Schmo0zle

You sounds like one of those holier than thou I don't drink 'cause drinking is evil General people -_-". Why do you believe that most people aren't responsible? From what I can tell, all you've got is one experience and maybe the media to go off of (and possibly three family members, at most). Probability laws kind of require a higher sample size than that before making judgement :| . Honestly, you've never been with people who casually drink wine and beer? You might need to get out more, meet these people you assume "lower their state of existence" by having a bit of alcohol with their meals. You perceive I am "holier than thou", I do not think it. So is that a compliment, or what? You're kinda' proving my point by singling me out as "special" because I don't get bombed all the time. But, as I said before...Having a drink (as in one) with a meal is fine, it isn't alcoholism. But a lot of people go from one to 20 before they know what the hell just happened. I don't even start with one because I have no desire to drink alcohol. The entire POINT of alcohol is to get drunk...If I'm not drinking it to get drunk, why drink it? If you think it tastes good, that's your opinion. You're quite an odd person, though, since alcohol tastes horrible. :P But of course, that is MY opinion, however...It is also my opinion that anything that burns when it goes down, can harm your liver and make you black out shouldn't be ingested at all because it's PROBABLY not good for you. Yes, I am aware of the "alcohol helps your heart" stuff, but they fail to tell you that it hurts your liver regardless as well. Why are we going on and on about alcohol and drugs being bad or not? Stop trying to fool yourselves. One has been illegal for MANY years now and the other was once illegal too. The only reason alcohol is no longer illegal is for obvious monetary reasons, not good-health reasons, lol. As the beer adverts on TV say...Always drink responsibly!...But of course, they thank God for the fact that no one listens to those. :lol:

Why are you so afraid of being in an altered state of mind? When you sleep, you are experiencing an altered state of mind. Meditation is another harmless method of inducing an altered state, and so is an out of body experience. Both meditation and OBEs are regarded as spiritual experiences. That sounds stupid and irresponsible. #-o Notice my original question asked whether you have tried drinking responsibly. Apparently, you have not. You are referring to irresponsible users of drugs/alcohol. As the articles said, light to moderate drinking can be benefitial. If you drink or smoke more than you should, it can be detrimental to your health. The same applies to any activity. For example, if you lifted weights more than you should, there is a good chance that you could destroy your muscles and render them useless. Hah, that sounds pretty awful. Reminds me of a Dave Chappelle bit about how white men only talk about weed when they're high. :lol: Yes, I won't deny that being high is often an experience best suited around others who are also high. : But you talk as if laughing and "irrelevant" conversations are a bad thing. It sounds a lot like you are the one with self control issues. Myself, along with all other light to moderate users of drugs/alcohol, have enough self control to enjoy these substances responsibly. You can't seem to wrap your head around the idea of "responsible" use of certain activities or substances. I think part of the problem is that you have never tried these activities in a responsible and enjoyable setting. I've told you why I don't wish to be in an altered state of mind. It has nothing to do with being "afraid" and everything to do with wasting time in things that are not reality. Wow, my altered state of mind made me see teletubbies and pretty colors, but...Now I'm sober, and that didn't mean jack! Yea, I'd say that is a waste of time no matter how you slice it. When you sleep is different from when you take drugs. First off, you have no CHOICE but to sleep. If I did, I would choose not to sleep as well. Why? Again - it is a tremendous waste of time. We spend 1/3 or more of our lifetime sleeping. What a waste. Anyways, while sleeping, you're not in an altered state of mind...You're unconscious. It's different. Except for the first few hours where you're in REM sleep, in which case you're unconscious, paralyzed and tripping on Dimethyltryptamine, which is ironically one of the most illegal drugs in the world, but it is made in our own brains in order to induce REM sleep. When you extract it (which I know how to do, but will not discuss here for obvious reason) from things and take it, you basically are in a conscious REM state, AKA it's messing with your mind...That is an altered state of mine. However, if you're sleeping, the same happens, but you're unconscious. I think the most important point, however, is that we don't have a choice to do this. We have to. That is how it's different. When I said I drank and the eventual results are passing out, I did not mean that is what I did. I mean that's what everyone ELSE did while I sat there just feeling funny and asking myself "Why do people EVEN BOTHER?" because it was perhaps the most over-rated experience of my life. Next to Halo 2. Well, no...Halo was probably better. And you keep going on and on and on about light, moderate usage, when - again - I've already stated that most people are not responsible enough to stop at moderate and keep on truckin' into addictions without even noticing. When you have addicts in your life and see what it does - you tend to stray from even touching the stuff they're on. ;) And yes, those people I speak of are older guys and they've amounted to absolutely nothing in life, hence why I don't even wish to take the chance. I have no desire to "enhance" my state of mind by lowering my state of existence. How do I sound like someone with self control issues, again? :lol: I don't partake in these things at all!

