Report – Taiwanese youth dies after gaming marathon

Wuuuut. I’ve heard of marathons like this before, but they usually entail small breaks for at least the bathroom or just a stretch and a period to rest your eyes. Sitting perfectly still for that long?? Wow.

Jesus christ

@2 You forgot to capitalize Christ, reason I’m trolling is because it’s the name of an actual person. Thererfore, first and last name should be capitalized No prob buddy, you’re welcome.

Oh ya, back to the article…

He wont be doing that again in a hurry!

D.B.G. – Death By Gaming.

Damn that’s harsh.

D.B.M.G. if you want to be super technical. (marathon)

The lack of movement most likely caused the blood in his lower extremities to clot. Upon standing, the clot would have released, ending up in his heart and killing him. Damn, what a shame.

#6 agree, the clot could travel to the lungs, heart or brain and cause an stroke, i do suffer from some clots in my legs veins, and it is a pretty serious issue for those who sit for long periods of time, my blood have the tendence to create clots on ciclical basis,my red blood cells are bigger compare to normal ones and had the tendence on conglomerate and make clots easily, i have to constantly take medications and use special socks(pressured ones).

Well it’s hardly a loss to the gene pool. Darwinism at work.

@ 3

You keep telling yourself imaginary characters are actual people.

Still believe in the Easter Bunny too I bet, hide the eggs Jebus is coming!! religion is stupid & so are the morons that believe in it.

As for the dude that died, he lacked common sense.

^ Religion is a perfectly acceptable life philosophy, it’s the morons who use it as a tool to Lord it over others, that fuck it up.

#9 “religion is stupid & so are the morons that believe in it”
Like orbit brigthly put it Religion is an acceptable philosophy of seeing things, just like science, the thing is that religion always see the hand of God on everything, while science, only goes to God when it can´t find the answers to certain things, like the 21 grams all humans lost when they die, or what did spark the big bam, or better yet were the elements that were involve on the big bam came from, therefore religion is not stupid or the people that believe in it are morons, that is a pretty narrow view of things IMHO.

@11

Um, no. Science never goes to god, whether it can or can’t find the answers. Even for something like 21 grams there are many theories and even without one, most scientists will never go that way. When you don’t have answer for something, you don’t go to some unseen imaginary character. You try harder to find the answer within realm of reason and logic.

#12 I saw many scientists, saying there has to be a creator or a higher designer for things they cannot find the proper answer,thats why i say science goes to God, when they dont have the proper answers, and most of the time they dont want to talk about a beginning of things, because that involve a creator, it might be in a sarcastic tone, granted, but they are admiting the possibilty, as a science evaluetes multiples possibilities and science in a way they are trying to find if theres is a creator or not, even if they dont see it that way or even if they dont want to admit it.

Um… you do know that the human *doesn’t* actually lose 21 grams on death? That’s just an urban legend.

#14 i was talking more about the experiments of Duncan MacDougall in 1907, than the film or urban legend.

“You keep telling yourself imaginary characters are actual people”

Statements like this just go to prove the child like naIvety and ignorance of some people when it comes to the real world.

There is an overwhelming amount of documented evidence to prove the existence of Jesus. Whether you believe in his message or not, or the details of his life is another matter entirely.

Science and Religion are just schools of thought trying to find the same answers. It’s no surprise they cross paths.

Lemaitre was a Belgian priest who just so happened to come up with the Big Bang theory.

Yeah, lets take a topic that has nothing to do with Jesus Christ and Religion and make it about that!

And people wonder why most people dislike Religious folks?

Take your bullshit somewhere else.

@13
I don’t know what scientists are you are talking about. Don’t have the link at the moment but according to a report from 2008 (or 09 don’t remember exactly), more than 80 percent of the academics in US are atheists who don’t don’t believe in the need for higher power one bit. That’s just the US, a rather religious country. In most European countries, even non academics have started to realize that there is no need for such higher power. Pretty much every modern scientist I’ve checked doesn’t believe that one bit (The need for god or creator).

Heck, even stuff like “God particle” that seem Atheist-ishare actually made by tabloids and most of scientific community hates. Why? Because the term “god” is a myth to them. I respect believes of those that have faith in god but that doesn’t mean they can say science needs or uses god because that’s actually the opposite of what logical and scientific thinking means.

@18:

“most people”?

You should think again… Actually, you atheists are in a tiny minority. Fact is, the vast majority of people alive today, and throughout history are “religious”.

So if you want to use numbers as any sort of reference point, you’re fighting a losing battle.

Bigger picture – if he’s real or a character you should still capitalise his name .

