1,352 Forum Posts by "Commander-K25"
At 3/16/02 12:24 PM, TomFuIp wrote: I'm sorry to say that i'm shutting down newgrounds. I have become bankrupt from all of the money I am putting into this website. It's been a good run. More news will be sent within the next couple days.
Shouldn't you be deleted by now for impersonation?
Of course, it's not as if anybody's fooled by you.
At 3/17/02 03:15 PM, Blackmagic wrote:At 3/17/02 03:49 AM, HAQnSPITT wrote:I agree with HAQnSPITT. Perhaps it sould be changed to something like "Ruler" or something.At 3/17/02 03:26 AM, iLLiCit147 wrote: Hello,Changing “King of the month” to a more gender neutral term = acceptable idea
Let me introduce myself as a lone inspiring female flash artist. Did you notice the word "lone".
I have an Idea, that may draw more Females to Ng, and Flash.
Notice how you Have, "King of the month" Which is an high honor. If you where to add a QUEEN, along with the King. More female's may dust of there flash. And try to make a masterpiece in this world you have created. It also would give me motto to dust off my Flash more often. I mean it's hard to compete with you and all the other male artist's. Female's have different taste. Thus there art/flash is different somewhat.
I feel like I'm the only female flasher surrounded by a bunch of male wolves trying to eat me. And not the way I want them too. Okay.
If anything think about it. I don't think it would do your site any harm. Hell it might be welcomed by many well known Flasher's. If anything it would be a fun challenge against the few female Flasher's.
Sincerely,
iLLiCit147
Creating a separate category based on sex = lame idea
Suggestions:
1) Supreme Dictator of the Portal
2) Portal Despot
3) Portal Chairman (or Charperson, whatever)
4) Portal Commander
At 3/17/02 10:01 PM, Banana_Clock wrote:At 3/17/02 09:39 PM, pauliojr wrote: STICK WITH PS2!^doesnt know shit
PS2 - plays DVDS and awesome games! Never freezes
GCN - doesnt play DVDS. games kinda corney
X Box - Better games then GCN, but freeze alot. What do ya know? So does Microsoft's Computers!
CLICK HERE FOR BLADE II
PS2 good now but going down hill
GC hitting its stride now with it going to be best system at end of 2002. CranberryClock just bought a gc that plays dvds
X-Box has halo, thats hit then you beat it, now waht you pay 50 more bucks in a couple of months for halo 1.5 which gives you about 5 more levels. Rip off.
GameCube? Oh, Ha Ha, I laugh!
It's great if you want to play Mario, Super Smash Bros., Wave Race and other half-hearted remakes of N64 games. GameCube: Ages 12- (Not for Anybody Over 12).
You Aren't A Kid Anymore When...
Author(s) Unknown
You're asleep, but others worry that you're dead.
Your back goes out more than you do.
You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room.
Your are proud of your lawn mower.
Your best friend is dating someone half his age..... and isn't breaking any laws.
You sing along with the elevator music.
You would rather go to work than stay home sick.
You constantly talk about the price of gasoline.
You enjoy hearing about other people's operations.
You make an appointment to see the dentist.
You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge.
Neighbors borrow your tools.
People call at 9 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake you ?"
You have a dream about prunes.
You answer a question with, "Because I said so!"
You send money to PBS.
You still buy records, and you think a CD is a certificate of deposit.
The end of your tie doesn't come anywhere near the top of your pants.
You take a metal detector to the beach.
You wear black socks with sandles.
You know what the word "equity" means.
You can't remember the last time you lay on the floor to watch television.
Your ears are hairer than your head.
You talk about "good grass," and you're referring to someone's lawn.
You get into a heated arguement about pension plans.
You got cable for the weather channel.
You can go bowling without drinking.
You have a party, and the neighbors don't even realize it.
At 3/17/02 05:40 PM, Piro-O-Nero wrote:At 3/8/02 10:00 AM, cerealkilla4u wrote: I totally agree with you there. Organized religion is just to keep the human race in check. The whole church is another form of mass control over the species. Don't follow the church, don't join the flock of mindless drones.I agree, organized religion is an awesome way of controlling the masses...
