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  1. repsol rave

    keyboard help?

    By repsol rave,

    here's the deal: i want a new keyboard.
    problem tough, i want my keyboard to be backlit, and i want it to have flat buttons (like a laptop's keyboard)
    and well, that's pretty much it. does anypony know of a keyboard like this and where to buy one?
  2. repsol rave
    so yeah, my best friend is about to go live in the city groningen, and he asked if i would like to be roommates.
    now i think this would be epic, i would be away from all the shit i have at home and i would finally have my very own place. not to mention i would be living with my very best friend!
     
    but, it would be the first time i move out, like i lived with my family for the past 18 years.
    so, are there any people who have experience with somehing like this? and is this a good idea?
  3. repsol rave

    another one of these

    By repsol rave,

    Have you ever:
    1. Skipped class? - eeyup
    2. Done drugs? - eeyup
    3. Self harmed? - eeyup
    4. Drank? - eeyup
    5. Shoplifted? - eeyup
    6. Gotten a tattoo? - eeyup (can i just say yes to everything?)
    7. Broken up with someone? - eenope (oh, wait)
    What's your favorite:
    8. Show? - MLP and attack on titan, tough the last one finished already
    9. Movie? - How High
    10. Song? - Porter Robinson - Spitfire(Endymion remix)
    11. Subject? - engineering
    12. Singer/Band? - Endymion, Art of Fighters, Evil Activities, etc.
    13. Memory? - when me and my twin brther went to our first hard EDM music festival <3
    14. Book? - Torak & Wolf
    This or that:
    15. Invisibility or Ability to fly? - Invisibility
    16. Cookies or Cake? - Cookies!
    17. Twitter or Facebook? - twitter
    18. Movies or Books? - movies
    19. Coke or Sprite? - Sprite
    20. Blind or Deaf? - can i just pick none?
    21. Tea or Coffee? - Coffee! (gotta love me some good coffee)
    What's your:
    22. Age? - 18
    23. Sign? - scorpio
    24. Height? - 1 meter 87
    25. Sexual orientation? - Straight
    26. Shoe size? - a european 40
    27. Religion? - none
    28. Longest relationship? - 7 months
    Opinion on:
    29. Gay rights? - they deserve rights, they're humans too.
    30. Second chances? - only if it's really deserved.
    31. Long distance relationships? - tried one with a girl who moved, didn't work out tough.
    32. Abortion? - depends on what the parents want.
    33. The death penalty? - yes, but only to killers and child rapists and such.
    34. Marijuana? - gotta love me some weed
    35. Love? - everywhere!
    Do you:
    36. Believe in ghosts? - depends
    37. Shower facing the shower head or turned away from it? - turned away from the thing
    38. Sleep with the door opened or closed? - closed
    39. Love someone? - family.
    40. Still watch cartoons? - MLP, anime and adventure time.
    41. Have a boyfriend/girlfriend? - not now, have a crush on some girl tough.
    42. Like yourself? - kinda

    welp, there's that.
  5. repsol rave
    so i just recently installed the dolphin emulator, and i must say, if your computer can handle it it is pretty amazing.
    i just completed the legend of zelda: Twilight princess on the gamecube emulator part, using a xbox 360 controller.
    everything just runs smooth and perfect. so if you want to play something like that but don't feel like carrying your gamecube with you everywhere a good laptop and dolphin are highly recommended :3
  6. repsol rave
    so yeah, i was bored and just finished a school project in autoCAD, then suddenly the idea hit me to draw a pony with the program...
    and suddenly an error pops up.
    i've been working with autoCAD for 2 years now, and never had an error, but when i try to draw a pony suddenly it crashes :c
    guess autoCAD hates ponies.

     
    so after struggeling for about an hour with over 60 different circles and stuff i came up with something that very distantly hints to twilight's head.
    i'm gonna leave it at that. i think this prooves autoCAD was not made for artisitic purposes, but purely for blueprints and other technical drawings...

  7. repsol rave

    help me! someone?

