kobra500

It only seems to happen when I am sitting in the chatroom; I have also found when I click "login" it logs me in without me typing anything despite being on the login screen, there are a lot of issues that need weeding out on the forum not least that we still don't have mycents. It's just going to be something you'll have to put up with for the next month or so.

I like it I think it's really good, I don't think you should have paid for it I assumed you made it yourself, but I like it. I think it's a different take on the forum and I think some people will like it, Anwiii is just a fusspot ignore him. I think it's a job well done but it all depends on what opaque thinks at the end of the day!

Well before I watched it I wasn't sure what to expect, I don't know you or your views at a particularly deep value yet from your posts so I was quietly interested. I wouldn't say I was surprised that I agreed with the man, but more that I agreed with him but admired the secularity of what he said. I thought it was a brilliant and enlightened video and as you say inspiring. What I will say is people exist that are beyond help, beyond "peace" as he would say it, medically scientifically beyond the reach so these individuals on which he puts a lot of importance won't 100% be able to achieve the peace and discover themselves at the actual level. I also agree with his implication that if heaven exists it will be within this life (metaphorically) and not in an afterlife which I do not believe in. I thought the video was very impressive and as the type of video I watch often (as a budding philosopher) I found it incredibly interesting and worthwhile. Thank you for posting this!

I didn't just vote for him because he's English but since we won't be winning the world cup but we might take home SOTW. saying that I honestly thought his was the best, Bani's is a bit bland at least in comparison with the competition (in a nice constructive way) I nearly went for Tramposch's but I just think Rvalkass' is just a little better and I just preffered his to saint micheals as well

But if you've already watched the video I see little point in downloading it again, and it takes barely any time at all and it's my proffered method because I don't like a lot of the youtube downloading software. I know there are lot's of great sites and software but my way is simply when you've watched a video and want it without waiting for it to download again and to be frank I with screencast tutorials etc tend to watch them once and if I think there useful I use my method to download them faster than redownloading them again. and Unlocker is a brilliant program which you should have anyway. It takes about 20seconds literally!

Right the title is a bit of a misnomer because you do actually need one piece of software for this; but it is a software you all should have call "unlocker" which can be downloaded from the link given. Now for those of you who what unlocker is it is quite frankly one of the best pieces of software in existence because this software can remove those files that have been getting on your nerves. The corrupt file etc that you just can't get rid of, you can also use it to copy and move files that just don't want to move because they are locked down by softwares etc. Now since I count this as a software no one should be without when I say without annoying software I really mean those rubbish youtube downloaders of which there are thousands but also that this is specifically for videos you've watched already and want to download without the inanity of redownloading it with some piece of rubbish software. Now if you wanted you could use this is place of downloading through software as I often do, all you have to do is open the video and let it run until the loading bar is fully red and the video is loaded. So imagine this, you have just watched a youtube video, perhaps a music video or perhaps you might want to watch it later offline or maybe as in my case your cousin likes to play world of warcraft and therefore, his raid will be coming up soon and he'll be whining that he wants the internet to himself; whatever your reason it is useless downloading the video again or downloading any software at all (with the exception of the God of software's unlocker) so here's what you do. As all windows users should know you have a folder simply called "temp" which holds temporary files (go figure). for those of you who like me are on vista (and probably windows 7 it will be located at "C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Temp" and at a similar address for XP and older versions I am sure. if you visit this folder you will see a sea of oddly name files with odder extensions and one of these is your youtube video. Now if you want a mp4 version of the video you are better off with some rubbish software than with this trick, this is for people like me who use and love the worlds best mediaplayer "VLC media player" which you can find by googling the term. It is, no joke absolutely magnificent. Now flash files always are name fla......... where the "dot dot dots" are replaced by a random string of numbers and possibly a letter or two as well, now if you're browser is like mine when you close the tab with the video (or the window) the temporary file disappears to never be seen again, so you should (assuming you still have the youtube video open and no other flash content) only have one fla.... file. If you have multiple make sure to close any other flash content and attempt to copy each in turn into a folder of any description, if it succeeds simply undo. The one you want will throw and error should you try to move it as it is still tied in with your browser of choice (google chrome in my case). Here's where God Unlocker does it's magic, right click on the file and click unlocker, there it will bring up a menu, it the bottom left corner click the drop down box and select copy and the choose the folder you wish to save it to, you're not done yet. Rename the file to the *.flv extension. You can now peruse the video at your leisure without expelling more bandwidth or having to be connected to the internet at all. You can if you so wish also change that file into another type of video of your choice with other free software's but really if your going to do that there are plenty more easier ways to do this. This doesn't just work with youtube but with all video players that I have used and possibly with flash games also, the key is that fla....... file in your temp folder which can be copied elsewhere.

