Posts made by MauserBob

My buddy “scaramouche” and I were playing A & A IB on the PC one night with paratroopers turned “on” (small apartment at the time, no room to set up the board game IIRC). I was the Allies so I had Russia going first, and on the opening turn I decided to be ridiculously  aggressive like you can play against the AI…so I moved all of my pcs forward to their max, and when my turn was over, I had decimated most of his forward strength all along the border territories. I was sitting pretty, or so I thought.

He bought his units and then he made ONE combat move…he loaded one paratrooper on his bomber and dropped it into Moscow. I had NOTHING within a one-turn range of taking it back. I just sat there, staring at the screen. Totally forgot about the paratrooper thing…and that was game, set match.  :-D

Rob.

Yes…they’re awesome. They have a real polished sound; bluesy but with a harder edge without being “heavy” or “grungy”, if you know what I mean. Love their acoustic-to-amplified changeovers. Saw them back in '09 during a Christian music festival in New Jersey called “Rev-Gen Fest”…they jammed, man!

Rob.

“Know your enemy”….I can think of no better reason.

Rob.

Another fun PA tax is the Occupational Priveledge Tax.

Isn’t all that much $$$, relatively speaking……but c’mon, man. They tax us on the priveledge of working in PA.

Far out.

Rob.

@Jennifer:

@Imperious:

Oh yea forgot the add the worst thing (pet peeve really)

1. property tax  their is no reason why i should pay every year for something i own… i can understand a tax on sale, but not during ownership
2. parking meters  no reason why i should have to pay to maintain a car on a public street while i am transacting business which i pay a sales tax for.

I just want to point out that 100% of your property tax is supposed to go to fund your local schools. (Local Elementary, Local Jr. High/Middle, Local High School) and is to be used for no other purpose, allegedly.

So your property tax, even if you have no kids of your own, go to allegedly better society by education the other children.  It’s probably the only tax other then sales tax I can actually say is a good thing.

I really don’t like the whole property tax BS, but the one that really gets my blood runnin’ hot is School Tax.

I have NO kids. Probably won’t have any, either. Why the heck should I have to pay for something I get nothing out of? In addition, I am very much against the evolution curriculum (but that’s for another thread), and I am also against the schools teaching homosexuality from a condoning POV (also for another thread). So, I’m paying for the public school system to teach my area children two things I highly disagree with. I think it’s total BS……but probably not the worst invention ever.  :-D

That distinction might just be video games.  8-)

WHOA!!!  :-o  What the hell did he just say?   :-o

Now, hear me out. I’ll be the first to admit that they’re alot of fun and I have spent alot of time playing them (still play PC games once in a while), so at least I’m honest about it.  :-D  But when alot of us were kids, we spent more time playing games OUTSIDE, like street hockey, two-hand touch football, (or tackle  8-))….or other stuff like that. We actually spent more time away from the tv than today’s kids spend in front of it. I think they have far too much Vidgame time…most parents don’t want to make the effort to send the kids outside to play. My neighborhood (and most of yours too, I’m sure) were full of kids playing all kinds of games and whatnot outside from sunup to sundown almost every day it was nice enough to do so. Don’t see kids doing much of that at all anymore.

And if video games aren’t the problem, then lazy parents are.

And if y’all don’t like that one either, then how about Oral Reports/Final Essays?  I hated those with a passion.  :-P

Rob.

@Avin:

Well MauserBob, Shining Bowie, or Jennifer, if you are confident you can find that in the book of Acts, please enlighten me where it states that Saul was renamed Paul.

I guarantee that you won’t find it.

Saul continues to be called Saul after his encounter with Jesus… see all of Acts chapter 9. No mention of renaming to Paul.

Furthermore, Saul continues to be called Saul when he is sent on his first missionary Journey: see Acts 13:2.

Saul is called Paul for the rest of the book of Acts, and Paul refers to himself by that name in his letters, with no mention of being renamed, even though he recounts his history a couple times.

If you find a reference to him being renamed, I will concede the point but it looks to me like the Bible makes absolutely no reference to Saul being renamed at any point.

Rather the names Saul and Paul are really the same name: the Hebrew form is “Sha-ul”, which is Romanized to Saul, and the Greek form is “Paulos” which is Romanized to Paul. When you first meet him in Acts it is in the Hebrew context, but the bulk of his life he is seen in a Greek context. He is still both Saul and Paul. No renaming takes place.

