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I think I edited to add in everything after "The Egyptian people are a joke" line. I edit 99% of the posts I make to expand on comments and fix spelling mistakes, why is that weird?

And all of that was a necessary step to accomplished Brotherhood goals. You might not agree with it. There might be thousands of Egyptians who disagree with it. But that is not the point, the point is not even if over 50% of Egyptians disagree with it, but if The brotherhood hid their intentions and lied during the election, and if so, why not legally depose him.

I think you take a naive view. Where have you heard that Morsi was 'generally honest with all his intentions and beliefs'? Secular Egyptians accuse him of being aggressively divisive in his pursuit of an Islamist agenda.

Morsi has been a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood for almost a decade, and in that role as even been in politics in Egypt and was a member of parliament back in 2000.
He never pretended he was anything else, and ran as the head of the official Muslim Brotherhood party.
The Muslim Brotherhood which is known and officially states that their goal is to instil the Qur'an and Sunnah as the "sole reference point for ...ordering the life of the Muslim family, individual, community ... and state."
The Muslim Brotherhood is not some secret hidden movement, it announces to the world exactly how they would do things if put in charge, and admits to most of the things they do.

While I admit that this is an unprecedented Democratic first, there was zero hidden agenda here. Over 50% of the population voted for this man to perform all of the changes that he then subsequently performed. But neither he, nor the Egyptian people ever had the power to really decide how the country was run in the first place.

The Egyptian people are turning more and more into a comedy every day.

Didn't they start with some sort of dictator.
Then through protests and military in-action forced him to resign. Then they thought it was a good idea to hand all that power over to the man who already has control of the military, because the only thing better than a dictator is a general and a dictator all rolled into one, with absolute control of both the civilians and the military.
Somehow they actually democratically elected someone to rule them, who I have been told was generally honest with his all his intentions and beliefs, and he is overthrown by a military coup, and one of the old officials from two years ago is put in charge.

So basically everyone thought they could rule better than the original rulers, but apparently it did not turn too well.

Ya, well at least with Catholic, you are not allowed to disagree.
That is their special thing, obedience to the church and god's representative on earth.
If you do not blindly follow the Catholic church than by definition you are not Catholic and are instead a Protestant.

I do not know how this one works, but I played an online version with really tough AI before.

Humans are hardwired with an evolutionary mechanism to always feel as though we're being watched.

I think that must just be you...

1. demand a human sacrifice.
2. You cannot choose whether you find a claim convincing.

The old testament is full of sacrifice and offerings, half of the book is about how to prepare offerings for God. And a not insignificant portion is ritualistic human sacrifice.
There has been some philosophizing about Jesus being a completely new God, come to save mankind from the evil Old Testament God. I think the story makes far more sense taken that way.

2. I disagree.

In any case, to many Christians who consider homosexuality a sin, the reason it's such a major topic is not that it's a worse sin than many others, e.g. adultery, but that so many people deny that it's a sin. Christianity expects people to sin, but it demands repentance.

But it is no more denied as a sin than any other thing. Like making interest on your money, or eating a bacon burger (mixing different animals in a single meal), being rich, or sex outside of marriage (or at all).

A gay Catholic is interviewed by a former Christian turned Atheist. Predictably, it doesn't go well for him (hint: major cognitive dissonance).

It is weird how much Christians have latched onto the gay part of their holy books. It is one of the less straightforward parts. The bible very clearly denounces all facepainting, for example, but the gay sections, which are no more numerous or damning than the face painting are plagued by translation problems and multiple ways to interpret them. In my opinion the Christian holy books clearly state that things such as face painting or wearing a cotton polyester blend are just as sinful as sodomy, if not far more. Any Christian that followed the teachings of the bible would be in prison for murder within 5 minutes. That being said, that does not mean that all christians who say that homosexuals are sinning just hate them. People are sheep, and Christians have turned homosexuality into a major sin by group belief, it just has nothign to do with God or any of the bibles.

In my opinion. The entire issue is addressed ass-backwards.
Modern western marriage is basically catholic/christian marriage. And as a private organization they have right to refuse to perform some ritual on whoever they like.
But at the same time, our laws governing it should not be based on Christianity. I would just abolish marriage altogether. And forget all this religious foolishness and go back to how the law used to handle these things, just one more legal contract that can give any number of rights and privileges to another person(s) over you that you want.

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1. People aren't actually all equal, and treating different people differently isn't always unfair.
2. Conservatives argue that gay people already have the same marriage rights as straight people. The law doesn't discriminate, it just defines what a marriage is.

2. Well that is undoubtedly true. Any single woman can marry any single man and vice-versa. It is the definition of homosexual/hetrosexual equality (they are treated identically). You can argue it is sexist and unequal based on gender, but we have loads of laws that take into account the differences of gender.

I was going to post without reading this thread, but somehow I got roped into reading the whole thing. Get your hate ready boys, because I am against gay marriage!
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Some very good point. And that is why I really do not think one can have a real discussion about the yay/nay on teh gay marriage issue. I have tried and you just go in circles. There is no solid real solid footing to make any hypothesis on. Is the point on marriage to produce new citizens for the government and sustain the current ones, that undoubtedly used to be teh main reason and I am not sure if it is not still. Without showing the point of a marriage, no one can say what laws should restrict it.

And the entire issue is further complicated by the entire group of laws being undated and horribly set up even just for hetrosexuals.

All TV shows have loads of boobies now, so I guess it would have to have lots as well.

You made me think that their was an Elder Scroll movie, now I am disappointed.
Someone should pay that guy who made the LotRs film trilogy to make some fantasy film(s) based on TES. Or maybe we could have a TV series.

This is a really GrimE thread.

lol

funny epitaphs.

I always thought this place would make great inspiration for the setting of a Myst-like.

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AGS havnt good frame rate for platform games.As far as i know Concurrence(by mode7) was best platformer(Cinematic).and unfortunately in game we had slow frame rate in great machine too.

I do not think that has anything to do with AGS. The original ran "slow" as well, far "slower" in fact. It is part of its style. You get used to it, and the games would be far too easy if it was 100% responsive.

Depends on the genre, there is probably one for every genre out there.

Renpy, or something like that for visual novels. There is some RPG maker for RPGs. I know there is a few for text adventures. I am sure there are similar engines for platformers, racing, you name it.

Hello all,
I just thought I would mention a online FREE magazine that I and a few others adventure enthusiasts make every month.

Before my time (back in 2006-2007) Adventure Lantern was going strong, and was even mentioned a few times on this very forum (so I am sure a few of you remember us).

Well we have been back in operation for around a year now and producing a new magazine filled with news, reviews, and previews every month. In some ways we are going stronger than ever (the visual design is the best it has ever been), but we are somewhat short on writers/editors.

Also, since AGS is such an important and huge part of the adventure community, we have a specific news subsection for it.

And if anyone is interested in helping out, experience is not necessary and we are all amateurs. I am not the owner (or final decision maker), but at this point it would be best to contact me (my email is available through this AGS profile).

We recently published the September and October issue, and they can both be downloaded on our website.

http://adventurelantern.com/

Looks completely amazing.