When I first moved into the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis back in '86, the subject of nuclear war came up and people were talking about how and whether it would be possible to get out of the cities from there. I said given the warning time, it would be impossible, so if it came to it, I intended to just go sit out on the deck facing downtown and be killed instantly.
So, I guess building it in the swamp would be right out then?
<obligatory mp ref>When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.</obligatory mp ref>
To the OP: I wonder if you know the audience that you are posting to. (That was an ugly sentence, but I’m on a roll.) You appear to be of the mind that something in your referenced work would cause someone here to genuinely reflect upon the overwrought words of hysteria and unfulfilled promises that you present and gain some insight into the eternal goodness of Yahweh. I would strongly suggest that you read the many threads posted over the years that address every single one of the poorly worded and logically unsupported notions found in the mass of verbiage that you seem to think to be full of wisdom.
It is also not good form to post and then fail to directly address your audience’s responses. To convince, you must first ally the suspicions of many that you are not truly sincere in your remonstrations and are merely regurgitating the words of wisdom that you may have stumbled upon in your daily wanderings. I know a famous movie guru once said, “The new phone book’s here! The new phone book’s here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need. My name in print. That really makes somebody. Things are going to start happening to me now!”, but that doesn’t mean that you need to see your name in print on a message board to be successful in promulgating the messages you found. I suggest a blog where you can more finely hone your message of despair and deep depression, where all of Mankind is doomed to failure because a talking snake convinced a woman to eat some fruit. Who knows, you may well be the first to do so. Good luck and Goddess bless.
Especially in the Old Testament.
Yes, but you can immunize yourself by chugging three or four bottles of Tilex.
Uh… democratic nations are generally objectively better than non-democratic nations in all respects with the possible exception of military power… so yeah, I find it more desirable than a theocracy, and all the polls in democratic systems show the same…
Except for the fact that we’re living through the most peaceful period humanity has ever experienced. You’re less likely to be killed by war now than at any time in recorded history.
Meteor impacts, supervolcanos, verneshots, rising temperatures, theoretically gamma ray bursts, all sorts of things.
Don’t you mean either princess, or he?
Except, again, we’re effectively at peace now. There are more deaths due to auto accidents than war. Nuclear weapons, strategic bombers, and ICBMs are simultaneously the deadliest weapons mankind has ever created, in addition to being the number one factor in keeping the Cold War relatively cool.
Can we get a timeline on this supposed apocalypse? As to answering the thread title, I’ll chip in a solid “no”. Nuclear war is not coming. As a possible reality, it’s retreating slowly into the past.
No, but you can call them many morons.
Anyone who can’t tell the difference between one bible thumper and many is soulless and lacks taste in music. And will probably die with the rest of us in nuclear war.
You can comment on Bible thumpers, whoever you think they may be, as a group. You can’t call another poster a Bible thumping moron, which is what johnmont did in that post. If you have any further comments or arguments, take them to ATMB.
Has anybody used a nuke in D&D? 'Cuz that would be awesome.
Nukes in D&D? You bet! We also used phasers, holodecks, transporters, and photon torpedoes. We played a particularly robust variety of D&D!
(If you’ve ever read Poul Anderson’s “The High Crusade,” you will have an inkling of how we got from point A to point Zeta-Zed-Zee-sub-Omega.)
The OP sounds like the sort of man who needs to drink more.
But ζ-z-Z[sub]Ω[/sub] is certainly in a plural zone, you cannot get back to point A from there until you visit Stavro Müller Beta’s place and deal with Agrajag one final time.
Well, the original Final Fantasy did have the black magic NUKE spell.
And Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord included the 8th-level spell TILTOWAIT, described in the rulebook as “equivalent to a nuclear blast, dealing 10-100 pts. of damage to all enemies.”
Did you read that after casting Reanimate Dead on this thread?
Well, it gives me a chance to ask, does anyone have any idea whatever what eschereal said?