[midnasays]

Re: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY TEAM FORTRESS 2!!!

Rhetorical question: How many more school shootings and senseless murders will take place before you idiot gamers finally wake up and realize how dangerous your FORTRESS TEAM 2 game is? How many?

I can't believe Nintendo games like this are allowed to be sold on the market. It's disgusting what our country has turned into.

The fact that this is so incorrect really makes me wonder if you people actually understand this game enough to have a valid opinion on it?

First of all it's Team Fortress 2, second studies have proven that violent games help kids release stress that would build up to school shootings, I have yet to meet a gamer who is a physically violent person, and 99% of my friends are gamers. Not one of them has even mentioned killing someone or anything related. Third, it's NOT a Nintendo game. NOT ALL GAMES ARE NINTENDO. It's a Valve game.

I know writing this post won't do bullshit for you guys because you are truly thickheaded people who don't preach Gods word in an appropriate manner. I am an atheist (which will probably score me a ban, which I frankly do not care about as I won't be visiting here again). My whole childhood I believed in God and went to Sunday school nearly every week. It's bigots like you that give Christians a bad name. Whatever happened to love thy neighbor as thy self? Did you know homosexuality being a crime is on the OLD testament? What about not cutting your hair, thats' considered a sin too but I guess we can just skip that one.

This game (Which I play very often) has 0 if any homosexuality in it. I never viewed 'Get behind me doctor" as a homosexual thing until going onto this thread. It's not meant as a homosexual thing, the Heavy just wants the doctor to be shielded by him as he has more health, a powerful gun to clear a path from enemies, and the medic heals him as he helps advance the team forward.

The Soldier which people claim to be god-hating is actually a very American soldier who DOES believe in God and does not think he is God. One of his sayings is 'If god had wanted you to live he would not have created ME'

Yet again I know none of this will get through to you because you are all close minded bigots who give loving Christians a bad name, which is one of the reasons I stopped caring about church and such. You'll probably also edit my posts to delete what I said because why should I have my freedom of speech? I shouldn't obviously because God didn't write the constitution so all of that is invalid, right?

[midnasays]

Re: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY TEAM FORTRESS 2!!!

You know, there is someone else who decided that some human beings have different worth than others. His name was Hitler. You might have read about him in "Mein Kampf" the holy book for atheists.

Also check out this hypocritical statement. Referring to this person as Hitler because they thought people had different worths, while you are all doing the same by saying people who believe in God and 'truly' preach his word are better than people who don't properly preach his word or don't believe him. Hmm. So does that make you all Hitler too?

[midnasays]

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And for my last post before I'm banned, I'd like to point out that, even though you might not want to believe it, I am a good person without the help of God. I make donations to charities when possible, I have helped out complete strangers who wanted to end their life, I have given to the Church, I have donated my time to the Church as well, I have been well-liked by Vicars in the Church my family attends even though I do not believe in God.

I'd like to add I don't go around calling everyone who has a valid opinion a retard or people who enjoy games a 'gametard'

Okay, I don't like Call of Duty extremists. But I have human decency to just ignore those people instead of labeling them with awful hateful names.

Heck, the only reason why I call you all bigots is because you think it's okay to demean people for who they are as well as call them names like a kid in grade school. I know little kids that have more common sense and are nicer than some of you grown adults in this thread alone...

as a bonus, as I've said I'm an atheist but guess what! I am friends with Christians and we get along fine, and I don't judge people just because they believe in God.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

I have been well-likedby Vicars in the Church.

I'm getting real sick and tired with all the gay slang the unwashed trash keeping spurting over our faces

Praise Him!
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[SlimeCounty]

Re: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY TEAM FORTRESS 2!!!

I dare any admin of this forum to leave this post here in it's entirety,
not ban my account so that I may replay to you, and challenge anything I have said.