I found the video, I had to change what I was searching for. I won't embed it, I'd rather actually link it, it's funny at least. [http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

I will PM you the video also Truefusion, or perhaps I'll post it here now it supports embedding videos straight in, Incidently you don't need to quote biblical verses I did read your post, I'm normally too lazy to quote but I will here: Right Okay, the key sentence is Creatures were not designed, they evolved. Okay you could argue that being Gay isn't an evolutionary advantage in terms of spreading your genes because obviously homosexual couples can spread said genes. But how is it impossible, it's possible to be born mentally ill, even if you conclude that homosexuality is like this then it is still possible. It's possible to be born infertile, and I repeat are you saying that infertile people or people who cannot have children are lesser, is the ability to reproduce with your partner make you lesser. Creatures evolved to multiply because evolution requires that creatures reproduce for it to work, but that doesn't make people who don't reproduce lesser, evolution doesn't make the Best survive but the ones that work in their environment. Of course I'm not saying that Environmental factors don't affect people, but people love who they love and it's clear that gays have always existed and will always exist as part of ALL mammals at least and we're just animals as well. But you ask why I appear to assume the bible? I don't think It's a red herring, it's easy to call something a red herring. You cannot give an argument that isn't religious which is a good argument against homosexuality, okay you've said that "Creatures were designed to multiply" but the concept of design is supernatural in of itself, Creatures weren't designed, that implies and intelligence, I can hear the biblical undertones, your opinions are almost always biblical. And Joy to be present for advancement of the race? what does that even mean? Also I didn't quite get your last two sentences. And as for the video, I can't find it, it's on youtube I think one of the person I'm subbed to favourited it so I'll look through it.

I agree with Rob, it doesn't really effect British English because we already use 'S' in analyse etc. Or should I say that American-English uses 'Z' instead of 'S' since it is that way around. But although I don't see the point 'Z' is a pretty useless letter which mostly can be replaced by an 's' and 'x' in terms of xylophone but I'm pretty sure this wont happen.

Here's the Deal, people who deny right clicking to users should not make websites, secondly, I could print screen you image or use keyboard shortcut's for content, if you don't want something to be stolen or used well then you will rather have to not put them on the internet, as soon as you upload them to where people can see them then you are automatically subject to the idea that it can be stolen. obviously copyright law makes this process illegal but it's impossible to make people want to visit your website whilst having right click block on.

And Yet Capitalism works which is more than can be said for other systems, it's not perfect and whilst humanity remains imperfect (i.e. forever) it will stay like this. Maybe your alternative works but what then is the purpose of working hard and striving. People work hard because everyone wants wealth, it keeps the system working as the ambitious and the brilliant keep the system afloat. I don't disagree with you but I don't see another system working sufficiently well and I don't see it working from a political standpoint, democracy wouldn't allow for it I'm afraid and democracy is again the best flawed system we have! We need to stabilise the economy, the economy is based on buying and selling, people aren't buying and only selling so we hit recession. Thats what Obama is saying, he's saying put money into the economy to get out of the recession.I will admit the system is imperfect but no system is perfect and you'll just have to accept it, of course keep standing up for what you believe in, but in this case you are in the minority of people standing I'm afraid which is a shame.

