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I watched most of the PaD episodes, after the first one aired...I even got a chance to catch Hellmuth playing blackjack on UB and talked to him about the first episode. He said that it might be getting cancelled, thats been a few months ago. The PaD episodes I didn't find interesting were the ones where there was no dialogue between the players. When they did talk the commentator would ad lib over them and you couldn't hear what they were talking about. That was pretty annoying, because he really isn't all that funny. I think the best tables are where you have a mixed bag. Half and Half, 3 liv

Oh MAH god.......admitting you have a problem is the first step.

Yah it just got me thinking about what really slows down progress....snowballed after that. I guess we can call this thread a wrap.

So..........we can call this a wrap?Except I want to address, religion slowing down humanity...Now i can't speak for all countries and all religion but I can say that religion isn't slowing down anything in the US, the government and large corporations are. I just present one example such as corporations buying the patents to inventions that would benefit some of the issues going on currently in the world. The government ensures this will happen by making the hoops you have to jump through in order to patent/trademark an idea so cost invasive that the inventors sell their invention/idea for pe

Bigd? where did ya go to high school? I'm originally from Lincoln as well...know any good home games? And in the spirit of the post, I don't have any perceptions of the jewish culture. Midwest all my life, pretty much little to no exposure. I hear they're big in Hollywood tho!

Ok toth, i missed that but ya, i can't even claim 100% faith, as that would make me perfect, and no living soul can claim that. I believe what I believe, however, and my faith is strong that God exists. No matter what my religious beliefs are there is absolutely no harm in me living my life in a way that doesn't hurt others, doesn't hurt myself, and gives me a sense of well being. Some people don't draw a parallel between that sense of well being and the existence of God and explain it in other ways. I explain it as God, why people who don't believe have a constant battery of questions for why

My "sweeping" generalization of you, kiser, is not a sweeping generalization on the scale of lumping all religion in the same category. I'm merely stating an opinion/observation of one individual. You are right, I don't know you, nor would I ever care to know you. Answer me this one question, which has been posted elsewhere but was never answered. If you don't believe in God, the bible, Satan, or any of those, you would not be on the defensive, cuz they don't exist to you. Why would you defend a position that has no strategical value? The fact that you are so hell bent on discrediting people o

K Toth, it was a very good question you asked. And I will concede that I don't know if the bible is 100 % accurate. I'll even go so far as to say that chances are through translations and grapevine effect of the stories accounted within the bible, that some, half, maybe a majority of it is being mistranslated. The basics, however of the bible, are what is important. Such as, the commandments, and other things that are so simple in their form that its virtually impossible for them to be twisted out of context by so many people to have no validity. The key components of the bible are what I have

Just as you two will never admit that there is a possibility that we may be right, and as far as homosexual persecution goes and restricting freedoms, if thats the case...we're doing a pretty crappy job if thats a Christians duty. Will and Grace comes to mind, Brokeback Mountain comes to mind, we are seriously failing in our conspiracy to eradicate homo's. (dripping with sarcasm).Kiser, you are right, i'm not gonna even bring up my beliefs or why I believe what I do, cuz its really apparent that you just want to be right. So, you are...you are king of JmKiserland. There is no rhetoric in my po

and Toth we weren't condemned after eve screwed up, we were just banished from the garden of eden. We aren't even condemned now, Jesus died for our sins. When we die, thats when we are judged. Right now we live as we want (free will), and either have faith that God will lead us to salvation, or don't believe any of it, as Nicoson's closing statement clarified.

Its really just coming to the point where this keeps going around in circles, which leads me to this, after pretty much rehashing the entire bible, we've come to a conclusion that i stated many posts ago. People of faith, are touched by faith in some way and have an understanding of what God intended, and what we need to do to stay in Gods grace. They believe in a higher level of spirituality, and consciousness. Those not touched by faith, can't accept the fact that there are things that are unknown, unexplainable. Yeah you might have went to church or "believed" at one time, but its obvious t

God created us because of love. God is a God of love. It was because of that love that he created man and woman. He wanted a relationship with us. In the beginning of the world, man and God had a great relationship. Nothing separated them.But rather than creating us programmed to love Him, God created us with a choice. A choice to love and obey or to reject and disobey. Because God wanted an authentic love relationship, he had to create us this way. But with the choice came sin, rejection and disobedience. With that choice also came separation.I had to paste that from another website because I

