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Re: Curiousity And Cat |
Apr 3, 2003, 05:12 |
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1 blue hasnt removed me because I OWn him
2 postal 2 is debauchery and filth and it saddens me to see a company exploit and make a profit on the graphical abuse of animals and chilren and i for one will not be buying it and if i see any child under 17 with it in my store they will not be allowed to buy it and i may detain them in my back room
Ewww. Leave those poor little underage children alone, man.
~Halcyondream
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: operatives and lone contractors |
Mar 24, 2003, 07:09 |
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Because Saddam's palaces are very well lit.
Don't forget that Saddam has an entire authoritarian state apparatus underneath him, as well as quite a number of sons. In other words, just killing Saddam wouldn't get rid of his regime.
Also, for anyone to say that criticism of the government is "anti-american" is missing an essential point: criticism of the government is American. This country is based on checks and balances (whip out that high school civics textbook if you don't remember), and many American servicemen and women have fought and died precisely so the American people can be free to voice their opinions, whether or not they agree with what the government that they elected is doing.
So don't call people that oppose the war "anti-American." You sound more like a fascist than a person who claims to support one of the most free nations in the world.
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| News Comments > Postal 2 in Dutch? |
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Re: Who cares? |
Jan 25, 2003, 05:02 |
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I don't see why the gay community is making such a big fuss over it. They've been stereotyped before in almost every media, if they can't accept what they've chosen and deal with the pros and cons perhaps they shouldn't be gay?
Well, two things: one, the gay community doesn't really appreciate stereotypes any more than any other group (although some more laid back gay people can laugh at themselves). Two, you don't just choose to be gay. You either are or you aren't. Being gay isn't like deciding what to wear in the morning.
Being anything other than straight and white (at least in the US) means being an "other." If you're a straight white guy, you're just that "guy." If you're a gay black man or whatever, you're that "gay black guy." That is precisely what makes some people uncomfortable with stereotypes.
But, even though I don't agree with the unfairness of some of the stereotypes in this and other games, I still support its right to exist and be published. You can't have the word "nigger" cut out of every copy of Huckleberry Finn, so why should a video game be treated any other way? It's still a medium of expression.
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Re: ^_* |
Jan 23, 2003, 18:15 |
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*puts on a dress*
I'm HERE!
Anyway. Look, it seems like we're having the same kind of argument that centered on Hitman2 and the like. What's important to realize, is that some people are homophobes, some people are gay friendly, some people are gay, and some people are so totally over-the-top into their sexuality that everything you say to them or near them is an attack on them and the gay community. It's the same way for every race/creed/color/gender/etc.
So, for the homophobes: Shut up, you closeted queer-mos.
For the people protesting this game: Shut up, you queer-mos. Get a life. Stop bitching.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: BlueTower |
Jan 16, 2003, 06:57 |
Halcyon_Dream |
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Blue, I know you've been using this name for your residence for quite a long time, but I was curious so I have to ask: Is your house blue, and if so, was it blue at the time you bought it?
He's blue da-ba-dee-da-ba-da...
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| News Comments > On PC Halo |
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Re: No subject |
Dec 28, 2002, 14:20 |
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Nobody owes anybody anything. These "promises" that game developers and game publishers make are not promises. They're advertising. More hype. Just because a game is announced, and hyped up, does not mean that the developers have suddenly entered into a contract with the general public stating that they have to come through with a game. Sure, Bungie "sold out," but they are a business first. You can't produce games like Myth forever without a solid financial backing. People who create games "by gamers, for gamers" are just selling you something else. It's always about money first, pleasing the "fans" second.
So don't criticize a game company just because they reneg on an announcement. All decisions are financial. Don't forget: developing games is their job.
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Re: Black Op |
Dec 6, 2002, 00:52 |
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Are you saying that the collapse of the Roman Empire was due to Christianity being legalized by Constantine?
Absolutely not. I'm referring to the sociopolitical controls placed on science, literature, art, medicine, etc. by the rule of the Catholic Church in Europe. Rome commanded more real authority in social matters than any secular king--though those were few and far between.
And slave plantations existed before the cotton gin. Cotton wasn't the only cash crop... you had tobacco, hemp, and sugar (a biggie) before cotton.
And slavery was only a symptom of the true causes of the Civil War.
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Re: Black Op |
Dec 5, 2002, 00:21 |
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I throw insults because I know that there is no "debate" with Christians, all I will get in response to anything intelligent is the same tired "it's not about knowing it's about faith" line.
Besides, it's more fun to throw insults. Nothing constructive is going to come out of this discussion, so why not?