Wait, so you both think that organized religion is some sort of "crowd control". Is it is, then to what ends? Are you saying that this is some sort of ancient conspiracy?
At 3/17/02 03:36 PM, Blackmagic wrote: I got it last week and I can't stop playing it!
Except for Final Fantasy 7 it has got to be the best game ever! What did you guys think of it and have you found and secrets? They are EVERYWHERE but are very hard to find.
Yes, it's an awesome game although the ending is sort of cryptic. The HF Blade is the most fun weapon, but you only get to use it for the last 30-45 minutes at the end.
After you shoot down the Harrier II on the plant stage, when you're moving across all the twisted beams, look for the AK-47u silencer in the area, it's near a shell 2 strut, behind a curtain of fire. It takes practice to make the cartwheel style jump acros to it but it's worth it. A silenced assault rifle, he he he...
You can find the digital camera in the bottom area of strut E, but to get in you'll have to wait until you have the lv 5 card or ride the conveyor belts in a box.
Things to do once you've beaten it once:
1) Get a guide and track down all those dog tags, they unlock items like wigs for Raiden that give you infinite ammo, etc.
2) Cheat using a GameShark or other such device. Getting all weapons, infinite ammo, all items including the stealth camo is worth it, if you've beaten it first.
At 3/17/02 07:51 AM, Slizor wrote: Commander: There are many supporters on both sides of the argument. While it is historically correct that the climate does and has differed greatly without human intervention. However, we all know that humans can upset the balance of things(look at the nuclear disasters) so even if we are doing a small or a large amount of damage, we must stop.
I'm not talking about nuclear disasters like Chernobyl or oil spills like the Exxon Valdez. I'm talking about this unfounded hysterical hype over global warming, something that humans have no real impact on. We're gonna kill some economies because of mere hype and junk science. The Kyoto Protocol would cut the US GDP by about 300 million dollars per year and would eventually cause more economic loss than the Great Depression. This would hurt the entire world's economy in a ripple fashion. We shouldn't allow policy to be swayed by fear and the arrogance that we, humans are so powerful that we can snap the Earth's climate. It's all so faulty.
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Bush right to oppose treaty
By Dr. Sallie Baliunas 07/25/2001
President Bush, by standing against the Kyoto Protocol, stands by sound economics and, even more, by sound science. Faced with withering European criticism for rejecting the flawed protocol, Bush can find comfort in admissions by Clinton administration economists and in scientific reports.
Economists who worked for President Clinton admitted they low-balled the cost of the Kyoto Protocol to the U.S. economy. That reinforces Bush's contention that the treaty would hurt America's economy, and by extension, the world's poor.
The National Academy of Sciences' latest report underscores the unsettled nature of climate science. Repeatedly, it highlights the shortcomings of the computer simulations that forecast climate, the assumptions used to calculate climate change and even the way global temperatures are measured.
Global surface temperatures have increased about 1-degree Fahrenheit this past century. But that warming seems a natural recovery from the Little Ice Age of the 14th-19th centuries.
The surface temperature rose sharply between 1900 and 1940, before human actions contributed much carbon dioxide to the air. Then temperatures dropped until the 1970s, leading some scientists to forecast a new Ice Age. By decade's end, surface temperatures began rising again. But by 1979, satellites started to get the most precise temperatures for the lowest layer of air. That superior record shows no significant warming trend, as forecast by the computers. According to those computer models, both the surface and the lower atmosphere must warm to attribute warming to humans.
The basis for Kyoto is that fossil-fuel emissions, particularly carbon dioxide, caused recent surface warming. Yet advances during the past decade show such fears are exaggerated.
Even the inflated forecasts say that at best the Kyoto Protocol would accomplish an insignificant reduction in CO2 and a cooling of less than 0.5-degree Fahrenheit by the 22nd century.
So Bush has plotted the wisest course: more research to define the impact of human-made warming, which appears to be inconsequential. By standing firm, Bush can lead the world toward sound science and solutions that make more sense than the fatally flawed Kyoto Protocol.
From: Tech Central Station
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At 3/17/02 03:43 AM, Symbiont2 wrote:At 3/17/02 03:26 AM, iLLiCit147 wrote: Hello,Seperation perpetuates stereotypes like the one of female inferiority implied by your post. If anything, being a female is probably an advantage, due to the fact that a lot of pathetic guys will be nice to you because of it. Also, if a seperate category were created, I'm sure guys would list themselves as female just to dominate it.
Let me introduce myself as a lone inspiring female flash artist. Did you notice the word "lone".
I have an Idea, that may draw more Females to Ng, and Flash.
Notice how you Have, "King of the month" Which is an high honor. If you where to add a QUEEN, along with the King. More female's may dust of there flash. And try to make a masterpiece in this world you have created. It also would give me motto to dust off my Flash more often. I mean it's hard to compete with you and all the other male artist's. Female's have different taste. Thus there art/flash is different somewhat.
I feel like I'm the only female flasher surrounded by a bunch of male wolves trying to eat me. And not the way I want them too. Okay.
If anything think about it. I don't think it would do your site any harm. Hell it might be welcomed by many well known Flasher's. If anything it would be a fun challenge against the few female Flasher's.
Sincerely,
iLLiCit147
Maybe it should simply be "Portal Despot of the Month".
And more...
Global Warming
Essay No. 3
'Global Warming isn't Climate Change'
© Philip Stott 2002
Imagine a coast-to-coast newspaper headline, from The Boston Globe to the Los Angeles Times: "Climate stops changing!" What a story! Nobody would believe it for a minute (especially in Boston). This is why our current obsession with climate change requires more than a cursory glance. If the bizarre idea of a stable climate is so intrinsically newsworthy, why are we currently obsessed by the opposite, the idea of global warming? The reason is simple. While climate change is a reality with which humans have had to cope since Homo sapiens first evolved, global warming, by contrast, is a late-20th century/millennium political construction that tells us more about ourselves than anything about climate.
Climate is always changing, and on every spatial and temporal scale. Climate is governed by millions of factors, from the lightest waft of a monarch butterfly's wing, through erupting volcanoes, altering land surfaces, ocean currents, ocean salinity and atmospheric gases, to shifts in the geometry of the Earth, solar cycles, meteors and meteorites. Even our most advanced computers can tell us little about this incredible and unpredictable complexity. The only true model for understanding climate change is climate itself, and the myriad patterns of climate change from the past.
Unfortunately, meaningful climate records go back only a very short time and so, for most of our attempted reconstructions, we must rely on what are called 'proxy' measures, such as ice cores and fossil pollen. These are inevitably difficult to interpret and give only a partial picture of the 'form' of past climates. Moreover, they can tell us even less about the complex processes of change. Yet the stories they do tell are tales of constant and non-equilibrium change at every level and every moment. There never was a stable or an optimum climate. Even within the last millennium we have moved from a world warmer by 2 degrees Celsius, when the Vikings could grow crops in Greenland, through a Little Ice Age that finished around 1880. And now it's warming up again: surprise, surprise!
Yet, this current little spell of warming, if indeed it is (and the vote is still out on the long-term trend), has thrown us into a deep bout of hypochondria about the Earth. The consensus is that climate may have warmed by between 0.3 to 0.6 degrees Celsius during the last 150 years, although some forms of measurement still indicate possible cooling. In any case, the amount would hardly be a shock if we were indeed moving out of a Little Ice Age. But the heat is on politically and hot air continues to abound. Why?
In essence, the construct of 'global warming' has little to do with the reality of climate change. Rather, it is about the utopian desire for unobtainable stability that has suddenly afflicted humankind at the end of the millennium. It is about undermining what is thought to be burgeoning hubris over successful economic growth and development. It is about curbing this growth and the process of globalization -- hence, of course, the focus on human-induced 'greenhouse' gas emissions. It all just has to be our fault! It is about curbing the car and city expansion, and about returning to mythical rural 'organic' idylls. It is about the Democrats seeming greener than the Republicans, about Europe being greener than the United States, and, somewhat more distastefully, about the North continuing to control development in the South, especially in countries such as China and India. Above all, it is about re-finding a lost Garden of Eden, a purer world, detoxified of industry, horrid iron and steel, chemicals and those teeming millions of unwanted folk.
