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Simon, get on the server more often, at least for the time being so Dan or someone can give you the %

@Erick, I'm actually very glad I got to see this side of you. Just a side note. In my opinion, the universe is the way it is because it always has been. The universe evolved the way it did because things were the way they are. If the universal constant of the force of Gravity were greater or lesser, we wouldn't be here. Some other race who is very different from us in some far away place would likely be having a similar debate about why things the way they are and if some divine being crafted Gravity to be twice what we know to specifically fit to them. The evolution of life and the entirety of the universe. Cosmological entities that don't fit the requirements of physics (within our understanding or not) would likely fail and die out while those that do would continue to thrive and swallow up others. The same goes for the existence and the ability to continue existing of life.

First of all DerogatoryTrainer. I specifically told you to PM me if you had any questions. Secondly, it was linked to another post, which had a link of another forum with pictures of you in it. It's completely round about. Please post actual pictures or at the very least link directly to the pictures, and the 'shameless advertising' is also a very bad way to imply that you are putting pictures up.

We're back folks. Tonight will kick off the season with UNC at South Carolina at 6:00 on ESPN Also on the table tonight: - Michigan at Utah - 2 TCU at Minnesota http://espn.go.com/college-football/schedule

Haxorus and Roserade if you'd please.

My point of view (to keep it short and sweet), it's impossible to prove or disprove the existence of god. I don't believe there IS a god, but to say definitively that there is NO God, takes faith all the same as someone who believes in any deity. I'm not a person of faith. That's not to say I won't believe anything just because I don't see it with my own eyes one way or another. Some things you need to assume for the sake of practicality. I don't find it 'practical' to live life believing in an all knowing being. So long as you can leave the world a better place, in my eyes belief in god or not becomes completely irrelevant, so trying to fit to HIS (as ideal as humanly possible) mould is pointless.

While I'm inclined to agree with you here Eviora, the belief is that such interference would eliminate the possibility of free will. I'm sure Hilda would be happy to explain it further.

I don't see a reason to believe someone rose from the dead when we've never seen it before. Did anyone actually see Jesus again after he was 'resurrected'? All we have is a missing body and someone's word. Word of mouth with no backing support other than a not-so-magical hat trick would be easy to pull off. Whether it was his foes or his friends, it's quite easy to remove the body and simply claim he rose from the dead. You might not like the possibility of someone moving the body but they're ALL entirely more plausible than something else that in the history of man kind we've NEVER seen before. What if... the Guards were sympathetic, or didn't follow orders? What if they were over taken? Whatever the reason for whichever individuals responsible for moving the body, the guards would go along with it to save their own hides. If Jesus rose from the dead, then what could they have done to stop him? So by going along with this lie, they'd be putting the situation out of their control and thus be not responsible for guarding the body. There's plenty of reason for followers to take on such an act. To help fulfill the fore told expectations of Jesus would then ultimately send everyone on a course to follow his teachings. Whatever the reason may be for the body being missing, it's much more likely that the guards did not follow through on their responsibilities. We've seen people mess up assignments, we've seen people feel sympathetic, we've seen people sleep on the job, we've seen people lie, we've seen people try to cover their ass with said lies. What we haven't seen is someone rise from the dead. Nobody even saw Jesus rise from the dead, it's just assumed. There are assumptions in any hypothesis, but when they are based on something that's never occurred before, there's certainly even more holes in the hypothesis. No I can't prove he DIDN'T rise from the dead. However, if something can not be replicated and repeated multiple times, it's not considered a legitimate theory, but ONLY a hypothesis. There's never been any other suggestions or evidence of someone rising from the dead, so to say a missing body means that he was resurrected can be considered but should not be presumed as fact. If it were anyone else given the exact same circumstances, no one would assume that the dead individual was resurrected. This turns us to his actions during life, which I believe to simply be due a lack of understanding or overstatement by his followers at the time who didn't know better. Jesus probably wasn't a mythical person. I'm sure you've heard of C.S. Lewis' trilemma. Asserting that Jesus must be either Lord, Liar, or Lunatic. I don't think he is any of those. 'Legend' doesn't imply that he didn't actually exist, but rather the feats he accomplished or what became of him are greatly exaggerated due to a dedicated following and lack of understanding of many things at that time. His accomplishments were greatly overstated out of ignorance. The people, who witnessed these things started spreading word of actions as something much greater than they actually were. Even back then, such rumors would spread rapidly, true or not. If I went to a 5 year old's birthday party and did card tricks, they might actually think I'm a magician. While not my intention to make them think I have magical powers, they would likely go out and tell their friends the next day that they saw a magician. The universe does exist. The Universe did not 'come from nothing'. In the big bang theory, to which I will admit I'm still skeptical on many parts of it, all matter was contained within a very small point. Having something incomprehensibly large or dense, is far from nothing. Here's where my skepticism of the big bang theory comes into question. 'ALL matter and energy is contained in this tiny point'. What set off it's expansion? While I question the validity of some of many details regarding the universes inception, I don't think simply saying 'it must have been created by a divine being' is the right answer. There's nothing wrong with saying 'We don't know due to our current lack of understanding.', but saying 'It can not explained so it must be divine intervention.' has been proven to be wrong many times in the past, not only in Christianity, but in all theological religions. There have been numerous hypotheses regarding anti matter, dark matter, or some just some previously unknown sub atomic particles, but truthfully, I'm not educated in such matters enough to tell you why or why they aren't sufficient. It's not explained through our current understanding, that very well may change some day in the future. It's happened before, it will continue to happen. A lack of understanding should not be attributed to something being a miracle. The whole premise of a miracle is that it is not explainable by natural or scientific law. As we continue to advance things once thought to be miraculous have been since shown to be possible within the bounds of new laws. In short, why should something be assumed to be a miracle if we can't understand it at this point in time?

