Scruffy5389

READ THE FREAKING THREAD! sorry for caps I even bolded it, I said that you must pick a size that you can fill without to much effort. God how hard is it to read a thread once. I'll explain it one more time You can choose between a list of 10, 25, 50 or 100 films, this way everybody can post his/her list, the smaller list have another point system, so it all ends up good. lol I had to read through ur thread like three times before I figured out what u were talking about.....don't go getting angry with others because they don't want to spend that much time puzzling out ur post :lol: and i dont think i could even name ten favorite movies.....I might have to resort to disney classics :lol:

There's a poem called something like "the hangman" that's like that. It's a good lesson, but my personal favorite in quotes is from Mark Twain: In other words, sometimes saying f***!! at top volume is more satisfying than a life of pious belief. And that's why I'm not religious! :D Mark Twain has a lot of other good ones, but Im too lazy to post em now :wink:

Alright, I believe that God is a chicken. In the beginning there was nothing except this big chicken, and the universe came into being when the chicken laid a big egg. Eventually, this egg will hatch, but in the meantime its our universe. In fact, mankind is the little chicken fetus. No kidding. We will continue to grow and develop until we are so advanced we become a second god. Don't believe me? Sorry, I can't prove it. But you have to admit it makes sense. Actually I lied. Here's what I really believe: Every human being alive today will someday, if they work hard and virtuously, become a god with their own world under them. Our world is under the power of one god right now, and he was once a human in his own little world under another God, who was human once also..... You get the picture. There isn't really an afterlife, human souls just keep growing and growing until eventually they are gods. This is why people like Isaac Newton and Einstein are so well known. They have already begun the process of understanding this world, and are (were) almost ready to make their own. Someday we will follow them. Sure, this sounds like one huge pyramid scam, but that is actually the meaning of life. Don't believe me? Sorry, I can't prove it. Okay okay, I lied again. But here's what I really truly believe: There is one all-powerful, omnipotent God, and he created the world in seven days (six days?). He filled it with little beasties of his own invention, then created, in his own image, a man. The man lived in paradise until he got horny and He took a rib from the man and made a woman. Then the woman ate a really good-looking apple and got the both of em kicked out into a rough and tumble world. This is why women are not priests; people like them just can't be trusted. Anyway, History passed and people were born and civilization came around and all those goodies, and He decided to send us a prophet. So He used his powers to get some virgin pregnant without actually touching her, because, you know, women aren't worthy, even if they are virgins, cuz of the apple thing, and His son walked the earth. Today we remember both that first man and His son, and we know that eventually, if we are good and don't do too much naughty stuff with that vile gender, we'll all end up sitting on a nice cloud in a blissful place, singing about His glory. If we're really lucky we might get to wash His feet. Don't believe me? Sorry, I can't prove it. By this time (if you've read this whole post), you've probably figured out that I was lying the whole time. I'm really more of an atheist. As far as I can tell, the chicken thing has as much proof as the last, Christian one. Why do you think Christians say that He works in inscrutable ways? It's cuz we haven't actually seen him around since the days that people believed you could sail off the end of the earth, and just maybe (possibly) those accounts are not really trustworthy. Instead, I believe that if I hold a rock out in front of me and let go, it will fall to the earth. If I pull on a chain tied to a tree, the chain will lift off the ground. And if I stay out in the sun for too long, my skin will get all red and I will start to hurt quite a bit. People far more clever than I am have used evidence like this to come up with the idea that the Earth orbits the sun, and the universe was created about 17 billion years ago by a large, unexplained explosion. I believe this because it can be explained to me on evidence that I can test for myself. Some of it is, admittedly, beyond me completely, but since nothing in science has really rung false for me yet, I believe the accepted theories. Physics I can test by playing with sleds and cannons and ropes. The bible and stuff like that, you have to take some guy's word for it every single step of the way. If you're going to just have unconditional faith, why not just believe the chicken thing? I mean, it does explain how a chicken can live with its head chopped off for over a year. (No joke! If you don't believe me, look here. It's a popular site for Chickenistians everywhere. :wink: ) Basically, what I'm trying to say with this dense mass of witty and engaging writing is that there's no proof that there is a god, and there's no proof that there isn't, so I've stopped worrying about it and tried understanding the universe through methods a little more trustworthy than blind faith. Thanks for reading everything, if you didn't read the whole post, may the great chicken in the sky send your soul to the meatblock! If I have offended anybody, don't worry, I'm sure your god will strike me dead for blasphemy. Seriously though, if you are offended, then you are basically offended because of my beliefs. If you choose to be offended by my beliefs, well then, I can always choose to be offended by yours :wink: Off topic: I've always wondered, what would happen if you got in a normal argument (like, over the price of a piece of bread) with a die-hard Christian and you just got angry and shouted "MAY GOD STRIKE YOU DEAD!" Do you think that would end the argument?

