"Remember kiddies, if your the goalie and if you have the puck, get rid of it asap or else..."

^Some can get away with it. Brodeur, for example. Some *want* to be able to get away with it really, really badly, but end up giving ulcers to fans instead. Roy was a fantastic goalie, but as an Avs fan every time he decided to play the puck my heart rate would go up...

Either he meant to do that and is really good, or he was just trying to fly in a straight line and is really, really bad.

I appreciate your comment, and I understand what you're saying. I once wrote a 16-page paper on the "Problem of Evil," so I understand it a little bit. It took me at least 16 pages to write a sufficient solution to the Problem of Evil, but I feel that I did it. To me the solution is extremely simple, but I can never seem to convince anyone of this. Frankly, I don't have the time or the energy to try and convince you, but I'll give some highlights.

God is a perfect being, yet he is eternally progressing. He progresses through his creations. His creations increase, his children grow, etc. We, as his creations, are extensions of the progression of God. I think that you understand that in order for us to grow or be anything more than biological robots, we must have choice. God allows us to make evil choices and hurt ourselves and each other. He has provided the means for us to learn "the rules," but because of agency, people are free to choose what they will believe. This always worries people when I talk about it. We are all born with the ability to tell good from evil, but many people are never given a fighting chance to be "good" because of the evil of others or for whatever reason. The simple truth is that God is perfectly just. Because he has given us agency and because he will not intervene in our agency, some people do not have the same choices to be good as you or I, but it would be crazy to believe that God condemns people for things that they do not have a choice in. Whatever the inequites of this world that are created by man, God will make sure that all is fair, all is resolved, all is right. People worry about death and despair in this life, saying that a just God would not allow people to suffer so much. But to God, death is not a punishment. This life is so incredibly short in the grand scheme of eternity that it is not hard for me to believe that God will take care of it. If we suffer because of floods and famine, it will be for our good. You might say that people who live their entire lives in poverty are not benefitting from hardship, but God will reward us and make up a million times for our sufferings. You'd better believe that impoverished people are humble, and God has promised to reward the humble and meek. In the scope of eternity, suffering is a blessing. He has promised rewards in heaven for enduring our trials well that are beyond our comprehension. I think that's benevolent.

A couple more things concerning the Atonement. I do not believe that we will be punished or condemned for our sins unless we make them with full knowledge and consent. Even then, we have the chance to repent.

Here's a really corny video that is a brief explanation of why the Atonement is necessary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdc8rKcc4t4

How does sending his son to be brutally executed better equip God to forgive us? Even if it does, how is that a moral thing to do? Did everyone that died before 1AD go to hell? If not, then what made Jesus necessary later?

Like the video explains, in order for justice to be satisfied, Christ had to "pay for" our sins. In the garden of Gethsemane, not on the cross, Christ suffered for our sins. This is a matter of faith that I cannot explain. He was a mortal god, and because of this he was the only one who could suffer all of that exquisite pain. It had to happen the way that it did because Christ had to suffer as we will suffer. He had to

1. Have a body, because we have bodies
2. Be separated from God, because we are separated from God
3. Die, because we will die

It was moral because Jesus volunteered and knew what he was doing. And of course everyone before 1AD isn't going to hell. Time is a mental construct. The Atonement pays both past and future debts. Another thing is that we are not punished in eternity for mistakes that we make in a limited amount of time. If we do not repent, we have to pay the debt for our own sins instead of Jesus doing so, and then all but the vilest of sinners will be rewarded. I believe that only those that have a perfect understanding and knowledge of God and then deny him will be cast off forever. And maybe a few other really, really bad people. And that's almost no one.

I'm not done and there are lots of holes, but I want to go to bed. As a general rule, if something about Christian doctrine seems unjust or unmerciful or illogical to you, it is probably because it is wrong.

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what a beautiful lady you are!

my brother spent 8 years as an army intelligence officer. one of his friends got deployed while his wife stayed back home pregnant. she was astranged from her own family, so my brother took on the role of her birth coach and support while her husband was away. she went into the labor a few weeks early. she called my brother, he rushed from work at the base to go and pick her up and head to the hospital they thought they had at least a few hours ahead of them. on the way they got stuck in traffic. jam. stuck. san antonio traffic is a beast. he pulled over, called the ambulance and hopped in the backseat with her. when the ambulance finally arrived the babies head was out. the paramedics took over just in time and my brother who has no children of his own and is terrified of anything medical, literally goes into shock whenever he gets an iv, quietly hyperventilated while they got mommy and baby stablized and into the ambulance. they rode off the hospital mommy and baby were fine and well and my brother accidentally helped deliver a beautiful healthy baby boy in the back of his convertible. yayayayay!!!!

and yeah, id say there is an information vacuum when it comes to what your birthing options are.
both of my children were born at the hospital i worked out and we had excellent care and a fabulous doctor. but i think if i ever do it again id like to have a midwife and a doula with more natural pain control options, especially since neither of my epidurals took and i had a really really bad pain control experience with my first child.

