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Looks like not only paysite owners are a) crazy and b) calling a purchase a donation for no good reason:

http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0017.htm

scroll down to page two.

LOL I love this one:



I can just imagine the parents now.  "OMG I better pick up this one!  Tommy now remember to stay in school, don't smoke or try drugs, and don't worship the Devil."

Edit to say:  I would actually just love to look at the brochures.  I think it would be hilarious.  It'd be like watching an old film from the 50's on etiquette or something.

Personally, my opinion is that if you raise your children and try to be the best parent you can be, then D & D is not going to "corrupt" your child. Seriously, we have enough real concerns, do we need stupid ones, too?

Apparently. DX

That's it, I'm getting my kid a D & D manual the moment he can read.

C.

*Juggles his complete (D&D 3.5) series of RPing books! And demonic Forgotten Realms fantasy books! And... Neverwinter Nights, Oblivion, and other Satan worshipping games!*

Wow, I assumed the website was fake. It was dripping with sarcasm. :P

Ever read Dragonlance? My hubby did, and I have read his books. Although, I'll read anything, but I have enjoyed them.

I've seen the Chick Tract on this. I find it difficult to actually take seriously and firmly believe it to be a fine example of "own goal".

Seriously, read it (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp)! It's so utterly absurd that it pretty much undermines the entire position of the author.

Chick Tracts are HILARIOUS. They're a total credit to how 'in-touch' the Christian church is. Or at least, the Christian church who things those things are a great witness to people.

"I used the mind bondage spell on my father!"

..and I'm wearing BOOTS OF ESCAPING.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I lol'd.

yeah, I've been writing a paper on the roots of misconceptions about pagans today, as well as homosexuals and abortion doctors- great stuff, shows that people today are just as stupid and sheepish as they were back in the Inquisition times, just the accusations are updated for a more modern era. I stumbled across this chick through this article:

http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=cabc&c=whs&id=4748

long, but good reading, exposes this crazy chick for who she really is- a, um, crazy chick

Ha.  I went to one D&D, I don't know "meeting", once cause some guys I new from work did it, and the one was pretty attractive and they said it was basically role playing...so I was thinking roleplaying + attractive male = good times and I couldn't have been more wrong, it was completely lame.  No offense to uh D&D players.  If my one experience was half as awesome as that girls, I would have considered doing it again in the future.

She had no clue her son was mentally disturbed? That's ridiculous. She's delusional and wants to pass on the blame for her son's death. She probably doesn't want to face the fact that she ignored the warning signs. I wonder if she'd go after Monopoly if he'd been playing that before he killed himself.  :roll:

I roleplayed once as a teenager, and it was totally lame because everyone else was a guy and they were either falling over themselves to accomodate what they thought I wanted, or ignoring me completely.

RPing with guys who have been laid in their lifetimes is WAY cooler. Especially with some girls there as well. It's very fun with the right people.

Does anyone remember that (tv) movie with Tom Hanks, from way back, where he was a college student who got so into D&D that he kinda lost it?  It was supposedly based on a true story.  Anyway, a little while before the movie came out, and I was a young'un (yeah, so I'm old) my father had bought me D&D, he thought I'd like it.  Not even two weeks later, the story hit the papers, and my dad promptly took the game, and threw it away.  Was afraid I'd lose it.
He was an atheist, after a few years of seminary school in his youth.

I was somehow spared the D&D thing, but have felt the fallout of it. The "True Believers" claim it is evil and do not want anyone to even know about it.
I don't care either way, it's just a friggen game. If some people take it to extremes, then that says something about them, not the game.
As far as the "atheist" issue, anyone who is a believer in god OR an atheist is acting on faith. The lack of evidence precludes making an informed choice. I shall remain agnostic until the evidence presents itself.

I played an online rpg (Dragonrealms) for years and I'm no more insane than I was before I played it.  My little brother, who is 20 years younger than I am, played it from the time he was 12 or so, and still reopens his account to play from time to time.  DR is a totally text-based game, and can move pretty fast at times, so he became a deadly-fast typist.  That's about the only lasting effect it seems to have had on him.


I followed that 'chick tract' link and read the thing.  How can these people not realize how stupid they appear?  (Answering my own question--because they ARE as stupid as they appear, I guess.)  When I read things like that it becomes easy to believe that they are purposely and specifically trying to lure in  idiots while repelling anyone with any sense at all...and I guess there'd be a good reason for that, too.

I just mentioned the atheist bit to show the reason he didn't want me playing the game had nothing to do with any Catholic or Christian bent.  It was moreso that he apparently thought I was weak of mind, I don't know, but it pissed me off mightily at the time.  Still does, actually.
I'm sure he had some sort of faith, just not to any organized, or unorganized, religion.  I'd much prefer that, than some way overbearing Christian crap, like this Chick Tract.

I love D&D!!!  

I read this one thing where this one pagan group was talking about how accurate the spell rituals were and how casting D&D spells was bad because you may accidentally summon something by mistake.  The same text (with the pagan part taken out) was used by a christian group to show it was leading kids to satan.

And you know what?  It's all true.  I mean I envoke dark froces when I chant "I'm gonna cast magic missile!" and I plan to kill myself because my character died and we are one.

And so this has to do with "donations", we had to pay a "mandatory donation" to go to prom in highschool.

One morning I wake up late, and wasn't able to find my left shoe... but I thought: "Wait, haven't I the locate spell??"; sadly, I'm not a so good witch :D. It's the same thing, I imagine, of when I am stuck in a traffic jam and my istinct suggests me to search for the "3" key, to raise time speed...

Vampire: The Masquerade doesn't count, because it doesn't register with the scary tract-writing fanatics. It's too mod-ern.

By the time your kids are playing Vampire, it is way, waaay too late to worry about saving their souls.

Gotta love them Malkavians... 8)  

I guess I'm un-redeemable then  :lol:

If I were a VTM Vampire, I'd probably be a Malkavian Pyromaniac, setting things on fire and laughing maniacally. Pyromania is apparently a very crazy habit for a VTM vampire, and would probably keep them away from me just like it keeps people away from me in real life.

Yep, most VTM vamps hate fire like the bubonic plague... :lol:

I would be a Tzimisce, Vicissitude sounds like a cool power to have. Then I could play Sims with real people... :twisted:

I do adore Malkavians...

I'm more likely to be a Toreador though, with my accursed sense of aesthetics...I can find beauty in almost everything, it's dreadful...

Bwahahahahaha!!

That track is hilarious! I actually snorted Diet Coke out my nose. I don't recommend that. It hurts.

That'll be the aspartame. IT BURRRRNS.

Oh is that what was burning?

I was sure it was SAAAAAAAATAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That site made my day. I passed it onto all my friends.

Actually, it's the carbonization. It reacts with your snot to form a weak acid, and that's why it burns.

Aspartame, Satan, carbonization, it's all the same thing...

Satan is in everything.  Even my fuzzy scarf and fuzzy cat (not the same thing, 'k').

ETA: Actually, it's kind of weird that aspartame was brought up here because the other day (yesterday, really, and today) on my off-period someone was telling me about how it would kill you and rape your babies or something.

Are you people stalking me?  Small world, man.  Small world.

In aspartame's disclaimer notes should be included to not use on fat people or porn. And on chinese gals, and Carla Niven, or wanking cats.

Dear god, just when I thought the ghost of Patricia Fucking Pulling had finally been laid to rest.  The woman was psychotic, her friends and "expert consultants" were loonies, she had absolutely no idea what she was talking about and she didn't die anywhere near soon enough to suit me.  *Spits on her grave*  I shall speak no more of this.