I want to introduce many of you who are sort of stuck between to a different ism. The belief that God has created the universe but remains apart from it and permits his creation to administer itself through natural laws. Deism thus rejects the supernatural aspects of religion, such as belief in revelation in the Bible, and stresses the importance of ethical conduct.

Eminem - Brainless

It's been a while but here they are. 1 Dark Desire 2 Lil' Baby Rupe 3 Void 4 AuthorReborn 5 Pyrrhon 6 99 losses 7 Fruitdealer 8 Jelly 9 Swimming95 10 Vlado Vladimir 11 MMM 12 Xiri 13 Mikzal 14 pwb9870 15 Sir Bagel 16 Sparky ---------------------------- 17 Deadpool 18 Imperial 19 Pixl 20 Kookies 21 Azeria 22 ShinyMeganium 23 Trevo 24 Dobby 25 Mumpelfink 26 Vince

Be sure to save indoors in a pokemon center preferably when you're updating to a new version. If the map you previously saved on gets remapped you may be stuck in a void.

It pertains to Reborn, I could see it in either section in all honesty. Don't think it's necessary to move though. EDIT: I guess someone disagreed with me.

I'm gonna ask that you guys stop the joke posting in this thread. Thanks.

Just gonna drop in here before one of y'alls reports this, this thread is I guess you could say 'timeless' and Necro isn't really an issue in this case IMO.

Edit: Moved this thread to Animation and Manga because at the time when this forum was brought into being we officially discussed matters and decided that it is 'ANIMATION and Manga' -not- 'ANIME and Manga' specifically considering non 'Anime' forms of drawn entertainment such as American (or other nationality) cartoons. Thus this is the most appropriate place for this topic at this time. ------ been there done tha

I like dubs. Sue me.

I'll be setting up the schedule tonight. Auth meeting is keeping me busy at this moment. Sorry for the delay.

Yup seems I'm still ISFP 11% Introverted 8% Sensing/Observant 14% Feeling 30% Prospecting 13% Turbulent All still pretty damn close to middle of the road too.

ISFP most recently, though I've got INTJ before. Everything is pretty middle of the road for me, even introvertedness.

Thoughts on pre season reform with all the injuries?

hi bye Rose

1. Sorry, that's on me, I need to get everything sorted out for the week so the rest of the committee can make their rankings. 2. I'll let Hilda answer that one.