People would likely forgo getting one because it sounds a lot like what the Bible warned you NOT to take when it was offered. Right now, they are voluntary and given as a means of tracking kidnapped/lost children and things like that. Later on this technology could easily be used to make a cashless society, hence, if you do not have one, you cannot buy nor sell, as the Bible says. It's no secret to anyone that a cashless society has been talked about and stressed many-a-time. It removed the need to constantly print and mint money in physical form, which is desirable for governments, and not having to carry said money is desirable for the people. You can go on and on about how it is possible to track you with today's technology, but the fact stands that a chip that would be both for tracking you AND for monetary usage would be far more effective and useful. Who knows? We may not even be informed that it CAN track us! Either way, I'd never take it, just 'cause of what the Bible says. I don't believe in coincidences. :P

Just a few examples to prove u wrong my friend. -Some person who was born because his parents decidet to drink lots of alcohol wouldn't say that. Alcohol makes you feel good and happy and it makes you feel love too. -there would be no beatles as we know if it it wasn't for drugs. Same goes for many other artists, painters.. etc. -having fun and laughting is good thing to me. Even in the long run. :roll: Your first two points are ridiculous and the first one REALLY proves my point (accidental pregnancies), and the third one is quite sad. You cannot have fun without alcohol and/or drugs? A very sad existence that must be, indeed. And even more sad yet, it is an argument used by MANY to explain why alcohol and drugs are a "good" thing. So apparently you're not alone in such an apparently pitiful existence. According to you, that is. ;) Please, don't use such strong statements as "proving me wrong" unless you're actually going to really put me in my place.

Explain to me how the same cannot be done by tracking credit card usage or cell phone data, or tell me you never use either, EVER, because you don't like the exposure it creates for you. In which case I would once again have to point out we're on the internet, everything we type passes by the Echelon programme and the deathsquad is alread en route to your location, so you're screwed anyway. It's a tad different because those things are not always active. You can use a credit card at Wal-mart, and in 5 minutes, you can be at a friends house and no one would know where you went after Wal-mart. Similarly, a cell phone is not always on, and you're not always talking on it, so it cannot create the ping needed to link to cell-phone towers. Or perhaps you don't even have your cell phone on your persons...Say, it is at home, and you are in a different state! This chip, however, would be able to track you at all times. Anywhere. it would be in your body, so you'd have no choice BUT to take it with you.

