He means that the main character can't kill kids (although there are exceptions -- if you've ever played Heavy Rain to the end, you'll know what I mean). The last game I remember you could do that (because I did it accidentally once) was Fallout (the original), and I think in the sequel you could as well. If you did, you got labeled a "child killer" and people would shun you. It's also possible in the turn based strategy game, Jagged Alliance 2, but again, if you do, the whole village you're trying to liberate ends up hating you and you can't get any resources of them to fight your little war. Games used to make killing kids possible, and such actions had serious consequences. Nowadays, you can shoot a kid in the head (Falllout 3, Skyrim, etc), and nothing at all happens (the kids are magically invulnerable). I'm not sure it's good to be teaching that as an example.
Blablabla! America bad! Islamists good! Get a clue. We went into Iraq because Saddam played chicken with a freight train and lost. Religion had nothing to do with it. We thought, wrongly, that he had wmds. Anything else is a conspiracy theory.
And I see a grand total of six murders according to Wikipedia. Contrast this with over twenty thousand seperate Islamic terrorist incidents since 9/11, and that's not even a body count. Just yesterday there were attacks in Syria, Afghanistan, and Thailand. I hate all religion, but you have to be completely blind to think that every religion is equally harmful.
So the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia who declared "I only deemed it lawful to kill whoever claims that the sun is static and refuses to repent of this after clarification." was a lunatic proclaiming stuff. Sadly people did have to listen to him. That's your defined methodology right there in Islam. Cleric in power gets to decide what is science.
I fail to see how that's compassionate in context, considering what refusing to repent entailed. Let's skip a few verses.
O you who have believed, fight those adjacent to you of the disbelievers and let them find in you harshness. And know that Allah is with the righteous.
9:123
Please continue to show me where the compassion is. Oh wait. We're at the end of the chapter. Seems funny to me you had to skip 117 verses to find the one remotely merciful gift, and even that was pathetic when put in context. The entire fucking chapter is about making war on non-Muslims, and it's hardly alone in the Qur'an.
Pray tell me what "mercy" the Qur'an says such Atheists as myself are subject to, per Sura 9, verse 5, et al.
This is true, however Sunnis still practice it, whether or not they call it that or not. The example goes right back to Muhammad: ""Narrated Ka'b ibn Malik: When the Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) intended to go on an expedition, he always pretended to be going somewhere else, and he would say: War is deception."
Abu Dawud 14:2629" See also Sahih Bukhari 4:52:267 ("War is deceit"). There are many hadiths that make lying permissable if the practicing of one's faith (quite a broad category in Islam) is threatened. There are even hadith that make it permissible to lie in order to get close to a person for the purposes of killing them (Sahih Bukhari 5:59:369). In that case, it was a Jewish poet who insulted Muhammad. This is also the reason anybody of sufficient profile who insults Muhammad today has to hire protection.
Is that why the grand fucking mufti of Saudi Arabia declared the world was flat and anybody who denied it a Kufr (infidel), therefore making them into apostates deserving of death? Is that your pro-science religion. Take your propaganda, print it out, roll it up, wrap it in a condom and go fuck yourself with it.
Every single day, without exception, there is a suicide bombing, or a car bombing, or some other act of Islamic terror if you pay attention. Can you honestly say that one or two isolated incidents universally condemned makes the two religions equivalent. Now let me be clear I don't like Christianity, but as Sam Harris notes, some religions are far, far, far more dangerous than others.
Cites: the Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Their publications are considered to be canon by most of Sunni Islam, and yest, the death penalty is proscribed for apostasy. Here's some more love from the democratic Egypt. Hey. But at least they didn't kill the mother and kids. Congratulations on cheering on such democratic values of peace and love.
Only Muslims are considered to be Muslims from birth according to Islam, so nobody really gets a choice. In "democratic" Egypt, just last week seven children were charged, along with the mother, for apostasy. This happens every fucking week if you pay attention.
Most religions are like that because they do not tell believers what to do with contradictions. Islam does. Quran 2:106 says: "Whatever communications We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring one better than it or like it. Do you not know that Allah has power over all things?". Here is a partial list of abrogations (keep in mind the Qur'an is not arranged chronologically.
Wahhabi Islam / Sunni Salafists are just as nuts, if not worse than the Twelvers. Why your comment was modded informative is beyond me. You're making it sound as if only Twelver Shiites are insane when the insanity covers the whole gamut of Quran thumpers.
Actually, Ahmed/Ahmet is an Islamic name, like Muhammad. Same as how only Christians get named "Jesus" (though almost always in Spanish speaking countries).
Because they know what a hassle it is to do everything through your browser, especially on a mobile connection. How long do you think battery life is going to be for your average user streaming mp3s over 3g? They cannot download them or otherwise usefully cache them locally, unlike Google Music for Android, so I'm not sure how many people are going to be willing to use this despite the massive disadvantages.
Hemp is not a low-THC strain. It's the male plant. The female plant is psychoactive. The male plant (hemp) is not. Also, Obama said the feds would not go after recreational users, which they never have, so he essentially said nothing will change.
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He means that the main character can't kill kids (although there are exceptions -- if you've ever played Heavy Rain to the end, you'll know what I mean). The last game I remember you could do that (because I did it accidentally once) was Fallout (the original), and I think in the sequel you could as well. If you did, you got labeled a "child killer" and people would shun you. It's also possible in the turn based strategy game, Jagged Alliance 2, but again, if you do, the whole village you're trying to liberate ends up hating you and you can't get any resources of them to fight your little war. Games used to make killing kids possible, and such actions had serious consequences. Nowadays, you can shoot a kid in the head (Falllout 3, Skyrim, etc), and nothing at all happens (the kids are magically invulnerable). I'm not sure it's good to be teaching that as an example.
