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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: A Survey This Is

« on: June 01, 2006, 01:19:57 PM »

I heard an interesting theory from a certain website that says that animals in the past used to be much stronger than they are now, but thanks to Adam and Eve's disobedience God cursed the world (Genesis 3:14-19) and the animals began to slowly degenerate.  So, this would cause them to be different from the animals today and give the appearance of mutations.  I'm not sure if I believe this but it does make a lot of sense in my mind.

(I just put that quote there so I wouldn't have to say it again ;)).  How do we know what Genesis is really about?  It could be an example of something else but it doesn't say that it is, and other parts of the Bible people talk about it as an actual event.  And even though the people back then didn't have the technology that we do, they knew some things that we didn't right away, such as that the Earth is round, that there are jets in the ocean, and that there is life in our blood.  God told them these things and then we discovered them later.

I realize that there are many things in the world that suggest evolution, and I hear about the small mutations that some animals go through.  However, the evidence may not be for evolution but perhaps something else that we don't understand yet.  I hope that I'm not irritating people by disagreeing because I don't want to do that.  Maybe some parts of evolution and creation could mix together, but people don't have to agree with everything as long as they believe the most important things in life.

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General Chat / Re: Getting to know you.

« on: May 31, 2006, 10:11:04 PM »

Neotev: What kind of cows?  I just had to ask that.

The Chef: Does your world domination include injustice?

I feel sorry for all you people who say that you're loners in school.  If I were there I would definitely try to get to know you.  I'm beginning to realize how little I talk to new people and people who aren't in my age range and I want to work on that.

But if by "loner" you're talking about just being alone by yourself, I guess that kind of describes me too.  I'm just one big confused Yoshisaurus.

Now... as for me!

(Warning: post contains some religious comments)

Basic stuff: My name is Jacob, the most popular name in the U.S.!  I won't tell you my age or where I live but I will tell you that I do exist and am actually human! XD  I first joined TMK over a year ago while looking for some Mario books "Choose Your Own Adventure."  Later, I had fun reading all of the mail bags and then after reading some of the posts on the forums, I decided to join that.  At first I was kind of an idiot but thankfully you guys are pretty nice and (along with maturity) helped me learn to be more normal and more kind.  Or kind of normal.

Interests: Quite a lot! I like acting in drama, playing piano, reading books (especially sci-fi books, the Bible, self-help books like the Purpose Driven Life, and I'm beginning to like history), doing things on the internet, writing stories, hanging with friends. I enjoy looking at clouds and stars, playing video games like DDR, thinking up wild ideas and then making them a reality, learning about cool things like undiscovered creatures (i.e. possible living dinosaurs!), and making jokes. Most importantly I want to learn more about Jesus, become more like Him, and tell people about His love.

Expertise: Nothing. Ha, actually I am good at some things but I'm kind of modest so I hate to say what. I think that I'm fairly good at drama due to all the millions of first prize medals I've won (okay not quite that much). Piano is not something I'm that great at but I enjoy doing it so that's all that matters to me (but I haven't done it for awhile though). I rock at writing stories! Well, I can make pretty good plots but my grammar needs a little work.  What else? Ah... oh right! Video games! Yeah! I'm awesome at those! In some categories anyway. I just love to the play games like Mario, Megaman, and Sonic, because they totally rock!  Well I guess one of the only things I'm not good at is shutting up... like right now. But I guess I should soon so I will.

Pointless, false fact: My signature comes from an episode of Star Trek that never aired.

Finally, if there's any more personal information you want to know, I ask that you don't ask me.  Sorry, but I want to be somewhat careful online, even if I am a little overcautious.

Edit: I'm also working on a huge fan fiction and still trying to decide what to do with it!  Perhaps you all will see it some day on this site, but if possible I'm aiming for an actual book. (All things are possible with God!)

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: A Survey This Is

« on: May 31, 2006, 08:37:24 PM »

Woah!  I never noticed that before.  Thanks for pointing that out.  You would think that if Cain didn't have a sister that he would have to marry his own mom (eww), or else they somehow forget to mention his sister.  Good question.  Another good question is who are the people that Cain mentions in Genesis 4:13-14?  They could be the future children of Adam and Eve, which would include a sister for Cain to marry. (But again we have to ask why they didn't mention that)

I've heard that some people believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that would be more than 4,000 (unless 6,000 was what you meant).  In my opinion, it would be strange for God to tell people how he created everything in riddles and not just say it in plain terms (but that's me).  I don't know for sure if everything is literal and I hope that I don't sound like I'm trying to say it is.  I'm just questioning everything to find out what I can and learn more.

One thing I believe (sorry, I know it gets old) is that the world before the Flood was very different and because of that it could have made the Earth look younger or older than it is now.  I know how crazy it sounds but I've heard the theory of a water vapor around the earth that could filter out sunlight (Genesis 1:6-7) and then God used that as part of the water in the Flood (Genesis 7:11).  With the filter gone, the world would be very different and much warmer.  There's probably no way to prove this but I like the whole idea of a sun filter.

God's time may be different than ours but that doesn't mean that all time mentioned in the Bible could be more or less than it actually is.  Some things are symbolic but not all.  But there could be some things that are and we don't know.

