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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=20966 |  Balrog393 (15) Oct 29, 2008 - 06:23 am
| | Played it non-stop for hours last night. So far, it's amazing -- it's like the best aspects of Oblivion and Fallout (both games I love, and have played to death). No complaints, though it would be cool if I could customize the guns (scopes and the like). Also, it performs VERY well -- MUCH smoother than Oblivion, and that game is 2+ years old. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4237 | Balrog393 (15) Jun 21, 2007 - 08:20 am » Edited on Jun 21, 2007 - 01:17 pm
| A lot of big movies have benefitted from having 'art house' directors, or otherwise non-mainstream directors. Such as: Chris Nolan (Batman Begins, previously did Memento and Insomnia), Gore Verbinski (The Pirates of the Caribbean movies, previously The Ring), Sam Raimi (Spiderman movies, previously The Evil Dead and Army of Darkness), or of course Peter Jackson (who previous to The Lord of the Rings also had small indie stuff).
Granted, this guy hasn't done anything remotely similar to a Bond movie, but neither did the above directors. Plus Stranger Than Fiction was awesome. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4198 | Balrog393 (15) Jun 11, 2007 - 11:06 am
| http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Buffalo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildebeast
They're buffalo. Cool video! Imagine being on that safari. The guide kept saying he'd never seen anything like it before, and I bet he could go his whole career and never see it again. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14215 | Balrog393 (15) Feb 06, 2007 - 03:06 pm
| | I agree. Same for Everquest. Part of the reason for that though is that Keith Parkinson is one of the artists that shaped modern fantasy art (along with artists like Larry Elmore and Clyde Caldwell). Parkinson's work looked original and exciting early on, but as more people copied the style it's come to look more generic than anything. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3324 | Balrog393 (15) Sep 01, 2006 - 07:36 pm » Edited on Sep 01, 2006 - 07:48 pm
| Okay, at the cost of sounding like a total zealot (deep breath) . . . Here goes. :)
The concept of a triune god does not appear in the Bible. Jesus never referred to himself as part of a trinity, and the word 'Trinity' does not appear in the Bible. Even honest trinitarians will admit that. The doctrine was something that crept into Christian teaching from pagan sources, and as figmentpez notes, was accepted as doctrine at the Council of Nicea, even though Jesus never taught it.
Most supporters quote John 1:1, the cogent part of which says in the King James version, 'and the Word was God' (The Word = Jesus). This is based on a mistranslation in the King James version of the Bible; the original Greek contains the indefinite article before 'god'. So more accurately it should be translated, 'and the Word was a god'. There are a number of translations that agree with this, including the American Translation and Moffatt's translation.
The fact that Jesus, God Almighty, and the Holy Spirit are separate is supported many, many times in scripture, including by Jesus himself. Jesus refers to 'my Father, the one who sent me' at John 8:17, 18, and at Matthew 26:39 he talks to his Father in prayer. Was he praying to himself? Or an aspect of himself? Was Jesus a schizophrenic?
Part of the Trinity doctrine is the thought that each aspect is equal. What about what Jesus says at John 14:28, where he says 'the Father is greater than I'?
To avoid boring anyone too much, I'll refrain from quoting the literally hundreds of scriptures that refer to God Almighty and Jesus as separate beings. Not to mention the scriptures that refer to the Holy Spirit as an impersonal force instead of a thinking being (as trinitarians teach).
So yeah, to those who think the Trinity makes no sense, you're right -- it doesn't. And it is not supported in the Bible. We have ancient pagan mythologies to thank for that contribution to dogma. Flag this | Edit this post |
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