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lately about 20% of posts contain some scripture in them and nonbelievers find it offensive.Quoting: ObeWayneKenobe
My question is why? I AM a "Non-believer" in the majority of those "scriptures"........and yet, I DON'T find them offensive! I am perfectly capable of having a discussion over the so called written word.
And yet, there must be something there......for on some level of consciousness; so many, as you say, ARE offended......what does that tell you?
How would you like it if 20% of the posts contained words like "THERE IS NO GOD"?
Really, I don't mind at all.........cause it gives me the opportunity to try and share my experiences to the contrary!
and where exactly did i use the word "arguing" btw?
Oh sorry, I think I got crossed up on something somebody else said.......my apologies!
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It really is so senseless arguing with you Christers. You think you know truth but you wouldn't know truth if it was standing right in front of you. You only believe the things that make YOU happy. You are like little kids who believe in Santa. You all just need to grow up.Quoting: Neesie
well said, unfortunately their insanity (and yes it IS a form of schizophrenia; hearing/talking with an non-existent cloud being) is deeply entrenched and any attempt to convince them of this is usually futile.
Who's "arguing" here? I see only open discussion........and why does THAT bother you? :(
It is the same ole tired theme ObeWayneKenobe. People have Zero evidence to support their ascertions, but accuse christians of not knowing the facts. They don't understand that by saying God doesnt exist that it is only their own Opinion (no proof). They don't have any proof either but they makes leaps and bounds of judgements on christians.
What do you call fossil evidence? What do you call scientists who have studied evolution and have much evidence to support their beliefs? Why do schools refuse to teach children creationism but freely teach evolution? And please don't give me the bullshit answer that they are discriminating against your religion. The schools teach evolution because it is TEACHABLE.
Try telling kids that God was afraid of a tower that people were building because he was soooo scared that they might reach him. SO God got angry and confused the people and made them speak different languages. Try studying where different languages DID originate from, Neesie. The stories in the Bible are stupid myths, as silly and primitive as the Greek myths. The reason schools don't teach biblical bullshit is because it is NOT TRUE. So what do you have to say about that?
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And Jesus was born on Aug. 18th! lolQuoting: ObeWayneKenobe
You are soooo arrogant and self-righteous that it isn't even funny. Jesus was born on August 18th. HaHaHa. And where did you get your information from? Oh, I know, you don't even have to tell me. You got it from the Bible somehow. You figured it out because of the shepards in the field or some other pile of crap analogy.
It really is so senseless arguing with you Christers. You think you know truth but you wouldn't know truth if it was standing right in front of you. You only believe the things that make YOU happy. You are like little kids who believe in Santa. You all just need to grow up.
Wow, Nessie was right, you get mean when you can't have your way! :(
Why would you think that I am "arrogant and self-righteous"........just because I offer you a truthful answer? :( I am NOT trying to brag, or even be a know-it-all........I simply have graduated from certain classes that apparently you have yet to take! Does that make me better than you? NO NO NO NO NO! I simply wish to share.......and for that I get called arrogant/self-righteous? :(
Now how do I know the actual birth date? And No, it wasn't from the Bible...........so who told me?
Give me a break. There are hundreds of people who go to biblical colleges and they learn all about stupid myths there. They learn, for instance, that Samson caught 300 foxes, with his bare hands. They he tied all their tails together and then he put torches between each pair of tails and this is how he burned up the fields of his enemies. This is the kind of bullshit you learn in your so-called religion classes. Try going to a real college and study SCIENCE and EVOLUTION.
So I am not going to believe that Jesus was born on so and so date just because YOU think it is true. And, believe me, I have heard MANY different dates. The TRUTH is that Jesus is a myth. No man that was born of a virgin ever lived. No zombies came out of their graves when that man died and walked around a town. I am not a child and I don't believe in this silly crap. I don't think you would speak "kindly" to someone if they came to you and, time and time again, told you that Jack and the Beanstalk was a true story and they REALLY believed it. How many times would someone have to tell you that before you would begin to get angry, especially when they made you the bad guy because you DIDN'T believe it? I wonder. I wonder what YOUR tolerance is for the Muslims who would tell you that YOU were going to hell for not worshiping Allah?
