Sorry to be picky, but the Bible does quote Jesus as saying he doesn't know when the end will be. Matthew 24:36-37 says: "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son [Jesus], but the Father alone."

You are right that many Christians have believed in the Wandering Jew who will live until the second coming. Jesus/the Bible are supposed to be infallible and Jesus said in Matthew 16:28: "Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." It's a pretty interesting trick to get out of a biblical error.
>> ^entr0py:

>> ^RFlagg:
So let me see if I got this correct. The Bible says that God has a set time, and not even Jesus knows what that time is.

Naw man, while Christians have to admit that Jesus said the world would end within the lifetime of his followers, they seriously claim that some secretive super Methuselah is alive today for the sole purpose of making Jesus not wrong. Jesus knew EXACTLY when the world would end; some time between 90AD and however long immortal people live.

"I for one welcome our new..." and "Damn ______, you so ______" are by far at the top of my list separated by an enormous gap between anything else

>> ^JiggaJonson:

Add all "I for one" comments to the "Cliche's that piss off Jiggajonson" list. I appreciate this wonder of innovation, it's too bad you couldn't spend 10 seconds coming up with a cleverer description.

>> ^JiggaJonson:

Add all "I for one" comments to the "Cliche's that piss off Jiggajonson" list. I appreciate this wonder of innovation, it's too bad you couldn't spend 10 seconds coming up with a cleverer description.


Aww, diddums.

Add all "I for one" comments to the "Cliche's that piss off Jiggajonson" list. I appreciate this wonder of innovation, it's too bad you couldn't spend 10 seconds coming up with a cleverer description.

OK, I think I have watched the entire (today) set of videos [last one was 3.3.3 A History of God (Part 1)?]. I thought they were excellently done, and present a path to atheism that was, frankly, more arduous than my own.

I think that by the time I was mature enough to really consider things and run the logic for myself, I had already mostly rejected my Christian upbringing. Having been brought up in it at all made that process of rejecting it slightly difficult, but it seems almost beyond imagining how difficult it would be to be a (functionally) mature yet indoctrinated human being and then to have all of this rushing at you over a short period of time as he did.

At first I was almost offended by his account of the "Professor" trying to delay his further investigation. I have tended to think considering that a key tenet of the religious process seems to be "hook 'em while they're young", any atheist that has even mild "evangelical" tendencies or would like to see atheism or even just greater acceptance of atheists spread to people other than themselves should consider no age "too early" to begin planting seeds of speculation, doubt, and rational thought.

The Professor telling this guy to hold on, live his life and be happy, and don't sweat the details until you are older goes very contrary to that. However, I can see that the sudden vacuum that resulted in this guy's world view from the abrupt loss of his faith could actually have been dangerous; might have pushed him into suicidal depression or even cult-of-personality psychosis resulting from his brief decision that he was the second coming of Christ.

Maybe there are some instances where throttling down and just giving people enough so that they can start down the path of skepticism on their own would be better -- although I bet that this guy is overall glad that he got thrown in to the deep end to sink or swim.

I took bareboards comment to mean that you shouldn't take small details like Assange's assistance of the old man or Hitler's love for his dog to mean that they are good people. Hitler is an extreme example, of course, but I don't think Assange could possibly be compared to him without satire being involved. Hell, I use a similar comparison whenever I hear someone, usually an older relative, say that George Bush or Sarah Palin couldn't possibly be evil because they are Christian and believe in god. I say, "Yeah? Hitler was Christian too." I think bareboards actually brings up a good point. Assange isn't the second coming of Jesus. He's just a dude in charge of wikileaks. >> ^JiggaJonson:

>> ^bareboards2:
Hitler wss a vegetarian and loved his dog. Just sayin'.

I hate when people say "just sayin." It's almost like saying, "I don't want to take any responsibility for the words that came out of my mouth and would turn away any chance to discuss such matters, nevertheless I have said them."
Try it this way, you're an asshole for saying that, just sayin.

I've seen little in WoW that has surprised me. There are a few things here and there, but it really is a game copied from another game that, that game copied from yet another and then they polished it. And..as The Mythbusters proved you can polish a turd; so taking this old-outdated-prehistoric-you-get-the-point concept of go fetch times 5 per level and go gather times 5 per level plus the times 5 per level go kill stuff -- this is WoW's main feature o'fun and is the core to leveling.

The items are okay, some quests are awesome: there's a Plants vs. Zombies type quest that is well done and VERY refreshing, some of the NEW new newbie areas (goblins and furry humans) have great opening quests and have "phases" which are essentially instances "on the run" -- you don't notice it load and others don't know your in it unless they're grouped -- essentially a personal instance, there are a few "red pill" vs. "blue pill" such as making you realize you need to jump off a cliff to complete it, some of the class specific are great due to their obvious care and attention to detail in teaching you how to play your class effectively (the rogue has some of these that are a joy to play), etcetera -- oh wait, there isn't really much beyond that except instances, raids, and "PvP".