Venomai: Like pretty much all teens, I've tried all of those things, and found them to be vastly over-rated and, for lack of better words, pointless, stupid, and boring. I do not deny the healing powers of Marijuana. Some people claim it helps their pain. So be it. However, it is a mind-altering substance, and after these people take it long enough, they become [wagon]es. I know that's not a scientific fact, but it's an observation of mine and MANY other people. Have you ever been sober around people smoking pot? They can go from awesome friends into total idiots...They talk about completely redundant things, "new" ways to smoke their pot, which are often completely stupid...They laugh non-stop and they...Well, they just ramble on about stuff that is completely irrelevant. You argue that having an "altered state of mind" is helpful. I completely disagree, and since that is simply your opinion - not a fact - I believe I can do that. Having an altered state of mind, especially repeatedly or for long periods of time, is NOT helpful at all. It distracts you from the REAL world and puts you in one that is completely imaginary. Now, when you smoke pot, you don't go to a new plane of existence, but you do go to a "place" in the real world where things just don't matter anymore. Do you know how many people discuss things that DON'T have to do with pot or their current state of mind while high? Not very many. I'd wager zero. All of my friends smoked pot when I was growing up, so of course I tried it after some coaxing. After I sobered up from that, I realized how much of a [wagon] I was being while I was high. I mean, we'd talk about things like what to make bongs out of, where to get better pot...Growing pot...Pretty much everything revolved around pot. If you're going to do drugs, I'd say stick to pot, Psilocybes or Dimethyltryptamine, nothing more, for one...And if you're going to do them, do them very rarely. But we both know why this never works - pretty much everyone ends up doing them FAR more often due to peer pressure, lack of self control, etc etc. THAT is why they are bad and should be avoided. Almost no one knows what self control even means anymore, lol. As for drinking, drinking is by far the most over-rated experience I've ever had. I only drank once and it was probably the dumbest feeling ever. Your mind feels a little different, then you pass out and remember nothing, damaging your liver in the process. Yay... I do not deny that alcohol has been shown to help your heart or whatever. As for your IQ, as a whole, I'd severely doubt that one! People who use alcohol more than they should are JUST like pot-heads. Stupid, and thinking nothing of anything but alcohol. And again, that is the problem - One drink is okay, one joint may be okay, but just like a potato chip...No one has just one. I just stay away from them because they're damaging to your body and a distraction from life, period. Nothing good has ever come of these things in the long run.

Fortunately for me, killing people is against my beliefs. Unlike your religion, which promotes it openly! This is a fact you can deny all you please, but denying facts do not make them false. If they did, I'd just deny Muhammed's existence and call it done. Unfortunately, this man DID live, however, and now we have to put up with his BS. So, no...Not planning on bursting into a Mosque with a machine gun anytime soon. You see, Jesus (who was a far greater man [if you can call him that] than Muhammed ever was) told us to pray for those who would harm us, and to pray for those who persecute you in their disbelief. You, as well as all other Muslims, are prayed for by Christians, not gunned-down in the streets. ...Which is more than we can say for Islam, who - while I type this - is likely the cause of some atrocious death somewhere, especially if a Christian in a Muslim nation is involved. No one on my end of the computer is "Islamophobic". I do not fear Islam, I simply know it's ways; apparently, more so than you do. Spread the word peace while showing none (the opposite, in fact). That is the name of Islam's game. Tell me, how do I sound scary? Futhermore, how do I sound anymore terrifying than you do? I am saying what your religion is about, and you are not denying it. YOU are terrifying. There is nothing terrifying about Christianity. No beheading of unbelievers, no beating of wives, nothing. So, I am hereby "charged" with "bigotry"? Um, then so be it? But keep in mind that you disagreeing with what I am saying makes you just as much of a bigot. Especially since you've referred to me as "crazy" (even though I'm clearly not) and pointed out the fact that I am part Jewish as if that were a BAD thing. You're not saying it out-right, but I'm willing to bet anything that you hate Jews. All Muslims do, because all Muslims perceive Jews to be at fault for the conflict on-going around Palestine and the taking of "Muslim land", even though it was clearly Jewish land for thousands of years before Muslims stole it. Keep in mind, too, that Muslims in Palestine as a whole are now teaching their children to be Jew-killing suicide bombers, not "loving, peaceful Muslims". Bless all those who see through Muslims' BS. I have no idea who "Salman Rushdie" is, by the way, nor his or her book.

They'll re-drop party hats and finish the game off. :lol:

Actually, the sleeping bag was a DREAM update after the horribleness of original fatigue. :lol:

I'd be happy if they restored RSC rules to the RS2 engine. :P Minus that fatigue BS, of course. I swear, they need to get more creative. There are much easier ways to take care of autoers. Random Events were a good way that were only SLIGHTY annoying, but this new stuff is like...Wow. Holy crap.

