Just tested this on my daughter. She is a classic example of a kid who played Pokemon on Game Boy. Even though she has not really played Pokemon much in recent years, she corrects my every mispronounciation. She can also sketch out any Pokemon because she remembers everything about them. What they look like, their strengths and weeknesses…she does indeed have a built in Pokedex.
However, she did plenty of other activities as a child including ballet for 3 years.
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Absolutely. The press report has twisted this to make it seem as though it’s something to do with computer games.
The fact is, you accumulate memory from any activity you do repeatedly. I bet if you tested me in the same way, you’d get an astonishing response to guitar chords. Or varieties of steel. Or stone circles.
Our brains map the things we do - that’s how we get better - how we know and understand more.
Of course, we haven’t always done things this way. In the past, we had more innocent pastimes than computer games. Like taking a goat up a high tower, then throwing it down to its death (because God wanted you to). Or doing something similar to a lot of cats (God wanted you to do that, too).
You may gather from my tone, I have some issues with God.
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I assure you @Polyphemus, none of those events had anything to do with anything God asked them to do. Rather, those events were derived from mans ideas of what they themselves decided God wanted them to do.
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Only in America.
Some of those guys are consuming the entire defence budget of smaller countries.
Why bother with missiles, when you’ve got pumpkins?
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Pumpkin pies for the whole world.
It really is ridiculous but, so many things are.
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what the problem with that? lol
sharing wealth soon there is none.
The poor will be with you always for now throughout eternity!
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That sounds more like a test of courage. The chance that the goat throws you of the tower is far from non-zero!
Also, I guess it’s nice of them to try and catch it? That also doesn’t sound like the savest job in the world…
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They only tried to catch it in an attempt at a modern, politically correct version of the ceremony. In the past, the goat just died when it hit the ground. Same with the cats. And the donkeys (there was donkey throwing, too).
And in a contest between a group of fit young men, and a confused goat, I think the odds are in favour of the fit young men. Let’s be honest, if they were at serious risk, they wouldn’t have done it. That’s the whole point of being a bully - you make an example of someone, or something, weaker than yourself. And most people will fall into line, hoping they won’t be your next victim.
It’s terribly hard to stand up to bullies. The most successful tactic is to join with other, like-minded people, and take the fight to them. Unfortunately, if you do that, you become bullies yourselves.
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Not if you stop after taking care of the problem.
Tis the thinking if you do it back to the bully you become one., which is not true.
I remember in elementary school, I was stopped by a bully.
He told me I was going to fight him, I of course asked why?
He said drop you stuff. I replied No.
And walked around him and went home.
He was still standing there wondering why I would not fight him. lol
I’ve used that word alot of times, it seems that people don’t know what to do when it is spoken.
I have been physically attacked to people wishing I would die.
Because I said “NO”
That was all I said, nothing else.
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In the 7th grade…a girl in my class decided she hated me (she was the only well-endowed girl until I moved in…but I was not that kind of girl so she had nothing to worry about) Anyway, she decided to follow me around, yelling, name-calling. She followed me onto the bus so I got off. She followed me off the bus. I started walking to a girlfriends house. She followed me with her foul mouth. I caught up to a guy I knew who lived near my friend’s house. He was the one who stopped, turned and told her exactly what she was acting like. She turned and ran away. It never happened again.
Lesson: Stand up and help when you see someone being bullied.
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Who is this god person anyway? And why does he have it in for goats? (I totally get the cat thing though)
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I always thought Satan was the one that hated goats…
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The last picture I saw of him, Satan was a goat.
That said, pictures of Satan don’t necessarily come from particularly reliable sources.
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Actually, those who follow Satan are called goats in the Bible. They are his ‘flock’ and he really has no love for them. Tossing goats from a rooftop would be very symbolic of how callous and cruel Satan really is.
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For someone who doesn’t like goats, this guy really needs to have a serious word with his fashion consultant…
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Are you sure that is a guy? 
Human interpretation of a spirit being that has no physical form.
Interesting person, this Eliphas Levi. Basically a self-made prophet. So this would be his own personal idea.
He was also a magic-practicer (and I don’t mean magic for entertainment) This practice is condemned in Deut 18:9-14
Is this getting too preachy? 
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Funnily enough, I was just thinking that it was about time to stop this line of thought, before I end up causing offence.
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Agreed. I would never want to condemn anyone for what they think or believe. I just get a laugh out of the way some people portray things they have never seen. We humans are so very imaginative. 
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Huh, true… Makes you wonder what all that goat sacrificing is about. Then again, the other guys had that too, come to think of it. Must be something about goats and supernatural beings, I guess…
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After all I have been through this last month and a half, this game is a must have for me 
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