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Offline Ok lets start here.....In 2005 I was stationed out in Hawaii, and going to pick up my 'then' girlfriend, i side-swiped a bus and drove away. I lied to my command about it, and everything got found out. I faced non-judicial punishment (losing rank and pay), as well as a felony conviction on the civilian side. The night after I got back from the police station, I got on my knees and cried out to God, committing myself to him. This girl I had been dating had pulled me away from the church, and I ran back. After that there was no NJP, just 5 written counselings, and on the civilian side i just had to pay court costs. ONLY JESUS.
In 2006, the morning after watch, i ran into some friends that wanted to go to the beach. We ended up at this really high cliff and the dude jumped, then we went to a lower one (like 10 ft) and I jumped. I had no swimming gear. I couldn't beat the current and I got scared. I called out to God and prayed for my life. I got to the side of the cliff, got swept into it by a wave, and got knocked out. By God's grace there were rescue swimmers training around the corner, and they saved me. ONLY JESUS.
Shortly before the swimming accident in 2006, I had been driving some friends to visit another friend in the hospital (she took a face plant riding a moped), and on the way back from the hospital, they are sitting the back seat of my jeep (it was a wrangler), and one of them just happened to whip out a joint. I freak out because i'm in the military with a zero tolerance policy, and my freak out caused me to run a red light infront of a cop. I get pulled over (I forgot to mention I didn't notice till it was lit and I smelled it) and the cop didn't notice and just gave me a ticket for running a red light. ONLY JESUS.
In 2011 I moved out to Chicago to become a drill instructor and met the woman of my dreams. ONLY JESUS.
I was too afraid to tell her about my past, and she accidentally found out about it. We sought Biblical counseling, and are still together. ONLY JESUS
On August 9, 2013 my little baby girl was born, but 8 weeks early. Everybody at the hospital was telling us that she was gonna be there anywhere from 4-6 weeks. Every day that we went in, the NICU nurses told us how amazing she was doing, that he progress was unheard of, and she was out of there in less than 3 weeks. ONLY JESUS.
And that is just the tip of the iceberg for me. Those were the things in my life that immediately came to mind, but there have been too many "close calls" and coincidences that they couldn't be either. ONLY JESUS.
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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JLY wrote : "THIS WEBSITE IS A HATE CRIME CENTER FOR CYBER BULLYING.
This is rich considering you came here. Are you forced to post on this website? No. Is your government putting a gun to your head forcing you to read our posts? No. Are you prevented in any fashion of going to Christian websites and or starting your own religious website? No.
And also, you obviously don't understand the difference between hating a claim and hating a person. We do hate any claim that has no evidence for it. But if you really want us to hate you personally, keep up this false martyrdom complex.
My mom is Catholic, she knows exactly how I feel about religion. I still love her, but if she asked me what I felt about the trinity or symbolic cannibalism she knows what answer I would give her.
I really don't want you to lecture me about bullying. I know what bullying is, even outside religious claims as a kid I was bullied. No, your not being bullied. You are actually playing victim because you don't like the answers you are getting here.
I've had a guy try to have me fired, not based on any words or blasphemy or cussing. I had a guy try to have me fired merely because of seeing ONE WORD "atheist" on my car. And even now my co workers get to listen to religious music and wear crosses, but I cant even say just the word "atheist" before they shut down the conversation and expect me to be a good token atheist and sit at the back of the bus.
I know of atheists who have been kicked out of their apartments, had their property damaged. I know of atheists who fear their parents kicking them out of the house and disowning them. I can point you to atheists who get MURDERED, for no other reason than they left their former religion.
You came here on your own. You are simply upset that we didn't simply roll over like the lost puppies you want us to be. We are not bullying you. Grow up. No one here is going to beat you up or have you arrested.
You think we are bullies? Put on shirt and or hat with the word "atheist" on it. Go out in public. Maybe not all would respond but do it long enough and you will get verbally harassed if not physically assaulted.
No, merely saying "bullshit, that is not true" does not make us bullies.
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Cool. I never tested an MMO but I did a lot of strategy/sports and FPS'ers. I also was a early BBS tester for Oblivion and ran my own board for about seven years. I also was part of the FIDO network and some other forum feeds. I would download the feeds from the central server then other BBS's would call my BBS and download the news/chats/forums/email from me. It was a crazy time. I used to call people all over the world and worked with a lot of people who now are big in the field of games and utilities.
My favorite thing though was getting all the latest games before they were being released. The popularity factor was huge for me at such a young age. Every one that knew me wanted to leech games from me. Even older geeks who normally would scare the shit out of me in school were all friendly to me.
