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I can definitely understand that aspect to it, and I would be lying if I didn't wish that I could believe in something out there helping me or life continuing after death. But in all honesty I could never delude myself to the point of actually buying into the religion just to comfort me in the face of ultimate death or the chaos of the universe. I see so many flaws with the idea of heaven that I'm certain that life after death like that could not exist.

I take a little bit of an issue with this, I've seen a lot of people who typically aren't too religious get worked up when these kind of issues are brought up and respond with, "I hope you burn in hell." I've usually seen it a lot from the "Sunday Christians" crowd (Often younger, a lot of high schoolers I've seen and interacted with are like this), not fundies, who when issues like gay marriage, evolution, trans people, or separation of church and state come up will respond with quite venomous depictions of all the punishments their god will inflict. I would agree that in general the public face of many churches has rejected openly teaching about the pain and torture of hell but it's a major aspect of Judeo-Christian philosophy that pops up quite often. If they're catholic, they're misinterpreting the church's definition of hell, either deliberately or unintentionally. Eh, the Roman Catholic's definition of hell is ambiguous at best. Nature of suffering in hell [spoiler=Snippet from article]It is agreed that hell is a place of suffering.[67][68][69] The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: Jesus often speaks of "Gehenna" of "the unquenchable fire" reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost. Jesus solemnly proclaims that he "will send his angels, and they will gather . . . all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire", and that he will pronounce the condemnation: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!" The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, "eternal fire". The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.[70] Although the Catechism explicitly speaks of the punishments of hell in the plural, calling them "eternal fire", and speaks of eternal separation from God as the "chief" of those punishments, one commentator claims that it is non-committal on the existence of forms of punishment other than that of separation of God: "Even the Roman Catholic church, which has long maintained the existence of "pains of sense" in hell, seems of late to be heading in a separationist direction. The recent Catechism is ambiguous, neither denying nor confirming the existence of physical torments."[71] Another interpretation is that the Catechism by no means denies other forms of suffering, but stresses that the pain of loss is central to the Catholic understanding of hell.[72] Saint Augustine of Hippo said that the suffering of hell is compounded because God continues to love the sinner who is not able to return the love.[73] According to the Church, whatever is the nature of the sufferings, "they are not imposed by a vindictive judge"[73][74] "Concerning the detailed specific nature of hell ... the Catholic Church has defined nothing. ... It is useless to speculate about its true nature, and more sensible to confess our ignorance in a question that evidently exceeds human understanding."[75] I wouldn't be surprised if they're misinterpreting the teachings, I get the sense that the people who say things like that mostly just follow the culture rather than the actual teachings. I'm not sure of their particular denominations though.

I take a little bit of an issue with this, I've seen a lot of people who typically aren't too religious get worked up when these kind of issues are brought up and respond with, "I hope you burn in hell." I've usually seen it a lot from the "Sunday Christians" crowd (Often younger, a lot of high schoolers I've seen and interacted with are like this), not fundies, who when issues like gay marriage, evolution, trans people, or separation of church and state come up will respond with quite venomous depictions of all the punishments their god will inflict. I would agree that in general the public face of many churches has rejected openly teaching about the pain and torture of hell but it's a major aspect of Judeo-Christian philosophy that pops up quite often.

First do a quick farm run, then 1k ovls I have the supplies for, agil till 1.1 or whenever I get bored and thief last.

50gp and medium lamp, not bad I suppose.

They were thinking that if they gave an f2per something like an ely or godsword, they'd be like, "come to members and try it out, or throw this potential millions of gp value item away. YOUR CHOICE. :wink: " A lot of these things have reqs that most f2pers, especially newer once certainly wouldn't have. I suppose that could also be an incentive: "You could train in f2p till you have the levels, or get them even faster in members."

