My hands are smacked well and truly. -15 hp to me I think.
You do make a very good point. Did not know that about Wizard's of the Coast. Should have cropped up in the conversation when they where staying at a friends of mine whilst downunder for a convention......
Of course most roleplaying games are based on movies, books, history, I am not talking about the playing environment rather about the actual system engine used to do things such as combat, movement, spells etc.......
and they threaten to take our westen coast if we don't feed their country.....
Where did you get this little bit of lunacy from??
I am sure it had a NSC seal and EYES ONLY written all over it. Or where did you hear it - that oft touted fount of wisdom the CONFORMIST NEWS NETWORK (CNN)
Learn alittle about ballistics and missile technology . A good start is a physics textbook then onto the JANES MILITARY website. You will see how funny what you are saying really is!!!
You really do not have to worry, I am sure that when your unemployment problem reaches a crescendo or when another sex scandal breaks out you can always go and invade them - ITS THE AMERICAN WAY!!!!!!!!!
You sure don't mind getting products and raw materials from those same countries. You don't mind having a little country called MEXICO underneath you where you can get cheap labour and imports. You don't mind getting your electronics from ASIA and RAW RESOURCES from BRAZIL, AFRICA etc.
Have you ever studied GLOBAL economics. It sounds as if you got your ideas from the bottom of a CORN FLAKES packet. I do not mind debating my points at all I am currently helping a PHD research this very topic I have literally a mountain of evidence to bury you with you REDNECK fuck!!!
Another thing about spending money how about channel money from the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL complex into NASA. You sure don't mind spending ludicrous amounts of money keeping armed occupying forces all over the world, invading anybody not keen on your own INTERNATIONALIST aims and then branding them lesser people, terrorist, commies or any other title you can think off.....................
Remember PEARL HARBOR boy's and girls.............................
That's right they are only other members of the world community but their not Americans!!!
Yeh like spending 6 hours writing a completely Stereotypical fantasy character that you could of thought of in 5 minutes on your own. Then spending the next 3 months saying "we go North, we go south" Walking into rooms (don't forget the check for traps roll) and then killing whatever is inside. Come on what true essence of D+D. As a roleplayer of 20 years. I began when I was 6 with D+D I have left it alongtime ago. There a literally hundreds of roleplaying games that shit all over D+D. It is not even highly original. Nick ideas from TOLKIEN. TUNNELS and TROLLS (But with none of the humour)
D+D itself may have been a revelation in the 70's and early 80's but have any of you checked out WHITE WOLF, STEVE JACKSON the list goes on.
They makes D+D look like just what it is a game for the teens -a picnic with the elves and fairies, large men and busty ladies in chainmail bikini's (talk about a 40-year old's wet dream) for little kiddies, These games have true characterisation not just I hit him with my sword my charisma is so high she just falls over. And oh my god!!! multi-dimensional characters.
TSR the AOL\TIME WARNER of the gaming world......
Actually more like MICROSOFT - they where innovative at some point but now they have fully lost the plot and are actually hurting the industry they work in!!
What you don't see scenes of people in Star Trek Uniforms rolling dice and arguing about the results then running home and bringing their MONSTER MANUAL's "SEE I CAN DO D5600000 damage"
Try a new concept ever heard of SYSTEMLESS GAMING. All story, NO RULES.
OH YEH - you actually need your own imagination not the overused and NEVER original ideas of GARY GYGAX
I think you missed the point of what I was trying to say.
Many groundbreaking theories in Science are greeted with alot of hostility when they are first proposed. Yes Debate is a good thing! But it is not a fair debate that is used. The ESTABLISHMENT always has the upper hand and only with overwhelming evidence is this opposition slowly eroded. THE POINT THAT YOU SO OBVIOUSLY MISSED OUT ON IS THE FACT THAT YOU BLAME RELIGION FOR ACCEPTING NEW IDEAS SLOWLY. WELL THE SAME CAN BE SAID FOR SCIENCE. That is the only point I am making not that one is better than the other or anything like that.
Yawn your way through this if you like
AND Yes I have heard of PEER REVIEW. I participate in META MODERATION all of the time actually did one 5 minutes ago.
"and science is only good for humanity. If Science is the good guy, and Religion is the bad guy"
Great Scientific Advancements and it only did us good things:
Atomic Bomb - Science Radiation Testing on Cancer Patients - Medicine DDT Sprayed on Children - Science Phelidomite Treatments- Medicine Chemical Warfare\Gases-Science Bleeding People with leeches- ultra Scientific Matter\ Antimatter bomb experiments - Science Pricing AIDS treatments so that they can't be used in the 3rd world - are religious people doing this no I think it is pharmaceutical companies that only do us GOOD as you say!!
