Bellack

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Since the planet is being destroyed by pollution, our minds are bombarded with violence (see game and movie industry) the people lose their rights and so on.. humanity will never reach ascension. We wont be able even to colonize Mars we will die in a barren and polluted planet after a 3rd world war. Thanks to US that push the world in this direction... Am I pessimist? Probably.. but I was not few years ago now its just obvious the world goes down.. Asce

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Crap, I'm a damn toaster and I don't even know it! don't feel bad Speaking of toasters, the next season of Battlestar Galactica looks really good. That is by far the best show on TV.

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I personally hate RTS games. All they are is a click fest with little to no strategy involved. The only exceptions to this is the Homeworld and Total War series which were great. Turn-Based games allow you the time to run an empire without the 'Zerg' affect. When I want a fast high paced game I play the FPS or MMO's. If Gal Civ 2 was a RTS I would not be playing it. Now that I have bashed RTS. A good combo between RTS and Turn based can be found in the Total War series. This kind of game

Reply to Sigh....again in Strategies GalCiv2 Forums

I have never seen pirates in the game. I do see that the AI races will be at war with them but I have never encountered them. And I have played several Huge Galaxy games (that is all I play) games over the last few months.

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The DL mega event is so underpowered it's laughable, I can't imagine why it would be giving you problems. Just invade and destroy them the instant they pop up, they spawn with no defenses at all. I get them about 1/2 the times I play and they are way underpowered for the tech they have. They should play like any other AI was the event is triggered. Or there should be an option that the players can adjust the power level of the DL for a game. As it stand

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I used to warn young readers, "Frank Herbert got flicked on the head one day by God; he saw the glowing words, wrote them down, and produced one of the 1/2 dozen greatest SF books of all time. Unfortunately, he tried to write the next 4 or 5 on his own." Actually I believe I read that Herbert did get an inspiration while working on another book that was going slowly, and knocked out Dune's 1st editor's draft in about 3 months. LO

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the 10% of the brain that they are referring to is what is involved in thought. conscience thought I can prove to you that there are many people that use only 5 or 10 percent of thier brain. Just go to any Fast Food drive through and order more than three items. Do this and you will see that the 10% - 5% brain use theory may have a grain of truth to it.

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I'd like to see the option of having the player take control of turn-based ship-to-ship combat whenever a space battle comes up. But I don't honestly know how popular such an idea would be. I would love that. I would also want turned based combat for planetary invasions as well.

Reply to A matter of time , or why god is nonsense in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Bellack, i also would love to ask you some questions? like stanley, i am thrilled to be able to speak to someone who experienced an NDE, which is a first for me. i have many questions, many of them technical, but i think important to assess the situation. -What kind if operations was this? -Was your life threatened by clinical parameters (heart failure, etc.)? -if your life was threatened, for how long (how long did resuscitation take)?<b

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You said you saw your body and them working on it in the operating room from above? And some of these details of the operation were confirmed with the docs when you "came back to life"? How long were you just looking at the operation? What was your vision (eye sight) like? Did you happen to see a seperate "spirit body", or were you basically just invisible above your body? How did you feel? How long ago was this NDE? I know lots of questions, but I am fascinat

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there is no way that the universe could have had a beginning or will have an end. because of the fact that if the universe had an edge then something would have to reside beyond that edge, then you have to ask ,what is beyond that objects edge and so on. the universe did have a beginning and it will have a ending the universe is 12b years old up to now. when it comes to god i dont know. Pmutzu i have to say this you know f==k all

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occam's razor What? Can you explain this theory? The simplest explanation is the right one? Certainly this doesn't always apply? Someone might say the reason a bug flies is because little buggy buggy flaps its wittle wingses, when really, a little more detailed but still very simplistic answer is cellular energy conversion in the wing muscles moderated by neurologic impulses causes motion in the wings. Said motion in the wings p

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Ballack, I really want to talk to you in detail. It is an honor to meet someone who has actually had this experience. So basically, you believe in life after death but no God? What makes you so sure that life continues? What if it was all just random chemicals in the brain, and you just thought you saw yourself? What convinces you??? Well it could have been a chemical reaction but the fact that I could tell what was going on in the Operatin

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in order to form a cell membrane you have to have proteins. however in order to have proteins you have to have life. however in order to have life you have to have cell membrane. so where did the first cell membrane come from. i know magicilly out of thin air. What if I said that Zeus and the Olympian gods created the earth and all life on it? What would you say to that? I bet you will say something to the affect that they never exsited

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you did get one thing wrong the soul doesn't live in the brain. it lives in the heart Where is your proof on this? If the soul exist then the most logical place for it to exist is the brain not the blood pump of the body.

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There is in math an equation which operates similarly to this riddle "This is a lie." Now like this riddle logic cannot answer the math problem. There exists within two logical answers which can neither be proved nor disproved. Either the answer is yes this is a lie or no its truth. For those that believe that logic can answer all questions this problem creates a dynamic paradigm. This riddle then brings about another question. Can logic answer all questions? I sh

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which is not the least bit verifiable? that would be called faith. and that would be why i am an atheist it is ok god believes in you Which god? And once you answer the question of 'which god believes in him.' Then tell me how you know what this god believe in.

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Even more so with self-sacrifice. The man/women who pushes a child away from a moving bus (or stampeding buffalo) can no longer spread those good person genes. I think you get it by now. That desire likely arose when everyone next to you was your kin. In that way you are spreading a portion of your genes (depending on your own likelihood to breed again, and the likelihood of the child living after pu

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Religion, infects youre mind, and makes you think god exists. It's like a virus that gets you addicted to the virus. Lets not talk religion. Lets talk near death experiences. I think that is decent evidence for God and the afterlife. People who have near death experiences are ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED they know God exists. If millions of people said they were robbed last night and you weren't would you believe them? I think you would

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Well, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein (two fairly well known scientists) would disagree with you. Both were Deists (believed in God). Between them and you, I'll agree with them Oh and one more thing... "all objects tend toward chaos ,that is the norm . order is the stranger aspect of th

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first, you have the correct definition for what God is. Who knows, one might argue that the only thing able to withstand the passing of time is the time itself, so God is the time A simple definition of God is that he is love. It makes sense to me because as the bible says, we are made in the image of God, in the sense of our emotions not our appearance. Now as far as love is concearned, i could easily imagine love to b

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You guys miss my point with the atoms. We had no idea atoms existed until technology enabled us to see atoms. God could be 100% real in this universe. We just need the technology!!! Which god are we talking about? Zeus, Sheba, Allah, Christian god, or any number of gods that have been invented throughout mans history. Every religion thinks they are right yet can they all be right? And if not then who is right and who is wrong. The concept

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And really who wants to live for ever? Duh I do

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Has it ever occured to anyone here that our technology is a natural part of our evolution? I mean lets think about it. We adapt to our envirment by changing it. Early man discovered how to make weapons, make cloths, create fire etc. All this changes the enviroment in which we live to ensure our survival. Technology comes from our brains which in turn has evolved from a more primitive version of humans. So I don't think that Technology will 'devolve' us. In fact it is because of technol

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Yes, we have a "stash" of nukes. (Actually, a very carefully managed nuclear force structure.) The most likely time for any of them to be rashly used was in 2003, against a numerically superior force with a demonstrated willingness to employ WMD themselves. Didn't happen. Not even a little tiny one when we were trying to nail Saddam. The US is not going to start a throwing nukes for anything less than a major WMD assault upon us. We invented th