No Truefusion, but since the ONLY real issues against homosexuality are derived Directly from religion, Name one Good argument AGAINST homosexuality that doesn't involve your interpretation of a Holy book that tells you that you can't eat shellfish or wear clothes of different fabrics, are they transcendent too? If that is your only argument then the laws forbidding homosexuality would directly go against the first amendment of your Country and Concerning overpopulation, sure moderation is a fairly comfortable when you are sitting snug at 6 billion but even if we embrace this lack of selfishness, which btw we won't the graph is getting steeper, so what about 7billion, 8 billion 10 billion human, 20 billion 100billion, homosexuality doesn't cause a problem by not having children because we don't need a bigger population it in no way benefits humanity and as medicine and science grows and lives extend and I note that you aren't complaining that your not living just 30 years no matter what eternity you believe in. Are infertile people lesser men and women too because they can't reproduce, are infertile people allowed to have sex if not for procreation? They are good candidates for adoption to save all those poor children born of the parents who rather couldn't look after them rather monetarily or they couldn't cope and who probably got into the situation because religion is sooo against teaching of safe sex. Especially the Catholic Church and I don't know about your views on the subject. Religion is a virus that spreads from Person to Person from indoctrination and broken promises, consuming minds so they are willing to believe that the mountains of evidence for one view or another is just a dung heap in a field somewhere, the sort of people who run "answersingenesis.com" which uses out of date science papers, often out of context to back up that there is a scientific conspiracy against religion and creation. The trouble is that for all the talk of being unselfish if you believe in Creation then you must believe that God created us flawed, it's nought to do with free will, psychopathics don't kill because they moved away from God, they kill because their mind is not functioning correctly, they are flawed before the fact. They aren't going to read the bible and it will be all better they will still be psychopaths and no matter how sorry I feel that they've been forced to live such an existence they need to be locked up for the safety of others, but your God according to you created them, he created them broken, and he wants them to burn for ever. How sick and twisted is that, you create life and then you torture it like a kid with a magnifying class to borrow a line from Bruce Almighty. Overpopulation is an issue and religion is not solving it, it is going against it, okay Catholicism and Islam mostly by telling people to do things that they are going to do, regardless and then not teaching them how to at least do it properly when they inevitably do. God must have created us flawed, because if we weren't then we wouldn't even consider going against Gods word even with free will, and psychopaths wouldn't exist, it has to be the this way around. @Bani, there is plenty of Evidence for Biological Causes of Homosexuality, I'll pm you the video when I found it that is really good at addressing the points. As for Moral absolutes, I will say that some morals whilst not innately wrong are certainly very close to it. But there are some which are breakable should you need to, or if you were put in a situation with a choice where the lesser of the evils is to break one moral. The source I would agree with you, isn't a book but I still say that Morals are based on society and on what is good for it and what is detrimental.

The French and the Spanish like to call everything HE & SHE and I find it ridiculously annoying because it makes learning which is which from an outsider all the more difficult, apart from the fact that inanimate objects and stars and clouds are completely asexual. Of course English too has its stupid rules and regulations which make it a pain for an outsider. Saying all this I will answer your question."she's" Sun, Earth, Clouds and Stars I would say"He's"by process of elimination Wind, Rain, Sky, Moon are he'sthough as I said, I don't like assigning genders to genderless things or spirits to well.... anything.But dualism is always a flawed concept to me, no matter how much we try to assign meanings to things, although we can successful do so that doesn't make them more than just atoms and molecules, not to say things are meaningless; far from it but that the meanings that we assign are not transcendent and are not reality they are just a concept or idea.