And by the fucking way Galileo only "rediscovered" these notions of planets orbiting the sun.
Why don't you look to old Sumerian and Egyptian Pagan Rituals. You will find funny scientific things like precession of the equinoxes, heliocentricity, Pi, the Golden Mean.
Look in the Bible you will find some funky astronomy in there to...Probably inherited from the Eqyptians or the Sumerians. So perhaps religion is not so stupid after all.
And why don't you know all this it is because SCIENCE itself in the early years was completely racist and biased. Look at NEWTONIANS (who are really just NEO-PLATONIST anyway)and their hositlity to EINSTEIN initial papers. We don't want to know that ancient people knew their science through their religions. We do not want to know that thousands of years ago people may have been quite advanced and not stupid "religious" savages like you make them out.
And by the way I AM AN ATHEIST - Science student! so don't lump me in as an easy Christian target for you all to nail.
And I thought that Modern Science discovered all of these things.
Read some Ancient History man and get a brain of your own.
Please reply to me and tell me the good that this gave to us
Why don't you come over to Australia especially Northern Queensland we have less than 10% of our "native" forests left. Or are you talking about replacing old growth forests with fucking pine trees. Wake up and smell the roses more tree coverage than in the 1900's. Look at some actually raw data fellow. Try the EPA or GREENPEACE even the UNITED NATIONS.
You have ago at this guy but you yourself are an absolute cretin. Telling people that the world will be better off without them.
I do not agree with this man's views either. It is because of intolerant people on both sides of the arguement that get us all in to trouble in the first place.
Why don't you reply back and put me to the sword like you did with the bloke that wrote this email yet you still accuse him of a "crusade" type mentality.
I to match the profile. I was abused, bullied, spent alot of time doing drugs at high school, fantasised about the occult, loved terrorist organisations, got into fights....
And guess what. I am now a happy well adjusted 25 year old with a good job, career prospects blah blah.
Have you studied sociology or psychology at all. Most teenagers experience these feelings whilst they are growing up.
NO ABUSE and BULLYING should never be tolerated and I am truly sorry for what has been visited upon you. I wish I could say something to make you feel better or to take away your anguish.
Perhaps the fact that you are not alone, there are many people like you and me all the way through high school.
Dark and depressing feelings are part of growing up it does not mean that because I like MARILYN MANSON tbat I am some kind of SATANIC heathen.
Anyway the kids into this stuff (as I was) are just rebelling against their "forefathers" ie CHRISITANITY or organised religion.
This explains the PUNK movement coming after HIPPIES (rebelling against their parents) and the same for the HIPPIES and the BABY BOOMERS and so on and so forth ad infinitum
We have been rebelling against our parents and our constraints for eons. That is how we have evolved such a diversive society......
What the FBI proposes is just another form of control on free thought and expression.
HOW ABOUT GUN CONTROL - I live in Australia and we have never had a shooting incident at school
Why because guns are basically banned... GO FIGURE that out your NWO motherfuckers!!!
But since your NRA is such a powerful lobby group they will always shift attention to COMPUTER GAMES, THE INTERNET, The need to profile children.
So much for CIVIL RIGHTS
GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. Don't make me laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe there is intelligent life out but they know that the rest of the universe is made up of amoeba such as yourself. They do not want to have themselves heard by you ignoramuses otherwise you may start making more nonsensical and utterly stupid pronouncements
I see you probably read the History of World War II from the bottom of a Crispies packet.
I think you one the war because of the combined economic power of the United States and the poulation strength of the Soviet Union (they had people dying like flies over there.)
What where American troop loses in WWII can you say 23 million people....... that's how many the Russians lost. Not to mention that a good section of the Middle East was liberated by Australian Light Horsemen and Infantry.
But that is right the only people who really won WWII where the United States.
Grow a brain you ignoramus read alittle history before you start frothing off at the mouth on topics that you have no idea about!!!
I see you probably read the History of World War II from the bottom of a Crispies packet.
I think you one the war because of the combined economic power of the United States and the Military strength of the Soviet Union (they had people dying like flies over there.)
What where American troop loses in WWII can you say 23 million people....... that's how many the Russians lost. Not to mention that a good section of the Middle East was liberated by Australian Light Horsemen and Infantry.
But that is right the only people who really won WWI where the United States.
Grow a brain you ignoramus read alittle history before you start frothing off at the mouth on topics that you have no idea about!!!
