Everyone's weak to something relative to someone else. Maybe a shock that someone else could survive would stop you heart, or an amount of snake venom would kill you but only hurt someone else. Of your's is discovered should someone weed you out? If these life alteringly severe allergies are genetic people should do the decent thing and not pass those genes on, sure, but still, no reason to punish the poor folks who live with such problems.
Murder is pretty bad, but I want it in my games because that's part of the real world. Even if we accept that religion is bad, and I for one think that is a real stretch, it's kinda silly to scrub it out of games. I certainty don't want to play a preachy game of course, and I prefer my media to be non-theistic, but whether you want it or not religion is part of life.
It is always amazing how "the religious" lay claim to promote and police "morality" when in fact they themselves are the least moral among us and only show compassion for "fear of gods retribution" if they do not.
The Bible says that all good deeds are as rags in the eyes of God. In other words, no amount of good works can alter your standing with the divine, and yet, many churches operate soup kitchens, charities, and other compassionate organizations. What you say is inconsistent with reality.
Skepticism, rationality, or reason! The three cornerstones of atheism.
Wrong. Disbelief in deities is the cornerstone of atheism. Don't believe me? Look at who won the last Richard Dawkins Award. A pseudo-scientific anti-vaccine alternative medicine promoter. Reason my ass, sounds more like organized religion to me.
They created a goddamn religion around themselves and the state, complete with holy relics and faith-based "science." That's not atheism, so stop repeating that drivel.
What you're saying is that anything extremist is a religion. Wrong again. Unless you are dealing with a religious matter, zeal & craziness != religion.
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It is a hobby if you go around talking about how great it is to not collect stamps, and join not collecting stamp clubs, and read Not Collecting Stamps Monthly. I get where that sentiment is coming from, I really do, and have to say I agree with it, but I don't think that it is always the case anymore.
That's every country, by the way. Look at how many countries were formed by, at one point in their history, by unjustly killing the natives. Almost all, if not all, of them. Might have been 300 years ago, might have been 100 years ago, might have been 50 years ago, but the only thing that separates Israel and every other country in that respect is time.
I thought about him a while back in my Jewish studies class (online gen-eds, gotta love 'em). There was a part dealing with antisemitism, about how it has evolved to into anti-Israeli sentiment to cover it's ass, so to speak, by taking the guise of a reasonable argument against a nation's policies, not pure racist hatred, because clearly there are two types of anti-Israel sentiment: reasonable and racist. Imagine if black people only made up a small enough percent of the population that 40% could live in one small area. Do you think the KKK and the neo-nazi skinheads would criticize that nation's policies, regardless? You know they would, and publicly, they'd do it under the guise of 'criticizing policy' but really, it would be racism. We all know it would be. Israel is the same way. Take a race that has historically been hated and but them in their own little country, guess what the racists say about it? Only now, they have a mask for their racism, they can claim that they're anti-Israel, not the antisemitic Jew hating racists that they really are.
I don't think criticism of Israel is all without merit. Yes, some of it is insane, like when people say the Israelis are monsters for defending themselves from terrorists who want to kill as many Israeli citizens as possible, but Israeli policy has, at times, not helped things, and that is worth criticizing. Israel has done, and does do, bad things. One of my Arabic professors presented very reasonable criticisms of Israel. Problem is, there's enough blame to go around when Israel's neighbors are supporting a group that launches rockets at Israeli civilians while hiding behind other civilians and using them as shields, so it is hardly unreasonable when Israel takes the precautionary principle, and a degree of overreaction on their part is sadly justified.
But I agree with you all the way, you're wasting your time if you argue with douchebag. I saw a bumper sticker the other day that read 'Hate is the ONLY enemy.' People like him, they hate. They are part of the problem. Israelis are not the enemy, Palestinians are not the enemy, Arabs are not the enemy, Iranians are not the enemy. People who hate are the enemy. There is so much antisemitism and islamophobia in that region and around the world trying to make itself look reasonable, it's disgusting. There's plenty about Israel you can debate, but not with an antisemite who thinks the Israeli people are evil and that a country were people are born and die and make their homes and lives shouldn't even have the right to exist.
Not everyone wants peace. They are the problem. They are the evil ones.
Not just that, we need an all purpose version for all the other stuff that may or may not be a parody. There's a lot of crazy out there, and sometimes you really have to ask yourself if they really buy what they're selling or if they're just doing it for the lulz.