I would say this as an overall post: Maybe Jesus existed or maybe he didn't, for the most part it is irrelevant. If he did exist and if any of the story of him are true then he is truly a great man, but the question really is "is he the son of god" because even if you could prove he existed it's irrellivent, he most certainly didn't walk on water, he didn't cure the blind. What he did do is say things like turn the other cheek; which is pure gold in terms of morals, but he also said things like leave your family so he isn't perfect, he is JUST a man and nothing more or less. He often talked about God as a different person which makes me feel that Christianity has a cheek calling itself a monotheism and I don't care how the theologians try to spin it, you have 3 distinct Gods. I believe Jesus may or may not have existed but he certainly didn't defy physics or perform miracles. He is Just a man in history who has been written up to something he isn't or he is just a myth in history much like the ones of Greek mythology.

That is the single most awesome thing I have seen today, as for whether or not it's cruel, if it doesn't hurt or alienate the dogs then I think it's cuter than it is cool. If the dying process is harmful then obviously I disagree, but I doubt those sort of things would hurt the Dog, he looks happy in the picture. But I personally wouldn't do it but I do like it, it is interesting and a bit different.

Hi Sukhi and welcome to the "Sutra of Knowledge" enjoy your stay and I hope you will post great things from your routine life, the strict rules are there for a good reason and really make sure the content is good quality, the mods and users are really helpful as well, one thing though don't sign your name at the end of your posts, you'll get a telling off from the mods if you do, include any relevant info in your profile and then we can still all see it. Thanks and enjoy your stay at Xisto!

humans are very drawn to supernatural explanations and I don't know why, what I will say is I find it hard to believe that you ACTUALLY believe in what you say you do Mad, believing in something because you feel that believing in it gives life meaning is irrational to the highest degree. In life you draw your own meaning if you want to, why does life need a factual meaning, why can't you just live and enjoy it; or failing that just explore it, maybe that is a meaning to life, to live. The trouble is it's not fair to yourself to believe in God because you believe in God. Why don't you doubt your own experiences, I'm not saying you should doubt you had them, no one is calling you dishonest but until someone can show you why you had that experience you should at least be agnostic, how many times in the dark have you seen a figure and it was just a hoover or something else, the human mind can create the most complex faces and shapes imaginable (literally) so their not reliable evidence for God or any supernatural agent.I don't just get this human fixation with believing in the supernatural, if it's not God it's something else. If you think life has no meaning without God then you haven't thought about it, no the meaning will be bland and it won't be transcendent but it will hold meaning to you if no one else. If death isn't a fun concept, join the club, if you need someone to talk to consult someone who actually understand and actually can listen to you, if someone close is ill, don't pray for them, donate money to a research charity or do something, even if it won't save your love one it will go to hopefully helping people in your position rather than wasting your time, hands together praying for a miracle, there are miracles but there's nothing miraculous about them, just skill, luck and duct tape.

That's a complicated question. Some say that Evolution cannot change one species to another, of course they are wrong and we have mountains of evidence for this. But the other way of looking at it is "Can Evolution create a fire breathing dragon?" and I don't know, I'm not scientist. Evolution has to act within the laws of physics and mostly acts by natural selection, in a completely forced and falsified environment would it be possible to make a fire breathing dragon? I don't know. So my answer is a resounding I don't know and I don't know if an evolutionary biologist really knows, though they could give a better hypothesis than I could. All Evolution is tied to is the limits of natural laws and we haven't seen all what evolution can make, I know I haven't really said much but I really don't know.

The only thing wrong with the *new* forum is it's pretty dead at the moment, but that is an issue of users not of the software, it loads faster, I'm sure it's more efficient and when mycents are back up it will be great but these things take time and while it's down there is no reason not to post, to my knowledge you will be credited for the posts you make now and you might as well post and keep the forum active and alive. This is a great community so stop complaining it has been up pretty much continuously without hitch since I joined over 2 years ago now; it's understandable that sometimes that these things have to happen. So post people!

