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Comment Re:WoW 2.0 (Score 1) 389

That brings up the one huge mistake that the devs made with Rift, which I hope Bioware didn't repeat in this game. And that's fast-tracking the leveling system.

 
I'm assuming your take on this was from before planar attunement, as since Rift implemented planar attunement, I'm pretty sure there is no one in the game who has yet achieved max level.

Comment Re:life expectancy != maximum life span (Score 1) 904

Dude, you become so incredulous that it becomes very apparent you don't even know what you are talking about.

By what measurement or historical publication do you come to the conclusion that the supposed ark weighed 8100 tons?

And from where did you draw your conclusion that he had 7 days to do this all?

If I had one of your supposed bullshit detectors, I can't imagine that it could keep quiet while your hands were on the keyboard.

People whose blood pressure spike through the roof and fly off the handle at the mention of a bible (or a koran for that matter) strike me as much more amusing (dare I say foolish?) than people who genuinely believe the literal accounts of their respective religious texts.

If your goal is to get a religious individual to reassess what he believes given facts, maybe you should present facts and let them come to their own conclusions.

If your goal is simply to make yourself sound absurd, keep on keeping on.

Comment Re:life expectancy != maximum life span (Score 1) 904

ah, well, if a hyperbolic and inflammatory statement by someone who can't be bothered to see the parent simply quoted a line out of a book without passing his own opinion of said text insinuates that the text referred to is wrong based simply on the assertion of when it was written and the occupation of those who wrote it, then everyone is clearly wasting their time even looking to that text for any possible insight into anything having to do with those times. You should let everyone know, oh wait, I guess you already did...

Comment Re:life expectancy != maximum life span (Score 1) 904

My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.

 
I've used this one before myself, but the problem is, according to biblical timelines, ~120 years after this statement, ~everyone died in the flood. Therefor, when he made the statement, their days were numbered at 120 years because 120 years later he killed them all. Could be coincidence, or could be that the reference was not about maximum lifespan of all humans, just maximum lifespan of those living at that time. According to biblical timelines, Noah lived to 950.

Comment Re:This just makes sense (Score 1) 1345

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." -- Matthew 5:17

 
You are gay.
 
1 point for you if you can tell if I'm calling you a homosexual, or if I'm calling you happy.
 
5 bonus points if you can see the analogy of how this scenario plays against your quoted but often possibly misunderstood citation.

Comment Re:Why should they? (Score 1) 343

Read here and here for why DUI checkpoints are legal. They do not have to publish anything anywhere.
 
"...by a 6-3 decision in Michigan Dept. of State Police v. Sitz (1990), the United States Supreme Court found properly conducted sobriety checkpoints to be constitutional. While acknowledging that such checkpoints infringed on a constitutional right, Chief Justice Rehnquist argued the state interest in reducing drunk driving outweighed this minor infringement."
 
I've long said it, the constitution means nothing except what the SCOTUS says it means. If they decided tomorrow that the 1st amendment doesn't protect free speech, then it doesn't. They are the sole arbiters of what it means.

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