Recent posts by Maglor on Kongregate

Topic: Technical Support / Chat refuses to load.

Tried internet explorer, but it’s a peice of crap and won’t even load the chat box. wtf? If anyone else has any suggestions, I’d be grateful as hell. :P

Topic: Technical Support / Chat refuses to load.

I still, have nothing. Please help me out here… :P

Topic: Serious Discussion / Repowering America!

Pointless. I will not sign up, and I will not do so purely because I disbelieve that America actually needs repowering. I more strongly have faith in the future empowerment of America due to it’s newly elected president- who I also have great faith in. So, no. I refuse :D

Topic: Kongregate / Your First Impossible Badge

I can’t exactly remember. All I know is that it was either SCGMD2 or Streamline.

Topic: Technical Support / Chat refuses to load.

Tried it. Still, nothing. All is normal… It still won’t load the damn thing.

Topic: Off-topic / Things you would never want to have someone say to you

Probably “I have contagious meningitis” or something on the lines of “I am you. Your mother is actually mine”. Or maybe even “Say hello to my little friend!” because either way, I’d probably die if I was told that.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Are most Guys Sexist And Perverted

Well, I don’t really think there is a single person in the world that know “most guys” so it’s impossible to tell for the truth. You can’t get a straight forward answer from this- all you’ll get is opinion. Which doesen’t really help, because opinions differ massively :P

Topic: Technical Support / Chat refuses to load.

I need some backdrop on this weird situation…

Basically, whenever I try and play a game, I cannot use the chat or talk to anyone using it or earn acheivments or cards because the light is constantly on red. However, very rarely It turns green and I can actually do something for once.

I have tried a lot of things, I have adjusted my settings and toyed around with my connection, checked for viruses, and other things. But still, the problem persists. I am not sure what is causing it, but I am getting quite frankly, pissed of with it as it has been happening for about a month now.

I am using Windows XP with the latest edition of firefox, I have the most recent version of flash, (and java) and I have also checked if the domain is correct when I use the site. Still, I have problems. It solves nothing as of now.

If anyone comes up with a solution, or any alternate suggestions to fix this- then I would be grateful. very grateful.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Shocking survey... (Teen sex)

I had sex for the first time when I was 14. she was too, but it was just an experience I suppose. I think that as long as you use protection, teen sex (13+) is fine, really. There’s no harm in it to be honest with you, it’s just natural as you grow up, in fact- it sort of readies you for future sex.

anyway, not being at all perverse, but sex before 13 I think is offensive. But it’s rather obvious to see why the age limit is 16, because at that age, a female is “fit” to look after a child. That is what is presumed, but I think that it’s best if you don’t have children until 18, really. My mother gave birth to my older brother when she was 16, and she tells me that she regrets it and should have waited a couple of years. :/

I’m basically saying that young teens shouldn’t have children. I still think that 14+ is alright to have sex, I just don’t believe in the “giving birth” scare that comes with it… I’m not a father (well… to my knowledge), and I had sex several times before I was 16. Mainly because I was careful and had no ethical problem with it, I just thought it was fun :D

This is a lot like those “scare” threads you find in forums just to make people scared of teen sex.I don’t think it’s completely bad, I just don’t at all enjoy seeing 14 year old still-in-school girls pushing prams. It’s horrible. Think safe people, and you won’t have problems. ;D

Topic: Serious Discussion / Sex (i.e. Man/Woman) Equality?

On a rather abrupt approach, I’ll give you my view on female equality, from a man’s perspective.

I believe that women are simply the other side of our species. Just like any other species, without the female, life for the human race would simply fade away. We as a species should cherish women, for they give our children to us and help us, nurture us, love us, and though they are different in nature to men, are still humans. Therefore they deserve the same treatment as men. I do not necessarily see how women should be treat differently for any reason whatsoever, they are the same as men. The only difference is their nature, bodily template and the factor that they can give birth and breastfeed… etc.

Although it seems as if in other species where the females are treat worse that the male, (for example, lions, where the females tend to hunt for the male to serve them) I do not necessarily believe that females in our race should be treat the same way. I put this down to the fact that our civilisation is more intelligent and capable of thinking past this flaw. However, I do not entirely believe that this is true. Female inequality definately exists, as I have seen it first- hand in my own family- but I digress. I will always protest against it, although I atended an All- male grammar school.

Topic: Serious Discussion / THE MEANING OF LIFE

THE MEANING OF LIFE

The answer to this thirty-five cents question, will not be found at the heart of the many and varied, cursory, reflective, religious, philosophical, weighty and abstract searches, so long as the questions remain centered around, originate from and end with the bias perspective of a canine-toothed mammal called man.

Perhaps, instead of searching for what the meaning of life is supposed to be, we should be reflecting on whether a meaning is indeed possible. If so, does it then exist, only because we seek it? I will argue that a man’s life, like that of a whale, a giraffe or a sewer rat is devoid of meaning, and is no more worthy or deserving of meaning than the lives of any of the other species.

To search for a meaning that does not exist, or to create one’s own quixotic meaning is but a futile experiment in delusion. It invariably leads the vulnerable and the gullible into the tangled web of the religious industry, transcendental gurus, charlatans and other smiling predators.

I will offer a brief view on our species; from where we came and to where we go; the rock on which we live and die; its position in relation to the Cosmos and the futility, indifference and impermanence of the Universe.

Let us begin with the World around us, which our species can see, touch, hear, taste and smell. Here, common sense can only submit to two possibilities for its existence:

In the first possibility, an all-powerful, all-knowing and self-existent Supreme Being is posited as the creator of all life and the Universe; moreover that everything was designed or foreordained for a specific purpose and meaning.

The second contends that the Universe was formed amidst an eternal and infinite Cosmos that had always existed. That the limitlessness of time, in concert with gravity, quantum physics and nuclear fusion gave birth to stars, planets, moons and all the other celestial bodies.

In other words, the former possibility, God, gives the world meaning but does not explain its chaos, while the latter, Evolution, explains its chaos but cannot give it meaning.

As for the incipience of life itself from inanimateness to the first single cell organism; my understanding is simply that the chaotic and unique conditions that existed at that particular time, and which had not hitherto or since existed, at least not on our little planet, predisposed life to burgeon and evolution took us the rest of the way. Admittedly, this theory is not set in stone but there is incontrovertible evidence to suggest that it is the less ridiculous of the two.

Perhaps for now, it remains the only explication that logic can offer common sense.

Now, if we were to draw from the biblical version of creation, we would have to accept a world designed by a supposedly benevolent God; where its inhabitants are forced to kill and feed on each other in order to survive; where one must feed on the death of the other- where something has to die for something else to live.

One would then also have to concede, that the pain suffered by a gazelle as it is devoured alive by a lion, or that endured by the field-mouse as it is ripped apart by the talons of an eagle, is all part of a perfect and irreproachable nature. Moreover, we must bear in mind that this nature was allegedly designed by a compassionate and omnipotent God, who then went on to pass a law condemning killing whilst recognizing slavery.

I submit, and even the most fixated fan would have to concede, that a better original design could have alleviated much of today’s poverty, misery and anguish.

It is often argued, that because other species cannot reason, have no soul or spirit and were not created in the image of the human God, that they are somehow inferior to humans. Therefore, unlike the ruling mammal, their lives are devoid of meaning.

Let us now examine if this imaginary difference between the species, makes one more deserving of purpose and meaning than the other.

Basically, the common ancestry we share with the other animals is unmistakable. It is clearly manifested in our many strikingly similar characteristics, for example: not 1 or 3 or 5, but 2 eyes, 2 lips, 2 cheeks, 2 arms, 2 nostrils, 2 eyebrows, 2 sets of teeth, 2 testicles, and 2 ears. In short, most species share something called a face, 4 limbs, and remarkably, much the same weird and complex system of bodily functions, organs and reproductive systems.

Recently, the scientific community has found that the difference between the DNA (Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid) of other animals and ours is not as great as had been first imagined. In fact science has indisputably proven that a chimpanzees DNA matches that of his human cousin more closely than it does that of a gorilla or any of the other primates.

To my mind, the difference I note between a man and a chimpanzee is no more extraordinary than the difference between a horse and a zebra, a duck and a chicken, a shark and a dolphin- or a monkey and a baboon. Moreover, I fail to see how the way a man differs from a shark seem any more exceptional than the way a duck differs from a gorilla.

If we took an impartial look, from outside the anthropocentric bias of our eyes at the history of this canine-toothed predator we call man, we would soon see an evolution from a raw and savage barbarism to a nefarious system of man systematically exploiting man with a brief interlude immersed in blood, torture, rape, slavery, human sacrifice, wars, cannibalism, and other abominations.

So, if meaning was a kind of reward which is bestowed on the “virtuous” by a caring and kindly creator. I hasten to add that of all the species sharing the Earth today, man would have to rank, among one of the least deserving species, to receive it.