I have a hard time reading this thread when defenders of the Bible get Biblical facts wrong.

I have no idea what you’re picking nits over. We know his name was Saul; we also know he also went by “Paul”. Our first introduction to this man is in the Book of Acts, where we see him going by both names. So……what is the problem? Am I to understand that you’ve been babbling on now for 3 pages because there is no verse that specifically states when he started using the name “Paul” ? I personally never said that there was. I took your question as asking where you find him using/going by/being called  “Paul”, and I answered you correctly…and to be more specific, Acts 13:9 is the first mention of him being called by both names, though it clearly does not state when the first instance of this occured. I cannot speak for Jennifer, but I interpret what she originally wrote to mean basically the same thing. Surely your whole purpose has not been to nitpick over semantics?

Rob.

The Book of Acts.

Rob.

@ncscswitch:

I fully support the rights of all people to freedom of religious expression.

And yet, you claim exceptions. Therefore, you cannot fully support those rights of other people. “Fully” in this case would, by definition, exclude the possibilty of exceptions.

Lastly… yes, it DOES bother me that folks are compelled to witness their faith to me.

Then you, my friend, need some thicker skin. Or maybe some earplugs and a sign around your neck saying ‘go away, I don’t want to hear it.’ which is hypocritical in it’s own right because you fully expect everyone else to be quite alright with having your system of belief drilled into their children’s heads as if it were fact. In that sense, your pagan philosophy is being witnessed to our children every day, and to you that’s okay, as long as you have it your way.

Or maybe you need to walk away from this thread because it must really be bothering you something fierce. I note that no one’s forcing you to read it.  :wink:

I belong to one of the many religions that does not proselytize.

That would be incorrect. Evolution is a pagan theory. Every time you rise up in defense of your evolution theory, you are proselytising. You are telling me that this is your belief system, and that it is right……every time you claim that your theory is fact and that ours is not, you are proselytising.

And I don;t think Jesus went around constantly telling every soul he met about God.  He just led by example, and taught to those who ASKED to be taught.  A good example that perhaps his followers should emulate.

Once again, you have no proof of this……it is merely what you believe, and there is nothing wrong with that. But do not claim it as fact, for that way leads to ruin. I personally believe that anyone who wishes to explain their belief system to another person should start out with “I believe”, rather than trying to throw the words “proof” and “fact” around.

Here is what is comes down to between the two schools of thought.

1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth…

And:

2. In the beginning, an impossibly small and impossibly dense lump of something extremely vague in nature was just sitting around in a perfect vaccuum, minding it’s own business for who knows how long (never mind where it came from), when, for some unknown reason, it suddenly exploded, and from that…dirt. ……(insert unknown and unprovable length of time here)…and from that dirt, life…over millions of unproveable years, to what we are today.

Uh-huh. And you expect us to accept that as fact?

Again, pretty hypocritical of you, considering that your theory (and that’s all it is) is just as goofy and imaginative as ours is.

If you were to take a lump of every element, atom, molecule, and particle (IOW, everything in existance, which you cannot do) and place it inside of a vessel which contained a perfect vaccuum, and left it to sit, undisturbed by any outside influence for whatever length of time you choose, I guarantee that at the end of that period it would still be just as you left it. To claim otherwise defies all known logic, and as it cannot be proven otherwise, that same claim is also unscientific as you would define it. It cannot be proven. Period. Therefore, it takes faith to believe that it happened at all. This, my friend, is called a belief, not a fact. You need faith to believe you rversion of events just as we do.

We’re not so different after all.

Rob.

I find it funny that people are afraid of allowing children to say a prayer in school if they want to. Who cares who they pray to, or if they’re picking their nose during that moment instead of praying? It’s like bitching about what someone is saying on the radio (H.Stern) or the TV…if YOU don’t like it, just change the station (or channel). If you’re in school and have no particular interest in saying a prayer, then don’t. Read a book or trade googly-eyes with Mary Joe Rottencrotch instead. You non-believers are so hypocritica; you fight just as fervently for what YOU think is right as believers do for what they think is right….and yet, while it’s okay for YOU to do so, it isn’t okay (in your eyes) for believers to do the same.

They say:

“I don’t want to pray in school”.  Okay, so don’t.

“I don’t want my kids to see other kids praying in school”  Why? Afraid they might form opinions of their own?

