Brunswick

Cluck cluck. Why didn't the vampire like garlic? You have to exist to like garlic.

Your ideals? What, 'religion is bullshit and has no bearing'? I know I'm grappling with a troll here but that's an immensely childish point of view. Religion brings comfort, brings hope in a higher power that, honestly, while may or may not exist even the idea is enough to give people hope. And hope, friend, is one of the best things you can give to a person.

You can take that elsewhere, kid. Adults are talking.

A pair of thoughts on that. Why do you want to extend lifespan? I'm just curious because this is a strange viewpoint for me. I see life as more of a...a stage, I guess, and artificially extending that stage just seems wrong to me. In my mind it's always been 'when you die, you die', and artificial attempts beyond medical care and emergency services (like brain uploading and immortality elixirs and all) just seems...I don't know, unnatural? Who would want to live forever? You're depriving yourself of experiencing that last stage, solving the mystery of what's actually the end result of death, and instead condemning yourself to watching everything you've loved and made crumble under the waves of time and decay. I hate to sound like a spoilsport but that's what I've seen it as. Everything ends, everything must end and to artificially make it not end just seems like a perversion of natural order as well as temporary at best. Take a flower. You could, in theory, pluck it from the ground and encase it in plastic, rendering its beauty seemingly immortal. But in time, the chemicals will leach from the plastic and degrade it, and it will be lost or forgotten somewhere and be subjected to the gnawing of time and weather, tearing away the plastic and exposing the fragile flower under that. Then what happens? It rots and decays just as normal, the natural events leading to its destruction. Even if you were to put it in a carefully controlled environment the decay will still happen and the process will still complete, if slowed. Again I am not attempting to rip apart your worldview, but to share a different take on it. Mind Uploading - Data, like flesh, fails. Power outages, computer errors, physical hardware failures, bit rot...it happens. Just like sudden deaths and diseases and accidents happen to people. There is no immortality in this, just a slower decay. Medical Procedures - This is the same as mind uploading, as you cannot control accidents, but this lends itself to a more social destruction. The devil is not in time but in people, in this case, as no matter how much you extend life you cannot control basic human hate and destructive tendencies. Which leads me to your second section; This is the human condition. This is how it has been since time immemorial. Humans are a basically greedy, violent, hateful and destructive race. Chiefs, kings, priests, prime ministers and presidents will always lord power over their fellow humans not out of some distinct decision to but from the base instincts of a race that was, is, and always will be animals. I'm not the kind of person that wants to shed this idea or to minimize it, but instead cope with it. We, as humans, will always divide ourselves and fight instead of cooperating. It's in our blood, from the first days of human evolution where we had to fight our way tooth and nail up the food chain to our current position. The human race is a race of survival above all, survival at any cost necessary. Survival which was once for one's life but now for one's social comfort and mental comfort. We have to survive, to get and hold and keep to bolster our emotions and our social status. And the only thing that will change that is millennia of development. Many, many millennia. See, to me, the child has choice from the moment they develop enough mental wherewithal and capacity to understand it. One never must believe something. People can be told 'no', can be told to fuck off. I told my parents when I was eight that I was not going to Izumo Taisha out of respect for religion but for its historical significance. My parents are highly religious people, and I allowed them that right. They did moan at me, scolded me for 'disappointing your grandmother', but I held my right to choose what to worship and believe closer to myself than my contemporaries. I was never forced to follow their religion, and while I eventually began to at a later age, there was no force commanding me to follow them. All that is lacking when children are 'forced' to follow a religion is the child's will.

What's green and has wheels? Grass, I lied about the wheels. Why was six afraid of seven? It wasn't. Numbers aren't sentient and are thus incapable of feeling fear. A horse walked into a bar. Several people got up and left as they spotted the potential danger in the situation. There's an Irishman, a homosexual, and a Jew sitting at a bar. What a fine example of an integrated community. How many Jews does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to change it and another to hold the ladder so the first man won't fall and be injured. A duck walks into a over 7-11 and says "Give me some Chapstick, put it on my bill!" But the cash register attendee doesn't speak English and cannot understand him. He does, however, question whether his God is punishing him because as all people know, Ducks cannot speak, however, this hallucination must be punishment for a horrid misdeed. The employee breaks down into tears and begins reciting prayer. The duck, slightly miffed, walks out, pondering why he'd need Chapstick anyway, since he has no lips.

I don't think about religion. Because, as I see it, it isn't a situation that I need to worry about in the near future. I'm twenty-two, I've got a solid forty years of life in me judging on my family history, and I don't need to start fretting about God or Yahweh or Allah or Anubus or whatever for at least twenty more years. Even if I do...well, I'll find out once I finally croke, right? So what's the point of bothering yourself with metaphysical worries when we've got enough physical worries to concern ourselves for a lifetime? It's not that I don't follow a religion, it's just that I'm not totally concerned with it. The only point that I really get annoyed with religion is when people use it to make important decisions that affect others or matters of law/rules/what have you. The only time I'd find that appropriate is if every single member of those affected share the same metaphysical outlook. Make a decision based on Christian scripture that only affects one church? Peachy fine. Make a decision based on Christian scripture that affects a state? Not good. Make a decision based on Christian scripture that affects the entire world? Double plus ungood. But what I see as religion can really be a two-sided thing. Organized religion, the churches and temples and covens or whatever, is what I mean by above. I don't mind people congregating in a faith, in fact I'm supportive of it. But just don't go out and try to 'convert' others who clearly don't want a part of it or use it to make decisions that affect others that don't share your worldview. Personal religion to me is more of a set of guidelines, an arrangement of values and honors and codes of conduct that guide how you act and feel. Now that can be cherry-picked from all the variants out there to your own pleasing, or even create something entirely new.

Probably means the login servers are down.

It should apply to absolutely everything, in my personal opinion.

It'll be lifted when 1.) you quit acting in the way that got you Kellered in the first place, and 2.) when a mod decides to remove it. No sooner, no later. Wait, actually Munaus' is correct. I might suggest heavy chanting and as many sacrifices as possible. Preferably fresh young virgin's blood, not that canned shit. They hate that.

What antivirus are you using?

And how much system memory do you have and are allocating?

LOOK OUT GUYS, WE'VE GOT A REAL WIZARD AROUND HERE But no, really, is it any good? Worth getting into?

I was once the typical skinny goth girl who hated everything and everyone. Then I discovered real life and became a skinny survivalist / cold war fetishist horror writer. So life pretty much got much better once I graduated. Never fucked around with the bullshit 'magic' though, it's mostly lies and historical misinterpretations mixed with a big dose of paranoid schizophrenia and idiocy.

Today's society is a zero-effort society. If people can minimize the amount of effort invested by ignoring things like grammar or spelling or puncuation you can be damn well sure they're going to, because 'This isn't school!' or 'I'm not being graded!' are considered valid reasons.

And people have a right to tell you you're an idiot. Free speech works both ways, broseph.

I think you missed the suggestions thread.

Yes, there is.

Install Java.

Change the Block IDs in the mod's config file.

U gaiz need 2 quit bitchin bout ofer porples splling. Ths isnt skool u now nrd. (That was physically painful for me to type. Ow.)

I already own them all. :I Damnit, this is why I don't buy games on release day anymore. There's always a sale and I always feel bad.

Oh god this site...this site is fucking hilarious. I seriously just about lost my drink reading that. Golden.

Sure is a nice BUG REPORT you've got there.

Yes, you did post this is the wrong thread. Go look for the 'Suggestions Thread', it isn't hard to find if you use your eyes.

Hooo God I just saw the new banned avatar. I haven't giggled this hard since I was in middle school.