mrfe : no no no no no no no no no no no no no. The very point of atheism/agnosticism is that we aren't following feelings in our gut. We are following scientific evidence. Secondly, I wasn't talking about right and wrong morally, I think we all have a decent grasp of it with us, assuming we aren't the kind of people who live in padded rooms with straight jackets. I was talking about ahkarate and his baseless beliefs that you can just become straight or gay whenever you feel like it, because that isn't true

But again, I am a man of evidence, so let's provide a few studies.

http://www.livescience.com/50058-being-gay-not-a-choice.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gay-gene-discovery-suggests-sexual-orientation-not-choice-1436389

That said, these don't provide the Christian perspective which means, wait what? What do we need the Christian perspective for? It's not like this is a debate I'm bringing up, this is just science. Science doesn't change whether or not a Christian is there to supervise or not. Secondly, even in debates, what do the Christians provide? In the secular world we are providing studies, we are doing research, and from what I can see the Christians haven't revised their point other than what Leviticus has to say about it. Whenever a new point is made it seems Christians just point to that passage and kindly ask us to read it again.

ahkarate : No Christians taught you these things, and I'm sure a scientist didn't tell you either. That doesn't really get you anywhere, as now instead of me being sure you were a child indoctrinated into a mad house that taught you "them queers" were all trying to plan how to take down America and turn everybody gay, I'm now sure that you yourself are just a misinformed person spewing hate on the Internet. Ever met Josh Fuerstein? You would love him. Whether a Christian, Jehovah's Witness, Trekkie, Whovian, or voice in your head told you all these things is completely irrelevant in the face of the fact that just about every last thing you said is completely and utterly wrong.

Also, since you never took the time to tell me how the experiment went, I'm going to assume it produced unwanted results.

I will gladly get in on that and say that it is not the best. I have only played the second one, so maybe I'm missing out on part of the magic. That said, the second one was incredibly repetitive game that didn't offer much. You would do a ship section, you would go to a new world, you would fight some heartless, you would find a Disney character, you would fight some heartless with the Disney character on the way to the boss, and then you would fight the boss. Combine that with the Final Fantasy characters who are only there for set dressing and nothing more, and you have a game I didn't get anything out of.

Gamers, for the most part, are entitled little babies. Nothing was more annoying to somebody like me who writes stories to hear a bunch of people demand that a writer write a story to cater to them. The line? The line is between saying something was awful, and telling them to change it. I can't wait until Federation Force comes out because it's going to be awful and I'm going to tell everyone about it and laugh in Nintendo's face for being such idiots as to think that idea would be successful. I'm not going to demand they change it. I haven't played Mass Effect 3, because Mass Effect one was a barely competent RPG with a pain inducing amount of reading and dialogue, but those who would actually demand that an author change a piece of work to cater to them is ridiculous. Them writing something new doesn't change what they already wrote, and it breaks the entire immersion that you can gain from a story by completely acknowledging that it's all fake. So that, in my opinion, is the line. When Dark Souls 2 came out, I told everybody what a complete and utter piece of useless writing it was. It did irreparable damage to the lore of Dark Souls, but I didn't ask them to change it because the damage is already done, and no amount of forum posts will change what was already put on paper.

ahkarate : I went from laughing aloud at your post to being incredibly sad. You're 10! Religious people, you don't see a problem with teaching your kids your beliefs early on? How about this? This is a 10 year old posting on an Internet forum about how homosexuality should be outlawed, how it is a choice, as much of a choice as it is to be a pedophile or a s***. First off, a s*** isn't even any sort of sexual preference, it's just liking a lot of whatever you like, and a rapist is just someone who doesn't ask permission. What makes this even better is all the times you say "I think". Where in your 4th or 5th grade education did you guys start talking about homosexuals, s***s, and rapists? I remember sitting on monkey bars and doing division, for some reason I must have forgot about the pedophiles, homosexuals, and rapists. You "think" we can change from one to the other at anytime? How about you turn gay real quick? I'm serious, go find the kid that gets made fun of the most, chances are he's gay, and just go to town. Or, if you're gay, which a lot of the most bigoted people are, go find a nice girl and do the same thing. Doesn't feel too good does it? Maybe it's because you're born the way that you are.

Below isn't the most current study out there, so it doesn't present some information for the argument I am showing here, but it still gets the point across.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbpu6ne5-cQ

Oh, and to the point of this thread. I live in Florida, so I think I'm adequately prepared for what old Lucy has in store for those of us who don't believe in his worst enemy.