Christianity, Catholicism mostly (but some Protestan faiths as well), has been responsible for more murder, torture, and suffering than, say, the Nazis and Stalin combined. Catholicism was also, in my humble history student opinion, partly responsible for the intellectual/social/economic stagnation of the Dark Ages. That alone tells me that there's something f***ed about Christianity.
And I've read the Bible a number of times to see if there was any way I could reconcile what it says with my own thinking, and also I've had a few comparative religion classes in which I had close readings in the New Testament.
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Re: Black Op |
Dec 3, 2002, 16:32 |
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From as soon as they could walk, they were told that these theories were reality and that God was just a myth. It is not we who were brainwashed at all. They don't even read the Bible or attend Church. They don't pray. They don't practice goodness. How can attack what they don't understand?
Funny, I've read the whole damned bible many times and I still don't buy it. I used to believe in God when I was little. I used to believe in the Easter Bunny, too.
You believe in something you cannot see? You believe in Claus as well? The Tooth Fairy? You can't see them, but they do mystical magical things like leave money under your pillow and eat cookies and milk.
You've all fallen for the great Christian joke.
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: musical chairs too violent? |
Nov 27, 2002, 04:24 |
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If anyone wants to remove 'competition' and 'violence' from elementary schools, they'll have to remove recess entirely from the curriculum. Playgrounds are cesspools of violence, greed, games of high competition, and social hierarchy.
Also, sports would be out of the question. And tests. Can't have kids with lower grades feeling inferior. In fact, school should be about how everyone is exactly the same as everyone else, and no one should have anything that everyone else doesn't have.
And then again, you could just become communists.
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Re: Whaddup, me again |
Nov 20, 2002, 00:27 |
Halcyon_Dream |
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Worshipping--sorry, "loving and knowing"--God is just as ludicrous as believing that aliens on the Hale Bop comet are going to come and spirit you away to their Utopian paradise. Those people believed it as much as Christians believe in their God, and look where it got them: dead from cyanide, in silly outfits, being laughed at by the press.
I'm sure you'll respond with, "well, that's because they were non-believers." Well, I'll be the one laughing when you're dead and there's no heaven and hell, or Hale Bop paradise, or Eden, just a void where you no longer exist. Your lack of doubt in God only says one thing to me: you aren't self-assured and self-reliant enough to get along in life without a parental figure to guide you along, without some assurance that your life isn't in vain, and that there's some great Sofa in the Sky where you can kick back for eternity. You can't accept the notion that perhaps the Universe is just a product of chaos, a system of complete randomness, and that perhaps you are, like everything else on this Earth, just another organism, who happened to develop an intellect. Your belief comes from weakness of mind and character.
Look where Christianity has gotten us. One and a half millenia of intellectual stagnation, superstition, persecution, innumerable holy wars, oppression of the people by "Divine Right," etc etc etc... Only the Reformation paved the way for the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, which created the growing trend toward atheism and questioning religion's true value. Now, you see the Western world has shifted its belief to that of science, empiricism, and the world has benefitted greatly from it. Not a single democracy has ever gone to war with another democracy. No more Crusades--this "war" on "terrorism" excepted--no more witch trials, much less religious persecution. Your religion preaches a doctrine of hate, by saying that non-believers are damned you create an avenue for self-righteousness--I believe the Bible calls it 'pride'--that leads to hating those who do not believe what you do. Religious tolerance is not in the Bible. Why do you suppose that eighteenth-century philosophes were so anxious to separate the church from the state?
Because the tenets of Christianity, if taken anywhere near literally, cause hate and intolerance, like saying that homosexuality is wrong, people bombing abortion clinics, etc. And to be so liberal with your religious text as to take only certain passages for true and ignore the rest, well, that's just shaping the religion to suit your own tastes, which isn't very Godly at all.
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Re: I'm playing catch up... |
Nov 19, 2002, 12:12 |
Halcyon_Dream |
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Von Helmut, saying that we have the "choice" between either loving God or going to Hell is like saying we have a "choice" between paying taxes and going to jail to get anally raped by a guy named "Debbie." God set up the world the way it is, to "test" our faith in him, we humans that he created. That kind of thing is illegal in US legal proceedings. It's called 'entrapment.'
And yes, Christianity is a cult. Judging by the definitions in the OED, a 'cult' is: 1. Worship; reverential homage rendered to a divine being or beings. Obs. (exc. as in sense 2). 2. a. A particular form or system of religious worship; esp. in reference to its external rites and ceremonies. 3. transf. Devotion or homage to a particular person or thing, now esp. as paid by a body of professed adherents or admirers.
