Replies to rarity, page 9
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@rarity IMO those aren't worth it because in half the angles your character can be in you can see how flat they are. These at least have an actual model.
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@rarity I can't hear you over my crying at spending $22 on some god damn wings
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@rarity Look how cool these things are though http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/853843
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@rarity Well yeah D2 is the greatest point and click ARPG ever made.
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@rarity As a massive market game? sure. Does it still have people who play and content patches? Yes.
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@rarity I've always liked theology as well but more along the lines of concepts of divinity and such and less about the exact writings of each religion.
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@rarity Yeah but the things that are demanded to be passed are much less ridiculous than the old testament stuff, like not shaving or not mixing threads.
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@rarity Most of the less moderate teachings of Christianity are old testament and supposedly Jesus' sacrifice made those null, so actually sticking to new testament teachings makes a person pretty passive. Sticking to stuff like leviticus actually means saying that you think Jesus' death was completely pointless.
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@rarity Oh, of course. I don't even like the figure of Jesus as far as biblical figures go, but abrahamic religions have been mostly ok as far as moderate interpetations go.
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@rarity IMO that kind of strict morality is required in the world, and religion is as good as any reason to convince people to keep it. Without them the world would get way, way too permissive.
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@rarity I suppose you can see it as such, but I don't think they should be banned from thinking in whatever way they want as long as they don't try to enforce their ideas on outsiders. As for the Pope my opinion is divided, on one side I think he does a great job of being pious and enacting the more altruistic aspects of the christian faith, but on the other hand he meddles way too much in local politics here, and openly endorsed criminals like Milagro Sala because he considered they helped the poor when in fact they were stealing state money and keeping the poor in a vice grip for political reasons using federal aid as leverage in a "you don't vote for us, you starve" way, which goes against almost every tennant of christianity. If he just kept to religion and stayed out of politics outside the Vatican I'd be completely positive towards him though.
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@rarity Yet they don't have the power to enforce it on others anymore, so they only enforce their rules on themselves, which IMO is fine.
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@nerthos @rarity Being someone who has been the target of religious violence for my being a lesbian, there's two things about that incident I remember, other than the missing tooth - the hatred of what was the body politic, none of whom are people anyone would label as extremists, and the fact that the one person other than my sister and the friend I was there with whom helped me, was the Father from that church.
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@rarity Oh, yeah, the abuse thing is awful, but it's not limited to the catholic church and in any case the pope and archbishops took a hard stance on it in the last decade. As for being fanatic and violent, the vast majority of believers condemn any violent behavior in the name of religion, so the fanatics aren't much different from ISIS and such extremist factions.
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@rarity What do they do? I have no idea what the North American catholics are like, but the South American and European ones are fine.
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@rarity Evangelists are ridiculous, catholicism is fine. 80% of the population is catholic here and even the most fanatic of them don't go past going grandma on you and telling you you shouldn't be violent. It's just the fundamentalist sects with a fixation in converting people that are an issue.
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@rarity I've been handling it decently for nearing two years but sometimes things annoy me a lot. I suppose it's hard to me to deal with people screwing up due to lack of planning since it's really easy to me to prevent that
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@rarity Come to think of it, the Scandy "u" is represented in the famous Canadian "about", which would be something like "øbøut". :-)
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@rarity oh. That's just a fancy way of saying a vowel sound changes as to whether or not it's stressed or otherwise "full"
