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Reply to anyone cared enough to share the truth of heaven and hell in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

What gives and one religion precedence over another? What makes Christianity the right religion, and all the others wrong? There is nothing special about it. It's just one of many. Personnaly, I don't believe in "faith". As far as I can tell, it means something similar to "guess", and guessing in the realms of divinity is not a smart thing to do. Trying to understand the nature of God or the afterlife is guessing, and thus "faith" because nobody knows. So, in a sense, much of christian

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

As far as anybody is concerned, this reply is not here.

Reply to Weird Ghost Ship! in Bug Reports GalCiv2 Forums

I get issues like that, but most of the time it just sits in a random spot for a few turns, then moves and I never see it again.... Sometimes it's an entire fleet.

Reply to any of u played Stars! ? in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Yes. Good game I thought, despite it's age.

Reply to The kidnapping of my fear in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

yes, I'm in a hateful mood, this society sucks and were letting them give us reasons to hate. This society that we hold up as a bright light has no merit, no justice and no future unless we strive to make it so. the torture of anyone makes us pureile and loathsome It makes me so depressed, so frightened for my humamity that we abuse in our greed for fear, our need for superiority our need for our fake "well being". Nothing can save us, we

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Stanley Tarrant, I think what you are asking for is purpose to everything. Frankly, the answer to that is beyond our concious capacity to understand at this point. I don't even bother to ask such questions. For all we know, the entire purpose of this reality is to make a new kind of cheese for some extra-dimensional being. My point is, we don't know, and are probably incapable of knowing. Though I must admit, 42 isn't bad... By the way... <DIV class=A

Reply to Delete in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Well now you have me started. Just so you know, at this point, the idea that global warming is not real is beyond a pleasent fantasy. It's scientific fact at this point. They were predicting it in the seventies. And look now, thirty years later we are just now beginning to face the consequences, and projections of the future are not pleasent. What I hate the most about it is that 1). Little is being done about it, and 2). It will be my generation that will have to de

Reply to anyone cared enough to share the truth of heaven and hell in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Fundamental premise: Christian God - I'm going to put the source of knowledge next to you and give you free will, but you should remain ignorant. Christian Devil - Go ahead, seek knowledge. Well that's it! Game over. We all lost. I happen to know quite a lot, and so do many other people... And I thought there was once so much promise in the world... Great to know we're all failures no matter what we do now. <img src="htt

Reply to anyone cared enough to share the truth of heaven and hell in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Personnally, I could never subscribe to any official religion, especially one in which you are hounded day and night to join it. As a child my parents never forced me into any religion (my dad being an agnostic budhist christian, and my mom being a shamanistic philosopher). Odd combination I would say, yet they get along fine, seeing how they haven't gotten a divorce... Ever... With anybody acutally...). Instead I was allowed to pursue whatever spirituality I felt was right for me. Ultimately, b

Reply to Where do you see civilization.. in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Here is what I would like to see realistically: In the early century Global Warming (or the polite synonym Climate Change) was averted at the last moment, and though the greater effects were avoided, there are still reprecusions. New forms of energy assure us of no worries overshortages for many years to come. However, water is becoming an issue as the natural sources begin to dry up. Water Desalinization is a booming industry. The Moon has been colonized for some years now, as new plat

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

Or not, there's something else here that needs some clarification/correction: Of course this universe has a creative design, because, according to theories on quantum physics (I remind you once more, theories) the universe is a result of our perception of it. If, all of a sudden, everybody in the world decided (not just thought, but truly and fully believed, just like they believe in gravity as fact) that I don't exist, then accor

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

of course, the two presumptions here are: whether the universe is infinitely spacious and infinitely full of matter and energy, a question physicists are now trying to answer The astrophysicist in me demands that I step in here and clear something up. The universe is finite, that's pretty well a known fact due to the observable behavior of the system. We have a sense of its age, size, the amount of matter in it, it's rate of expa

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

The purpose of the universe most likely cannot be explained with modern science, if with science at all. The easiest way to find purpose is to look within yourself. i don't remember the universe coming wrapped in a nice little package that said "for use with..." whether or not there is a purpose isn't a scientific question, because purpose presupposes creative design. Of course this universe has a

Reply to How can we all be athiests in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

The purpose of the universe most likely cannot be explained with modern science, if with science at all. The easiest way to find purpose is to look within yourself. However, with some of the more recent findings in science and bizarre fields like quantum physics, it is being found that there is a good chance that all life on the planet, and possibly everything in the entire universe, is as intricately as the human brain (one neuron (brain cell) can communicate with any other neuron wit

Reply to Where do you see civilization.. in Off-Topic GalCiv2 Forums

There are a lot of possibilities for where the world could go right now. For instance, 30-40 years from now (when my generation will be in full power), we could be in the midst of a global super-crisis. Food could be in short supply, cities flooding, and world wide deforestation, both from humans and nature. The majority of civilization collapses except in a few places. As time goes on however, people adjust and new ways of living emerge and the world begans to recover. However, the lo

Reply to Is Stardock making a Fantasy TBS game? in Strategy GalCiv2 Forums

Personally, I am just waiting for news on this game that they're making. From what I understand, they already have the engine (I read Draginol talking about it somewhere in a dev journal), and they are most likely deep into the brainstorming process. And now that DA is done and patched, I think we wont have to wait long.

Reply to Mass Effect in Adventure GalCiv2 Forums

Hhhm, I don't know...... I recall something about september... Not sure...

Reply to Spore in Games in Development GalCiv2 Forums

The cartoonish style seems about right to me for some reason...

Reply to Spore in Games in Development GalCiv2 Forums

Too bad we wont see it until 2008...

Reply to The MMORPG that makes you forget that it is in MMORPG GalCiv2 Forums

I looked into it, but got very mixed feelings about it... Some people thought it was extremely boring, others thought it was fantastic. So far I am in a state of skepticism about it. I'm thinking I will have to try it out myself. Don't know yet though.

Reply to Sci-fiction franchise idea in Game Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Uuuum... With all that trouble, I would just make my own sci-fi idea and use that instead of buying a license...

Reply to An Evolving Sci-fi RPG in Game Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Cool idea, but you need to refine it a bit I think.

Reply to Hell, it's about time! in Real-Time GalCiv2 Forums

Now it's just a matter of time, waiting for it to finaly come out... I may have been young, but I was addicted to starcraft.... Great game... I think I still have it somewhere....

Reply to MORE Mega Events! in GalCiv II News GalCiv2 Forums

I like the idea of a creature attacking the galaxy, but for every third or fourth ships it destroys, it gains all of that ship's military abilities (incluing it's experience), so it gets indefinately more powerful until stopped. a dyson sphere (a structure built around a star to utilize all of it's energy. It would have tremendous living space on it, like a massive planet), which was previously cloaked, appears in a random sector (more than likely a sector under the influence of a weake

Reply to Lets make a game! in Game Ideas GalCiv2 Forums

Wow. In a year this place changed a lot... But it hasn't been touched in quite some time.... Lets recap here: Eireace proposed doing a game about a Roman senator rising to power. This idea was then cultivated by Stutefish, mewcurano2, and Karmuno. What we have is: You are a Roman senator whose goal is to attain the status of emporer. You have control of an area of the empire. Within this area are cities, countryside, and people living in it. You also