    By repsol rave,

    i need help! i have a finished autoCAD drawing in aCAD '11, but when i put the drawing in a template some parts are missing!
    it's just a really simple drawing of a clamp (is that the english word?), but i do need to finish it before monday.
    i already tried searching youtube and stuff, but i couldn't find anything D:
     
    so yeah, this is how they look in the model tab, just fine and dandy,

     
    then i put them in a template, and put the parts together,

     
    but that's where some lines go missing!

     
    does anybody know how this happens?
  8. repsol rave
    so, first of all, i'd like to warn you: wall of text incoming!
    second of all, this is in no way at all created to be insulting to someone, or anyone for that matter.
     
    now that's out of the way, let's start!
     
    i recently stumbled over an article that really interested me. it stated that hell, as we know from the bible, isn't all that bad.
    now normally i'm not one to like religious stuff. i'm an atheist myself and i really just couldn't really care less about other people and their religious stuff.
     
    tough this article was very interesting, and i felt like sharing it with you guys. sadly, it was entirely written in Dutch
    so i translated it for you guys :3
     
    here we go:
    HELL: NOT THAT BAD AFTER ALL
    Hell, the torture chambers full of smoke and fire deep under the earth, where all ungodly are tortured under seeing eye of CEO satan, for ever and ever for their earthly sins. Evereybody knows this, because that's the way it's in the bible, but is it really?
     
    May god help the person that didn't believe in god in the 17th century. When your time at earth had ran out you where in for a one way trip to the fires of hell, where satan's butlers with their everlasting will to work where the guarantee that you where in for an eternity of torture and pain. The statetranslation from 1637 states this directly.
     
    "De godtloose sullen te rugge keeren nae de helle toe; alle godt-vergetende heydenen."
    "The ungodly will return to hell; all god-forgetting sinners."
     
    Just like now, the people back then had a very clear image of how this hell was supposed to look. Over a century before this was written artist Jheronimus Bosch already painted his impressive works about the chambers of hell. And in 1309 the italian poet Dante Alighieri wrote about his imaginary trip through his inferno. We too know how the end in hell must look like: Unending fires with monsters ready to provide everlasting suffering.
     
    But is all of this even right?
     
    GRAVE, WELL, KINGDOM OF THE DEAD
    The old testament (from now on called OT) of the already named states translation threatens with the word 'Hell' for about 25 times. As an example in Samuel 2.6:
     
    "De HEERE doodet ende maeckt levendich, Hy doet ter helle nederdaelen, ende hy doet weder opkomen"
    "The LORD kills and makes alive, He decends to hell, and he makes arise"
     
    But there is something interesting going on in this term. The OT was originally written in the hebrew language. And the word wich is used to threathen with hell with, is actually translated from the hebrew word sheol. This word isn't stated in the original OT for 25 times, but over 60.
    The origin of the word sheol is unclear, as stated by theologist Edward William Fudge.
    This makes for lot's of disagreements about the actual meaning of the word.
    This unclarity made for the word to be translated in a number of ways. Sometimes even in one and the same bible.
    in the OT of the King James Bible, Fudge's favorite version, is the word sheol translated as hell 31 times, as grave 31 times and as well another 3 times.
     
    This made for Fudge to write a book called the fire that consumes, and in this book he states that sheol is definately NOT translated as hell.
     
    OVERCROWDED
    One of the reasons for this is that the 'mood' of the word sheol isn't something you would describe hell with.Now, the word would be something you use for like a really shitty restaurant. the food there would be sheol. (if this makes any sense.) It's most definately not good food, but it isn't a burning lake with demons either.
     
    Also, in the bible, the people that travel to sheol arn't exatly the worst sinners, or murderers or rapists either. The first mentioning of the word is when in the bible Jakob is being told that his son Jozef has died. In the new bible translation (2007) it says:
     
    "Al zijn zonen en dochters deden hin best om hem te troosten, maar hij wilde niet getroost worden en zij; Ik zal rauw dragen tot ik naar mijn zoon in het dodenrijk afdaal."
    "All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he didn't want to be comforted and said; I will carry mourn until i decend to my son in the kingdom of the dead."
    (Genesis, 37.35)
     
    Here sheol is translated as 'kingdom if the dead', just like two other times where Jakob makes these kind of remarks. (Genesis: 42.38 & 44.29)
    If even Jakob, The eartfather must decend to hell, it should be damn crowded there.
    And Jakob isn't the ony one. Also the rightious Job goes to sheol in vers 14.13. Just like David in Psalmen: 49.16.
     