Let's get one thing perfectly clear.
The story of Jesus is nothing more than the personification of the winter solstice.
Christians have plagiarized this story from LITERALLY thousands of other religions
that existed well before the 'time of Christ'. You people don't really believe in God.
You simply use Him as a scapegoat for your own fears.
Someday you are going to die. You will cease to exist, and there will be nothing for you.
Emptiness. Non-existence. Eternal nothing. And you wont even exist to experience it.
That scares you the most. You only have ONE shot at life, and you people have wasted
your one shot on a foolish concept you call faith. What's worse is you use this faith to
justify your hatred of those you fear, anyone who is different from you.
Gay people.
People of an ethnicity other than white.
Non-Americans.
You have absolutely no concept of genetics or brain chemistry.
You all are the descendants of people native to Africa.
That is a proven fact. It's not only in our genes, it's in the way we speak.
Do you know what a phoneme is? It's the sound that makes up syllables.
The farther you get away from Africa, the less phonemes present in that particular regions
native language. The farther you get from Africa, the simpler the speech patterns get.
The human race as it evolved, has found simpler ways to communicate, we have developed
more efficient ways to convey the same messages using less phonemes.
Follow that pattern and it leads you to the birth of all human kind. Africa.
Now before you bigotist, racist, religious extremists start screaming racial expletives at me,
I am a heterosexual white male.
And I am here to tell you that you've wasted your life thinking that the concept and practice
of 'faith' will provide you with a second shot at life that has no boundaries and only contains
people like you (heaven?). Think about that for one second, before you decide to kill yourself.
Think about how absolutely ridiculous that sounds.
Then ponder for a second how things could have been.
You could have loved your fellow man.
You could have embraced every person on this planet for who they truly are, rather than
ostracized them for how they are different from you.
You could have learned the ultimate meaning of teamwork.
People banding together to improve the quality of life for all.
Teamwork.
The game you fools seek to boycott or ban is nothing more than an exercise in teamwork.
It's an exercise in teamwork for adults, not for children, thus it has blood and gore,
the occasional swear word, and players can talk about whatever opinions they have while playing this game.
Just as in real life, you are forced to deal with people who have different opinions than you, and your best shot at winning the
game is through teamwork. Seeing passed your differences and working together to improve your odds of survival, comfort, and companionship.
Teamwork.
Learn it, or get off my planet.

[Thomas Dalton]

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<-- no scripture;didn't read-->
You all are the descendants of people native to Africa.
That is a proven fact. It's not only in our genes, it's in the way we speak.
Do you know what a phoneme is? It's the sound that makes up syllables.
The farther you get away from Africa, the less phonemes present in that particular regions
native language. The farther you get from Africa, the simpler the speech patterns get.
The human race as it evolved, has found simpler ways to communicate, we have developed
more efficient ways to convey the same messages using less phonemes.
Follow that pattern and it leads you to the birth of all human kind. Africa.

<-- no scripture;didn't read-->

You're trying to say here that we white people are more evolved than the darkies in Afrika? That's racist boy! We don't tolerate racism here!

I also do not get why the darkies stopped to evolve, but the Aryans somehow evolved farther, but yeah. Since evolution is already a muddled mess of a theory, I'm sure you have an explaination.
Why is so hard to accept God made us? Does the thought scare you you're going to burn in Hell? You don't have to be!
Believe in Jesus, repent, and you'll gain a quick pass to Heaven! No matter whether you were a serial killing child rapist, or a woman, Jesus saves all!
John 3:15: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

[Redeemed Papist]

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I dare any admin of this forum to leave this post here in it's entirety,
not ban my account so that I may replay to you, and challenge anything I have said.

Blaaaaaaaah

Wow! I feel so nervous that I have been so daring.

Chapter and verse for all that gibberish, please.

[SlimeCounty]

Re: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY TEAM FORTRESS 2!!!

You're trying to say here that we white people are more evolved than the darkies in Afrika?

No, not at all, we have all evolved together, they simply still reside there.