yeah I was thinkin about pirahna. hes been #1 for a while now

take a pic ingame of some scenery or sumthin, then use that as a background. all you have to do is fill in ur black background with white, then highlight the whole thing and paste over the background pic. There's a button that will make it so that it doesn't paste white over ur background, just ur characters and stuff

lol I looked at that pic for like 20 seconds before I saw the eye blink, and it freaked me out :lol:

Ah, my current pastime termed an "online distraction" :lol: great review :lol:

better than I could do :D

i would go wit the first one just cuz I don't like abstracts :wink:

Simple, but meh :D

they say "leave this place mortal" which is kind of ironic if you kill em :lol: but anyway, best I ever got from mysterious man was an uncut saphire :oops:

No one has contradicted me yet....I think I win :lol: Anyway, the reason that little fetus does not have this inalienable right to life (according to me) is that it is not a human being yet. It's a small collection of cells. if you kill it, it will never know that it could have lived. As a fetus, it doesn't have anything that is truly heinous to take away, like an autonomous physical body or a sense of self. Sure, you just ended a "possible" life, but you do that every time you decide not to have s*x. I'm not sayin we should all get abortions (it's obviously better to avoid the problem altogether through abstinence or whatever), but when the problem comes up, the fetus isn't ever going to care that it's dead, and the woman will be a heckuva lot happier. If you think killing this fetus (who will never know or care that it has been denied life) is murder despite my argument above, then don't get an abortion. But don't go meddling in other people's lives and make abortions illegal. In the end, i think it is the decision of the woman carrying the baby and the father (if he hasn't split and run). Women do not need this extra restriction on their freedom.

Okay, I've read about half of the replies to this topic, and i think I can sum up the argument right now: If you respect a fetus as any other human being regardless of size and thought, then abortion seems like murder and you don't like it. If you think of a fetus as a small bundle of cells with huge potential but not much actual worth in the present, then abortion doesn't seem like murder. It seems like it just takes a large burden off of an unhappy woman. Personally, I don't think a fetus deserves the same rights as a living, breathing functioning human. Sure, it could become someone great, but so could every little sperm and egg out there, and its not like too many people treat those little guys with respect. Sure, there's great potential, but potential doesn't mean worth. In my opinion, its up to the woman carrying the baby whether that fetus has an inalienable right to life yet. But, if you really respect the fetus as another human being, I'm not gonna change ur opinion. Just please don't try and take this decision from other people by making abortion illegal.

shades: drop black robes :roll:

I don't really like this idea. It's hard enough already to get a kill, ad now all of a sudden we're going to punish you once you do? Sure, it would be fun, but it wouldn't help pking any :wink:

lol i couldn't make a space scene even if I had the programs to do it with, but you know, this guy's pic looks, to me, like an actual picture from some observatoryor something. Sure it's plain, but it's realistic. Just thought I'd add that in there. It's not like realistic images ever made it into my sig line :lol: