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Originally written by saunders:

It depends on what you mean by "popular"

a) A lot of people seem to do this.
b) My doing this makes a lot of people happy.

It is popular by criterion a), and certainly not by criterion b).

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Originally written by Ishad Nha:

When converting a scenario from PC to Mac or vice versa, as I understand the situation:
1. Write scenario.
2. Beta scenario.
3. Give scenario to a Mac user and ask them to convert it.
4. Receive an archive file from your Mac user.
5. Announce release of scenario and point people to both Mac and PC version.
6. Bask in the glory.

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Originally written by 0,1,1,3:

Just look into any Jewish Biblical scholarship for very cogent differing opinions.

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Originally written by Dintiradan:

Wasn't quite what I had in mind, Salmon. :P

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Originally written by Nioca:

...Are you even reading what I'm writing? It's not losing weight I'm against, it's getting plastered on television sets across America while doing it (or trying to) that I'm against. I mean, you don't see television programs on making 6 people stop an addictive drug, or stop drinking, or any other such problem. Why? They're private struggles, not something for the entire country to know. Having such a problem is often embarrassing enough with just family and friends involved, but does the rest of America really need to know too?

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Salmon:
Final analysis is that anything that exposes people to the unhealthiness of obesity, and works through positive measures to help them reduce their obesity, is a good thing.

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True, but there are other ways to go about such a goal than making a reality TV show about it.

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Think about it: How many people do you think tuned in to learn how to lose weight?

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Especially compared to the number of people who tuned in for entertainment.

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Besides, how many of the people 'helped' in these shows are actually going to keep the weight off?

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And, in the case of the former reality show, what sort of emotional abuse are they going to be put through by their peers, especially if they gain the weight back?

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Salmon:
Pretending there isn't a problem is the worst way to deal with it.

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Who's pretending here? You said yourself that the only people that'd really benefit from this are advertisers. Just because I desire there to be a bit of class about the issue doesn't mean it's not an issue, nor does it mean that I'm pretending it's not.

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Originally written by Deathmatch Abandoner:

A4 is continuing to sound good.

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Originally written by Stillness:

Prophecy is a strong line of evidence, logic, honesty of the penmen, harmony of 40 different penmen over 1600 years, and practical value even though ancient are some other proofs that convinced me personally in the biblical message.

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Originally written by Stillness:

Stuff about A Wealthy Father and His Children

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Originally written by Kelandon:

Why would a benevolent god condemn an enormous percentage of the world's population to hell and damnation only on the basis of being born in the wrong place and raised by the wrong people?

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Originally written by Drew:

You've tried to introduce as evidence of decay the increase in (1) the number of deaths resulting from wars, (2) the number of school shootings, and (3) the number of divorces and "broken" homes as evidence of this decay. On the first point, you seem to be unswayed by our arguments that there are proportionately more people in the world, and that technology has made it much, much easier for fewer people to kill many more people. On the second point, you aren't swayed by the facts that (again) technology has substantially lowered the threshhold for individuals to carry out heinous acts, because it's much easier to perpetrate horrendous acts with guns than knives; and that these things have happened historically, but we're all much, much more aware of them these days. Frankly, I think the "improvements in technology" argument trumps any assertion that these acts are the result of a reduction in Christian morals. No person attempts a crime if he thinks he won't get away with it; guns just skew the calculation decidedly in the direction of going for it.

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Originally written by Drew:
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But from there, we went to the fact that many sects claim to know what "God's way" is, and their definitions frequently vary on many levels. This suggests that no one knows what God's morality is, barring arrival at it by unverifiable, happy accident.

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That would not be the logical conclusion. One might conclude logically that not all religions know what God's way. One could also conclude that if there is a God and he has a way that certain factor(s) may make this way difficult to identify clearly.

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