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For mirex: Battle Animations.

For the rest: The C versions of the functions are at the bottom.  Although they are named differently from the ASM versions it explains which functions are which.

Merry Christmas all.


L. Spiro

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Completely Unrelated / nihon no kata
« on: 2007-10-29 07:12:08 »
日本の形 -> nihon no kata -> “Japan’s way”, “the Japanese way”, or as in the videos, “the Japanese tradition”.

This is the same group who brought us those “How to date a Japanese woman” (Kosai) videos.  Beautiful satire.

How to Eat Sushi
Can You Use Chopsticks?
Japanese Tea (Japanese only)
How to Apologize
Onigiri (Her accent is adorable when she pronounces the English terms)
Clapping Hands
Kneeling in Apology
Origami
Summer Vacation

There are a few more if you search for 日本の形; I don’t have time to post them all.


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Completely Unrelated / Re: No-Hands Super Mario World
« on: 2007-10-09 02:49:41 »
I have never heard of it but it looks interesting.
I can already tell the level in the video is finely tuned.


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My site involves general hacking of any game.
MHS
Forums
You can download my software and hack your own games as well.
There is a member of my forum who has made a big mod for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (uses my software to run) and he would be able to answer anything about the game I am sure.  His name is esco.

You can also visit:
Virtual Coders (I help run this also.)
Game Hacking
Game Deception
MPC (Visit at your own risk [scan for viruses after visiting].)
Woodmann for more serious general hacking.


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Completely Unrelated / No-Hands Super Mario World
« on: 2007-10-06 14:18:24 »
This was an awesome idea.
These videos depict levels in Super Mario World that beat themselves without the need for a controller.  Even bosses are beaten without touching the controller.

Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
Level 6
Level 7
Level 8
Level 9
Level 10 (err?)
Level 11
Level 12

Luigi


I hope to see more of these in the future, or maybe we can even get in on the action and make our own.   :wink:
They look fun to make as well as to watch.


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Completely Unrelated / Re: Jari vs. L. Spiro
« on: 2007-08-26 07:41:20 »
We’ll see.   :-)


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Completely Unrelated / Re: Jari vs. L. Spiro
« on: 2007-08-25 18:18:44 »
The reply I expected from that guy online who doesn’t like me, for now.
Oh well.


As for attacking without provocation, actually you did provoke me but you just didn’t know it.  I was doing the same thing you do now by keeping scores and all your mistakes to that point, but unlike you I kept them to myself until one day when I just go off and you (and probably others) think it was for no reason, when it was really for a culmination of reasons up that point.  I already apologized to the two people I actually did attack without being provoked.
I did consider apologizing to you, but you aren’t the type who accepts apologies.  Look at what you did after my post.
If you want a sincere apology, perhaps you can take lessons from Qhimm or ficedula on being able to sincerely accept them.


And I expected you to deny my proposal to end it all, but I felt like giving it one last shot based off the fact that I really am just not the same, I really do intend to keep changing, and because I am really not the person you think I am in real life.


I am surprised you had to think about that “paradox” though.
But there really isn’t one.  The forum is an online thing I decide when to embrace and when to do other things.  And even though you are nothing more than that guy online who doesn’t like me, most others here are real people.  We connect through a little forum with degrading value, but nonetheless I have had negative impacts in real people somewhere out there.  For them at least I owe a sincere part of my time.
I have given it now, so don’t be expecting many more time-consuming posts until I decide to contribute to the community with something at a later time.

I for one am still interested in taking Final Fantasy VII apart, and there are still a lot of things left undecoded.


As for my “big life” (the word “big” was used loosely in my original context, but you seem to want an explanation for it or something so…), well I do have my own software to write and maintain along with a forum or two to manage, my art, my chess, my job, my sweetheart, my music, Japanese classes to attend, and after-work events to attend such as karaoke and badminton, not to mention hanging out with my Japanese friends to help practice, two or three movies per week (if there are that many good ones out anyway), and soon teaching C++ and game development in a University for 10 weeks here in Bangkok (not sure if I will accept the position since I have every intention of being in Japan within that timeframe though).
Sorry, but I actually do keep pretty busy while away from these forums, and when the company next door asks me to go play badminton, and my coworkers ask me to go to karaoke or even to their homes for some game/movie/anime time, and when my Japanese friends call me up to invite me to hang out and drink sake (even though they know I don’t drink), all-in-all I really have to consider that online guy who hates me to be a pretty insignificant part of my life.  Sorry buddy, that’s just how it is, but I do hope you can understand.
That is why I always wonder why you get so riled up and get so much into these debates.
Not to be rude, but I really do have to question where your priorities lie and how much you actually have happening outside of this forum.
I mean, to each his own and all, but at least you could see why I would wonder…


One thing is for sure though.
I felt a lot better after writing that post.
I used to write these long posts to bash Jari and I would always show some attitude/arrogance and after posting I always felt disgusting and anxious.
I just felt uncomfortable after them all, and it was even worse when I attacked ficedula and Qhimm.  I was literally shaking then.
But I got a lot of things off my chest in the previous post and I felt pretty good afterwards.  I much prefer to be that person.


