I feel so manipulated. If I ever see one of those targets in there I'm going to aim away from it on purpose.:rolleyes:

Any Americans out there care to make any comments on how the Canadian government has handled their end of the war on terrorism so far? Or have you even heard the horror stories in our news everyday? We Canadians have been embarrased by our own leaders a few times up here since 9/11. While this whole crisis is going on they're falling into a bunch of political mudslinging, trying to place themselves favorably in the public eye by cutting each other down, as opposed to actually affecting any positive changes. There were a few times where I wanted to write to George Bush and apologize on our behalf of our government. "We're sorry about the way they're handling things, but we just can't seem to get rid of them." :((

Did you hear about the blond who passed the Turing test? ;) Did you hear about the blond who failed the Turing test? :confused:

Well not literally. You can't open up the book and see him inside there waving at you. Obviously. But if you meant not finding the teachings He left us about Himself that can help us to learn about Him, I strongly disagree. You can find God in the bible. In fact that's the best place to start. Reading and thinking for yourself, as opposed to having beliefs fed to you by a "religious authority", or just sitting around on a hill somewhere dreaming up your own concepts of God. As the Romans and Greeks did. (What a mess they came up with.) Once again I urge you to forget about everything you think you know and "just read it", and see for yourself.

"For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone." -God, Ezekiel 18:32 Obviously Napolean didn't know too much about God. But it's true, "religion" is good stuff for keeping people quiet. I'll take God over religion anyday.

Didn't you read my whole post? :confused:

Christianity has similar teachings, but they are more general rules of thumb. We are taught that if something causes a brother or sister to sin don't do it, even though it's not a sin in and of itself. For example The bible says nothing about wearing mini-skirts, but if a girl wears one and is causing people to struggle with lust then she "shouldn't" do it. It's not rule written in stone, it's a principal, a matter of heart. Of course a woman can say "I'll wear what I want! It's not my fault men are lustful." she has that choice. But if she really cares about the guy, and it didn't matter either way, why not err on the side of modesty?

If you treated your friends like that they wouldn't be your friends for long. Does God deserve less devotion than your friends? :confused:

"Hey that dude's house is burning down! Do you think we should wake him up?" "Nah. Leave him alone. He's asleep because he believes there is no fire. Who are we to impose our ideas on his beliefs?" "I guess so." :confused:

It's a funny thing about God. He gives us enough evidence of His existance to believe in Him beyond a shadow of a doubt, if people would search for it with an open mind. While at the same time He left enough mystery, doubt, and evidence against Himself so that an Atheist could also be convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that He doesn't exist. You can't prove He does exist, but you can't prove he doesn't exist either. The theology behind this apparent contradiction is simple. If God left enough proof of himself so that there was absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind that he exists, then there would no longer be a choice involved in our faith in and obedience to him. We would simply have to, or be considered insane. God's ultimate motivation is for His people to love Him freely and truly. If we had no choice our love would not be as valueable to Him. Sort of like programming an artifical girl friend for yourself. She only does what she's programmed to do. She has no free will. So big deal. She HAS to love you. God is looking for people who freely, and truly love Him, inspite of all scientific arguments. Now no scientific or intellectual argument will ever convince a hard-core atheist that there is a God. They simply have chosen not to believe. I gave up arguing with such people long ago. It's pointless. They accuse "religious" people of blindly following fairy tales without examining the evidence, but at the same time they cling tenaciously to the age-old arguments against God (that have more holes in them than the Titanic) in the very same way. "Who created God then?"(how could the being who created time have a chronological begining?) or "If God is all-powerful and all-good why is there evil in the world?"(People have free choice, remember?) As far as man creating God to give themselves a purpose in life, or excuse to commit evil in the name of religion or whatever. I might believe this if we still lived in the days of the ancient Roman and Greek gods. They were just like us. They were created in our image, by small-minded men. They were lustful, greedy, jealous, full of pride. The real God, however, if you get to know him, is far more complicated, far higher above anything men could think up, and way too backward from us! People who use this argument don't really know God enough to support this idea. In fact the reason most athiests are atheists is because they don't know who God really is. One theologian said, "Tell me about the God you don't believe in and I probably wouldn't believe in him either."

That's cold, man. So cold.

IT WORKED!!!! HA HA!!! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition! :laugh: "Small minds are easily amused." -Kevin Ranville(?)

Random Bar Joke Generator. It parses together snippets from all the cliches of every bar joke ever told, or so it would seem... http://www.brunching.com/cgi/barjoke.cgi? Occasionally these things accidentally make sense. The rest are even funnier. :laugh:

If there's one thing I hate, it's pop-up advertisments on the internet. Does anyone know of any way to block or stop these things? Especially the kind that spawn other pop-ups when you close them. Grrrrrrrrr... :mad: With a highspeed connection your task bar is quickly full of this junk. The other thing I hate is finding AOL Free Trial Icons on my computer after I install something. Sure it's no problem to just close and/or delete these little bits of trash, but why should I have to? It's my computer! Nobody asked me if they could open these things on my machine? DIE, DIE, DIE!!!! :mad: Sorry. Just a little peeved about those things. I don't go walking into people's homes and putting ads up on their fridge do I? I'd be arrested on site. My opinion is that I should at least have a choice in the matter. Especially the AOL icons! The single pop-ups aren't so bad, I guess. They gotta pay their bills somehow. "Die and be damn’d; and figo for thy friendship!" -Pistol, King Henry V, Shakespeare

You must be a computer science student.

Stupendous? Interesting word choice.

Did you hear about the blond who passed the Turing test? Sorry. That was a bad one. I know. Computer science students will get it.:laugh:

Michael Dunn wrote: Has anyone else found old games that still hold up over time? My all time favorite graphic adventure game, "Day of the Tentacle" by Lucas Arts would be nice to play again. It's from about 1996 I think. I haven't seen a copy of it anywhere. I would love to play it again. Yehaw! :laugh: "Two things, Donkey, Okay? Shut.... Up!" -Shrek

Paul Watson wrote: Golden rule for food: If it tastes good, eat it. Golden rule for food: If your staving to death and it isn't air eat it... X| "Did you hear about the canabal who passed his uncle in the woods?"

Now that's a game.... When I was a kid games were so easy you could beat the high score blindfolded and playing with your toes. X| "Insert coin to continue...5...4...3...2...1...Game Over"