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Nov 19, 2011hiero posted a message on Diablo 3 Beta Patch 6 Screenshots, Monster AffixesI bet yall are glad I made that thread about monster affixesPosted in: News
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Jun 6, 2011hiero posted a message on SteelSeries Diablo GearI've been meaning to get a headset, pretty sure I'll go with the glowing demonic noise canceling one over the majority. Besides, they look comfy.Posted in: News
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May 31, 2011hiero posted a message on Heart of the Swarm PreviewThat was a great article, I would've missed out on it if it hadn't been posted here. I'm a huge starcraft fan but I don't follow the news on it, I just go over to friends' houses and drink beer watching gsl tournaments.Posted in: News
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May 18, 2011hiero posted a message on Sixteenth Batch of Screenshots and ArtPray forgive me, I've had a few.Posted in: News
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May 18, 2011hiero posted a message on Sixteenth Batch of Screenshots and ArtI feel like Blizzard just punched us all in the nuts. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I heard we were promised pictures, plural. I'm not picky about what, hell, just show me the wizard ownin some demons with her lazor.Posted in: News
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I'm not an expert on this matter
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Since 1920, the world's population has been growing at an exponential rate, reaching 2 billion in 1927, 3 billion in 1960, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1987, and 6 billion in 1999. It's projected to reach 7 billion by Halloween by the United Nations, but the United States Census Bureau pushes it back until next March. With the almost explosive world population growth, we've experienced a rather severe increase in things humans do, i.e. eating, defecating, farting, but namely breathing. I had a thought that seemed a little silly, but had that kernel of plausibility that odd facts normally have. I wondered that with the enormous increase in breathing, where does all the body heat we give off go?
It's been said that adults breathe 18,000 - 30,000 times a day. We have approximately 3.8 or 3.9 times more people giving off that heat than we did 100 years ago. Is that enough to make a difference in the world climate?
In short, global warming is caused by mouth breathers.
Give it a moment's thought and discuss it.
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I've stayed overlong in this thread trying to just spread some background on that passage. I've done what I can do and I'm tired of my points being picked over down to the wording when I'm just trying to give people information. I'm tired of people quoting me and responding to what I'm saying like I'm condemning them and everyone that has the same lifestyle to the darkness. Double standards piss me off, too. I guess you can't have a discussion on the internet where both sides assume the other's humanity and allow a little room for error and try to work through it. Most of what I've received in this thread seems like it has been filled with thinly veiled malice, but that may just be me. If it's not just me, I hope deep inside you have a kernel of shame that eats away at you until you PM me an apology.
And quite frankly, I'm just tired of some people acting like I'm a complete idiot.
Honestly nekro, if I can't use current knowledge to explain that leviticus passage, what knowledge should I use? Mid 20'th century? That's not a good one. 19'th century? Still not a good one. I'm not going to go through and respond to your points simply because they're frivolous and silly. Do some research and learn how to carry on a polite conversation with quibbling over shit like this. And no they didn't have fucking condoms back then. Birth control was the woman's responsibility.
There's a reason these threads don't work out. It's because someone comes along and responds with malice and pisses everyone off.
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Because it's more dangerous to screw my boyfriend in the butt then it is for me to screw my girlfriend in the butt, right?
Then again, condom's were not around either.
Wait...yes they were...for four hundred years...
I don't know what denomination you are, BlackShepherd, but I've NEVER seen that Christians are supposed to behave like doormats. When good men stand back and let shit go down, then that's when they stop being good men. I suppose you mean we should all be pacifists, but you're wrong. There's a time and place for everything - I'm sure you've heard that before.
I'm not saying that I condone the persecution of people, I'm saying that Christianity is by no means a passive religion. It should be an active religion that actively does good things for the betterment of others. A log can sit back and say, "what will come will come," but a man is supposed to be a bit more resourceful. Sure unavoidable shit happens, but I've never seen it where we're directed to twiddle our thumbs while we're oppressed. The beginnings of the church was underground because of persecution. They didn't sit back say, "I accept this injustice." No, they said, "fuck that, we'll do it anyway."