When we kill civilians, it's accidental is the difference. Or at least unavoidable. When they kill, civilians are more often than not the target.
And our interference with Iran had to do with the Soviet threat at the time. Not religion.
Blablabla! America bad! Islamists good! Get a clue. We went into Iraq because Saddam played chicken with a freight train and lost. Religion had nothing to do with it. We thought, wrongly, that he had wmds. Anything else is a conspiracy theory.
And how many fucking centuries did the Pope claim Galileo was wrong? It was only in 1992 that the Catholic church admitted he was right.
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/31/world/after-350-years-vatican-says-galileo-was-right-it-moves.html
The difference is that at lest for the last few centuries, the Vatican didn't say you should kill over it. This cleric did, and it was recent.
And I see a grand total of six murders according to Wikipedia. Contrast this with over twenty thousand seperate Islamic terrorist incidents since 9/11, and that's not even a body count. Just yesterday there were attacks in Syria, Afghanistan, and Thailand. I hate all religion, but you have to be completely blind to think that every religion is equally harmful.
What if the apostate is a woman. Can she freely leave, say, Saudi Arabia?
So the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia who declared "I only deemed it lawful to kill whoever claims that the sun is static and refuses to repent of this after clarification." was a lunatic proclaiming stuff. Sadly people did have to listen to him. That's your defined methodology right there in Islam. Cleric in power gets to decide what is science.
9:123
Please continue to show me where the compassion is. Oh wait. We're at the end of the chapter. Seems funny to me you had to skip 117 verses to find the one remotely merciful gift, and even that was pathetic when put in context. The entire fucking chapter is about making war on non-Muslims, and it's hardly alone in the Qur'an.
Pray tell me what "mercy" the Qur'an says such Atheists as myself are subject to, per Sura 9, verse 5, et al.
This is true, however Sunnis still practice it, whether or not they call it that or not. The example goes right back to Muhammad: ""Narrated Ka'b ibn Malik: When the Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) intended to go on an expedition, he always pretended to be going somewhere else, and he would say: War is deception." Abu Dawud 14:2629" See also Sahih Bukhari 4:52:267 ("War is deceit"). There are many hadiths that make lying permissable if the practicing of one's faith (quite a broad category in Islam) is threatened. There are even hadith that make it permissible to lie in order to get close to a person for the purposes of killing them (Sahih Bukhari 5:59:369). In that case, it was a Jewish poet who insulted Muhammad. This is also the reason anybody of sufficient profile who insults Muhammad today has to hire protection.
Is that why the grand fucking mufti of Saudi Arabia declared the world was flat and anybody who denied it a Kufr (infidel), therefore making them into apostates deserving of death? Is that your pro-science religion. Take your propaganda, print it out, roll it up, wrap it in a condom and go fuck yourself with it.
Every single day, without exception, there is a suicide bombing, or a car bombing, or some other act of Islamic terror if you pay attention. Can you honestly say that one or two isolated incidents universally condemned makes the two religions equivalent. Now let me be clear I don't like Christianity, but as Sam Harris notes, some religions are far, far, far more dangerous than others.
Cites: the Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Their publications are considered to be canon by most of Sunni Islam, and yest, the death penalty is proscribed for apostasy. Here's some more love from the democratic Egypt. Hey. But at least they didn't kill the mother and kids. Congratulations on cheering on such democratic values of peace and love.
Only Muslims are considered to be Muslims from birth according to Islam, so nobody really gets a choice. In "democratic" Egypt, just last week seven children were charged, along with the mother, for apostasy. This happens every fucking week if you pay attention.
Most religions are like that because they do not tell believers what to do with contradictions. Islam does. Quran 2:106 says: "Whatever communications We abrogate or cause to be forgotten, We bring one better than it or like it. Do you not know that Allah has power over all things?". Here is a partial list of abrogations (keep in mind the Qur'an is not arranged chronologically.
I'll take your challenge. Why don't you explain to me where the compassion is in Sura 9.
Wahhabi Islam / Sunni Salafists are just as nuts, if not worse than the Twelvers. Why your comment was modded informative is beyond me. You're making it sound as if only Twelver Shiites are insane when the insanity covers the whole gamut of Quran thumpers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad
Actually, Ahmed/Ahmet is an Islamic name, like Muhammad. Same as how only Christians get named "Jesus" (though almost always in Spanish speaking countries).
That was Free, NOT Orange. Different ISP.
Because they know what a hassle it is to do everything through your browser, especially on a mobile connection. How long do you think battery life is going to be for your average user streaming mp3s over 3g? They cannot download them or otherwise usefully cache them locally, unlike Google Music for Android, so I'm not sure how many people are going to be willing to use this despite the massive disadvantages.
Ha ha. No. I think it's just the fact that the male plants have almost no THC.
You're right. I'm not sure why I thought that.
Hemp is not a low-THC strain. It's the male plant. The female plant is psychoactive. The male plant (hemp) is not. Also, Obama said the feds would not go after recreational users, which they never have, so he essentially said nothing will change.
I think a lot of people enjoyed it, myself included. It's a pity you can't switch it back to the old way in the BFG edition (re-release).