I have a reason to be angry. All you Christers think you are absolutely correct about everything you believe. You think some invisible and imaginary god talks to you and then pretend you are having an imaginary personal relationship with him. You have GOT to understand that to normal, intelligent people, you all seem to be wack jobs. The Bible has a story of a talking donkey and YOU BELIEVE IT. This is what I mean. You people really do need to grow up. Being nice to you doesn't help. Being angry with you doesn't help. Maybe an intervention would help (like the kind they use when people are involved in cults) but, besides that, I honestly don't know what would help you. ANYONE who believes that myths and fairy tales are REAL are the kind of people who don't know the difference between truth and fiction, reality and fantasy, and this is sad.


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Training camps are open and all 30 teams face questions of some sort heading into the season. For the Carolina Hurricanes, one of their questions heading was the health of defenseman Joni Pitkanen.
During an April 2 game against the Washington Capitals, Pitkanen suffered a broken heel bone while retrieving a puck. And on Wednesday, General manager Jim Rutherford announced that the 29-year old Pitkanen will miss the entire 2013-14 season.
After undergoing surgery on the bone in April, Pitkanen suffered a setback just a few weeks ago and he underwent a CT scan last week.
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Pitkanen talked with Rutherford during the summer and Rutherford said the player sounded optimistic about being on schedule with his rehab. Pitkanen returned to Raleigh last week and underwent a CT scan, and Rutherford said Wednesday the scan results indicated the surgery was successful.
"We were taken a little by surprise, three weeks before training camo, to learn that it was not progressing better than it was," Rutherford said. "I suspect Joni was hoping it would get better and that he could begin putting more weight on it. But the stability was not there."
Making matters worse is that Pitkanen's contract is up after this season.
Rutherford also said he's exploring all options to fill Pitkanen's place in Carolina's top six. Currently, Tim Gleason, Justin Faulk, Jay Harrison, Andrej Sekera and Mike Komisarek are slated for the blue line. Youngsters Ryan Murphy and Brett Bellemore could factor in now that a spot has opened up.
There is also the trade route, with the Toronto Maple Leafs potentially looking to possibly shed some salary -- John-Michael Liles, anyone? -- while trying to re-sign Cody Franson. Liles still has three years and $11.625 owed to him, so that would appear unlikely. Enticing Leafs GM Dave Nonis with a trade offer for Franson would be cheaper.
If Rutherford wants to go with a little more experience than in-house kids, names such as Ron Hainsey -- who the Canes have spoken with recently -- and Tom Gilbert are still on the free agent market, and the Hurricanes have room under the salary cap (perhaps even more if Pitkanen goes on LTIR). It's also 20 days before opening night, which is a good time to cut a deal with a player currently without a job.
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The purpose of this meditation is to develop the strong wish for all living beings to find true happiness, and then to meditate on this feeling in the light of actions and their effects.
I began the meditation by thinking about my cherishing love for all living beings. How fitting for Valentine's Day! I cherish them deeply but when I check I can see that they are not happy.
They seek happiness at every turn, but they are looking in the wrong place. They seek happiness in worldly pleasure and cannot find it.
I wished that they could find happiness – true happiness that would satisfy their wishes. I felt a deep wish rise in my heart, and it extended to all living beings. I kept the wish in my heart for a while.
I then thought about what this wish means in the light of actions and their effects. Whatever we do is the cause for us to experience the same thing. By wishing all other living beings to experience happiness, we are creating the karmic potential to experience true happiness our self. As Shantideva says, 'All the happiness in the world comes from wishing others to be happy'. I stayed with my wish for others to be happy for the rest of the meditation.
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Are you obsessed with Candy Crush?
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Felicia Levine wanted to know what all the fuss was about.
A few months back, Levine — the editor of The Boca Raton Observer lifestyle magazine, as well as a licensed clinical therapist — began receiving repeated Facebook updates from friends about how they'd reached the next level of something called Candy Crush.
"I had no clue what Candy Crush was," she says.
One day shortly thereafter, she was out to lunch with a few girlfriends and remembers that "the conversation among my friends was about how they were all spending so much time playing this Candy Crush game on their cellphones that their husbands had started complaining about it."
Levine's clinical instincts immediately kicked in: "I've counseled enough clients with compulsive-personality issues to recognize the early red flags."
