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You're a 5 year old stuck in a 55 year old's body?
Well, that makes sense.
Better go take your Thorazine, ya old coot. You don't want the doc to know that the interns in the psych ward have let you at there computer again.
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Once again the Master of Trans-flamism has spoken.
I wish I had a life where I could go around and flame others online about their beliefs to feel better about myself.
How old are you? 10? Get some pubic hair.
Besides, if you truly believe in Transhumanism, then you should be happy with the fact that I have choosen my own life's direction.
"Transhumanists place a high value on autonomy: the ability and right of individuals to plan and choose their own lives." This is directly from the definition of what Trasnhumanism is on the website for the World Transhumanist Association. If you need the link, here it is: http://www.transhumanism.org/resources/faq.ht ml#wh atistranshumanism
I figured a person with the word "Master of" in front of what ever they might have describing them would actually have some kind of understanding of their own beliefs.
So, not only do you have no comprehension of Christianity or the Bible, you really don't know anything about Transhumanism either.
I guess that makes you "Master of Nothing"
Have a nice day!
Flamer.
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Well, I guess either you're right - in which case I'm suffering in this life for no reason, believing Jesus is God and Savior - or the Bible is right - in which case, if you reject Jesus as the Savior of the world from it's sin, God will have no choice but to let you have what you always chose: An eternal existence without Him.
Are you willing to stand on your soap-box until you die, with the notion that you are the be-all and end-all of your universe?
If you can show me proof that you have some kind of control over what you will do with yourself after you die, then I might be interested in talking with you about this further. But you can't offer any evidence of anything after this life.
I challenge you to try an prove that Jesus didn't exist and that He wasn't crucified. Greater men with more genius than most have tried, and come up wanting - claiming that Jesus truly is who He said He was - The Son of God, God-incarnate, and the Savior of the World.
So here's your chance. You can cuss and call me names 'til you're blue in the face, but if you are not willing to do the foot work for yourself, you'll never truly know if His claims were real or not and you will be basing your own beliefs on nothing but biased whims.
Good luck!
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I don't know which biblical scholars you've been listening to, but according to the BIBLE - Jesus was the Christ, and Christian doctrine came from Him.
The passage that you spoke of about Christians conspiring to kill Paul -
12 And when it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 13 Now there were more than forty who had formed this conspiracy. 14 They came to the chief priests and elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul. 15 "Now you, therefore, together with the council, suggest to the commander that he be brought down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to make further inquiries concerning him; but we are ready to kill him before he comes near."
Acts 23:12-15 (NKJV)
These 'Jews' were made up of either Pharisees or Saducees and were very probably made up of some of the ruling body of the Jews, called the Sanhedrin. Not Christians.
Paul himself proclaimed Christ to be the central reason for all that he did, and the one who had called him to do what he did - 1 Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead),
Gal 1:1 (NKJV) 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
Eph 1:1 (NKJV) 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,
1 Tim 1:1 (NKJV) 1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
2 Tim 1:1 (NKJV)
Paul professed Jesus Christ to be his Savior, not his persecutor.
And as for the rest of the citations you made, unless your "scholars" have Josephus(a Jewish historian during the time of Christ and the Roman oppression) as a non-biblical reference for their ideas, you might want to look deeper into the subject on your own before you start throwing out generalizations about stuff you apparently have backwards.
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Apparently you are not very well read if you believe Paul founded Christianity.
I think the main point in all of this is that everyone has a belief, even if it is no belief at all, a persons lack of belief is their belief.
You can choose to judge a person or a group by HOW they believe or by WHAT they believe.
If you choose to judge a person or group based on HOW they believe, you had better know WHAT they believe before you open your mouth.
Knowing accurately another person's beliefs before you judge what kind of person they are brings you out of ignorance and into intelligently realizing that we all choose what we think is best for ourselves.
If you want to continue in ignorance, that is your choice, but realize that puts you on the same level as Hitler & the KKK - who all think, and thought, that they are the best and everyone else sucks compared to them. That, my friend, is true agnosticism. Agnostic comes from the root word for ignoramus, meaning "with out knowledge".
I think that games are a reflection of our society. Our culture says that it is a faux-pas to be an extremist. religious games will hold a greater market when one of two things happen: #1- our culture comes to a point where people don't get upset about someone elses interpretation of their beliefs. or #2- a really great group of game developers will come together and create something with an accurate depiction of beliefs, exceptional graphics, and great playability that draws in the gamer with cutting edge story lines and missions. The closest thing I have seen is starwars: galaxies. But I think that is even only touching the tip of the iceberg.
Black and White is a very addictive game and fun, but I think, as the developers in the article do, that someone at some point should get the proper resources together and put together a game that can be held out to secular and religious factions as accurate and intrigueing to both parties.
I think any large company offering desktops with any form of Linux for the everyday user is fantastic. If you are familiar with Windows, Linspire would seem to be the next step towards putting a better operating system on your computer, for 2 reasons:
#1 - Your family and friends don't have to have their heads stuck in a computer all day (like most of us) to use the operating system. Linspire is arguably the most user friendly Linux system out there. If you are unfamiliar with Linspire - check out their site - http://www.linspire.com/sales_intro.php
#2 - If you are in any way familiar with Windows environments, Linspire offers something almost identical, plus applications that are similar to MS Office and an online warehouse of more than 2000 software titles available to download - most for free and some to buy.
I've been thinking about ditching WinXP Pro and getting Linspire myself. I think it's a good next step - but Dell should advertise about it.
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You're a 5 year old stuck in a 55 year old's body?
