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Sorry to disappoint, I don' t know who that Patsy Stone is, although I probably read some of his/her posts cause the name rings a bell. Edit :...

I didn' t realize this could pe personal to you. I' m very sorry to hear that you've cut bridges towards your family over that kind of argument. I certainly wasn' t suggesting to throw away relationships, nor to confront or mock or reject people over their beliefs, I was rather promulgating honesty about our own beliefs. Isn' t honesty a highly esteemed value in the Bible ? Doesn' t it condemn lies ?

Critical thinking certainly doesn' t prove that God or heaven doesn' t exist, it only proves that you can' t be sure about it just because the Bible says so, which doesn' t prevent you to choose to believe in God for personal reasons. However if you don' t believe that God exists then it' s just another personal belief and I don' t see why it should bother anyone. I judge people on their acts, not on their thoughts. In my book the fact that you' re a believer or an atheist is irrelevant to judge you or love you as a person. Why has there been religious war when the Bible shouts "YOU WILL NOT KILL" ? Maybe cause someone abused of his position in the hierarchy and that a lot of people decided to tag along rather than make a moral stand ?

I don' t think those two point of views are incompatible. My point was rather than being honest brought more self-esteem than lying all the time. Of course I understand that it may seem irrelevant if it costs you your family. I have very open minded parents so it' s certainly easier for me to talk about such a situation than it would be for someone in the middle of it.
Note that all of this is only my point of view, I' m in no way judging people who tag along without faith as long as they' re nice people. I' ve known someone in that case and it didn' t prevent me to befriend him in any way. He certainly made me understand that making a moral stand wasn' t easy and that he would never do it, however uneasy he felt each time he was with his family.

But the only reason you would reject creationism is because rational and critical thinking leads you to the conclusion that it' s all bullshit, hence hell is bullshit, hence you may loose respect from others but you' ll gain self esteem instead. You don' t loose anything since you realize there was nothing to loose in the first place. Whether you go from creationist to catholic or atheist it shouldn' t prevent you to love others for what they are, nor should it prevent others to love you for what you are.
The same way, knowing that Santa doesn' t exist doesn' t prevent us to throw gifts around at Christmas.
If your family rejects you anyway for coming out of the closet (about your atheism or your gayness, I can' t really see a relevant difference there) then it just proves they' re not as tolerant and forgiving as their Bible tells them to be. Their problem, not yours.

My personal opinion is that we create our own hell, living a lie all of our life without allowing ourselves to be what we truly are is, in itself, a living hell.

There might also be a KH animated series in the future, but I think what he meant is that he doesn' t want Sora to explore lands from other animes/mangas.

That would be awesome indeed, it' s my favorite disney movie !!!
But Sora shouldn' t have guns ... he should have a useless singing Keyblade ! ^^

[video=youtube;6u8wBfDtZkE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u8wBfDtZkE[/video]

You have to melt Curaga and Renewal Barrier, but there' s only 10% chance for the special melting to occur. If it doesn' t work and nets you a Slot Edge instead of a Breaktime just quick reset (L+R+start+select), load your file and try to melt again.

Some people from the French Final Fantasy forum that I use just had an opportunity to interview Shinji Hashimoto, SE vice-president. They asked him, amongst other things, if KH3 would be on PS3 and if a KH movie was in the works. He answered that their focus for the moment was on KH3D and that a lot of news would be given about it next year (should I deduce KH3D won' t be released until 2012 ?). He also answered that there' s no KH movie planned for the moment, but that he heard people talking about an animated series.

On a sidenote they asked him if Noctis would teleport and fight à la Sora, he laughed and answered that they don' t' really fight the same way, and that very few has been shown about Noctis fight-style yet.

Here' s the interview (very badly cut and in French, obviously, I put it as a source, just so that you can see this is indeed Shinji Hashimoto talking) :

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[video=youtube;bcK_pkLPGUI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcK_pkLPGUI&feature=player_embedded[/video]

I haven' t played any Megaman since the Snes era so I wouldn' t know. In the interview he said he was tired of seeing the gamers throwing flowers at Capcom when the games were good and throwing blames at him when the games were bad.

Not the job itself, he didn' t like the way he was asked to do it. In his position he didn' t even had to implicate himself in games development, he could just sit at his desk and throw orders around. If, like he says, there isn' t any executive that actually knows what a video game actually is then Capcom indeed has a serious problem.
He stated that when he gave his resignation he didn' t receive a single letter/phone call to ask him why. Reading this interview gave me a clearer picture of the problem with next-gen J-games (coughFFXIIIcough).

Huh ? The whole scientific reasoning is based on causality. Cause/consequence. You do believe in the scientific reasoning which brought us vaccines, right ? It' s also based on the assumption that we think therefore we are, which certainly never ruled out the fact that everything we experience and therefore think could still be an illusion, and never will. One way or another we are indeed trapped in a Matrix. I didn' t wait to read your link to realize that.

