I had to invent a religion for my Comparative Religions class at school, and so far I've come up with a concept called Transformationism. Is there anything you guys want to add/ change/ remove/ suggest?

1.   Transformationists believe that there are 8 worlds, each on an equal level, where one continues life after death.
2.   Each world is unique and has its own qualities, none is more heavenly or better than the other
3.   When a person dies, his soul is judged by a panel of 8 gods. They determine his worth and decide which world he goes to.
4.   Each person fits each world differently. What might be the best world, and the ultimate reward, for someone would be the worst hell for someone else.
5.   You are judged according to how you acted toward others, nothing else. If you helped more people than you hurt and you lived your life virtuously, you ascend a world. If you harm more than you help, you descend a world.
6.   The gods are all omniscient of their own worlds and can communicate back and forth, though they have decided not to use their power to alter the paths of the mortals so that they can have an accurate judgment.
7.   The universe and the worlds were never created, they have existed for all time.
8.   There are 8 festivals every year, one on each equinox, one every solstice, and midway between all these days. The God of Earth is celebrated on the longest day of the year in June with large parties and an overt awareness of kindness.
9.   The religion stresses that life is a continual cycle and that one world is not just a test for the next.
10.   Anybody who renounces any contradictory faith is allowed in the Church
11.   There is a wide degree of individual autonomy in this faith, with absolutely no formal authority, just their official doctrine to keep everything in place

For the church's symbol, I want to put an octagram inside a circle to represent the interconnecting worlds and gods, and to represent interpersonal obligation and connection. The circle is obviously for the never-ending circle of life.

For the past week, i've been having some pretty annoying internet hang-ups. It seems to be worse when I'm logged into sites (ie sites where i have a username and password). It seems like the browser works for a second, goes from stopped to working over and over again really fast, then it just goes to stopped. I have firefox and I'm using wireless internet with a Linksys WRT54G router and have Road Runner as my ISP.

I have no idea where to look, or what other kind of info to give.

Just to let you know, you can look at all the constellations visible from earth (and get information about stars, nebulae and other celestial formations) by pressing the last button on the left that looks like Saturn at the top of the Google Earth icon menu thing.

Don't get google earth and google maps mixed up.

http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_sky.html

I'm a complete Anglophile and you guys invented the language, after all. I need some pointers, though. I never know if I'm right when I add a u to words like atto(u)ney and docto(u)r. Is there a general rule for this?

Also, are there any words other than kerb and cheque that you spell completely differently than us? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

I'm looking for a good sim game where you play as the head of an organization (a business or a nation would be preferable). I mean making behind-the-scenes policies and all that kind of thing, not like with most of the Tycoon games in which you put something in your game world and hope it makes money. The closest I've found to what I'm looking for is Tropico. Most of the nation simulation games I've come across are mainly war games. I want to feel like the president of a country, not like a landgrabing maniac. Does anyone know a game similar to what I'm looking for?

I bought a cable that allows me to hook up an xbox controller to my PC, but I'm having a problem. I installed all the drivers and it works and everything, but Psychonauts won't allow me to use this controller over my joystick for the game. I made it my preferred controller and everything, it's just not taking. I looked around in the game menus, nothing there. The only solution I can think of would be unplugging the joystick while I play Psychonauts, but that's kind of annoying. Any tips?

Have you ever heard of Armadillo Run?

It's pretty freakin' great.