Recent content by Noth

To be a kind of fair devil's advocate, the bible wasn't written as a complete book, so in some occasions it is possible to derive some measure of "evidence" by some standards of that term from one piece in its 'completed form' (i.e. the final form that was, over the course of hundreds of years...

I especially like the twist at the end, where you neither begin nor end the line-word with a b. To me it signifies the openness of thought and expression of free opinion. The Y is able to escape the consonant constriction construction. Extra significant there is, of course, that Y is at once an...

Not mine (though when I started out writing poetry it was definitely shit de la shit :P) but directly from the Big Bald Baddy Britney Spears herself: “The guilt you fed me Made me weak. The voodoo you did I couldn’t speak. You’re awakening The phone is ringing. Resurrection of my soul The fear...

Wholly apart from Shermer's guilt or non-guilt in this whole situation, it was an incredibly, frustratingly stupid and completely misguided post by PZ in the first place. The picture with the 3 scenarios you posted was also given by PZ as a response to criticism he received for posting this...

Same for me. I like basic colours in e.g. the 90's x-man cartoons, but if they were to dress, say, a Wolverine in a bright yellow and brown/black for a film I'd probably walk out :P Saw Man of Steel just now. Liked it, but wasn't blown away. Liked: Krypton was definitely awesome, although it...

I saw this game quite a while ago via a friend of mine and the concept looked really interesting. Having recently discovered that I don't get as nauseated playing fps games any more as I used to, I may give this one a shot.

You are hedging and avoiding answering questions at the same time. Seems Inferno gave you a very specific definition there. We could expand, of course, but you are very, very much hedging. On top of that, you are not living up to your promises. You've made a number of comments after I...

Matter of opinion. The books are freaking awesome, often a lot clearer despite having a lot more characters you may have to remember. Not to discredit the altogether amazing series, but the books are definitely not something to scoff at imo ;)

I actually liked how they deviated from the books. A lot of the choices they made - like introducing Jojen and Meera in season 3 instead of 2 - make sense from a serie writer's perspective. Other changes were necessary, though not so fun - I wanted Vargo Hoath! :P - but I can live with those as...

Metalgod, I'll try to answer as many of your claims as possible, even though they will have been covered by other people before me. In that case, think of it as repetition for the sake of understanding. (This is going to be a long one; buckle up) All right, so let's examine the claims you made...

The point about homosexuality being natural because it occurs within the animal kingdom is not to say humans should do everything that animals do. It is simply to counteract the - frankly rather inane - claim that homosexuality is "unnatural". You cannot have your cake and eat it too. If you...

They did a successful kickstarter campaign, so they have the funding now :) I believe their aim was to round up all the loose ends from, at least, Dreamfall. I don't know how much unresolved stuff from The Longest Journey they'll tackle, but to be honest it's been so long I played that one I...

Where'd you hear they won't be making a third? As far as I know this is still on.

I'll reserve pride for palpable things in real life. I'm here for my personal enjoyment and the occasional intellectual stimulus. It just so happens I tend to like the majority of the folks on this forum. Pride does not enter into it. A community does not even have to enter into it. If you have...

Because if the validity of events in the bible is important to your belief system it will be questioned if it turns out there are earlier versions of these biblical events in other mythologies. Plus it chips away at the uniqueness of the biblical stories. From the top of my head roughly the...