> On a side note, how do the atheist -based charities stack up against the
> faith
> based in good works through out the world?

> On Dec 19 2006 12:37 AM, ShuffletownKid wrote:
>

>> wrote in message
>> news:1166509367.372406.273780@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...

>>> Kinda hard to sell people on believing in nothing, hopelessness...

> On Jan 12 2006 9:08 PM, ttwarrior1 wrote:
>

>> Im not sure why but several times im always like one second late to enter a
>> tourney. i log in and i see its registering and when its done loading or

> loggin

>> in im one second too late, like its rigged that way.

>
> Have you tried logging on a minute earlier?

> OK, let me rethink this whole thing over.
>
> I could:
>
> A. Listen and believe a man who is the most influential person in
> human history, performed miracles, has had a following by millions of
> people for over 2000 years, proclaimed himself the son of God,
> fullfilled thousand year old prophecies, raised himself from
> death...let's see am I missing anything else?
>
> or
>
> B. I could listen to you. Some insignificant, unintelligent poster in
> an obscure online newsgroup, who has no following, and most likely has
> not accomplished 1/1,000,000,000 of what the person I have mentioned
> above accomplished.
>
> WOW...tough decision. ...

> On Dec 17 2006 9:33 AM, mccard wrote:
>

>> wrote in message
>> news:1166350549.201462.53800@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com...

>>>I mean, feel free to play there because it IS possible to win there,
>>> but just do know that they rig the hands to help the worse players out
>>> and keep them there to generate more rake. It is well known that they
>>> are cheating. World Champion Tony Popejoy agrees. Razzo agrees.
>>> Minus 200 agrees. In fact every winning player agrees. It would be
>>> impossible for a player to be SO inobservant that they didn't notice
>>> that PokerStars is definitely cheating, and still be a winning player.
>>> Fact, they are cheating. The bad beats come at a frequency more than
>>> twice what they would if the site weren't cheating. They are
>>> definitely cheating. It has been proven statistically and the only
>>> people who claim they don't think it is cheating are shills working for
>>> the site. Just thought I would let you know.
>>>

>> Where is the statistical proof?

> ...

> You are limiting God with your depiction of the possible things to do in Heaven, as you
> only describe things we do here on Earth.

> Kinda hard to sell people on believing in nothing, hopelessness, and
> the fact they were created by random chance and have no purpose , isn't
> it?

> I'm almost positive the question was more like this: If you covered the
> world's desertS with carpet (and like getting paid to do the job) which
> continent's would it be?
>
> Anyway, I capitalized the 's' in deserts to emphasize it. The question
> wasn't about one single desert. It seemed like neither the guy nor Bob
> Saget understood that. I guess you guys didn't catch it either.
>
> I will say this though, I probably would have chosen Asia, because I
> figure there is a lot of desert in that big continent, and there must be a
> fair amount of jungle in Africa. I must be wrong about that though. Also
> I never considered Antarctica a desert. I thought deserts had to be like
> hot.
> desert:
> 1. dry area: an area of land, usually in very hot climates, that consists
> only of sand, gravel, or rock with little or no vegetation, no permanent
> bodies of water, and erratic rainfall
> 2. deprived place: a place or situation that is devoid of some desirable ...