^ This is indeed one of the most basic rules of the language…

#19 “I respect believes of those that have faith in god but that doesn’t mean they can say science needs or uses god because that’s actually the opposite of what logical and scientific thinking mean”

In a way science tries to prove there is no creator or not a God, or maybe they will find there is one, like i said many scientists like Einstein and the likes dont want to talk about a beginning because that will imply a creator, because science cannot explain a beginning without a creator right now, when they can explain a beginning they will be proving there is a not a God, and in the opposite site of the expectrum, if they cannot decirn a beginning, well there will say in an ironic way is problably a God, but with that irony they are establishing a possibility, therefore the logical and thinking man, like you put it, are trying in a way to deny or accept the fact there is a God, saying otherwise is lying oneself or themselves, because science does not believe in God, but their search is to rule out there is a God, or to prove there is a God, in a very inderect way, but in the end God rules their logical and thinking time, at least when trying to explain the beggining of things, and time.

I dont want to search all the scientists that when they are trying to explain something like the beginning of the Big Bang, or something like where the elements that were involve in the Big Bang did come from?, or what did spark the bing bang?, allude , maybe in a sarcastic tone, to God, but they are a few of them, belive me, iam not making this up.

p.s i was born a Catholic, but iam not a Religious person, i dont go to Church, etc,etc, but i do think there is a creator, whatever you want to call it, with all his/her/its many names, because at the moment there is not a scientific theory that proves otherwise, i mean that the creator does not exist, and also because there is a lot of inconsistencies in a lot of theories, which might imply the possibility of a creator, and the more sciencie discovers the less the know about the beggining, dark matter, dark force, etc, etc.

@20: Smart people have always been in the minority. I’m agnostic btw.

Actually, it’s more to do with wealth than intelligance.

The more wealth people amass, the more self sufficient they feel, and the stronger the desire to reject accountability for enjoying their wealth.

Besides, believing that the multitude who disagree with you are low in intelligence is a sign of arrogance.

@25: Look, if you call yourself an intelligent human being and yet believe in an old guy living on a cloud, and you talk with Jesus at night, or you believe that we’re alien souls or whatever, i think it’s fair to say that you’re either insane or stupid.

Religion is for people who are afraid of dying. Who are unable to develop proper morals and need the fear for hell to actually not kill someone.

And it has nothing to do with wealth. If you expect me to pull some numbers, why don’t you provide some, that support your ‘theory’.

^You really are an idiot. Fitting name, that.

Truly anything can be art for people like those.

#26 “Religion is for people who are afraid of dying. Who are unable to develop proper morals and need the fear for hell to actually not kill someone”

The existence of Jesus Christ proves that what you think is quite the opposite, he wanst afraid of dying for his believes in God, and he died an horrible death, he could give up, but he didnt, he wanst afraid of dying, and for all that, also the cristians that died afterwards for believing in him and God,they were hunted like animals during the Roman Empire, they could just easily forgot about God if they were so affraid of dying, but no they choose to die.

“fear for hell to actually not kill someone”

I think the message is more of love the other human beings as much as you love yourself, therefore feel empathy for the other person, than fear of hell, because they do also believe, religous people, that in the moment of your death you can ask for forgiveness, all your sins are erase, so no harm done, no reason to fear Hell in the eyes of true religous people, so again no fear for hell if you trully believe in God and ask for forgiveness.

@25
I’d love to see you back that crock up.

@28

Jesus never exsited, in fact a few years back the Romans admitted to making Jebus up for political purposes.

Say hi to the Easter Bunny & the rest of the imaginary characters you blindly believed in your whole life when you get to imagination land (heaven)

I said it before & I’ll say it again, religious people are complete idiots.

@28: Let’s stop talking about the past for once. Because then we’d also have to talk about the Crusades and that wouldn’t be to your benefit. What Christianity was back then it simply isn’t now and that’s what matters.

Today matters. And today we see a trend of Christians going back to the basics. Going back to hatred and ignorance. People who start to question gravity and evolution. They haven’t read anything about those theories, mind you. They just question them. Most of them never read the bible either, but that doesn’t seem to matter.

We see people yelling “God hates Fags!” while holding signs up that say “Thank god for 9/11!” at a funeral. A fucking funeral.

We see people gathering at Planned Parenthood, spitting at women who choose to aport a child, they do not want to receive. Those women might be rape-victims, but that doesn’t matter.

They are Pro-Life, they say. The same people are also Pro-Death Sentence and Pro-Assassinating-Doctors-who-might-do-an-abortion.

If the people really believed in the words of Hippy Jesus, why can’t they follow his words? If they really read the bible do you think they would behave this way? Or did they only read the Old Testament that only talks about a god who kills and punishes those who deny him and his rules?

“if you call yourself an intelligent human being and yet believe in an old guy living on a cloud, and you talk with Jesus at night”

Who believes that?

An old guy living on a cloud?

This is a caricature created by staunch atheists in order to throw ridicule on believers. It’s the type of thing you see on The Simpsons, or some other openly anti-faith production.

Sure, there are people who believe that they talk with Jesus on a regular basis, but these people belong to a minority group among Christians. (‘Born again’ Christians)

Religion is clearly not for people who are afraid of dying. It’s this king of naive, sweeping generalisation that just goes to show your, for want of a better word, ignorance on the subject.