'Global warming' is part of a misguided agenda that seeks stability when change is the norm on this ever-restless Earth. The same agenda is employed against the use of biotechnology, against the genetic modification of crops, against the very things that help humankind to outpace change in population, pests, diseases and, above all, climate -- whether hotter, wetter, colder, drier, or a mixture of all four. The idea of 'global warming' is potentially dangerous precisely because it gives the false impression that we might be able to halt climate change by fiddling about with just one or two of the millions of factors involved. It is a serious lie. Even if we achieved all the cuts in emissions proposed, the effect would be a temperature change of probably less than 0.07 degrees Celsius, and, because of the millions of other factors, it might not happen anyway.
In face of the reality of change, we need a new agenda, not one based on illusory ideas of sustainable development and stability, but rather one on the dynamics of adaptability and flexible development. To quote Charles Darwin: 'It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' Above all, we must shed precautionary principles and seek adventurous and imaginative responses to risk and change.
Climate change is thus reality; global warming a dangerous myth. The sooner we recognize this, the safer for us all.
[First published and syndicated by Bridge News, 2000.]
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At 3/17/02 12:55 AM, reaper-3 wrote:At 3/16/02 10:19 AM, GooseberryClock wrote: The Xbox is MORE powerful than the GameCube. Don't believe me? Check this out.Its more powerful but it isn`t BETTER right?
PS2!
I would advise all of you who still think that global warming is caused by humans to have a look at this. And yes Slizor, it is sourced well, and unbiased. This is part of the congressional record as presented by Dr. Baliunas, Deputy Director at Mount Wilson Observatory, co-host of TechCentralStation.com, Senior Scientist at the George C. Marshall Institute and astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Of course you would probably never hear these things from the mainstream media.
Here's the link: Separating Fact From Fiction
Join NG's first political club, the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (VRWC). This organization is not new, the term was coined by Hillary Clinton, saying that her husband was the target of a vast, far-reaching conspiracy of the right wing Republicans. Since then, many Republicans and conservatives in general have embraced this concept. Our tenets are those of conservatism and the Republican party.
-We believe in personal responsibility, moral and ethical conduct (especially by our leaders).
-We believe in a government that remains within the constraints placed upon it by the Constitution.
-We believe in free enterprise, individual freedom, and a strong military.
-We believe the best way for government to give opportunity to the people is to get out of their way and let people take care of themselves.
-We believe in self reliance. People are capable of taking care of their own problems without having to go cry to the government to wipe their nose.
-We believe raising taxes only serves to punish those who achieve and decreases the amount of money one can spend on their family the best way they see fit.
-We don't like liberal policies.
-We believe Ronald Reagan was one of the greatest presidents in this century.
-We believe the economy is doing well not because of clinton's policies, but despite them.
-We believe in charity through the institution of church organizations and or individual contribution as the source of healing for social maladies.
To sum it up:
-Personal Responsibility
-Self-Reliance
-Rugged Individualism
-Free Enterprise
-Lower Taxes
-Restrained Government
-Right to Bear Arms
-Individual Freedom
-Independence of Mind
-Morality and Ethics
Some good links:
therightwing.com
The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy
Front Page Magazine
Rush Limbaugh
vastrightwingconspiracy.com
As for the quotes, how about some dates on them.
Here's an idea for a part of a peace plan, not a complete solution but a start. Jerusalem is a major piece of the puzzle, both sides want it. How about we de-nationalize it though. Make Jerusalem an international city, neutral and controlled by nobody. It will be governed by a council, (or some form of governing body), with equal numbers of Palestinian muslims, Israeli jews and Christians. It is a Holy City to each side. It will be policed by hired Swiss guards like the Vatican that will report only to the governing body. They have no side in it so they will obey their employers.