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Completely Unrelated / Re: Jari vs. L. Spiro
« on: 2007-08-25 10:36:18 »
(...) you scare many other peopel off yet?  :lol:
Only the scum. :-D
Ah, so now Nori is scum.   :|
I'm not the one who you'd call the oldest member of this forum, but I do remember you claiming to actually care about posting (punctuation, spelling, special chars, etc.) - I thought that the ability to read and understand posts (even if there are spelling mistakes in them) should get along?
You are right.  I awakened this morning and had remembered some of this topic (was the last thing I read before I went to sleep and it was still on my screen) and got the idea for that post based off my memory from the night before, obviously not taking much into account about the context of the post above and his reply, since the exact wording was not really at the front of my mind while I was laying in bed.
I noticed after I posted, but I felt no need to remove/modify it.

I put my own foot in my mouth and feel no shame if others see it.  For such careless posting, I deserve no less.



When/how are we going to end this, Jari?  That is all I really want to know.

I know your style is to simply take a situation and twist it into the context most beneficial to your side.
For example, teachers don’t teach because they want to give back, but rather because they act off the idea that they are more knowledgeable in such field and teaching is a way is displaying that.
To you, helping on old lady across the street means you want to impress other people.

Every single good action has an equally evil potential interpretation.  There is not a single exception to this.  And all you do is take some action and specifically look for the evil in it so you can waste all day on a forum trying to own someone who doesn’t even care about-

Well he cares about the forum to some extent, but in the end it is just a forum, and everyone knows people change online.  The simple fact is you are a guy online and this is a forum.  I have a big life apart from this so all that you really try so hard to prove can not possibly culminate into anything greater than winning a moot online debate that only a few remaining souls would ever even see.
What do you do outside of this forum?  Even Qhimm does not come here often.
Meanwhile, I myself actually do have things happening in real life, which actually do have significant value over a small forum.  I am not the same person in real life which is why I sincerely offered to meet; it really would fix everything.

So when you have a guy online arguing on a dying forum against a personality that doesn’t even represent who I really am with the people who really matter, I guess you can kind-of understand why I can’t be too flustered by your thesis-length posts.
Although there are a lot of things I could correct from your post here (for example, Qhimm already made the decision not to ban me before I ever gave any excuses), I just find myself unable to care too much about that guy online who doesn’t like me.




Of course all you saw was an excuse to run and hide from these debates.
I will let you think what you want (especially since most other people really can understand my point), but just know one thing clearly: I really am only interested in getting along, and my question about how to go about doing so was sincere.

Well don’t think too much about it; you will always be that random guy online who doesn’t like me unless you decide to meet in person.
So if you are really stuck on the idea of simply hating me, well that’s just too bad; we could have been great friends in other circumstances, and I certainly have no doubts my own past behavior is responsible for the failure there, but you can believe me when I say I am not proud of a lot of things I have done here and I am definitely not interested in being that person any longer.

I thank you for pointing out so many of my mistakes in either case; although I still have to sort out which things you just made up or twisted to suit your cause, there are still enough things about which you are right that I can see I have been an ass here for a long time, and even recently in my reply to your flame.
I supposed even these days there are remains of those outbursts in me, but take me seriously when I say it is not who I enjoy being and I am putting in serious effort into fixing it.



Speaking of which it is only fitting that I apologize to everyone for exactly that.
My apologies to everyone.  I wish I could have been more constructive towards the growth of the site, and I wish I could have had a second chance but the site is coming near its end it seems and I feel I will just have to live with a tarnished name forever.
Sorry especially to ficedula and to Qhimm.

My priorities have changed; I no longer care about proving myself.  I am too old for that and finally aware that nothing I was doing was in any way helping me be a better person and certainly not helping me make online buddies.  It is not 100% out of my system but recent events have had a huge impact on it and I do continue to put a heavy focus on removing it entirely.

I will do better from here out.