I'm a plant person, and I understand that herbs have power, they really do but I really hate those herbal morons. Many drugs are based on herbal medicine, and people in third world countries who can't afford pharmaceuticals still use them to a degree of success. But herbs don't work because they're herbs, they work because if you take away the leaves, roots, and stems, you're left with an active ingredient, and if you purify that, put it in a measured dose, we call them pharmaceuticals, and a varied dose with whatever else the plant produces will never be able to compare to that. And when you do that, those dipshits seem to think that you've changed it somehow. It's this weird magical thinking that an herb works because it's an herb, and a pharmaceutical is unnatural and therefore bad, even if it's the SAME DAMN THING. Herbal medicine is a legitimate and extremely beneficial branch of science and medicine, and I hate that those clueless alties are sliming it with their pseudo-scientific nonsense.
You're also right about potential danger. For example, mayapple (although very yummy if you know how to deal with the fruit [think of it as Pennsylvanian fugu]) is used in chemotherapy, but it can quite easily kill you if you attempt to use the root in herbal 'medicine' as some do. And don't forget about drug interactions, hell, starfruit has killed people, I can only imagine how many complications have arisen because someone decided go that herbal route.
In short, herbal medicine is good, but herbal quackery is bad.
If this report is true, someone who was mugged by a guy at night who was using the government's streetlights to commit the crime should sue the government. Turnabout's fair play.
GMO crops have a number of problems, not least of which is that companies own the rights to them and engineer varieties that don't produce viable seed so that farmers using them have to re-buy seed stock every year. And they subsidy the seeds initially to get farmers moved on to them. The end game is that the food supply becomes monopolised.
Yep, it's been that way since people started using hybrid seed, welcome to the 1920's:) I can certainty see the point you're trying to make there, and we can argue about big agribusiness and how IP laws should apply to plants until the cows (or lab cultured beef) come home, but what I'm talking about is the lot that tries to pass a social issue off a scientific one. The crowd that wants you to think that GMOs are going to poison people, ruin the environment, and can't possibly do anything else. I would be very surprised if that same group, minus the clueless greenies, does not slime in-virto meat as well.
for a start, people with ethical considerations will now be eating meat
Yeah, you would think, but when PETA offered their million dollar prize for in-vitro meat, there was a substantial portion of the organization who were still opposed to it. Why, I don't know, I suppose some people are so caught up in their ideology they don't think critically about it anymore.
That aside, I wonder how much consumer acceptance this will have. I'm all for it (guilt free snow leopard sandwich here I come!), but people don't like 'fake' food. Look at all the bullshit flying out of the rumor machine about genetically modified foods. How long before in-vitro meat also is a shadow government and/or evil corporation conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids?
I can't believe this shit! How dare Microsoft ban my fucking X-Box Live account! What the hell am I supposed to do now, get a fucking Wii?! --Adolf Hitler
I don't have a primary source for this because it was supposedly on TV, but apparently there was a conversation between an American reporter and black British athlete Kriss Akabusi that went something like this:
"So, Kriss, what does this mean to you as an African-American?"
Yeah, the imprecision of the language here always irks me. When you say climate change skeptics, that's not a single entity. Do they mean the hard core 'the earth can't change' types, the ones who think climate change is influenced by both people and natural cycles to one degree or another, the ones who just say it happens but it isn't the end of the world, or some other group who simply doesn't buy into the next scheduled apocalypse? When you say evolution skeptics (deniers), you're almost always talking about a member of a fairly homogeneous group who started with a conclusion and worked backwards, a position that rarely has much merit in its entirety. Not so with this. Yeah, there are some out there like that, but that's hardly the full range of things.
I think it was intended as a joke at all the doomers who perpetually foam on about 'ZOMG energy gonna dry up!!!1!' Like when you talk to a peak oil guy about various nuclear energy options and about how the endo of oil is not the end of the modern world, the first thing they say is that it could never last longer than X years. Never mind new technology or the fact that the current generation will be long dead before it runs out, they won't have it, that apocalypse damn well better arrive on time. I have no doubt that if we were an all-solar society those people would still wank to some sort of doomsday scenario. Make no mistake, there WILL be a 'Peak Solar' someday.
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Everyone's weak to something relative to someone else. Maybe a shock that someone else could survive would stop you heart, or an amount of snake venom would kill you but only hurt someone else. Of your's is discovered should someone weed you out? If these life alteringly severe allergies are genetic people should do the decent thing and not pass those genes on, sure, but still, no reason to punish the poor folks who live with such problems.
There's an xkcd for that.
