There is a huge difference between "peace loving" and "cowardly." "Peace loving" would be a moral stand and it is darn hard to claim a moral stand when you are selling someone war materials forbidden under UN treaties. The opposed the war to hide their own guilt, not out of some moral stand.
Whoa.... Saying it sucked was insightful? More like deluded. Firefly was the best piece of TV to come out in a long, long time. It is too bad that some people were too used to crap to enjoy it.
I wonder why he is acting like it is a mystery where they are. We already know what happened to them. Thanks to the UN's grandstanding and BS, they had more than eight weeks to move them to the Bekaa Valley. And Syria and Lebanon have to be more than happy to have their hands on them.
We have never been a democracy as true democracies simply can't work. We are a republic.
And while you feel Moses is right next to the others you mentioned, Moses is about ten times bigger than the others there. And the artist specifically stated it is because they feel God influenced them as well, but they did not have the direct line that Moses did.
But hey, you can believe what you believe. In fact, our being a Christian nation is what allows that to take place. And that fact has been mentioned in several Supreme Court cases.
Exactly..... Congress can not make any law establishing religion or religious requirements, but neither can it (constitutionally) make a law forbidding it either. Basically it keeps the federal government from mucking around in our religious life and it keeps sects out of the government too. But it doesn't keep God, in general, out of politics. Which is why we have prayer before sessions of the Supreme Court and Congress and Moses holding the Ten Commandments on the walls of the Supreme Court.
No, I pointed out the work they have done against it, even if they try to subtle about fighting against those rights. And your remarks and twisted logic are exactly the kind of drug-crazed, sophist ramblings I expect from the far left.
Except that is not what the Supreme Court has found on 47 separate occasions. On those occasions the Second Amendment is individual right. This has been extensively documented by Prof. Eugene Volokh, of the UCLA Law School.
Where exactly does it state anything in the Constitution about the "separation of church and state?" Last time I checked, it was not there and was part of a non-related letter that Jefferson wrote that is not understood. In fact, it is misquoted constantly.
When they right papers talking about the Second Amendment as a collective and not an individual right and those papers are used in courts and when they refuse to represent those rights and defend individuals who have had those rights violated, that is fighting against that right. When your efforts are working against something, that is the equivalent of fighting against it. Nice try.
They also fight against the Second Amendment and for things like abortion. They are not actually fighting for the rights protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; they are redefining them as they see fit.
You can read their journals, if you like, as well as The Federalist Papers. That should show the point. Several of the Founding Fathers were also ministers. Jefferson ran a Christian university after he retired from politics.
Deism treats the Universe like a clock that God wound and then left alone to run on it's own. God does not answer prayers, nor does He acknowledge that you exist in any way. He probably does not even have any awareness that you exist because He does not care enough to look.
Every Continental Congress was opened and closed with prayer, they stated that they were inspired by God, and they stated that He had an affect and was guiding them. Those points all refute deism and any claim that God was not part of the process, in their eyes.
It is not spurious. The founding documents state that rights are God-given and that those involved in government are accountable to that same God to protect those rights. If you remove that God and that accountability, you remove any motivation to protect them.
Are you going to assume that men's "good intentions" will keep them safe? We have seen what that has done so far.
You assume incorrectly. There was nothing in either Jefferson's writings or the Federalist Papers to indicate that. What does the Declaration of Independence say about the source of our rights?
Not at all, though a lot of people like to think that. Deism does not allow for a God that grants rights. And the Declaration of Independence says what? That all rights are created by God, are granted by Him, and that they are inalienable.
None of the Founding Fathers were deist. It is a fiction. The First Amendment removes the government's ability to control religion at all. It can't say ya or nay about anything, if you follow it as written.
America was formed on Christian principles, not Buddhist principles. It is a Christian country and it is defined and based on those assumptions. If you change that, then the assumptions loose their value. If you can change those assumptions, you can deny people their rights.
Musical notes are a system where by music is created. Everybody uses them to create source material. If they just threw them together, they would create garbage. Since White Wolf and Sony both drew from the same source material and neither changed it much, it makes sense that the result they created was exactly similar.
If I had stated that they both used English, so their results were the same, then your music analogy would hold water. I am saying they both used Rock & Roll (a style of music) and Sting (an artist with a particular style) as their source, thus their respective pieces of music came out sounding pretty darn close to each other.