And as for the issue of wealth and it’s leading people away from faith, well I’m kind of shocked that any atheist, such as yourself would disagree, since the claim after ‘afraid of dying’ is usually along the lines of ‘the poor people and the insecure’.

Not touching this one with a ten foot pole.

#30 I think you are confusing The First Council of Nicaea, were Constantine the Roman emperor, turned the Roman empire into a Christianic Religion, and then they created the Bible as we know it in that process, selecting some old scripts from the old and new testaments, they adpoted it, it was a political move from constatine part in order to not loose power, and in order to be re-elected as Roman Emperor, but prior to that they hunted cristians, and they persecuted all things Jesus Christ Concerned and related, that doesnt ruled out the Jesus Christ Existence per-se, they just adopted over there pagan religion, hence the political move and idea.

When science proves the existence of God, what will the atheist say then?

#31 in that i agree with you, but thats why i do believe in a creator and not in a religion per se,and for me religions are a good thing, like most of the time is the people that create the problems to pretty good ideas and or theories in all fronts in science, religion, politics, you name it, the examples you put are the extremist religious people, which i really dont agree, but that doesnt stop me to believe in the creator theory either, mainly because the bible was done by mans, and by the people that killed Jesus, the romans, they decide it which scripts will form part of the bible and which one doesnt, therefore i dont trust the bible or the various religous rulings for that matter, because they were done by man, but i do believe in a creator whatever its/his/her name is.
p.s also keep in mind pretty much the description of God, pretty much resembles what Einstein think the human person will be when he uses 100% of their brain, i mean a uniform mass of energy without a body only light, pretty much a coincidence right.

“in fact a few years back the Romans admitted to…”

What kind of gibberish is this?

“the Romans”!??

Really??

Wow, and they accuse the religious of stupidity…

How the hell did this grow into a discussion over religion? Just keep it in your pants guys, and preferably to yourselves.

OT: If you’re stupid enough to do anything for 40 hours straight without sleep, food or breaks, you’re bound to at least get injured. I’d hardly blame games for his death.

“Today matters. And today we see a trend of Christians going back to the basics. Going back to hatred and ignorance.”

No, that’s what you see on the news. Does it represent the majority? I highly doubt it.

I’m not here to defend Christianity by any means. In fact, I’m a Muslim convert who was born into a Christian family and converted at the age of 18.

But I find it silly that people who claim to be reasonable and logical fall into making such naive generalisations.

Do they realise that they live in a society where the government, education system and media all support and propogate atheism?

They need to wake up and start thinking for themselves.

I’m off to play CoD…

What the hell is wrong with you people?

@38 Believe it or not in started with a word and the word was God…

Only kidding This started with bad grammar…

@37
About an equal amount of gibberish as this:

“There is an overwhelming amount of documented evidence to prove the existence of Jesus.”.

Even Theologians admit that outside of the NT, there is no other evidence for the existence of Jesus.

Look if you still doubt that Jesus exists, I suggest checking out a Mexican phonebook. Thousands of them in there

@40: *ba dum tsh*

I’m a christian (though I’m not atypical in my personal beliefs) and I’m always amazed how arrogant and condescending atheists and non believers can be.

But to be fair, I can be surprised how judgmental and opinionated Christians can be as well.

If you don’t believe in God, Jesus, Allah, etc then that is your prerogative and I won’t condemn you for it, so neither should you condemn people that believe in a higher power or question their intelligence.

@45: So if believe in a pink invisible unicorn, you wouldn’t judge me?

“Even Theologians admit that outside of the NT, there is no other evidence for the existence of Jesus.”

Nonsense statement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

The idea that a small group of people would invent a person so that they could be killed and persecuted for hundreds of years is, quite frankly, ridiculous.

@46 – No, I actually wouldn’t, too each his own, not my place to judge.
You on the other hand, seem ready to judge and condemn someone that doesn’t share your mindset.

#46 you are putting myths here, and let me tell you all this characters or myths like unicorn, dragons, cyclops, centaur, etc are observations of old people that must of the time they related to the everyday life, but could very well existed, for example in the Maharabapta (Indu Bible of sort), they put the Gods arrived in big flying birds that spitted fire, making strong big nosises ,and with metal wings, they put those birds a name, a ferocious creature i dont recall the name, but the thing is we dont know what they saw, but they related that to a bird,becuase thats what they were used to things that fly, a bird, that could be very well an spaceship in acient times, but they called birds, the same with unicorns, dragons, cyclops, etc, not long ago some scientists discovered a tomb with people of 2.50 meters tall, thats pretty much a giant, dont rule out the possibility entirely, i mean unicorns, and old myths, because most of the time they have a portion of true on them.

@48: But you should, because it’s crazy. Problem is, people who believe in the pink invisible unicorn are probably going to end up in an insane asylum. But believing in an old guy who sits on a cloud and tells people to kill their son is normal (I’m talking about Abraham, in case you don’t know) and perfectly acceptable? That’s bullshit and you know it.