Rebdragon

Simple. The first half dozen posters supported him. Thus, everyone's scared of not going with the flow or being uncool. Me, I think RC pkers are generally a pathetic group, seeing as how they tele at any sign of combat and hang around low level wild, but their actions are justified seeing as how they're in the wild, and the Abyss is supposed to be dangerous...

Do we even know if inflation is damaging to the economy, and if so is it damaging it all that much? I mean, sure, it's damaging to the world economy, but the Runescape economy is VERY different than the real world. So, are there any "economists" here that can tell me why inflation is all that bad, especially since new players are coming in every single minute? Oh, and Mywepons, fix your sig. It's arrogant, insulting, and pointless, all wrapped into one.

Why's that? It's not contagious. I'm perfectly fine with any gay person as long as they're alone. (Not with a "life partner"). Actually, I have the same ideology as you; I have no [big] problem being around them in those circumstances. As long as they don't come on to me or anything, I'm fine.

What a coincedence... I was at the mall yesterday, and I saw some Bleach manga in a bookstore. I bought 17 and 18 :P ; it's out. Oh, and Chapter 69 of FMA is now out at zomgfta.com \ .

I suppose I find what you've said okay, but by saying: Are you implying that the only course for the gay man is to be worse than a straight man? I'll admit I'm uncomfortable around homosexuals (as it appears that you are), but I really hope you're not implying what I think you are. Eh, if you are, no biggy I guess; at least you're not an psycho fundamentalist extremist :P .

That'd be my bet. How many hours do you average a night? I've had the exact same thing happen to me when I skipped a night of sleep :-w . EDIT: Lol Vik, I was going to say that exact thing. My lack of desire to scare him out of drinking the stuff stopped me though :lol: . Still, Vault is evil :-w .

I'm currently at episode 120 of Bleach, caught up with Japan (thank you Youtube...). It's a pretty good anime, but only for one thing- the action and fighting scenes. They're AWESOME, especially Byakuya vs. Ichigo... but honestly, there's nothing else there. Character development sucks, plot sucks, character relations suck, everything but the cool fight scenes kind of sucks. Oh well. Hitsugaya ftw \ : Coolest Bankai of 'em all. (I think I just repeated myself from my last post somewhat, oh well. Come to think of it, from that post I now know I've watched 45 episodes in like a month, since I caught up at mid-march. Scary :lol: ).

Unfounded speculation. What's the point of posting it then? What's the point if all you have to do is make up a "speculation" with no facts to support it? Doesn't that defeat the entire purpose of an intellectually stimulating discussion? Imagine the scenario that you propose, where anyone can just suggest their unfounded beliefs into a serious discussion. How many 13-year-olds browsing this forum are you going to accidentally convince that your "speculation" is even worth reading (which it isn't)? Point: If you don't have facts and evidence to make your "speculation" worth discussing, keep it to yourself. Oh stop acting all high and mighty. It's a hypothesis added to the debate merely for the sake of discussion, and I'd say its credible to a degree considering the source. We all have opinions, and I'm pretty sure everyone here knows when to post them and when not to. Seriously, stop acting like you can tell everyone whether they're worthy of posting or not.

"How might I judge you or boost your ego today?

Definitely Cooking or Fletching. Didn't you know? People get 99's in those skills for the hard work required and great achievement achieved, not the glory. Oh, wait...

I just find it to be unnecessarily rude and a slap in the face to your entire ideology. What? You only have to be nice to people who you think are nice? Maybe I didn't define what I was saying perfect when I said that, but my point still remains even in that sentence. When I say "thinking that they're better than him", that is when I was narrowing it down to Christians with an arrogant attitude. Reading back through it I suppose I see why it could be read as me hating on Christianity, but it was and never has been my intention to do that. I just hate stupid Christian debates like "Gasp, is Ghandi going to Hell?". It just shows the arrogant side of religion. Anyways, would you stop with the patronizing, condescending attitudes in your post? Especially when you attack peoples logic, constantly? Sorry, it's just I like to debate on a level playing field, not on one where my debate partner repeatedly speaks in a condescending manner, and personally it seems like you act a little condescending in your posts.

