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Oooh, insults. I haven't faced those before. I have faith that the prophets like Moses were telling the truth. Maybe physical appearances was a bad choice of words, but...yeah. Direct divine influence.

...*Puts on a helmet.* Edit the God out! EDIT THE GOD OUT!

...Sorry. Just...Raven being Raven. 8-) I'm sorry, I should be studying for finals, but Tip.It called. Anywhooo. The source of the MONOTHEISTIC Abrahmic God is through prophets and physical appearances of the Lord. Not because people just said so. That was there the polytheistic greek gods, like Hephaestus and Zeus came from.

The former. I'm not trying to make a religious debate (though the latter holds to be perfectly true for me - but obviously not for everybody.) I think that without the whimsical hope that fairy tales inspire, and, indeed, are, life as we know it, in this very macabre, rigid, and repetitive world, would simply not be worth enduring. I'm like an optimistic pessimist :twss: P.S. Yeah...this is totally not a religious debate. The use of God was analogous. Substitute with dwarf, for all I care.

Theory of God? ...Back then? Not exactly. People have been embodying spirituality since we decided "Hey, I'm not a monkey any more." Eh, it's not a crime to be ignorant of things most of the world doesn't know, and none of us really understand. Are you talking about the 'G' in God being capitalized as opposed to 'g'od? Because it's really just simple grammar: God is a proper noun, like a name. Therefore, it's first letter in capitalized...I wouldn't call you lenticular, I'd call you Lenticular. Similiarly, you should call me Raven, not raven.

I was reading the 'Is God Real Post Your Thoughts!' post when I heard somebody call God a fairy-tale, so that's when I wrote this. (Or maybe it was in something I watched?) It's hard to explain in words. I'm not...Hmph. This is hellish. I'm not proposing that there are actually centaurs and dwarves and the like out there. I am trying to say that Fairy Tales, and therefore the belief in something more than life on earth (especially in Denver, where I live, or New York or Chicago, and NOT just a theistic perspective) is the only reason why life still holds value. At least, for me. I don't really know what that other thing is, though. EDIT: Maybe I'm trying to say that there is a hope that there are magical universes in those little spaces, and getting to those little places for a better life is a form of hopeful fairytale? Damn, this idea seemed so much better in my head last night!

I would want to live forever. First off, I wouldn't get to talk to God. But past theology, I have an even more important (Though infinitely more cheesy) reason. I'd keep losing the people I love. I'm a very affectionate guy. When I love somebody, I really love them. I mean, if my brother died (he's my closest family member) I'd probably enter an eternal depression. I was pretty distraught after my girlfriend broke up with me. I mean, if I went through life, Immortal, got married, when she withered away from age, I'd go insane, being forced to endure her absence for eternity.

So it's decided. God is a h4xxj0r. I'ma call the internet police.

When I say Fairy Tales, I mean more than just the little piggies and the big bad wolf. There are so many things that people consider to be fanciful fairy tales to be loved and adored by little children...but that are not acceptable in the big world of stock market, global recession, and a global upheaval against Islamic fundamentalism. (That really what it is - 'You can practice this, this, and this about your religion, but not this.) I think we could all use to believe in a few more fairy tales...I mean, that childish against-all-odds hope that is generally ignored by hard calculated thinkers. I think without this 'fairy-tale' life would be incredibly bleak. Fairy tales in every form, though it may seem childish, seem to kindle a kind of hope in me that no artificial invention of man (society, politics, organized religion, the economy) can match. I feel like I'm being immature, but if I didn't believe that there was something more out there...something that defied all the rules and gave life a mystical sort of hope that added a twinkle to my eye and a fire to my heart, I just don't think that this life would be worth living. IN SHORT. What do you think the world would be like without fairy-tales? And...hell, just do you guys think it's stupid for a grown man like me to still believe in other worlds filled with lovely creatures like dwarves and hobbits that defy all the rules? P.S. I'm not insane. Just...a dreamer. :

[/hide] I'd be scared as [bleep] if I saw that. Then don't divide by 0!