Before HD's came around, every thing was on 3.5 diskettes or 5.25 floppies. To get a game from me usually would cost 20 disks. I had thousands of disks at the time I took down my BBS. I chucked every thing in to the garbage but what I didn't know was how popular I could have been today with all those crappy games.
There are a couple of websites which deal in distribution of those old games which are now "free domain" and they make a nice paycheck charging for them. In fact, there are a few games which you can't find any where now because the game was so shitty that people didn't want it. Remember the story about Atari and that game which was a complete failure? Hmmm what was it? I'll need to look it up.
Anyway, Atari failed at the game so bad that they took all the copies and buried them out in the desert, but several copies got out to the public.
Those copies are worth 10-25 thousand dollars if you have the original box.
take it easy there guy......it is very simple and easy to see that varying beliefs came from the spread of Noah's decendants after the flood, but that doesn't make God any less real than He is. We aren't talking myths and legends here, we are talking TRUTH. The truth is nothing but the truth. It just IS. God still can and will forgive you of your sin, you just have to trust in Him. Atheism is no better than the god complex the 5% nation has.
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Testing MMOs is pretty much just dealing with the latency and not so much the mechanics. Every single one I tested had major connection issues and trouble staying stable. Poor planning, expectations of traffic were underestimated, the graphics were alienating people whose rigs weren't powerful enough, etc. I'm glad those issues with today's MMOs are pretty much squared away, though.
I pirated and had early release games, but I got them from a friend of mine. Nowadays, if you want to play the old games, you have to get DOS Box or something and it can be a bitch to use from what I understand unless there is another program out there.
The game was E.T., I believe. Itt was so dreadful, they supposedly took every last copy into the desert and buried them. The ones that had been purchased, well, they couldn't do much about that, but every other copy still in stores were purged. They created such a buzz around the game because of E.T. that when gamers got it, they were just shocked at how awful it truly was. Spielberg's name was reportedly on the project, too, which added insult to injury. This game reviewer called The Angry Video Game Nerd, a charlatan and huge egomaniac now by the way, made a movie this past year revolving around the quest to uncover those buried copies. Disregarding who he his, his attitude and mediocrity, I would be interested to see if he actually did find them.
Testing MMOs is pretty much just dealing with the latency and not so much the mechanics. Every single one I tested had major connection issues and trouble staying stable. Poor planning, expectations of traffic were underestimated, the graphics were alienating people whose rigs weren't powerful enough, etc. I'm glad those issues with today's MMOs are pretty much squared away, though.
I pirated and had early release games, but I got them from a friend of mine. Nowadays, if you want to play the old games, you have to get DOS Box or something and it can be a bitch to use from what I understand unless there is another program out there.
The game was E.T., I believe. Itt was so dreadful, they supposedly took every last copy into the desert and buried them. The ones that had been purchased, well, they couldn't do much about that, but every other copy still in stores were purged. They created such a buzz around the game because of E.T. that when gamers got it, they were just shocked at how awful it truly was. Spielberg's name was reportedly on the project, too, which added insult to injury. This game reviewer called The Angry Video Game Nerd, a charlatan and huge egomaniac now by the way, made a movie this past year revolving around the quest to uncover those buried copies. Disregarding who he his, his attitude and mediocrity, I would be interested to see if he actually did find them.
Ah yes, ET the game was the one Atari encased in concrete after crushing the cartridges. Then buried it in a New Mexico landfill. Unfortunatley you can get a copy of that game for pennies. They shipped over 2.4 million copies of the game and sold 24.5 million dollars worth, but it cost over 100 million to make because they had to pay for the rights to the movie. They would have been better off not spending all that money to pay for the movie rights.
The game I was thinking about was Stadium Events from Bandai. The box alone sells for $10,000 but if you have both the game and the box it will sell for $25,000.
I had heard in the news that this lady had a son who was in the military. He, I think died, and she went in to the attic to sell off some of his stuff.
She found an old Nitendo system with a bunch of games of which she had a copy of this game.
She sold the entire package for almost $23,000!!!
CRAZY SHIT!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadium_Events
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No dumbass, you assume the flood happened, which it did not.
Flood myths occur in prior religions to the Hebrews. Epic of Gilgamesh.. pre dates your comic book. Has the same motif of saving himself and his family and livestock. Humans did not know how big the earth actually was, so when a local flood happened, they falsely thought that the local flood was the entirety of the world.
Not to mention no archeology outside Mesopotamia shows any evidence, say in China or Japan or the Americas of the the biblical comic book story.