Argh... I'm not attacking Christianity. I could have sworn that I made that point painfully obvious in my post. I'm attacking the minority (I believe, could be a majority...) who seem to have an arrogant attitude that they're better than everyone else not for what they do, but because they're Christains. And anyways, most people do in fact agree that helping people is part of the Christian faith (as you said, it's overwhelmingly obvious in the Bible), but many of the people in that group still just go to Church and do nothing else but that. That's not walking the talk, that's just going to Church to say you go to Church, or to get out of Hell, or whatever. If you want to call me arrogant for thinking people like that are arrogant, fine, judge me as you please. Yes, the Church does amazing things for the world. I'm frikking taking a class right now on everything Christianity has done and is doing for the world. It is an amazing religion full of giving and caring people, so I see no reason to feel "hate or anger" towards it. As for the judging people as cowards, I was referring to people who are Christian and believe in God just because they're scared of Hell. That's the only group I was referring to when I said "cowards".

I'm curious as to what your life philosophy is that allows you to judge people you have never met or spoken with and have a clean conscience about it. Or are you speaking about one Christian in particular? Because if he really is as arrogant as you say he is, I can assure you that God would agree with you wholeheartedly. I'm speaking against the ideology that confessing in a booth in a Church actually means anything. Most Christians aren't like that, but the idea that "going to Church" > "helping people" just ticks me off. It's pure cowardice and lack of drive to actually do something to help the world. Me, I know plenty of Christians who help people in immense ways, who still say you should always go to Church and whatnot. One, a seventh grade teacher of mine, does tons of amazing stuff- he organizes Christian, yet/and very fun socials for students by staying up late at night and working hard for the kids, at no benefit to him financially or anything else of that sort. He has a soccer camp that he runs to teach kids the sport and let them have fun. He goes to Mexico every year and helps out kids at orphanages (I went with him for a week to Mexico once in eighth grade, we helped out an orphanages and whatnot, spent time with Mexican orphans, etc.). Anyways, my point is, being Christian doesn't mean your bad or anything in my opinion. True Christians are like the man I described- giving all of themselves to help others, true to their faith. He preaches about Jesus and God and all that, but, unlike many Christians, he actually walks the talk.

Geez Freshwacka, you've spread a virus o_O.

See, that's the kind of blind crap that ticks me off. Did not Jesus, or God, or some divine being say "If you are loving people, you are loving me?" Dunno, I'm paraphrasing it. Anyways, if there was a God, It wouldn't want us to be sitting in a Church praising It, it'd want us to help everyone we can here on earth. That is, unless It has an inferiority complex or something. As a non-rhetorical question, would you seriously say that it's better to sit in Church and "praise God" rather than helping people, which is what It would want us to do? Sitting in a church does absolutely nothing for anyone. Going out and aiding the world does. Ghandi loved God. You want to know why? Because he loved and helped people. He's billions times better than that arrogant [wagon] sitting in a confession booth thinking that they're better than him because their Christians and "repent", if you can really call what most people do true repenting.

First of all, I'd like to say that I love how people like to talk about something like they think they understand it, but in reality they have no clue what they're talking about. Yes, as in when people talk about God. You guys have never met God, never talked to It, never even seen It at all. And yet, you all talk as if you're frikking authorities on It. C'mon people, doesn't that sound slightly arrogant to anyone else at all? And you guys want to know what believing in Christ is? No, it isn't sitting in some church and praying to him and God so you don't go to Hell. It's going out, helping people, and being like Jesus. It's proving his point that he is the Way, Truth, and Light if you act with Jesus as your precedent. He was an amazing virtuous man, who "saved us from our sins" by being a precedent without sin (or close to without sin) for us to follow. He saved us from sin and Hell not by some supernatural method, but by teaching us how to be good people. And by being good people, we are with "God" (i.e., a being of absolute truth). And by being with "God", we are away from "Hell". People just get frikking caught up in all the magic and supernatural stuff, and get blinded towards the simple message wanted to get across- love your neighbors, do anything you can to aid them. Stop praying in a frikking church, and go to a frikking third world country, or simply any place here or anywhere that needs aid, and help people, if you're anywhere close to serious about your faith. Rant over.

