of the human body. I like sex quite a bit, too.
That having been said, I believe that God designed sex to be expressed in the context of an emotionally intimate committed relationship
err... i think you might be reading your book wrong. you might wanna go back and have a look at it again.
btw, youve been told that so that youll believe that you are something special, as opposed to simply an animal like the rest of the species that inhabit the planet. that much should be easy to see.
sigh... make a creature self aware and he will think he is the center of universe.
Male characters tend to be more gruff and muscular, implying physical capability, intimidation, and power. Female characters, on the other hand, have ridiculous proportions, including huge breasts, tiny waists, and slender arms and legs. These visual attributes only serve to objectify female characters (like Lara Croft), because they emphasize sexual attractiveness and nothing else.
youre actually serious arent you? being gruff, muscular and having physical capability IS sexually attrative. and guess what? slender arms and legs and small hips implies physical capability, in terms of being agile and fast.
one could argue that Lara is an empowering character due to her unrealistic acrobatic and athletic abilities in the game. However, that would be ignoring the egregious differences in her appearance
of course, and it means that you wouldnt have much of a point with your sexist crap either, would it?
i mean FFS, what would women want physically in a man??? muscle definition, broad shoulders, thin hips... what do 99% of male game characters look like?... exactly that... now what would men want physically in a woman? large breasts, thin hips, AND THE ABILITY TO SEE THAT ITS JUST A GAME FER CRYING OUT LOUD.
i am so sick of this shit. get over it pleeese.
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nah fuck the apologising bit, if there is one thing that shits me more than anything else its the old games == losers line that is so frequently put forward.
people will spend all friday night watching teevee instead of going out and thats apparently fine, but as soon as you turn on the computer you are a big time loser...
if it makes you feel any better, from last sunday morning thru to monday night i was on the comp playing games. and my g/f, who works weekends a lot, is working both days this weekend, so im up for more of the same... and im 25... ill be playing games until i cant play em no more.
anyone who feels the need to deride someone else for their choice of hobby is really the one that needs the life, not you:)
I'm a devout muslim, and I don't obsess about death. I just want to make the most of my life, and not waste it with alcohol, drugs, fornication, adultery, etc. And I do not fear death, as I know Allah is all-just.
who is to say that any of those things that you listed are life 'wasters' anyway? its merely your perspective. alcohol and drugs are merely man-made combinations of pre-existing (in most cases) natural substances that happen to affect body or brain function or something. that doesnt make them inherently evil or wrong or anything.
and fornication and adultery are regarded as evil purely as a by product of the want to believe that we are more than simply 'self aware squirrels' (phrase (C) oldmanmurray.com) that actually live by morals. and we spend our entire lives trying to keep ourselves believing this, and other, lies, and trying not to break this fabricated moral code that we believe makes us special.
i get saddended when people devote their lives to organised religion.
... damnit, wrong button... and that probably nothing will happen when you do... so smoke, drink, shag and be merry... dont dwell on the inevitable...
(ive just had three panadol because im getting a migrane and havent eaten all morning, so my comments are probably something i will look back on and regret tomorrow, but who cares)
i think the main reason everyone is making jokes is mainly because this is yet another 'blame it on computer games' article... 86 hours of nearly anything straight would probably kill you if you didnt have sufficient eating/sleeping breaks... heck, 86 hours of straight sex would kill nearly anyone, but no one blames sex on all the dodgy sex related crimes around, no, they blame sex in computer game or something. whatever, all the ignorant peeps will believe it anyway, so i couldnt be arsed arguing the point anymore anyway...... if you are so worried/obsessed with death, then you are probably either highly relgious (its the only pasttime obsessed with what happens after you die instead of what you do with your life), or you are going thru one of those stages like most of us did when we gained some sort of self-awareness at age ~8 when we suddenly realised that we all were gonna die one day... get over it... come to realisation that you are just another animal like all the others that you [baseless assumption] probably look down on as inferior [/baseless assumption] and that you will die, and probably
It was revealed today that, G.G. Guy, some loner living in his parents basement, has predicted the demise of the PC as a gaming system.
Mr Guy, who was, by himself, playing a primarily multiplayer game known as Diablo (a game similar to Doom, that uses what is in nerd parlance known as an 'isometric' viewing system), on his Playstation One, a state of the art (sic) doorstop manufactured by Sony, has come forward with some scathing critisism of PC gaming, and has left the industry in a state of turmoil.