Can God create a rock so large even He cannot move it... God will create the rock, then He'll break it and move it. Can God create a pie so large even He cannot eat it... God will create the pie, then he will eat it over a long period of time. I don't know. These are very circular logical arguments. Trying to figure out God is like trying to divide by 0. All you get is this:

Yeah, she's supposed to be Alyx. I think they did an OK job of it, but she just looks better in my opinion. As for the camera angle...it puts a nice spin on the game. I don't really view as much easier or harder; sure you can see behind you, but it doesn't really help a whole lot. You can turn around in time to be facing the zombie when it hits you, but you still get hit. And the view makes it harder to aim...ah well, pros and cons. It isn't permanent at least; I have it hotkeyed so I can change perspectives whenever. As for the rest of the skins, yeah, I really love 'em all. Louis is nice enough, I just hate the lack of grime. I guess I use the third-person perspective for being awesome at Versus :twss: and because I hate the first person perspective on the guns (especially the shotguns - you can only see like, the tip of the shotgun.) Cad, for your problem, it might be...a failure to initialize the software? That's what I'd guess, which might be a bug on your OS, but I can't be sure, and I'd sure as hell not go off my advice. 'tis too amateurish to go off as reliable, but if I had to guess, that'd be mine.

Dead Air is my favorite campaign. Blood Harvest is fine, so is Death Toll, but No Mercy just gets...it's a good campaign, but I've played it so many damn times on Versus and Campaign. By the way, have you guys skinned anything / anybody in the game? I'm a big fan of customization, but there isn't much out. I got... Third person strangely enough works great in Campaign...but in order to get a far back view (farther back away from the shoulder so you can see behind you) you need sv_cheats 1 on the server, which none have. But this shoulder view works fine. I love the Zoey skin. Makes her fit into the whole zombie 'pocalypse better. Now I just need something for Louis... Try FPSBANANA for any skins you need, but the L4D section is pretty damn small now. Though they do have some very funny sprays that you can download, like the safe-house graffiti.

Mmmmm...maybe. I have just always thought that philosophy would be better implemented on a larger scale. Still, even on an individual basis, I think that Epicureanism can be used for a betterment of society. (I mean, if a priest gives a vow of poverty, that money is (hopefully) going to be going to somebody else who needs it, right?) All in all, a fine philosophy. Over-indulgence is always bad, and that's an undisputed truth, but no indulging seems to be something that somebody would do for a purpose higher than themselves (ie, to help the poor, to their God, for their wives,) but, any way you slice it...not that bad of a philosophy.

Jacob, whatever. I know it's a romance, and I've read romance. Twilight just seemed to drag. I'm not a big masculine guy, either. In fact, I'm pretty wimpy. (I mean, I dated a hippie/goth chick for most of freshman year...) My main objection to Bella is simply the fact...maybe I expressed myself badly. Probably, actually. When I read a book, I want to be able to feel like the character is a friend, somebody who I can say is a lot like me, but is most importantly an individual. Bella was a skin that many girls kinda just...slipped into. Do you understand? It's kind of hard to convey in words. I can understand all the hype, I understand it's audience appeal, but in my opinion, which may be considered erroneous by others (like you!), it was undeserving of such attention. Everybody is still entitled to their own thoughts and opinions...

Hmmm... Is there really any incentive not to indulge? If you've earned it, and you operate within your own debt system, then I see no reason why you shouldn't. Really, Epicureanism is far too universal; it attempts to implement a system that doesn't indulge for anybody. Sounds like Communism, to me, only less direct sharing: it really comes down to the same thing though; the preservation of resources. Tragically, there aren't many high corporate bastards who have -really- earned their money, so really, whether or not you should indulge, and how much you should indulge, strictly depends. Perhaps we all should not indulge; if you've ever heard the famous quote (I forgot who, and I'm too lazy to look it up,) "If I'm overindulging, that means someone, somewhere, is starving," it's pretty much that. Western civilization really indulges, even though it insists that it's not. You can only eat the bare minimum a day and still be indulging, because as long as the rest of the world is starving, you're still indulging in contrast. Therefore, Epicureanism is impossible to achieve unless everybody is at a basic societal norm, like no more world hunger. But, in our modern world, the means to accomplish that basic societal norm are unsavory to us, the West, at best. (Ha! It rhymes!) Epicureanism is noble enough on paper, but, like Communism, it will hardly work if universally implemented. As a personal philosiphy, that's great. Go for it. Though it won't really be true Epicureanism unless you're sitting under a grass roof, in the mud, with an empty belly.

