Real-world sensitivities and game names

[Aezeal]

Yeah which is odd since democrats are clearly much "better" pplz than republicans... they seem to want more equality, work more for nature etc etc as opposed to those who just want to let the world, their neighbours and especially the poor or those in other countires go to hell as long as they get their cash.

[Tifone]

RAmen, brothers, RAmen (who got that one? )

[thejeff]

Aezeal said:
Yeah which is odd since democrats are clearly much "better" pplz than republicans... they seem to want more equality, work more for nature etc etc as opposed to those who just want to let the world, their neighbours and especially the poor or those in other countires go to hell as long as they get their cash.

It's one of the great mysteries of modern American politics, to me anyway, how "values" became only about sex - abortion, gays, abstinence-only education, etc, while people who care about the environment, poverty, civil rights, social justice, etc. apparently don't have values?

[Aezeal]

nicely put thejeff, just what I meant to say

hypocrytes *****in about minor issues while they let the world crumble to dust as long as all gays are cured

/me not understanding this

[HoneyBadger]

The problem with science becoming more of a religion and less of a tool, is that we can all be scientists, by using the scientific method(s), but not enough of us have a deep enough understanding of the myriad scientific disciplines, or can (which are becoming more and more specialized, constantly), to be able to separate out what is a scientific, proven fact, and what's a theory based on bad evidence by some crackpot with a degree, that happens to have been accepted by the scientific community for a hundred years. Take dinosaurs-how many times, in just the past 30 years, have our accepted cultural views of dinosaurs changed?

[Aezeal]

well that is a bit of a problem maybe... but since nothing about faith can be proven I think the same problem is bigger there , let's accept science as the lesser of 2 evils (ow this is nice religion as the greater evil.. how ironic )

[Aezeal]

And on your last line... maybe the problem with religion is that the tend to have views that hardly change at all... maybe better to change for the better than stay behind an out dated concept (and IMHO even old views of dino's are more accurate than the views of most religions)

[HoneyBadger]

I never understood, other than the actual historical reasons for it, namely Constantine getting fed up, why they didn't continue writing the Bible. Maybe not edited it, but continued adding to it, as each generation came and went and left their mark. The Bible as it is, although admittedly one of the literary cornerstones of Western Civilization, is in it's current form a handicap to Christianity. So much is ambiguous or taken out of context, or just plain unfriendly to modern eyes. In a way (along with the "Render unto Caesar...") it's a real credit to the Abrahamic religions that they've kept their books as close to the original text as they have.