2011 Off topic thread(basketball,movies,etc whatever)

[Luke]

Someone please condense Ludo's wall of text for me

[Ludo]

I created a private pool there if anyone is interested.

Pool Name: InvestWithSports
Password: investwithsports

[zY|]

That game is tougher than it sounds.

[Ludo]

Yeah apparently it's not enough to just pick the winner. Depending on how long the fight goes, how many knockdowns, significant punches, takedowns, submission attempts, and passes on the ground happen per minute of a fight you get X amount of points. It definitely adds a twist to standard "MMA Fantasy" games.

[zY|]

I playtested it twice. And I lost pretty bad both times.

[SPX]

I have never met a mormon I didn't enjoy. I respect their committment. Mormons are a good people by me.

All the ones I've met have been very decent and nice, but just like anyone who is trying to convert you to a viewpoint, goddamn are they annoying when they go into Missionary Mode.

[zY|]

All the ones I've met have been very decent and nice, but just like anyone who is trying to convert you to a viewpoint, goddamn are they annoying when they go into Missionary Mode.

Try and talk them out of their beliefs.

[SPX]

I have no interest in that, just like I generally get annoyed by atheists who ridicule Christians.

I figure I'll let them do their thing just like I want them to let me do mine.

[MMA_scientist]

All the ones I've met have been very decent and nice, but just like anyone who is trying to convert you to a viewpoint, goddamn are they annoying when they go into Missionary Mode.

Agree it can be annoying, but it is something they have to do. Most of them are normal teenage kids doing their tour of duty in the mormon army. One of my buddies in law school was a mormon, went to BYU. He did his mission in Japan, where they are polite people but not at all religious. He said he felt so stupid doing it everytime, but something they all do.

I generally find people who take every opportunity to bash religion far more obnoxious than people trying to convert. Although I prefer to be left alone either way, at least the religious folks are doing it because they believe it with sincerity, or want to. Regardless of whether I agree with their beliefs or not, if they actually believe it, they almost have to do it. Whereas the anti-religion crowd just wants to point and laugh, as if they have some how found the keys to all wisdom where every other person in the history of time has failed... numbnuts from bumfuck has somehow pinned it down with absolute certainty, and then has the gall to make fun of someone else.

[zY|]

I have no interest in that, just like I generally get annoyed by atheists who ridicule Christians.

I figure I'll let them do their thing just like I want them to let me do mine.

I'm ok with it. It's only fairly recently the Christians aren't allowed to murder all the atheists anymore. They can handle a little mockery.

[SPX]

I generally find people who take every opportunity to bash religion far more obnoxious than people trying to convert. Although I prefer to be left alone either way, at least the religious folks are doing it because they believe it with sincerity, or want to. Regardless of whether I agree with their beliefs or not, if they actually believe it, they almost have to do it. Whereas the anti-religion crowd just wants to point and laugh, as if they have some how found the keys to all wisdom where every other person in the history of time has failed... numbnuts from bumfuck has somehow pinned it down with absolute certainty, and then has the gall to make fun of someone else.

100% Agree

I generally eschew any sort of belief in certainty and people who obviously think they have it all figured out--whether talking about religion, politics, science, etc.--drive me crazy. That's why I'm moderate for the most part on religious and political matters especially. Those subjects really engender an Us vs Them mentality. We're good and they're evil. Fuck that. Nothing is black and white like that.

[SPX]

I'm ok with it. It's only fairly recently the Christians aren't allowed to murder all the atheists anymore. They can handle a little mockery.

Well blaming today's Christians for past transgressions is no different from blaming today's white people for slavery.

Also, a lot of the members of my family are still Christians so I'm more sympathetic than someone who is surrounded by atheists all the time.

[zY|]

Well blaming today's Christians for past transgressions is no different from blaming today's white people for slavery.

Also, a lot of the members of my family are still Christians so I'm more sympathetic than someone who is surrounded by atheists all the time.

I think it's the opposite, really. I'm surrounded by nothing but 'GOD GOD GOD' and goddamn is it annoying as fuck. I live in Missi-fucking-ssippi, remember.

[SPX]

Well I find that the best way to deal with that is just to make good decisions about where you live and who you associate with. I live in an area of Salt Lake that is pretty liberal and non-religious, and all of my friends are non-religious, so it's actually pretty rare that I meet any gung ho Mormons or members of other Christian-based denominations.

Every city has its "alternative culture" area with the liberals and gays and hippies. Think Mid-Town Memphis. That's where you want to be if you want to avoid all the God talk.

[MMA_scientist]

I have never lived in the south. But it is definitely a different mentality down there. My brother is in school in Louisiana, and he thinks southerners are all retarded and backwards. He is a christian, but even he can't tolerate it down there.