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Don't really have anything to contribute to the fruity topic... Scientific evidence that God hates gays: AIDS. But nothing happens to lesbians, so they must be okay. :thumbup: But for all of you who continually try to disprove Gorgoroth, or rather, are enemies of religion in general... Are you gamblers? Masochists? Do you really just not like the idea of a happy ending? A book of fairytales or otherwise exaggerated real events that has lessons for leading a moral life? -Although, of course, people don't need guidelines... As I said before, it's foolish to totally discount anything, especially a chance at eternal happiness, just because you haven't the typical grade of evidence you're so used to to support it. Religion brings a lot of pluses to the table that you don't get from science. The logical thinkers can stand there and gawk at the faithful's stupidity, but in the end, the faithful will be happier believing there is a higher purpose, a life after death, and a reward for good actions on earth. They also have a greater unity through belief, and a reputation that proceeds them for being generally good people. Also, in the case of radically religious people, it's just plain dumb to piss them off by denying their beliefs. If you can't bring yourself to believe then at least play the role of charlatans and benefit. I realize it's pointless to try to convince any of you, but you should be aware of what you are giving up by denying God.

You're using faith in believing that it exists and that those sources are true, just as you'd be using faith to believe in evolution and its proof. Everyone uses faith in practically every situation and to discount religious faith would be ... hypocritical...?

Yes, but it cannot be observed, which is an important element amongst the scientific community. I used this argument because of the common usage of it against theism. "You cannot observe God, so why believe?" Saying that evolution takes a very long time is just as much of an "excuse" as saying god wants to be unseen. Evolution asserts abiogenesis - that we all came from one single cell that arose from inorganic material - that somewhere down the line there existed a cell without a parent. Evolution says nothing about how it started (no one knows how, but that's no excuse to pull a god-ism), but rather how it progresses and adapts. With the following assumptions a. In the beginning there was nothing else than a singularity b. Life exists as of today. it becomes logically that life spawned from lifeless molecules(and how, well if you want to win a nobel prize...). I think you're overestimating the complexity of basic lifeforms that are not much more than methane reduction factories. Okay, I'm not sure how well I quoted that, but one of the most important questions I have was raised or at least hinted to: How did we rise from dirt? Even if no one has a real concrete reason, what are some current theories? And secondly... This is unrelated to the above but also hinted to in the quoted segment: Faith is abundant in everyone. Have you been to every country of the world? No? Then how do you know it exists? If you have not seen it with your own eyes, then you are employing faith when you believe something. If you wanted to go even further you could say that you have faith that everything around you exists even when you can't see it all... Take for an extreme example, playing a video game consisting of multiple pieces, like RuneScape, or Grand Theft Auto, or any sandbox style game. Each individual piece of the world has to load as you enter it. Scientists who believe in evolution are using faith, especially because as has been mentioned on this page, one can hardly stand around and watch the purported changes occur. So then this leads me to ask why the faith in science is any different from faith in religion... One should consider the statement, "The victor writes the textbooks". Just because we have historical records written in earlier ages does not mean that what is contained within those records actually happened. It could be just as easily fabricated as what scientists or the government are telling the general public could be. This leads me to conclude that to say that God, or in fact, anything does not exist, when it is impossible for you yourself to know, is ignorant, despite any amount of evidence you may or may not have. In fact, I don't know if any of you are real living people at the other end, but I'll be faithful enough to believe that I am communicating with others. ^ Not that anyone was disputing that in the first place... :-P

Dunno why I feel the need to respond to your overly literal and likely unfounded comment but one coordinating such a strike would obviously focus on the areas of densest population. [spoiler=Look, I went and got a map for you.] One would target the places of deepest red and let the fall-out take care of the rest. There you go. I hope you learned something about the economics of nuclear annihilation. Actual topic: Gorgoroth pretty much summed it up. Darn. And still no one explained to me how come we got to be the only planet with life on it...

Thanks for very nearly summarizing my thoughts. Corrections made within. OP: I've witnessed a shift, starting mildly in middle school and now growing dangerous in my senior year. School is like a prison for those who have no want to be there. Being nice and courteous to other human beings shows you as weak. Trying to act 'hard' shows you as assertive, not to be messed with. It garners respect. Of course, that's countering everything I've grown up with: Respect others and they'll respect you. But guess what. The people you go to school with won't just die off once you don't see them anymore. The people you see in the future, the ones to be considered your peers, are likely to be an equal reflection of the people you're forced to tolerate right now. Because if the ones I'm around haven't cleaned it up by their last year of high school, when are they going to change? It paints a worsening portrait for the future of humanity. After all, children (<-interchangeable) are the future, right?

