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Yeh, recently I've been getting funny looks or tuts or "oooh"s from people when I've used the term 'black' to refer to someone who is... errr... black.

Why?

When I was a kid everyone said 'coloured' but that became taboo (and I can understand why, I mean it's not like their skin is made out of the same material as Josephs amazing dreamcoat).  And it seems to me 'black' is a perfectly fine term to use.  I don't think I've ever offended a black guy buy calling him such.

Personally I hate terms like African-American and the like...  It's like if a black person didn't want to offend me by calling me white, so they say call me Anglo-saxon... or worse, Caucasian...  Just call me white... i won't be offended.

It's the people who are too scared to offend, so use terms like coloured thinking they're being PC, who make it uncomfortable for everybody.  Without realising it, they're being more racist because they're the one's making it an issue.

The way I boil it down is this:
Agnostics say "I'll believe it when I see it"
Atheists say "You'll never make me believe it."

I call myself an atheist because I'm in the latter camp.  If one day I saw something that seemed to be definitive proof of the existence of God, I would still be shaking my head and trying to come up with more plausible explanations because I'm a stubborn like that. 

As for the whole hallucinogens making you see what's really there, surely if this were the case then anyone who took acid would have seen God swirling about.  If they didn't then either the seeing-what's-really-there thing is rubbish or the notion of God is rubbish.

Personally I think they're both rubbish.

It's all rubbish I tell thee.

Haha, I wanted that but couldn't find it for years, then when I found it in a catalogue, they sent me a mug instead.

I already know all the debunkings of the the fake moon landing theories.
I'm only half joking.  I don't really beleive they were faked I just think it's a nice theory and I want to be able to say "I told you so" if they ever are proven to have been faked.

Believe me I did all the reading there is to do about these sorts conspiracy theories (both sides of the argument)  in the 90's when I was an X-files freak.

* A McDonalds name badge with two stars.
* A LAN cable.
* A lifesize cardboard cutout of Lara Croft.
* Lara Croft.
* A Can of Whoop-ass.

Actually I'm both uninformed and ignorant.
We all are.  The government likes to keep it that way.

I'm not belittling Jesus.  He was told he was the son of God.  He had to believe it and he had to take measures to live up to it.  Poor guy.  He probably felt like Brian from The Monty Python movie.

His exact age is still debated by the highest people in the theology game so telling me off for (possibly) making a mistake is really irrelevant.  The point of my last post was that God was our ancestor's way of explaining the unexplained.  And that now we can explain those things God is irrelevant.  If, hypothetically, he did exist, what the hell does he do anyway? Nothing, so what's the point in worshiping him.

When I was a lad, before the whole love-christians-more-than-your-own-family turn-out, I was invited to a  special Christian camp by my friend who was being taken there by his grandmother.  She was (and still is) a lovely old gal, she's a devout Christian and when we were at this camp she asked me if I wanted to be converted, properly.

OK then I said, and I stepped up to this bloke who grabbed my shoulders, whispered some stuff and played with my head for a bit... I started to feel a strange sensation, a happy euphoric feeling that I'd never felt before and when the routine was over everyone asked me "Did you feel God?"... I just said "well I felt something"..."that was God!" they assured me and I was officially a Christian.

I was was never entirely convinced.  I couldn't explain the feelings I had felt that day, but even though at the time I believed in God, I wasn't ready to say that he had "spoken" to me or anything...

It's easy to understand how people like to put things they can't explain down to works of God, but it's a naive and primitive way of thinking...

Before meteorology was invented, primitive people couldn't explain thunder, lightening and snow.   Before astonomy was invented primitive people couldn't explain the sun, the moon, solar eclipses scared the shit out of them.  They made up their own explanations for these phenomena.  They made up Gods... this was the birth of Religion.

Then some people started thinking, hmm maybe a god for each unexplained thing is a bit far fetched, wht if there was one God that was in charge if everything... fuck yeh he must be some powerful motherfucker, we should like, obey him.  And so the one God religion was born.

One cold night in December,  woman called mary had  baby... she could not for the life of her remember having had sex with Joseph or anybody else... So she couldn't explain it... and what do people do when they can't explain something?.....

You're catching on... GOD!!!... only this time she went a step further and claimed that God was ctually the father of her son... She brought him up telling him this.  She told everybody else this. She probably genuinely believed it herself.