Aactually if you are looking at stone tablets still with writing I would go for anything that the SUMERIANS may have written. Credited with the first uses of language- to tally up their crops and sheep (whatever agrarian animals they had!) and from then moving onto religion, laws and discourses on astronomy and other such topics.
It might be interesting to note that the EPIC OF GILGAMESH probably had its origins as an old SUMERIAN story.
I do not know why you mention the DEAD SEA SCROLLS the dating of these scrolls to 200BC is highly suspect there has been no credible studies that have concluded this outside fringe date. What methods of dating are you reporting for this CARBON-DATING, THERMO-LUMINESENCE what??? (Not meant to be rude just generally curious!!!)
Even if you use the date of 200 BC there where literally thousands of books at that time.
Try the SUMERIANS it is amazing how overlooked these people are but their technologies and ideas keep be mimicked in cultures that eventually spread out from them eg. Hebrew, Babylonians, Assyrians.....
I agree with your points about the Internet, it is silly to believe that this is another theatre of operations in a war.
Great so it looks as if you know something about the Internet. Let's have alook at something else shall we. CHINA is not IRAQ or a "small" country.
Go to a site called Janes Military Weekly and just check out the statistics for NUCLEAR as well as CONVENTIONAL standing armies. You will see that CHINA is very close to both the SUPER POWERS in terms of MILITARY strength. Added to the fact that the CHINESE coastline is the most heavily defended anti-aircraft position in the world you may begin having alittle respect for them.
So repeating an airwar above CHINA. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! How many planes would you like to come back. You have got to be out of your tiny little mind. Yeh your planes where ultra sophisticated when it came to butchering Iraqi's and Serb ground forces and AA positions but let see you go up against some real 4th generation anti-aircraft positions and planes for that matter.
How about taking on the Chinese complements of MIGS especially the new MIG-31 which they have been receiving through new SINO-RUSSIAN agreement. That is another case in point touch CHINA and you will have the OLD RED BEAR jumping down your throat. Oh that's right your not scared of them either. You have your allies in NATO to keep them in check.
Why isn't the UNITED STATES stepping in all over CHECHNYA because they know they cannot win a war against another real power. Its ok to pick the smallest dictators around the world (yes I agree they are madmen and I make no apologies for them) but quite another matter to mix it with a former SUPERPOWER or CHINA. (Case in point that CHINA's economy is the fastest growing economy in the world maxing out at 7% per year - they haven't even begun to influence world politics)
I can't wait personally finally another power who will not be afraid to stand-up to the worlds oldest and most corrupt POLICEMAN.
Wait stop the press what a Grand Unified Theory by 2050 we should get this man working on it. I have been posting to the Slashdot community for awhile now and find the fellow posters here intelligent witty and insightful.
What a brain this man must posses. He can come in here and tell us all that we are all morons.
Buddy- Instead of writing such lofty "high-browed" thought provoking articles to us why don't you (in your divine benevolence) solve the whole of the Unified Theory for us.
It is interesting that you brought up the falling education standards in the United States it seems that YOU where able to slip through the cracks!
AND PS YES I UNDERSTOOD EVERY WORD OF THE ARTICLE YOU PRETENCIOUS BUFFOON
Iraqi's might be stupid but then again perhaps we should look back a couple of thousand years and see which places where the Birth Places of Civilisation.
The real moron here - IS YOU the INDOCTRINATED little shit heel of the NEW WORLD ORDER.
Of course you can feel safe in the knowledge that you protect the innocent from awful gas attacks.
Ok I have my BIBLE in front of me. Come on Book and Verse show me all the places where it says the UNIVERSE was made for us. Come on where is it?
Your friend also mentioned that he believed in other planets but not in other life-forms. Ok that is cool. But he goes on to say that nothing that is not mentioned in the BIBLE exists. Come on that is just plain stupidity. How then may I ask does this PLANET get a special dispensation for existence and everything else doesn't. Come on again where does it mention this PLANET in the BIBLE.
It is universally agreed by scientists and theologians alike that the bible is divinely inspired - OH I MUST HAVE BEEN ASLEEP WHEN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE. I am sure if the Scientific community proved or diproved something like this it would be BIG BIG news. Now I am not talking about a bunch of CRETINISTS here (yes I deliberately mispelt it CREATION SCIENTISTS) It doesn't talk of alot of things in the BIBLE does that mean they do not exist here as some from the top of my head:
GRAVITY, COMPUTERS, UNITED NATIONS, MODEMS, BRITNEY SPEARS, TELEPHONES this list is endless.