I also do not get why the darkies stopped to evolve

That is an absolutely shuttering example of how close minded someone in this day and age can be by not only referring to them as darkies, but also suggesting they are somehow less evolved of a creature than you are.
The color of their skin has only to do with their exposure to the sun. White people are white because their ancestors were nomadic, and spent generations upon generations dwelling in caves, far away from the sun.
Black people are black because the suns exposure caused the evolutionary mechanism to provide them with an ADVANTAGE...it's called melanin. It's what is responsible for the pigmentation of their skin, and believe it or not, it's actually a step UP in the evolutionary ladder. It's purpose is to use the largest organ of the human body as a solar cell, converting the suns radiation into energy. It might be a stereotype, but black people can handle sports and just about any other physical activity better than a white person can simply because they have a more advanced mechanism for obtaining and converting energy from their surroundings.

Since evolution is already a muddled mess of a theory

Evolution is not a theory. I know the wording of the term "Theory of Evolution" may throw some of you off, but the word theory in that term applies to the mechanism of evolution, and not evolution itself. Evolution is a proven fact. We have witnessed evolution. It's something you can see with your own eyes, you can study it in a laboratory, it is not a theory, myth, or fabrication. The theory part of that term applies to how evolution works. There is still speculation on the exact mechanism that collects data and alters genetic code to evolve a species forward.

Chapter and verse for all that gibberish, please.

The bible is a book. An old book. A collection of stories and fables on which some believe you should base your ideals. It is not fact, it is fiction, and it was written in many languages before English existed. But alas, you don't even follow the actual bible, you follow a poorly translated version of the bible, edited and rewritten to suit a Kings needs.
The bible may be a great collection of tales, in essence every story ever written was written first in the bible. But that's because of it's age. There is no such thing as an original thought. Billions of people have existed on this planet before you, no matter what you can come up with, someone has already had that thought. That's part of the nature of our existence.

[Billy Bob Jenkins]

Re: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY TEAM FORTRESS 2!!!

The bible is a book. An old book.

If you quote the Bible then what you say has the authority of God. If you ignore the Bible then nothing you say makes a difference.

When you disagree with a TRUE Christian(tm), you are disagreeing with God.

[SlimeCounty]

Re: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY TEAM FORTRESS 2!!!

If you quote the Bible then what you say has the authority of God.

So what happens when you rewrite the bible? Aren't you altering the word of God? Doesn't that make the scripture you quote an absolute falsehood?

If you ignore the Bible then nothing you say makes a difference.

I've ignored nothing. I absolutely admit that it's a book that exists, and I'm happy if it helps some people get through their day. What bothers me is when people use it as a crutch or scapegoat to further their own short-sided agenda fueled by racist, bigotist, or any other form of close minded belief.

[Thomas Dalton]

Re: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY TEAM FORTRESS 2!!!

You all are the descendants of people native to Africa.
That is a proven fact. It's not only in our genes, it's in the way we speak.
Do you know what a phoneme is? It's the sound that makes up syllables.
The farther you get away from Africa, the less phonemes present in that particular regions
native language. The farther you get from Africa, the simpler the speech patterns get.
The human race as it evolved, has found simpler ways to communicate, we have developed
more efficient ways to convey the same messages using less phonemes.
Follow that pattern and it leads you to the birth of all human kind. Africa.

No, not at all, we have all evolved together, they simply still reside there.


That is an absolutely shuttering example of how close minded someone in this day and age can be by not only referring to them as darkies, but also suggesting they are somehow less evolved of a creature than you are.
The color of their skin has only to do with their exposure to the sun. White people are white because their ancestors were nomadic, and spent generations upon generations dwelling in caves, far away from the sun.
Black people are black because the suns exposure caused the evolutionary mechanism to provide them with an ADVANTAGE...it's called melanin. It's what is responsible for the pigmentation of their skin, and believe it or not, it's actually a step UP in the evolutionary ladder. It's purpose is to use the largest organ of the human body as a solar cell, converting the suns radiation into energy. It might be a stereotype, but black people can handle sports and just about any other physical activity better than a white person can simply because they have a more advanced mechanism for obtaining and converting energy from their surroundings.