    With so many known bible figures the conclusion is very clear to Fudge."There is simply no reason to make sheol into a place where there is only suffering and pain, and wich is made for the punishment for the evil." He states.
    According to Fudge sheol is moe like a shared faith for every mortal, not just the torture chambers for the sinners.
    And this statement has found it's way to modern versions of the book itself.
    The Psalm the was qouted in the very beginning of this piece, has become (a little) more friendly.
    "The ungodly will return to hell; all god-forgetting sinners."
    Is now:
    "The ungodly will return to The kingdom of the dead, all god forgetting sinners."
     
    ANOTHER MATTER OF TRANSLATION
    Then there's the New Testament (from now on preffered to as NT) This is where it all happens. Everything from curses, rejection and getting ripped appart to punishment in "the fire oven" or "The firey lake with burning sulphur".
    So who's looking for Dante's inferno or the paintings from Jheronimus Bosch should go look in the bibles second half.
    "The idea of 'hell' only appears in the NT." Says Tina Wray, Religious Researcher at the university of Salve Regina, in her book what the bible really tells us.
    "The specifical word 'Hell' actually never appears at all. It's a germanian word, the name of the godess of the underworld. The NT uses words as 'Gehenna' and 'Hades', and this again suggests a translation problem."
     
    Let's start with 'Hades'.
    "In the greek mythology Hades was the god of the underworld, and after that it became the name of this underworld itself." Fudge says, agreeing with Wray.
    "The word Hades was first seen in bibles from the Septuagint."(The Greek translation of the OT)
    "They used this word to translate the word sheol."
    And we all know that sheol is miserable and downcasted, but not hell.
    And just as the sheol-hell was translated to 'the kingdom of the dead in the NT, so was the hades-hell.
    How demonic the descriptions of hades may be, it is not where the devil resides.
     
    SINNER'S DUMPING PLACE
    So after sheol and hades only the word gehenna is left as a possible description of 'hell'.
    The word gehenna originates from the Valley of Hinnom, Ge-Hinnom (in hebrew) was located in the vicinity of Jeruzalem.
    With other words, gehenna directs to an earthly location wich actually exsisted.
    "It was the place where king Salomon sacrificed to strange gods and where even child sacrifices where made to the idols Moloch and Baal." Writes Salomon Kroonenberg,Professor Geology at the Technical University of Delft(T.U.D)
     
    Like how Fudge and Wray are inspecting the bible on a textual level, Kroonenberg does this in a geological way.
    How hot is it actually deep within the earth, where runs the Greek death river 'The Styx', And in what mountainside resides the grave of Jesus?
    "It's about time somebody with an geological eye takes a look at hell." Kroonenberg notes ironically. "I'm going to do fieldwork to hell, with hammer and compass."
    Such a search naturally takes him to the Valley of Hinnom. That place didn't always be a valley of sinners. "Later Ge-Hinnom became a garbage-dump where constant fires burned away the waste, and where the dead bodies of criminals where tossed into," Kroonenberg writes.
     
    So with the knowledge that Ge-Hinnom was a dump and cremation center, a lot of bible passages get a whole other meaning.
    Take Jesaja 66.24 for an example:
     
    "Bij het verlaten van de stad zien ze de lijken van zij die tegen mij in opstand kwamen; De worm die aan hen knaagt zal niet sterven en het vuur waarin zij liggen zal niet doven. Ze worden verafschuwd door alles wat leeft."
    "At the point where they leave the cuty, they will see the bodies of them that rose up against me; The worm that eats them won't die and the fire where they lay in shall never die out. They are disgusted by everything that lives."
     