It is often posited that man is the only species endeared with an innate sense of right and wrong. I submit that history does not support this view, for on most occasions when due to breakdown in law and order, e.g. wars, plagues, and natural disasters; when those “innate” qualities have not been enforced; when man has been left to his own devices, to do as he chooses with impunity, his so-called sense of right and wrong soon degenerated into widespread looting, burning, rape, murder and reckless destruction. In a nutshell, dear reader, on the occasions where his nature has not been suppressed by force, his true animal instincts soon emerged.

In my opinion, the sense of right and wrong is no more innate in man than it is in other species. It is taught to man by society, much in the same way as a man teaches a dog that it is wrong to eat the family cat but right to retrieve a ball.
When we think of the brevity of our lives in terms of geological times, we can only conclude that it is no more than an insignificant heartbeat in time. Similarly, if we compare a finite Universe with eternal cosmic time, we begin to wonder what dent, a few thousand billion years of existence could possibly make on the fabric of eternity?

From this perspective of eternity, our Universe would seem to appear and disappear as quickly as the future merges into the past; therefore it cannot be anything else but insignificant, indifferent and completely devoid of meaning. What’s more, it is not impossible to imagine that our “Big Bang” may have been but one of many, that could have occurred in the past, and which may again occur in the future. “Bing Bangs” which may have given birth to other Universes with stars, planets, moons and other life-forms, like those that exist today which may have existed for a time before disappearing without a trace.

It is self-evident that the only inference we can draw from the turbulence of an impermanent Universe is its proof of randomness. It exists in all its randomness simply because it does, if it did not, it would not exist.

For some time now, humans have been led to believe, that should we aspire to and acquire “virtues” such as loyalty, obedience, honesty, nobility, charity, integrity, truthfulness, graciousness and so on and so forth.
And if we did, then our original “designer” would somehow reward us with immortality albeit posthumously. Another trendy train of thought suggests that even without immortality, “virtues” per se, give meaning and purpose to life.

I do not quite latch on to the same view. It is my firm belief that in an epoch of ignorance and superstition that those “virtues” were specifically constructed letter by letter, syllable by syllable and word by word to dissuade the oppressed many from cutting the throats of the bloated few; designed by those who would benefit most from them. At first, by the vilest of institutions: religion and monarchies. Later the Feudal system perpetuated those make-believe “virtues” to appease the serfs, to placate the slaves, to soothe the oppressed, to manipulate them into serving and fulfilling their master’s purposes instead of their own. To convince them to remain servile and “loyal”, to indoctrinate them with the silly notion that they should not revolt but meekly accept their fate with dignity and that if they remained faithful and patient, then somehow, they would “inherit the Earth”.

Today, those same fabricated “virtues”, those same unnatural qualities continue to beguile the gullible, the naive and the innocent into leading artificial lives against the grain of their true nature. With most of the human race forced to waste their fleeting lives labouring like beasts of burden to generate capital to further enrich the few. I ask you, where is the raison d’etre, divine or otherwise, in such a miserable existence of quiet desperation?

It is mind-boggling to accept that such an unjust biased system could ever have been designed, as rumor has it, by a just, unbiased and omnipotent creator? Just as artificial “virtues” exist only in the minds of those who believe in them, so too does meaning exist only for those who seek it.
I submit that it is no more real to me, than Zoltan, my invisible pet dragon is to you.

To believe something to be true, simply because we wish it to be true, does not necessarily make it so. If you are standing ankle-deep in pig shit, no amount of wishful-thinking or self-delusion will suddenly change reality and put you ankle-deep in Swiss chocolate. At the end of the day, you will still be in pig shit.

When all is said and done, we are not divine beings destined for immortal life somewhere in the clouds, but an evolving species of hairy mammals, who for this fleeting moment in time, live on a hot bit of stardust, which in turn spins around a temporary fire. Sooner or later, willing or unwilling, every one of us is introduced to oblivion. That dear friends, is the long and short of it; everything else is mass delusion. Do not try to readjust your mind the fault is inherent in reality itself. What I have been saying is this, no matter how much we try to sanitize and distort it, reality is reality. Our thinking can only change the way we see it, it cannot change reality itself.

I am afraid that the pure joy that other animals, madmen and little children derive from life, simply by existing, is all the meaning that life has to offer. Today, we may have evolved beyond a point where this pure joy is no longer possible and it could well be, that it is lost to us forever.