Does the BIBLE tell Chrisitians to go onto USENETS and blindly defend things that they know absolutely nothing about. Does it tell you to behave as if you are the better person and everyone else is a scumbag.
Listen buddy - Jesus spent his time with prostitutes and criminals attempting to save them from themselves. In your definition he died for all of us to save us from our SINS. You as a Christian have to RESPECT everybody no matter how you are treated by them (including me!!!)
LOVE, FORGIVENESS and CHARITY do those things ring any bells..... The Christians that I know all display these tendancies. I respect them and love them for who they are and they do the same for me. Much of what I have learnt about Jesus has come from my own reading and then asking them sparking intense but always fulfulling arguements.
I do not see SELF-IMMORTALISATION, SELF-WORTH, PRIDE or ARROGANCE like I see in your "GOD" squad.
I think you guy's should switch sides you already seem to be batting for the other team!
What was the intended point of this little pearl of wisedom.
What is your need to attack other people because of their religious beliefs. I know many Christian people (not that theres anything wrong with that!) hell the guitarist in my band is studying to be a minister. He is NOT ARROGANT, studied SCIENCE and PSYCHOLOGY at UNI and believes in EVOLUTION and would laugh his ass off at the GOD SQUAD.
Yes I agree there is IGNORANCE and ARROGANCE on BOTH sides of this "GOD" debate. Hell it has gone on for time immemorial and I challenge anybody to give me proof from EITHER side disproving the existence of GOD or proving it!!!
In a time before people where considered cultured when they where versed in both PHILOSOPHY and SCIENCE. A healthy combination of the 2 will provide us with the biggest understanding.
INTOLERANCE OF ANY KIND IS POINTLESS AND VIOLENT whether that be RELIGIOUS or INTELLECTUAL both have caused more conflict in human kind than any other factor.
"There isn't ONE SPECK of evidence for such nonsense, but people keep on talking about it as being "inevitable".. yeah, right"
"God might have some surprises in store for these "SETI" types in the afterlife.."
MMMM....Now who is getting spiteful.
And you call yourself a Christian person or someone who believes in God! Pretending to be an all knowing Pharisee such as yourself with all of your blown up self-importance. Guess what matey you sound like the type of Christian that I keep running into! (one that has never read a word of the Bible and relies on others to spoon feed it to him like your corrupt Church leaders more interested in power on this plane rather than in heaven. My evidence for this is thousands of different Christian groups out there all fighting with one another)
I myself although not a Christian have studied the Bible and Christianity at Univesity. You see I wanted to expand my knowledge not limit it like you seem to be proposing for the rest of the world and the scientific community
Oh and by the way. NO EVIDENCE FOR EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL life. Hey do you know what the this word even means. NOT OF THIS EARTH in LOOSE TERMS. Does that not apply to the HOLY GHOST, SERAPHIM, CHERUBIM and DEMONS. There was an part-extra-terrestrial in the Bible he was CALLED JESUS unless you are now telling us that he was totally human then you yourself are not a Christian!!!!
How do you know that GOD made the Universe just for us. Where does it state this. You could argue quite extensively from passages in GENESIS that he made the EARTH for us but not the whole UNIVERSE. There is no mention of it in the Bible at all. Are you speaking directly to the source if so could you ask him to contact me so I can RUN THIS EVIDENCE past him and ask him the truth
Now I am not saying that SCIENCE is the be all and end all I just hate seeing these types of RELIGIOUS IGNORAMUSES on the NET who have no idea of their religion or of the Bible that they all claim they truly cherish.
Mate- Pick up the BIBLE and begin reading. You will probably find that being an opinionated bigot will not get you into HEAVEN either. THERE WILL BE A SUPRISE for SOME OF YOU SO CALLED CHRISTIANS AS WELL WHEN YOU WORK OUT WHO THE REAL MASTER IS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SERVING!
And before you take the twig out of my eye take the log out of your own!!
Guess what it doesn't talk about the Theory of Relativity in the Bible or LINUX does that mean they don't exist either
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My hands are smacked well and truly. -15 hp to me I think.
You do make a very good point. Did not know that about Wizard's of the Coast. Should have cropped up in the conversation when they where staying at a friends of mine whilst downunder for a convention......
Of course most roleplaying games are based on movies, books, history, I am not talking about the playing environment rather about the actual system engine used to do things such as combat, movement, spells etc.......
and they threaten to take our westen coast if we don't feed their country.....
Where did you get this little bit of lunacy from??