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Completely Unrelated / Re: Jari vs. L. Spiro
« on: 2007-08-25 02:19:07 »
Ah, so now Nori is scum.   :|


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Completely Unrelated / Re: The Art Topic
« on: 2007-08-24 17:10:45 »
Not bad, though I am not sure I get the message (if there is one to be gotten).


Well my drawing of Panda does not look as though it has progressed much, but in fact I went over basically every part and touched up tons of things, added the hair to the left side, and had it professionally scanned at Fujifilm, a combination that I felt worthy of a progress update.  Plus I have some news.  But first the picture.


Panda 3 WIP 7 (9 months and counting [when will I get off my lazy ass and draw?]).  Click image for full view and story.



Now some news.
This picture is to appear in an art book, later this year I believe.  I am in contact with the publisher already, and assuming Panda grants her permission, and assuming I finish by the end of September, it will appear in an art book.
Depending on where it is used in the book I should receive $1 for each issue sold (per picture).
My drawing of August will also appear and falls under the same guidelines.

Assuming both girls grant their permissions (and they should, especially Panda who has done modeling for band album covers and magazines already), I will enter a contract and have 2 pictures in the book and make $2 per issue sold.

The book is called Book of Art.  A pretty straight-forward name I would have used myself had I decided to publish an art book (think of my software named Memory Hacking Software).
I will know more details about it later and I will give details as to where it can be purchased and how, for those interested.


Now if I can just sit my ass down and finish Panda 3…
It’s really taking a toll on my sanity since I would rather be programming or playing a game or playing piano.  I have to force myself to sit and draw each time when I want to be doing other things.
But with the prospect of money hopefully I will feel more inclined to work on it.


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Completely Unrelated / Jari vs. L. Spiro
« on: 2007-08-11 09:02:17 »
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awesomeness i wish i were as lucky as you but that could never happen to me.
What part was it that you wanted to happen to you?

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LOL I can honestly say your the only other person I've heard use awesomeness but me
I believe I have used it on quite the few occasions back in the day.

Quote from: Jari
Don't feel too bad. Spiro is made of lies and bullsh*t after all
Prove it.
Oh, and before you go off presenting a bunch of circumstantial evidence, why not try to bring out something that can actually be solidly proved to be a lie?
For example, you could claim that I lied about her promise to quit smoking, because you know that to prove myself right I would have to get her to vouch for it, which is clearly not something I willing to do simply for the sake of some Internet argument (and naturally asking her to go so far out of her way for such a stupid thing would only ruin my credibility with her, and I have to admit she is much more important than you).
While on the other hand, you wouldn’t claim that I lied about her giving me some new photos to draw, since all I would have to do is present my drawing, or the photos, to prove myself right.

So, do feel free to show everyone just how few hard-cold facts you actually have, because you might be able to find one or two times I directly lied, but in the end 90% (or more!) of what you think is a lie is just you thinking it is a lie.  Please face this fact.


Quote from: Jari
and multiple personalities too
Please, do allow me to clarify.  What I had were emotional rollercoasters with a range so vast I could (and did) seem like an entirely different person.  But to admit to such a simple problem and take the blame for the things I had said rather than presenting an elaborate and deep-rooted problem and somehow trying to pass blame off to anything else I could would have actually taken balls (colors used to clarify the structure of the sentence).

In light of the difficulty of my previous challenge I will hand this one to you.  I lied about having multiple personalities, justifying it to myself by adjusting the context of “multiple personalities” to include “emotional ranges so vast that I seemed like an entirely different person”.


Quote from: Jari
Not that I'd care, but I do enjoy being mean to liars and holier-than-thous, and especially to our dear Spiro.
Which is funny, because I enjoy being an arrogant holier-than-thou ass to people, such as yourself, who think they are so much better/smarter/wiser than everyone else.
Which explains why only people who feel very highly of themselves, or people watching me argue with those people, think I am arrogant.

It’s really funny actually.  I see some guy online thinking he is so bad, so I jump up to shoot him down, then I go back to watching my cartoons, playing Mario or chess, acting like a clown for the healthy laughter of others, and basically do all these “loser” things that no one with a decent level of self-respect would be caught dead doing.

For the rest, I enjoy giving laughter, smiles, praise, and help when I can. Even in this very thread!



