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I miss the G-man Squad. Operation Black Mesa was obviously a success.

Me too.

Ninjas. Effing ninjas man, you never see them coming.

this is the wrong thread I am sorry

Take your time with that Party thing, Alphabetagamma and Doom Shepard. But keep in mind your deadline is the 27th of this month. Also, the sooner you have it up, the sooner you can go about making your party popular, fabulous and something people want to vote for, plus whatever else you want to make it. Vote for Blue.

I have been facepalmed!

Did you know that in a single second of sound played back on computers can contain more than 30,000 samples of audio information?

Worth it.

Epsilon was nominated, but politely rejected the offer, and therefore is not a Candidate. Alphabetagamma has been nominated, but is not a Candidate yet because he has yet to make a party. This is also true of Doom Shepard. If the cutoff were to be today, J.C. and myself would be the only Candidates in the running because we're the only ones with Parties. There is no maximum number of Parties allowed in the running, but only eight can be voted for in the final Election.

I don't argue for the sake of argument, I'll have you know. I will finish this statement and go no further, as the practicality and usefulness of time spent debating for its own sake is negligible in my mind. That article you linked only pokes at a few verses. Looking at all the other contents of the Pauline Epistles in context would not make the verse outlandish, even if they were interpolation generated from the Apocrypha. To say eight verses nullifies the possible truth of thousands of others is quite a leap. http://www.evidencetobelieve.net/reliability_of_the_bible.htm I'm not a historian or an archaeologist so I would not be able to point out any single particular documents without extensive research, but it would surprise me if 1st Corinthians was its own only evidence. Personally I don't think the origin of the universe needs be taught in school since there appears to be such controversy over it, and saying that it should be taught in school is just a proxy war for Creationism vs. the Big Bang Theory. A fight which should be fought by professors in universities, not teachers, parents and politicians in school board meetings. Or teenagers on a forum, for that matter.

Sly Cooper 3 "Cel shading. Kind of cool I guess, it makes it look like a saturday morning cartoon. Man these unskippable cutscenes with written-for-10-year-olds dialogue are kind of annoying. Hey this game has pretty fun gameplay. I like being this kind of thief." Hours go by "Great gobberwarts I am now the Captain of an Infamous Pirate Ship and also a Gentleman Thief Parkour expert with a cane I like this"

Everyone's smiling. Smile!

Lasagna is a dish made from layered tomato sauce, cheese, and sometimes meat sauce, vegetables and herbs. Its culinary origin is from various parts of Italy. Baklava is a dessert made from layered filo and flavored with small nuts and honey, and is a typical culinary treat from parts of the former Ottoman Empire and western Asia.

Could you, perhaps, produce that evidence? Paul's First Letter to the Church in Corinth, Chapter 15, 3-6 "For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep." Pray tell how a public letter, given to a Church, written within 10 years of the event, would be able to stay in Canonically held, historically accurate and reliable accountance by many Churches and Religious institutions for over 1,500 years, if any component of that was a fabrication. Within 10 years. If I wrote a book five years from now, about how at a Student Rally at Trinity Western University in Vancouver became violent and that ten people died, do you think a statement in a book like that would be able to stand the test of time? No it wouldn't, because critics and actual members of that Rally would be still alive, they would say "No, that didn't happen, your book is a fabrication and you are a liar." And yet Paul wrote a letter which stated 500 people saw Christ after he died, and that document is held as truth by institutions far older than most countries, written within ten years of when it happened- which I would bet even with the status of average persons' health back then, lots of those 500 would still be around, enough to either claim an inaccuracy, or proclaim its truth. Documents from far flung parts of history and many authors contributed to the process of making the Bible, among them the approximate 60 or so people over the course of 3000 years. Let's start with the Torah (The first five books of the Bible, also known in Greek as the Pentateuch) or the Pentateuch as adopted by Christians, the Septuagint. That is to say Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Then we go on to the Jewish Nevi'im (or Prophets) give us the books Joshua through Malachi. The Ketuvim were scriptures written during the Judaic exile under the Babylonian and Medo-Persian Empire (as detailed in the books of Daniel, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Zephaniah). There are also numerous books which supplement context historical and cultural references. That's just the Old Testament. The Bible in of itself is the amalgamated works of many different peoples at many different times with many considerations taken into what is divinely inspired and what would not be. (And on that note, there are things that can be read that are considered possibly supplementary but not divinely inspired in such works as the Apocrypha and Deuterocanonics). To say that the Bible is the only document that is used as evidence for that time period is like pointing at an Encyclopedia made by the collected works of ten different Universities and saying it's only one book. Saying the Bible is only one document has every power of an accusation except that of being a useful accusation. But if you are so insistent to avoid having the Bible be its own self-evidence, Look up the names "Thallus", "Pliney", "Suetonius", "Celsus", "Lucian of Somosata", "Tacitus" and "Flavious" (Testimony of). The only document that says the Roman Empire invaded Gaul is Commentarii de Bello Gallico by Julius Caesar, which is dated at about 50 BC, give or take a few decades. If you're wondering how accurate documents are to the dating of information relevant to the New Testament, take a look at your calendar, the Year is based upon the most accurate research that could be ascertained to the year Christ was born. BC stands for Before Christ, and AD stands for Anno Domine, which is Latin for "Years of Our Lord". Feel free to swtich to CE and BCE (Current Era and Before Current Era) but they're still pivoted off of 0 AD.

