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08-04-2005, 10:19 AM
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The urban Jane Goodall
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Christians Code Heavenly Games
Check this silly shit out...
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,21...tml?tw=rss.TOP ...snip... Instead of the health and weapons points used in other role-playing games, players collect love, hope and faith points to power their missions. When they meet foes, instead of fragging them as in Halo 2, the disciples earn their halos by praying for them or using the "finger of God" to convert them. ...snip... Escalante admits to taking some artistic license in Timothy and Titus. In the traditional story line, Timothy was martyred by pagans, but both saints live through all the levels of the PC game, scheduled for release in November. ...snip... He uses the time period after creation and before Noah took to the ark as the backdrop for the game, in which players battle dinosaurs, giant spiders and human enemies. ...snip... Although Adam appears as a character (after Eve dies) and the biblical character Enoch is renamed Orion, no quotes appear from the Bible, according to Churness. ...snip... However, Horwitz believes the recent success of Christian-themed media from companies such as Gaylord Entertainment indicates that there is a receptive audience. "I wouldn't underestimate the force of Christian content," Gaylord said.
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I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle |
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08-04-2005, 10:28 AM
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This is a fully functional babe lair
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Meh.. they'll never go big mainstream. Pretty much a niched market forever to be that way.
Though I must say that my buddies and I thuroughly enjoy playing Exodus for NES.. nothin like evaporating 8bit demons by shooting full auto Word of God!
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Kiss my white Irish ass. |
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08-04-2005, 11:57 AM
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changed his status to single
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dammit HM! i went looking for it, but couldn't fnd it.
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Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin |
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08-04-2005, 12:46 PM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Found it:
Bart: When I'm feeling low, you know what cheers me up? Rod: Kindness? Bart: Oooh, tough room. Video games! Whaddyagot? (He reaches to the bookshelf and picks up a copy of "Billy Graham's Bible Blasters," and they begin to play.) Rod: Keep firing! Convert the heathens! (A series of "heathens" crosses the video screen as a "Bible gun" fires Bibles at them. When a "heathen" is hit, he turns into a conservatively dressed man with a halo.) Bart: Got him! Rod: No, you just winged him and made him a Unitarian. Todd: Look out, Bart! A gentle Baha'i! (Bart zaps the Baha'i, turning him into another suit with a halo). Bart: All right! Full conversion!
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08-04-2005, 12:49 PM
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changed his status to single
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that's the one.
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08-06-2005, 01:00 AM
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The future is unwritten
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The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump. |
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08-06-2005, 12:59 PM
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halve your cake and eat it too.
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but wait... weren't dinosaur bones put in the ground to test 'our' faith? that's the way it is out here on the plains anyway... geez
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no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire. |
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08-06-2005, 03:18 PM
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King Of Wishful Thinking
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Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama |
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08-06-2005, 03:35 PM
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Slattern of the Swail
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You know that you are laughing NOW.
Consider the freaking consequences! (did I spell that right??)--anyhoo, I live in actual FEAR that my god-given right to worship goddesses (skyclad, natch! Devil!) will be flattened like so many pancakes at IHOP, and don't pretend you haven't eaten there either, you heathen horn-god that I will worship later when the 'shrooms kick in!
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum |
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08-06-2005, 04:57 PM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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IHOP was good until the franchises were allowed to decide precisely which items to include on their new menu, and all the Austin stores stopped serving potato pancakes. We still go whenever we're out of town somewhere, though.
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08-06-2005, 08:40 PM
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King Of Wishful Thinking
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Getting back on track, at some point someone in Congress is going to attempt a declaration that the United States is a Christian nation on the grounds that while the 1st Amendment prohibits an official church, it does not prohibit the recognition of an existing church as the basis of the laws and culture of the United States. A 'strict constructionist' might actually buy this argument.
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Exercise your rights and remember your obligations - VOTE!I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting. -- Barack Hussein Obama |
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08-08-2005, 08:39 AM
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The urban Jane Goodall
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OC is a literalist creationist xtian wiccan...
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