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it's a stink bug? ooh dear that doesn't bode well. so this kamen rider will stink? ha ha, well who knows, I may well like it. it seems to have a good plot anyhow. I just hope they can pull something out of their hat in terms of production of that suit.... ¬.¬;

yeah, lamb is needed. and snake. how does it taste?

there is earl grey I drink it sometimes.

ha ha ha!! that first family guy clip ws so funny!

thanks durendal I decided to remove some of the images you put down because i felt they were a bit too provocative and one of them seemed too revealing, but i couldn't be certain. I'm sure you can understand.

fan made castlevania? help us out dude! oh i'm surprised that game was a precursor for vagrant story. but then things are so hazy right now concerning that game. I only remember being able to drop your items in any place and pick them up again.

you have 3 fowl on that burger... that's not fair!

no nothing wrong with experimenting, but when you take a game and defy the very core of of it's beginnings, it's a recipe for disaster. for example, look at resident evil survivor.... sure, experiment with making mini games for a proper full game.. mini games can be fun and they are not important to the success. actually it's kind of funny... the game ehrgeiz... the main game was a fighter but it had a kind of mini game RPG built into it and i had much more fun playing that...

durendal, you cad! he heh i no what u mean. anyway.. dcd still looks rubbish.. maybe they will improve the build quality of that 'suit' ... and I guess basing it off that bug is kinda interesting?

i love this song. oddly though... the reason i like this song is because i was so angry at how that stupid pop song version totally butchered it.

to teach that while we have freewill, there are also consequences for our actions. to teach responsibility. in actuality, reaching beyond the metaphor, I believe that this illustrates that while we have the wonderful gift of knowledge, we pay for it with our suffering. if we did nt have teh knwledge we do we would be like an ignorant animal simply going through our life in bliss. the casting out from paradise was not a literal displacement in my view, it was a shift in perception.

hmm, that game is a shameless cash-in. castlevania is not a beat em up series.

even if jesus wasn't real, I believe the concept is relevant. then why was the tree there? i don't know if you have seen the following clip but if not, firstly it is very illuminating and secondly it is also a very entertaining clip. curiosity and the quest for knowledge is one of our defining features.

what is sassifras, i have heard that word before.

thanks zeo, well i didn't want to answer every point because that would be feeding the machine. I just wanted to offer some new perspectives. I feel that the nature of Vguyvers questions are such that will never be fully satisfied since it is based on countless stories that i have not read and are likely made up by humans and subject to contradicting factors. I can only comment on my own feeling and what i have figured out during many discussion with many different people. durendal, I notice what you say as being quite a fatalistic point of view. that our choices are already made and we only have an illusion of choice? the matrix touched on the same concept. it's is a difficult thing to think about and is one of those quandaries that can send you mad. because you get stuck in a loop. did i just decide to do that or not? can i make a different choice? if i make a different choice is it because i deny fate or were i fated to deny what i think to be teh destined choice? you can believe whichever you want, and i would say that is free choice.. but to thik about wether we have free will or not, is also something to drive you mad. consider, do i have free will or not, which will i believe. i can believe that i have free will but you never know, i may already be destined to make that choice. actually i think this is one of those things where you can't know one way or teh other. siilar to hte question if there is life after death. you can only know if you die. but then you will be dead so you won't know anything. it's a type of question that i view as completely useless and only made to send you mad.

your soul can control your body. anxiety and depression are the most oustanding examples of this. if you don't believe god can cure you with a miracle, your body will not heal. that is part of free will. of course it works the other way around. if you can be positive and have faith you can make yourself very healthy. of course it take a real leap of faith to believe miracles like cancer disappearing by itself.. but ya know if you don't believe those extremes, that's fine but even on hte small scale such as general health it makes sense. actually I think that god can do anything but only with the aid of human belief. I thik that god wants humanity to prosper but in order to do so, humanity must believe it. if people do not believe that things can get better, then it won't happen. if you watch "the secret" this is echoed there. becaue god is in everyone.. perhap if we think of it this way.. if we deny that part of ourselves, we are suppressing gods ability to help others. actually, even though it is not exactly on topic, I believe very strongly that i have met god. because god is within everyone but i thik that it takes true love for us to see god. i once met a person and i could tell that they were working with a truer purpose. their manner was that of.. they saw me and they knew i needed help and they gave me exactly what i needed. but i had to be searching for it first. because if i were not searching for it, i would not have paid any heed to these persons. miracles don't happen because people can't accept it. think of harry potter. also bettlejuice. first example, muggles won't normally see magic things because it doesn'tmake sense to them. i guess they shrug it off in thiking they have had a temporary moment of madness. or they blame it on conspiracy theories. and he second example

