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I find an interesting question to apply to the unknown like this is:

How do you know those aren't ghosts?

What are the reasons they are ghosts and what are the reasons they aren't ghosts?

S...spend? On porno?

I guess I just understood the logical path of Nacho's post more than I did yours about doctors. Rereading the one about Hitler and his father [who would also have been called Hitler!] makes more sense to me. I like that one better actually. So the idea is that God knew that every human except Noah and his family were going to grow up to be the final boss in Wolfenstein? Man, that would have been an amazing boss fight.

Also my mistake, it was Lot that got raped by his daughters, a different story of the only righteous people around being saved from little Hitlers.

Humans are not single cells with a rebuilding telomere chain. Cancer cells can't and will never be able to disagree with being killed.

A better argument would be any other example of genocide from history, in my opinion. Someone deems a certain population unfit and puts a plan in action to murder them all.

Also, as soon as the flood was over Noah got roaring drunk and then his daughters raped him, RIGHTEOUS! I wonder if God slapped His Forehead after that happened.

That's a pretty poor argument against genocide in the bible as perpetuated by God, Misj.

Are you honestly equating the story of God flooding the world with a doctor removing a tumor or just saying something to keep an argument going?

I think he means god killed children so why can't other parents.

What if he wanted her to die in a ditch?

Well, as I'm not prone to say things I can't stand behind, I'll say that I do prayer healing, alebit it has some angles, if you are sick, just PM me and I'll se what I can do.

Quick question, I'm serious here because I believe this is very important:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39120000/jpg/_39120806_amputee203ap.jpg

Can you bring the arms and hands back to full working order on this child?

If so, how? Also, please do! If not, why not?

Shit, really?

Alright guys, nevermind, let's pack it up. We were wrong.

to expand on this post:

The thing one needs to do when debating religion is first do a Q&A with the religious person to find out what team they are on [catholic? muslim? seventh day adventist? (Seventh Day an Adventurist?)], what they believe as far as their own holy book of choice [old testament? new testament? king james version?] and how they interpret that holy book.

If you're debating the abstract notion of a god like being, good luck, there's not much to debate. But if you can pin someone down to beliefs you've got a discussion that is worth having. Faith flip flops from one person to the next it's insane keeping track of these things, personally. Especially on an internet forum where too many belief systems interact in the conversation, if you try to pin someone down "Why doesn't prayer heal amputees!?" and someone says "prayer doesn't work that way!" but someone else says "prayer DOES INDEED work like that! FAITH OF A MUSTARD SEED!" and then someone else says "Prayer has been blocked by the devil and his minions on earth by satellites so since the 70s all our prayers are being bounced back on us and causing global warming!" it makes it hard to have a conversation.

So, I would suggest maybe picking one premise and fleshing it out after learning the beliefs of the person you are debating.

I recommend Avatar: The Last Airbender. It is a very smart young adult cartoon developed by Nickelodeon. There are only a few episodes that are groaners [OH OH WILL THEY KISS?!] but on the whole the show is amazing. Heavy Miyazaki influence with a pretty serious story underlining the show.

If you watch it, give it some time before dismissing it.

I guess I keep thinking about the flood fill routine I wrote many moons ago in the fact that it wouldn't check a point surrounded by collision because it couldn't get to it.

Anyway thanks for clarifying!

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Wouldn't you not want to iterate through collision because it's just wasted work?

I have no clue what you just asked

Hmm what I mean is

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If O's are land and X's are collision and your starting point for the spiral is the bold O, you look right first and then up and those are 2 collision areas so you've just wasted time searching there. Now you'll keep looking and eventually you'll be searching more collision areas than walkable terrain.

Make sense? It might not be a problem at all, just curious.

If this doesn't make sense either I'll just drop it.

That's fine Miguel, dudes run the church, I agree. I don't see how my attitude was absolutist or spoke disrespectful of god or the belief in such a being, I was talking about the church that is run by men, a lot of men, a lot of men who hid child rapists. You said:

Maybe in 100 years time the Catholic Church will be nothing but some ridiculous cult... but so far ... I can't find a better organization to deal with humanity need of believing.

Were you or were you not talking about the catholic church?

You then went ahead and attached beliefs to me with no other evidence than my vaguely pithy sentence.

No big deal really, I just wanted to clarify!

Ah ok, so this would be used for grouping them together at the end of their pathfinding not for finding the path from one end of the map to the other? That's neat.

Wouldn't you not want to iterate through collision because it's just wasted work?

Hey can you explain or link to an explanation of how this works for pathfinding?

When I was messing around with pathfinding I tried flood fill and this seems similar only instead of radiating out you just spiral out. But since there is only one point that is searching for a path, what happens when it hits a wall? Does it just pathfinding into and through collision and leave that data out?

why are you so disrespectful to God? 

I was talking about the catholic church, not the abstract belief in a god. The rest of your post seems to be you putting thoughts into my head?

I've never heard of it before, looks interesting, I would suggest you try it out as much as you can and then compare the two and post it here.

How about a catholic church that doesn't hide child rapists for years? That seems like a better organization to me!

AND WE'RE OFF!

The movie is Monster Squad, it's not as good as you may remember it.

It's a thought experiment, sheesh...

There is no "as far as you know" there is no "I'll wave my arms!" You are told everything you need to know to make a moral or ethical decision based on the information.

RickJ: What if the 5 people on the tracks were family members of yours?