Instances can be great with your buddies and when the group size is a nice manageable size, but the fact they don't have randomized group size and level based dungeons is ridiculous, with this much time having passed. The fact that some of the boss fights start of at super hard and never bother to ramp up is stupid (as wiping should minimized to affect only idiots; trust me it doesn't matter if everyone has l33t gear, everyone should have the chance to have a character they feel is special and a force to be reckoned with). Where the hell are unique, non-soulbinding items; i.e., there are these "named" (I know they've made a few, laughable, *requires a raid* to get the guild leader the super item, which means you've got a better chance to win the lottery if you're an average player ) items that could be made into the thousands available (non-soulbinding so that they can be sold on the auction house -- which would fight gold-farmers and allow ANY player to get: THE GOODS) that drop once per server and have a 100% chance of being found for everyone...?

I could go on, but I think my point is made. There is little thought going into game creation and mechanics. Everyone stole from the MUDS, Ultima Online, and what little originality Everquest had; and no-one ever looked back. I know it will take some hard work to make a NEW TYPE of MMO that isn't guaranteed to be a slight upgrade in graphics, item crafting, or *pick your one "special" thing* the next MMO does...

So many of the current crop of MMO's have their own original and great ideas. If it would be sifted through and made into a "best of all worlds" (which is what WoW did, but they left in aggro which is a HUGE disservice to ALL players) we might get something unique and great; it would only need expansions as the core would not need much change ever (unless the engine becomes the "hindrance" to development).

Right now the aggro system n e e d s t o g o . It's archaic and mystifyingly still used though it was made for games that couldn't handle AI running (Ultima Online, Everquest,etc...) full-blast. But, with the power servers have available plus the bandwidth and the users' computer this should be a very easily solved or solvable issue. Second, comes two things that walk hand in hand: dungeons and loot. I addressed both above and what I propose should solve a lot; but imagine semi-random dungeons created that lead to great cities (very doable just from what I've seen in Warhammer and WoW's "phasing"), think: D&D's Forgotten Realms - Undermountain™, anything approaching something that massive would be equal to creating a dungeon the size of the world map, but every-time you enter you procedurally move forward to a new creation (so if you join a party your "dungeons" join to make a "seed" that is unique to those to characters. I'll stop there as it would into full-on programming techniques that aren't used either because of the complexity, non-skill, or doubt that they can make a "performance" acceptable version. Items have just as much ability to be enhanced (their own level-ups with skills, AI weapons, vehicular type, etc...).

Quests are the last concern. Fetch should only be around if you're character is going there anyway. Collection type quests should ONLY be used if you are keeping some of said items and are useful in some way. Hero quests do need to teach you to be a better "x = your class + type of class + modifiers", using instances or "phasing" (which I like more as I hate load screens). Quests need to have an main-arch that branches, but it needs to available to even the solo player; not the 60 man raid (which is a joke in the first place). Quests need to be rich in diversity: send, fetch, lead, fight, find, steal, games, test, challenge, dungeon, redemption, vengeance/wrath, ability, skill, un-lockable/lockable, class, species/race, race/time, item, creation, destruction, defend, follow, help, should I keep listing....?

I hope the programmers, I don't really care who hits the trump card first (although a low monthly cost team would be nice), figure this out. As it is getting boring even though there is "more" to do, how it's presented in WoW makes me less inclined to get involved, because it requires dedication and at that point, as he pointed out is almost as fun as shooting yourself.

As @MilkmanDan points out there is a lot of content that I don't use and at the lower levels I believe this to be fine as you'll make a mage, a shaman, a warrior, etc... Doing the same quest over and over is terrible. However, much of the high level content you CAN see, but you'll never get the riches (lottery again) and doing THE SAME EXACT DUNDEON 30 times to find that one head piece is ridiculous -- that is their idea of fun "high-end" content. F*%K YOU! This is all due to the notion (and I believe you see this in action at the auction houses, if you can compare the past to present) of inflation; the numbers go higher for the sake of going higher -- if it's higher it's better, right?!?. I'm better due to a number increase and I'll add to that number continually, mainly, because as is said above I'm now level 10 and no longer 5. I want the numbers to be in a "set" range so that you know, whenever you find or get something new, immediately how this new addition (or subtraction) will affect you. (Ultima Online got that partially correct and it made fighting on their a unique experience, STILL, although Warhammer Online uses a set number of action points instead of mana so it has a fun PvP experience, but ultimately fails due to the level problem. Oh and PvP is a joke as level and gear are the deciding issues in battle (which is funny as the winners get the better gear, thus making them win more and you can see where that goes...) and as long as you aren't stupid your talent specs (you really can't screw this up anymore as Blizzard decided that you can only go down one tree at a time rather than all three, until you've got talent point 32).