I am sure it had a NSC seal and EYES ONLY written all over it. Or where did you hear it - that oft touted fount of wisdom the CONFORMIST NEWS NETWORK (CNN)
Learn alittle about ballistics and missile technology . A good start is a physics textbook then onto the JANES MILITARY website. You will see how funny what you are saying really is!!!
You really do not have to worry, I am sure that when your unemployment problem reaches a crescendo or when another sex scandal breaks out you can always go and invade them - ITS THE AMERICAN WAY!!!!!!!!!
You sure don't mind getting products and raw materials from those same countries. You don't mind having a little country called MEXICO underneath you where you can get cheap labour and imports. You don't mind getting your electronics from ASIA and RAW RESOURCES from BRAZIL, AFRICA etc.
Have you ever studied GLOBAL economics. It sounds as if you got your ideas from the bottom of a CORN FLAKES packet. I do not mind debating my points at all I am currently helping a PHD research this very topic I have literally a mountain of evidence to bury you with you REDNECK fuck!!!
Another thing about spending money how about channel money from the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL complex into NASA. You sure don't mind spending ludicrous amounts of money keeping armed occupying forces all over the world, invading anybody not keen on your own INTERNATIONALIST aims and then branding them lesser people, terrorist, commies or any other title you can think off.....................
Remember PEARL HARBOR boy's and girls.............................
That's right they are only other members of the world community but their not Americans!!!
About 100000 XP points
More if you stop being a moron!!!
They shouldn't forget the true essence of D&D.
Yeh like spending 6 hours writing a completely Stereotypical fantasy character that you could of thought of in 5 minutes on your own. Then spending the next 3 months saying "we go North, we go south" Walking into rooms (don't forget the check for traps roll) and then killing whatever is inside. Come on what true essence of D+D. As a roleplayer of 20 years. I began when I was 6 with D+D I have left it alongtime ago. There a literally hundreds of roleplaying games that shit all over D+D. It is not even highly original. Nick ideas from TOLKIEN. TUNNELS and TROLLS (But with none of the humour)
D+D itself may have been a revelation in the 70's and early 80's but have any of you checked out WHITE WOLF, STEVE JACKSON the list goes on.
They makes D+D look like just what it is a game for the teens -a picnic with the elves and fairies, large men and busty ladies in chainmail bikini's (talk about a 40-year old's wet dream) for little kiddies, These games have true characterisation not just I hit him with my sword my charisma is so high she just falls over. And oh my god!!! multi-dimensional characters.
TSR the AOL\TIME WARNER of the gaming world......
Actually more like MICROSOFT - they where innovative at some point but now they have fully lost the plot and are actually hurting the industry they work in!!
Violate every rule and maxim of the game!!
What you don't see scenes of people in Star Trek Uniforms rolling dice and arguing about the results then running home and bringing their MONSTER MANUAL's "SEE I CAN DO D5600000 damage"
Try a new concept ever heard of SYSTEMLESS GAMING. All story, NO RULES.
OH YEH - you actually need your own imagination not the overused and NEVER original ideas of GARY GYGAX
I think you missed the point of what I was trying to say.
Many groundbreaking theories in Science are greeted with alot of hostility when they are first proposed. Yes Debate is a good thing! But it is not a fair debate that is used. The ESTABLISHMENT always has the upper hand and only with overwhelming evidence is this opposition slowly eroded. THE POINT THAT YOU SO OBVIOUSLY MISSED OUT ON IS THE FACT THAT YOU BLAME RELIGION FOR ACCEPTING NEW IDEAS SLOWLY. WELL THE SAME CAN BE SAID FOR SCIENCE. That is the only point I am making not that one is better than the other or anything like that.
Yawn your way through this if you like
AND Yes I have heard of PEER REVIEW. I participate in META MODERATION all of the time actually did one 5 minutes ago.
Well ok...
Science and Medicine
"and science is only good for humanity. If Science is the good guy, and Religion is the bad guy"
Great Scientific Advancements and it only did us good things:
Atomic Bomb - Science
Radiation Testing on Cancer Patients - Medicine
DDT Sprayed on Children - Science
Phelidomite Treatments- Medicine
Chemical Warfare\Gases-Science
Bleeding People with leeches- ultra Scientific
Matter\ Antimatter bomb experiments - Science
Pricing AIDS treatments so that they can't be used in the 3rd world - are religious people doing this no I think it is pharmaceutical companies that only do us GOOD as you say!!
And by the fucking way Galileo only "rediscovered" these notions of planets orbiting the sun.