Trying to craft witty responses is almost impossible when you haven't the slightest what the other person is saying. It's as difficult as trying to train a Velociraptor to use a litter box.

So instead, a suggestion. Check out tumblr. There are tons of people there just as deluded that will accept whatever fantasy you choose to live with, and as an added bonus they'll call anyone who points out your craziness a bigot.

I hear the Cloud Strife look is really in with the ladies these days, specifically the kind that are the main characters in Romance animes, but it is in none the less. I would suggest shaving it and starting a rap career.

I guess I will pick 88 if this is still going

This seems somewhat akin to asking "I have this pool of sharks I can jump into, or this nice Jacuzzi, but me and this pool of sharks have been through a lot . What should I do?". I don't think anyone but the sharks are too keen on you jumping in, and that's probably because they don't think they'll convince anyone else to do it.

That said, upon closer inspection of this Jacuzzi, I see what appears to be a grey silhouette, and a fin may have just broken the surface. I am not one to talk about women, because due to my social capabilities I get less female attention than the inside of a men's bathroom, but I see quite a few things wrong with this perfect girl. She lives in another continent? I can see that going fine for someone you are just talking to, but if you actually want to get emotionally invested in this girl, do you really think you'll be able to do it from miles and miles away? Long distance relationships are almost universally known to end as well as breeding lions and gazelles in the same cage. If she's only there for a little while, then I suggest getting to know her a little better while you wait, and not bringing out the "girlfriend" label until you've gotten a little time to know her.

And you will certainly need that time to get to know her because apparently you've "talked to her only a little to far, but she seems really sweet". An apple with a razor blade in it seems sweet at first, but you got to bite into it to fully realize how ruined your Halloween is. You really need to get to know this girl better, and not while you guys are official. As my uncle once said after his divorce "[respectable women] be crazy"

Here's the part that confuses me, though. You "honestly don't want to hurt either one of them"? I understand that in the context of your current girlfriend, but what about this new girl? How would you hurt her? Is she already pressuring you to get into a relationship? If a girl from another continent who you've only talked to a little while is pressuring you get into a relationship, she is either really clingy and not relationship material or an Indian scam artist named Raj looking for the next Manti Te'o.

But before any of this stuff happens with Raj over here, you need to sort things out with your current girlfriend. Continue dating her if you want, I'm sure the pool of sharks is still very warm and relaxing, if only for a few seconds, but you need to either figure out how to deal with her problems, or realize that you don't even feel like dealing with it at all.

zanderlex : Cool, that'll be good to have for the summer sale

Local Mods :

Alright, come on now. You literally stole something that someone else wrote in response to somebody else!   Can you stop stealing things before I've got the chance to mark them all?

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Buga-the-Knut : Yeah, you've got me on that one. I can see why you like the debate section so much, you are a true master of it. I don't even know what the second insult was, I am going to assume it was created especially for me. Although, knowing you, you probably stole it from someone else.

Local Mods : Perhaps I'm beating a dead horse with an even deader horse here, but this one was again plagiarized. Link (look at the one just below the first entry)

play4fun : I feel like you have something to say about this in your forum. Not only is it... and odd subject that doesn't really try to ask any questions, it was plagiarized from here. I like to imagine Buga was blown away by the genius presented therein.

Local Mods : I think it should be mentioned that this is plagiarized from here. And considering Buga has been making threads like a spider on a caffeine drip, the other threads should be checked for plagiarism as well.

Let me know how that goes, and maybe pass on a post card if you can. I checked TripAdvisor for some added tips I could give, but it isn't really providing anything useful. I'm sure you've figured out the fine details though.

Linkums : I can't say much for how fiscally responsible it would be, but it does sound like a really fun event to go to, and you have an opportunity to go to it that not many people will get. If you can do it, and not eat out of the dumpster of McDonalds for a month, then you should try it.

Wow, that's actually super cool. While I believe the Creators program to be like stabbing a person and kindly explaining that since you made the wallet they are using you should get some of the money in it, it's good to see Nintendo at least providing some Band-Aids for the wound. As for E3, if you do end up going, my only advice would be to take the hype with a grain- or actually, a spoonful of- or maybe a cup of... *ahem* take just about everything said with as much salt as you possibly can. It's a hard reality to face, but a lot of those creators would be stabbing your corpse if they thought money would come out.