To be honest I think what will affect the economy the most will be the ability (Or lack thereof) to use these in pvp. Besides dragon claws and spirit shields the higher end-armors and weapons have even better replacements for the .01% (Ex: Nex>Arma/Bandos) so the only impact they would have would be lowering the demand slightly because mid-level players aren't buying quite as many. But if these can be used in pvp, and have differing/no drop value I can forsee all kinds of chaos. Oh, and for the record I got 2x50 gp <_<

I think he's asking about minimum levels without boosting since there's a chance of doing double runes. Honestly you'd probably need t be 90 or 89 to have even the slightest chance of doing them all without a boost, just get 86+ and boost with a stew.

Tif name: aspeeder Runescape Name: Lioness 32 Picture: Url:http://i700.photobucket.com/albums/ww6/aspeeder/TIF2012.png Hopefully you can remove the background properly, when I tried with PAINT.NET I got this Though I do dig that effect...

Given the way they talk in some quests that's a distinct possibility :-| I honestly don't care much that the req was lowered, the original announcement gave me enough initial drive to start training fm and even after I heard the news I had enough momentum going to finally get 92 and my adze. I'm going to be more invested if the rewards are still crappy though.

I've usually used a 1.1 multiplier with summoning in relation to slayer, so 3m slayer exp would be 3.3m summoning (More or less). If you come up a bit short of your goals you can probably make up some of the difference killing glacors for money.

I would consider questing, because as the quest chains progress you keep setting yourself a goals that are pretty achievable, plus you get good training equipment like d scim and niet helm and some training areas you wouldn't have otherwise. Don't really worry about making lots of money at this point, just start out skills and train them for a bit until you get bored; enjoy them now when you don't have to grind much to get a few levels.

Away from this whole political correctness thing (Which I agree is a bit overblown but you can see my thoughts on that below) I really enjoyed the event. I played that snowman minigame for well over an hour, I loved switching between snowballs and the wand, and I just think it was pretty fun overall. One last bit of sidetrack? The video's a bit extreme for this argument, but in general these are my basic thoughts. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQCNS4eGmuY EDIT: To your point Sy, those who promote the idea that America is a Christian nation to take away gay rights are almost always the ones who need to hear "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays," because they can't stand the fact that they are not the only denomination that inhabit the country. And to your earlier point you'll have a Merry Christmas with your friends and family, people who know you well and thus are aware of which holiday you choose to celebrate. The whole idea of Happy Holidays is to be used for strangers so as not to presume that they celebrate the same holiday that you do, you know, because in modern countries there's a lot of cultural diversity.

Personally I doubt gathering will become much more lucrative to the high-end player. It's now a decent way for a mid to low level player to get their foot in the door, like it used to be, but I'm guessing that dicing will be replaced by bossing again (Though staking will probably remain higher than it once was). For me the most interesting move on JaGeX's part recently was the drop table of the ganodermic beasts: high end trees, fruit trees, and the best herb seeds are pretty common there for the first time from a campable monster.

I think part of it is that doing anything beyond washing/combing is seen as "un-manly" for guys to do even if it's necessary to keep long hair looking decent. For instance, I have about shoulder-length hair but every time I consider getting a straightener my family says, "You don't need a straightener, it looks fine." If you spend the amount of time required for that kind of luxury, then it's feminine apparently. It's a mark of civilization also, since close cut hair is very hard to do without electric tools.

This time it's a bit more about saving endangered species, and there's a tiny bit about oil spills in there but it's pretty minor. This time the conflict is much more within the characters. Also a tangent, the Queen songs are always my favorite of these two movies, loved somebody to love in the first and this one has a really good under pressure cover.

Saw Happy Feet 2, the animation was very good and I loved the cover of Under Pressure, but like the first one the pacing was a little fast for me. I still enjoyed it though and would recommend it to those who liked the first or fans of animated kids movies.

Guns don't kill people, bullets do.