Not only was this a lame example of water boarding. If anyone knows or has listened to this guy, they would know that this was all staged. Mancow Muller is a cheap, two-bit want-to-be imitation of Howard Stern. But is even more over-the-top with his theatrics. He's a huge wrestling fan and subscribes to the "bigger, and more outrageous is better" mentality when it comes to his show.

As you can see, if you are not concentrating on the subject, but paying close attention to his reaction in the video, Mr. Muller is a really, really, really bad actor. His reaction is contrived. And very poorly contrived at that. I mean seriously, he lasts what, 2 seconds? And as many others have already said, this was nothing even remotely resembling what a real water boarding would be like. I was going to post this a few days ago when it appeared on YouTube, but did not because I thought for sure most of the intelligent people on here would see right through the obvious and very poor acting job of Mr. Muller and the completely fake "demonstration" of water boarding and not give it one single vote. Guess I was wrong.

Not trying to offend anyone, I seriously thought you guys would see right through this facade. Very surprising.

I agree with Zor.. If the only thing that makes it objectionable is the KNOWLEDGE that someone died, I don't think it should be removed.

ie. if the only way I know someone died is because of the title or someone's google skills, then it's not really snuff. Or, if I can change a title (and comments) and no one would otherwise object.. I think it is a dumb reason to remove a video.

Take for instance, motocross knocked silly after stunt. Or really really bad highway pile up. It's really dumb that a 100 car pile up can stay, but the truck collision has to go.. and it is nearly identical footage other than the knowledge someone died.

Wow. Contrary to what I've always believed, I guess I've never actually had a migraine before. Yay!

There have been times where it hurt to move my head or open my eyes and I've been severely nauseated even on an empty stomach, but I've never had any of the fucked up stuff in this video. So I guess what I thought were migraines were just really, really bad headaches.

Death to migraines.

Can I be the first to say how incredibly shit 'unskippable' looks? Can I? because really, someone with no real humour doing a voice over on bad cut scenes looks to be one perfect recipe for a really... really... bad use of your time.

>> ^Offsajdh:
You know how sometimes, when comedy is really really bad, it to some degree actually becomes funny simply because its so poor? I always thought the hosts of "americas funniest home videos" had perfected that science of trying to be funny but failing at it so bad that it involuntarily becomes funny again. Seems like someone just managed to take that to an entirely new level.


This is so not funny its funny and then not funny again and then funny, before its finally unfunny again.

You know how sometimes, when comedy is really really bad, it to some degree actually becomes funny simply because its so poor? I always thought the hosts of "americas funniest home videos" had perfected that science of trying to be funny but failing at it so bad that it involuntarily becomes funny again. Seems like someone just managed to take that to an entirely new level.

come on farhad, that is a sweet scene. the rest of the film would have to be really really bad to put me off after this scene.

i don't like it when people have stupid accents in films, would be better with original language... but subtitles kinda get in the way of a scene like this.

but british actors saying "komrraid pass me ze gun" is even more stupid, right?
interesting topic anyway.

>> ^Fade:
What would have made this totally awesome is if a taliban sniper had popped the skulls of all these jarheads. But hey nobody ever stands up to a bully.


Taliban sniper? Do such things exist?

No, really. The Taliban are really, really bad at marksmanship. They rely on firing many, many bullets in roughly the general direction in the hope that a lucky bullet will take someone out.

I did as oxdottir suggested as checked out the Personal Queue. I must say that a lot of those videos are really... really bad and should never be sifted. If there is a personal queue tab, then there should a be limit to how many videos a sifter can have up there, otherwise it would be enormous. Some sifters already have 50 videos in their PQ. Perhaps a sifter can have one video in the PQ tab at a time. Maybe it's reserved for Gold Stars and above. It seems a PQ tab would be a "second tier" for sifting.

I would love to upvote, shmawy, but I can't do it. When I was a girl, I was in a group of girlfriends who would get together sometimes and listen to neal diamond and write really, really, really bad poetry. I didn't have the guts to explain how much I loathed neal diamond, and I was scarred for life.

This is bad. Really, really bad.