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Nacho, if you really want to twist everyone's words together like that then you can, but you're only fooling yourself. No single person presented that incoherent jumble and don't pretend otherwise.

[beta 6]

From the 2.71 development thread:

Changes from beta 5 to beta 6:
* Added DynamicSprite.Crop, DynamicSprite.CreateFromBackground, Game.GetMODPattern, ListBox.InsertItemAt, String.Truncate, String.Substring script functions.

So that's why the Mac engine for 2.71 beta 3 doesn't support String.Substring...

Wikipedia says the opening chant "Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba / Sithi uhm ingonyama" is in Zulu. It means "Here comes a lion, Father / Oh yes, it's a lion".

I've just be reorganising the script module information on the wiki, and now use a Category instead of the old list of modules. Please, module writers, add a wiki article for any new modules you write, and put it in a Module sub-category by adding this to the bottom of the article:

Code: ags

{{Module|Subcategory}}

Modules will now be listed at: http://americangirlscouts.org/agswiki/Category:Modules, which also has a list of the current sub-categories. Also, please check over the modules of yours that are already in the wiki and fix/improve the articles. Most have just very basic information.

Ooops, sory abou tthe debug stuff, I'll take it out the download soon.

Firstly, no disrepect was intented to those of Greek or Russian Orthodox faiths when I said "orthdox (little o)". As Tuomas said, I wanted to mean "standard" rather than refer to the specific denomination. And the missing o was a typo.

SSH, my theories about the real trial of Jesus are not "something told in the internet" like the "missile to the Pentagon" or something... They are serious studies made by experts in history and historycal roman and hebrew law, and consider a lot of aspects.

So which theological book is this claim made in?

I'm sure you'll find plenty of historians and hebrew law experts in Bible colleges across the world who have also studied such things and come to different conclusions. You have chosen to believe one side of it, and I chose another.

"I am here not to change the spells, I am here to keep every comma and accent of them"

(Remember that the Spells are the ultra orthodox "If your husband dies, his brothers will be allowed to marry you" spells, ok?)

In English, the quote is:

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."

Yes, he came to fulfil the law by taking our punishment (the death penalty) for us on the cross, so we could be forgiven. And the thing of brothers marrying the widow of their dead sibling was to provide for the widow who would otherwise have no means of support and thus a very early form of social security.

"I am not here to bring peace, I am here to bring the sword, to make that in a house of 5, father will be facing the son, and mother the daughter and the brother the sister"

If he was not an orthodox nationalist?

It just makes no sense to me. Actually it makes no sense to anybody, dozens of sentences in the Bible make the believers say "uh?"

He actually asks a question: "Do you think I came to bring peace on earth?". Why would his followers think that if he was an orthodox nationalist?

Maybe he was simply describing the kind of division that can occur in a family (or a forum) when people disagree on religion?

So, I don' t know, it would be cool to hear a believer say "Mmmm... Dunno, maybe it's not real, actually it does not look real at all, but it's great, it helps me" in spite of "Believe, it' s truth, if you don' t, you'll be a inferior being, a person without faith". But it' s up to you! I don' t believe, and I have all that believers have. If you believers need a tale to have what I have, it' s ok, but don' t come me telling you are better or that I am wrong.

I certainly don't think I am better than you, Nacho. I'm a pretty lazy person (amongst other vices), and I'm sure you are not as lazy as I am. But, I'm forgiven, and as such will have eternal life. Maybe God's mercy will mean that it doesn't  matter if you believe or not, but I believe in the Bible, and it doesn't really convey that message: "No-one can come to the Father except through me". So I'd be pretty happy if people I like, such as yourself, also could have eternal life. That's why I argue about this stuff, even though I know there's little chance of it making an impression on anyone.

What he's saying is that it sort of takes away the validity, or at least some of the validity of his sacrifice since he knew he could come back all along.

Did he know? I'm not quite sure what orthdox (little O) theology is on this point, but I think that Jesus as a human was not himself omniscient...

Ieshua bar Iosef was a Rabi, probably an ultra-orthodox nationalist Pharisee who was condemned by the Romans by acts of Nationalism and Sedition, whose life was changed into something "cool" and suitable for romans standards by Saint Paul, who also changed the reasons of his death, attributing them to the "evil Jews", and inventing a resurrection and a divinity that their actual original followers never knew about...

You've said this before, but have never given any evidence. Anyone who believes "what some guy on the internet says" is surely even more gullible than us Christians?

Do you really think that if we educate a person following education rules based in moral and science, and, when he becomes an adult, we first talk him of "God, and his son Jesus" is he going to believe it?

Well, with modern secular society bringing kids up this way in the UK at least, we'll probably find out quite soon whether any of them get converted.

