"If you spend your life believing in God, and when you die it turns out he doesnt exist, then you've lost nothing, but if you spend your life not believing in him, and he does exist......then you've lost everything" And if you spent all of your life pretenting to believe just in case he does exist, don't you think he will know that? But don't worry, you can't go to hell, your are already there!
if u read the bible u'll understand I was a christain student and alter boy when I was younger. I spent lots of time in church. The bible was force fed to all children at every chance they had. I read each passage many times, not because I wanted too, byt because if I did not God would punish me. The fear of God was imprinted into our minds, through church sermons and school bible lessons. They even tried to teach us that sex was dirty unless you were go
The dread lords stationed their ships around my planets. I couldnt build any offensive ships nor transports as they got wiped out immediately after they orbit my planets... Sometimes life just sucks.
you're absolutely wrong. 'faith' is a necessary aspect of a healthy mind. faith and trust are essentially the same thing on a psychological level. Now you sound like a preacher. Just repeating what your religion has implanted in your mind. I and many others have a very healthy mind, but faith played no part in it. Gravity can be proven to exist, we experience it in every step. It was discovered by an apple, and Mr Newton, it requires no trust. Gravity e
Not at all LightVader! I was just trying to point out that I don't think any of us are truely athiests. And in response to your remark, do you really think that out of all the billlions upon billions of other planets in the cosmos, that there is not at least one planet that has intelligent life on it. And that heaven forbid (sorry about the pun) one day our arrogance might let us belive that they could be more intelligent than us. I certainly hope that
we must say that our Order has always been against the common notion of chance, which it looks upon as an easy solution and resignation in the face of reality. We agree with Albert Einstein’s comment about chance when he described it as: “The Path that God takes when [God] wants to remain anonymous.” The Rosicrucian Order A.M.O.R.C. right? Most of the content of your post was taken directly from their website. Are you trying to convert us?
Faith is belief in spite of reason. Faith is corrosive to the human mind. If someone genuinely believes that it is right to believe things without reason or evidence then they are open to every kind of dogma, whim, coercion, or dangerous infectious idea that's around. If someone is convinced that it is acceptable to base their beliefs on what is written in an ancient book, or what some teacher tells them they must believe, then they will have no true fre
So in reference to the original question. I believe that there truly may not be such a thing as an atheist. And it may be that none of the 25,000 Christian religions in America alone are right, or any other religions or beliefs for that matter, however, I do think that there is some higher entity than us and one day when we have grown up maybe we will get a chance to meet them. Lynx xxx, Are we to think that you are one of those "people" that think that
My tactics are based on baiting the DL. To do this, leave one of your planets undefended, but make sure that you have troop carriers on a nearby planet ready to retaliate ASAP. As soon as they take the bait planet, you attack them. You will be rewarded with a good tech, sometimes I get the black hole followed by the hyperdrive tech. You can use this tactic over and over again, they always come back to reclaim the planet. Then its easy sailing from there. I just build attack ships with as much bl
You are totally discounting the possibility that falsehoods can be valuable and sometimes between two apparent falsehoods can be found a truth that at first seemed paradoxical. Just because you don't believe that a certain person may have made water into wine or spoke to an angel does not mean that the story has no value whatsoever. You also make a massive assumption that fear and ignorance is the only driving force in religious belief. Do you really think religion wou
Ref: the first sentence of this quote. I might point out, respectfully, LightVader, that there was probably a lot of the need for companionship, warmth, Justice, and emotional security mixed in with the fear and ignorance. Ref: the remainder, you said it so much better than I could have. Yes ElWhopO, many other human emotions were probably involved.
Today we have many different religions with conflicting views! So? Do you have a point? How much research have you done to conclude that there is no way to resolve this problem? The facts were probably embellished or distorted many times along the way. Different societies, religious leaders and conquerers, may have distorted them to satisfy their own goals be it financial or political. Do you have ev
IMHO, science explores what is testable - and religion explores what is not testable. Both have their place in our society and their own set of rules to fit their nature. Then we are back to my original post. It was mankind's fear and scientific ignorance that led them to fabricate Gods and religion in the first place. Religious stories were then passed on from generation to generation by word of mouth. The facts were probably embell
In the beginning of time, man had no understanding of simple science, so he created a god of the sun , one for the moon one for water and so on and so on. As man's understanding increased he shed most of his gods in favor of one God, although different clans still could not agree on the name of this god. Today we have many religions all claiming to be the master religion. To some he is God, Alla or Jesus. Regardless, we still have a God fugure, because we still need protection from the things we
A penguin puts is car in the repair shop cause it won't start. While he wait he goes next door to the ice cream shop to have a vanilla cone. Since he has no hands he drops some ice cream on himself. When he returned to the shop, the mechanic told him " looks like you blew a seal" to which he replied, " Nah, its just a little ice cream.
Exactly, that goes back to my first post, military starbases need to fire at their surrounding radius, they are the only ranged unit, imo. That would be a great improvement.
Another idea that would give emphasis to SB presence/play would be if you were allowed to build 4 of EACH TYPE of SB in a sector. Those are all neat ideas , but why not fix the real problem and make millitary starbases do what they are suppose to do in the first place, defend the area! Not just wait around in case a ship feels like attacking them.
I was clearly positioned to do an Influence win also, but with Rare everything, it was going to take a looong time. I have won an influence victory on a large map once. It took what seemed like a million constructors or more to do it. It just became boring. I would just put influence basestations beside the other planets and keep feeding them with constructors to install all the modules untill they flipped. I found that there was little resistance from
The whole ability to build a military starbase in someones territory without starting a war in the first place seems odd doesnt it? I like the idea that zone of control would prevent other civs starbases being built in the zone. That way starbases help you establish space. It would be the same as China setting up a millitary base in New York. Just could not happen without a war.
when they bully you, give them what they want, if it isnt to much out of line This may lead to many other demands from other civs.
I can deal with pretty much all the flaws this game has, except the spies. That ruins it. I agree with that. Lets hope that someone is paying attention!
In this case it is the silver that causes the cloud! In other words, improvements to the game cause the manual to be out of date.... so unless you think that improvements should not have been made just to keep the manual up to date,,,? The job is not finished until the paperwork is done , is a saying used in engineering project management that simply means that, until you have done the paperwork, you have not finished the work. This saying is very
while researching diplomacy part, trade other technologies from aliens and be the techno superior ... this game is very very very simple... It,s not always so simple. The game is not without flaws, but in it's defence, it can be very exiting to play as long as you don't play it on the easy settings. Those are for beginners. I admit to playing some good games that take a couple of days to finish.
Sins is an entirely different game made by entirely different developers (Ironclad). The blurb on this site makes it sound very similar to this game but with many of the things that users have been requesting you to add to this game. Is it not a turn based game as well? Did Stardock have no input into the design cat all? What makes it unique?
Ah, but you missed the point about the MCC. It's not that if the opponent has it, his planets will be almost impossible to flip. It's if YOU have it. It gives 100% econ to you, but makes it very difficult for you to flip an opponent's planet. I will be aware of this next time.
