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... what support is there in the bible for a human like form, anyway? Anything beyond the fairly vague "made in image" thing?

It's fairly obvious the critter could take a monster form, though, I'd think. Or any form, really. Ascribing a set form to an omnipotent being is just kinda' silly.

Also on free weekend (but not with the awesome keep it if you play it feature) are the Endless games (Endless Space, Endless Legend and Dungeon of the Endless). Endless Legend and Dungeon of the Endless are 50% off, while Endless Space is 80% off. I found Endless Space to be a bit bland, if solid, game. The other two are spectacular, though.

... incidentally, the EL soundtrack is pretty nice, and bundled up as .mp3s right in the main game directory. I'm not saying it would be a good idea to get in on the free weekend and just copy the audio material elsewhere, but...

Yeah, heaven's always been a thing described t'me as a place where unhappiness can't happen. Not doesn't, or won't, but can't. One of the reasons the chrisitian afterlife is just kinda' unilaterally horrifying to me. Eternity comes with massive forced behavioral modification (or unending torture).

That it's stripping free will is just... glossed over. That kind of, "Oh, but you won't want to be unhappy" sentiment, with little to no concern over why you won't. They care about free will in the denominations around here until they don't, more or less.

Or the whole line where if you're the kind of person that would be distressed by folks burning in hell or whatev', you don't get in.

How scripturally supported those positions are are... questionable. But that's (part of, anyway) how I hear it described by believers in this area.

edit- Hell, if you want to start your own projects, go ahead - I just want to point out that having a single small argument here just won't change much, and you should try and aim for bigger impact.

Anything is better than nothing. Every small bit helps. Perfect is enemy of good. Small changes lead to big ones. Small discussions lead to large ones. Maximizing impact is not a necessary or necessarily desirable goal. Improvement, or at least maintenance of a minimal good, is the goal.

Telling people they should stop trying to improve themselves because it's not a big enough impact is a pretty bloody toxic attitude, even if the intent is to prod them to do more.

... uh, considering there's not a C in the chemical formula N2O not being a carbon gas should be kinda' self-evident?

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Anerecti onalwa ysre quiresth eintera ction ofy ourbrain,ner ves, andbloodv essels.

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Good ol' viagra-equivalent spam. To translate: "An erection always requires the interaction of your brain, nerves, and blood vessels." The spacing was a poor attempt to get around spam filters

Wake up. Hear rain. Go outside to see rain and pet cat. See turtle. Turtle nearly size of head. Put turtle in cage. Stare. Pet cat. Go back inside. Deal with turtle later. Ruminate on why dream spat out book title "Lusty Alsatian Puppy". Morning. Want go back sleep.

... my sleep deprived brain is really sad you didn't misspell that like I thought it did at first glance, ang. It would have been great OoCQ material.