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So, you'd be comfortable with something that is more theology than science being taught as a science alongside a well established scientific fact, and want your child to decided if "God did it!" or "Here's a complex biological process that most people can barely wrap their heads around and..." Understand, if you start teaching "the debate" within certain fields, you basically stop teaching. ID in itself is based off horrible perversions of science. It's just a re branding of creationsim. I mean, teaching the controversy is fantastic in theory, but like I said, at such an age, nobody would be able to actually break it down and figure out what is correct. As to Dresden, Yes, I have a very one sided view of it, but I can understand the psycological need to strike back etc etc, as I age, at 15? Not so much. And from everything I've seen/heard, dresden was as much a military target as the Trade Center.

To a degree that's ok, and to a degree that's not. In fact that's the EXACT method that the Intelligent Design nutjobs are trying to use to get their religion forced into a science classroom. Student's don't have the training in the fields of study that are being taught at a k-12 level to make a decision based on information given. I'm certain a 14 year old would LOVE to think that he's smart enough in biology to decide if abiogenesis happened or if it was just god shooting a rubber band that hit the wrong target, but he's not. People go to college for 4 years to get a passing aquaintence with their subject matter and another 2-4 to become specialized enough to make this sort of call. This doesn't hold true for all subjects, I admit, but generally stating that somebody <18 has the knowledge to evaluate and make a decision on what could be a VERY complex subject is just outright idiocy. A biology student wouldn't even know where to begin if tossed at an abiogensis problem, and cultural items generally aren't gonna even be up for controversy within the students minds because they get SUCH a one sided view of EVERYTHING that early. In America, students are taught to revere the military in hero worship, and are never shown the military's bad side (firebombing Dresden for example, was mentioned to me in ENGLISH class), and while I'm sure you'd say that you're trying to correct that sort of thing, realize, children generally aren't able to percieve shades of grey very well. They generally are told "WW2, allies good, germany bad, ok? Ok." from a young age and only start changing that if they ever really get a passion for WW2.

Why does everyone think that a galactic collision is like two solid objects hitting each other? That's not what happens.... As to mars, to hear one of my teachers tell it, taking a break from space exploration actually drops the cost by a bundle. They've actually figured out a new way to land on the moon by sending the people in one capsule and cargo in the other.

All true. Except, from what I under stand, that's not the lesson per se. McCarthyism is taught mainly to demonstrate the problem of which hunts and how things were being done back during the craze. Same thing with the Salem Witch Trials. Also, it sounds like they're saying that just because there were a few commies in the country, accusing anyone who was his political opponents is Ok, because at the end of the day, he was correct.

Didn't they soften the criticisms of McCarthism in the books?

To the same degree, Steven Hawking and Albert Einstien talked about knowing the mind of god. And yet both are atheistic.

You mean Kali because Shiva is a man. You mean Shaak-ti?

Dagon, the point still stands that the Fathers weren't outright condoning christianity or any other religion, or using said values to guide them on creating a new gvmnt. Rather, they used basic morals that were laid out in many traditions to guide them. After all it's not like they had the 10 commandments printed in the constitution or outlawed the creation of false idols.

Ewan McGregor.

He kills a couple of heroes (Which is par for the course) And, of course, sleeps with Aphrodite. Still they should have spent more time making kratos seem a BIT sympathetic at the beginning of the game. Why are you discussing the story? Just look at the gore wave your tongue and forget about the plot holes. Ps.On GOW IV you tackle hindu mythology with over 100,000 deities to kill. Have fun. After he killed them, wouldn't they just reincarnate? I forgot that Hindu life is an endless loop. Seriously though there is still a lot of Chtonic deities, primordial deities and personified concepts to murder and bang. The first 3 games just skimmed over the vastness that is Greek mythology. Plus the ending of the 3 left a lot open to interpretation and a possible comeback. I know that some people have been saying "forget the story and character, enjoy the brutality!" but here's the thing, I can't enjoy it unless I feel that these people deserve what's coming to them. I finally started to connect when Pandora showed up in a meaningful way... but meh

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Gentlemen, we are awesomeness unbound. *bows* Also, looks like my grades aren't as horrible as i thought they would be.