Quote from: Jari
That reminds me, hey Spiro, you were bragging so much how you already had counter arguments ready for that certain post of mine. They never materialized. What happened to them, your dog ate them, or something?
Shortly after that topic was created I left the site.
Of course I don’t make big dramatic topics announcing such things, and hope that everyone is going to cry; I leave when I get bored and I come back when I come back.
Do feel free to check visitation logs to verify this.  It was a long time ago but as I recall, after that topic went on for a while, at some point it was your turn to post, and I made a topic about stem cells and rights for robots, but finally I simply got bored and left for several months.  I had other things to do.  If you ever did give some retort in that topic, I have missed it.

If you didn’t, well that was the plan anyway.  By challenging you so straight-forwardly and claiming that I would be ready for your every next move, you would squander about and post virtually non-relevant replies (and I remember you actually doing this!, as I had to keep pressuring you to give me that oh-so-special post [which I did only to ensure you would keep avoiding actually giving it to me, heh]) to do anything you could to avoid allowing me to be right.
I recall proclaiming that I knew exactly what your next post would contain.
You, knowing your own predictability, acknowledged that there was a very high likelihood that I was right, as nearly any attack back at me could be considered predictable, and you know enough about your own flaws to know I would have enough ammo for anything you could dish out, and that I did have something in mind.

But of course a plan where you aren’t supposed to give me that certain reply could never be realized until the topic died and it was sure you never would reply.  But by that time I would not only look like an ass for beating a dead horse I would also be breaking rules by resurrecting topics.

Luckily, I also knew that you would keep records.  As long as you never gave me that magical reply that could allow me to unleash “all hell” back at you, you had considered the debate won, and since you oh-so-love to rub things into peoples’ faces that are so out-of-date as to be literally insignificant and forgotten by normal people, I knew I could safely let the topic die only to have you bring it up like a fool later and give me the chance to actually explain what the plan was all along (tada!), and let you be the one to beat the dead horse.

I remember leaving clues in my first posts so that when this time came I could actually verify that I had planned the whole thing out up all the way up to this point, but frankly I can’t be arsed to be find that post and read it all again looking for my clues.

But I know you will.  :-P


 :-)


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Completely Unrelated / Re: The Art Topic
« on: 2007-08-02 04:27:15 »
If that was me, after spending all that effort drawing Panda, it would be hard for me not to feel somewhat involved with the subject.

I hope she adores you in real life for doing this.
I showed it to her recently and she loved it (even though it is not done).
She agreed to give me other pictures of her to draw from when she did some modeling for an album cover for a band.  These are more professional shots and of a more sensual nature, which should help the drawings sell better.

As for involvement, well, in the beginning it was easy to keep my distance.
A minor issue is her boyfriend (though they have broken up a few times).
The major issue being that, unfortunately, she smokes (though she promised me she would quit after graduating).
Also, I plan to stay single until getting into Japan (which is very soon now).

But as I knew her more and more I found she is my type more than I would have thought.
She is pretty sweet and very sincere, and very faithful.  She told me a story about two little bunnies she had just bought, and one night one of them came up to her and cuddled against her leg.  The next morning, for no reason, that bunny had died, and she told me she cried all day.


Now I am a bit sad to be going to Japan, as I will probably never get to call her or meet her again.
But I will be happy I could know her and I will be content as long as we can at least remain friends and keep contact via e-mail.


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Completely Unrelated / Re: The Art Topic
« on: 2007-07-14 15:54:39 »
This is another work in progress.

A Japanese model.

As always, no smudging in any part of the drawing.


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Completely Unrelated / Re: The Art Topic
« on: 2007-07-07 07:38:00 »
If proportions are your problem, anime is the way to go.
Proportions are virtually a nonissue in anime.
Your heads can be as big as you want or you can have huge arms or whatever.
Pick a style of anime that more closely matches the prportions you have.


After that, benefit from reading a few proportion books or anatomy references online.
For example, the tips of the fingers reach down to the middle of the leg, between the knee and hip.  Most references for proportions can be found sitting in your chair.
Even if you have a huge head like my friend Matt’s.

For most people it helps to simply look down, but when I was 3 I always drew huge thumbs (twice as wide as all other fingers, half as long) on people because that is what I have.  When I was 4 I looked at my mother’s long thin thumbs and aksed her why her thumbs were so messed up.
I then found out that 99.9999% of all of you have those weird long thin thumbs.
Freaks.


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Completely Unrelated / Re: The Art Topic
« on: 2007-07-05 08:10:03 »
I have not sold any from there but I have sold commissions.


Here is the latest portrait.
A commission from someone online, sold for $50 (I was told this is far too cheap but I don’t know how to price art).
J+L



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Completely Unrelated / Re: The Art Topic
« on: 2007-07-01 05:36:27 »
I have a few in mind.