Common decency? Whatever would that be? To deny that none of what I said is truth would be incredibly ignorant on your part. I tried to cast a doubtful light on capitalism in that, but apparently you didn't catch on. Although it's not clear in my post, I believe in equality. Not communism though... But I know that capitalism is "Survival of the fittest, and screw everyone else", which is why I said that last part. If the United States wasn't mired in the razor wires of political correctness it'd follow suit with that ideal most frontal in its values and end this particular problem. Instead, because of political correctness, it has seen it fit to save the citizens of a foreign country posing a threat to itself, a country which would likely never have a payoff for these efforts. Not that this is the first time, of course... Did Japanese internment keep U.S. citizens safe from the Japanese? Pretty sure it did. Let's not go that far though. Does profiling focus on one suspect group? Yes. Is it that one suspect group that poses a threat? Yes. Is it fair to those of the suspect group who are not a threat? No. Do we know who those that are not a threat are? No. Should we forgo the safety of the general population for interest in the civil rights of a small minority? lol... Ember, people like you are why I hate people like you. Close-minded and quick to conclusions... I'm going to assume that you were responding to me. I don't believe all Muslims are bad, but I know that the threat comes from that group of people. I don't believe that army bases are strongholds, but I do believe that the public would behold them as such, which I clarified already. Hand-to-hand combat is what I was considering. Another typical stereotype of United States Army soldiers is that they are in the army because they are brave. The shooter used a pistol. He wounded and killed what, like 40 people? I don't know what standard issue is but I'm pretty sure pistols usually hold up to 15 rounds, meaning he would have to reload. If soldiers are indeed brave then they wouldn't go into a panic. If they don't panic, then they can think clearly. If they think clearly, then they might've realized that he would have to reload, meaning that he would have a period of vulnerability. I don't know exactly what happened, and I don't know how soldiers think, and I don't know what the surroundings were like. I also don't know how they eventually got him... And I don't know what military police are. I would have assumed they were the guys in partial fatigue with the band around one of their arms that says "MP" in white. I would assume that that kind of person is usually present at military bases... Moreover, I don't know why this particular follower of the Islamic faith decided to do this. If reports, or, rather, speculation, is correct, then he was bullied by a few people because he was Muslim. This, among other mounting stress... People, when pushed far enough, can and will break. And then you get these kinds of situations. His fellow soldiers who pushed him, if they weren't the ones he went after, should be punished just as well, although it's likely they won't be, and we'll never know the true story.

It does no such thing. Kk so the Big Bang Theory says the universe made a big plan beforehand and got all of its buddies together... Yes, a theory held a tea party with its friends. :rolleyes: Yeah bud. Just jackassin you back. You don't appear more intelligent just because you say NO. Feel free to explain how the Big Bang Theory includes nothing random or left to chance, though. Y'know, something to actually back yourself up with, something productive. You could very well teach me something rather than shun me for spite of ignorance.

If we are exclusively considering capital punishment as it is applied to murder sentences then it's really not too effective. The victim is dead. Until we can bring back the dead, they're a lost cause. They're really not able to appreciate the law's wrath on their murderer. From that, if we say the person kills one, two, forty, the death toll is just rising from killing them. People make decisions, and with murderers, often the wrong ones, but they're still alive. Maybe rather than kill them or lock them away, either of which serves no purpose, they could be reeducated. Re-tuned. Changed to make the right decisions. And then released and refit into the public. The dead are a lost cause but the living are not...

It does no such thing. Kk so the Big Bang Theory says the universe made a big plan beforehand and got all of its buddies together... Like I said, I don't know that much about either. However, the topic-starter asked us to state what WE know, and not look anything up, and I did just that and more.

So, uhh... How did Japanese internment during the second World War go again? Did it keep Americans safe from the threat of the Japanese in the homeland, who they were at war with? So, uhh... Still no profiling? Yeah I know, it's a bit unfair to the people who praise Allah in their own homes, but they understand. Well, they should... If these soldiers weren't killed by an Iraqi here, they would have been killed by an Iraqi over there. Seems like there's a math rule for this... Distributive property? Hmm... Among all of the grief there must be embarrassment. The public eye would see an army base as a secure stronghold, and yet one team killer was able to get M-M-M-MONSTER KILL before being fragged. There's no break glass in case of emergency pistols? An alarm to be raised? Fearless soldiers to tackle 'em? I wasn't aware this guy was the middleeastern Terminator. Guess he must have been a damn good shot though. Yeah... Sorry. Our pity isn't going to bring them back. Executing the guy isn't going to heal any pain. Every soldier lost will be quickly replaced. No one's going to learn anything. Nothing will be gained from this, for anybody. I always wonder why counter-terrorism doesn't include bombing them back. All of them. It's equivocal: Their innocents and militants for American innocents and militants. The United States isn't gaining anything from them, are they? The only loss the United States will suffer is the loss of another source of fear. That's capitalism, if you weren't aware.