I don't know. I considered the entire thing to be very predictable. Sure, it did twist, but it's not like you didn't see it coming. In my opinion, Edward and Bella are just too [bleep]ing predictable to be really 'dove into', they're just hollow characters that don't really connect with the reader. As for suspense...well, at the beginning, the development of suspense was as interesting as a romance gets. But by the end of the first book, I could easily predict what the [bleep] the characters would do with each other every time they met: snog snog snog snog snog... I guess it's a fine read. I mean, it was interesting enough for the first few chapters or so. I was actually interested in what Bella could evolved into, less so Edward, but Bella had potential. Twilight just failed to developed Bella appropriately. If anything, she really de-matured and became more alien across the course of the novel. I mean, thinking that you love two people (Edward and, if I understand, Josh, who forced Bella to kiss her - twice), both of them being relatively arbitrary and spontaneous, does not character-sense make. (Baaaaaaaad sense of English, there). Twilight...in summation, was a decent enough book. It's something I might read once and go, 'hey, that wasn't too bad. At least it ate some time.' But, in all honesty, the book has been far too hyped up. It wasn't a great novel, it was a decent one that barely scraped by, but it certainly wasn't worthy of a Hollywook reproduction.

Agreed. It's really...a very hypocritical program. Still, it produces results. Point is, if you're interested in being a smashing success with a versatile future, go IB. It's not bad, and it's very prestigious. But if you actually want to be learning for the sake of being more intelligent, go for pure advanced AP.

What? The only boomer achievements are Clean Kill [push away + kill with no-one getting vomit on them], Barf Bagged [Vomit on all 4 survivors at once as a boomer], Stomach Upset [All survivors complete a whole campaign with no-one getting vomited on] and Blind Luck [Take no damage after being vomited on]. Has anyone else noticed on Expert that Hunters can deal a large amount of damage even if they miss their pounce? Plenty of times ive punched a Hunter as hes about to pounce on me and come off 30hp worse. And I swear zombies can swing at you even when theyre dieing. Hunters do 20 damage every pounce hit and every swipe on expert. The PC additional achievement is called: Rare Outbreak, I think, and it's when you get vomited on by a Boomer then run into your friend, therefore making him a target of the Horde too.

I need CROWND, Zombie Genocidalist, Red Mist, and MAN V. TANK. L4D is awesome. I play as Zoey a lot, so I think I'm either -really- straight or -really- gay. Blood Harvest, I always hang out in the closet in the master suite, then run onto the roof for the tank. My primary complaints with the game are the lack of weapons (really only 3, subtracting the mounted gun and 'grenades'.) and that Versus mode only applies to NO MERCY and BLOOD HARVEST, with NO MERCY being my favorite. BLOOD HARVEST is just far too hard with player zombies to actually win. DEAD AIR and DEATH TOLL were a LOT of fun to play as survivors. Pity that we can't play as zombies. My favorite weapons are totally duel pistols, though. After playing Call Of Duty 4 online, I can pretty much pop the 30 rounds into a zombie within 3 or 4 seconds. If you guys want to play with me, STEAM username is 'Supa Ninja Muffin'. Long joke. ;) I know I'd like to play with you guys.