At this moment in time, we are merely recycling atoms, moving matter around on the surface of our rock from one place to another. In the end, whatever we as individuals or collectively as a species manage to achieve, will not amount to much more than just scattered debris of stardust wondering endlessly through time and space, waiting for gravity to weave its magic all over again.

Life is a journey leading nowhere, just as it has been for countless generations before us and will be for countless more after us, until in the end, even eternity and infinity may cease to be.

Topic: Off-topic / Im smarter than you

If you were truly smarter than me, then you would not have to resort to proving by posting such a menial post.

You aren’t.

Topic: Off-topic / Women

Everyone has their own little quirks. Girls and women come in all different shapes and sizes, and have different ranges of “tightness” (if you know what I mean ;) and different indistinguishable features trhat you need to know by being with that girl. Come on, you need to spend time with a girl before you start judging them, I think it’s a bit ignorant to just show simple interests in women, because ultimately it’s those little bits you learn about a girl from experience that bring together a good couple. Maybe we should start showing a bit more intuitive thinking towards our interests here. ;)

Topic: Off-topic / dora on drugs!

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Topic: Serious Discussion / Alot of people want to go back in time to kill Hitler.

Why kill a man who is already dead? It’s good that he is. The fucking bastard had completely wrong and illogical views and the coward couldn’t even face the court of law. He killed himself, the miserable prick. I hope he rots in hell for what he did. Nazis can suck my penis.

Topic: Off-topic / Worst dying words!

a father dying and on his deathbed says to his son: " Son, the truth is this. I am actually a woman. I am your mother."

Topic: Off-topic / Jokes - Any

Come and write a joke. Who knows, it might actually be funny…

Seriously.

Q) What do you call a penguin in the desert?
A) Lost.

Q) what’s black and white, and swings through the jungle?
A) Tarzan’s Coal man.

and Yo momma jokes are acceptable…

Your moma’s so fat, she was baptised in seaworld!

Your moma’s stupid, that when your daddy said it was chilly outside, she went inside and brought out a bowl!

Your moma’s so fat, we’re in her right now!

Your moma’s so fat, when she bunjee jumps, she brings the bridge down too.

Yo mama so stupid she sits on the TV, and watches the couch!

Basically, anything that’s funny. I can’t wait to see what people start bringing in.

Topic: Off-topic / Weirdest dream youve had?

This is really messed up. I am a 20 year old male right, when I was going through puberty, I had this weird dream that I was a woman having sex with a man. Seriously! I was really graphic as well, I could feel it in me. I woke up screaming, man. Thank god I’m still straight after that… But ever since then, I’ve never had anything like it in a dream. Now, it just seems to be repetative of me bunjee-jumping into fire, and dying. I really don’t know why the hell I’ve done to deserve such a miserable night’s sleep…

Topic: Off-topic / Random Questions Thread

because they are potatos in disguise. They can barely power a lightbulb. (I DUNNO!)

Why do men have nipples? They don’t need them, so why do they have them? >_<

Topic: Music / rap and rock

…what the?

What the hell is this suppose to be exactly dude? Are we starting some form of discussion or what, or are you just gonna talk to yourself?

Topic: Music / What is the weirdest music video you have ever seen?

Moon Chavs. But it’s not really a song, it’s more of a parody. Youtube it, it’s great.

Topic: Music / What is the best kind of metal?

Thrash Metal, Death metal and Heavy Metal. Those are the best three, but If i’d have to choose one of them, it’d have to be Death Metal. You know, like Lamb Of God and PanterA.

Topic: Music / My Chemical Romance is the best band!

The reason that MCR are just… crap is because of the style of music. They’ve just taken metal, a great genre of music and thrown pop, a crap, simple genre into the mix and created an annoying scene band that has simple guitarists in its fixture, and an over-popular lead singer who sounds like a man-woman. They just suck… personally I just prefer music with a bit of meat in it. Not MCR. It contains poo. That’s why it’s a pile of crap in all honesty.

Topic: Music / Guitar question.

Wham, bam, done.

Topic: Serious Discussion / Will obama be killed when he becomes president?

I don’t think they’d be angry, I think they’d probably not be keen to have an old ex- vietnam vet, and someone who was under George Bush (Who in all honesty was a dick) be their president. And besides, Obama is a fair play guy. His policies are not too bad. Why not vote for him? McCain ain’t becomin’ president. He can kiss it goodbye, it belongs to Obama, pretty much- he’s had sad things happen to him recently. That’s bound to seal his win! :D