And what could they have suspected or known before browsing through his drive? Declining to spy on someone isn't the same as aiding and abetting, assuming we're still living in any kind of republic.
You theory has numerous flaws and appears to me to be a flimsy pretext for justification for your own ignorance.
Scientology is strongest on the coasts, which to my mind singlehandedly dismantles your insinuatioon that mid-America is the bedrock of religion or stupidity in the country.
1) Scientists usually end up saving the day, or if it has to be the physical awesome hero then a scientist gives him crucial support.
2) If you're in a situation where all you can do is pray, I recommend it. You have nothing to lose, and maybe it will make you feel less useless.
3) This isn't a very widespread movie meme. You're stretching.
4) I can't think of a single instance of this. You have an agenda, I think.
5) I haven't seen it, but isn't it interesting that you apparently would refuse to flee a natural disaster if your destination did not hold the correct values?
If the people on the coasts are making the movies, then the contents of those movies are going to need to appeal to people on the coasts. Otherwise, they'd be much less likely to bother. That's why Los Angeles and New York are threatened more often than Houston or Chicago; the filmmakers are more familiar with, and invested in, those locations. In addition, the destruction of the largest or second largest city is going to be more dramatic than similar destruction rained upon the fifth largest city.
I've lived in or around Houston, Washington, D.C., San Diego, and Chicago. Except for some extra rudeness on parts of the east coast, there's no real difference in people's intelligence, outlooks, or priorities. I've never left the country, but at least within America's major cities, people are people. I suspect this holds pretty much everywhere. Next time you find yourself about to paint a large number of people with some kind of common characteristic, understand that chances are you're about to say something irrelevantly obvious or horribly stupid.
In short: grow up.
I disagree. When deciding on something of any complexity, if you haven't even considered your opponent's viewpoint then you haven't really thought it out. In order to properly consider his viewpoint you must suspend your own pre-judgments and allow that it is possible that your opponents are correct.
If you won't even consider that you may be wrong, I would not describe you as rational.
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We can already engineer biological weapons so lethal that it wouldn't matter whether the immune system responded to it.
No, that's your "sex" making you go blind.
And what could they have suspected or known before browsing through his drive? Declining to spy on someone isn't the same as aiding and abetting, assuming we're still living in any kind of republic.
You theory has numerous flaws and appears to me to be a flimsy pretext for justification for your own ignorance. Scientology is strongest on the coasts, which to my mind singlehandedly dismantles your insinuatioon that mid-America is the bedrock of religion or stupidity in the country. 1) Scientists usually end up saving the day, or if it has to be the physical awesome hero then a scientist gives him crucial support. 2) If you're in a situation where all you can do is pray, I recommend it. You have nothing to lose, and maybe it will make you feel less useless. 3) This isn't a very widespread movie meme. You're stretching. 4) I can't think of a single instance of this. You have an agenda, I think. 5) I haven't seen it, but isn't it interesting that you apparently would refuse to flee a natural disaster if your destination did not hold the correct values? If the people on the coasts are making the movies, then the contents of those movies are going to need to appeal to people on the coasts. Otherwise, they'd be much less likely to bother. That's why Los Angeles and New York are threatened more often than Houston or Chicago; the filmmakers are more familiar with, and invested in, those locations. In addition, the destruction of the largest or second largest city is going to be more dramatic than similar destruction rained upon the fifth largest city. I've lived in or around Houston, Washington, D.C., San Diego, and Chicago. Except for some extra rudeness on parts of the east coast, there's no real difference in people's intelligence, outlooks, or priorities. I've never left the country, but at least within America's major cities, people are people. I suspect this holds pretty much everywhere. Next time you find yourself about to paint a large number of people with some kind of common characteristic, understand that chances are you're about to say something irrelevantly obvious or horribly stupid. In short: grow up.
I disagree. When deciding on something of any complexity, if you haven't even considered your opponent's viewpoint then you haven't really thought it out. In order to properly consider his viewpoint you must suspend your own pre-judgments and allow that it is possible that your opponents are correct. If you won't even consider that you may be wrong, I would not describe you as rational.
I was with you for a while but the last part of your post is all encrypted or something.
Not for 72 hours, anyway.
They crashed the backup. They still have the primary for XPC.