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Me, I go to a public school in Iowa. University of Iowa, to be exact. Go Hawkeyes! :eyeroll:

I'm going to have to track you down now.

If the idea something bad is  going to happen to them convinces them to do good, is that not better then them doing nothing at all?

No, it's not.

Ends don't justify means.

First of all, if you're going to cite a legend that turned out to be a reality despite lots of people saying it was just made-up. . . Troy would probably be a better choice.

Second, no, absence of proof is not proof of absence. But it's not proof of existence, either, and when there's nothing either way I prefer to think that there is not an invisible pink unicorn standing next to me. (Occam's Razor. Heard of it?)

All I am saying is there is that there must be a rational explanation for the Atlantis myths

Like that it was made-up?

Most don't expect the bible to be hundred percent accurate historical source

Yeah, some of us think a lot of it was made-up.

It doesn't matter. Everybody's human whether we like it or not. To label them as monsters and try to cut them off from "us" is to cross a fundamental line; once who's a "person" and who's not is a matter of public debate we step onto a slippery slope with no good endings.

Paedo's don't deserve to be given any rights.  They are monsters, which makes them not human so human rights should be irrelevant when dealing with these "people".

I find it very depressing that I can't tell if you're serious or not.

hindus valley civilization

Haha, awesome misspelling.

Yes, you're a starving artist and the world just doesn't understand you! You're a creator with a tortured soul and nobody else gets what art is except you! For now you're beaten into the ground and despised, but someday people will recognize your genius!

See, I can make stupid and condescending generalizations, too!

I was hoping you wouldn't respond like an idiot... I expected it, but I was really hoping you wouldn't.

I'll let you have the last word on this one, though, because I don't need to prove my artistic integrity to anyone.

ETA: I must give you credit for not replying. Here's to learning when to step back.

The same could be said of MySpace.

(Also, I'm not sure you have a lot of a room to talk regarding emos... )

My current purpose in life is to write this post. After that I think it will be to eat some ice cream. On a larger scale, I need to get my college degree, and on an even larger one, attain personal happiness and satisfaction.

Purpose with a capital P is simply an extension of those purposes to an absolute (or infinite, if you prefer) ideal. But absolutes (infinity) can't exist in a material, measurable universe.

At least, that's how I view it. But I've been known to spout a lot of pseudo-philosophical bullshit in my time...

The current Cuppit is the one from META, isn't it? It's supposed to be scary/disturbing.

It would have been nice for you to at least source that quote, I had to google it and while it is very apt I don't think it is quite fair to assume that everyone knows or watches the same tv shows as you.

I didn't think the source was really relevant.

But for anyone else wondering: it's from The X-Files episode "Hollywood A.D.", spoken by a character named Micah Hoffman (who claims to have become Jesus Christ) regarding a Catholic cardinal.

The problem with those people is not that they believe in God, but that they don't believe in man.

("He's a decent man, but with an overweening pride and sense of responsibility borne of a fundamental lack of respect for the human animal. He believes in God, but not in man, in man's ability to choose, to live in freedom. He has Christ in his brain, but not in his heart.")

Anyone else have family situation like that?

My mom teaches Sunday school. Yeah, I don't mention atheism around her.

Science tells us how things are.
Religion tells us how things should be.

(FYI: I'm a religious atheist.)

Why would an atheist care about a theologian's perspective on a historical issue?

(I'm not getting into this debate, that just struck me as an odd thing.)

Except that it ends up like the secret message in A Christmas Story: when you get to the end, all it says is "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine!"

Viral marketing is very effective, yes. I'm personally disgusted by it, especially as it heads from "track down the clues on the internet" to "pay people to go to parties and subtly name-drop products in conversation" (which some marketing firms are already doing).

these guys want their monster to be a western icon like Godzilla is to Japan, so it better be a damned good monster

How that's going to work without the whole "metaphor for America wiping out hundreds of thousands of our people" element of it?

I'm really getting tired of JJ Abrams. Alias was ridiculous, Lost even moreso, and yet people fawn over him. (But if what it turns out people are so terrified of is a column of black smoke that makes you see images from your past, I'm so there.)

(I'm also really tired of marketing being presented as culture/entertainment, but that's neither here nor there.)

Of course, if your only purpose is to tell a story and the interactivity is irrelevant to that story, one must ask why make a game at all instead of using a linear medium? (Tangential, I know.)

Wtcq: You're wrong. About the point of the posts you are countering.

I agree about get/use (moreso get than use) and the options page background. Additionally, if the quit icon (obscured by the cursor in the screen) is just (as it appears to be) an XP-style x-in-a-red-box tilted into the background slightly, I'd suggest a change for that as well.