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it's been confirmed YEARS ago that the episodic series was done for and Valve wasn't gonna release another. Marc more or less wrote this to bridge the gap between Episode 2 and HL3.

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None of them with your brain, though

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Except you've had no issue pulling the "I'm not racist, I have black friends" card on me before, and there's quite a huge difference between "I'm not racist, I have black friends" and "I don't have issue with your demographic, I have an issue with you." What a shame Blue feels that way though, I'll have to take that up with him personally when I have the chance. That said, get off your high horse and stop playing the victim card. It's clearly not working, and clearly still a cop-out.

You are delusional if you think what you're facing right now is persecution. If you want to go by a dictionary definition, Oxford and Merriam-Webster both define persecution as hostility or unfair treatment due to differences in political/religious beliefs, race, sex, or social outlook. I assure you that if I come off as hostile towards you right now, it's not because you're a Christian. Remember Blue? He was cool, he was charismatic, I LOVED that guy and one of his favorite topics of discussion was his Christian faith. Difference is he's open to civil and rational discussion and you're not. And you've missed the point of mine and Rarity's posts. You're playing a victim card where it has no validity. You're not being persecuted, you're just trying to find a way to cop out.

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Please, you're not that subtle, don't try to act like you are. And there's nothing wrong with a fun little goof now and then.

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Same with Christians. Hell, as of 2016, Christians are the second highest group that are being persecuted/killed. +1 https://www.opendoorsusa.org/christian-persecution/ Christianity is also one of the single largest demographics in the world, probably THE largest demographic that people choose to take part in, so naturally I have some questions. What counts as persecution and in what contexts? How is it even remotely possible, let alone practical to measure persecution when, according to your source, something as petty as verbal harassment, or just general hostility counts as persecution? What are the persecution statistics per capita? Why is there so much discrepancy regarding Christian murder statistics? I've seen a statistic of 90,000 murders published quite a few times, but I don't recall any of the articles published ever saying that these murders were as a result of their faith. According to your source, I've crunched the numbers and roughly 1 in 570,000 Christians are killed for their faith per year, meaning that in the United States ALONE, you're ten times more likely to be murdered for being trans. I'm not here to downplay the shit Christians get in various parts of the world, but I live in the United States, and I'm definitely part of a more marginalized and persecuted group relative to location. Hell, if you wanna use this website's definition of persecution, I've been a victim of persecution by Ninja himself when he was part of the Discord. I don't personally agree because I'm not that petty, but the discrepancy and general lack of Christian persecution statistics leaves doubts in my mind. We're getting sidetracked here though, the point is you're not being oppressed or persecuted for your faith right now, you're just playing the victim card and it's not working.

Subtle. What happened to you ignoring me?

So did you spend 5 days pulling my post apart line by line just to find things to nitpick about? Are you gonna post anything substantial or not? Go on, address any point in my previous post and tell me why I'm wrong. Better yet, address Rarity's post since you seem to have completely ignored hers. There were lots of good points there to dig in to. And just to make some things very clear, there's a fine line between an insult and a criticism of character. "Stupid" is a criticism of character since you've clearly displayed willful ignorance and lack of common sense. "Arrogant" is a criticism of character since you made a haughty assumption that I know less than you about a matter that I've studied extensively for a year. "Stubborn" is a criticism of character because you're refusing to concede when you have nothing of substance to respond with. Hell, stubborn is you not just coming to an agreement with me that Christianity just isn't for me. I was raised by a protestant mom and catholic grandparents. Growing up in that environment, I know Christianity isn't for me, and that's the only point I was trying to make here. It takes a great deal less faith for me to believe that there was a creator that we know very little about, or that the universe itself is sentient, or that everything has a spirit or spiritual energy. I'm not belittling you for your beliefs, if anything I'm belittling you for how you handle the topic.

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You, someone who got most of this information wrong, are telling me, someone who studied Latin and Roman history in high school, to do my research. Okay, I'll bite. The Roman calendar excluded winters, being a barren season where nothing grows or really even happens for that matter. Its replacement was the Julian calendar, adding Ianuarius and Februarius (January and February), and naming previous 5th and 6th months after Caesar and his nephew (Iulius and Augustus, July and August). Even IF you wanted to argue that somehow we incorrectly measured 60 less days per year and had no winter gap in between, that difference isn't enough to turn 950 years in to something even REMOTELY livable by any animal, let alone a human being. I felt like addressing this point first because, holy hell, it really highlights how stupid and arrogant you actually are. You just proved my point. Of course you can't prove that an omnipotent, omniscient being does or doesn't exist, but you say it like it's something that's totally believable to begin with. And regardless, that doesn't address the issue of a lot of biblical stories being fictitious in nature and allegorical at best. Again, don't expect me to believe that miracles started and stopped happening in that small sliver of time between civilization's roots and the rise and fall of the Roman empire, especially when there's no proof such things as Noah's ark, or the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah even existed. If there is an all-knowing creator out there, I like to think that they're smart enough to understand that they don't love me unconditionally if they're willing to send me to Hell for any reason whatsoever. If there is a god or goddess out there, I don't expect anything of them and they shouldn't expect anything of me. I'd just like to reiterate that I believe in Karma and I like to think that system is a little more sound than getting sent to 7th circle of hell for partaking in lots of sodomy. And for the love of god, stop playing the victim card because you're having your beliefs questioned. They ARE questionable. It's probably hard for you considering all the mental gymnastics you need to pull to argue your system of beliefs isn't inconsistent at best. Do you not think I run in to people who question my spiritual beliefs? Spirituality is a topic I constantly meditate on, and I still can't say with a straight face that Christianity or Islam are solid, consistent systems of belief.

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I'd just like to point out that my summary of Sodom and Gomorrah wasn't meant to be taken seriously. The events regardless are clearly fantastical and you shouldn't expect me or anyone to take them at face value. I'm sure most people don't, but at the very best it's an allegory for a message I don't agree with. And I don't think that if a god exists, they have the authority to tell me that I should, or the authority to define what is objectively morally correct. And what exactly do you think a year is? A year is and always was, by definition, one full solar revolution.

Please provide examples of things disproven, and proof that it isn't grounded in reality. I've already given you four

Sure there are people out there who listen to everything they hear without question, but that's the complete opposite of what science is about in the first place. Science isn't a system of beliefs, it's a method by which we understand the world around us. Religion claims things that science can and does actively disprove, it isn't grounded in reality. There's a lot of things science probably can't disprove (like the existence of gods, or spirits), but there's a pretty huge difference between belief in a god and belief that Noah lived to be 950 years old, or that the world was created 6000 years ago, or that Moses parted the Red Sea in 2, or that Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed in raining hellfire for all the gay buttfucking going on there. As for my beliefs, I believe in karma and reincarnation. Nothing I think science can or probably will disprove.