Oh hell, the continuation of another vampiric line. Fan-[bleep]-fantastic. I suppose that she caught vampire-AIDS and turned into one during one of hers and Edwards HAWT-HAWT-HAWT Vampire Sex! scenes. Actually she becomes an immortal vampire and gets married before they have their first night of bruising sex. The Christian values are upheld! Then she has a vampire baby that will grow to maturity in seven years and be the consolation prize for Jacob. Agreed with aquariusman, this should be toned down a little in general. I confess my irritation has gotten the better of me a few times, but I still hope that there will be a coherent argument that doesn't boil down to not-so-slick dodges or general flames. I'm seeing the movie tomorrow, so you can be sure I'll have something to say about that. Well they are vampires, therefore not really Christian, though I agree...should calm down a little bit. I guess I'm just a little miffed at having to see though. I know NOM can really point out how bad I get when my temper gets the best of me. I have a pitifully short fuse. :oops:

Oh hell, the continuation of another vampiric line. Fan-[bleep]ing-fantastic. I suppose that she caught vampire-AIDS and turned into one during one of hers and Edwards HAWT-HAWT-HAWT Vampire Sex! scenes. Oh no. Accusing us of hypocrisy, while still coupling the word 'Twilight' and 'literature' in the same sentence. Look, sweetheart, I can understand that you like it, and I will not bash you for liking it, but those books were not legitimate literature. Just because it's writing that people read doesn't make it literature. I don't give a flying [bleep] if the entire damn world thinks that Twilight is the most fantabulous piece of [cabbage] ever to come out of an editor's [wagon], that will never change the fact that it is a mere entertainment-based fable. It is not, and never will be, a piece of literature worthy of note beyond it's wildly fanatical fanbase.

Must have stabbed her fifty [bleep]ing times, I can't believe it, Ripped her heart out right before her eyes, Eyes over easy, eat it, eat it, eat it! She was never this good in bed Even when she was sleepin' Now she's just so perfect I've Never been quite so [bleep]ing deep in It goes on, and on, and on, I can keep you lookin' young and preserved forever, With a fountain to spray on your youth whenever 'Cause I really always knew that my little crime Would be cold that's why I got a heater for your thighs And I know, I know it's not your time But bye, bye And a word to the wise when the fire dies You think it's over but it's just begun But baby don't cry -Avenged Sevenfold, A Little Piece of Heaven. Necrophiliac song :wall: #-o

Babies. Babies piss me off big time. And don't start, it's legit. They're sorta cute, but at the same time they never shut the [bleep] up, never stop crapping and pissing (and then making more noise), and never stop vying for your attention. Babies. Suck. P.S. They're little, right? P.P.S. I am never going to get married. :wall:

EAT IT. EAT IT. EAT IT. Twilight was just...if your brain has been trained to pin literary mechanics and follow the plot of a story, the book was torture. Movie. Right. Well, I went out to see it because of my girlfriends garish desires, and whatever morbid affection I hold for her overrode my common sense. The experience was bad enough, with all the girls (who were dressed like goths, wearing Twilight Cultist clothes, and had obviously seen this movie 20+ times) cheering and screaming whenever Edward showed his big ugly I'm-a-[bleep]ing-vampire face. But the movie was also pretty awful. It epitomized how entertainment has dropped from a mode of communication to a form of brain-dead waste of two hours. I mean, Citizen Kane at least had some form of legitimate moral and symbolic message in it, but Twilight was just...awful. [cabbage]ty effects. [cabbage]ty acting. The characters felt like strangers throughout the entire movie, and, if I hadn't read the first novel (God forgive me, and, if He's nice, He'll give me a nice bout of amnesia) I wouldn't have understand any of the goofy jokes and gimmicks. (I mean, Vampire Baseball? What the hell?) It's been said before, but I'll say it again: this plotline isn't a plot. It's hollow. These characters aren't characters. They're hollow shells that socially inadequate gauche girls can pour themselves into. Bella serves as a perfect comparison for those angsty teen girls, and Edward serves as the perfect little mould for those same girls to pour their 'Model-Man' into. Grow up. Please. And put on some decent clothes.