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Nice travel Bosh.

QUOTE (Boogua @ Jun 10, 2014 -> 09:29 PM) And he has been pretty unguardable this series. He has been hitting his jumper at a crazy rate and they can't stop him on the block. He should have been shooting until he got cold. It's not as though they would have gone down more if he missed a few. Exactly. Wade had three straight shots at one point. Why is that happening?

Lebron with 9 shots that half. Nine. With his team down 20 for most if it.

If this was college id say bring on game 4. But this lead is nothing in the NBA

Hawk must have called down and given them a lesson on the importance of TWTW.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 10, 2014 -> 02:28 PM) I wish we'd either a.) ban guns completely for a year and see what happens or b.) begin arming ourselves so we get on with it and we all are armed when we go to the local coffee shop, mall, church or school. We probably will need to put gun racks on the desks at school so they won't go off on their own but yet are still at arm's length if we need to pull them out and shoot when the inevitable psycho enters the classroom shooting. Food for thought: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014...ters-murder.php edit: and for those that will surely respond with "correlation does not mean causation," at minimum this suggests there isn't some wild increase in murders with concealed carry, which is often the (irrational) fear.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jun 10, 2014 -> 02:13 PM) With Thibs being a defensive minded coach, yes it may be, but you can't tell me a team would be better with Noah than Love. I really think Love is a top 5 player in this league, and with slashers like Rose and Butler having a stretch 4 clears the lanes up more for those guys to drive to the basket. If he was a top 5 player he'd get his team into the playoffs at least once. He's a top 15-20 guy who pads his stats. I'd love him on the Bulls, but surprisingly I think i'd rather have Melo.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Jun 7, 2014 -> 11:06 PM) It was the best movie I've seen in quite a while, IMO. All that's left to do now is wait for Jenks to say how much he hated it haha. I am excited to see it. Not sure if I'll be able to in the theaters though.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 10, 2014 -> 09:51 AM) Probably the three biggest 2014 games shown were remakes. GTA, Last of Us and Halo Collection. Ridiculous. It's clear Sony nor Microsoft were ready for a new generation and a full year in they still won't be either. Ha, I totally forgot about those. How dumb.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 10, 2014 -> 09:13 AM) E3 has changed a lot. The magic of the spectacle is gone, secrets cant be kept, surprises arent surprises, but rather confirmation of rumors. I dont blame Nintendo for scaling down and doing the Nintendo Direct approach I feel like the games were mostly retreads. Another Madden. Another Call of Duty/Battlefield. Another LBP. Another AC that i'll probably buy and will enjoy the very average experience. All of the interesting games are a year away - Uncharted, The Order, The Division, etc. So what's the point in talking about them now? Oh, but we got PlaystationTV coming! WTF Sony, who gives a crap? Americans have had 10 choices for streaming TV since 2008. A little late to the game.

I'll vote for her because I feel bad for her. Must have been tough after they left the White House having to pay for all of those mortgageS on the houseS they owned. And Chelsea's education at Stanford, Oxford and Columbia. Poor, poor Hillary. That Presidential pension of $200k a year just wasn't enough.

I thought under his trust that if he was ever deemed incompetent he had no say? Wasn't that reported at some point?

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 11:44 PM) E3 couldn't be more boring if it tried. Hopefully tomorrow improves. Agreed. Except for the occasional cool announcement trailer, there's rarely any exciting news.

The Division looks pretty awesome.

Come on, you guys keep using these terrible analogies to topics that have nothing to do with the origin of man. That's a huge component of what is/is not "religious."

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 02:26 PM) I despise Lance Stevenson. The Spurs for the most part share the basketball beautifully. But against the Heat they will do no better than the Pacers. If the Spurs were truly playing with a chip on their shoulder after last year, they wouldn't have given up home court. They sucked in crunch time. Like I said LeBron was great, the defense got turned up the last five minutes and Bosh hit the big shot. The Spurs looked like a normal team. They've been de-clawed. This series is over. I stand by my pick. Two easy Heat wins in Miami; Spurs probably win Game Five but I wouldn't discount the Heat there. But Heat likely wrap it up in Game Six. LeBron is special. Wade is very good. Bosh is a big timer. Heat in five or six. Oh Greg. Do you have opinions that are not complete extremes?

So, Melo, do you want to be a part of a rebuild under Derek Fisher?