You kind of missed my point. What I tryed to say was that cristian heaven sounds impossible and quite funny to me. You said everything in heaven is perfect. Now, that must mean perfect by terms of bible, you can't even think of dirty thoughts.. Sounds like turning into mindless robots to me. The whole consept of people would change so radically that its hard to believe. And what would u guys do there? Talk with jesus 4000 years? What about next 4000 years? You would get very bored hanging around with you boring allmighty god to be honest. Even if you were in love with him so much (which I dont get by the way at all, how can you worship such a spychopat..) Just think about it. You referring to Jesus as a "psychopath" shows your obvious DESIRE to not comprehend. Furthermore, just because it doesn't make sense to you at the moment does not mean it is not true. That attitude is what has gotten Muslims in trouble by denying the Trinity because it just "doesn't make sense" to them! Tell me, what do you believe? Evolution? And there was never a time when it didn't make sense to you? I call BS. You fail to understand the concept of a "perfect world". Those who accept Jesus will not be living in Heaven, sitting around and talking to Jesus for eternity - though I'm sure a lot of Christians would love to do that. I personally would love to talk to Jesus for a while. Anyways, the perfect world means everything is restored to what it was originally, and what is is supposed to be like...In other words, there is no lying, because people don't THINK to lie. They don't need to because they do no wrong. They don't kill because they don't have to - they are too happy. They don't steal because God provides everything you want. What you're saying is basically, "I like sex, drinking, partying (insert thing that likely isn't good for you here), and if I couldn't do it, I would miss it! So I don't even WANT to go to Heaven!"...Well, good for you then. You have somewhere between 0 and 120-ish years to do as much self-pleasing things as you can, then! But Christians, in the mean-time, can do whatever they like as well, and then, when it comes down to the end, they get to do it FOREVER. You see, it isn't that Christians are oppressing themselves from living life, it's that they don't WANT to live your life-style. A life of sex, drinking, drugs and stupidity is...Well, stupid. Even when I didn't believe in God, I wanted nothing to do with these things because they bring nothing but trouble in the long-run. Go ahead, drink and have sex with random partners! Come back and tell me how your liver feels when you have Sclerosis of the liver from alcohol and Hepatitis C! Tell me how AIDS is treating you! Tell me how that Herpes outbreak is going! Tell me how your illegitimate children are! ...Of course, you'll say "Ha! Fool! This doesn't happen to everyone!", and of course, you're right, it does not. But it potentially can, and saying, "It won't happen to me!" is not the sign of a wise man. "It won't happen to me!" is what usually lets it happen! So, go ahead, have your 100 years (give or take...probably take!) of abundance and bad choices and call it "living life". In the mean while, I'll be living life...Over here...Not doing stupid things...Being JUST as happy and fulfilled as you are. You see, that's the grand misconception - that religious people aren't having as much "fun". Trust me, we're having plenty. ;) And no, I will not get bored hanging out with God. I'll have plenty of other things to do. Who knows what will be goin' on...Perhaps we'll get to sit around and play a video game of our own design! Or drive a car of our own design! Or perhaps it'll be just like now, only PERFECT. Another misconception is that Christians will sit in Heaven forever...This is not the case. Earth will be restored to it's former glory, and we will live there in perfect harmony with none of this bad crap going on. No Muslims threatening to behead us, no wars, no violence, just living as we would now, only better. Much better. Perfect.

The same thing happened to me. Old guy plowed into me, I got blamed because I was 19, even though I had the right of way and the guy was speeding. Psht. Don't misjudge the amount of damage a car can do at 40 MPH, though. My car was totalled by a guy doing 30 in a 20.

This is also so stupid scam emails can be detected and so player account safety is boosted as well. Snake went because JaGex thought his Russian-English translator was a macro device. He brought his whole computer to prove that he wasn't macroing to the JaGex head quarters. Yes, which means Jagex knows what programs you're running with RuneScape open, which begs the question...Why the hell aren't they banning people for using macros if they can clearly see they have them running? Perhaps they can't tell, because WoW does the same thing, yet WoWGlider is currently ruining WoW aswell!

They always pick the WORST way possible to fix these things. Jagex has never been imaginative at all, lol. Instead of making it so you can't talk money into the wild (which would make sense ANYWAYS, you don't need it!), they remove the wild and make PKing in a place where you can't take money into, and your PK target is random... WTF?! *Shrug* I just wish they would sell RSC's source to someone so they would set it up for people to play and continue to develop it. I would refinance my house just to buy that source, lol. I love RSC that much.

The 360 is fine, especially now since they've gotten all the bugs out as far as I know of. I've had mine almost a year now and it's 100% perfect.