Tigra00

Apparently you're not allowed to bash anyone, except Christians. I got banned for telling Kirby to kill himself, Flamestrike got banned for telling a kid to kill him self, yet when Tigra told all Christians to kill them selves nothing happened to him. Way to take what I said out of context. I said something like "If you all are so sure you're going to heaven, why would you not kill yourselves? Why stay here and bother us with your stupid views?" Completely acceptable question, and trust me, I've been banned from this forum many times. I've been here almost since the site opened back on the old scapeboard, so obviously banning me isn't going to get rid of me. Ask God to get rid of me. I'm not a bigot, and I don't hate Christians. I hate that you shove your views into laws where noone needs or even wants them, say that everyone who isn't a Christian is incapable of morality, and dance around the truth to make your religion look good. Your "world-view" DOESN'T MATTER. It isn't the Christian world-view that's wrong, it's the fact that the whole thing with religion is wrong. A lot of Christians want to help people n' whatnot, but there are a laarge share who are "sinners". The whole "you're going to Hell if you don't join us" view is wrong, but the whole of the Christian view isn't completely wrong. Just the religion is. I'd venture as far as to say that it's impossible for it to be true. With all the lovely contradictions and whatnot (which none of you ever address, for obvious reasons), it's just not possible. There's no way to "follow" the religion. It says to do one thing, then another. The only thing that's solid is "Jesus loves you!"...Well that's great. So all we have to do is accept Jesus and we get into Heaven, no matter what. If we were horrible of terrific in life, we will be rewarded in death. Sorry, it can't be that easy. Astralinre - I don't get it. You said I don't accept religion because I don't accept my assumptions as wrong and others as right. DUH? Why would I take someone who's been taught since they were born to follow this with more than a grain of salt? What is the ratio on kids:adults who would believe in religion if told about it right this second? Like 100% to 5%? There is a reason for that. Children are stupid. They believe what they are told. My mom told me chocolate milk came from brown cows and I believed it until she told me she was kidding. I also believed in Santa because I was told to. And the Easter Bunny. How many adults would believe in Santa if told to today? Exactly zero, because it's a fairy tale. There is nothing that says the Bible ISN'T a fairy tale. Why shouldn't it be? Every other religion in history has been deemed a fairy tale. What makes your special? If anything, other religions deemed as fairy tales are WAY better than Christianity. They don't go around and contradict themselves, and they don't spread hatred and intolerance. Plus, their heroes are way cooler than Jesus. Hercules smashed stuff and was awesome in general. Jesus is...Not so awesome. He turned water into wine and cast demons into pigs. What the hell, that's not even a good story. More Hercules, please! Okay, that last little bit wasn't to be taken 100% seriously, but it's true. Other religions are deemed fairy tales, but this one had the wonder of mass-marketing behind it and all of a sudden it's deemed fact. Cool. It isn't deemed fact because it's obviously true, that's for sure. There is zero proof of this stuff ever happening. No plauge's recorded by Egyptians, nothing. Speaking of that, there's another thing you guys never address. Hmm. Just remember - Christianity isn't the oldest religion in the world. There have been ones before, and after it. For some reason, humans make them up. Humans are creative. The people who wrote the stories of religion are some of the best writers in time, obviously, because millions (billions nowadays) of people took it as fact. So just remember that.

I thought that too until either Ghost proved me wrong or John lied. He didn't prove you wrong. He fed you what the church feeds him. That all the beings are one "because God has the power to be down like that". :roll: Tigra, I realize you refuse to try to understand Christianity so that you can flame it more, but here's something that might help you understand the concept of the Trinity, insomuch as that is possible for a finite being.

Not if you have a motherboard with both, like I did. When I bought it last christmas I knew I'd want to upgrade my graphics card before I upgraded the motherboard so I got one with both AGP and PCI-E (ASROCK Dual-SATA2 it's called). Nay, mine is only AGP. I went to buy my card a year and a half ago and they said they couldn't do any PCI-E ones, only AGP, so I got stuck with a mediocre Radeon 9250. :P It runs Dawn of War pretty smooth, which I'm happy with, but Company of Heroes got shot down...Characters and some terrain models wouldn't even load on it. Lame. So I know that I have to upgrade soon.

Paris Hilton is probably the ugliest of all the ugly women in Hollywood.

Soooo... How about that Emma Watson chick? Man, if I was still under 18 I'd so.. ...Right. Harry Potter. Dumbledore. Snape. Why are you all talking about men? Talk about the women. Noone cares about Harry Pothead or Dumbledork. I want more of Hotmione! Oh yea, I went there.