That night, with her live-in boyfriend Paul out for the evening on a work assignment, curiosity got the better of the 48-year-old Deerfield Beach, Fla., resident. After all, how alluring could this video game really be? So she signed up and started playing.
Several hours later, she recalls, "Paul told me that when he came home and said, 'Hey, honey!' I didn't respond — because I was still playing and didn't even notice he'd walked into the room!"
"And that's when I understood what my friends had been going on and on about."
Candy Crush craze
Introduced in 2012, Candy Crush Saga has quickly become the Internet's most popular "casual" video game.
Designed for a largely female-targeted audience, the rules, format and goals of the game are similar to previous casual-gaming iterations, such as Bejeweled and Tetris. You can play Candy Crush free at Facebook and/or do likewise as an app on your mobile device.
Featuring a variety of colorful "candy" lined up on a grid, the game is, essentially, a series of simple, then increasingly challenging, puzzles to solve.
However, the basic tenets and ultimate objective never change: On each level, you're allowed to make a certain number of "moves" in order to line up three identical candies in row. Once that's achieved, the candies are "crushed" (disappear from the screen) and a new set of candies appear. Thus, you've ascended a "level." (Congratulations!)
Ah, but there's the rub.
Described on Slate.com by an amusingly shamed Candy Crush confessor as "simultaneously simple and satanic," Candy Crush lets players experience an initial rush of success in ascending levels that becomes more difficult to attain.
"The variable 'reward schedule' of a non-repetitive game keeps players engaged, so they're continually chasing the next win or challenge," explains West Palm Beach licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Rachel Needle. "I hesitate to call it 'addictive,' but there's definitely the potential for compulsive and/or excessive usage."
Especially when ego and competitiveness are thrown into the mix.
For Facebook users, your progress up the levels can automatically be sent in updates to your Facebook friends (as well as fellow Candy Crushers who you probably don't even know, so you can see how you measure up). Likewise, theirs can be sent to you.
A 'freemium' experience
What's especially insidious, though, is the so-called "freemium" aspect of Candy Crush. Yes, the game is free to download/play. You even get five complimentary "lives" at the outset. But if, in your quest(s) to ascend to the next of the 400 increasingly difficult levels, you lose those five lives, then you're kicked out of the game for 30 minutes.
Get "killed" again, you're out for another 30 minutes ... and so on.
However, a mere 99 cents buys you more lives, and lets you bypass the forced hiatus. Other pricing structures let you purchase more "moves" when you've exhausted them on a given level.
So, theoretically, yes, it is possible to play Candy Crush for free.
Just as, theoretically, it's possible to eat one — and only one — piece of M&M's when you open a single-serving bag.
But spending a few (or a few dozen) discretionary dollars on a pastime whose reward is simply pride and an intrinsic sense of fleeting accomplishment won't impact most people's financial well-being.
However, cautions Dr. Needle, "When this — or any — online activity becomes excessive, and removes you mentally from what's physically around you, that's when it can begin to interfere with your real-life relationships."
So, to paraphrase the most memorable line from the movie "WarGames": If you possess the type of obsessive/compulsive personality traits that might make it a struggle keeping the world's most popular online casual video game in proper perspective, your only winning move with Candy Crush might be not to play.
What is Candy Crush Saga? It's an online video game that's part of what the industry calls "casual gaming" — that is, simple, straightforward, non-violent, puzzle-type challenges. According to App Data, around 45 million people play it monthly in some form; on Facebook, some 16 million users play monthly — making it the social media site's most popular game ever. It's the most-downloaded, and top-grossing, app on both Apple and Android smartphones. A spokesman for the game's British creator, King, told The New York Times that it's played on mobile devices more than 600 million times a day and that the game's "target demographic skews towards women between the ages of 25 and 55." Candy Crush is estimated by Think Gaming to earn $633,000 daily — or some quarter-billion dollars since its April 2012 debut. The game is part of the industry's evolving "freemium" market. The app is free to download, as is playing. But, as players ascend "levels" and "staying alive" becomes more difficult, the option to purchase more lives and/or playing "moves" for a nominal fee becomes available — and especially enticing.
Steve Dorfman writes for The Palm Beach Post.