Why don't you look to old Sumerian and Egyptian Pagan Rituals. You will find funny scientific things like precession of the equinoxes, heliocentricity, Pi, the Golden Mean.
Look in the Bible you will find some funky astronomy in there to...Probably inherited from the Eqyptians or the Sumerians. So perhaps religion is not so stupid after all.
And why don't you know all this it is because SCIENCE itself in the early years was completely racist and biased. Look at NEWTONIANS (who are really just NEO-PLATONIST anyway)and their hositlity to EINSTEIN initial papers. We don't want to know that ancient people knew their science through their religions. We do not want to know that thousands of years ago people may have been quite advanced and not stupid "religious" savages like you make them out.
And by the way I AM AN ATHEIST - Science student! so don't lump me in as an easy Christian target for you all to nail.
And I thought that Modern Science discovered all of these things.
Read some Ancient History man and get a brain of your own.
Please reply to me and tell me the good that this gave to us
That is really nice to know.
Why don't you come over to Australia especially Northern Queensland we have less than 10% of our "native" forests left. Or are you talking about replacing old growth forests with fucking pine trees. Wake up and smell the roses more tree coverage than in the 1900's. Look at some actually raw data fellow. Try the EPA or GREENPEACE even the UNITED NATIONS.
You have ago at this guy but you yourself are an absolute cretin. Telling people that the world will be better off without them.
I do not agree with this man's views either. It is because of intolerant people on both sides of the arguement that get us all in to trouble in the first place.
Why don't you reply back and put me to the sword like you did with the bloke that wrote this email yet you still accuse him of a "crusade" type mentality.
I feel sorry for both of you...
I to match the profile. I was abused, bullied, spent alot of time doing drugs at high school, fantasised about the occult, loved terrorist organisations, got into fights....
And guess what. I am now a happy well adjusted 25 year old with a good job, career prospects blah blah.
Have you studied sociology or psychology at all. Most teenagers experience these feelings whilst they are growing up.
NO ABUSE and BULLYING should never be tolerated and I am truly sorry for what has been visited upon you. I wish I could say something to make you feel better or to take away your anguish.
Perhaps the fact that you are not alone, there are many people like you and me all the way through high school.
Dark and depressing feelings are part of growing up it does not mean that because I like MARILYN MANSON tbat I am some kind of SATANIC heathen.
Anyway the kids into this stuff (as I was) are just rebelling against their "forefathers" ie CHRISITANITY or organised religion.
This explains the PUNK movement coming after HIPPIES (rebelling against their parents) and the same for the HIPPIES and the BABY BOOMERS and so on and so forth ad infinitum
We have been rebelling against our parents and our constraints for eons. That is how we have evolved such a diversive society......
What the FBI proposes is just another form of control on free thought and expression.
HOW ABOUT GUN CONTROL - I live in Australia and we have never had a shooting incident at school
Why because guns are basically banned... GO FIGURE that out your NWO motherfuckers!!!
But since your NRA is such a powerful lobby group they will always shift attention to COMPUTER GAMES, THE INTERNET, The need to profile children.
So much for CIVIL RIGHTS
GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE. Don't make me laugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe there is intelligent life out but they know that the rest of the universe is made up of amoeba such as yourself. They do not want to have themselves heard by you ignoramuses otherwise you may start making more nonsensical and utterly stupid pronouncements
I see you probably read the History of World War II from the bottom of a Crispies packet.
I think you one the war because of the combined economic power of the United States and the poulation strength of the Soviet Union (they had people dying like flies over there.)
What where American troop loses in WWII can you say 23 million people....... that's how many the Russians lost. Not to mention that a good section of the Middle East was liberated by Australian Light Horsemen and Infantry.
But that is right the only people who really won WWII where the United States.
Grow a brain you ignoramus read alittle history before you start frothing off at the mouth on topics that you have no idea about!!!
I see you probably read the History of World War II from the bottom of a Crispies packet.
I think you one the war because of the combined economic power of the United States and the Military strength of the Soviet Union (they had people dying like flies over there.)
What where American troop loses in WWII can you say 23 million people....... that's how many the Russians lost. Not to mention that a good section of the Middle East was liberated by Australian Light Horsemen and Infantry.
But that is right the only people who really won WWI where the United States.
Grow a brain you ignoramus read alittle history before you start frothing off at the mouth on topics that you have no idea about!!!
Pseron that's some type of demon right??
If you want to be considered human stop writing such stupid shit to counter stupid shit.