Lego's are teh pwn. I'm kinda' sad about discovering them so late in my childhood...I didn't really have many of them until I was like 10...By the time I was 12 it was time to put the toys away. :P I had a pirate ship set and a submarine set that I used to combine together and make, like...Underwater...Pirate...Things. :D I don't have many weird memories...One Christmas I was sick and I got everything I wanted and just DIDN'T CARE when I opened them. :lol: I opened everything and went to bed, the next morning I felt better and then I was excited. It was like opening them twice. :P

On the subject of computers... Switching from AGP to PCI-E means getting a new motherboard, right-o? I've been in need of a new graphics card (better one, rather) and some more RAM (only have a gig as it stands) for a while now, and with stuff like Supreme Commander coming up, I have no choice but to shell out some cash. But do I really need a whole new computer? Is it possible to just get a new motherboard, card, some RAM and call 'er a day, or will the motherboard not be compatible with some parts, not work right, or just plain suck? I dunno'...Looking for a way to get out of spending $2000 on a beefy computer. :P Might as well, though...A freakin' card alone is gonna cost 1/4 of that.

Even if Christianity is false, he still dominates you in arguments. He's the one that doesn't lose his head, and he doesn't end up making his entire argument based on an appeal to emotion and ad hominem. If calling someone elses religion "stupid" is losing my head, then yes, I totally lost it! :roll: GhostRanger likes to "prove" things by posting biased views and ignoring ones that obviously prove him wrong. He's kinda' like Bill O'Reily with some Jack Thompson thrown in. I, on the other hand, will observe both sides of the view. I have no agenda. If someone were to show me some evidence that religion could hold water, I'd convert in a second, for I surely don't wish to burn in some fictional oven. Alas, there is no evidence. The reason religion sucks is because according to it, EVERYONE is going to Hell. Christianity damns non-Christians, Islam damns non-Islamics, it's just stupid. People who have the audacity to tell me that *I* am going to hell even if I live a great life just because I "didn't accept Jesus" are elitist turd-faces, and they're not even GOOD at being elitist. Free-will is nowhere to be found in the Bible, yet they all say God gave it to us and if we don't choose him, we burn forever. HOW IS THAT FREE-WILL? There is no choice there. None. Who in their right mind would choose to burn in Hell? That's right, noone. And that's why it's all a load of poopie. You have no choice. I've seen Ghost lose his cool before too, so yea.

I thought that too until either Ghost proved me wrong or John lied. He didn't prove you wrong. He fed you what the church feeds him. That all the beings are one "because God has the power to be down like that". :roll:

He quit TIF. I aint explainin. Probably 'cause he can't win any arguments about Christianity. On snap. I went there. The only nice person tip.it has is Mad4u. True story. I'm pretty sure that if she were to call you a turd sammich, she would do it with a smile. I'm positive!

I never got to take Chemistry in highschool, though I'm hoping I can at community college before I go to University so I don't feel too lost. :P I made many "Works bombs" (Aluminum + Works toilet bowl cleaner, as people have mentioned above) when I was younger just to mess around with them. They're only semi-dangerous. :P My friend had one go off inside of his coat pocket while he was holding on to it and nothing happened to him. Scared the crap out of us both though, I thought his hand would be mutilated. :lol: He didn't think it'd explode unless you shook it, so he put it into his pocket to walk to where we were blowing them up, and it blew up...early. :P Obviously, at 12, he wasn't aware that "Shake" isn't an element and thus wouldn't have much more of an effect on something. :lol: A girl I went to school with, in Chemistry, had something explode in her face too. She had some burns and stuff, nothing very serious, she's not disfigured or even scarred, they were very light burns. She should have sued though, the teacher told her the wrong chemicals to mix and she got a face full of nasty. :P

Sounds like you just plan on that to proof something. There's no need to try extremly hard imo. Also there is no guarantee that you wouldn't be stuck with something you hate, once you graduated medical school. At least you will be stuck with being a doctor, if you'd hate that i don't know of course. It's all about getting paid fairly for the work you do. People who do not go to college sometimes work much harder than people who do, and they get paid less. I refuse to do that. My dad told me every day growing up to never accept that, because he had to accept that when he was my age, because I was born. He builds houses, which isn't a horrible job, infact his business does 1+ million in work every year (he builds houses by himself faster than the local 5+ man crews, it's pathetic really. :lol:), but he has to bust his [wagon]. In Minnesota, it's either hot or cold; it's rarely "nice" outside, so yea. I've tried his job. It sucks. I might as well use my brain for something. I'm not setting a goal to "prove" anything besides the fact that I can do something with my life. Could you get done with medical school and work in a job you hate? Yes, but it's very unlikely. Like I said, I'm not dead-set or anything, but the only thing I ever found interesting in school was science, and I like to help people, so *shrug*.

I'd like to be a doctor or lawyer or something. Lawyer would be boring though, I'm sure. I was never the "good student" in school, so I'm worried about my chances on being something like a doctor...I'm going to try extremely hard when I get to the University though in like 2 years and see how good I do. If I do good on my generals, I'll probably go into Biology major, Chemistry minor and see how I do with that...If I do great, I'll see about medical school then. It isn't really something you decide on, because it takes work to even get to that route. I've gotten more mature since I got done with highschool and my education ethic has changed a lot, so if I can manage the work, I can do it. If I don't, I'll be stuck doing something I hate, so I got no other choice. :P

Xbox 360. It's the only system worth getting on a games/price/fun basis. Wii is good for Zelda, PS3 is good for paper playing games the Xbox360 has had and will have for the next year, minimum. But I still want a new PC more than anything. Supreme Commander ftw?