Most of my drawings are from references.  All the portraits are from photos.
I think my next big portrait will be something entirely from my mind.  I will create a new Asian human and name her Six.
Last night I was sick and got a bunch of pain killers at the hospital.  This morning, while very much on drugs, I got a clear vision of this woman in my head, and I want to put her onto paper as soon as I can.

Some people say that drawing from photos is lifeless and only represents technical abilities.
So, for those people, I want to show true creation.


But that will take a while, just as Panda 3 is taking so long now.
So in the meantime I plan to do a few drawings on computer.  I practiced a bit on how to make solid lines.  My lines are still a bit rough but I am getting there.






Also, portraits come in 2 parts.  That is, people have 2 reasons for looking.
People look first to admire the skills of the artist.  They look at the pencil lines and appreciate.
But eventually people get over it, and then they only have one more reason to look at the portrait: the subject.
I have seen people draw photographic portraits, but for some reason mostly of men.  They do not sell so well because once people get over the fact that it is a drawing, they are left looking at some guy’s crooked nose and ugly face.
When you have a portrait that is both drawn well and has a beautiful subject, people are more inclined to buy it, even hang it over their T. V.’s.
Currently my main subject is Panda, a friend of mine in real life.  And people are already waiting for Panda 3 to be finished so they can buy it (deviantArt allows you to sell your art, and someone randomly bought me a subscription, so I can change the prices and make a lot more).

So when Panda 3 is done I plan to talk to Panda about going out and taking some photos that might be more tempting for people to buy, and we can both make money from it.
If that works out well I would plan to start looking for other beautiful subjects to add variety into the gallery; people will probably only buy Panda once or twice and then be hoping for someone new.


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Completely Unrelated / Re: The Art Topic
« on: 2007-06-30 04:28:10 »
Looking good, especially Roger Rabbit!


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Completely Unrelated / The Art Topic
« on: 2007-06-24 11:04:03 »
Well.

I mentioned last time that I am not much into art/drawing.  I had just started drawing again after a 7-year break from high school and the WIP (work-in-progress) I posted back then has only just recently been finished, after over 6 months.  I didn’t have the urge to work on it for 5 months of that time.

I had a reason for starting drawing again back then.  I figured my desire to draw would quickly fade as it always does.

But I got a lot of support and a lot of people liked some of the things I had done.  Your support has kept me going this long, and I thought I would share some of my recent works (though there are not many).



Anime:
Sitting Rei Drawn back at age 15.

Showered Misato Drawn back at age 15.


Portraits:
August This was a WIP from last time.  Finally finished it.  I am really lacking in the dedication department, but I always finish what I start.

Panda 3 This is my current WIP.  I plan to sell this when done.


Other:
Velociraptor This is a drawing from when I was 12.  I was very much into Jurassic Park back then.  This was my first and last colored drawing.


View the rest here.


Thank you all for the support that keeps me going.


Of course, feel free to share your own works.  Hopefully there are more things to show since last time right?
So let’s see them!


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Completely Unrelated / Re: How to date a Japanese woman
« on: 2007-05-02 06:36:20 »
It worked thank you.

Funny videos.


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Completely Unrelated / Re: Interesting puzzle game
« on: 2007-04-29 05:22:20 »
It seems to give you a green dot even if you use fewer than the number they request.
I use 10 on figuur6 and it says to use 11.  So I get green because of that (though I could just add a block and get yellow).
I got yellow on all the rest.


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かわいいそ is Japanese for “poor thing” (kawaiiso [yes I left off an い on accident]).
です = desu, ね = ne.
Which roughly translates to “poor thing indeed”.


น่าสงสาร is Thai for the same thing (naa sohng saan).


One thing I have to request is that you do not make fun of others’ English if they are not native speakers, no matter how much you think they deserve it.
Unless you can speak their native language better than they can speak your native language, and even then there is no reason.

Remember, everyone on this board who is not a native English speaker is at least bilingual, and some manage to speak English better than many native speakers.
Try learning any other language of your choice at the same level Jari speaks English.


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There is only one true church, and the rest are pretty much abominations to the world.
A perfect example of how religions cause wars.  It’s scary that you actually seem proud of that.


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First of all, we don't need a cure for AIDS.
Try coming to Thailand and saying that.  I had a female friend who had a mother.  It’s past-tense because, just within my short time here, her mother managed to die of AIDS she had gotten when she was raped by a foreigner who came to this country to do just that.  But I suppose if it was you here instead of me, you would have told her, “We don’t need a cure for AIDS.  Just die please.  And since you are Buddhist and don’t believe in the one true church, go to hell while you’re at it.”