Let' s be clear... probably not. Religion is told to kids for some reason... And to be honest, to put in the brain of the kids ideas based in folklore, with no rational evidence, just because the "faith" of the parents, for me it' s a conduct that thought in cold can fall into inmorality.

I tell my daughter that she shouldn't pick up dirty things off the ground and put them in her mouth or she will get a sore tummy. I could try and explain the evidence for this assertion, and a detailed explanation of bacterial lifecycles, but she really wouldn't follow or be interested. Similarly, I don't explain freewill versus predestination to her or present evidence of ancient manuscritps and reliability of modern translations. I tell her what I believe to be true and important. I'm sure that athiest parents tell their children thigns that they believe to be true and important, too. What's the difference? The difference is your opinion of whether I am correct in my beliefs. I don't see how that affects whether I am being moral or ethical.

If Jesus went to the cross as a sacrifice... Why the hell did he resurrected? Personally, for me, that's a complete shit of sacrifice. That's taking advantage of the knowleadge (he knew he was going to ressurect) and the power (He knew hoe to resurrect) to commit an empty and totally hypocrital sacrifice. The only rational reason for that is that, without the idea of resurrection, the whole idea of Christianity should have lasted like 2 weeks. So, resurrection basically is an act of propaganda.

So an omnipotent God can do anything, right...? That's what omnipotent means. Oh, his son was killed, but he doesn't do anything about it? Oh, he doesn't want to bring him back to life in case some cynics say it was all a big fix. If it helps you, consider the agony of being nailed by the wrists to a bit of wood for hours to be the sacrifice rather than the death.

EDIT: I am re-reading the post and seems to be directed to SSH... I can' t know him just by the forums and IRC, but I think he is the nemesis of the inmorality. So, the commentary based of "it's an inmorality to educate kids in a lie" it' s not related to the parents who do this with the firm belive that it' s the best for the education of their kids, but in the others... and there will be of those, I am sure.

I don't have a high opinion of anyone who tells stuff as true to their kids that they don't believe is true themselves. I've already told my kids that Santa is just a story, and I tell them that Los Reyes Magos did come to visit baby Jesus with gifts.

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Personally, I think Helm has a greater understanding of what he doesn't belive in than Erenan has of what he does believe in. Although my understanding is that Jesus forgave us by dying on the cross, rather than before dying on the cross.

Anyone who thinks that God's mercy is restricted to some set of neat rules clearly has missed the point. And anyone who thinks that forgiveness has to be accepted or acknowledged by the other party is obviously too young to have experienced real life. The point of forgiveness is that the other person doesn't deserve it! And forgiveness is more for the sake of the forgiver than the one forgvien. Families of murder victims in the US often don't get a sense of closure from the killer being executed, but rather when THEY let go of it. Which is another reason why the death sentence is so barbaric.

[Download Idle module here]

Requires AGS 2.71 or above (not actually checked with 2.71 yet)

In response to Ghost's idea in this thread I have made a module that makes it easy to have multiple Idle animations for any character. I've not extensively tested it, so bug reports here, please, but it seemed to work OK!

v1.01: Removed that darned silly debug code
v1.02: Fixed some problems and put in better error reporting

Full documentation at http://ssh.me.uk/parsemodzip.php?modfile=Idle.zip

Download Idle module here

Beat me to it, Ashen. I've added that thread to the BFAQ on the wiki.

Why are you using the 2.7 manual? Just press F1 in your AGS editor to get the latest one! Craaazy!

I assumed that UserInput was the script name of the textbox that put in your GUI. Go to  the GUI editor, find your text box and give it a script name (top box of the little properties window). Now, go back to your script and replace "UserInput" with the name of your textbox.

He's already dead... it's rigor mortis

Make sure that the manual and the version of AGS you are using match. Try

Code: ags

String input=UserInput.Text;

a) Each module may have a different licence, so you can't say "yes I think so" for all modules, as they differ.
b) Each module has a unique ID that can be searched for in the game EXE. Plus there are function names, strings, etc which can also be found in the EXE

Maybe a reference of this module to game's credits would solve this problem, i guess.

Only if that is all that the licence of the module requires.

It depends on the module. If in doubt, contact the module's author and see if you can come to an arrangement with them. My early modules used LGPL, more recent MIT licence and most recently the CC Attribution-Sharealike.

The demo game uses an older version of the module. Try loading up the demo game, then re-importing the module from the latest zip into the demo game.

As I suggested a long time ago..

[li]A module for setting up intermittent incidental animations[/li]

but maybe I'll think about the best way to go about it.... which can now be found in this thread for the Idle module

They're still evil after they repent, just forgiven ...