I'm smarter than you. Come on you say that you are older ACT OLDER!!!!!!!!!!1
Aactually if you are looking at stone tablets still with writing I would go for anything that the SUMERIANS may have written. Credited with the first uses of language- to tally up their crops and sheep (whatever agrarian animals they had!) and from then moving onto religion, laws and discourses on astronomy and other such topics.
It might be interesting to note that the EPIC OF GILGAMESH probably had its origins as an old SUMERIAN story.
I do not know why you mention the DEAD SEA SCROLLS the dating of these scrolls to 200BC is highly suspect there has been no credible studies that have concluded this outside fringe date. What methods of dating are you reporting for this CARBON-DATING, THERMO-LUMINESENCE what??? (Not meant to be rude just generally curious!!!)
Even if you use the date of 200 BC there where literally thousands of books at that time.
Try the SUMERIANS it is amazing how overlooked these people are but their technologies and ideas keep be mimicked in cultures that eventually spread out from them eg. Hebrew, Babylonians, Assyrians.....
HOw about do bongs and then write the letter.
Then the editor will think you are a long haired hippie commie!!!
Live long, Bong on
Peace!!!!
I was thinking of something really witty to say but I think a BIG FUCK YOU FOR THAT COMMENT you ignorant motherfucker!!!!
I agree with your points about the Internet, it is silly to believe that this is another theatre of operations in a war.
Great so it looks as if you know something about the Internet. Let's have alook at something else shall we. CHINA is not IRAQ or a "small" country.
Go to a site called Janes Military Weekly and just check out the statistics for NUCLEAR as well as CONVENTIONAL standing armies. You will see that CHINA is very close to both the SUPER POWERS in terms of MILITARY strength. Added to the fact that the CHINESE coastline is the most heavily defended anti-aircraft position in the world you may begin having alittle respect for them.
So repeating an airwar above CHINA. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! How many planes would you like to come back. You have got to be out of your tiny little mind. Yeh your planes where ultra sophisticated when it came to butchering Iraqi's and Serb ground forces and AA positions but let see you go up against some real 4th generation anti-aircraft positions and planes for that matter.
How about taking on the Chinese complements of MIGS especially the new MIG-31 which they have been receiving through new SINO-RUSSIAN agreement. That is another case in point touch CHINA and you will have the OLD RED BEAR jumping down your throat. Oh that's right your not scared of them either. You have your allies in NATO to keep them in check.
Why isn't the UNITED STATES stepping in all over CHECHNYA because they know they cannot win a war against another real power. Its ok to pick the smallest dictators around the world (yes I agree they are madmen and I make no apologies for them) but quite another matter to mix it with a former SUPERPOWER or CHINA. (Case in point that CHINA's economy is the fastest growing economy in the world maxing out at 7% per year - they haven't even begun to influence world politics)
I can't wait personally finally another power who will not be afraid to stand-up to the worlds oldest and most corrupt POLICEMAN.
Glad to see that you are making it consistent.
Wait stop the press what a Grand Unified Theory by 2050 we should get this man working on it. I have been posting to the Slashdot community for awhile now and find the fellow posters here intelligent witty and insightful.
What a brain this man must posses. He can come in here and tell us all that we are all morons.
Buddy- Instead of writing such lofty "high-browed" thought provoking articles to us why don't you (in your divine benevolence) solve the whole of the Unified Theory for us.
It is interesting that you brought up the falling education standards in the United States it seems that YOU where able to slip through the cracks!
AND PS YES I UNDERSTOOD EVERY WORD OF THE ARTICLE YOU PRETENCIOUS BUFFOON
Iraqi's might be stupid but then again perhaps we should look back a couple of thousand years and see which places where the Birth Places of Civilisation.
The real moron here - IS YOU the INDOCTRINATED little shit heel of the NEW WORLD ORDER.
Of course you can feel safe in the knowledge that you protect the innocent from awful gas attacks.
Can anybody say WACO!
Ok I have my BIBLE in front of me. Come on Book and Verse show me all the places where it says the UNIVERSE was made for us. Come on where is it?
Your friend also mentioned that he believed in other planets but not in other life-forms. Ok that is cool. But he goes on to say that nothing that is not mentioned in the BIBLE exists. Come on that is just plain stupidity. How then may I ask does this PLANET get a special dispensation for existence and everything else doesn't. Come on again where does it mention this PLANET in the BIBLE.