I know I'm probably exaggerating your point a little bit, but Christ was no human carpet. Neither was Peter, or Paul, or any of the other disciples... Mercy and justice are duties.
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well, I have to go to class, I might come back to this thread later. I really really hope necro doesn't try to dispute this point, as it's supported by science. Source on request.
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Actually, it does condemn promiscuity, and there is a moratorium on heterosexual activity, mainly during a woman's monthly. (I had to look up moratorium, but i suspect we have different definitions from your context) I never said that Gay is a slang word for promiscuity, I was condemning promiscuity, and yes I know that you're monogamous. I may have miscommunicated... I meant to touch on the greatly increased risk of std's in homosexual activity in comparison with heterosexual activity, not imply that homosexuals were promiscuous.
I escape that literalist interpretation by an acute understanding of the characteristics God has shown to value. It requires a deeper study than just reading something like " And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell." and the next time you jerk off, after you finish, lose a hand. Blind obedience is nice, but understanding the spirit of the law is much more important. If you read all the laws that Israel had, you realize there's no way you could follow them, much less follow the spirit of them. And you begin to understand the need for the sacrifices, because no one could follow the law - all who tried were equally failures at it (except one).
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Sure they took place, because people like the pharisees were extremists gunning for a literal interpretation without looking at context and examining the deeper messages like "what characteristics should the people that pride themselves as God's chosen people portray?"
Actually I was referring to the plethora of bacteria and venereal diseases that were present without the sophisticated medical practices we have today. It wasn't a dig at HIV, it was a dig at how promiscuity could and frequently did result in the death of those involved, due to the myriad micro-organisms not found elsewhere on the body. I hope you're not offended, I thought it was known fact.
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I guarantee that no parent ever allowed their child to be stoned over words said during a moment of heat. The same with adultery. A moment's indiscretion doesn't deserve a loss of life, but such things need to be dealt with regardless, because they are serious issues.
As for homosexuality, I want to think that it was included for health reasons, as a great many things were. I can list them if you'd like but I'd prefer to not have to go through all of them.......
Crazies who don't use their brain about these things tend to wander off the trail of logic and love.
im gone out for smokes, be back in a bit to respond to responses
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I'd rather not debate doctrinal differences in this thread, no offense intended, but since you addressed it, the least I can do is respond.
1) It seems to me what you're getting at is similar to what we debated in high school as the "White Room Baby." (essentially it's a baby raised in a white room with no contact with people and the question is posed "will it go to heaven?" my response was "why on earth would someone do that?") My response to this is to thank God that I don't have to judge those people that haven't heard the Good Word, as you put it. Yes, I dodged the question. Speculating what happens after our death is a little foolish, given how little we've been told. Speculating about what happens after someone else's death is more than a little foolish, for who can fully know another man? I'll not do it.
2) This argument ran by me a little fast, it seemed ready to collapse all by itself :(. Yes, there are instances in the Bible where the existence of God is treated as a given, but belief and faith by no means discounted. There's plenty of instances where the reality of God shocks those involved. And just as many instances where doubt plays a role in events.
If I were an arguing man, I'd concede the point about there being room for unbelievers in God's plan. I'd place them as a) uninformed or skeptics or c) followers of a different religion. I'm tired and have lost the thread of what I'm trying to explain.......... It was something about loving people, I think... Or maybe not being concerned with hypothetical ignorant savages, instead concentrating on living your life as best as you can? It was something like that..... Fuck it, Jesus rescues me from my sins, I'm sure He wont leave people hanging out to dry just because they haven't heard of Him.
Yes that's what I was trying to get at through metaphor. Apparently I'm not as good at metaphor as I thought I was.
Nope, there had to be an ability to choose in order to fully love. You can't force love, otherwise it's mind control (you get the picture). Lucifer had to be there, had to be able to tempt them so that they could act out of God's will and obey. For what is obedience if all of God's commands were in line with Man's will? There had to be something that was contrary to what our desires are for us to truly choose to love God. As for everything being amoral in the Garden of Eden, that doesn't seem logical.
