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Kurgan

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Posted in: You can't choose your characters name in JA
  Kurgan
04-29-2003, 11:57 AM
#18
Actually, you could choose your name in Jedi Knight and Mysteries of the Sith (and Dark Forces as well, though they never refered to you by that name in Single Player). In JK/MotS they called you Kyle in the cutscenes, but your player name was said...  [Read More]
Posted in: Heaven, Hell, afterlife and fate
  Kurgan
04-28-2003, 9:21 AM
#24
As to what heaven is like, who can say, but the general belief in Christianity is that it is eternal happiness, beholding the glory of God, being reunited with loved ones, etc. No more suffering, no more death, etc. forever. If God showing somebody...  [Read More]
Posted in: Heaven, Hell, afterlife and fate
  Kurgan
04-26-2003, 11:01 AM
#21
But it still isnt fair to punish someone for doing something wrong when they didnt know it was wrong, and then not give them the chance to atone. That's precisely the point. I don't believe in a God that does that, so its not a problem for me. Now...  [Read More]
Posted in: Heaven, Hell, afterlife and fate
  Kurgan
04-24-2003, 4:24 AM
#12
Priests, monks, nuns, etc elected officials, people on the witness stand in courts, and married people all make vows. But vows are only as good as the people who make them. Thus living your life according to vows is an admirable thing, but its not...  [Read More]
Posted in: Heaven, Hell, afterlife and fate
  Kurgan
04-22-2003, 7:44 PM
#9
Now I know I'm not God, but let's say I was, and I was going to create some beings that I could study and could worship me. I figure I want them to have a choice whether or not to love me, since if I force them to, I'll never know if its genuine lov...  [Read More]
Posted in: Heaven, Hell, afterlife and fate
  Kurgan
04-22-2003, 2:25 PM
#2
It is my honor and privilege to be the first one (I hope) to answer your query: Is faith enough? Must you do good works as well? No. Yes. If by faith you mean intellectual assent to a certain belief or set of beliefs, then no, that's not enough...  [Read More]
Posted in: Yet another religious thread (very long)
  Kurgan
04-28-2003, 10:02 AM
#21
So essentially what you're saying is that we THINK we have free will, but in reality our decisions are based on what our other "selves" are thinking. Yet, for all intents and purposes we have every indication that we have free will, we jus...  [Read More]
Posted in: Yet another religious thread (very long)
  Kurgan
04-25-2003, 10:28 AM
#19
Let me reiterate that there is nothing wrong with religious faith in and of itself, just that it is usually outside the realm of science and not provable one way or the other, thus it takes faith to accept it as reality. Sometimes there is overlap,...  [Read More]
Posted in: Yet another religious thread (very long)
  Kurgan
04-25-2003, 10:21 AM
#18
Absolutely right. But making predictions on a non-proven theory trying to prove it that way is futile Something that is true but doesn't need to be proven.... is not scientific. It does exactly this thing but that's not a slavery, it's freedom...  [Read More]
Posted in: Yet another religious thread (very long)
  Kurgan
04-24-2003, 12:47 PM
#16
Free will exists, and god is an A$$hat if he exists. Gee, great argument there. You've won me over already... ; p Who says babies go to hell? Nobody I know... Why give people freedom if they are going to abuse it? Just think about that for a sec...  [Read More]
Posted in: Yet another religious thread (very long)
  Kurgan
04-24-2003, 9:55 AM
#13
To put it simply, I believe free will exists, because I see examples of it all the time. For example, people always are doing unexpected things. Even "flipping out" etc. Then there are examples of people in identical situations who react...  [Read More]
Posted in: Yet another religious thread (very long)
  Kurgan
04-22-2003, 7:54 PM
#11
As to the creation stories in Genesis (which were written as allegories after all, despite the misunderstandings of some modern day fundamentalists), many theologians have attempted to interpret them over the centuries. What was the sin of Adam&...  [Read More]