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People call it a pandemic, yet it is so easy to consciously abstain from spreading it.
Although a very huge percentage of people spread it before they even know they have it.  It takes no fewer than 6 months to be detected, and without reason for suspicion, it will take longer than that to detect until the guy or girl actually thinks something is wrong and goes in and gets checked.  Most people usually only do this after a solid year of having HIV, during which time they easily manage to infect 20 others, each of whom won’t know they have it until they’ve spent a year infecting 20 others.
It’s the perfect killing machine.


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since it is, after all, a test. If we remembered God from before we were born, then we would all have a perfect faith, and it wouldn't be a test, would it?
So, while I presented a series of logically connected events that easily explain why we have no soul or conscience before life, your whole side can be summarized as “it’s a test,” which is, in any case, something you choose to believe out of fear rather than by some logical foundation.
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If this were all true, then would you, or would you not be screwed when you die?
And this just goes to show I am right.  You never once in your life tried to think on your own.  You live in the fear others gave you.  You constantly spend your energy checking and rechecking yourself to make sure everything you do falls within the boundaries of what others told you would land you in Heaven.  You spend so much energy checking yourself it takes time from your life, and concern that you might fall outside those boundaries just once causes you so much stress that the quality of your life, the one life you know you have, is going down the drain (note that I don’t mean to imply you have this stress all the time, but just at some times when you do something or think a certain idea).
You live in a cage created by your parents when you were a child.  かわいそですね。 You never even had a chance.


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You don't know if your spirit can have thought process after you die
And neither do you, so stop betting all your money on it.


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If all you can see is visible light, does that mean that infrared and ultraviolet don't exist?
Who said anything about just being able to see thing?  And by the way, yes, we have ways of detecting ultraviolet light and infrared, so we can certainly prove they do indeed exist, without being able to see them directly.  No one said seeing directly with our own eyes is the only form of proof.  But no method exists to detect or prove your God.


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Did it just appear out of nowhere? Explain that to me in cold hard facts.
No, see, unlike Christians, I don’t pretend to have an undisputable answer for every single thing anyone could ever ask.  I actually take the time to acknowledge what things humans simply can never know.  And I understand that any idea I suggested as an answer would be simply my own idea.  Christians, on the other hand, simply know absolutely everything, no matter how impossible it really is to know.  I have no doubts that you can tell me how the universe began, and I have no doubts that while you are explaining it all, it will never occur to you how ridiculous your explanation is, or that you are trying to present as fact something that has no real-world basis and can never be proved right, but it will occur to you that your explanation can never be proved wrong.


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Do you acknowledge that there are concepts and objects that exist that we do not comprehend, or even begin to understand? Just because we cannot "prove" it does not mean it does not exist.
I think I explained quite well that I am familiar with the idea of being unable to explain things, and that things can not be understood/comprehended.  But you added that second sentence and threw away your whole point.  Your second sentence is intended to be justification for why you yourself are taking some incomprehendable idea and “comprehending” it.  It’s your justification for being able to explain unexplainable things.


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If it is a fact that God doesn't exist, then present some evidence please.
Sure, but first I want to tell you the real truth that is really true.
In fact, above God, there is a Giraffe (The Great, if you will) who rides a Pumpkin of Fury.  He commands God in all his actions, you know, like a puppet.
He isn’t in the Bible because he is supposed to be a hidden shadow, you know, controlling God from the darkness.  So all of God’s actions seemed to be his own, but really they were controlled by Giraffe the Great.
Because of his obscurity, only a few people know about him, and those who know are truly enlightened.  And everywhere you look you can see signs of him.  He even made Giraffes in his own image!  And his Pumpkin of Fury is the reason we carve pumpkins at Halloween, a symbol of the Devil’s contention for the guiding force that holds him back.  But of course, popular belief contends we have a different reason for pumpkins at Halloween, but of course that is just because if everyone knew the real reason, they would know about Giraffe the Great, which is what he wants to avoid.

Now that you know the real truth, I will prove you wrong when you prove me wrong.


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You claim that religion is the cause of contention and suffering in the world.
No, just a lot of it.  People’s differences make more problems than anything, with second place being people’s overactive passion.
Unfortunately, religions are both ways of making people different and making them passionate.