We can be eternally happy in heaven (if such a place even exist, in case you didn' t notice everything' s a metaphor in my book ^^) cause we have memories of a physical life to remember in the first place. No bodies, no physics, no power to affect the environment in any way or force our will onto others equal no sin. It' s a place where you can think whatever you want but can' t do anything anymore, there' s nothing to do.
And yeah, I guess we could imagine immortal beings living in a physical world but the real evil is in our heads, it' s born from free will. No good/bad also means no free will. Science fiction literature (or mythology) ponders about what a world of immortal beings would look like and that picture isn' t any prettier than that of our own world.

That' s just a metaphor to me.
What I call "God" is merely what provoked the Big Bang, or what came before that, whatever, the thing that started it all. After that causality ensued and "he" just let it all happen. I can' t even begin to fathom his motives, not that any of us could ... Remember the document you linked in the Creationism thread ?

Well he could, but there would still be duality, a physical world is bound to rules, to duality.
A programmer can' t program a universe where there' s up but no down, that' s just nonsense.
All of this isn' t religious talk, it' s philosophy.

There' s no good without bad, the same way there' s no light without dark nor up without down, physics bind us to duality. The only way to get rid of bad (and get rid of right in the process, you can' t erase one without erasing the other) would be to get rid of mortality, which means get rid of our bodies, get rid of time itself. Sure, we could be eternal wave form minds, communicating with each others eternally, but what would we talk about ? Sex ? Weather ? Movies ? There' d be none of that anymore. We wouldn' t even see the point in talking since being bodiless also means we can' t experience anything anymore. There' d be nothing to experience, nothing to think about, nothing to make us evolve. Why evolve in the first place ? There' s no time anymore (time, in physics, is the unit that measures change). We' d be "perfect", we' d be God ! Xenogears anyone ?

The exact same thing happened to me and malewarebytes couldn' t help too. I ended up finding one which did the trick : SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition.

I am French. Try Google translator if you want to be sure ! It' s useless for whole sentences but it can be useful to translate just one word.

My thoughts exactly. He took a book which is obviously a collection of metaphors and tried to discard it by mocking the text using a literal interpretation. It' s like saying that the Lord of the Ring or Harry Potter overall moral is utterly stupid because magic wands and hobbits don' t exist in the first place.
In other words, he ruled himself out of any serious debate, I don' t think anyone should feel offended. Makes you wonder if he even read the damn book.

I' m gonna make an analogy, try to join the ride for a second :
Let' s say that Nomura is the god of Kingdom Hearts. If you were given the same abilities, could you do a better Kingdom Hearts ? Sure, regarding your personal tastes and wishes. Would it be more appreciated by KH fans than Nomura' s version ? Would it be perfect ? Certainly not ! If it was perfect and nobody could die cause there' s no trial of any sort it wouldn' t be a game anymore and would just be plain boring.

Think of God as an über programer. He created a universe based on physic rules, it doesn' t go without a few "bugs" and "glitches". If he really created us in his image then I guess he' s not as perfect as we often picture him, a little self-introspection as a species should make that pretty clear. Yes, he created a universe that at some point allowed the emergence of blind people. That same universe also allows a lot more people to see. One goes with the other. A Universe free of blind people is a universe free of eyes, or free of people. Wanna take a pick ?
To create light is to create dark. To create sane is to create ill. I really think the programmer analogy makes the whole picture a lot clearer, allowing some philosophical thinking. I guess that' s the reason I really dig the Matrix trilogy. Granted, I did study programing.

Just so you know, I was raised as a Christian but I don' t believe in God. Well, I guess I can' t say I don' t believe in Him either, I just don' t picture him the way most Christians do.

:lolface: That' s what I got actually ! http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Self_Impowering

I never play DDR or GH either but this mini-game was fingers in the nose stuff to me. I studied music several years when I was young and I' m really good at rhythm stuff. Did you know the timing in the Japanese version was even tighter ? ^^
KH are action games but the whole mini-games deal is a direct FF heritage. They' re optional you know ?
Completionist usually don' t ***** about hard games ...

I think that' s precisely the kind of thinking that drove them to have a gay pride in the first place. Most people think along the lines of "You can be gay, just not in front of us/children. We don' t want to have to think about it". The same way, laws don' t acknowledge any rights to gay people/couples in most places. They can be gay, but as far as laws are concerned they' ll be considered as straight single people. The gay pride is a way for them to say "yes, we exist, deal with it". The day they' ll feel they are treated as equally as other people they won' t need a parade anymore.

Instead of left clicking on download try to right click and select "open the link in a new window".
If that doesn' t work then right click on download, select "save link destination as" and check which kind of files that makes you save : .htm or .wmv ?

Agreed, that' s a popularity contest. Games like Okami, Ico or Odin Sphere don' t stand a chance.