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I made a party of 6 monk halflings one time. It was interesting seeing them fight.

Better yet. You could buy me a new computer.

I would think that going SLI with a couple of high end 8600s would be a more economical choice.

I think it is high time we repeal the Patriot Act.

I call BS. So, are you saying that you can install a program while using Windows XP compatibility mode? Then you are wrong. You can. If this is about your personal feelings towards me then take it to PM for that is off topic to this poster's problem.

The US government has no moral responsibility to Iraq or Afganistan. The US government's only responsibility is to US citizens. Iraq and Afganistan has the responsibility to take care of themselves. Four years is long enough for holding their hands. Time for us to focus on matters here at home.

Why the hell are you being called the Marked one? What's wrong being called, well, Mark?

So, how long does our government support those people instead of its own? 5 more years? 10? 30? A century or more? How much of US citizen's tax dollars should benefit foreigners? It is time, well past time, that our government puts our needs first instead of Israel's, Iraq's, Afganistan's, and so on. Let a nation rise or fall based on the actions or inactions of its own people. If we go the Democrats pullout plan it would be 5 years we have helped Iraq. If they aren't going to get their act together in that much time then they never will and we should have no part of it, especially since we went in that country on false pretenses in the first place.

If those countries can't act in a civilized manner that is their problem, not ours. We have given Iraq 4 years, and at least another year to boot to get their act together. If they fail then so be it. We have given them enough aid. The rest is up to them. As for Afganistan we got rid of the Taliban for them. Now the rest is up to them. If they can't get their crap together then they deserve to be oppressed or worse. The United States is not a nanny service.

Be less perfect! YOU CAN DO IT!

Some people can't. Some people can. I can. Can you?

Oh, yes, free will problem. Human beings are governed by their experiences and their instincts. Very few people can rise above this and actually show true free will. Does one who has been raised in a strict traditional Christian home follow God of his choice or because he learned to follow God due to his upbringing?

Here is the counterattack ad! In any case, may it be Clinton, Obama, Edwards, or whoever ends up on the Democrat ticket they will get my vote, meaningless as it is. After 8 years of bush I do not want to see another Republican in the White House for decades. It will take that long just to clean up the mess the Republicans made.

Its wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt, though it does have links and cited sources in the Bible where the number 144,000 originated from. With 6 billion closing in on 7 billion I think that casting off all but 144,000 to hell is a bit malicious on the part of God.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/144,000

Maybe I am, but the thought and act are often tied together, and you cannot act without putting some level of thought in the action.

That is a pretty reasonable way to look at it. Personally, when I look at the world in which God created and the various religions that are killing each other in his name I see that God is nothing but a narcisstic a-hole. If he really cared about his good name he would come down from heaven on high and put the smackdown on those who do such abuses in his name. Jesus, on the otherhand, if you take a look at his teachings and not the interpretations of his teachings from church "authorities" he is not so much of an a-hole. I don't see Jesus as God either, but a prophet of God with a goood message that got severely corrupted. Those are my view of it and I try to live my life without any religious bias on my actions.

I thnk that motivation and intention is very much the cause of what we do as human beings. If the motivation is rob a place of money which a person is killed is a lesser crime than one actively hunting a certain type of person to kill. Certainly both deserve the death penalty in my ever so humble opinion, but what motivates act is more important than the act in of itself.

*twitch twitch* I want one... HELL! I WANT 4! *twitch twitch*

Not always.

If I am going to put my faith into something it has to be something that I can feasibly believe to be possible or comes from a credible source of information. I don't do the whole "blind" faith thing. Went through that route once, got burned, and I am not going to go through that route again.

Rising from the dead to go to heaven is simply a make believe story to ease the fears of death. Once you are dead, it is the final curtain call, and only black oblivion awaits. You simply cease to be. I don't hold much "faith" in a document that as been written hundreds of years after the fact then translated, retranslated, and translated again by humans. It just doesn't have a lot of credibility.

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Once in a great while I do know what I am talking about.

If Bush's motivation for denial funds was the same as yours then I wouldn't have a problem with it but he is taking the "moral high ground" for his reasons not funding the research, and not because the government shouldn't be the affiars of privatized research. I am not just looking at the actions of our politicians, but the reasons and motivations behind their actions.