[GOD=life]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

Like I said, no one has to die. Not a single person. We are basically saying: "will YOU destroy Pokemon or do you want US to destroy Pokemon?".

If for the next 3 years, millions of people have this threat hanging over their heads and they do nothing, isn't that a sign that they are OK with dying?

It's a different culture... they don't think about death and suicide the same way we do.

[True Disciple]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

comparison:
one F-16 costs 14 million
one airplane carried costs 4.5 billion

Small baseball pellet fragmentation grenade price about year 2000- $8.00/$10.00 a piece

Flight from US to japan: ~500$


You grab about 10 granades, get on an airplane to japan, find the producer of your hated pokemon, bomb that building with the 10 granades and yourself to make a point that people are willing to die if they don't cut their crap out. Cost: ~700$ including taxi and food

Ignore it, make your kids read the bible and not buy them pokemon: cost 0$ ZERO, null, nothing.

I still think that poisoning the water supply is an easier, less expensive option...

I'd consider you inhumane if you wouldn't realize this.

Killing someone when you life is in danger by that person is ok.
Killing someone because he has killed a very close relative is ok.
Killing a million of people just because someone from their country made a toy that sells well and you still don't like it.... this is murder.

You cannot justify killing MILLIONS of people for something one person created. Killing ONE person... maybe and that's still crazy, but millions... thats too much.

I just don't agree with dragging people into death who have absolutely nothing to do with the problem.

As I've said, we are not talking about normal people, but about Japanese. What part of that do you not understand?
They will go to Hell anyway, so you can't possibly say that we add anything significant to the pain and suffering that will already come over them.

[GOD=life]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

It really needs to be emphasized that they don't have to die. It's just leverage to encourage them to make the right choice. If they make the wrong choice, then that's akin to suicide, isn't it?

As someone else already pointed out: they can be warned well in advance so they can (hopefully) make the right choice OR evacuate the areas in question.

[True Disciple]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

As someone else already pointed out: they can be warned well in advance so they can (hopefully) make the right choice OR evacuate the areas in question.

I admire your True Christian Love(tm), Brother. However, in World War 2 we didn't warn them either, and it did work then, didn't it?

[Oakland "Reb" Griner]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

In WWII, the lack of a warning was based on sound logic. If the device had failed (recall the Little Boy design was untested at that point) then the US would look impotent, and possibly an intact device would then be in Japanese hands.

Also, it was feared Allied POWs would be transported to the target as human shields.

Issuing a warning is not good strategy.

[GOD=life]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

That's a good point: there would be no POWs now.

But really, this is comparable to when a police officer holds a gun to your head. If you don't comply, you will die. If you do comply, you won't. Does the police officer want you to die? No, of course not.

Ever heard of the expression "suicide by cop"?

That's what we're talking about here, nothing else.

[michele]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

I wasn't sure what all the Nip-Related "Pokemon" stuff was all about, so I went to thier home page. What I saw was a headline that MOCKS JESUS:

have you ever seen pokemon?

the creatures died and got brought back to life. thats it. not everything has some religious conotation

[True Disciple]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

the creatures died and got brought back to life. thats it. not everything has some religious conotation

That would be the same as saying:
"they rounded up all the Jews they could find around the country, and killed them. That's it. Not everything is genocide."

[GOD=life]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

the creatures died and got brought back to life. thats it. not everything has some religious conotation

As you may know, there are many different types of religion in the 6000 year history of mankind: religions with many deities, 1 deity (like Christianity) and 0 deities (buddhism). Religions with where the elements themselves are gods (sun, etc), religions with invisible gods, etc, etc.

What do ALL of them have in common, however?

Yes, the fact that they have something to say about death and how it's not the final phase, but the beginning of something new.

So Pokemon is really a religion in and of itself as it has THE core ingredient that every single religion has. And yet... this religion is presented as something innocent.......

[MarkHenry]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

In pokemon none of your creatures dies, they just get exhausted and knocked out. Considering ressurection in the fantasy world: some monsters have insanely high regeneration rates, so they will seem close to death, however never fully dead. Some monsters go into a sleep, where they look dead but are more of in a coma and recovering.

A real "ressurection" would be if a monster got smashed into a million parts and regrows a solid body afterwards, which never happens in pokemon. Some items may have "resurrection" based vocabulary in them, but in fact they are just super potent medicines.

Get your info straight. Pokemon does not mock the bible. Find me a scenario in any pokemon game where they actually say something about the bible, using the word "Christian bible" or "Jesus".

[True Disciple]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

Find me a scenario in any pokemon game where they actually say something about the bible, using the word "Christian bible" or "Jesus".

That is exactly what the problem is. We want to teach our children Godly Biblical Law, but Pokemon never mentions Salvation, never mentions God, never mentions Jesus, never mentions Hell, never mention Noah's Flood...the list goes on and on. Whatever Pokemon teaches, it is very different from what the Bible teaches. Therefore it is evil. We've gotta stop this ungodly pagan nonsense!

[GOD=life]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

It seems you are quite the expert on Pokemon, MarkHenry. I also noted that (as a result?) you don't capitalize "Bible". Coincidence?

[Cranky Old Man]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

A real "ressurection" would be if a monster got smashed into a million parts and regrows a solid body afterwards, which never happens in pokemon. Some items may have "resurrection" based vocabulary in them, but in fact they are just super potent medicines.

I asked around and the Mew pokemon (the genetic parent of Mewtwo) did this actually in the first pokemon movie.

Get your info straight. Pokemon does not mock the bible. Find me a scenario in any pokemon game where they actually say something about the bible, using the word "Christian bible" or "Jesus".

I agree it does not mock the Bible directly. But it contains ghosts like the Gengar, magic beings like Kadabra, large scale genetic manipulation, like how Mews genes where used to create Mewtwo and many other things we consider to be harmful to children. Mostly because these things are against everything the Holy Bible stands for.

[Free Market Fred]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

I still think that poisoning the water supply is an easier, less expensive option...

As I've said, we are not talking about normal people, but about Japanese. What part of that do you not understand?
They will go to Hell anyway, so you can't possibly say that we add anything significant to the pain and suffering that will already come over them.

Well, as you know, everybody dies - it's God's plan. So by starting a war, all we're doing is helping God. It's kind of like those public-private partnerships that George W Bush was so fond of. You know, like privatized prisons, or Blackwater mercenaries in Iraq. Think of God as our business partner in a joint-venture enterprise to exterminate Japan.


Public-private partnership

Praise Jesus!
Brother Fred

[MarkHenry]

Re: ATOM BOMB on Japan on January 20th 2013 - good idea?

It seems you are quite the expert on Pokemon, MarkHenry. I also noted that (as a result?) you don't capitalize "Bible". Coincidence?

Mew never died, there where others of his kind which died and became fossiles. The DNA from those fossiles where used to create other pokemon.
Mew and Mewtwo are the two basic pokemon, from which all other pokemon came, much like Adam and Eve.
Pokemon also follows the 10 commandments as in "not to kill". Pokemon are never killed, but spared in battle, as a result they can get medical tretment and become well again.

There are many biblical references in pokemon, just look close enough. On the other sidde, this is a game set in the future. You don't know how they use "genes". It may be in no way what you condemn, it may be another use, where humans create the DNA and only observe the sample.
How can you critisize pokemon when you know so little about them. Also I played pokemon and i must say it has no harmfull side-effets and you can't prove that it doesn't! I know because i've played and still had time in he evening to read the bible.

It's like saying "I oppose hunting because it leaves no time for reading the bible while I aim at a deer's head". Of course while you hunt you have no time, but afterwards in the evening you will.