Blood is actually a mixture of several different things and not one uniform compound. The liquid of blood is blood plasma, which is by volume 93% water and 7% other dissolved substances like protein and glucose. The solids in blood are mostly red blood cells (made from iron-rich hemoglobin, which is a compound that stores and releases oxygen with about 97% efficiency) but also contain white blood cells (which are larger than red blood cells, and are somewhat grayish in color) and platelets, among other things. Blood is red because of the hemoglobin in red blood cells. Oxidized iron compounds are naturally red in the same way oxidized copper compounds are green. Blood is almost identical in weight to water.

What is taught is what should be considered relevant and factual knowledge. I shall take a quotation from a dialogue on a component of the Bible from which all other verses depend on. "Should Genesis 1 be called a "scientific account"? Again, it is crucial to have a careful definition. Does Genesis 1 record a true account of the Origin of the material Universe? To that question, the answer must be yes. On the other hand, does Genesis 1 provide information in a way that corresponds to the purposes of modern science? To this question the answer is no. Consider some of the challenges. For example, the term "kind" does not correspond to the notion of "species"; it simply means "category", and could refer to a species, or a family, or even a taxonomic group. Indeed, the plants are put into two general categories, small seed-bearing plants and larger woody plants. The land animals are classified as domestic stock animals (livestock); small things such as mice, lizards and spiders ("creeping things"); and larger game and predatory animals ("beasts of the earth"). Indeed, no species, other than man, get its proper Hebrew name. Not even the sun and moon get their ordinary Hebrew names (1:16). The text says nothing about the process by which "the earth brought forth vegetation" (1:12) or by which the various kind of animals appeared- although the fact that it was in response to God's command indicates that it was not due to any natural powers inherent in the material universe itself." Genesis and Science - Preface to the book of Genesis, p.44, para. 2. T. Desmond Alexander, Ph.D, 2007 English Standard Version Study Bible Historical accounts of the life and death of Jesus Christ are both more accurate and plentiful than many other historical accounts of that era of History. There are corroborating evidences of the Ressurected Christ appearing to more than 500 people at once, but only one of the Roman invasion of Gaul. Yet the one of Gaul is taken as fact.

I am incapable of intentionally raising my left eyebrow separate from the right. However I can do so with my right.

I find the threat underlying this post objectionable. I also will remind Doom Shepherd of his status as an Election Nominee.

Biting is a horrendously inefficient transmission method of disease.

*Yawns* Wait... WHAT?!??! Oh, Great Maker... FINE. Someone remind me what I'm supposed to do next. You can make a Party, which consists of a Mission Statement, Motto, and Name. It's becoming a motif that Party Leaders make a speech, but it's not necessary. You might also do yourself a favor by reading the rules all through.

Maybe he'll remember if I Private-Message him a couple times.

As far as I know, Marijuana in of itself is less harmful per average capita than smoking, and according to some, even alcohol. However the problem still exists that people introduced to weed at a young age may be led to experimentation with drugs, which can go sideways very strongly, very quickly, and sometimes very irreversibly. (I recall some sources referring to weed as a gateway drug, and pointing out heroin as the drug of greatest concern.) However marijuana is most easily picked on by governments and companies because Cigarettes and Alcohol are extremely large industries. In fact I would postulate that those industries actually use marijuana as a scapegoat by relegating it to the same ranks as Ecstasy and Heroin in being 'Drugs' in order to distract from the negative effects of their respective goods. I looked at a few statistics, and according to a generalization made from most of them, about 40,000 people died in the US in 2009 related to Drugs, 28,000 died related to Alcohol, and 450,000 from smoking-related ailments. I seriously doubt Marijuana was the majority consist of that 40,000. Now imagine a society in which the legal situation for Cigarettes and Joints have been flipped.

I have over 11,000 posts on the forums of the Escapist Magazine.com. However of late the massive popularity of the site has entirely dehumanized what once was a very tight-knit community, with all its associated jives and quirks. After having been suspended for a week for retorting to someone who called C.S. Lewis a bad Apologetic with this image (link), I've really stopped caring about that website- it had been months since anything on the forums had actually made me happy, so what really was the point. This site is made and maintained by the creative creator of content of which I am interested, and like-minded respectful people with their own quirks is a return to the idea of "Internet Community" that I knew and loved- but I will not make the mistake of trying to preserve it by complaining or extensively worrying about the site and how it develops, as obviously it will probably never be as popular as the host site for Zero Punctuation, and I've matured enough (I think) to know there's a lot more to the functionality of such a community as this then pedantically saying "Back in my day" and indulging in ego.

Um... So you're launching flares? ...Those are missiles. Those are countermeasure flares. They burn to distract heat-seeking weapon systems like missiles. Either that or its a stand-off bomblet dispenser, which would beg the question as to why they're pyrophoric at only a few feet away from the plane, as opposed to like, falling. Falling until they hit the ground.