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Brad is right. Cyber cycles happen in pretty much every net community I've been witness to. I think an additional factor is all the election stuff. Religious discussions are a year round thing, but a fair chunk of the remaining folks who aren't necessarily interested in that are now attentive to the politics because of the election year. (I'm not forgetting we have non American JUs, folks, but they do seem to be in the minority of posters.) Anywho, my theory is that for peop

Reply to Teaching Our Children in Misc Stardock Forums

And yes, Zoo, that's what I was getting at. I'm not suggesting people let their kids do swan dives into the lit fireplace so they can learn what it's like to be set on fire.

Reply to Teaching Our Children in Misc JoeUser Forums

[quote]Ock, how long are your kids going to do harm before they think for themselves that they should do no harm?[/quote] I suppose that depends on a person's personal definition of what "doing harm" is. My children aren't doing any harm at all, to my knowledge. See...I've only ever taught them one thing. To think things out, and I've told them I support whatever conclusions they come to. But they must be able to "show their work" (if you remember the familiar

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[quote]Ah Ock, then I see you are one of those who don't care what your kids are brought up with, as long as you don't have to teach it to them.[/quote] That's a really poor assumption Ted. Care to try again?

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Ok, to be honest...I'm not being fair here. There's a hidden message. Literally hidden. Can you find it? There's a hint in the first response which is mine. (Which is why I placed it there)

Reply to I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ. in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote]PS- An "R" rating on a movie simply means it's for adults, not that it's sinful in some way. Fekkin morons.[/quote] What's amusing to me is that excessive violence is enough to get a movie an "R" rating. I remember this one movie where this guy had a friend at his house, and the police came for his friend. Thinking fast, the first guy says "No no no...why don't you guys go gang bang my daughter instead...let my friend be, whatever you do." That movie got an R rating,

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Teaching Our Children in Misc JoeUser Forums

Just a quick blog to emphasize a point that I'm sure we all agree with. It's very important to teach our kids what to think about a lot of stuff. After all, they aren't born with the ability to reason, so things like religion and political affiliation and other various belief systems need to be put into them while they're young. That's the great thing about having kids. You've already got it all figured out, and so it saves them a lot of trouble if you just tell them

Reply to I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ. in Religion JoeUser Forums

SH-80, good article indeed. [link="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/02/25/religion.survey.ap/index.html"]A recent CNN survey[/link] was fairly informative. Unfortunately, I haven't looked deeply enough into it to speak for its veracity, but reading it, I see no hidden agenda that would cause someone to make this stuff up. Here's an excerpt: [quote] The Roman Catholic Church has lost more members than any faith tradition because of affiliation swapping, the survey fo

Reply to It's over. in Life Journals Stardock Forums

Divorce is hard. Hard on the people in it for the obvious reasons, and hard on those that watch it happen from the outside because any of these latter with any humility at all know there are only two kinds of advice to give. The first kind of advice is from one who has never been through a divorce. These folks fail to understand that solutions that worked for them only worked because it was them. Since relationships are so complex, and the people in them even more so,

Reply to Video Games Need a Divorce From Hollywood in Gaming Stardock Forums

Mass Effect breaks out from the static cut scene a little. If you aren't familiar, when you hit a "cut scene" in Mass Effect, you often have to play the part of your character in the cut scene by choosing of varied responses during whatever conversational exchange is taking place. It's still a bit rudimentary, and the long term effects to the storyline are nil as far as I can tell (i.e. being a disagreeable bastard or being a goody two shoe altruist makes no difference in the lo

Reply to A new way to have your voice heard in US Domestic Stardock Forums

[quote]Read the blog[/quote] I already read it. Why post this one?

Reply to Video Games Are Anti-Social and Addictive in Gaming Stardock Forums

Heh, I saw this in the recent post list and thought "wtf? I read that a year ago, didn't I?" And sure enough...Lazarus, indeed :P I'll just add a bit here. Jythier and I matched up in online Chess over the last couple of days, and last night finished a game where he bested me at the end in a real nail-biter. I've been looking for a good place to give him a public respectful nod for his skillful play, and BOOM - here's this article again. Perfect. Con

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I have read your response. I'll add - have a nice day, blog, and life.

Reply to Science Lesson From a Creationist in Pure Technology Stardock Forums

QFT is a net acronymn common on some forums that means "Quoted For Truth"

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[quote]When I called you on this[/quote] aka 'I don't think you're telling the truth' aka 'you're a liar' [quote]Com'on. Did you learn this tactc from Clinton?[/quote] I'm not sure what this is an accusation of. But it certainly is one. [quote]I see you going on "feeling" instead of fact.[/quote] I state a fact. I was thinking about something for a while. Little Whip posts something that reminded me of it.

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[quote]If God Himself came and convinced you, you'd be convinced, but nothing any of us say will do it. I think I'm paraphrasing but that's the general idea I get from you.[/quote] I wouldn't say "nothing," but the arguments made here certainly aren't working. I can write off a lot of what I think as potentially wrong, but not young earth theories. I mean, erase evolution completely from the picture. That the universe is only 6-10k years old is preposterous to me.

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[quote]Semantics! n. study of words [/quote] I thought that was the whole basis of all your biblical points, KFC. The study of the literal word(s), no? Do you just study the ones you like and discount the rest, or something? I think if you're going to convince anyone that literal interpretations are correct, you're going to have to hold yourself accountable to the literal meanings of words. And even from a pr

Reply to Science Lesson From a Creationist in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]There's more than one way to date a rock. Carbon isn't the only way...besides carbon dating is only accurate to about 70,000 years. Radioactive elements are used beyond that...and radioactive decay is pretty darn constant. ~Zoo[/quote] QFT. Bumping for an answer.

Reply to What If Jesus Was Never Born? in Religion JoeUser Forums

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Reply to Bias in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

[quote]How can you say "for awhile now" when I've only just started writing about this? It hasn't been long enough to make "awhile" feasible. It's not like I've been going on and on and on here. [/quote] There's another big book you might delve into some time. a·while - <

Reply to Bias in Pure Technology JoeUser Forums

What I said has nothing to do with Little Whip, and in fact, it's about something I've been thinking - all by my little lonesome - for awhile now. I don't think you post these threads for the purpose of proving your hypotheses. If you do, then you're insane by the definition I gave - someone who repeats, over and over, an action which failed and thinking that somehow this time it will succeed. So given the generous hypothesis that you aren't insane, logic dictates there

Reply to Chess in Life JoeUser Forums

[quote]So I wonder...how many times has the thought of frost nova'ing the freaking crazy drivers on the way to work in the morning crossed your mind?[/quote] Never. Grand Theft Auto series kicks in for drivers here.

Reply to POST SITE PROBLEMS HERE in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Can we get a list of html tags that we can not use in our blogs and responses? Without the list, it's hard to tell if something is broken or just not allowed :) As an example, I wanted to post a chess match I played in a blog response. A different site generates this from what is known as a pgn file, then they generate the link you need to include in your blog. You put it in much like you'd put in a youtube video. The code for the game was in an iframe tag, and so I immediat

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[quote]I find the strategies that I use in that game altering my studies, etc. When I'm sitting there in my history class thinking, "man, if they had used X style of diplomacy like I use with the Korx" . . . then I know I need to turn off.[/quote] For humor, here's a story, and it's a little long because I need to give a lot of background, but I still find it hilarious to this day. My first MMO was Ultima Online (Known hereafter as UO). UO was played by a ton of people, an