And you say:

“I find it funny when a pagan like me knows more about Christianity than half the Christians” (paraphrasing)

And yet, I see know evidence of this as yet….just opinions. But whatever…it’s called free-will for a reason. You’re free to believe or not believe as suits you. This is also true for Christians, and yet it really seems to bother you that we feel as free to speak out on our beliefs as you non-believers do on yours. In many states, it is apparently quite legal to include religion in the curriculum, and why not? Evolution is just like religion; alot of it takes faith and great imaginative leaps to fill in the blanks and believe. You non=believers have been ramming Evolution down our throats since 1963 or so, having it all your own way. Sounds like indoctrination to me…which is exactly what you non believers are so afraid of and outspoken against when it’s religion, not evolution, under the microscope. Why should it be perfectly fine for your agenda to be allowed, but not ours? You non-believers are doing the very same thing you’re so happy to accuse Christians of: you’re beating your chests and saying “We’re right, you’re wrong”. How is what you do different from what you accuse us of doing?

Rob.

I’m all for such a system, but I think it’s foolish and irresponsible to put all of our eggs in that one basket.

It is FAR easier to stop a bullet before it leaves the barrel than it is once it’s in flight.  :wink:

Rob.

John 3:16

Rob.

@ncscswitch:

Also, that second option above is in direct contradiction to Christian principles.  I leave it to you to figure out why it is not consistent with Christianity…

Oh, I beg to differ. It’s in direct correllation thereof.

The whole point of Christianity, indeed, the whole point of Jesus’s life, was and is to spread God’s message that those who sin in the eyes of God had better repent of their sins and get right with God or they will be punished in the end. Period.

Yes, Jesus spoke much and often about forgiveness. It’s the central theme of His message. There is and will be forgiveness for ALL who seek it, free for the taking……but there will be NO forgiveness without repentance. Without forgiveness, a soul is stained with sin and cannot enter into the presence of God. Therefore, that sin-stained soul has only one other place to go…cast out from God’s presence forever. “Depart from me; I never knew you.” (Matthew 7:23) Jesus came for two reasons: 1) to pay for the sins of the world with His own blood, which is pure. 2) to spread the word of His father God that the Age of Grace (in which we live) is coming to a close and the time in which sinners may still find forgiveness is growing short. The Lord comes right out and tells us that when the limit of sin in this world has been reached (and only He knows when this will be), he will pull the plug on forgiveness and those who could not be bothered to ask for what is freely offered will be SOL. Now you may not like that, and they certainly won’t like it when they’re told to depart forever, but that’s the way it is. God is like a parent, the ultimate parent. Parents set rules for their children to follow, and a good parent enforces those rules. Children may not like the rules (I know I didn’t) but they must obey or be punished. It’s as simple as that. LIke I said, it’s the entire basis for Jesus’s message and the whole point of the New Testament. You say it’s too black and white….That’s right, it is. Would you respect a god who dealt in gray-areas? No, because you’d think he was wishy-washy and you’d also think the interpretation and enforcement of his rules would be unfair and situational. God makes it perfectly clear so that there can be no mistaking what He meant when the end comes. He sent His Son Jesus to be the final arbeiter of right and wrong, black and white, blessed and damned. You are either cleansed of your sins by His freely offered blood, or you are not. That’s Christianity’s theme and it’s principle principle, if you will.

Rob.

@ncscswitch:

@NoMercy:

Actually it says to not judge others.

I have to argue that non-christian religion (the group I will put you in) provides a larger LACK of personal responsibility, they do what they want and don’t care.

Then why oh why are the prisons filled with Born Agains?

Because many, if not most of them, have only turned to Christ after they got locked up.

Rob.

I like TripleA alot. I haven’t played the other PC game since I downloaded TripleA.

Rob.

Do you think the caller was able to sit down after that?  :evil: :-D

Rob.

‘Merely’…indeed.

Rob.

Being “made fun of” is a small price to pay compared to the price Jesus paid for us.

It could be worse……much worse.

Rob.

@ajgundam5:

:cry: I heard that season 10 will be the final season of SG-1 I could be wrong but the people on scifi.com Message Board are saying that it is true.

I have also heard this.

Do any of you watch Battlestar Gallactica?

Rob.

I got into the show because I really liked the movie. Saw it in the theater twice (one with buddies, once with girlfriend) and it got it’s hooks in me because it was such a cool story. When the first buzz about a new show based on that movie started making the rounds, I just HAD to watch it. Turned out to be a pretty good sci-fi show, which was a genre sorely lacking in appeal at that time.

Rob.