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 03:58 PM) I dont see what the relevance is. Some people may follow atheism in a religious structure, not sure how that is relevant to anything. The comment was atheism is as much as a religion as Christianity, which is simply not true. By definition I am an atheist, but there is no "religion" that I subscribe to. The reason is that my belief is not immutable. It is my best attempt at an answer today, but it does not define me at all. Its entirely irrelevant to who I am. Its no more important than any of my other ideas. You're ignoring that people like Dawkins want to change people's minds. It's not just what he personally believes, he's trying to start a movement (and has for a while). That's my point. In that sense, it's just as much of a religion as Christianity. It's going beyond a mere belief into something of a practice based on those beliefs.

Let's be real too: this is now a problem because middle-class white Americans have become the victims, not poor black gang bangers. That's why the stories are becoming "stories." We've had weekends in Chicago where 10-15 people are killed, and while it gets a mention on the national news, it doesn't get the Nancy Grace/CNN missing airplane type coverage that these other shootings get.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 12:19 PM) Atheism doesn't say a thing about any of those 3 issues. Self-described atheists *tend* to defer to science on the issue of humanity's origins, but science is not a religion either. How is "I don't believe in deities and reject the notion of creative design because science" not a position about the origin/nature/existence of humanity? I think you're being a bit too restrictive here.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 12:04 PM) I think the definition is a part of the problem. Everybody has some system of beliefs, but in both atheism as well as in deistic belief systems, there are large degrees of variance to which people hold to them with ardor and faith. There are atheists who don't believe in the existence of God but don't spend any time dwelling on or discussing the issue. Then there are atheists who join atheist groups and make it a point to argue with every single deist they know. The latter group are definitely part of a religion. Right, like Dawkins.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 12:03 PM) Not any more than people who don't believe in ghosts, or those who don't believe in aliens. It's a negative definition that tells us nothing about what those people do believe. They could be naturalists, or spiritualists, or Buddhists, or follow some sort of Pantheism, or Animism. Basically anything if it doesn't involve a god. That's an absurdly broad definition that would include things like supporting gun rights, being strongly pro-choice, or being a White Sox fanatic. Not really, it's still within the realm of the origin/purpose/existence of humanity.

QUOTE (CrimsonWeltall @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 11:51 AM) They don't refuse to see it. It's simply not true. So it's not a subset of people who have specific beliefs about the nature and existence of humanity? It doesn't fit the traditional definition involving the worship to God or the supernatural, but it fits pretty squarely with the more modern definition: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/religion

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 06:17 AM) Tanner asserts that many who have no particular religious beliefs would even argue that violence is a highly likely if not inevitable consequence of the "irrationality" of religious precepts.[6] Similarly, Hector Avalos argues that religions claim "scarce resources" for themselves over and against other groups. Consequently, this may lead to violence because conflicting claims to superiority are based on unverifiable appeals to the supernatural which cannot be adjudicated objectively.[9] Some general critics of religion and polemics such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins go farther and argue that religions do tremendous harm to society in three ways:[10][page needed][11][page needed] 1) Religions sometimes use war, violence, and terrorism to promote their religious goals, 2) Religious leaders contribute to secular wars and terrorism by endorsing or supporting the violence, and 3) Religious fervor is exploited by secular leaders to support war and terrorism. Amartya Sen adds that political leaders frequently use religious differences to initiate or perpetuate violence: [12] "Although the wars [in Iraq and Afghanistan] were ostensibly initiated to counter terrorism, religious differences are stressed just as often by American politicians and pundits as the reasons to continue the violence."[13] What nonsense. (1) Atheism is a religion just as much as Christianity is a religion. I hate how Dawkins, et al., always refuse to see that. (2) Yes, when jihadists who want to kill Americans in the name of Allah are the enemy, of course religion is going to be discussed as part of the discussion of war. That is not the same as saying Americans and American politicians are advocating violence in support of or in furtherance of their own personal religion.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jun 9, 2014 -> 09:15 AM) And then back shortly after he came in. He drove and hit Bosh on the open 3 to give the Heat the lead and then, after San Antonio tried to force and trap him on their last possession, he got it to a wide open Bosh, who found Wade down low. Yeah, San Antonio should have made those 4 FTs, and you can just as easily say Chalmers got lucky that flagrant didn't cost them, but at the end of the day, if LeBron is average Lebron, putting up 26 and 8, Miami loses that game. I agree with this. I don't agree with this: