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How about an old haunted inn? as in a medieval inn? I am thinking of some inn with THE BED THAT FITS ALL! if you read your greek myths, it actully kind of scary.

Though it was the same every time, the can't pick up sequince in Sam and Max: Hit the road, will always be dear to my heart.

And besides, all the billyho about god and how perfect he is could merely do what most parents do,consciously  or unconsciously. try to convince the kids that they are perfect. zap me now, but that  appears to fit the pattern given in the bible. god may just be learning as we do, about being a good parent.

An interesting point progZmax, and that APPEARS to be the metephor the bible uses. 

decent enough to do what? blow up a school? kill students? make a bang?
say your a farmer, or say your a farmer, or are part of a garden club? what then?

I would just like to say sorry if I came of a bit bitchy. I was just pointing out you don't have to be a techno wizard to make a bomb. Heck, wikipedia has recipie for
nitroglycerin
as well as
TNT
read on mini unibombers, read on

Does anyone remember that Canadian psyco? wasn't that long ago. shot up a canadian school Ã, just goes to show that gun control laws really don't make too much differance. Psycopaths will be psycopaths.
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Bombs generally require a lot of technical ability, planning, and suspicious ingredients... so you get them but only from obsessives like McVeigh or the IRA over here.

I hardly think fertilizer counts as suspichious

Because underlining the differences between ourselves and others makes us feel like distinct people, outside of the herd and such?

Isn't this just an illusion, since striving to be 'outside of the herd' as you put it often involves falling into just another category?

I think that's why, we like feeling like part of a group, and we like hating other groups.
When scientists did studies on group psychology, they found jingoism could be achieved with einie meenie minie mo. we like to say our group is best, and we like to prove it in time honoured competitions . been on a sports team and a team fan can fill this desperate need. So canÃ, religion

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I could not convince you that there is a God any more than you could convince me there is not one, so my question stands: why are threads like this so popular?

INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW!

I have no idea, a friend of mine had the idea that religion started because certen people wanted control, but if thats true, why does it cause such strong feelings? Why are wars fought over whether islam should be led by a relitive of the founder, or not? Nations have been SLAUGHTERED over these questions. Its just so STUPID. I like religion, it does good, it has provided sociel programs, help with schooling, created great art and music, and inspired people to love there fellow man. but so many wars, so many wars.
And why does it so popular with US? Maybe the internet attracts these kind of people.

thats only if you go by a rather stringent interpatation of the bible, a book which I don't compleatly trust, due to the fact it was written by PEOPLE. people who may have been bonkers, had there own adgenda, or simply misinterpated. 

Anyone subscribe to the discworld theory of deities? A very interesting explanation if we had gods that DID anything. As a philosopher, I subscribe to deism, that is some god or gods created the universe and then gave the whole thing up as a bad job. what happened after that is open for debate. heck, its ALL open for debate. I just think from my own thoughtful analyses that a creator is necessary but I have 50 % chance of being wrong. to quote a crustacean doctor high on happy pills [in mock-Yiddish accent] "Why all the fighting?" Why do we get so rattled when, all in all its all, its just a matter of opinion and belief? why do we incensed over these things? I say live day by day, as best we can, helping others, and following our own Way. What is truth? I don't know, but if we don't have to kill ourselves over it.

I liked the game itself, but I think the payoff at the end could have been better.

Signal in a radar = Spaceship crewed by an alien intelligence?

Mmmm... :

UFO just means Unidentified Flying Object
if we found out for sure little green men were at the helm, then it wouldn't be a UFO anymore

I liked myst myself. The puzzles to me seemed to make sense, and the environments were luscious. We may get more polygon count now, but can we create as easily such beauty? There is but one puzzle I hated. The musical slider puzzle. I wished a painful death upon the developers for that one, but only that one. The music very mood enhancing, and well done. In its time it was such a departure, yet it feels so real.  I am a fan, so that must be taken into consideration, but I still love that game. I own riven and it also carries that sense of reality. But I still like myst best. By the way, I own schism, and I hate schism, so its not like I am a glutton for first person perspective games.

Yes, it was the 1969 "science of the year" book.  had a big painting of the lunar lander during touchdown on the cover. I am sorry I can't tell you more, but I don't have the book on hand right now, other wise I could tell you the publisher and other pertinent details. Now, remember I mentioned the radar and a person, who had a camera on hand. what I am saying is there is two separate sources of information,  one of the key things needed for some form of truth .one of the witnesses a highly trained professional. I think it does warrant some consideration.

I think that the supernatural could exist, I just have never really been presented with much convincing evidence of its existence.
I think UFO’s could be something. for example I read in a reputable source  of UFO spotted both visually as well as on radar. now if that’s not something I don't know what is.  Unless both people involved are lying of course.

thanx, you guys are a real hoot  :

thanks, but, if its not too much trouble, I was looking for something I can download.

I am looking for an mp3 or even .wav for a song that once haunted me. still does in fact. its called "Fare thee well" or"10,000 miles" and its by Mary Chapin Carpenter.  The tune has haunted me ever since I first heard it in the movie "fly away home" I never really got into the movie too much, but that song, played at the start and near the end of the movie, always game me the shivers. does  anyone have it, and is willing to upload it, or steer me the to some site? already tried metacrawler and google

He would be a hero to the kid, but almost every dad is the kids hero, at least for a while.
But he ain't no hero to the rest of us. He is just a guy who wrangled dangerous animels on television, for our viewing pleasure. A man, or woman, who runs into a burning building to save a child or eldarly person from a fire, even if not related to him or her, that is a hero. The people who vollinteer at drug rehab are heros,  the people ho dive in frozen rivers to save drowning people are heros, the people who do whats right, even though the other is so much easier, is a hero. hero's are rare. we shouldn't lable everyone who dies  and is famous, a hero.