I've taken two cold showers in my life and neither of them made me feel particularly refreshed. First one was when my roommate didn't wake me up at debate camp and I slept past when the water heater was on, and the second time in the dorms the shower closest to me was broken and the other one only had cold water. Maybe it'd be nice if I then didn't have to step into the freezing weather afterwards, but they just generally shut me down and draw inwards to warm myself back up. EDIT: Maybe the problem is I focus on how cold I am when what you're supposed to do is realize that you're cold and not dwell on it so that you shift your attention to things outside of your body. Sort of like the old "Oh, your finger hurts? Here, I'll punch you in the stomach. Bet your finger doesn't hurt now, does it?" Bullocks to that.

The best money there now comes from getting the new brother's stuff, so I'd do RotM before doing much barrows; the medallion is also very nice, not required I guess but it makes banking a breeze.

What's the recharge time? How long do they last for? There's no info on that on the loyalty shop screen, are they permanent while equipped? Lasts for 1 hour and takes 3 hours to recharge, and no the wings don't last after the aura depletes. Well that'd be pretty hard to implement, I mean you'd need to have the option of digging everywhere, whereas its use in farming doesn't use the dig function.

Magic Secs/Topaz Machete can't be stored in the belt for the same reason you can't store a dragon hatchet/dragon pickaxe (At least that's how I think of it). And leps are still useful for noting and storing magic secs and supercompost.

Is that low detail or do the wings get "more detailed" the higher the aura? :unsure: Still Pics!?!?!? We want more pics!!!! :thumbsup: Personally I like my new wings, sure they're small but I think they make me look like a chibi devil. Anyway when they get bigger the fact that they don't move will probably make them look like giant cardboard cutouts, though I'm still probably going to get them.

Tier 1 Corruption Aura if anyone's interested

'Climategate' Debunking Gets Less Coverage Than Original Trumped-Up Scandal Last year, the hacked emails of climate scientists from the University of East Anglia spawned what has hitherto become known as "Climategate -- a mini media tempest that briefly provided climate change deniers with what they believed to be grist for their favorite mill: that climate change is some sort of worldwide conspiratorial scam. There was never a whole lot to hang a scandal on, but that didn't stop the frenzy that pushed "Climategate" onto front pages and network news shows. Of course, since then, the grownups have stepped back to the fore, and five independent investigations have, as Steve Benen points out, "concluded that the integrity of the science is entirely sound" and that the "deniers' arguments were debunked." Where's the coverage, though? Last week, CJR's Curtis Brainard put out a call: Brainard pretty deftly underscores what sort of stories drive coverage: a braying spectacle of scandal-mongering is sure to get attention. Dry, academic studies written by experts, not so much. He hangs his hopes on the media's affection for "trend stories," which always tend to command attention -- though it's better if the "trend" is something that falls within a "style" reporter's bailiwick. Scientists who want to get their news out to the public may want to consider doing so in "listicle" form. As Benen points out, credit Howard Kurtz with carrying the ball here: On CNN yesterday, Howard Kurtz took note of the trend: "The New York Times, to its credit, put this British report on the front page. Most of the major papers I looked at stuck it inside. CNN's 'Situation Room' did a full story on it, but there was not many mentions on cable news, nothing on the broadcast networks." This is, unfortunately, quite common. The right erupts with anger, the media treats the "controversy" as a legitimate story, and the public hears all about it. We eventually learn that the story was nonsense, but at that point, the media has lost all interest. WATCH: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201007110006 In a futility-themed, hilarious side note, Benen points out that Kurtz calls Fox News infotainer Glenn Beck to task for not revisiting the "Climategate" story now after previously blowing it out of all proportion. (Kurtz mistakes Glenn Beck's eponymous Hour of Glower for a "news show," it seems.) Also to your "but plants use CO2" argument, nothing is good for the planet or yourself in excess. Too much oxygen and the atmosphere becomes highly combustible and unstable, likewise you can die from drinking too much water. It honestly surprises me what passes for "controversial" here, we edit out parts of foreign documentaries claiming that global warming is real.