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-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection From the Bible, there\'s a child raised God at the request Elijah. Elisha raised the son of a Shunammite woman and then posthumously raises another man after his corpse comes into contact with Elisha\'s bones. There\'s a whole bunch of gods whose mythos features death and rebirth, such as Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Tammuz, Asclepius (who actually started out mortal), Krishna, Ra, Osiris, Dionysus, and Odin. As for mortals, an interesting one is Aristeas of Proconnesus. According to Herodotus\'s Histories, his body disappeared from a locked room and later he appeared to have been resurrected and to have gained immortality. That rather depends on your view of Jesus and his relationship to God. Did Jesus raise himself, or did God raise him? Is there even a distinction between the two? It\'s this whole business of Jesus and God being separate yet at the same time somehow one and the same, which frankly makes no sense at all to me. But that\'s beside the point. The point is that you said resurrection was inconceivable to people at the time, and clearly it wasn\'t. Hence why at the time Jesus\' resurrection was used by his followers as evidence that the end of the world was coming very soon. As I said, we know that now. Two thousand years ago? Not so much. At the time, not breathing = dead. I don\'t see how you can say that with such certainty. Guessing the motivations of people and what actions they might take is extremely difficult even when you\'re talking to them face to face, you\'re looking back two thousand years. What exactly are you referring to?

Attempting to make an Io-like texture for it. It\'s too uniform. More variation in hue and value would be nice.

Sorry, but I have to disagree with that. Various resurrection stories had been circulating for hundreds of years before Jesus, both inside and outside of Judaism, so clearly it wasn\'t so outlandish as you make it seem. As for where it came from, I think that\'s fairly obvious. Dying is the one thing nobody wants, so the idea that it\'s somehow reversible is very very attractive. And if there\'s one thing humans are good at, it\'s wishful thinking. Not to mention that we do have documented cases of people waking up some time after being mistaken for dead, and that\'s with modern medical knowledge and technology. An iron age person would of course consider such an event miraculous. Ultimately, saying that 'it\'s not likely anyone would make it up' doesn\'t really cut it IMO. Making things up or mistaking natural phenomena for miracles is possible, actually rising from the dead isn\'t. It may be unlikely, but it\'s still more likely than the alternative. I don\'t think religiosity has anything to do with a person\'s intelligence. There are some very intelligent believers and there are some very stupid ones, just like there are intelligent and stupid non-believers.

Well yes, but you took that quote out of context. He was talking about our internal pressure, yes, but then he went on to talk about how the gravity of the Earth counteracts it. What say you to that, sir?

Rarity, clearly.

You have it all wrong. He\'s talking about gravity, not pressure.

A valid objection. Clearly the solution is to equip our Sun with a Shkadov thruster and simply take out solar system with us. There, problem solved.

I admire your logic.

Oh em gee, does this thread meander about! From dietary habits to historicity of Jesus to cleaning tips. Wow.

Some of them can, yeah. Mark and John are completely separate and Luke and Matthew were composed of bits of Mark and the hypothetical Q document along with some original material. So as far as separate sources go, that\'s three out of four. Not that bad, actually. Huh? I don\'t follow. How does snooping through your MP3 player lead to that discovery?

I\'d also add to that the bit where he says that 'people at the time believed that Jesus was the messiah'. Technically true, some people did believe that. But he fails to mention that the number of those people was extremely small. To the vast majority of people at the time Jesus was a nutter and his little following a suspicious religious sect. The messiah was thought to be this powerful, glorious figure who would come in force and establish an actual Kingdom of God on Earth. And along comes this nobody from some backwater village without a penny to his name and claims to be this messiah? Bart Ehrman made the point in one of his books that at the time Jesus was viewed in a similar way that today we view David Koresh - a radical religious figure who got in trouble with the law and got himself killed as a result. Hence why his disciples were viewed with extreme suspicion when they went around claiming that he was the son of God and rose from the dead, much like people making such claims about Koresh would be viewed today. The problem is that you don\'t have a resurrection as evidence. What you have is a story about a resurrection. If you see a resurrection, then yes, that is quite impressive and unambiguous. But when you\'re told a story? That\'s a second hand account, and in that case there are a number of possibilities to choose from. It might be true, sure. But it\'s also possible that the story is false, either because the person telling it is mistaken, has been deceived, or is outright lying. Those possibilities seem a lot more likely than that an event which we know to be impossible happened.

It is an excellent game, but I have never finished it. Somehow circumstances always conspire against that in one way or another.

Oh yeah, the mod support is great. Thankfully that\'s something that Skyrim has kept. Shame that it didn\'t keep the depth. Also, is your avatar from The Last Express?

Tough question. I\'d have to say Morrowind, even though I\'m fully aware that it\'s deeply flawed in many ways. But it\'s the game I\'ve connected the most deeply with. Its brilliance isn\'t immediately apparent, it requires that you spend time with the game, it requires that you live in its fictional world and learn how it works. Some of the most genius aspects of it are so subtle that it took me years to realize and recognize what exactly I was looking at.

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Well what about all the other awesome parts you were working on? Surely you have something done by now. C\'mon, man. We need our fix.

I\'m sorry, but I have to disagree. If I own it, I can do whatever I damn well please with it. If the EULA says 'don\'t decompile it', then that\'s like a car manufacturer saying 'you can drive it around, but you\'re not allowed to peek under the hood'. I don\'t blame Squad for this, because that\'s just how software in general work. Everyone does it. But it still bugs me to no end.

True, but I doubt many members of the 'if it\'s on Steam, I\'m not buying it' crowd are going to bother looking that closely.

Wait, what? So it\'s got purple rocks? I thought the purple was due to the clouds, with a differently colored surface underneath. Larger? They seem pretty big to me already. And not quite opposite each other, oddly. ;P

That seems to be contradictory.

I win! ...oh wait, wrong thread.

You know what\'s also funny? That only companies that make mediocre games complain about that. I don\'t recall ever hearing that rubbish from, say, id Soft, Blizzard, Bioware, or Valve. So to the companies that do complain I\'d say this, perhaps people\'s unwillingness to pay for your games has less to do with the prevalence of piracy and more to do with the fact that your games are crap? That ever occur to you, hm?

So it\'s a fanfic with a human who\'s a pony? Sure, that makes sense. ;P

Pft, some of us don\'t feel the need to announce our avatar changes. :