The bible is a comic book a spin off of prior pollytheism. It is not a history book or science textbook. It is a comic book.
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The expected response from a theist is "they had free will".... which leads you to the following:
If god destroyed all the wicked by flooding the Earth then he must have known they were going to be wicked because god knows everything.
If god knows every thing, then flooding the Earth was preplanned, which means humans were created to fail, which means we don't have free will.
Then "god" admits to making an error and promises "never to do it again", which shows god is not perfect because it admitted to an error.
here's some Adam and Eve, for ya!
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The entire bible reads like a brat playing an X-Box who keeps hitting reset when he cant get his players to do what he wants.
God playing the Eden level, "FUCK, I didn't want you to eat the apple, yes I did, and I made a bet with Satan.
RESET
God playing the Noah level, "Fuck these bastards still wont do what I say, I'll show them"
RESET
God playing the Jesus level, "Ok, I'll clone myself, commit a fake suicide, to save them from the game I didn't have to set up"
RESET
God playing the Revelations level, "FUCK IT, I'LL JUST SMASH THE ENTIRE FUCKING X-BOX AND GO HOME"
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Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
No, there is no such thing as a Poofdaddy with a magic wand. Your god is like any other, your own wishful thinking and narcissism. "God" is simply koolaid you swallow, a sugar pill. I cant stop you from believing that crap. But that is your baggage not mine. You are going to have a very hard time trying to sell your crap here. you can certainly try, no one will stop you. But please dont think that emotional stories and circular reasoning will work on us. We don't give your pet god claim any special treatment.
The bible is a comic book, just like the Torah, Talmud, Reg Vedas and Koran. Myths written by ignorant goat herders.
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I'm glad you finally admitted that Adi Parashakti exists.
Wait... Day 1 of creation?
Is it possible that we have a theist that has never asked THE QUESTION and gotten the bullshit answer?
What or who created your god?
If this has already been addressed previously in this thread, I've missed it, JesusLovesYou.
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To the board's own JLY ::
Alot of things are left unaddressed. Are you refusing to tell us something JLY ? By no means to be over critical. In a refusal to engage we're left with this pattern to these threads of yours, only to invite all of this, the more . I'd like to find an OP that would take the time to comment to each and every post in the/their thread, even if it took a mo
unth of Tuesdays. Overall this entire thread, most certainly, ended up as an event to offer a huge heaping dose of humility. Which nobody likes to see. Yet strangely I seriously doubt you (JLY) are wiser for it!! Maybe it was when you (JLY) were overconfident ? You've refused to accept personal responsibility, throughout!! Or Maybe with JLK has forever lacked (any) sense, I couldn't tell you how everyone or anyone should think other.Engage, even if it is just a comment. Instead of the behaviour that only inevitably inflames the Punch and Judy (well known in Europe) show, all of JLY Thread fizzle out due to you (JLY).
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There were no facts presented. Only the typical response, "god exists because I believe in it"
Yep, because ultimately that is all believers are really arguing, regardless of the religion or pet god claim. It still all amounts to arguing for a "Poofdaddy".
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A woman wronged. "I heard the Devil's voice today" ¬ Degarmo & Key Band
The Play ( Act 3)
OTHELLO
Lie with her? lie on her? We say “lie on her” when they belie her! Lie with her—that’s fulsome. Handkerchief—confessions—handkerchief! To confess, and be hanged for his labor. First to be hanged, and then to confess—I tremble at it, by hearing all this. Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some instruction! It is not words that shake me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips. Is ’t possible? Confess!—Handkerchief!—Oh, devil!—
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OTHELLO
In bed with her? On lie on top of her? I would have thought people were incontrovertibly telling lies about her rather than believe he was lying on top of her. My God, it’s nauseating! Handkerchief—confessions—handkerchief! I’ll kill him first, and then let him confess—I’m trembling with rage. I wouldn’t be trembling like this if I didn’t know deep down this was all true. Noses, ears, lips. Is it possible? Tell me the truth—Handkerchief—Oh, Damnation!
IAGO
Work on, My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught, by the lie.
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
All guiltless, meet reproach.—What, ho! My lord!
My lord, I say! Othello!
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IAGO
Keep working, poisonous LIES! This is the way to trick gullible fool, My Lord. Many good and INNOCENT women are punished for reasons like this.—My lord? My lord, the Othello!
Radiant Emilia, Desdemona's servant and Iago's wife, upon discovering the RUSE, to poison the mind of Othello, fore her innocence stands out like a beacon, so raises the alarm bells and declares Iago to be a true liar before Montano and Gratiano . . .