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It's completely fine to answer 'I don't know' to questions such as "who made the world" or "who made whom who made the world". You don't have to know. Don't be scared, it's okay.

Maybe I did it wrong?

Yes. Next time say 'Hastur'. Three times.

You have to be nice to her, but tell her nothing of importance. Then, persuming you have flushed the cocaine in the toilet earlier, you can bluff your way out of there. What you haven't done, I suppose, is the cocaine part.

Yes, I don't find christian doctorine very amusing itself. In fact the bigger part of christian imagery, especially the apocalyptical aspects are downright foreboding and dreadful. Or to be frank, the more you look into any aspect, any teaching, the apocrypha are horrifying and insane. Christianity has very directly inspired such great acts of artistic maligance:

The destroying genius of Idols,
Will shroud the world with utter lies.
Dance the cobbles, his abode named Dis.
Portraits have spoken of their masters' distress.
Icons with kisses, tell me who have seen this?
Failing Enochian tapestries...
Depict the prince of fallen virtues,
In almost poetic rhapsody.
Masturbate to the sound of the knell.
The Pathetic stench of dying children.
Perhaps our fall is certain.
Limbs entwined in absolute contortion.

This topic again! At least reading through this iteration, we seem to be making some headway.

I want to suggest to you all to download and play an old game called KGB (AKA Conspiracy). Now, KGB is extremely demanding of the player. It doesn't treat you like an idiot (try to remember in how many adventure games you play the part of a juvenile clueless idiot, and contrast it against playing the part of a highly capable Soviet secret service man, undercover in the underworld). But it's not unfair, and not adventure-gamey about the obstacles you overcome in the game at all. If you play it, try to solve the first part of the game, Kursk Street, without a walkthrough. It's taxing, but doable, and extremely gratifying if you can do it. The way this game deals with puzzle construction is that it uses the Investigation model. you need to uncover information, so you have to talk to people, when you have a good reason break in houses and so on. Nothing you try to do is without a clear reason when you're doing it. That is, there's so much to do, and most of it kills you, that when you try something, you're forced to be doing it because you have a cunning plan to try out.

Think about this, when you play Monkey Island. Nothing you have to do in KGB is done aimlessly or randomly or because you got lucky or because you clicked everything on everything. Of course, quite unlike the sort of Adventure game that killed Adventure Games, when you do wrong things, the game punishes you with walk-deathness or pure simple deathness, not 'I can't do that' nor 'that doesn't work'. There is, effectively, NO STUCKAGE in KGB. You will die a lot, and you'll torment yourself trying to carry out your mission, but you never sit around doing nothing in-game, going from room to room searching for an obscure puzzle to tackle or an object to pick up you've missed. In fact, KGB creates the illusion that there's always more going on every second in-game than you can possibly be putting your attention on, so you have to make strategic decisions of where to be, when, to get ahead. This game puts you in the midset of a KGB undercover agent, and nothing else I've played comes close to how potent this experience is.

That is very awesome! Congrats, Dave.

It is a topic for to compare Christianity and Spiritualism/White Magic, is that ok? Is that ok? IS THAT OK?

no, that's not ok. This topic will be what this topic will be. Don't try to keep us in check, this is neither a formal argument, nor a tv panel discussion.

It can be done, but please don't be out-of-topic

Stop telling people they're out of topic, please.

Yes, tell us more on how you teach the teachings of christ to a 3-year old in order for it to behave.

@Helm: This is getting kind of off topic, but I feel inclined to point out that what you love about branches of Christianity is clearly not based on much at all within Christian theology.

Well of course it's not! I find Christianity to not be my cup of tea. The christian morality is not very far away from my own, and I've always practiced intuitively, as learnt behaviour (I was not brought up in a christian family even) and biological programming, because it is to my best interest to not murder people and to usually be helpful and whatnot. That is the sole reason variations of the same core moral mentality are practised all across the world: they work. We survive. I understand that this basic thing can be codified - and has been indeed - in a million different ways, but I don't really need the hierarchically inane and epistemologically far-fetched bible or any similar text to feel content to be a moral automaton.

Salvation vs. Condemnation isn't a question of getting all the minute details right in your definition of God, and nobody who counts ever said it was.

I'm sorry, Erenan, it's been made quite clear by people of various offshots of christianity that their belief is incadescent and very much based on that their specific small sect is indeed correct and the only one to achieve salvation and all the rest will suffer a different fate. Maybe they don't 'count' by your standards, by those are real people in the real world too and they believe this stuff fervently. And it amuses me.

(or at least all branches of Christianity)

What I really love about branches of christianity is that every one has to think that their god is the real one and everybody else has got it wrong, even they appear to be close. This means that if say, branch X is right, then God starts the second coming and he sees that like, 300,000 people are all the REAL followers he still has on earth and everybody else that claims to love him is going to hell. I am amused by the concept of God high-fiving his 300,000 and sending everybody else to the pit going 'close, but no cigar, lol!' greatly.

What good is magic if it's not black magic?! Pentagrams, goats, menstrual blood and semen!

more gays

GAC never did I met Butcher long after GAC went dormant, and I still haven't met Spyros or Danny.

For once, I'll be the one to say: you're making a bigger deal out of this than I can justify making. Descrimination? We used to have nationality-based ags groups, and nobody complained. Why not gender or creed or whatever else people feel like?

You're all alone.

stereotypical female characters

I'm just saying, this might prove to be an interesting thread!

Lemmy, posting in this one thread might not be the best idea ever!

"Summon Azathoth through dischordant piping of heralds" ?

He never dies though.

Sadly, little computer people can die. It's a sad story.

Monty on the Run wasn't my favourite in the series, but a bit yes on skool daze/klass of '99 remake.