Both sides, the PLO and the IDF will agree to stay out of the city and not interfere with it. Anybody will be allowed access to it. The city's governing body will simply have to police it thoroughly to prevent it from being a terrorist refuge. I think this plan could settle a major bargaining point for both sides.
Comments?
At 3/16/02 05:25 PM, chrcolbean wrote:Actually some things are covered by the tenth amendment. It is often overlooked but as part of the Bill of Rights it includes protections for essentially "miscellaneous" rights not covered by the first nine. It's sort of vague.I believe they were referring to the government's right to add ammendments to the constitution.
That's covered in Article 5 of the Constitution.
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
At 3/16/02 09:25 AM, chrcolbean wrote:At 3/12/02 01:09 PM, BlueHairedPunk wrote: I'm sick of people getting such a boner over the constitution. Especially politicians -- and how they claim to represent the constitution when they don't understand how it works. Prime example: Reagan. I believe the quote is, "The Constitution is based on a faith in the people!" ... yeah, guess what. No, it isn't. The Constitution basically says that everyone is a terrible, terrible, murderous tyrant, and to prevent that they must be controlled without realizing they're being controlled. Madison said that anyone, no matter who you are at all, WILL (not might but WILL), if given the opportunity, become a tyrant. That's why I hate it when people say, "The Constitution is the greatest document on this planet!" Bull! It's one of the most insulting of all time! Why do people love the Constitution so much? Does anyone understand it anymore? I want feedback, damn it.Agreed. Now some stupid morons are saying that it's their constitutional right to do anything even if there is no ammendment for it. For instance, in the abortion case (I'm not against abortion though) they said it was a women's "constitutional right" to have an abortion. Tell me where it says in the constitution that women have the right to have an abortion please Mr. Supreme Court Judge. Oh, I see. They really meant to write it down in the constitution, but then John Adams starting handing out reefer and they all got to high to remember to put it in there.
Actually some things are covered by the tenth amendment. It is often overlooked but as part of the Bill of Rights it includes protections for essentially "miscellaneous" rights not covered by the first nine. It's sort of vague.
The whole Israeli war is defensive. They've been under attack since their first years as a nation and have been fighting off and on for over 50 years. As for the land that they conquered, it was again in a defensive war. The Arabs said, hey let's kicks these Jews out and instead they got beaten. In the Sinai there's a massive junkyard of bombed out Egyptian tanks destoyed by the Israelis before they could attack Israel. They won the land defensively, why should they give it back? Even the Arabs want peace, only the Palestinians are still fighting.
Maybe Israel is being a bit aggresive but they have to be. They'e fighting fanatics and terrorists. When the Israelis have a reprisal, who do they target? PLO militia and Hamas leaders. Palestinian terrorists responsible for the planned murder of hundreds of Israeli civilians. Last time I checked Israel wasn't blowing up buses of schoolchildren, planting bombs in restaurants and malls or sniping ten month old babies in their parents arms (a true incident).
At 3/16/02 02:09 AM, Onion_Clock wrote:At 3/15/02 08:13 PM, implodinggoat wrote: I'm sick of people calling republicans Fascists. The God Damn Democrats have infinitely less respect for my constitutional rights then any Republican on the face of the planet.yea democrats are stupid people... but let them find that out on their own!
"It isn't that Liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
-Ronald Reagan.
My first BLAM, Sw33t!
Here's some:
This entry needs an immediate BLAM. It is sickening and pointless!
At 3/15/02 02:30 PM, implodinggoat wrote: So should we conquer Canada?
We could if we wanted to but do we want to? Why should we?
How can we be sure about the Bible accounts?
In the days of the first Christians, there were many writings about the life of Jesus. But some had special quality--they had been written by Jesus' followers or their close friends. These gospels and letters were carefully copied by hand. Over the years, archaeologists have found thousands of manuscripts of bits of the New Testament and even some complete copies. By comparing these, we can get very close to what the New Testament writers originally wrote. Some of these copies are dated less than 100 years after the original gospel or letter was written.
