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((I was referring to you, 'he' was about you.

((Sorry about that.
_{Gorram pronouns...}
And you might have a bit of a point in that "post to post" thing. I do tend to have a lot to say. And not much skill in...not saying it. Although I'm working on that.))

((Now, I personally think that, if Gamerlord wants to do things with his character like attacking the fleshmonsterc while he and his teammates are still in it, he should just do so without having to fear players bashing him OOC. As long as he's prepared to face the in-game consequences of course, and naturally everybody can tell him it's not a bright idea, but if nobody ever did anything stupid, we'd lose out on a lot of !FUN! (e.g. Grate incident).

((If there wasn't a significant chance of everyone else in the fleshmonster suffering for that, I'd agree, but...well...))

((Can't we use amps or something to tow it around with us?))

((...
No.
1. Planets are frikkin' huge. Amps and such are relatively weak; manipulating so "little" as the air above a mile-long staircase causes meltdowns on Ice-9 scales. That's the name of an incident that happened in the last "real" mission, incidentally.
2. Where would we move it to? It certainly wouldn't fit through the jump gate thingies.
3. The planet would suffer immeasurably from leaving the relative proximity of its star.
4. It would ruin any hope we had of concealing things from the UWM if we started moving major planets around.
5. Have I mentioned how big planets are? Because they're ginormous.))

((Sorry, was asleep.))

((How dare you have biological needs!))

((The question is one of speed. Sure, over several minutes it can let you regrow limbs, but what good does that do you over the seconds of combat?))

Ah.

And if he hadn't sold the weapon fragments, he would have built the Firestorm, shot it down faster, and still lost the colonels?
And wouldn't he have sent them tothe landed UFO anyways, encountering heavier resistance?

((Whoo, untrained guy with a dangerous weapon not pointed at me!))

-snip-

Indeed. Islam isn't helping matters, but it's hardly a major cause.

More to the point, what does any of this have to do with the crusades? I don't even want to imagine how anyone would act on the claim that Muslims are inherently violent, or is this xenophobia purely academic?

I think that the claims that Muslims are more violent is based on the idea that the Quran encourages its followers to be more violent than the Bible does.

Crusades weren't the bloodiest religious battle known to mankind. The Crusades was a political war, infused with religious themes.

There is no such thing as a pure religious war, and I daresay that there is no such thing as a pure political or a pure economic war either.

Most of the reasonably committed Christians I know read their bibles regularly.

Cover to cover, or selected passages?
Also, I have exactly the opposite observation, and since several of those Christians were my immediate family...

The Old Testament is not as totally relevant to Christianity as a lot of people seem to think it is.

The reasons for that are twofold:
1. Jesus repeatedly stated that he was not replacing/repealing the old laws/scriptures.
2. Lots of arguments the right-wingers use the Bible for draw from the Old Testament, notably Creationism and homophobia.

What is important is the New Testament; the Old provides context for a lot of things (see Isaiah 9, etc.), but contains significantly less that is of importance than the NT does. A Christian trying to be a Christian from the OT would not, in fact, be a Christian.

And why is it up to you to dictate what makes a Christian or no? Yes, the New Testament is important, but judging by the fact that there was at least one OT reading every week when I went to church, it's pretty important. Not to mention that nearly all household-name figures are OT.

Nah, nah. You optionally denounce the radicals, but then tell them to read the Bible/scriptures and see for themselves that violence isn't advocated.

But it is. Even in the New Testament! Hell, Jesus told his disciples to sell their cloak and buy a sword if they didn't have one.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 29, 2014, 10:04:35 am

"Attempting to make some kind of french toast. Harder than I expected."

"Oh. Can I help?"

"Please, help yourself to...helping..."

"Can I get some too? I'll probably be gone for at least a day, even with the teleporting"

"Not yet, the french toast is still bread, eggs, and whatnot."

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 29, 2014, 09:04:20 am

Slippery slope fallacy. Thank you, come again.

I like to call it the 'camel-nose dilemma', after the Tao of Pratchett.

Google-Fu has failed me. Huh?