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You think that if everyone took an atheist and logical approach to life, the world would enter a golden age of enlightenment, am I wrong?
You are wrong.
The major problems we have today would vanish, indeed, while a new set of problems would arise (nothing specifically, but logic contends that no existence on a wide scale can be without problems).
However, the major change would be that we would actually be able to progress as a unit, able to overcome every single problem we would ever be presented, rather than being stuck dead in the mud thanks to the pure inability to adapt, and let go of the high-and-mighty “I know the truth God damn it and no amount of raw evidence you present could ever be more valid than my raw ‘de-facto knowledge’ of ‘what is’” attitude.

This quote is exactly the cause of most problems we have:
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No use arguing with me, it isn't going to change any of my opinions
For the record, religious people are the exact reason we do not yet have a cure for AIDS, and also why research in stem-cell research, capable of radically changing lives in positive ways, has barely even been scratched.




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If there truly is no God, then who gives a crap what anyone does? Might as well brutally murder this child, after all, there are no consequences to such actions other than breaking the law humans created
It’s like you subconsciously know why we created God, yet you are so clouded by fear of a man-made hell and the idea that you would have been tragically wrong all your life to actually let that realization surface.


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The advantage that comes with being a believer in God, is that I have a win/win situation when I die
Sorry to burst your bubble but there is no situation either way when you die.
When you die, your atoms dissolve into the ground.  Years later some of them, carried away by insects and left in the soil, get used to make bricks for houses, concrete for roads, etc.  Of course, imagining yourself as a road should come easy, since every single atom in your body has at one time or another been part of an actual star, burning for millions of years, until finally shot into the blank sub-zero cold of outer space, where they spent more millions of years until they finally ended up inside an apple your mother ate, which was digested, broken into its core components, and distributed around her body, allowing them to be used by her ovaries to make the components of the egg that eventually made your body.

And you think this just stops because you die?  Guess what.  You’re going to die, and your atoms are going to spend millions more years traveling around before they finally land in some other life form(s).

Soul?  If the “soul” was anything more than chemical reactions taking place in the brain, we wouldn’t be physically bound to the space within our craniums.  If it was not based entirely on the physical world, this kid would not die just because of a disease that ravages its physical body.  But here we are, physically bound to see through our eyes and our own eyes only.  I can’t push you out of your body and take it over.  My thoughts, ideas, etc., are all created by physical properties possessed and limited by the brain.
Different physical properties inside the brain make people smarter, dumber, capable, incapable, etc.

Go on all you want about some form of conscience you plan to have after your physical body is destroyed.  Nothing changes the cold hard facts.  Without a physical body, there is no thought process.  There is no conscience.  No pain, no happiness, no memories, no regrets, no anything.
Remember the time before you were born?  You don’t remember that!?  Geeze man, you missed out on billions of years dude.
Oh wait.  You didn’t have the physical construct capable of giving you the conscience you have now.
Clueless as to how it feels to be dead?  You’ve already “experienced” it once before.



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I have absolutely nothing to lose. You, however, have everything to lose.
Let me put it this way.
Put away all your stubborn “I know He exists beyond all doubt, period” ideas for a moment and really acknowledge the one thing you really do absolutely know as an undeniable fact: You are alive now.
I didn’t say you would be alive tomorrow.  I didn’t say you will get another life after this one.  None of that is known to be undisputable fact.  You know that you are alive here and now, and nothing more.
That means this life is the only one you know you have.  This life is the only chance you know you have for doing everything you want to do.
If that didn’t really hit you, read it again until it does.
You sit here and change your entire life, the only life you know you have, based on things you just assumed to be true because it was spoon fed into you as a child.
You changed how you think, how you act, etc., without even considering that the way you do things now is a waste of the one life you have.  Or if not a total waste, at least not the best way to live it.  You avoid true happiness by simply believing you are already there, or that you will get there during the most uncertain time in people’s lives: death.
You change your life to pursue a goal you never even dare to consider might not even be there to pursue.

And why?  Fear of what others told you as a child?
Fear that you couldn’t maintain a moral standing alone?  You need “guidance” to be a moral person?  Can’t just be a good person, but without believing?
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So it seems, in fact, you have already lost everything, while I have everything.


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Emilio's mother, Catarina Gonzales, on the other hand, is fighting to keep her son on the ventilator, allowing him to die "naturally, the way God intended."
Ignorant people piss me off.  And I hate the fact that America (my country of origin) is so completely full of them.
This type of ignorance is nearly the worst and most annoying kind as well, with Jack Thompson’s kind being first.