I'll stop there as I'm getting nauseated talking about this much (which is a lot). But, this is my view point on almost any RPG. Why is it so hard to make a fun system -- it seems obvious how to go after these issues. I think they're (the programmers and publishers) are lost in the woods with 100 foot tall pines and I'm on a outcrop that can see over the forest -- I see them occasionally, but even if I yelled (and I've made some of these points before) they'd still never gather a clue of what I mean. Or as it's usually said at this point:

"I'm afraid you can't see the forest for the trees."...

Damn, that was long, phew (hopefully a programmer reads it -- or I'll just cut & paste ) !

Is his chest hair intentionally shaped like that weird falcon thing you see in sort of dictatorial settings? You know the one with the red background and the bird on it looking to the left?

Edit: Found it. His chest hair fucking looks like this: http://www.ngw.nl/int/dld/images/duitsla4.jpg

Intentional or is he the second coming of hitler and that's his mark?

>> ^StukaFox:
Why was the World Trade Center still there?



After the Freedom Tower was knocked down in 2019 by The Genetic Nihilist Union using their reasonable facsimile of the Cloverfield creature, New York decided to rebuild the original towers. This act is also considered to be the main impetus for the "Kill All Scientists" movement spearheaded by then President Sarah Palin allowing ultimately for her 3rd, 4th, and 5th terms. As is widely known, her 6th term was interupted by the so-called "Second Coming" when Jesus returned because, "You are all just the most RETARDED people I have ever met. I can't believe I actually died for this shit, fer my sake."

>> ^alien_concept:

Well considering you got there first and the other one is in the Top 15, this definitely needs a promote


Great, but which one counts as the second coming?

Am disappointed. Your avatar always suggested the second coming of Kubrick.

>> ^videosiftbannedme:

I never understood the fascination with Joss Whedon. Yes, I watched Firefly and yes, it was ok, but the way the internet nerds carry on, it's like he's the second coming of Christ or something. Dr. Horrible has been his best work so far.


Personally, I hate the epic space opera and drama that is a part of most Scifi tv shows.

For Firefly, I think the opening song summarizes wonderfully: it's about the freedom of having your own ship, and being your own man. That is a dream I've had since I was a little kid, and the show speaks to me on such a deep emotional level that I don't think I'll love any other show as much as Firefly.

I never understood the fascination with Joss Whedon. Yes, I watched Firefly and yes, it was ok, but the way the internet nerds carry on, it's like he's the second coming of Christ or something. Dr. Horrible has been his best work so far.

What the fuck is wrong with someone, reacting to a non sequitur? (I know how some folks can get hung up on words used in or out of context on the site.....Well, shall we analyze??

The video obviously has nothing to do with several of the tags I used...Kellogs, Obama, Pfizer or waterboarding-Nor did I expect the damn thing to get published given the stick planted firmly in the asses of a majority of the people on the site, who would rather
the convenience and comfort of remaining virtually asleep and unconscious concerning the multi-layered world they live in. It's predictable, it's programmed, it's human, it's robotic.

The theme my friend?? I have maintained the same persona here in the face of derision, misunderstanding, and the collective developmental disabilities of so many folks. I have been called a troll and gladly embrace the distinction, for it is who I am in the world of flesh and blood as well. I have many acquaintances, friends and foes, allies and enemies, the same goes with the internet.

Project Bluebeam existed or still exists, and involves holographic deception on a grand scale.The technology is there, as evidenced in the giant hologram over Moscow of a pyramid, which is all over the internet should you wish to do the research. Do you think it strange that of the ilk of the fundamentalists on the planet that staging the second coming of Christ is outside of the realm of possibility??

I encourage the downvoting, as I have always tried here to get people to drop a fucking nut and use the powers afforded them to express themselves. I never expected for a second that this video be published. I find it sophomoric and poorly executed as well, however, information is information is information.

If you see Jesus coming in the clouds, it's probably the blackest form of the dark arts, from the most putrid examples of humankind.

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
What's with the negro tag? What the fuck is wrong with you?

>> ^rottenseed:
Let's put human condition into consideration. Let's say you're driving 45 mph on a road built for 45 mph speeds. Let's say then you start to unexpectedly accelerate. You'll waste a good 2 seconds trying to figure out what the fuck is going on. Then you'll waste another 3 (what seem like infinite) seconds coming up with a game plan to stop the car. Now you're going about 85 on a road built for 45. You start to panic...you're going way to fast. Let's see you think under those conditions.


If you haven't even THOUGHT about what to do in that situation (which happens in a lot more cars than just Toyotas, BTW) you don't deserve to drive a car.

The main problem is people who take driving a car for granted. It's a complex amalgam of skills and situational awareness, yet people view it as an extension (and somtimes complete replacement) of walking.