Evolution is not a theory. I know the wording of the term "Theory of Evolution" may throw some of you off, but the word theory in that term applies to the mechanism of evolution, and not evolution itself. Evolution is a proven fact. We have witnessed evolution. It's something you can see with your own eyes, you can study it in a laboratory, it is not a theory, myth, or fabrication. The theory part of that term applies to how evolution works. There is still speculation on the exact mechanism that collects data and alters genetic code to evolve a species forward.

You say that when you get farther away from Africa, speech becomes simpler, since evolution dictates it should.
If we evolve at the same rate, those darkies in Africa should also have simple speech, no? Otherwise they're less advanced than normal people.
So you see that you're suggesting they're untermenschen, or your whole theory is crap. Which one is it?

And please, explain a poor homeschooled boy how melanine harvests energy from the sun to be utilized by darkies.

If your able to that, please also include a scientific paper that witnessed evolution. For example, a rodent into a different rodent. Should be easy to find, right?

[SlimeCounty]

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You say that when you get farther away from Africa, speech becomes simpler, since evolution dictates it should.

Ha, I'm sorry, that's my fault. I thought you would understand that the term evolution can have two meanings, both similar. OK. Evolutionary biology, such as a species developing opposable thumbs is different from mechanical evolution, such as a group of people evolving their language by developing new language patterns. Different but similar, I know you know what I was talking about, but I suppose that's all part of trying to pick apart my post. Maybe replace my use of the term evolution in that case with another synonym for development if that helps you. I hope that I've cleared that up for you, if not, just ask, and I'll explain it better.

If we evolve at the same rate, those darkies in Africa should also have simple speech, no?

No.
Like I said, different uses of the word evolution. One is related to biology, such as developing new tools of survival, the other is related to more of a mechanical development - developing new ways to use the tools you already have. People still native to Africa have biologically evolved as a species right along side us, and have chosen to retain their traditional speech patterns. It's their preference, maybe just out of habit, simply part of their culture, or both.

how melanine harvests energy from the sun

It was actually the Chernobyl incident that brought this fact to researchers. The Chernobyl plant reactor, supposedly void of all life after being sealed for ten years, was found to contain a pure black fungi, made up largely of melanin. The melanin in the fungi is no different chemically than the melanin found in our skin. While studying this fungi they found that when exposed to ionizing radiation it grew and grew. Their research concluded that melanin acts much like another pigment known as chlorophyll, found in plants, converting sunlight into energy for it's host. The melanin reacts with the radiation and alters it's electron structure, which is what allows the melanin to harvest it.
This study was conducted by Arturo Casadevall and Ekaterina Dadachova on behalf of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Their findings can be found in Public Library of Science One.

please also include a scientific paper that witnessed evolution...Should be easy to find, right?

Absolutely! This is actually kid stuff.
E-Coli is a fast growing bacteria, thus it was the perfect medium to study genetic evolution. Since 1988, 12 initially identical populations of e-coli have been growing, secluded from eachother, and reached 50,000 generations by early 2010. In human terms, that would be like watching 750,000 years pass by. All 12 populations have shown evolutionary adaptations, some similar to eachother such as evolving "larger cell volumes and lower maximum population densities, and all became specialized for living on glucose", and some radically different from eachother, such as one strain that has evolved to use a completely different type of food source for survival - citric acid. Something no other strain produced.
This study has been and still is being conducted by Richard E. Lenski, who has published many of his research papers on the Michigan State University's site @ http://myxo.css.msu.edu/Publications.html.

