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Creativity / Re: Drawings Megathread

« on: April 29, 2012, 03:54:46 PM »

My interpretation of an adventurer

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Off Topic / Re: The Chipophone

« on: April 29, 2012, 01:27:14 AM »

youll get bored if it lol

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Games / Re: The Elder Scrolls Megathread- For Honor, for Glory, for Sovngarde!

« on: April 29, 2012, 01:26:01 AM »

volsung

Please help, I'm trying to become Thane of Riften and there is some bug stopping me. I did the Skooma Trade quest, and even some of the dragon clearing quests but there is no option to talk about becoming Thane, or even buying property.

whos on the throne

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Games / Re: Maze24's Minecraft Survival Games! JOIN NOW!

« on: April 29, 2012, 01:24:31 AM »

Skipperdoodles won. :D
Maze gets honorable mention though because Doodler was kinda screwing with him. I honestly think I'd still beat him though. :P

lol skip kicked my ass

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Drama / Re: Lord Tony has been banned

« on: April 29, 2012, 01:10:03 AM »

has anybody noticed that there is there no in game dramas about lord tony?

You're new so I wouldn't expect you to understand, but LT was notorious before this pony stuff.
He was known for being an overall Tony in general.

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Games / Re: The Elder Scrolls Megathread- For Honor, for Glory, for Sovngarde!

« on: April 28, 2012, 10:23:34 PM »

speaking of dargon priest masks
what sort of stuff should I have before I try killing the dargon priests
also around what difficulty of spells
will this firebolt work
 

Firebolt ahaha.

If you have your withs about you and alot of stamina they'll be p easy.

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Off Topic / Re: Who do you think has the most iconic avatar?

« on: April 28, 2012, 10:20:16 PM »

bisjac.

i wonder where solid went anyway, was he banned?

yep

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Off Topic / Re: Losing Your Religion: brown townytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief

« on: April 28, 2012, 10:16:14 PM »

Again, if you weren't here to yell back, there wouldn't be any replies. If you're comfortable and secure in what you believe, you can leave the thread because you're not going to find any sanctuary here.

Okay, thanks.

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Off Topic / Re: Losing Your Religion: brown townytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief

« on: April 28, 2012, 10:11:28 PM »

that's pretty damn subjective

it could be argued that athiesm is the more sensible purely on the basis that it encourages requiring evidence and open-mindedness.
I haven't really been participating in your argument but you can't claim they're doing anything wrong when you're sitting on the other side of the fence yelling back.
added

They're pretty damn persistant about my belief and interrogating my belief because it doesn't fit theirs?

I'm defending myself.

But I should probably stop because it's getting a little irritating and today has been many mixed emotions.

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Off Topic / Re: Losing Your Religion: brown townytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief

« on: April 28, 2012, 10:04:35 PM »

knowing from "reality" still isn't requiring evidence, it'd more signify a lack of proper evidence. science doesn't use perceived reality as proof for a reason

and i updated the OP with two good videos on Open Mindedness and Coincidences

Well that's what I meant.

there's no 100% backing behind religion OR atheism. neither is sensible to put your belief into, lol.
I'm fine with religious people, but I'm infuriated by these two things:
1. when they try to convert other people or their children
2. when a politician bases his platform upon anything faith-based. you CANNOT lead anything, let alone a nation, by any method but pure logic.if you think for yourself, then why are you religious? your parents wedged you into religious beliefs.

Atheism doesn't need to be justified, appearantly.

Then why do you believe in what isn't real?

Didn't I explain this already?

I do so because it feels right for me to do so. Is there a problem with that? I think there's a problem with that since you people are so hell-bent on getting me not to believe in my stupid fairy tale.

EDIT: @ Daed: True I was born into a religious belief, but what makes you think they're forcing me to be religious.

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Off Topic / Re: Losing Your Religion: brown townytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief

« on: April 28, 2012, 09:53:59 PM »

No, the problem is that once you stop filtering beliefs on evidence, your may start to find yourself accepting superstition as fact, and fact as superstition.

Except I know my beliefs from reality, and I know how to think for myself, and not being thought for by other people.

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Off Topic / Re: Losing Your Religion: brown townytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief

« on: April 28, 2012, 09:48:09 PM »

I base my beliefs on the available evidence. Sometimes the evidence is unfortunate.

So does that mean I'm some criminal or something if I don't?

Does that give atheists the right to act condescending to me?

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Off Topic / Re: Losing Your Religion: brown townytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief

« on: April 28, 2012, 09:40:11 PM »

So you believe in something because you feel like you have to?

Probably.

But I don't want to have a disbelief in something because it'd be easier or more relaxing to.

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Off Topic / Re: Losing Your Religion: brown townytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief

« on: April 28, 2012, 09:37:31 PM »

Why believe in something without proof?

It seems natural to rely on something for existance, but it kinda seems natural.

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Off Topic / Re: Losing Your Religion: brown townytic Thinking Can Undermine Belief

« on: April 28, 2012, 09:33:33 PM »

I was raised in a family that was Christian.

It wasn't until 2008 that I started thinking about it. During 2009 I constantly thought about it, and naturally, the argument for a God and religion became more and more bogus the more I considered it.

Late 2009 I considered myself an atheist, but it wasn't easy. I wanted to believe in an afterlife and a God because I am human and I found it safer and more comforting. Admittedly it was hard at first to abandon religious views which were part of my life for so long. Part of me thinks you are similar Aces, in that you'd rather believe it because you want to, not because you actually do.

Now my views are completely clear, I am an atheist and I wouldn't ever look back. In hindsight, religion was always so ridiculous. I guess you don't understand how ridiculous it is until you are external from it.

Aces, I suggest you do what I did and sit on it for a year. Think about it for as long as you need to. Nobody can tell you what to believe except yourself. Think about why you believe what you do, and deconstruct your beliefs to the core.

I'm happy I dropped religion early in my life. Religion used to feel "safe" but it just seems so twisted to me now.

I guess I wanted to be in some way irreligious, but I didn't want to upset my parents.

I believe in a deity but not a specific one, mainly because it sounded like the best way to go. Not to get out of going to Hell or anything like that, but so I could conclude my belief.

Currently I don't belong to any belief and it's been like that for a while.