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General Chat / Re: A poll for men only?

« on: May 31, 2006, 05:32:24 PM »

Out of the blue I just remembered something that made me laugh.

"Tinkle, tinkle little pee.  It feels good to you and me.  Up above the potty so high.  Don't forget to zip your fly.  Tinkle tinkle little pee.  It feels good to you and me." (Sapphira's special poem)

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: A Survey This Is

« on: May 31, 2006, 04:45:06 PM »

Who said evolution and Christianity can't coincide? Some theories, like Earth coming from a chemical reaction seem logical... but I believe God made it happen.

It could be possible that some parts of evolution could work with creation, but there might not be too many.  For instance, Genesis 1:24 says that God made creatures to produce after their own kind and so they wouldn't evolve and produce different kinds of creatures.  And if the Bible were true, the Flood would be the reason for many fossils of dinosaurs and other creatures buried underground, instead of a huge disaster and then erosion. (If all creatures, including dinosaurs, boarded the ark then some of them could still be alive today, which many smart people have seriously claimed to have seen.  But I won't get into that again.)

I heard an interesting theory from a certain website that says that animals in the past used to be much stronger than they are now, but thanks to Adam and Eve's disobedience God cursed the world (Genesis 3:14-19) and the animals began to slowly degenerate.  So, this would cause them to be different from the animals today and give the appearance of mutations.  I'm not sure if I believe this but it does make a lot of sense in my mind.

Smfan1085: Sorry that I misunderstood you there.

Hirocon: I agree with you, but I'm not sure if that's the correct way to think of it as scientific thinking goes.  But some things will probably never be explained with science and I bet that the more we discover about the universe, the more confused we'll be.

Luigison: Heh.  I heard about that.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: I Don't Believe It!

« on: May 25, 2006, 01:35:56 PM »

Oops!  Thanks for pointing that out, I forgot about that. *smack* Okay, yeah there probably are a lot of different martyrs for different religions and it's impossible to know all of the motives.  I guess I was thinking of the people who tell others their religion and are threatened to be killed if they do that.  I may need to do some more thinking and studying on this.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: I Don't Believe It!

« on: May 25, 2006, 12:03:03 PM »

G0d roxorz nny $0x0rz!

I really have a very hard time believing that you would take the supposed order of creation literally. The sun existed long before the Earth did.
Remember when the church said that everything revolved around the Earth? How correct was that?

CW: I know.  In my opinion it would make more sense for the sun, moon, and stars to appear before the dry land and plants, but I believe God can do anything so there's no problem.  In fact, it could actually be proof that God keeps things alive with his power and not by the heat from the sun alone.  Or maybe that plants needed one day (if it is a literal one day) to have no sunlight for some reason.  I dunno.

I didn't know that the church said that, but I know that the Bible says nothing like that so someone must have come up with it on their own.  Or had a different version. XD

I'm really creeped out when people dismiss all the evidence we've gathered about stuff in the last four hundred years because it can't be absolutely proven. Well, nothing can. I kind of prefer to trust evidence, though, instead of magical tales that have no basis in anything besides a book and "deep personal feelings".

LD: Yeah, people should search for proof before they just believe whatever they want to.  But what evidence are you talking about, just curious?  Sometimes I feel worried that some of the people who discover this evidence are telling lies or hiding the truth to shape the perception of reality. (I heard about a case where, in order to prove an evolutionary theory, people glued moths to a tree and took a picture of it to put in science books.  But I need to find out more about this to see if it's really true.  Unproven rumors are worthless, of course.)

Believing in God is much more than deep feelings.  At first (for me) it was about deep feelings which I believe were from God, but those feelings aren't always there and it takes faith to know that He's there.  I know for sure these feelings are more than guilt or being moved by music, but feelings that God gives to his followers so they will remember that He is with them and they will do the right things.  Feelings can't always be trusted, and it's not about feeling good but doing good.

However, I understand that there are some people who play on feelings just to trick people and take their money, and I really don't like that.  I bet that there's different types of people with certain beliefs who use them for either good or bad purposes.  We have to be careful all the time with who we trust and test their motives.

Also, speaking of telling lies or hiding the truth, I have to admit that I don't know very much about church history so I can't say what is true and what isn't.  I just know that (sorry I say this so much) I have seen a lot of great changes in people who trust in God, and I don't believe it's coincidence.  Also, I think that if the Bible wasn't true, or the most important parts of it, that people wouldn't risk their lives to be martyred for a lie.  Maybe some would, but I doubt as many as there are.

Sorry for the bad quoting.  I did that a little late. ^_^:

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: I Don't Believe It!

« on: May 22, 2006, 07:56:15 AM »

In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher of the Church of Ireland made a careful study of the Bible and other historical sources and concluded, in a hefty tome called Annals of the Old Testament, that the Earth had been created at midday on October 23, 4004 B.C.

Cool.  But I have a question about that.  How do people figure out how old the Earth is from the ages of people in the Bible?  I know that the Bible tells how old people are before they die, but it doesn't mention how old they are when they have kids (at least I don't think).  So how does that work?