Posted in: JA vs. KOTOR
  Kurgan
04-22-2003, 7:13 PM
#38
Jedi Academy is a FPS. That means 1st and third person gunplay + lightsaber (1st & 3rd person) + force powers. KOTOR is a third person jedi simulator RPG, so it lacks many of these "bonus" features in gameplay. In addition, its an RPG,...  [Read More]
Posted in: Raven, Please Do Your EU Research
  Kurgan
04-28-2003, 9:33 AM
#61
Anybody who says that Kyle wasn't mentioned in the EU before Jedi Outcast is mistaken.... The Dark Forces books were about him (Soldier for the Empire, Rebel Agent, Jedi Knight) and there were made in time for JK. His adventures in MotS/JK2 were men...  [Read More]
Posted in: Raven, Please Do Your EU Research
  Kurgan
04-26-2003, 3:58 PM
#55
The EU is written and maintained by dozens of different authors and storytellers and designers. It can't be expected to be perfectly internally consistent, much less perfectly consistent with stuff made by Lucas himself, despite the level of creative...  [Read More]
Posted in: Raven, Please Do Your EU Research
  Kurgan
04-25-2003, 10:27 AM
#49
Just a little nitpick on the side from what I said. The terms "quasi-canon" and "official" are just ways of explaining all this, they are not actually official terms themselves (used by LucasFilm or Lucas himself... but by some of...  [Read More]
Posted in: Raven, Please Do Your EU Research
  Kurgan
04-24-2003, 1:06 PM
#46
If games were considered canon above EU then the following would be true. Technically no, because they would still contradict the movies, which are the highest canon. The EU is not canon, only "official" or "quasi-canon." I thi...  [Read More]
Posted in: the bible
  Kurgan
04-26-2003, 5:27 PM
#120
But I swear, how many more Chritian vs Non-Christian threads do we need? As long as people with free minds feel the need to discuss these ideas with each other and express their differences, we'll most likely continue to see threads like these from...  [Read More]
Posted in: the bible
  Kurgan
04-24-2003, 10:01 AM
#116
From that perspective, ancient writings like the Bible represent attempts to put the mind of God into understandable human terms. If God knows the future, that doesn't necessarily mean that free will doesn't exist. If "the future is in motion&...  [Read More]
Posted in: the bible
  Kurgan
04-24-2003, 6:11 AM
#114
Even Jesus warned about "false prophets" and I'd say these guys probably qualify in that category. A little healthy skepticism never hurts, especially when somebody is trying to sell you something. Ever watch Robert Tilton (moved to 3am o...  [Read More]
Posted in: the bible
  Kurgan
04-24-2003, 4:31 AM
#112
Nice that we agree on that. When all is said and done, that's pretty much what it boils down to. I like to read about all the various theories on the bible, even the totally "out there" ones (the Beatles are the Antichrist, the Bible Code,...  [Read More]
Posted in: the bible
  Kurgan
04-22-2003, 8:33 PM
#109
If you want to get technical, it was 70 x 7 times to forgive someone (490). ; ) Yes, I agree. Also, people like to trot out the "number of the beast" which deals with numerology (most scholars agree it refers to Caesar Nero) varies from 6...  [Read More]
Posted in: the bible
  Kurgan
04-22-2003, 8:29 PM
#108
Also, if we're having a debate about religion here, perhaps we should avoid loaded polemical terms like "heretic, superstition, idol" etc which are all prejorative in nature. The term "Myth" is not, in the anthropological sense,...  [Read More]
Posted in: the bible
  Kurgan
04-22-2003, 8:21 PM
#106
The six day creation actually works backwards, because it allows modern day (at the time) people to pre-present the creation of the world (the universe) in their everyday lives. A six day week, followed by the Sabbath, the day of rest, is laid out b...  [Read More]
Posted in: the bible
  Kurgan
04-22-2003, 8:13 PM
#105
It may come as a shock to some modern fundamentalists, but much of the bible is myth and metaphor. How do I know this? In college I studied the early Christian church, specifically what are called the "Fathers." Now I'm not a Doctor of Th...  [Read More]
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