For an idea of how good this evidence is, compare the New Testament with other writings that are about as old as the New Testament. For example, Julius Caesar wrote a book called The Gallic War about 50 years before Christ was born. We obviously do not have the original copy. Yet, we do have nine or ten copies, and the earliest of these was made about 900 years after the original. This is a typical gap for ancient writings.
When, however, we examine the historical evidence relating to the Bible, one learns that there are thousands of manuscripts of the New Testament books. Therefore, we have good reason to believe that we know almost exactly what Luke, Paul and the others wrote.
Who wrote the gospel of Luke?
The author of this gospel, Luke, also wrote another book in the New Testament, the Acts of the Apostles. He was the only New Testament writer who was not Jewish, and he was a doctor. Independent evidence confirms that he was a very careful and accurate historian.
Jesus could only have been one of four things: a legend, a liar, a lunatic--or Lord and God. There is so much historical and archeological evidence to support his existence that every reputable historian agrees he was not just a legend. If he were a liar, why would he die for his claim, when he could easily have avoided such a cruel death with a few choice words? And, if he were a lunatic, how did he engage in intelligent debates with his opponents or handle the stress of his betrayal and crucifixion while continuing to show a deep love for his antagonists? He said he was Lord and God. The evidence supports that claim.
Sharon is a good leader, what Israel needs in this time of crisis.
Following is a transcripted excerpt from Fox News Sunday, March 10, 2002.
TONY SNOW, HOST: And it's panel time for Brit Hume, Mara Liasson, national political correspondent for National Public Radio, and Juan Williams, national correspondent also for National Public Radio.
Brit, let's start with the Middle East. We have this eruption of violence that's now extended over a couple of weeks. And I guess the newest development is that there seem to be attacks on Jews as they leave synagogues on Saturday evening. What is going on?
BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS: Well, the terrorist attacks continue to get worse. The Israeli reprisals continue to be more intense. And there's no real sign yet that the Israelis have succeeded in exhausting the Palestinian attackers.
Of course, you never know in the fog of a situation like this how close one side or the other may be to buckling, but so far the situation has only gotten worse.
It is now abundantly clear that some of these attacks, at least, are being encouraged strongly by Yasser Arafat's lieutenants. That emerged this week when one of his lieutenants said that we'd ordered people, meaning the al-Aqsa brigades, to carry out these attacks.
So there's no doubt who's who and what's what here. The only question is, what will work for one side to prevail or for it to end?...
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HUME: First of all, I think reasonable reporters should reject the use of the word "murder" when referring to these Israeli reprisals. They are tough, they are strong, they are even brutal. But unlike the Palestinian attacks, they are not principally aimed at civilians in the way the Palestinian terrorist do there.
WILLIAMS: You don't think civilians get killed?
HUME: I didn't say that. I said they are not principally aimed at civilians. When civilians get killed by accident, caught up in gunfire, is one thing on a moral plain. When people deliberately murder and make civilians and babies their targets, it's a very different moral plane...
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Civilians caught in the crossfire are tragic but it isn't the same as Palestinians sniping babies and launching mortars and rockets into civilian neighborhoods.
At 3/15/02 02:41 AM, VA7DAS wrote:At 3/14/02 11:37 PM, Biseor wrote:I'm glad you asked. As it turns out, my free speech was taken by some leftist scum fuck bolsheviks. I'd go into more detail, but i'd just be repeating myself. If you want to see what happend, go HERE
Thanks I needed a laugh. It's fun when the mean "leftist communists" win and Biseor gets screwed over. HEHEHEHEHE
At 3/15/02 03:45 AM, Chibi_Goku_Clock wrote:At 3/15/02 03:41 AM, Ki5o wrote: like a three word dtory but less exciting:)
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56K...Hate it...Always disconnects...Right when...I am...about...to deposit exp. points...Can't level up...Can't BLAM...
Some proof of the resurrection of Christ:
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The event is well-documented by numerous reliable, historical sources.
Historians such as Josephus (c.37-110 AD), Ignatius (c.50-115 AD), Justin Martyr (c.100-165 AD) and Tertullian (c.160-220 AD) were convinced of the authenticity of the resurrection. Their writings validate the accounts of the Gospel writers, who, according to leading biblical scholarship, recorded the event as soon as 37 AD and no later than 64 AD.