I know little about what Genesis says or the exact logistics of the Big Bang Theory. I would propose that if the Big Bang Theory tosses the creation of the Earth and other planets to chance, coincidence, a random occurrence, then there may have been a higher, and indeed possibly divine being that interfered just enough to allow events to align for Earth to support life. Whether that being was an all-powerful, all-seeing God is unknown, as also is whether or not such a being still exists. If that being was not in fact divine then we would still somehow have to explain how they were created. However, I'd like to point out that human kind did not rise directly out of dirt and rocks. That is the strongest foundation of my faith, no matter how anyone wants to try to define or explain it. Somehow we got from basic minerals to fully-functioning lifeforms.

Karambwans! Always been my favorite source of food in an emergency. ;-) Plus if you get really desperate there are a few select food stores or you can buy stews from Seers and Spice from Ardougne. It doesn't take *that* long to get a sizable stockpile.

Okay, it's understandable that the chathead is always going to look better, but it's kinda dumb when it doesn't look very similar to the model itself. - Not just these hairstyles, but others too where the chathead looks different or even drastically so from the player model. Heh kinda funny though, I see Daphne, Vegeta, Joe Dirt, and maybe that lady from Saw.

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Great find. :thumbup: Okay, so... We have to defeat these three new champions... And then, provided we've killed all the others, we can fight the gnome?

PLEASE :pray: PLEASE :pray: PLEASE :pray: PLEASE :pray: Charge lots and lots of money! PS-> how do you know that update is coming? I figured the prayer update would come first. Yeah... I had heard nothing indicating that there would be a Slayer update anytime soon, let alone an all-new dungeon. Exactly how much is actually known about this? Have any particular drops been named or hinted at such as new armor? I'm currently holding onto Bandos because it is ever so slightly helpful for Slayer and its price continues to rise, but with an all-new dungeon full of new Slayer monsters with new drops, they could possibly be releasing 15% pieces for the chest and legs... On the other hand, seeing as how Bandos is favored by many, many Slayer enthusiasts, if no such new armor is released then it could spring up even further in demand and rise even quicker... Also, as others are asking, what exactly does a failing market for Partyhats mean for other, lower rares?

Figured Agility was easy enough to where it would be 10 or so, and Prayer expensive enough to be where Agility is right now.

Lol...!

Nor can I confirm this, but this would be my guess as well. It makes sense, but I'd still like someone who is sure of it. Castle Wars and the Fight Pits don't have that natural stat reducer mechanic like the Duel Arena. Then again, neither did PvP worlds as far as I know... JaGEx isn't always thorough. In fact, especially on updates like this, they always seem to leave loopholes. I just want to know if there are any. :smile:

So, uhh... When do H'Ween Masks (or at least red and green) go back up? I held on to them because I figured it would only take a few days after the 76k'ing measures, but so far they've made very slow or negative progress.

Bump? :(

I've gone bursting. <3: 33s are win, and I only splashed once in 2kish bursts. Very nice! So your overall efficiency seems to increase by quite a lot. :^_^:

When you log into a PvP world, what message are you given? Are you even allowed to log in while holding these potions? What happens if you try to drink one? Similarly, what happens if you try to take them into a safe minigame? And, finally, the most important question of all: What happens if you sip the potions and then enter the minigame or wilderness or other restricted areas? For example, at the Fight Pits, could you not just take a drink of Overload potion, drop it at the gate, and walk right in? -Different area, same subject: Has anyone tried barraging Rock Lobsters with Overload/Extreme Magic Potions yet? :smile:

Sorry, I've nothing superiorly old, although I've played since before RC. The lack of older pictures is likely because I didn't even know about the printscreen button way back then. Here's a few that are at least a couple of years before HD. Apologies if the thickness of the dust isn't to your liking. :smile:

Stuck in game while it's over. If you look at the chat box in the first one you'll see. I beleive Laura posted the first picture previously, which is how I know :thumbup: Oh. I forgot I posted the first one. But I was actually pointing out the lack of score tallies and I think I was still in the game for the second picture. :P What is wrong with the minimap? It's supposed to be in HD format, the minimap of the first picture is all pixelated and ugly, while in the second picture it's on the HD format At first I was like... "Nice Third Age and headband." And then "Wait, headband??" Did the game end, and then you took the cloak off, or did it just disappear? Did you wait around for another game to start?