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Re: hacking law |
Nov 19, 2002, 01:54 |
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Why would God instill us with free will if he only wants those who believe in what's in the Bible? What kind of sick, twisted bastard is he? Does he get pleasure from watching humans in their miserable existence in the world, only to damn them to hellfire when they dare to question him? What a prick.
Face it, your cult's ideas don't pan out. Too many contradictions in terms.
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Re: Black Op: |
Nov 19, 2002, 00:53 |
Halcyon_Dream |
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And you have the communication skills of a twelve-year-old. I'm sorry that you have to repress your own homosexuality in light of your religious views instilled in you since birth, but you really shouldn't take it out on other people.
Come out of the closet and maybe you'll feel a lot better, and stop hating people for what they believe.
Until then, you are the loser.
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Re: Captain_Insaneo |
Nov 18, 2002, 17:22 |
Halcyon_Dream |
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Right, Jews, Christians, and Muslims all follow roughly the same God, but have different interpretations.
However, for anyone to say that their particular God or god(s) is the right one and all the others are not is pure horsesh*t. People as individuals know what God is and follow Him according to their own social mores and belief structures. To say that the Christian God is not the same as the Amerindian's creator or the Hindi gods, is to be a bigot. This is something that I encounter in most Christians.
It is possible to be a Buddhist and another religion at the same time, but it is impossible to be one Judeo-Christian religion and another as well.
So, I suppose what I am saying is that to force your religious views on another person, or even to privately say to yourself "well that person is condemned because they don't believe in my God," is wrong. Your Christian God loves all people, so He should love everyone regardless of what they believe, as long as their intentions are in the right place.
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Re: hacking law |
Nov 18, 2002, 15:53 |
Halcyon_Dream |
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Anvil, the religious debate came up mostly due to BlackOps condemnation of everyone as being gay hackers--and subsequently saying that homosexuality is "wrong and dead wrong."
Von Helmut, I appreciate your liberal interpretation of Christianity, and I greatly respect and admire it. What I do not respect is BlackOps' and Trinity's particular strain of "God will burn you all in hellfire and brimstone for your evil ways" Fundamentalist crap, or, for instance, blaming all of society's ills on a lack of religion. Medieval European society was pretty crappy--which would be an understatement--when everyone was Christian, mostly fundamentalist Catholics.
But anyway, Anvil, another instance where extradition for hacking will come into question is when the other country--presuming the US is involved on one side--is not an ally, and it may (most likely will) come up if a "terrorist" state refuses extradition rights to the US for whatever reason. This bill, if passed, could become tremendous political currency for the "Axis of Evil" (read: the "heathens" to Bush and the Religious Right).
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Re: Black Op: |
Nov 18, 2002, 12:31 |
Halcyon_Dream |
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your free will is being taken for granted by you and multitudes, my attitude is only towards assholes like you that think they know everything , your as rational as sigman frued was , a total fuckin idiot , even though he had an iq over 130 ,sick man , sick individual ,people like you think they know it all , come meet me man to man and lets have a debate son , and lest see you mouth off at me then boy!
Oh, and we're the self-righteous know-it-alls?
You make me sick. It's backward circular-thinking jerkoffs like you that put this country in the shithole, it's hyper-religious close-minded pricks that kill people for what they think, just because what those people think and do doesn't agree with your outdated religion.
I hope all you abortion clinic-bombing gay-hate closet cases die and burn in the Hell you construct for yourselves.
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Re: Black Op: |
Nov 18, 2002, 11:31 |
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How dare you, BlackOp, deign to tell people how to live their lives. Just because you allowed yourself to be cowed by Bible story-time when you were a kid, does not give you any right to tell anyone else that they should be too.
You want proof that God is dead? Look at the last four hundred years. God wouldn't allow that to happen. He's omnipotent, right?
Watch out, because if you're not good, God will come and he'll huff and he'll puff and he'll blow your soul straight to Hell, kids!
Oh no!
Find a better book and stop preaching your parasitic religion.
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Re: hacking law |
Nov 17, 2002, 23:29 |
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Careful, there, Chance, you're asking them to "do [their] research." Nobody that I've seen seems to have actually read the proposed bill that we're all so adamantly discussing, and most people I'd bet haven't even read (or read carefully) the US Constitution and Bill of Rights that we're so adamantly defending.
The language of said documents is so vague, ie "reasonable right to privacy," that this bill really isn't unconstitutional.
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