In addition, other first and second century historians including Cornelius Tacitus, Suetonius, Plinius Secundus, and Lucian of Samosata acknowledged the impact this incredible event had on the people of the time.
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The resurrection is the only plausible explanation for the empty grave.
Roman soldiers closely guarded the tomb where Jesus' body was laid. Moreover, the grave's entrance was sealed by an enormous boulder. The Roman guard, which was usually composed of 16 members, would have made it impossible for the disciples--who, by the way, were cowering in fear for their own lives--to steal the body. If, as some have claimed, Jesus was not dead, but only weakened, the guards and the stone would have stopped his escape. After being beaten and flagellated, hung on a cross for six hours, pierced by the spear of his executioners to ascertain his death, and wrapped, as was the custom, in 100 pounds of linen and spices, Jesus would have been in no shape to roll a two-ton stone uphill, outwit 16 Roman soldiers and then appear radiantly to his disciples.
The Jewish leaders of the day could easily have refuted all claims of the resurrection by simply producing a body, but they were unable to do so because there was no body.
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There are numerous eyewitnesses to the resurrection.
After he rose from the dead, Jesus appeared at least ten times to those who had known him and to as many as 500 people at one time. These appearances were not hallucinations; Jesus ate and talked with his followers and they touched his resurrected body.
Luke 24:36-39 "While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, 'Peace be with you.' They were startled and frightened, thinking they saw a ghost. He said to them, 'Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.'"
John 20:26-29 "A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, 'Peace be with you!' Then he said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.' Thomas said to him, 'My Lord and my God!' Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.'"
1 Corinthians 15:3-8 "For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born."
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The resurrection is the only reasonable explanation for the beginning of the Christian movement.
The Christian church was born in the very city where Jesus was publicly killed and buried. The belief in a resurrected Jesus had to be authentic to take root in Jerusalem and grow to encompass the whole world. The Christian church is now the largest institution that exists or has ever existed in the history of humanity. Clearly, this would have been impossible if the resurrection was a story.
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The resurrection is the only logical explanation for the transformed lives of the disciples.
They deserted and even denied Jesus before his public trial; after his death they were discouraged and fearful. They did not expect Jesus to rise from the dead. Yet, after his resurrection and their experience at Pentacost, these same discouraged, disappointed men and women were transformed by the mighty power of the risen Christ. In his name, they turned the world upside down. Many lost their lives for their faith; others were terribly persecuted. Their courageous behavior does not make sense apart from their conviction that Jesus Christ was truly raised from the dead--a fact worth dying for.
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Throughout the centuries, most great scholars who have considered the proofs of the resurrection have believed, and still believe, that Jesus is alive.
After examining the evidence for the resurrection given by the Gospel writers, the late Simon Greenleaf, an authority on legal issues at Harvard Law School, concluded: "It was therefore impossible that they could have persisted in affirming the truths they have narrated, had not Jesus actually risen from the dead, and had they not known this fact as certainly as they knew any other fact." Mr. Greenleaf was a Jewish professor who became a believer in Jesus the Messiah after studying the facts for himself.
Here's something interesting, a Palestinian terrorist leader recently admitted that he reported to and was commanded by Yassir Arafat. The person who supposedly wants peace is a terrorist leader, something we've known all along but now we have even more proof. Why are we negotiating with him? Peace is obviously not his real agenda.
At 3/14/02 11:37 PM, Biseor wrote:At 3/14/02 11:13 PM, Commander-K25 wrote: What happened to biseor.com? Anytime I try to access it the server is unavailable or can't be found, or something like that. Biseor? Are you out there?I'm glad you asked. As it turns out, my free speech was taken by some leftist scum fuck bolsheviks. I'd go into more detail, but i'd just be repeating myself. If you want to see what happend, go HERE
We are all created equal, however, some more equal than others I guess.
That's what I thought, the Net-Nazis got you again.
What happened to biseor.com? Anytime I try to access it the server is unavailable or can't be found, or something like that. Biseor? Are you out there?