Murder is pretty bad, but I want it in my games because that's part of the real world. Even if we accept that religion is bad, and I for one think that is a real stretch, it's kinda silly to scrub it out of games. I certainty don't want to play a preachy game of course, and I prefer my media to be non-theistic, but whether you want it or not religion is part of life.
Sure you don't want to call it Church Tycoon?
I propose L. Ron Hubbard: The Video Game.
It is always amazing how "the religious" lay claim to promote and police "morality" when in fact they themselves are the least moral among us and only show compassion for "fear of gods retribution" if they do not.
The Bible says that all good deeds are as rags in the eyes of God. In other words, no amount of good works can alter your standing with the divine, and yet, many churches operate soup kitchens, charities, and other compassionate organizations. What you say is inconsistent with reality.
Skepticism, rationality, or reason! The three cornerstones of atheism.
Wrong. Disbelief in deities is the cornerstone of atheism. Don't believe me? Look at who won the last Richard Dawkins Award. A pseudo-scientific anti-vaccine alternative medicine promoter. Reason my ass, sounds more like organized religion to me.
They created a goddamn religion around themselves and the state, complete with holy relics and faith-based "science." That's not atheism, so stop repeating that drivel.
What you're saying is that anything extremist is a religion. Wrong again. Unless you are dealing with a religious matter, zeal & craziness != religion.
It is a hobby if you go around talking about how great it is to not collect stamps, and join not collecting stamp clubs, and read Not Collecting Stamps Monthly. I get where that sentiment is coming from, I really do, and have to say I agree with it, but I don't think that it is always the case anymore.
Israel is a state founded with violence.
That's every country, by the way. Look at how many countries were formed by, at one point in their history, by unjustly killing the natives. Almost all, if not all, of them. Might have been 300 years ago, might have been 100 years ago, might have been 50 years ago, but the only thing that separates Israel and every other country in that respect is time.
I thought about him a while back in my Jewish studies class (online gen-eds, gotta love 'em). There was a part dealing with antisemitism, about how it has evolved to into anti-Israeli sentiment to cover it's ass, so to speak, by taking the guise of a reasonable argument against a nation's policies, not pure racist hatred, because clearly there are two types of anti-Israel sentiment: reasonable and racist. Imagine if black people only made up a small enough percent of the population that 40% could live in one small area. Do you think the KKK and the neo-nazi skinheads would criticize that nation's policies, regardless? You know they would, and publicly, they'd do it under the guise of 'criticizing policy' but really, it would be racism. We all know it would be. Israel is the same way. Take a race that has historically been hated and but them in their own little country, guess what the racists say about it? Only now, they have a mask for their racism, they can claim that they're anti-Israel, not the antisemitic Jew hating racists that they really are.
I don't think criticism of Israel is all without merit. Yes, some of it is insane, like when people say the Israelis are monsters for defending themselves from terrorists who want to kill as many Israeli citizens as possible, but Israeli policy has, at times, not helped things, and that is worth criticizing. Israel has done, and does do, bad things. One of my Arabic professors presented very reasonable criticisms of Israel. Problem is, there's enough blame to go around when Israel's neighbors are supporting a group that launches rockets at Israeli civilians while hiding behind other civilians and using them as shields, so it is hardly unreasonable when Israel takes the precautionary principle, and a degree of overreaction on their part is sadly justified.
But I agree with you all the way, you're wasting your time if you argue with douchebag. I saw a bumper sticker the other day that read 'Hate is the ONLY enemy.' People like him, they hate. They are part of the problem. Israelis are not the enemy, Palestinians are not the enemy, Arabs are not the enemy, Iranians are not the enemy. People who hate are the enemy. There is so much antisemitism and islamophobia in that region and around the world trying to make itself look reasonable, it's disgusting. There's plenty about Israel you can debate, but not with an antisemite who thinks the Israeli people are evil and that a country were people are born and die and make their homes and lives shouldn't even have the right to exist.
Not everyone wants peace. They are the problem. They are the evil ones.
Finally something we can all agree on: Global warming is Mann made.
Not just that, we need an all purpose version for all the other stuff that may or may not be a parody. There's a lot of crazy out there, and sometimes you really have to ask yourself if they really buy what they're selling or if they're just doing it for the lulz.
Diluted delusion.
Watch this for a good summery of it.