I might be wrong here, but as I understand it, God doesn't create all the temptation. My understanding is that the world was created in a utopic state as you describe. Someone defied the one rule imposed to Adam & Eve and ate from the forbidden fruit, enter original sin. They ate from the tree of knowledge and were now aware of things that they would have otherwise never been conscious about. Had they not eaten from the forbidden fruit...things that never would have crossed their minds, would have remained as such. It makes you wonder why humans do cloth themselves now? In extreme climates

I don't know, maybe i'm a little misguided about my own personal experiences. A witness whose car i was sitting in waiting for the EMTs saying "I didn't think we were gonna find anyone alive." The tow truck driver who hauled the wreck away telling my parents, "I was pretty sure someone died in that wreck." Nurse's and doctors who had obviously conversed with police who responded saying, "You are both pretty fortunate." I find the accounts from two sources that obviously see mangled vehicles alot, the police, the towing guy, to be pretty spot on. I'm really not gonna dignify the rest of yer pos

In response to Kiser, who seems to think that my personal life experiences are a commercial, I only used 2 examples in my life as a basis for my faith. I don't know why i was spared, Toth, and to be honest...I'm not so sure that my friend wasn't a recipient of divine intervention as well. By all rights we should have been killed in that particular accident. First off, we slid across 2 lanes of oncoming traffic, i specifically remember looking out the passenger window and seeing semi's very close to us. Secondly if my friend had perished in the wreck, i wouldn't have written about it as a faith

I came upon this discussion late in its development, about 3 hours of reading just to catch up.First i wanted to thank just about everyone for their opinions on either side of the discussion as it solidified my faith in God. The topic, from what i gathered -although it strayed from time to time - was whether or not homosexuality is a sin. If you are not a practicing Christian, than no, its not a sin. I am a Lutheran, and in my eyes yes it clearly is a sin. Do I condemn homo's? No. Do i believe it is genetic? No. The only thing that I saw missing from the Christian discussion of this is the men

Thanks for the information, I thought it was probably a scam. I don't really play online anymore, one because of the govt. restrictions making it a pain in the arse to get funds to my account. Two because i couldn't afford to play at stakes that make it worth the time investment and low stakes is just a donkey derby anyhow. I probably wouldn't play at higher stakes just because i've heard that online higher stakes is only marginally better in quality of players as opposed to low stakes. I like being eye to eye with people, its too easy for people to click that button on a **** call, then it is

I wasn't debating whether or not pollution was man-made. That is kind of a no-brainer, the day i see a tree driving a car around..well that would be interesting. As far as "believing the white house when they said there was no danger from the crumbling buildings in 9/11" well, as a general rule, i avoid crumbling buildings. As a graduate you really know how to get yer point across with clarity. I think you probably meant there was no health risk from the particles generated from the collapse of the buildings. People seem to think nowadays that having a degree in something makes them a leading

well there ya have it, nothing can be done, warming will continue for centuries....well past my expiration date. Maybe you should be more worried about the scale that carbon dioxide converting rain forests and such are being decimated. How are they being decimated? Uh, by burning them. No harmful effect from that. Or maybe you should buy some grape Kool-aid and some Nikes cuz in 5 years it won't matter anyways.

None of this discussion really matters, the sheep quoting wikipedia and other ridiculous sources for validity to their global warming panic button. If i was to believe everything i read and saw on tv, we only got 5 years left anyways before some cataclysmic event wipes us from the face of the earth. The Mayan calendar ends in 2012, mysteriously. There is a group of people tracking a asteroid that is said to make close contact with the earth in 2012. Cherokee Indian calendars predict the end on December 11th, 2012. John Haddington discovered a 12 year pattern within Crop circles known as a twel

man who is next? UB? FCP? FT? is US poker play dying a slow death online?

I'm too lazy to go back to the beginning, but i'm pretty sure you mentioned this guy being a calling station. So, i'm inclined to say that 1. bluffing a big stack late in a tourney is not so wise. 2. If the guy was known to be a calling station, you have yer answer to the mystery of him calling an all in with 3rd pair. From the sounds of it, it didn't really sound like this guy had a read on ya at all, he just was big stacked and figured wtf, unless he called off 50% of his stack or more for it. If it was only like 1/3 of his stack or something he probably figured he could take the hit if he

Well, i'm new to this forum...so i apologize if this is posted in the wrong place. I also apologize in advance for the relative plainness of it, as i am a puter tard. (no offense to other puter tards) My question is this, I've been playing poker for awhile now, online, and although its small stakes MTT's i've been in the money or at final tables pretty regularly in fields of 800+. SnG's i pretty much wreck when i'm on my game, and heads up same story. I've only had the funds to enter a couple live tourneys for 35-45 buyins. The first tourney I entered was a disaster as my online experience lef