It is universally agreed by scientists and theologians alike that the bible is divinely inspired - OH I MUST HAVE BEEN ASLEEP WHEN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE. I am sure if the Scientific community proved or diproved something like this it would be BIG BIG news. Now I am not talking about a bunch of CRETINISTS here (yes I deliberately mispelt it CREATION SCIENTISTS)
It doesn't talk of alot of things in the BIBLE does that mean they do not exist here as some from the top of my head:
GRAVITY, COMPUTERS, UNITED NATIONS, MODEMS, BRITNEY SPEARS, TELEPHONES this list is endless.
Does the BIBLE tell Chrisitians to go onto USENETS and blindly defend things that they know absolutely nothing about. Does it tell you to behave as if you are the better person and everyone else is a scumbag.
Listen buddy - Jesus spent his time with prostitutes and criminals attempting to save them from themselves. In your definition he died for all of us to save us from our SINS. You as a Christian have to RESPECT everybody no matter how you are treated by them (including me!!!)
LOVE, FORGIVENESS and CHARITY do those things ring any bells..... The Christians that I know all display these tendancies. I respect them and love them for who they are and they do the same for me. Much of what I have learnt about Jesus has come from my own reading and then asking them sparking intense but always fulfulling arguements.
I do not see SELF-IMMORTALISATION, SELF-WORTH, PRIDE or ARROGANCE like I see in your "GOD" squad.
I think you guy's should switch sides you already seem to be batting for the other team!
Sorry, sorry I know this continues matters.
What was the intended point of this little pearl of wisedom.
What is your need to attack other people because of their religious beliefs. I know many Christian people (not that theres anything wrong with that!) hell the guitarist in my band is studying to be a minister. He is NOT ARROGANT, studied SCIENCE and PSYCHOLOGY at UNI and believes in EVOLUTION and would laugh his ass off at the GOD SQUAD.
Yes I agree there is IGNORANCE and ARROGANCE on BOTH sides of this "GOD" debate. Hell it has gone on for time immemorial and I challenge anybody to give me proof from EITHER side disproving the existence of GOD or proving it!!!
In a time before people where considered cultured when they where versed in both PHILOSOPHY and SCIENCE. A healthy combination of the 2 will provide us with the biggest understanding.
INTOLERANCE OF ANY KIND IS POINTLESS AND VIOLENT whether that be RELIGIOUS or INTELLECTUAL both have caused more conflict in human kind than any other factor.
Please don't continue this stupidity.
Peace
All Hail Discordia, All Hail Eris!
"There isn't ONE SPECK of evidence for such nonsense, but people keep on talking about it as being "inevitable" .. yeah, right"
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"God might have some surprises in store for these "SETI" types in the afterlife
MMMM....Now who is getting spiteful.
And you call yourself a Christian person or someone who believes in God! Pretending to be an all knowing Pharisee such as yourself with all of your blown up self-importance. Guess what matey you sound like the type of Christian that I keep running into! (one that has never read a word of the Bible and relies on others to spoon feed it to him like your corrupt Church leaders more interested in power on this plane rather than in heaven. My evidence for this is thousands of different Christian groups out there all fighting with one another)
I myself although not a Christian have studied the Bible and Christianity at Univesity. You see I wanted to expand my knowledge not limit it like you seem to be proposing for the rest of the world and the scientific community
Oh and by the way. NO EVIDENCE FOR EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL life. Hey do you know what the this word even means. NOT OF THIS EARTH in LOOSE TERMS. Does that not apply to the HOLY GHOST, SERAPHIM, CHERUBIM and DEMONS. There was an part-extra-terrestrial in the Bible he was CALLED JESUS unless you are now telling us that he was totally human then you yourself are not a Christian!!!!
How do you know that GOD made the Universe just for us. Where does it state this. You could argue quite extensively from passages in GENESIS that he made the EARTH for us but not the whole UNIVERSE. There is no mention of it in the Bible at all. Are you speaking directly to the source if so could you ask him to contact me so I can RUN THIS EVIDENCE past him and ask him the truth
Now I am not saying that SCIENCE is the be all and end all I just hate seeing these types of RELIGIOUS IGNORAMUSES on the NET who have no idea of their religion or of the Bible that they all claim they truly cherish.
Mate- Pick up the BIBLE and begin reading. You will probably find that being an opinionated bigot will not get you into HEAVEN either. THERE WILL BE A SUPRISE for SOME OF YOU SO CALLED CHRISTIANS AS WELL WHEN YOU WORK OUT WHO THE REAL MASTER IS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN SERVING!
And before you take the twig out of my eye take the log out of your own!!
Guess what it doesn't talk about the Theory of Relativity in the Bible or LINUX does that mean they don't exist either