"Look at this game here, Diablo, a standard example of PC gaming (its like Doom, but different), which I am playing on my Playstation. This version is virtually identical to the PC version. Sure, the graphics are even blockier, and the interface is kinda hard to get around with this controller, but hey, with auto-aim, I hardly have to even think anyway. And this chair, look at the chair, high sides which are soft to rest my arms on, a nice soft back that i can lean into and slump on. Nothing at all like that uncomfortable chair over there that I have to sit bolt upright in when I use my aging computer. Yes, its that one over there, the one with the spikes protruding out of the seat. Why anyone would want to play anything on that doesnt make sense to me. Surely no one would want to play PC games anymore. And besides, games like Doom on the PC make kids shoot each other anyway."
Most industry leaders were unavailble for comment, but it can be assumed they are all in a state of sheer panic. All John Carmack, the head of iD sofware, primarily responsible for the Doom game, had to say was "Leave me alone, one more hole and my Sim Golf course can hold a tournament, shit, I hit it into the water, okay, lest see, just replace that tile with green, move the pin over there a little bit, hey hole in one! I rock!"...
if only. its more often a result of the fact that they have a limited understanding of what they are having problems with (mainly because they never bothered to learn it properly in the first place), and fall back on the 'increduilty argument' (sp) when you give them an explanation. i.e. 'i dont understand what you are saying, therefore that cant be the solution'.
i am more than happy to help people who want to learn. heck, i was a tutor to first year students at uni in comp sci for two years, because i liked helping people who want to learn get off on the right foot.
but once you move into industry, and work with people who see their working day as an 8 hour interruption to watching the teevee, and who wont read emails explaining problems with the current version, or ask the same question twice in one day (when you can literally see your words exiting the opposite ear they entered), who then get narky when you dont explain answers to problems using coloured blocks and single syllable words, i hope you can appreciate a little of my cynicism.
interesting, and as someone who has a few hancock books and the like, i would be really interested in reading anything you might be able to recommend in relation to proper egyptology, as opposed to the 'alternative' type stuff that is definately the rage.
while there are a heap of alternative titles on egyptology, for each alternative title, there are half a dozen 'mainstream' ones. its hard to know what is worth reading and what isnt.
micheal keaton was easily the best. val kilmer came off as batman with a rod jammed up his ass, and george clooney was batman on prozac... happy all the time... bruce wayne must have started popping the pills when he parents got killed.
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If your faith is in Him, the whole world going to Hell around you (literally and/or figuratively) should have no influence on your beliefs.
i am constantly in awe of religion. it can convince a man to sit around idly while the world 'goes to hell' around him, cause he knows that he will be granted 'everlasting life' because he believes literally in an obviously symbolic story. amazing.
i hate ties and dress pants, i can tolerate button shirts and i love tshirts ... but if nothing else, shirts are much easier to hide a fat gut behind than a tshirt is ... i have half a dozen cool tshirts that ill wear 24/7 once i 'just lose a few kilos' ...
im really hoping that anyone that actually mods stuff like this as trolling has moderated for the last time. he is simply making an, admittedly flawed, point. i dont see how this is trolling. does the moderator even know what trolling is?
ill risk replying again even tho some moron is down moderating our posts ... (they clearly dont realise that unless they are an admin or however this crap works, that the more that you moderate offtopic etc, the less chance of you moderating in the future, and if you are an admin moderating this down, you are a moron anyway) ... but you have taken the standard christian argument of 'taking things out of context' to a new level ... you have taken the two words 'my love' from the entire song of solomon and pretty much said that it is the basis for sex being a loving relationship between two commited people blah blah blah ... good work ... and dont say that ive assumed too much because that is what this thread is about, so im assuming that you are replying to the original arugment. whatever. ive stopped arguing with religious morons ages ago, unfortunately its kinda like cigarettes ... you always want just one more, even tho you know its not a good idea ...
... didnt see anything about an emotional commited relationship there ... must have missed it.
As a zealous Christian, (dare I admit that I might be categorized as a 'fundie' by the /. crowd?)
... i think you might be reading your book wrong.
... make a creature self aware and he will think he is the center of universe.
I can say that I am not afraid of the human body. I like sex quite a bit, too.
