At 9/27/06 09:19 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote: Namely, that people are allowed private worship. I feel extremism could be curbed if only public worship were allowed (banning private printing of holy books and arresting people for reading them online) and the government had agents at each and every place of worship.

Extermist are terrible, terrible things... They are very enticing, and easily manipualte people. If a group of extremist gets to the point where they are endangering the lives of other people who aren't part of their order, than by all means, the government should step in. However, it's not the governments place to decide what is right, and what isn't. It isn't diverse enough relisiously and a politicians individual agenda could influence his religious decisons. Just look at England after Henry VIII. It was like a new religion was tolerated every week, and that's no way to live.

If the only source of religion someone gets is from a governmentally approved cleric, extremism will fade.

This will also relax my concern over where moral authority lies to the religious people (with the holy book, or the state). I feel that Hobbes is correct in his statement that holy law is not broken by obeying the soverign, as the rule of God is the rule of nature and self-preservation and order are rules of nature. Furthermore, religious power is ideally seperate from the state*

"Give to God what is God's and give to Ceasar what is Ceasar's"; It's nice to see the Bible say something that still rings true today.

At 9/27/06 09:17 PM, Gendo wrote: There are too many for my tastes, so I merely adapt philosophies from each of them to form my belief system.

It is very hard for one person to find a religion that they would agree with one hundred percent. It's a lot easier to pick and choose what youwant instead of sticking with a single religion, and it's probably the best way of choosing a philosophy.

I've always loved Satanism's views on getting even with idiots(on their list of venial sins, stupidty ranks as the most punishable),

I don't think people who are genuinely stupid and jerks should be cut any slack either... Although, calling myself a partial Satanist may be going a little too far.

Buddhism's spiritual calmness

I never felt that happiness could be achieved from meditation. I feel that the purpose of life is to live, not sit in a vegatative state all your life pondering what might be.

and the traditions of Judaism(Shabbos, not eating pork, etc.).

It's odd. Ussually the rules of Judaism aren't very popualr. Especially keeping kosher.

Religion. What's your problem with it?
Post a clear, consise, and understandable argument so we can have a little discussion about it.

Please, don't make this a shouting match. I just love Philosophy and wanted to get to know peoples religious qualms a little better.

Tom likes to party!

At 9/27/06 08:59 PM, VegetarianMeat wrote: I don't like the way Banjo looks...

It's very Pixarish. I'm used to Rare's games being all clunky and blocky...

I'm Banjo!
WOOOOOOOOOOOAH!

Man, I loved those games. Ill be at my friends house very day now to mooch off of his 360 now...

At 9/27/06 06:58 PM, He-Who-Never-Was wrote: Religion is the biggest scam in history.

Because some guy in a hut was thinking he could make a pyramid scheme that would last millions of years instead of trying to explain what lightning was.

So... We can participate on Newgrounds... But we can't talk about it too much.

At 9/27/06 06:09 PM, BatDan wrote: Wow, Wired completely reveals eBaum as the scum he is and I'm sure he's still doing it.

He actually admits to stealing and laughs about it in the third column of the second page...

It's funny how he switches from "I don't steal" to "I steal but I don't care" every week or so...

Who considers getting smithed by Zeus or Thor a death threat?

At 9/26/06 07:41 PM, Rokuro wrote:

At 9/26/06 07:39 PM, AshfordPride wrote: If it's consentual, nobody.

Why, you have something planned?

heheheheheh

On second thought, the guy gets jailed.

If it's consentual, nobody.

Why, you have something planned?

It's called Jump Superstars.

I'd take the time to animate the clock face.

Nah, I'm just kidding. I don't animate, 10:23.

Alright, I'm starting this bakc up again due to the revival of interest.

There's no real due date as of right now, as I haven't even started myself.

RedFace, I can say from experience that you are not a bad enough dude to save anyone.

It's impossible for a body to burn that quickly at that temperature. There's no way they could have burned that many people.

It's impossibl;e for a building to burn that quickly at that temperature. There's no way that they could have collapsed.

At 9/25/06 05:50 PM, JewSoCrazy wrote: cat ears + girl = furries = FUCKED UP!!!

Check your math. Ears and tails is neko territory.

Can you hear me Major Tom?
Can you hear me Major Tom?
Can you hear me Major Tom?
Can you hear me Major Tom?
Can you hear me Major Tom?

I'm so excited! Robot Chicken just did a video for his "Weasal Stomping Day" song on the new episode last night.

I really like the "Don't Download this Song". it's a really funny and clever song.

I hope the polka is good, the Poodle Hat one wasn't that great.

Putfile?

At 9/25/06 05:29 PM, Afro-Ninja wrote:

At 9/25/06 05:25 PM, AshfordPride wrote:

At 9/25/06 05:21 PM, Afro-Ninja wrote: if(_url.indexOf('newgrounds.com')==-1)goto
AndStop("ERRORFRAME");

I was trying to go for subtleness. Something that you probably wouldn't notice when you first glanced at the flash, but if you inspected it closer you'd see it.

That works equally well though, thanks.

what do you mean subtle?

The version on Newgrounds has a black background. You can only see the message if you turn your screen a bit. The fact that the Youtube Video automatically makes the background white kind of ruins it...

I'll try to do some action script trick like that in the next one, thanks for the tips.

I still bothered to put a deposit down at my local FYE just to be safe.

The clerk at the counter actually told me that there were 120 people who pre-ordered the PS3 at the store, but they only get 2 at launch.

At 9/25/06 05:21 PM, Afro-Ninja wrote: if(_url.indexOf('newgrounds.com')==-1)goto
AndStop("ERRORFRAME");

I was trying to go for subtleness. Something that you probably wouldn't notice when you first glanced at the flash, but if you inspected it closer you'd see it.

That works equally well though, thanks.

At 9/25/06 05:12 PM, TehreTard wrote: A newgrounds exclusive, right?

Maybe you can contact Youtube and ask them to remove it.

It's just some kid on YouTube, I could care less. I just wanted to show it off.

Well... I know how insecure things can be on the internet, so I decided to put a little insurance policy into my flash.

Watch the stolen version here.

See if you can spot the hidden message in the opening.

It's a double edged sword... Ebaums bagan to clean it's act up a bit because of the fact that this tv show might have gone through. Now that it's not, they have no insentive to be legit anymore.

The Enemy is Here. 100 pages.

That thank you at the end was what made it funny.

I hope this thread doesn't turn into another "So, Sandy" masturbation fodder disaster...