There is absolutely zero evidence of Intelligent Design, and there never will be. It cannot be proven...Probably because the whole idea of it is based off of a book, n' that's it. Evolution has some evidence. Proof? No, not so much, but evidence? Yes. To prove it you'd had to have been there at the time, and noone was, but there is a lot of evidence pointing to it being fact. The only reason Harry Potter has been and is being attacked is because it's a book directed at children for the main target audience, which happens to also be the Church's target audience, because children are SO much easier to scare into believing something there's no proof of. Ever try to convince an adult who's never read the Bible into believing it? They won't, because it makes no sense and is filled with contradictions. The church goes after the kids while they're impressionable, and they don't want a book to disrupt that. ...Even though it wouldn't, because it's OPENLY and OBVIOUSLY fiction, unlike the Bible, which claims to be fact.

Since when is it optional? My first time being suspended (for 1 day) from school was due to me not standing up and siting the pledge. I was in 5th grade and just didn't WANT to because I was tired of doing it everyday - it has no meaning to me or any other kid that age, yet we were FORCED to site it EVERY DAY until 9th grade. I'm not saying the pledge should be kept out of schools, it should be left in, but be optional, and Harry Potter books have *NO* reason to be banned. They're a freakin' fiction book, mmkay? The Bible itself speaks about witchcraft, so they can ess tee eff you.

The Bible is full of examples of God's capability of hatred. They just don't teach you that part in church. God loves everyone...Unless you're a first born Egyptian child whom had nothing to do with the Pharoh at the time "enslaving Jews" to which there is no evidence of happening in the first place. Egyptian's kept records of EVERYTHING, so...Plus, what the hell? Moses just walts' up to the PHAROH OF EGYPT and says "Let *my* people go." and the Pharoh says "No." and turns him away? Why was Moses not enslaved if he too was a Jew? That's convenient for the hero of the story, innit? Just an example. The Bible is full of stuff like that, but they choose to teach the whole "Jesus loves you" thing over everything else.

I don't make them, because making them is setting up to totally NOT do it, but I'd like to put the 30-ish pounds of muscle I had when I was 16 back onto my body. :P I lost most of it by being lazy...Waaa.

Ummm... No.

He looked like he was pounding on deaths door and begging to be let in everytime I saw him without make-up, i.e. at appearances. :lol: Pale...Like, vampire pale. Sucks though, I liked his character on that show. So few words, but it all worked well.

Sounds like someone is going to get sued for copyright infringement upon Avatar: The Last Airbender. :lol: I mean, it's not even *kind of* like it, it's an exact copy, only the element being the bad guys are switched. Jeebus.

I personally donÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t agree with the Dixie chicks song and Tigra what you said about people from the south is a stereotype. Not everyone flyÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s the rebel flag that lives in the south and the people who do are just showing that they take pride in the heritage maybe one of their ancestors died fighting for the confederate side. Also saying that people from the south arenÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t the smartest people in this country is a stereotype too. I wonder if you have ever even been to the south. I was born in South Carolina. I have been there, aswell as Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, etc etc etc, many times. Yes, it is a stereotype! But you know why stereotypes exsist? Because they are true. You can't just make up a generalization about a group of people. It at least has to have some truth to it, and this is no exception. Freakin' everyone down there flies those stupid flags and most of them have NO IDEA what they mean or stand for. They probably think it was something cool from the Dukes of Hazard, but I can tell you that they don't know that it stands for the seperation of our country into two different countries, pro-slavery and the deaths of a great number of people. I can also say with relative certainty that almost noone flies them because of their rich ancestory, i.e. knowing someone who fought in that war. Know why? It happened 150 years ago. There probably aren't many people who even know if they had a relative in this country at the time, let alone one who fought in the war. For every 1 person who knows, there are an infinate number of idiots who have no idea. Like I said, stereotypes are there for a reason. Because they are true for the general amount of people. So, I'll use them as I see fit. But I don't even have to since I've seen these morons with my own eyes, flying their dumb flag in the rear window of their truck. If you're ever down south and DON'T see a Rebel flag being flown SOMEWHERE, I will give you $100, lol.

...I really can't believe this many people care about a book character. That's kinda' creepy...

If you have a "People who owe me stuff" file, you really need to start crackin' skulls. :P Some kid still owes me $10 from 9th grade...Mind you, I'll be 20 in a month.

Their message is correct, however, most of their fans (fans of country music) are from the south. Southern people ironically have a great sense of pride for their country and it's leader's (all while flying a Rebel flag, mind you...Not the brightest people in the country...), so they got angry at them singing a song about how screwed up George Bush is. In other words, they should all be ignored. Hicks and 'The Chicks.