That having been said, I believe that God designed sex to be expressed in the context of an emotionally intimate committed relationship
err
you might wanna go back and have a look at it again.
btw, youve been told that so that youll believe that you are something special, as opposed to simply an animal like the rest of the species that inhabit the planet. that much should be easy to see.
sigh
... meanwhile, the cure for cancer people have given up and gone home.
Male characters tend to be more gruff and muscular, implying physical capability, intimidation, and power. Female characters, on the other hand, have ridiculous proportions, including huge breasts, tiny waists, and slender arms and legs. These visual attributes only serve to objectify female characters (like Lara Croft), because they emphasize sexual attractiveness and nothing else.
... what do 99% of male game characters look like? ... exactly that ... now what would men want physically in a woman? large breasts, thin hips, AND THE ABILITY TO SEE THAT ITS JUST A GAME FER CRYING OUT LOUD.
youre actually serious arent you? being gruff, muscular and having physical capability IS sexually attrative.
and guess what? slender arms and legs and small hips implies physical capability, in terms of being agile and fast.
one could argue that Lara is an empowering character due to her unrealistic acrobatic and athletic abilities in the game. However, that would be ignoring the egregious differences in her appearance
of course, and it means that you wouldnt have much of a point with your sexist crap either, would it?
i mean FFS, what would women want physically in a man??? muscle definition, broad shoulders, thin hips
i am so sick of this shit. get over it pleeese.
nah fuck the apologising bit, if there is one thing that shits me more than anything else its the old games == losers line that is so frequently put forward.
...
... and im 25 ... ill be playing games until i cant play em no more.
:)
people will spend all friday night watching teevee instead of going out and thats apparently fine, but as soon as you turn on the computer you are a big time loser
if it makes you feel any better, from last sunday morning thru to monday night i was on the comp playing games. and my g/f, who works weekends a lot, is working both days this weekend, so im up for more of the same
anyone who feels the need to deride someone else for their choice of hobby is really the one that needs the life, not you
i agree with you totally ... but how the hell can you drink guinness? ill have a cafferys for you, if it makes you feel better ;)
I'm a devout muslim, and I don't obsess about death. I just want to make the most of my life, and not waste it with alcohol, drugs, fornication, adultery, etc. And I do not fear death, as I know Allah is all-just.
who is to say that any of those things that you listed are life 'wasters' anyway? its merely your perspective. alcohol and drugs are merely man-made combinations of pre-existing (in most cases) natural substances that happen to affect body or brain function or something. that doesnt make them inherently evil or wrong or anything.
and fornication and adultery are regarded as evil purely as a by product of the want to believe that we are more than simply 'self aware squirrels' (phrase (C) oldmanmurray.com) that actually live by morals. and we spend our entire lives trying to keep ourselves believing this, and other, lies, and trying not to break this fabricated moral code that we believe makes us special.
i get saddended when people devote their lives to organised religion.
... damnit, wrong button ... and that probably nothing will happen when you do ... so smoke, drink, shag and be merry ... dont dwell on the inevitable ...
(ive just had three panadol because im getting a migrane and havent eaten all morning, so my comments are probably something i will look back on and regret tomorrow, but who cares)
i think the main reason everyone is making jokes is mainly because this is yet another 'blame it on computer games' article ... 86 hours of nearly anything straight would probably kill you if you didnt have sufficient eating/sleeping breaks ... heck, 86 hours of straight sex would kill nearly anyone, but no one blames sex on all the dodgy sex related crimes around, no, they blame sex in computer game or something. whatever, all the ignorant peeps will believe it anyway, so i couldnt be arsed arguing the point anymore anyway ... ... if you are so worried/obsessed with death, then you are probably either highly relgious (its the only pasttime obsessed with what happens after you die instead of what you do with your life), or you are going thru one of those stages like most of us did when we gained some sort of self-awareness at age ~8 when we suddenly realised that we all were gonna die one day ... get over it ... come to realisation that you are just another animal like all the others that you [baseless assumption] probably look down on as inferior [/baseless assumption] and that you will die, and probably
OMFG!!! g0d 15 4 l4m3r w4llh4ck1ng a1mb0t ch34t1ng r0ck3t f4g n00b ... w00t!!1! w00t !!!
*lightning strike*
if he was gaming for 86 hours straight without a break he couldnt have been running a windows game then, thats for sure ...