Jesus grew up thinking he really was the son of God, but he didn't have any powers, which is why we don't hear from him in the bible between his birth and the age of 37.... It took him 37 years to work on his magic tricks.  The water into wine turnout, feeding 5000 people... don't get me wrong, these are awesome feats, but nobody in their right mind thinks David Copperfield is the son of God, he's just a brilliant illusionist.. as was
Jesus Christ.

People were awed by what he could do... and they (all together now) couldn't explain it.  So they followed him, hung on his every word.  And so Christianity was born.

But in this day and age, we can explain most of the previously unexplained phenomena and  there are people working very hard to scientifically explain the things we can't.... putting it down to God is such a backwards notion that I will never subscribe to unless I have 100% definitive proof...

As for the strange feeling I sensed at the Christian Camp... I still can't explain it, but I would bet my bottom dollar that Derren brown could.

That's Chris Redfield.  The same generic-looking male model from the very first game.

Whats wrong with having black zombies?
They can't steal you bike when they're undead.

Aliens must surely exist.  We cant be the only planet out of billions and billions of planets in the universe that contains life.  And it's just as plausible to assume that we are only average and that there exist planets whose inhabitants are dumber than us and other planets whose creatures are far more advanced than us...

I find it highly unlikely that we'll ever meet anyone from one of the latter camp. It simply isn't physically possible to just fly about the universe willy nilly... (i don't think).  So an alien crash landing on Earth is too far fetched for me.

"Are you sure you want to Quit playing"

No I just pressed ctrl and Q because of the stirring in my loins.

I'm from East Sussex, England.
Currently residing in Tokyo for another couple of months.

It was my little sister's birthday yesterday.
Happy Birthday Amy!!!
I miss her.

She doesn't use this board by the way, or even know about it infact but it's the thought that counts.

You have to collect pieces of Lego.. err I mean... children's toy building blocks and the more you collect the more cool stuff you can make out of them.  The items you make can be used for solving different puzzles... and building the items would be a cool puzzle in its own right getting more and more difficult the more blocks you collect.

Haha.  Okay so maybe my timeline's a bit squew wiff... for some reason I thought Roswell happened in the late fifties.

But the essence of my theory stands.  The moon landings were filmed in area 51.  Knowing that people associated Area51 with aliens meant that they could film the landings there and people wouldn't guess.

Mark my words. One day I'll be saying I told you so (unless I die under mysterious circumstances one day... If I do you'll know I was onto something).

I like the image, but it doesn't have enough going on.  A janitor's closet would be cluttered and full of tools and rags and mops, buckets and the rest of it.

I did a very quick paintover just testing what the BG would look like with some silhouettes in the foreground. I also put some shelving up and a ladder there for him to reach the shelves.



Even with all this going on it's still too tidy and clean for a janitor's room, but you see what I'm getting at?

Looks fun and sounds interesting.  I'll download now but won't get to play it yet.  I have a bit of a backlog.

Congratulations on completing the game.

I've been trying to do the same kind of thing.  I used to pile my plate with food until it was spilling off the sides but recently I just cut down on food.

No calorie checking, no nutritional information analysis, no extra fruit and veg, just plain old eat less stuff.  Coupled with my vow to drink more water, it seems to be working.  As Darth said, it was tough at first because my stomach could fit a lot into it, but now it doesn't take as much for me to feel full-up.

Not sure if I've lost weight but the podge seems to be diminishing ever-so slightly.

This is my theory.

The moon landings were faked.
They were filmed at area 51.
The US government crashed an aircraft in Roswell, made it look like they were trying to cover it up so that all the conspiracy theorists concentrated on alien cover-up theories.
The Government took the aircraft and the so called alien and made the fake autopsy video to further feed the gullible conspiracy theorists.
This is why everyone thinks Area 51 is where the body of the alien is and the ufo and thats why it's a secret area.
But the real reason area 51 is cordoned off is because that is where they filmed the moon landings.

The whole alien cover-up was itself a cover-up to hide the true reason for Area 51.

Anyone else buy this... I've long thought the moon landings were faked and when I stopped believing in Aliens coming to Earth in flying saucers I realised the two conspiracy theories could be linked.