[Zechariah Smyth]

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Ha, I'm sorry, that's my fault. I thought you would understand that the term evolution can have two meanings, both similar. OK. Evolutionary biology, such as a species developing opposable thumbs is different from mechanical evolution, such as a group of people evolving their language by developing new language patterns. Different but similar, I know you know what I was talking about, but I suppose that's all part of trying to pick apart my post. Maybe replace my use of the term evolution in that case with another synonym for development if that helps you. I hope that I've cleared that up for you, if not, just ask, and I'll explain it better.


No.
Like I said, different uses of the word evolution. One is related to biology, such as developing new tools of survival, the other is related to more of a mechanical development - developing new ways to use the tools you already have. People still native to Africa have biologically evolved as a species right along side us, and have chosen to retain their traditional speech patterns. It's their preference, maybe just out of habit, simply part of their culture, or both.


It was actually the Chernobyl incident that brought this fact to researchers. The Chernobyl plant reactor, supposedly void of all life after being sealed for ten years, was found to contain a pure black fungi, made up largely of melanin. The melanin in the fungi is no different chemically than the melanin found in our skin. While studying this fungi they found that when exposed to ionizing radiation it grew and grew. Their research concluded that melanin acts much like another pigment known as chlorophyll, found in plants, converting sunlight into energy for it's host. The melanin reacts with the radiation and alters it's electron structure, which is what allows the melanin to harvest it.
This study was conducted by Arturo Casadevall and Ekaterina Dadachova on behalf of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Their findings can be found in Public Library of Science One.


Absolutely! This is actually kid stuff.
E-Coli is a fast growing bacteria, thus it was the perfect medium to study genetic evolution. Since 1988, 12 initially identical populations of e-coli have been growing, secluded from eachother, and reached 50,000 generations by early 2010. In human terms, that would be like watching 750,000 years pass by. All 12 populations have shown evolutionary adaptations, some similar to eachother such as evolving "larger cell volumes and lower maximum population densities, and all became specialized for living on glucose", and some radically different from eachother, such as one strain that has evolved to use a completely different type of food source for survival - citric acid. Something no other strain produced.
This study has been and still is being conducted by Richard E. Lenski, who has published many of his research papers on the Michigan State University's site @ .

Ahh, atheists...always moving the goalposts.

First they say "Oh, evolution takes trillions of years!" and in the next breath it takes place during a Super Bowl commercial.



Yours in Christ,

Z. Smyth

[SlimeCounty]

Re: DO NOT LET YOUR KIDS PLAY TEAM FORTRESS 2!!!

First they say "Oh, evolution takes trillions of years!" and in the next breath it takes place during a Super Bowl commercial.

Current evidence suggests that the earth is still less than 5 billion years old. No one has ever told you trillions of years. The provided research puts things into perspective a bit better than other older hypothesis.

I would hardly say that 750,000 years is a 'super bowl commercial'. It's a bacteria, it's rate of cellular propagation is much faster than other forms of life on this planet, that's why it was used.

I have yet to see anyone punch hole #1 in anything I've said, then again, you have all been provided with lots of information, most of which will take some time to understand if you were actually interested in educating yourselves. I appreciate your attempt at an intelligent conversation. I hope you do better next time. Feel free to post any questions you have. I'm happy to answer them, as long as my account doesn't continue racking up infractions to the point that I am banned.

[Bobby-Joe]

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I have yet to see anyone punch hole #1 in anything I've said, then again, you have all been provided with lots of information, most of which will take some time to understand if you were actually interested in educating yourselves. I appreciate your attempt at an intelligent conversation. I hope you do better next time. Feel free to post any questions you have. I'm happy to answer them, as long as my account doesn't continue racking up infractions to the point that I am banned.

We have punched a major hole it your argument;

The Bible doesn't agree.

If your "theory" of evolution is correct then why didn't God write in, in The Bible? And please don't waste our time with the tired old "men wrote The Bible" argument. Mere men can't defy the Will of God.