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At some point in the show about halfway through, she got up to use the bathroom. That was when I took off the clothes I was wearing and left them on the bed, sprawled out like I had been beamed away. I then hid down between the bed and the wall where she couldn't see me.
She walked back in the room and started screaming, it scared the hell out of her and made me feel like a champion.
She was furious and was crying and laughing at herself at the same time for being so scared. This post reminded me of that night I hadn't thought about that in good long while.
10/13/09
Wait, so the world actually gets better after the Rapture? It would be nice if Jesus hurried his ass up and took all these psychotic Christians with him... oh wait, they're not real Christians are they? Damnit...
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God of War says hi.
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I guess it's always funny until you're the butt of the joke.
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I mean, really, it's an insult to the book series which were genuinely good for such a game to be made.
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Honestly now?
I don't know what to say to that.
10/12/09
That's pretty clever, Owen!
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"What the hell were they thinking..."
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Funny, though. As soon as I read the opening paragraph I knew who wrote it. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing though :)
10/12/09
The only parts of the bible I take seriously are the ones that I use to justify denying rights to gays and denying sexual education in schools.
As God intended.
10/12/09
Doesn't this game outright insult people who don't fall inside the belief system of the people who made it?
If you aren't a "true" Christian, you won't be taken up in the Rapture and will have to endure 7 years of war. That's the premise of the game.
10/12/09
I would say that many games whose central conflicts are heavily story-driven will include some sort of overarching ideological conflict. Let's say that a person really is an ideological fascist or whatever. Wouldn't games that involve taking down fascist systems and rebelling against "evil empires" offend people who thought that these systems were right?
My ultimate point is that just because someone is offended, doesn't necessarily mean that the "offending party" is wrong.
10/12/09
Any Christian who believes in this particular eschatology probably wishes the best for everyone.
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Well, if a game is allowed to exist which says that certain ideologies are wrong, why can't an article on a blog exist that makes snide remarks about the ideology behind the game?
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I've dealt with all four groups of people (Christians, Texans, atheists and Catholics (I am one, but I could practice it more)) and I can definitely tell you that Christians are way more... opinionated? Loud?
They have a tendency to go the extra mile to prove that you're wrong, at everything.
Now, atheists, don't get me started. Their superiority complex is just so unnerving.
Catholics I guess try to guilt-out everyone in the world, but it's not today's topic :)
10/12/09
He's entitled to his opinion on the matter, you're entitled to yours and hopefully I'm entitled to mine.
It doesn't make any of us right.
10/12/09
Indeed, but you did say that the game "insults" people who don't "agree" with its premise, right or wrong.
10/12/09
I posed the question, I didn't say that it did.
EDIT: Then again, a quick search shows plenty of cases of people who were outright offended by the ideology presented in Left Behind.
10/12/09
And since when are Catholics and Christians separate groups?
And what's up with the atheism hatred? It seems to come up every time religion is even mentioned, about those damned arrogant atheists, when no one was even saying anything.
people need to chillax a bit, methinks.
10/13/09
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@dracosummoner: Excellent point. The fact of the matter is, though, that I believe Mr. Good to be misguided in outright insulting an entire faith just because he doesn't believe what they do. I'm not saying he's right or wrong, but I think that kind of negative bias has no place in journalism.
@TrjnRabbit: I don't think it insults them. I haven't played it, but I can't imagine that the premise is to make everyone who didn't "make the cut" feel like shit for not making it.
@Dresan:
My experience with Christians is definitely a mixed bag. I've met a lot (grew up in a Presbyterian church) and while there are those who stand outside movie theatres and preach eternal damnation, there are a lot more who would never shove their beliefs down your throat. We only see/hear about the radicals the most, so they become the image for all Christians.
@Caelestis: Well, 60% of your comment was made up of assuming sterotypes are fact, which of course is wrong. Texas is in the southern United States. I'm not familiar with this "Bible Belt" region. Is it near the Appalachians? Also, saying Wal-Mart is taking over the world is just ridiculous. That would be like saying McDonald's is taking over the world just because it has a lot of locations. As soon as they become a lobbyist group, then we'll talk.
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Nope, no bias here.
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Who Does?
10/12/09
African American-themed movies like Soul Plane are now available in - where else - 7-11's in - where else - Harlem thanks to an agreement between the retailer and publisher Inspired Media Entertainment.
I sure feel dirty typing that particular sentence.
(Obviously, any "oppression" Christians face in the States, if it even exists, is in no way comparable to the problems African Americans face. Completely a different issue. I'm just trying to show that when you change the subject of the sentence to a something we're more sensitized to, the slight condescension is less ignorable.)
Again though, there's nothing really objectionable in this article. It's just not quite NPOV.
10/12/09
Truth it may be, but sadness is subjective.
10/13/09
We're not all crazy fundamentalists down here. And every elected official in this state is totally not my fault. And when I see Louis Gohmert rambling about how gay marriage will lead to marrying animals and whatnot, I die a little inside, because he's from my district.
So on behalf of all the other sane Texans, I have this message for the rest of the world: We're sorry. We tried.
10/12/09
you americans are messed up
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