Actually the fact that Homosexual couples can't have children is a non-issue, our population is so high that lowering the number of people who actually have children turns out to be good and not bad to society. Moral absolutes don't exist in any innate way like you think they do, no action is wrong for the sheer fact it is wrong, you are right it is based on consequences, I will admit that within a society there are rules and laws which if everybody were to follow it would be good. But let's look at do not steal.Do not steal is a pretty good law, stealing anything is usually a bad Idea as it negatively affects the person you steal from.Stealing a loaf of bread to feed your starving family morally is acceptable, and yes it negatively affects the baker by lowering his profits but it saves a families life. Truefusion how does homosexuality affect society, as I discussed their are consequences, and those consequences is the effect it has on society. In fact scrap that how does it affect you personally? I'm not asking how it affects your holy book, I know for a fact in the same chapter it tells you not to eat shellfish but think about it from a secular viewpoint, What your holy book says shouldn't and doesn't mean anything to a society like your own, in fact disallowing homosexuality on the basis of religion is unconstitutional, and outside of religion and moral absolutes what real negative to homosexuality is there. I'm not just bashing your religion but it seems religion in general and that's all homophobic religions are the only thing standing in the way of this.As I said above, I didn't really mention much about consequences and as I said in this text consequences weren't mentioned by word, the consequences are effects that it has. I also believe that children with exception if brought up with a relatively unbias education who are taught the facts will mostly make the correct decision in life, namely choose to go for the one that is beneficial to society.

My stance as I was telling Baniboy in the chatroom is fairly similar but has a few key differences. Now like Baniboy I don't believe in moral absolutes, I believe that the concept of right and wrong however, is within all of us biologically, even babies LINK, and these were placed in through evolutionary conditioning, much in the way of instincts where animals can find their way to a place they've never been before or not been since they hatched, turtles for example are like this. I would say that as we have evolved into a society based species relying very much on a society and authority figures the society is the key thing in deciding right or wrong, things that help a society therefore, are right and those things that are detrimental to the society are wrong such that there is a clear basis for right or wrong and such that the words are in fact interchangeable, saying something is detrimental to society is the same as saying it is wrong. I believe that laws are very much a collective opinion of what is good for society and what is bad which are generally held for the majority at large. Of course ideas can be influenced by outside sources which have been passed down through things such as religion which are people own individual and often unjustified biases and these have an effect on what is considered right and wrong but these are usually indoctrinated into people from birth, essentially overriding the opinions they would otherwise take having looked at the evidence so much so sometimes that they are immune to changing opinion. An action can be innately right or wrong in general terms but obviously there are exceptions such murder is okay in self defence, but killing a killer actually benefits a society and is not detrimental, meanwhile killing an innocent is detrimental. The following is an example of how what benefits a society ultimately wins out but also where people biases come into it but also how biases change what people interpret to be right or wrong but there is an overall answer to whether something is right or wrong. Now Gay Marriage, let's analyse the arguments. All animals of which we are one almost without exception have shown homosexual behaviour in the wild therefore it IS natural. Homosexuality is shown by studies and evidence to in fact be biological and not in fact a choice. (you are born like it most of the time) It doesn't negatively impact anyone at all in anyway. Gay couples are the same as straight couples and both sets love each other in the same way. it's unfair for straight couples to have more rights than gay couples. Now let's look at the arguments against Some peoples personal biases mean they rather have something against Gay marriage because their Holy text says so or because their parents told them it is wrong If anyone can think of more let me know. As you can see the positive outweigh the negative and the positives are backing in statistics and peer reviewed studies, where the against is almost entirely religious and are entirely formed out of preconceived bias and cannot explain how it will negatively affect society which I have discussed is the key to whether or not something is right or wrong. Except maybe God's wrath but again there is no evidence outside of scripture. It is definitely beneficial as people who are gay can enter into wedlock and are not alienated as being lesser than straight people and lets face it, everybody loves a wedding! and yes I've been harsh on religion here but really, what religion has to say on what is right or wrong is irrespective of what is right or wrong in my opinion. since I am basing Morals on society and not on a holy book written by fallible human hands.