eether i agree with everything you said. I just phrase it in a way that is similar to the christian bible because i have grown accustomed to communicating with christians.

that megaman movie looks awesome!!

we do have paths to follow. I already said in an earlier post but you may have missed it. god helps us to make the right choices for us by comforting us when we are on the right path. the good feeling you get in your heart when you are doing the right thing for yourself is god's approval. the problem is, there is so much fear in people that they often cannot follow the right path due to the fear and they never feel that joy. I wonder why you keep concentrating on things from millenia ago that have fallen to myth, but the thing is, even if god knew everything then, it doesn't mean that he could change people's thoughts.. it doesn't mean that there was any good answer to the problem. let's compare to modern day medicine. dentistry to be precise. if a tooth is rotten does teh dentist mend the tooth? no, he drills at it and stuff metal in there or even pulls the whole thing out. does that mean the dentist doesn't know how to do his job? no, he has access to all the information that is currently available. of course yes if he was omnipotent, he could just mend the tooth. god could have just mended the hmans brains and made them good. but that would be interfering with free will. it wouldn't achieve anything. I don't believe god killed all these people because they wouldn't worship god or do what he wanted. let's look at the flood another way and what noah did. noah was told to build a huge boat. he did so. he was told to put the animals on hte boat. he did so. the other humans could have looked on and thought.. what is that guy doing. either he is crazy or he knows something we don't. they had every chance to build their own boat to be prepared. it was their own free will that killed them, not god. god told noah. the information was given.

vguyver you brought up some wonderful thoughts and i really enjoy hte challenge of it. well you see the mass floods etc was all before jesus died on hte cross. all that really nasty stuff was different ways of dealing with people. people have gone through different ways of dealing with other people. there used to be capital punishment in the uk. this kind of punishment has gotten less and less and law systems are finding more and more ways of mending the offenders rather than killing them or locking them away. when god came to earth in human form, he learned about the trobles in hte human heart and realised that we weren't defective, we are still learning all the time. I guess when he made the flood, he thought that those sinners were beyond help? but then jesus died to forgive all our sins. I think that the heaven and hell thing is totally misunderstood. people say that if you sin, you go to hell for all eternity, but i think that is utter crap. this is where i vehemently disagree with some christian followings. in fact, the fact that jesus died on hte cross means that even if you sin, if you repent the sin will be forgiven. so in actuality, nobody should ever go to hell. all sins will be forgiven all you have to do is seek that forgiveness. in other words, if you feel bad about it then you are forgiven in hte eyes of god. because to repent you don't need to tell a prist. god is everywhere. he knows your emotions so the moment you feel sorry about an action, it is forgiven. the thing about going to hell, or dwelling in hell, is basically if you keep doing bad things, the pain that grows inside will be hell. because at the end of the day, when we die, it seems silly in my view to imagine going to some place where there is lots of fire. let's be honest, if you keep getting burned with fire, sooner or later you'll become numb to it. i'm not sure why you suggest that god terrorises people into submission. i don't see any evidence of gods terrorism. and i would think that god uses kindness and ideals... but god doesn't need to win anyone over. god is within everyones heart. god is the good feeling you get when you do things right. and i don't mean other peoples idea of right, I mean when you do soemthing right for yourself.. that is when god is with you, guiding you on the right path. helping you. this sounds to me that you are perhaps referring to god as the immaterial idol created by some christianity? because to be honest, I actually did not feel comfortable using teh word "god" for a long time. because that word represented that abstract incorporeal idol. but as i formulated my ideas more, I came to realise that my idea was best described by that word. at least in a way that i can explain to others. it's in our culture i guess. I could use 'kami' or 'allah' or some other word.. or 'the universe'... it just seems easier to use these words to explain but I don't want you to think that i am supporting christianity completely. I agree with some of teh ideas, completely disagree with a lot of others.

that's probably a good idea then. I am sorry to hear that this kind of thing can make you so angry. I hope you can be happier in the future.

i do believe this is real.. I looked up supercooling and it seems plausible. looks pretty crazy though!

how did you arrange it? did you do it over the internet? it's good that you're getting it anyway!!

salkafar, i respect your beliefs whatever they may be, but i would ask that you not belittle my statements. if you want me to expend on anything, you may ask me about it but if you belittle any more statements by anybody I will take disciplinary action against you because that is unacceptible. I understand that you are upset as you stated you were pissed off, but you still need to be civil. I already said that most people won't understand what i say in hte exact way that i mean it but it applies to those who believe a similar thing. once again, if you want me to elaborate, you may ask civilly. we could go into defining evil and a whole other complex discussion but I do nt want to get into it, let us just say that true "evil" is a very difficult thing to find. god created us with freedom. freedom to choose how we behave and react. I could make reference to 1984 and equilibrium for this. also the thing about responsibility.. well god is within us all. we are him and he is us. and how could you say he doesn't take responsibility? he came to earth in mortal form and completely sacrfice himself to forgive our sins. you call that not taking responsibility? the act of jesus dying upon the cross was precisely taking responsibility. that's what it was all about. god knew. it was his plan how we would turn out. that's why he put the tree of knowledge in hte garden of eden. if he didn't want us to turn out this way, why would he put it there? it would be an exercise in futility. and by the way, there are no 'right choices' there are simply different ones. right and wrong is all relative. or is the word i am looking for 'subjective', well i hope you know what i mean anyway. at this stage i feel compelled to point out that i am using teh metaphors of teh bible for this, fully intending them to be taken as metaphor. I could go into the whole theology, but that would make this thread too big and messy when you have children, can you make your children stronger to begin with? no, they learn by experience. this is all about teh meaning of life. the point to weach of our lives is to learn. it's what we do, since we are born to the day we die, we learn. experience. life is to live, to experience. all these phrases and sayings mean the same thing. and to love is to want that person to experience momre and learn more. to grow, to become better. humanity thrives on passing o knowledge, we strive to better ourselves. since god is within us all, as we learn, god learns. your arguments seem to be based upon god as a ruler, some other entity separate from us, but i believe i said in my earlier post that is not the case. let me give you this metaphor. whan a person trains their body, they lift heavy weights. they work hard and they punish their muscles. they cause massive amounts of damage to their body in order to become stronger. in order to become better. people constantly punish themselves to become better. to create soemthing you have to detroy something else. that is the way of teh universe. that is not evil or malevolent or vindictive, that is life. besides, peoples suffering is only self created. but not many people can accept that so i understand if you want to disagree with that. edited: I changed my caps to italics, because i don't want it to look like i am shouting. just to accentuate those specific parts.

I do like your last paragraph durendal. It makes me feel rather content, almost like a compliment because it means that I am sure in my own faith that i can say my own opinion so surely. although people would likely mistake my meaning anyway. because the words i use very often don't comply with others definitions. they are true, and however others interpret those words is most likely true as well, it's just different perspectives. I'm not religious. I believe god exhists. I do not believe that god rules over us. i do however believe that god is almighty and his will be done. and his will be done when our will be done. as it is stated in the bible. although not many people take notice of that part. anyhow... enough of that... I want to respond to lyphforse. i see what you say there. that they are not attacking the concept of god or god himself , but the zealotry and the people who take words literally? the blind followers. because as durendal suggested, those who are sure of their own mind will not be attacked by it, they will simply shrug it off. i guess that what this also says is not that they are attacking god, actually perhaps they are simply defending their own right to not believe. they are outlyig their own logic in defence of themselves.