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NewDotMoarFiles - Know when new .moar files are available to extractWrong Posted:
I can find mini sprites, but don’t have anything to blow them up. I tried asking in IDC once for someone with Fireworks to do it. If someone will step up to the plate, I’ll take care of things. (view post) |
02/13/2009 | |
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Religious players1337xxxlolololxxx1337 Posted: |
02/13/2009 |
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Religious playersC_Wenhoo Posted:
In economics: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120806545/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 On the institutionalization of corruption: http://www.qog.pol.gu.se/working_papers/2007_5_Teorell.pdf The cog psych perspective http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pal/14708914/2007/00000006/00000001/art00004
Google scholar has more, or I can break out old texts I still have. (view post) |
02/13/2009 |
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Religious playersDOPE-HARDCORE-0 Posted: Shii Posted: Any mention of god was used to illustrate a potential reason to cling to a religion. Sorry you weren’t on board with the topic and instead wanted to troll. (view post) |
02/13/2009 |
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Religious playersShii, your godlove is much appreciated and all but a bit of a derail.
The god or not issue has been debated in other threads. Plenty of scientists like to use god as the black box until they get finer tools, and then put god as the new black box at the new edge of measurability.
Again, the heart of this discussion is organized religion in general. Their methods of operation, depending on the particular church, range from simple high pressure coersion to flat out terrorism (both foreign and domestic). Hell, Rajneespuram managed to convince PhDs and other intellectuals to become gun-toting martyrdom-ready guardsmen as Rajneesh reaped in millions through donations and hostile takeover of the local town.
Smaller cults, the kinds that make the news, get mocked because they tend to be small and fleeting. However, I’d posit that a hundred Jonestowns would be FAR better for society than the tiniest fragment of catholicism, simply because of the volumes of falsified histories and ancestral ties people have to the church, because it’s just one more reason for idiots to turn off their brains and blindly follow the whims of the reigning regressive guy in the funny hat. (view post) |
02/13/2009 |
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Religious playersAcid Flux Posted:
See, that’s my point. I don’t see the difference between a cult and a religion. Yet religious people can recognize and ostracize cults. Why not turn that light of sanity on themselves? (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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Religious playersPossibly a Cabbage Posted:
How, exactly, does one manage to get into the ancient pantheon like that in modern times? I frankly expect that there will be some atheist/agnostic types that come in as well, but this one is actually interesting. It strikes me as atheism/anarchism with a figurehead from which one can claim to derive all of one’s ideology.
Wouldn’t this be math worship by another name? (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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She'll be back.AntiRules187 Posted:
No was the short answer, thanks (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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Religious playersAlright, if people just want to cede my points. (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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She'll be back.Who is this thread about, and do I need to care? (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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Click this for free BP klan generously giving everyone brownie points for freeAdapt Posted:
Note the subforum of choice (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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Click this for free BP klan generously giving everyone brownie points for freeInertia Posted:
I think that your portrait of dragons would be infinitely better if you had color coordinated it a bit better to make a true “**** the colorblind” out of your reds and greens.
Because, **** the colorblind. (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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Religious playersSo this is an issue I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. Sure, there have been some pretty serious (and some unfortunately trollish) debates about whether or not god is real; however, there hasn’t been much lively discussion about religions themselves. What I want to understand is how a fundamentally rational human being can ever continue to be part of a religion.
Yes. I get it. as a child, you don’t have a choice. There are cognitive psychologists that liken early religious indoctrination to mental terrorism. You are raised how you are raised, and you can’t exactly choose another option under most cirgreat timesstances, as, just like cults, religions demand the indoctrination of your kin and the conversion of any non-believer into your own faith.
What I don’t get is how, after receiving an education, (which, tragically, is apparently not available to most southern or rural areas [See: The University of Alabama, any university in the midwest, any university in Texas; the list goes on]) one can still be religious. If you have a degree from a worthwhile university (and didn’t **** away your four years just drinking/doing drugs) you are capable of forming rational arguments and thinking logically. How, at that point, can you not cast off the chains that bind you earlier in your life?
Are you afraid? If god is gone, suddenly that magical cushion that protects you isn’t there? Isn’t that argument bull****, since, well, according to the religions, god exists regardless of whether or not you buy into their faith?
Don’t you worry about picking the wrong god? There are a lot of options. Some have messiahs, some have messiahs that came after the other messiahs, others think that there is a pantheon at place…why are you so sure your god is THE god?
Didn’t you ever question the whole tithing thing? At what point does that -not- strike you as a tax imposed upon you by charlatans in exchange for snake oil in the form of warm feelings and a wonderful afterlife?
Is it because of all the ‘good’ your religion does? Have you forgotten the wars caused by all of the current religious organizations (****, even the Tibetans are stirring **** up in China now)? What about the wonders of abstinence only sex education you fight for, or the stripping of civil rights from people that have never done anything to harm you (and are in cases introduced to a lifestyle you do not approve of by your own sick, perverted, pedophilic spiritual advisors.)
Studies in cog psych have shown that the hierarchical power structures of all corporations (a term which, obviously, encompbumes all religions as organizations) lead inevitably to corruption.
In the face of all of this sheer detriment to humanity, how is it possible for a sane, rational, adult human being to NOT reject the tenets of whatever faith was unfairly thrust upon them in their youths? (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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I'll Pay You to give me BPsStrange, the send bp bumon isn’t working for you, OP. Can you send out BP, or did they shackle your account since you were trying to basically cheat the system? I’ve got some BP so if you want to test it you can send me some and I’ll send them back. (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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Brainfreeze presents - The Biggest Forumwarz Contest Ever. . . . Ever! 54 BP up for grabs!eh, whatever (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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Who dies next? The guessing game worth 2BPTravis Barker.
Hasn’t anyone seen that movie where you get off the plane that exploded, and death comes after you? (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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Notifications on banner and character select paneThe problem is I always directly tubmail my ideas to ET, and while he is very receptive and responsive, the ideas fade as his TM fills up, his staff gets on to more important other stuff, and I forget what I’ve subbed. So, I just will make these thoughts public record and see what happens. (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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Notifications on banner and character select paneI propose the following notification changes/additions: Banner (All of these would be placed to the left of the character’s name, same as the new tubmail notification currently): – Add an icon link for deliveries, tubmails, kyoubai, and domination – The deliveries icon (Log in to see images! would work well) would obviously link to deliveries if you have them, or be greyed out if you have none to collect. – The tubmail icon would simply be permanently there, but grey out if there are no unread messages. – The kyoubai icon (a miniature bidsquid, maybe) would link to your bids. Highlighted when you are outbid, greyed out if you are still winning all of your bids. – Domination (no idea what the best icon would be as I don’t actually play dom, but people might like this) could notify you when you’ve lost the lead or been screwed or something I don’t know/care
Char select pane: All the same notifications, but in another column to the right of the character to which they pertain. Clicking a link here would switch to said character, then take the actions outlined above. (view post) |
02/12/2009 |
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petition to allow more images allowed per postSkyman747 Posted: (view post) |
02/11/2009 |
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what would be the best way to get banned?MasterHaxxor Posted:
Don’t forget to include plenty of tentacle enjoy.
JAPAN! (view post) |
02/11/2009 |