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All I know is, I don't want to be responsible for the death of this baby.
Not to sound too harsh, but this is a pile of bullshit.
#1: You can’t be responsible for its death.  The disease already holds that responsibility.  You could only be responsible for prolonging its life, not creating its death.  So spouting out bullshit about pulling life support = being responsible for the death of the kid is, well, bullshit.
#2: Even if there was a God, and he had “His will” or whatever, logic (though this is not a clear concept on anyone who believes in God) would denote that he gave the kid the disease in the first place and obviously “intended” it to die.  It would be pretty hard to imagine a God who just wanted to use this human life as a toy test to see how far other humans are willing to go to prolong a torturous life.  “Sorry kid, I need your life to test the will of others.  Too bad for you eh?”.  If this is your God, I feel sorry for you.



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Who are you to judge whether or not a person should live?
I think we’re supposed to be putting ourselves in the shoes of the parents.
So if your question is, “Assuming you are the parent, who are you to judge whether a person should live?”, my reply would be, “This question has nothing to do with anything.”
The child will die, period.  And soon, too, no matter how much life-support is given.
The kid lost its chance to live, and no one is to blame for that, under any circumstances.  No human gave that disease to the kid.  So standing by to watch an incurable disease runs its course leaves no one to blame, period.
If you want to be uptight about it, why not blame God?  No one could be more responsible for this child’s situation than He, of course.


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If we can keep him alive, why shouldn't we?

Is money worth more than human life, even if he does have a rare illness?
What if we found out how to make roads come alive, but they couldn’t move or make noises, and we still drove over them?
Of course, being unable to see, move, hear, or taste, kind of removes all the great aspects of “life” in the first place, plus I have no doubts that blistering cold winters, steaming hot summers, and the constant weight of cars, would generally make the life of the road simple and utter hell.
Please, tell me, what aspect of life is this kid enjoying?  Does it awaken fresh in the morning every day?  Does it enjoy the taste of a sweet apple in the morning?  Does it stare at the sunset at night?  Does it listen to the latest hit album by They Might Be Giants?

People who go on about giving/keeping life at every possible chance, no matter how destructive that life actually is, remind me of people who claim C is faster than C++.
It’s something they heard from their friends, so they believe it and repeat it, even fight for it, without putting any actual thought into it at all to find a logical basis for the claim.
They just blindly go around claiming life is ever so important without even once considering it on a case-by-case basis.



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The reason I put it in quotes is because miracles are not unheard of. Nothing is incurable.
Actually, yes, things are incurable.
But for the sake of argument let’s assume there was a glimmer of hope.  The years that pass by the kid now are the most important, developmentally speaking.  As of now, this kid is not learning to use toilets, it is not learning language, or about the world around it.
And if the kid really is in pain all the time, that’s probably a developmental hurdle right there.  If kids who are beaten grow up to be killers, imagine what a kid who simply lives to suffer, night and day, sleeping and awake, will be.  A doctor?  Erm, no, I don’t think so.
By the age of 4, if the kid hasn’t had this miraculous miracle, it would never learn to speak properly, if at all.
By the age of 6, with no miracle, it wouldn’t be able to socialize and would forever be an outcast, unable to even understand the world around it.  By this point, it would forever be missing the extra qualities of life that make it worth living, such as love, affection from a special other, etc.

I could go on.



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The parents have the final say. You would want the same freedom if you were married. So, the parents made the choice. Why argue?
No, the point of the article is that the parents do not say.  Texas law.  If the hospital decides the treatment is painful and without medical benefit, they cancel it, regardless of what the parents say.

And frankly, that should be the law in every state.  Also annoying are people who whine that parents should have the final say.  I am sure this is especially true with crack-driven addicts who accidentally had children, right?  I am sure every parent is equally capable of making all the right decisions.   Suuuure.
Unfortunately, too many parents these days are still under the influence of religion, making their decision-making processes all-the-less logical and sensible.  Very few parents are, in fact, capable of making the correct decisions, it seems.


Not to sound too harsh.


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Completely Unrelated / Re: How to date a Japanese woman
« on: 2007-04-24 03:34:33 »
Yes, it will allow downloading of videos directly from YouTube, which I can not access.
I use the link to the first video from Jari.
It returns http://ash-v130.ash.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=9q3toCezGlM, which goes to YouTube and gives me a 404 because of Thailand’s &*#%ing *$^@*?&!.


Someone is really going to have to actually download the videos and put them somewhere not on YouTube (assuming one is so inclined as to help this poor suffering lad watch the only videos that will cure his or her cancer, save his or her puppy, and bring a smile to his or her rock-hard face).


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