TEM: Oh, I see (sorry if I got a little impatient ^_^:).  Why do you think it was incorrect?  If the Bible is true and dinosaurs lived in history, there should be no trouble to believe that humans lived with them (and probably hunted them too).

The L is real 2041.

It's the Luigi Code! @_@

Edit: Remember that question about if the days of Creation were literal days?  I just learned something incredible from that Bible and dinosaur website I mentioned.  It mentions that God made dry land and plants on the third day, but He didn't make the sun until the fouth day (but light was made on the first day).  So if these days weren't literal days, how could the plants survive so long without sunlight?  If it was hundreds or millions of years, it would require God to keep them alive with something else.  Not that that couldn't be possible, but it does make you think.

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Forum Games / Re: The Answering Machine Game

« on: May 21, 2006, 09:08:09 PM »

*sounding stupid and tired* Eh there... I'm not ehvailable right nehw, sorrehhhhhhhh.  I'm probably... probably most likely plehing video gehmes right now.  Or maybeh... maybeh I just don't like you, ya know.  It's possibehl.  Wehll... you may leave a message after the (BEEP!)

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Fan Creations / Re: Tips for making the best Forum stories

« on: May 21, 2006, 09:00:13 PM »

Cool!  I love to write stories and also give advice so this should be fun.  (I've only finished writing one of 3 stories, which was pretty short.  The first one I began I quit because I got a big writer's block and lost interest.  There's one I'm doing right now that I hope to publish if possible.  I may continue the first story sometime and try to publish that too.)

1. Think things all the way through before you run into a terrible writer's block that forces you to make annoying changes.
2. Be careful how you set things up so you can make things more mysterious if that's a goal.
3. Don't be too serious but don't be too funny either.  Have more range of emotions if you want a really great story (but The Blue Toad's "The Mushroom Ball" was very funny and still a great story)
4. Decide what your story will be like to decide how you'll write it.  If you want it to be somewhat accurate to the games, try to make the story feel like the game by having some certain elements of the games.  If you have a romance story, scary story, etc, then prepare your writing style to acheive that.
5. Prepare to be disappointed because there's a chance that few if any people will read the whole story or any of it (especially the really long ones).  I started to read a great story from Jman, I think, about Tatanga attacking the Marios and Warios to steal their blood, but I stopped reading it because it was so long. (And I'm too busy now anyway, sorry.)  But remember that there are other websites you could give it to.
6. Try not to offend people with things that you think might be a little too much for some people (and that could get you booted).
7. Keep practicing your descriptions of scenery, feelings, thoughts, words, etc. to really make a good story.
8. Read lots of other stories from good authors.  Pay attention to plot elements and how the author does things.
9. Don't write something like The Prophecy where you don't finish it for an eternity.  I almost guarantee you WILL regret it for a long time!
10. Help Yoshisaurus Rex out by answering his question in "Publishing Perplexion: Need help!"  He will then give you a Yoshi cookie.

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: I Don't Believe It!

« on: May 21, 2006, 03:11:33 PM »

Girls on the internet too?  "Gotta have faith!  Faith!  Faith!"

TBT: That long post I had wasn't really that educational or tough to understand.  Anyone who can read can pretty much understand it. ;)  Dinosaurs could be in the Bible, but there's different names for them.  That's the basic thing I said in case anyone wanted to get the short, easy version.  However, I agree that educational posts can be hard to swallow.  And also that there's some things we'll never understand on this Earth.

Edit: Wah ha ha!

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: Help Change the World!

« on: May 21, 2006, 01:33:28 PM »

No, I think they're mostly just concerned about the way the chickens are treated before they die, like I am (partially because I hate watching things suffer).

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Not at the Dinner Table / Re: I Don't Believe It!

« on: May 21, 2006, 01:29:24 PM »

Good point!  It's easy to miss that part.

MSM: XD Yeah, but you can't really tell God to do anything you can only ask.  Also, I believe that if someone doesn't know for sure if they're going to heaven, they should make sure and ask themselves some questions about their faith.  I'm not criticizing you, I'm just saying what I believe.

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General Chat / Re: Dealing with death...

« on: May 20, 2006, 08:33:36 PM »

I am so very sorry for all of you that have gone through this.  I have lost both of my grandfathers but I still have two grandmothers alive.  One died before I was born, but the other several years ago.  I don't think I felt sad at first but every once in awhile I'll remember funny things that he did and really, really miss him.  But thankfully today, while I stayed overnight at my grandmas house I remembered how short life is and that we should treat everyone kind while they're still with us.  Even when a great member of our church died, I really missed him because he was kind of like grandfather to all of us.  Always smiling and saying kind things to everyone (and reminding people sitting outside of K-mart not to smoke XD)

MSM: I didn't find that offensive.  I agree.

I hope that everyone will be ready to go when it comes time and that you'll always remember that there's no guarantee for tomorrow.  Live like every day is your last (but not to the extreme) and please honestly ask yourself if you're prepared for death.  If you can change the way you look at life, you can experience it like nothing else. 

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General Chat / Re: Drying Your Hands

« on: May 20, 2006, 08:22:52 PM »

No wiping of the pants? *looks down at wet pants*