Even atheists use "OH MAH GAWD!" as an exclamation, doesn't mean that they're talking about the god of Abraham, they could be talking about Zues, or the pixie that's buried under their fingernail. God has come to be the personification something that is not explainable to most. To the founding fathers, they were christian (who wasn't?) But they didn't want to see the ideas that drove them out of England to become prevalent here.

He kills a couple of heroes (Which is par for the course) And, of course, sleeps with Aphrodite. Still they should have spent more time making kratos seem a BIT sympathetic at the beginning of the game.

Finished God of War. I'm strangely... underwhelmed by the overall ending. Every boss fight is amazing and the story is good, but the ending in itself just doesn't feel... punctuated well enough. I will say one thing though, they REALLY needed to get rid of some of Kratos horribleness, at least early on. It was getting to the point where I just couldn't stand to kill the gods I'm tossed at because I know that I'm gonna wipe people out. He's a brutal uncaring self-obcessed jackass, and what little empathy you got in the first two games (from him having a very obvious reason for revenge) is underplayed. I suppose this is, in part, because they're thinking that this is a direct follow up to GoW2 so you're supposed to keep the feelings from that game in your mind while playing this but you really can't because of the timing of the games. Also, why did I have to kill posiedon... he was AWESOME! His first appearance (in the opening cutscene, so no spoilers here) has him nodding to zues and then leaping off olympus and skydiving into a titan and hitting the thing (who's a mountain in himself) so hard that it falls to it's death. At about 3:40

Hmm good point, but otoh, I've seen my share of games which looked much better on PC (during both PS2 and PS3 periods, PS2 was even better in that regard, I think). When a game looks (and performs) better on consoles, it's usually due to the game being designed specifically for consoles and/or poor/rushed PC ports. Doesn't seem like enough of a reason on it's own, but thanks for pointing it out. Wel, PC and consoles are almost apples and oranges anymore, While a PS3 development can always guarantee that this fancy new tech can be used to it's fullest, a PC cannot.

The only reason I really like the exclusive concept is because it allows PS3 exclusives to take FULL advantage of that processing power within the system. Also people forgot Uncharted 1/2 (second was GOTY last year) and inFamous (which I like better than prototype and is a good contender for Crackdown).

It can. If you're in a big offense then you've got the problem of reinforcing your armies if they're halfway across the continent, also if you're under attack and need to reinforce, every turns movement counts.

Isn't there also only one place that's able to train pilots that can fly in the US as passenger pilots and is really hard to get into?

Been playing a bit of this and finally realized, The Van Orange is... scary powerful later in the game. Dikes in coastal cities net stupid production amounts... and yeah.... Anyway, Currently me and three friends hold THE continent in the north of the world map. I'm the second largest by virtue of being the furthest away from everyone and I'm Van Orange. We started exploring south across the ocean (set it up so everyone was on different continents to let one player keep learning) and found the other two teams. Imagine our surprise when Jiao II and Cesar both turned up to have started on their own islands... of a single tile. Anyway, right now the largest of us has an outpost on territory that hadn't been colonized on one continent (who we're at war with) and is fending them off easily, I packed a few units in there and then realized I could probably kick the crap out of the enemy city that we could see (which was garrisoned with a single swordsman... I have muskets) Overall, I'm starting to think that two of us need to go up in difficulty (I can hold my own on noble, but they just steamroll anything in the area. I think the most advanced unit I've seen from the enemy is Trebuchets...) next time simply to provide some sort of challenge to them, and to make it feel less like I'm just plowing fields and more like I'm fighting.

That is all

Mind you don't give birth to any gods. Wait. What am I saying? I'd have been quite happy if Athena popped out and did my job for me like a good little daughter... but it didn't happen, and now I'm done with finals/community college.

trying to study/do finals with a headache from olympus.

I thought you were a personified condom..

Your zombie thing sounds more like a fire drill than anything... everyone troops out like zombies, waits a bit, then troops back in.