... auto-erotic asphyxiation ???
i wouldnt get too concerned about it.
...
i hear its going to be destroyed to make way for a new interstellar bypass thats being built thru this solar system
what?
you didnt hear about it?
come on, the proposal has been up at the local galactic council for the last 50 years!!!
cool, now i can get the DNA sequence of someone i really dont like, and use it as a coaster for my coffee at work.
"gee, if im using your genetic sequence to keep my desk clean, chances are i dont really care for your opinion either, huh?"
"We NEED a law to deal with idiotic lawsuits"
...
...
... ???
... Smithers, where does that go?
...
... ALALALALALALALALALA
nah, we just need a trapdoor in each court room
Judge : Okay Mr Novak, just stand a little to the left
*Novak moves over to stand on large off colored square in the floor*
Novak : Okay
*judges pressed big red button under desk, trapdoor opens underneath Novak*
Novak : AIIIIIEEEEE!!!!
Judge : Case Dismissed
Smithers : I dont know sir.
*somewhere in a far off middle eastern country*
DANCE!!!DANCE!!!DANCE!!!DANCE!!
i can read the headlines now :
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"PC GAMING UNDER THREAT FROM BEANBAG DOMINATION"
DateLine : Late last century.
It was revealed today that, G.G. Guy, some loner living in his parents basement, has predicted the demise of the PC as a gaming system.
Mr Guy, who was, by himself, playing a primarily multiplayer game known as Diablo (a game similar to Doom, that uses what is in nerd parlance known as an 'isometric' viewing system), on his Playstation One, a state of the art (sic) doorstop manufactured by Sony, has come forward with some scathing critisism of PC gaming, and has left the industry in a state of turmoil.
"Look at this game here, Diablo, a standard example of PC gaming (its like Doom, but different), which I am playing on my Playstation. This version is virtually identical to the PC version. Sure, the graphics are even blockier, and the interface is kinda hard to get around with this controller, but hey, with auto-aim, I hardly have to even think anyway. And this chair, look at the chair, high sides which are soft to rest my arms on, a nice soft back that i can lean into and slump on. Nothing at all like that uncomfortable chair over there that I have to sit bolt upright in when I use my aging computer. Yes, its that one over there, the one with the spikes protruding out of the seat. Why anyone would want to play anything on that doesnt make sense to me. Surely no one would want to play PC games anymore. And besides, games like Doom on the PC make kids shoot each other anyway."
Most industry leaders were unavailble for comment, but it can be assumed they are all in a state of sheer panic. All John Carmack, the head of iD sofware, primarily responsible for the Doom game, had to say was "Leave me alone, one more hole and my Sim Golf course can hold a tournament, shit, I hit it into the water, okay, lest see, just replace that tile with green, move the pin over there a little bit, hey hole in one! I rock!"
if only. its more often a result of the fact that they have a limited understanding of what they are having problems with (mainly because they never bothered to learn it properly in the first place), and fall back on the 'increduilty argument' (sp) when you give them an explanation. i.e. 'i dont understand what you are saying, therefore that cant be the solution'.
i am more than happy to help people who want to learn. heck, i was a tutor to first year students at uni in comp sci for two years, because i liked helping people who want to learn get off on the right foot.
but once you move into industry, and work with people who see their working day as an 8 hour interruption to watching the teevee, and who wont read emails explaining problems with the current version, or ask the same question twice in one day (when you can literally see your words exiting the opposite ear they entered), who then get narky when you dont explain answers to problems using coloured blocks and single syllable words, i hope you can appreciate a little of my cynicism.
doh, i cant believe i wrote 'homo'cide ... hahaha
...
shit, i hope that wasnt a freudian slip
interesting, and as someone who has a few hancock books and the like, i would be really interested in reading anything you might be able to recommend in relation to proper egyptology, as opposed to the 'alternative' type stuff that is definately the rage.
while there are a heap of alternative titles on egyptology, for each alternative title, there are half a dozen 'mainstream' ones. its hard to know what is worth reading and what isnt.
youve played civilisation an awful lot, havent you?
micheal keaton was easily the best. val kilmer came off as batman with a rod jammed up his ass, and george clooney was batman on prozac ... happy all the time ... bruce wayne must have started popping the pills when he parents got killed.