Me, I'm in the top 2% in mathematics of a well known College-Prep Jesuit High School, also a junior in a class of about 450 students, and I don't feel like I could be a ton of help mathematically on this forum :-w . No offense or anything, it's just my opinion. Too many smarty people in OT o_O

Cracked open my head fairly recently, at my forehead. Didn't hurt at all, just like the last two times :-k . It's weird: I crack my head open, get up and don't feel pain, put something on it like a paper towel to stop the bleeding, go to the hospital still holding the paper towel up to my head, sit in the waiting room for half an hour still holding the paper towel to stop the bleeding, go in, and get stitches, and leave with my head back in one piece. The routines no different then your average check-up :lol: . Anyways, does anyone know why one doesn't feel pain when they crack their head open at the forehead? I don't get it...

Anyone care to explain this? Please? I hear it way too much on this forum, but I don't get it :oops: . Anyways, I know plenty of people who jokingly say "Brb" when they're leaving the room for a sec or something. Other than that I don't see too much :-k .

Hm please elaborate. I don't see what this has to do with anything. I'm saying that he's doing whatever helps him win in the end in terms of god... including appeasing god by killing to get 72 virgins in heaven. Why would you say the belief of the afterlife is cowardice and worthless? It brings many people hope. And, who knows, it could be true. It definitely has more going for it than most of the ideas discussed in this thread. :lol: I'm not saying belief in the afterlife is cowardice and worthless; I often entertain the idea of an afterlife myself. I'm simply saying believing in God, rather than being an atheist, just because you "always win" when believing in the Christian God, is worthless and pathetic. It's not true believing; it's taking the easy way out. Subjective truth is a human formed truth, so it can be wrong or right. Objective truths are part of Truth; they are the true answers to our questions. We don't know objective truths, but many of our subjective truths can be part of objective truth.

With that logic I should believe in every god there is. Oh, don't forget, he should go kill some people in the name of religion and get his 72 virgins. Belief based on cowardice about the afterlife is worthless.

Everything can't be an absolute truth. Example: Me saying "It's cold outside." It's not absolute, it's a relative truth. The statement "It's cold outside." is true for me but not necessarily true for anyone else. Fine, we can talk about relations and opinions, whatever. My main point still stands that subjective truths can be absolute truths, and because of this we can trust the opinions of the general human rather than some stupid old book, a book that isn't much more than a vague moral guidebook and fluff for Christianity to control the masses. As for subjective truths, how about the statment, "it's raining" It may actually be raining outside, and thus it could be an absolute moral. But, if you can pardon the movie reference, the rain could be an illusion as if we were in the Matrix, and thus make our subjective truth false. We can produce subjective truths that are actually absolute truths as well (without us knowing it). Do you disagree with that?

I'd rather base my opinions on a possible absolute truth, rather than my own or someone elses speculations. If the Bible isn't the truth, then it's rubbish as I've said before. Why should I believe what the general populace has agreed on? They had a geocentric world view for quite a while. Their views can change. Why is it so important that I have the same opinion as the general populace? Shouldn't you believe what you in your heart believe is right? I believe this goes along with the "MY BELIEF TRUMPS EVERYTHING!!! MUAHAHAHA!" group. Everything is a possible absolute truth. "My own or someone elses speculations", just like the Bible, can easily contrain many absolute truths. Believe what's in your heart, but don't forget to use your head too.

There is free will, we just don't have it. Free will belongs to the orginals. The ones where there is no future, they get to make it with the decisions. The only thing is, there is always a future, so there is free will, it is just an infinite number of time...Thingies away. What's to stop you from going killing your parents when you go back in time, spare your emotions? I myself don't believe in "free will" (as everything we do is a reaction to environment), but that's not only taking away free will, it's taking way the human perception of free will and choice. If one has a gun pointed at their parent-from-the-past, what's to stop them from pulling the trigger? (again, once they get past emotions)

Yes, which is why I added the word "fairly" to my post. I'm saying that our opinions and logic can create subjective morals that are very valuable to the human race but we can never know that these morals are true; they're still subjective, no matter how many people agree about them. A moral composed solely of subjective morals is still a subjective moral.