I'm a plant person, and I understand that herbs have power, they really do but I really hate those herbal morons. Many drugs are based on herbal medicine, and people in third world countries who can't afford pharmaceuticals still use them to a degree of success. But herbs don't work because they're herbs, they work because if you take away the leaves, roots, and stems, you're left with an active ingredient, and if you purify that, put it in a measured dose, we call them pharmaceuticals, and a varied dose with whatever else the plant produces will never be able to compare to that. And when you do that, those dipshits seem to think that you've changed it somehow. It's this weird magical thinking that an herb works because it's an herb, and a pharmaceutical is unnatural and therefore bad, even if it's the SAME DAMN THING. Herbal medicine is a legitimate and extremely beneficial branch of science and medicine, and I hate that those clueless alties are sliming it with their pseudo-scientific nonsense.
You're also right about potential danger. For example, mayapple (although very yummy if you know how to deal with the fruit [think of it as Pennsylvanian fugu]) is used in chemotherapy, but it can quite easily kill you if you attempt to use the root in herbal 'medicine' as some do. And don't forget about drug interactions, hell, starfruit has killed people, I can only imagine how many complications have arisen because someone decided go that herbal route.
In short, herbal medicine is good, but herbal quackery is bad.
PETA's vice president being kept alive with animal based insulin while condemning any and all medical research involing animals.
If this report is true, someone who was mugged by a guy at night who was using the government's streetlights to commit the crime should sue the government. Turnabout's fair play.
GMO crops have a number of problems, not least of which is that companies own the rights to them and engineer varieties that don't produce viable seed so that farmers using them have to re-buy seed stock every year. And they subsidy the seeds initially to get farmers moved on to them. The end game is that the food supply becomes monopolised.
Yep, it's been that way since people started using hybrid seed, welcome to the 1920's :) I can certainty see the point you're trying to make there, and we can argue about big agribusiness and how IP laws should apply to plants until the cows (or lab cultured beef) come home, but what I'm talking about is the lot that tries to pass a social issue off a scientific one. The crowd that wants you to think that GMOs are going to poison people, ruin the environment, and can't possibly do anything else. I would be very surprised if that same group, minus the clueless greenies, does not slime in-virto meat as well.
There's a Mitchell & Webb for that. Favorite line:"There might be a few polar bears left if more people wanted one for breakfast."
for a start, people with ethical considerations will now be eating meat
Yeah, you would think, but when PETA offered their million dollar prize for in-vitro meat, there was a substantial portion of the organization who were still opposed to it. Why, I don't know, I suppose some people are so caught up in their ideology they don't think critically about it anymore.
That aside, I wonder how much consumer acceptance this will have. I'm all for it (guilt free snow leopard sandwich here I come!), but people don't like 'fake' food. Look at all the bullshit flying out of the rumor machine about genetically modified foods. How long before in-vitro meat also is a shadow government and/or evil corporation conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids?
I can't believe this shit! How dare Microsoft ban my fucking X-Box Live account! What the hell am I supposed to do now, get a fucking Wii?!
--Adolf Hitler
I don't have a primary source for this because it was supposedly on TV, but apparently there was a conversation between an American reporter and black British athlete Kriss Akabusi that went something like this:
"So, Kriss, what does this mean to you as an African-American?"
"I'm not American, I'm British"
"Yes, but as a British African-American ..."
"I'm not African. I'm not American. I'm British."
Yeah, the imprecision of the language here always irks me. When you say climate change skeptics, that's not a single entity. Do they mean the hard core 'the earth can't change' types, the ones who think climate change is influenced by both people and natural cycles to one degree or another, the ones who just say it happens but it isn't the end of the world, or some other group who simply doesn't buy into the next scheduled apocalypse? When you say evolution skeptics (deniers), you're almost always talking about a member of a fairly homogeneous group who started with a conclusion and worked backwards, a position that rarely has much merit in its entirety. Not so with this. Yeah, there are some out there like that, but that's hardly the full range of things.
Nah, it's cool. If he knows about Xenu without being properly audited his R6 implant is exploding his head at this very moment.
Here's one!
I think it was intended as a joke at all the doomers who perpetually foam on about 'ZOMG energy gonna dry up!!!1!' Like when you talk to a peak oil guy about various nuclear energy options and about how the endo of oil is not the end of the modern world, the first thing they say is that it could never last longer than X years. Never mind new technology or the fact that the current generation will be long dead before it runs out, they won't have it, that apocalypse damn well better arrive on time. I have no doubt that if we were an all-solar society those people would still wank to some sort of doomsday scenario. Make no mistake, there WILL be a 'Peak Solar' someday.