is when I haven't played in over a year and I come back and my favorite stomping grounds are all gone, replaced by a maze and I get my lowbie stuck in the dark woods for hours upon hours of wandering around because no one's put the solution to that particular maze on the wiki yet.by Rade - Main Board
It was intended to be funny because Reaganomics tends to look really good in the short run but then it catches up to you and it sucks... this move also looked good at the time but now we're going to have a whole butt ton of green air traffic controllers all at once, which sucks. It doesn't suck of the magnitude of reaganomics... but that was the joke.. not that funny to begin with butby Rade - OT Board
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In the next 10 years 50% of our employees will qualify for retirement. That's staggering. We're going to start some job shadowing thing for management training and all sorts of stuff to fill the void. Luckily I haven't had to go to any retarded classes like you yet.by Rade - OT Board
A month or so after the char deletes I usually have forgotten their name.by Rade - Main Board
Your best bet is to report it to the police. You'll still lose the car and the money but you won't be brought up on charges.by Rade - OT Board
Basically some dinky little town returned zero votes for Ron Paul even though several people confirmed they had voted for him. Would it have changed the result? Probably not. Is there something wrong with the American election process? Probably.by Rade - OT Board
Assume for a moment that the establishment wants Romney and/or Huckabee to get the Republican nod. They will do everything in their power to downplay the McCain victory. The easiest way to do that is to talk about the other team.by Rade - OT Board
If you attempt to get a title, the car will be confiscated and you'll be out the money and the car. If you're caught with the car you'll be arrested for possession of stolen property. Sorry, you got fucked.by Rade - OT Board
Otherwise they'd be ripping of limbs which bother them.by Rade - OT Board
Let me say first off that I believe Muslims and Judeo-Christians are all pursuing the same God. The Muslim's just have a completely different conception of him. That conception is what is impersonal, not the God himself. Just in case I've been giving the wrong impression. QuoteIslaam.comAllah's control over his slaves is perfect. The Christian God is omnipotent. The choiceby Rade - OT Board
I've been doing more reading about Huckabee since he appears to now at least have a snowball's chance in hell of getting the nod (still counting on Mitt, cause he's got the big money). I'll say this about Huckabee, at least he's genuine. While I can't support the fact that he's pro-war, nor some of his other fundamentalist policies (Constitutional Amendment toby Rade - OT Board
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the masses gave up voting a long time ago.by Rade - OT Board
Okay, so I didn't read all of that article before I posted the link. This little tidbit I found hilarious: <i>But Huckabee was back in Iowa first thing Thursday morning, telling a crowd of supportive Iowans that the Republican race is "about believing in a cause." As the returns began to trickle in, a spontaneous prayer circle broke out at the Des Moines Embassy Suites whby Rade - OT Board
Both of these guys have a lot of charisma, should be interesting to follow at least. My guy, RP, is statistically tied for 3rd, which is about as good as I was expecting.by Rade - OT Board
The obviously racist comments in that Kos article are from dubious sources (usenet?). Also, the liberal media may be throwing him a softball because they feel he doesn't have any chance, but I have the feeling that if there were good evidence regarding him being a white supremecist that we'd hear more about it from reliable news outlets. I don't worry too much about someone'by Rade - OT Board
My point was two parts: 1) A VERY significant portion of Christians 'worship saints' as you put it, in fact 1/3 to 1/2 of Christians depending on your count are Catholic. This isn't some edge sect and as such is relevant when discussing the general personal vs impersonal traits of God. To my knowledge there is no Islamic sect which has practices which you could parallel to thaby Rade - OT Board
QuoteillademnQuoteRadeHow would you objectively justify the statement that Allah's involvement with humanity is less intimate? Granted, both faiths acknowledge the Creator/creation aspect. But while Allah's relationship is of a Creator God towards his slaves, the Christian God's relationship is that of a Creator God toward his children. If that isn't more intimate, I don&by Rade - OT Board
It's more that you <i>appear</i> to be too forgiving of your own leaders by neglecting to bring them up in discussion, even when they're guilty of the same sins. While I think that anti-American isn't necessarily the right word, it is a bit off-putting.by Rade - OT Board
QuoteIsildurQuoteRadeYou can't possibly have meant that it's not religious/racial bigotry because it was executed for political gain. I must not be understanding you properly. No, that's pretty much what I meant. Whatever Muslims Bush may have screwed over, I don't think he did it specifically because they were Muslims. And even if he did, I don't think that's a rby Rade - OT Board
QuoteillademnQuoteRadeSpeaking through meditation or prayer to a dead holy person to ask for their favor in a particular matter is not significantly different from this practice. With just your description of this Hindu practice, I'm going to have to disagree with you here. It sound as if these lesser Hindu gods are still gods and thus have their own power. But there's nothing magicby Rade - OT Board
Java isn't speaking about most middle-eastern muslims. He's talking about Muslims which live in the United States. That pretty much makes the rest of your post pointless.by Rade - OT Board
I'm asking what definitions are being used when suggesting that Christianity follows a 'more personal' God than Islam. Frankly, that doesn't even have anything to do with my original point which was that by inferring that a particular religion was less worthy of respect in a public policy statement Huckabee is expressing his bigotry which is not a trait I look for in a presby Rade - OT Board
I specifically was discussing Jews, which appear to be doing just fine in the U.S.by Rade - OT Board
QuoteNot really. I'm sure there are plenty of Baptists (who you say use a direct line to God) who have asked a friend to pray for them. Asking a saint for intercession is no different. Catholics who are worth their salt pray directly to God as well. Here's a Hinduism lesson... While they are technically polytheistic there is definitely a hierarchy of gods in this religion. Dependingby Rade - OT Board