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I said I didn't want to debate doctrinal differences in this thread, and I still don't. I only wanted to outline that I believe, what I believe, and respond to a common argument I've seen.
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Alright, I didn't read the entire topic since I'm a bit on the lazy side, but I'm sure some fantastic points have been made on the religious side of the debate, and some incredible logical fallacies pointed out by the (for the sake of brevity, I'll generalize) atheists.
First off, I'd like to discuss the thesis of your first post, proletaria:
With a topic title like you have, I was ready to descend with disdainful contempt on your thread and condemn it to the flames for approaching a matter such as this with such hostility. Then, I read your post and realized this was a civil discussion reaching for enlightenment, not a thinly veiled attempt at bashing my beliefs like so many I've seen before. Personally, I don't understand why people think it's fun to do that as anyone, in a moment of anger, can portray themselves and others affiliated with them as much less than they really are. But that's beside the point of this post.
I believe because I choose to believe. A corollary to that, depending on your beliefs, believe it or not, is that I've been chosen to believe. Personally, I think everyone's been chosen to believe, some people just haven't chosen to believe. I'd also like to be quite clear in that I believe in the existence of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
Now that we've established what I believe and the bare skeleton of why, I'll go in to a bit of detail. Let's have a look at the nature of God, in particular, where He is. If wikipedia can be trusted, (I've looked for a relatively neutral source) then God omnipresent. With the linkage of space and time, as has been proven by science, this means that God is everywhen, also. Let us assume we agree thus far on the nature of God if He exists, which I maintain that He does. Simplified, God is outside outside the bounds of time and space. Forgive me if I assume that you know the difficulty in reaching any sort of evidence in proving in temporal and spatial terms the existence of the one being that is not only beyond those boundaries, but can move through them as you and I would move through water (a weak metaphor, but I hope you get my point).
I've heard it claimed before that God can't exist simply because evil exists. This theory irritates me to no end because it oversimplifies. That plaintive voice whining, "How could a God that is good allow this world to be filled with such evil?" is a coward for refusing to dive deeply into the matter see what exactly happened to bring about evil. (For this point I'll speak as if you believe, pray forgive me) Simply put, man was created to love. A part of love is the ability to not love, a choosing to love. We were created to experience all good things, and one of those is obedience. To choose to love by acting not by our own will, but by another's. And so, Eve was tempted, caved, and Adam listened to her and caved, too. It's my belief, and I've seen this belief reflected in others such as C.S. Lewis and Ted Dekkar, that sinning (doing evil things) became much easier after "The Fall of Man." I realize this is vague, and presently I will explain it to the best of my ability.
If you read Genesis, it speaks of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It was not God's wish that we choose that fruit, because there's nothing good about evil. He only wanted good things for us, so He gave them to us. Thus we had the knowledge of Good. In the choosing of that Tree, we gained knowledge of Evil, and now that we know it and have it, it's difficult to stop. The paradise of only good was lost, and then we had evil along with the good.
That covers some of the points, but that is by no means the entire picture. I'd like to take this opportunity to commend proletaria for asking about this topic without hostility, and, as an aside to give you a bit of background on my character, would like to condemn the condemning of others. Christianity doesn't teach disowning or hatred or redneck ignorance about real issues. It just says to love God, love others, and love yourself. It is surprisingly difficult, though.
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you'd've is a real word where i'm from. don't hate 'cause I'm proficient at using contractions.
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It's simply not cost effective fun.
Chances are the people that can do that, will more likely put their efforts into creating more effective bots and hacks / exploits / cheats w/e...
OT: I can see how someone not realizing "jailbreak" is actual term, instead of slang/jargon, could use it in this context. Online only being the jail, offline multi and single being freedom...
this post could be biased...... I'm not sure that my opinion on online only isn't influencing my reasoning.
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