Well, that makes sense.
Better go take your Thorazine, ya old coot.
You don't want the doc to know that the interns in the psych ward have let you at there computer again.
Once again the Master of Trans-flamism has spoken.
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I wish I had a life where I could go around and flame others online about their beliefs to feel better about myself.
How old are you? 10? Get some pubic hair.
Besides, if you truly believe in Transhumanism, then you should be happy with the fact that I have choosen my own life's direction.
"Transhumanists place a high value on autonomy: the ability and right of individuals to plan and choose their own lives."
This is directly from the definition of what Trasnhumanism is on the website for the World Transhumanist Association.
If you need the link, here it is:
http://www.transhumanism.org/resources/faq.h
I figured a person with the word "Master of" in front of what ever they might have describing them would actually have some kind of understanding of their own beliefs.
So, not only do you have no comprehension of Christianity or the Bible, you really don't know anything about Transhumanism either.
I guess that makes you "Master of Nothing"
Have a nice day!
Flamer.
Well, I guess either you're right - in which case I'm suffering in this life for no reason, believing Jesus is God and Savior - or the Bible is right - in which case, if you reject Jesus as the Savior of the world from it's sin, God will have no choice but to let you have what you always chose: An eternal existence without Him.
Are you willing to stand on your soap-box until you die, with the notion that you are the be-all and end-all of your universe?
If you can show me proof that you have some kind of control over what you will do with yourself after you die, then I might be interested in talking with you about this further. But you can't offer any evidence of anything after this life.
I challenge you to try an prove that Jesus didn't exist and that He wasn't crucified. Greater men with more genius than most have tried, and come up wanting - claiming that Jesus truly is who He said He was - The Son of God, God-incarnate, and the Savior of the World.
So here's your chance. You can cuss and call me names 'til you're blue in the face, but if you are not willing to do the foot work for yourself, you'll never truly know if His claims were real or not and you will be basing your own beliefs on nothing but biased whims.
Good luck!
I don't know which biblical scholars you've been listening to, but according to the BIBLE - Jesus was the Christ, and Christian doctrine came from Him.
The passage that you spoke of about Christians conspiring to kill Paul -
12 And when it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
13 Now there were more than forty who had formed this conspiracy.
14 They came to the chief priests and elders, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great oath that we will eat nothing until we have killed Paul.
15 "Now you, therefore, together with the council, suggest to the commander that he be brought down to you tomorrow, as though you were going to make further inquiries concerning him; but we are ready to kill him before he comes near."
Acts 23:12-15 (NKJV)
These 'Jews' were made up of either Pharisees or Saducees and were very probably made up of some of the ruling body of the Jews, called the Sanhedrin.
Not Christians.
Paul himself proclaimed Christ to be the central reason for all that he did, and the one who had called him to do what he did -
1 Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised Him from the dead),
Gal 1:1 (NKJV)
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God,
Eph 1:1 (NKJV)
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope,
1 Tim 1:1 (NKJV)
1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus,
2 Tim 1:1 (NKJV)
Paul professed Jesus Christ to be his Savior, not his persecutor.
And as for the rest of the citations you made, unless your "scholars" have Josephus(a Jewish historian during the time of Christ and the Roman oppression) as a non-biblical reference for their ideas, you might want to look deeper into the subject on your own before you start throwing out generalizations about stuff you apparently have backwards.
Apparently you are not very well read if you believe Paul founded Christianity.
I think the main point in all of this is that everyone has a belief, even if it is no belief at all, a persons lack of belief is their belief.
You can choose to judge a person or a group by HOW they believe or by WHAT they believe.
If you choose to judge a person or group based on HOW they believe, you had better know WHAT they believe before you open your mouth.
Knowing accurately another person's beliefs before you judge what kind of person they are brings you out of ignorance and into intelligently realizing that we all choose what we think is best for ourselves.
If you want to continue in ignorance, that is your choice, but realize that puts you on the same level as Hitler & the KKK - who all think, and thought, that they are the best and everyone else sucks compared to them. That, my friend, is true agnosticism. Agnostic comes from the root word for ignoramus, meaning "with out knowledge".
I think that games are a reflection of our society. Our culture says that it is a faux-pas to be an extremist. religious games will hold a greater market when one of two things happen: #1- our culture comes to a point where people don't get upset about someone elses interpretation of their beliefs. or #2- a really great group of game developers will come together and create something with an accurate depiction of beliefs, exceptional graphics, and great playability that draws in the gamer with cutting edge story lines and missions.
The closest thing I have seen is starwars: galaxies. But I think that is even only touching the tip of the iceberg.
Black and White is a very addictive game and fun, but I think, as the developers in the article do, that someone at some point should get the proper resources together and put together a game that can be held out to secular and religious factions as accurate and intrigueing to both parties.
I think any large company offering desktops with any form of Linux for the everyday user is fantastic. If you are familiar with Windows, Linspire would seem to be the next step towards putting a better operating system on your computer, for 2 reasons:
#1 - Your family and friends don't have to have their heads stuck in a computer all day (like most of us) to use the operating system. Linspire is arguably the most user friendly Linux system out there. If you are unfamiliar with Linspire - check out their site - http://www.linspire.com/sales_intro.php
#2 - If you are in any way familiar with Windows environments, Linspire offers something almost identical, plus applications that are similar to MS Office and an online warehouse of more than 2000 software titles available to download - most for free and some to buy.
I've been thinking about ditching WinXP Pro and getting Linspire myself.
I think it's a good next step - but Dell should advertise about it.