It happens to me maybe once or twice a month since I've had my current console (early June). I just eject the game and insert it again, and it's fine.hillelslovak

My last one was like that. It got progressively worse until I had to put in and take out a game 10+ times. I had to send it in. =-(

Flamecommando

Vertical?! Put it Horizontal. That might fix your problem, and your games won't get messed up like mine did.

VicousPopTart

When you placed it horizontally, do you just place on the floor? I got a hardwood floor and I'm afraid of the heat at the bottom.

It's happened only twice now over the course of a month, and only twice during the time I've had my Xbox. On the second time it occurred, the moment I reinserted the game disk again, everything was fine. In fact, afterwards I inserted 10 different Xbox 360 games to see if it would happen again and it didn't. My Xbox is quite new, it was manufactured in Oct 2008 (according to the back panel marker).

Should I be concerned? Has this happened to you randomly? Maybe I didn't position the disk quite neatly on the tray. I have my Xbox on a vertical position standing up on the floor.

After being "Christian" for so long, I have finally come to the conclusion that the historical Yeshua Bar Josef (Jesus) wasn't really the person Christianity and the Bible makes him out to be. My intention to lay out the reasons why I am now an "atheist.."

 1] The Gospels were written down decades after the death of Jesus. This poses a really big problem, as it is even much harder to swallow the truth claims (dubious?) of walking on water, water into wine, resurrection accounts etc at face value or literally. None of the canonical gospels were written, pen in hand, by the original disciples of Jesus but rather later generations of Christians, followers whose ideas of Jesus have developed over time. For example:

- Why aren't many of the miracles Jesus is said to have done in the two dozen epistles and or letters of Paul (most of which were written even earlier than the gospels themselves)? It is obvious these were added to the less than sensational oral traditions about the guy, which were multiplied and later exaggerated. Furthermore, something is quite fishy about superstitious beliefs of common peasant folk and cures with no follow up reports long after the healings.

- Ever compared Mark (the earliest gospel written) with John (the last one)? Night and day difference and more like a tale in growing with embellishments.

- The fact that author of Matthew used 75% of Mark's gospel, almost word for word, clearly indicates that this author was not actually Matthew, since it doesn't make sense that an eyewitness would follow the account of a non-eyewitness so closely. And the final chapter of John makes it perfectly clear that it was not written by John but by people who claimed to be his followers.

- Historical errors abound. Luke says Jesus was born during the census of Quirinius. That was in AD 6-7. Matthew, however, says Jesus was born before the death of Herod the Great. Herod died in 4 BC. That's a ten year discrepancy and a blatant contradiction.

- Jesus was very of vocal to the apostles of what was going to happen, which makes their subsequent confusion a bit hard to understand. Either they were extremely stupid or the NT isn't actually telling us what really happened. It's hard to see why they would be so puzzled by the betrayal, his trial and execution etc if just days before he had explicitly explained that precisely all this was going to happen. Had they forgotten this detailed explanation??

I think it's far more likely that this explanation never happened and that it has been added to the story later. Most likely the betrayal etc was as much a shock to Jesus as it was to everyone else, but his prophecies about it added to the story post facto to make it seem like it was all part of some big redemptive plan. Thus, the idea that he was executed, died and rose again was a belief his followers developed to justify their faith makes a lot more sense now to me than what was taught to me in Sunday school (ie Jesus died for my sins on the cross etc)...

2] All of the OT was written in the post-Exile period, so a hell of a lot of it needs to be taken with a large grain of salt. Looking at things like the story of David in Kings, for example, as history is like taking the story of King Arthur as a reliable history of Fifth Century Britain. And I don't really want to discuss taking Genesis as literal truth quite anymore either.

On a final note, I don't have anything against my old religion. Let them believe whatever they wish. I still admire the history of Christianity and its rise from a obscure Jewish sect...the culture and art it helped bring about from the Medieval ages to the Renaissance...Heck, I thank the monks who helped preserve ancient text...

Thanks for your time and I hope you have learned other views of Jesus. Books I recommend by professional academic, non-Christian historians such as Bart Ehrman or Paula Fredriksen (books in TinyURL preview format):

From Jesus To Christ by P.F

http://preview.tinyurl.com/9neaj5

Misquoting Jesus.. by B.Ehrman

http://preview.tinyurl.com/7k6a23

Jesus the Jew by Geza Vermes

I just want to take a survey if there are any lucky 360 users who purchased one from 2005 and have not run into any serious issues at all that requires replacements or repairs.

Edit: 2005 launch buyers only.. or those who bought in 2006 supplies of the SKU for 2005 launch.