    Is this referred to 'hell' or just the Valley of Hinnom?
    Wray says it's the latter, but simmilar texts have been interpreted as hell.
    "After a while the dump gehenna and the terrifying pit sheol fused together, and they became some sort of early 'hell'." Wray states.
    "Gehenna is actually the perfect hellish place, since it is a big firey pit where also childeren where sacrificed and criminals where burned.
     
    "This completely real, geographical place is symbolical associated with the destination where the unrighteous in the afterlife are being judged."
    So what in the eyes of many is hell, is actually just a sinner's garbage dump.
    Kroonenberg agrees with this interpretation. "This must be why the Greek gehenna is translated as 'hell' in the NT." He concludes. "Only then it has lost it's geographical exsistence and it is only used allegorical."
    The proof: gehenna doesn't look like hell in any way.
    "Hinnom is a dry valley now."Kroonenberg notes after his visit there almost dissapointed. "You can have a pleasant walk there and there is a small asphalt road, but the Valley of Gehenna doesn't look like it has anything to do with the underworld."
     
    THE POST-BIBLE HELL
    All in all the bible explains next to nothing about 'hell'.
    But how do we have such a clear image of how hell must be then?
    We probably have figures as Dante and Bosch to thank for that.
    "In short; this post-bible hell is a mixture of multiple sources, including early-christen post apocalyptic stories and outside of the bible traditional knowledge, like in John Milton's poem paradise lost and Dante's inferno." Wray explains.
    "Sometimes stories, poems and even movies take in a biblical story, wich makes for the disappearance of the line that keeps the bible's stories away from sources wich are very far from biblical."
     
    So who wants a scary, weird scenery of hell, should look in un-biblical sources. because it seems completely right that in the new bible translation, The Old testamen aswell as the New testament and even the Deuterocanoniec books, the word 'hell' makes no appearance at all.
     
     
    this should completely cover it.
    if you have any questions, feel free to ask. and remember, this was translated from ancient Dutch and normal dutch to english by a 17 year old guy, so ofcourse there are going to be some spelling and grammar mistakes.
     
    thanks for reading
  9. repsol rave
    i've seen these around a few times, so yeah, i'm gonna do one now
     
    1. Are you satisfied with the way your life is right now? - kinda, could be much better, but could be much worse too.
    2. Do you drink enough water? - i dunno. they say 2 liters a day right? i think i'm at about 1.5 liters.
    3. When was the last time you ate at Burger King? - yesterday
    4. Do you prefer the beach or the mountains? - beach
    5. How do you usually feel when you wake up on a morning? - shipwrecked, and that feeling continues through the intire morning.
    6. Would you rather take someone on a date, or be taken on a date? - i'd rather take someone.
    7. When was the last time you wore high heeled shoes? - never. i'm a guy XD
    8. Vodka or wine? - vodka
    9. How often do you cry? - last time i cried was about 3 months ago.
    10. Ever had a crush on a teacher? - eeyup
    11. Can you wire a plug? - depends what kind of plug. but i can wire most of em.
    12. Do you wear socks to bed? - usually in the winter
    13. What is currently bugging you? - human nature
    14. At what age did you first start masturbating? - around 11
    15. Can you change a car tire? - eeyup
    16. Have you met more than ten celebrities? - about 13 i think
    17. Do you sleep naked? - nope. i'm too custom to the feeling of underpants :3
    18. What was the best music gig you’ve ever attended? - Nirvana of Noise!
    19. Can you play any instruments? drums and a little piano
    20. Do you think Benedict Cumberbatch is hot? - who's that?
    21. Favourite Disney princess? - ehrm, i guess belle, tough i dunno what fairytale she's from
    22. Favourite city? - Amsterdam!
    23. Can you drive? - boat, motorbike, car, truck, you name it!
    24. Cigarettes or alcohol? - can i pick both?
    25. Excercise or healthy eating? - Exercise.
    26. Do you still live with your folks? - eeyup, and i'm planning to do so until i get to 20 years old.
    27. What are you looking forward to? - the FREAQSHOW music festival in about a month
    28. Did you play Red Rover when you were a child? - what is red rover?
    29. Are you more attracted to men or women? - women
    30. Do you like 1980s fashion? - i never liked fashion anyway.
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