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Has science disproved God? (I'm seriously just curious because I don't know if it has or not)

A scientificish way of loking at this.

Before we were human beings, we were sperm and eggs and after we are human beings, we get broken down by bacteria and grow into something else, like grass, then we get eaten, possibly by a cow, and the cow uses us to grow new cells, maybe she uses thosecells to make milk, maybe a human drinks the milk, and the benefits from that milk help to make new sperm or eggs, and then another human being. That is how I see the circle of life or whatever.

What I mean by nothing before or after, i mean for our consciousness. That is just electronic impulses in our heads giving us thoughts and feelings. Once we die, these impulses stop, and our existence as a sentient being stops. I guess what I'm saying in a convoluted way, is that I don't belive in the soul, or at least a soul that can carry on without our body.

I hope tha made sense to someone.

If you want... our atoms have exited for BILLIONS upon BILLIONS upon BILLIONS of years, and we're all about the same age.

Babar: It says several times in the Catholic bible (I CBA looking for exact quotes) that if you don't accept Jesus as the ONE TRUE son of God (moslems and Jews don't) then you're knocking on the door of damnation. Also, Moslems believe Christians are fundamentally and irrevocably wrong about Jesus being God and think Christians are going to hell for glorifying him. And Jews think everyone after the prophets were sorcerors acting in the name of God.

Also those who don't know the message of God are unjudged and drift in the eternal limbo of death.

general comment: If there wasn't any religion, what would the internet argue about? Therefore there's a reason for religion.

And then pat your belly and rub your head

Actually I didn't intend to argue for or against the validity of the NDE and whether there's anything on the other side. Even if it IS just 'what happens to a dying brain' I'm saying this is what happens when you die, you have an NDE and then you're dead.

NDEs tell us what happens just before, you can decide for yourself what happens after. I suppose it'd be like a comfortable nothingness.

Kings Quest 1: Guessing that stupid dwarf guy's name, when I read the solution I thought, "Who the hell thought that one up?" (It's Rumplestiltskin spelled in a reverse alphabet or something)

but God interrupted by appearing as a giant cube

I find that amusing, all hail the cube.

Hey that means cubism isn't an expression of art, it's a religion!

Anyway I think the best idea we have of the afterlife comes from Near Death experiences, because really the people who have NDE's are the ones that got very close to the event horizon of death and came back to tell the tale. So when you die you:

1: have a sense  of being dead
2: feel yourself pulled away
3: have an out of body experience
4: your vision tunnels
5: You walk towards a light, with a sense of 'well being'

People who have near death experiences tend to enjoy life more, are no longer afraid of death and are generally more at peace and less worried about all the big questions because "someone or something worked it all out a long time ago."

Allow me to rebut most of what you said by quoting myself

I have to stipulate though, I don't think video games are RESPONSIBLE for columbine. Columbine happened because Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were arsewipes.

Also, I don't advocate banning or getting rid of the violence in video games.

Of course banning video games isn't 'the answer', there's no such THING as 'an answer' for manic rampages when somebody goes crazy.

I'm definately not saying "everyone who plays video games is gonna take a glock and shoot his boss in the head for points" I agree if I wanted to take the line of reasoning that "banning video games will fix it" then we'd have to ban every kind of fiction. But I'm not saying that...

I'm saying that videogames of this sort are dangerous influences on people with schizophrenic or sociopathic behaviour (or young children who also have trouble distinguishing reality and fantasy). Hence, I understand why people are against such violence.

I read statements of people who 'went crazy' who reportedly thought they were playing Postal 2 and drove around clubbing people to get points. These people go on a rampage and kill... they're loony.

Do you have any sources for this?

Sounds highly suspect.

unfortunately not, I read that in a bbc news post on the interwebs years ago, I'd be hard pressed to dig it up.

If you want something better, here's something I found

Critics of video game violence generally agree that violent video games are at least as bad an influence on children as are television shows with the same level of violence and cruelty, and most seem to believe that video games are more threatening to a child's well-being, because the video game player uses the controller to make an on screen character act out the violence personally. It was widely reported that the killers in the Columbine High School massacre were, like many teenagers, fans of first-person shooter games. They had recorded a videotape before the massacre in which they said they looked forward to using their shotguns just as in the game Doom.

Also from 10 most infinite WADS

No point in beating around the bush: Eric Harris made some Doom WADs, and then he killed people. One of the Doom community's greatest trials was in April 1999, when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire in their Colorado high school and created a new culture of fear and paranoia. After it was discovered that the pair played Doom, many avid Doomers found their computer gaming habits placed under scrutiny. The WAD itself, Harris' most elaborate, is unremarkable except for a few now-chilling features. The monsters have brand-new death graphics, doused in added blood and gore. And the text file's admonition of "KILL 'EM AAAAALLLL!!!!!," which would normally be nothing more than adolescent juvenilia, carry a certain premonitory weight. (Ling)

I have to stipulate though, I don't think video games are RESPONSIBLE for columbine. Columbine happened because Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were arsewipes. I'm saying that video games clearly condone gorey violence that can influence people who don't know the meaning of 'fantasy'.

HAHA killer joke  . It reads easily which is a good thing, you've managed to minimize the number of words which is good and the atmosphere of the composition is a+

I normally get too much of an ego kick out of solving puzzles to be disappointed with an ending.

First:

In the german version of HL, the (human) guards and scientists took a seat when shot, and they began to cry

LOL

second:

I understand where people are coming from when they're against violent video games. It doesn't affect people who play it for fun and can differentiate between reality and video games (i.e. 99.99999% of gamers) but we forget the 0.000001% of gamers who can't make that differentiation (sufferers of schizophrenia). I read statements of people who 'went crazy' who reportedly thought they were playing Postal 2 and drove around clubbing people to get points. These people go on a rampage and kill... they're loony. You can argue that a sufferer schizophrenia inclined to kill people would do so without the help of video games, but I'm still saying that the violence is THERE and it's interactive. Of course banning video games isn't 'the answer', there's no such THING as 'an answer' for manic rampages when somebody goes crazy.

Sup, I'm new again  8)

Hehe, wouldn't it suck if his HD crashed before he saved.

If I were in your shoes I'd do a demonstration of the editor using a laptop, a short little 1 room thing using roger for your protagonist. Make it an interactive affair and let them make the game. After you've killed most of the lesson with that demonstration show them what kind of quality a bunch of people can make if they put some gumption into it, i.e. show them your game or someone elses

Two particular endings I liked were the endings to Permanent Daylight, I liked how you get a silly epilogue of every character. The other ending I like is the end to Chicken Vs Road, "What the *cluck*?!"

How should I post the story? Copy/paste the text or upload link to the .doc/.rtf?

My opinion is that this generation of consoles is going to rock no matter what console you get... as long as you get a console with games you want to play. I played Wiisports in the Myer center yesterday and it was a blast, I played a mech game on Xbox 360 earlier in the week and that rocked the house. The specs of the PS3 gives room for some really good grafix and audio effects.

Right now I'm sold on the nintendo wii because I heard it was possible to get all your favourite SNES, NES and SEGA games running on it.

Don't be brutal, first go.

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And no, I don't REALLY think she's ugly... issa joke. >_>

Oh no, law enforcing cartmans. ^^;

2ma2's "Permanent daylight"

He's my hero for that game.