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I wasn't just talking about the wonders of magic or miracles in the Bible. I was talking about how if there was no real person named Jesus who did some sort of signs and wonders (the ligitimacy you can question) then the book wouldn't have been immediately dismissed as fiction because nobody would have ever seen or heard of this person.

Lee Strobel makes a good point in his book, The Case for Christ, that if the books of the Bible had been false then they would not have gained the following or popularity they did immediately following their writing. Nobody would have adopted or believed a book which claimed of thousands of people witnessing events in recent recent history of which there were no actual witnesses. The fact that people latched onto the book while those witnesses were still alive (which is evidenced by the early and fast growth of the christian church) is strong evidence that the book was not as simple as a made up story by a few guys but at least had some sort of historical basis.

It's like what Jon Stewart said on The Daily Show a few weeks ago; all of Christianity could be the result of a teen pregnancy, and Judaism where a man came down from a mountain with scribbles on some rock. He said something about Buddhism, like "someone who really liked food," but point is religion in of itself takes a "leap of faith" to believe any of it. I'd disagree with Stewart because if the stories were true then Judiasm was the result of many miracles performed before a whole host of people in two nations resulting in the dilverance of a nation and Christianity is the result of a man doing many wonders and miracles witnessed by thousands of people. The problem of faith is one of whether or not we believe the people who witnessed these things and honestly, it's if you'd believe even if you witnessed these things yourself. If the Bible is true even many of the people who saw God's works first hand did not believe in him.

Can anyone say what this was rendered in real-time on? 4 $500 graphics cards?

He was probably digging for validation of his doubts and doing research on them. I doubt that he left his faith without doing any research beforehand.

What I read in the article indicates that the husband had done some digging on mormonism and decided that it was not a legitimate religion. He abandoned that religion. It does not seem to indicate (although it may be the case) that he truly embraced athiesm as truth but rather simply defaulted to it as a result of abandoning mormonism. His wife seems to have done the same thing. The article also indicates that they are still unsure of what is or isn't true or what they do or don't believe and that they are actually embracing a marriage relationship as a way to overcome the pain and uncertainty of their faith. If this is indeed the case they're only going to be heading for more pain.

Sounds like they both abandoned their faith. If their faith was fraudulent then this is a good thing. What I hope is that discovering you were wrong about something leads you to seek out the truth. Just being happy about being wrong isn't enough.

Sorry, can't find the original thread but there's this. http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/31/west-zampella-settle-with-activision-in-infinity-ward-lawsuit/ Can't believe we wont hear the results of this ever.

It's just such an interesting subject to me because I've seen it in my family and from the very beginning. My brother was addicted first to a game called "the Realm". It was a sierra online game and the first MMO I can remember. I believe it was even before UO. He got very interested in it and would play it at all hours. It led to a lot of fights in the house because we were on dial up at the time and the family only had one phone line. He moved off of the Realm when Everquest came out and he began staying up quite late on most nights playing the game at all hours. We even had our ISP at the time call and say they were raising our rate because he was such a heavy user. Eventually it led to physical skirmishes in the family when he would not let anyone else use the phone line or computer and finally my dad asked him to move out early. To this day I think he is more or less the same but I can't really say for sure. I think the addiction side to it is very real. It holds people in a way very similar to drugs or alcohol.

Anyone here ever been addicted or known someone who was addicted to an mmo? My brother was and probably still is. I don't really know as I rarely see him anymore. It was kind of a long story which I'd be happy to share more about when I have a little more time. As a result of my own family's experience with MMO's I read every one of these articles when I see them and they all sound the same. http://www.destructo...er-227709.phtml http://kotaku.com/5384643/i-kept-playing--the-costs-of-my-gaming-addiction I quit WoW before my addiction really set in. I played it for about 8 days of online time over the course of 74 days. I realized that it cost too much both monetarily and personally and gave it up. I do feel like I understand the addiction though.

It'll go cheaper.

I always pictured Iron Man simply as the anti-Batman. He's got a lot of the same qualities in terms of self made, no super powers rich playboy but at the same time he's the polar opposite in terms of personality.

My wife pointed out those scenes in Bones to me because they were so bad. One of them had a whole 30 second scene where they showed how the car parked itself. It was really really terrible. "Wow! It parks itself" "yeah, it's a new feature called active parking assist! (or something like that)" "that's amazing!" Usually stuff like that goes right by my wife but it was so bad even she was annoyed by it.