White Wolf swallowed a lot of material in creating the World of Darkness. You literally can't use any vampire or shapeshifter legend from any culture because they have included it as a clan or a tribe. And they basically swallowed the whole world as well. You can't use a locality that is real, without that treading on an area that WW has also used. You could create a fictional area though. But what if you want to use real localities? Like Underground Seattle, for example?
Except that there was nothing in Love of Monsters that as original. I kept feeling like I was rereading the same material from other sources. The only thing that is different is that Sony managed to make a movie first and make it visual to the audience first. That gives them all kinds of merchandizing tie-ins that White Wolf wants. That is something that White Wolf has tried to get financing for, for the longest time without success because of the failed TV show (gratis, it failed because of the death of the main actor).
I did read all of your post. My point is that just because they have used myths and legends in their work, does not make it theirs. What they have that is their original work (which is not all the much really) is what they can protect and keep people from using. They don't have the right to put a lock on "intellectual property" that they have copied from other sources.
that White Wolf has to stand on it the World of Darkness itself. Unless Underworld actually says that phrase, WW doesn't have a case. Everything else can be found in other cultures and books where THEY took it from.
you only found this stuff in the World of Darkness. However, that is not the case. All of this stuff can be found in other works of fiction as well as in ancient myths and legends. Not to mention what was stolen from other folks who did piece work for them.
None of the points mentioned here are original to WoD and can be found else where. The only that that White Wolf has done is gathered all of them in one place. For example; ancient vampires being mummified as they waken and recovering from drinking blood. That was in Bram Stoker's Dracula, both his work and the movie.
You can get it.... if you eat like a cow. The trick is that a lot of those vitamins are only available in trace amounts. If you had multiple stomachs and a digestive system designed for plant matter only, you could actually get them. But you don't eat hundreds of pounds a day like a cow does. And your nutritional needs are different from a cow. Which is why you were not designed/evolved as a vegetarian. You can't get the long proteins and you can't get the needed vitamins in sufficient amounts to sustain good health. That isn't FUD, that is just the facts.
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There is a huge difference between "peace loving" and "cowardly." "Peace loving" would be a moral stand and it is darn hard to claim a moral stand when you are selling someone war materials forbidden under UN treaties. The opposed the war to hide their own guilt, not out of some moral stand.
Whoa.... Saying it sucked was insightful? More like deluded. Firefly was the best piece of TV to come out in a long, long time. It is too bad that some people were too used to crap to enjoy it.
I wonder why he is acting like it is a mystery where they are. We already know what happened to them. Thanks to the UN's grandstanding and BS, they had more than eight weeks to move them to the Bekaa Valley. And Syria and Lebanon have to be more than happy to have their hands on them.
We have never been a democracy as true democracies simply can't work. We are a republic.
And while you feel Moses is right next to the others you mentioned, Moses is about ten times bigger than the others there. And the artist specifically stated it is because they feel God influenced them as well, but they did not have the direct line that Moses did.
But hey, you can believe what you believe. In fact, our being a Christian nation is what allows that to take place. And that fact has been mentioned in several Supreme Court cases.
*LOL* You do have a problem with honesty, don't you? You started this crap.
I think you pointed out what a hypocrite you are. You seem a little (a lot, actually) short of facts to shore up your opinions.
Exactly..... Congress can not make any law establishing religion or religious requirements, but neither can it (constitutionally) make a law forbidding it either. Basically it keeps the federal government from mucking around in our religious life and it keeps sects out of the government too. But it doesn't keep God, in general, out of politics. Which is why we have prayer before sessions of the Supreme Court and Congress and Moses holding the Ten Commandments on the walls of the Supreme Court.
No, I pointed out the work they have done against it, even if they try to subtle about fighting against those rights. And your remarks and twisted logic are exactly the kind of drug-crazed, sophist ramblings I expect from the far left.
See? Everyone can do the personal attacks.
Except that is not what the Supreme Court has found on 47 separate occasions. On those occasions the Second Amendment is individual right. This has been extensively documented by Prof. Eugene Volokh, of the UCLA Law School.
Where exactly does it state anything in the Constitution about the "separation of church and state?" Last time I checked, it was not there and was part of a non-related letter that Jefferson wrote that is not understood. In fact, it is misquoted constantly.
When they right papers talking about the Second Amendment as a collective and not an individual right and those papers are used in courts and when they refuse to represent those rights and defend individuals who have had those rights violated, that is fighting against that right. When your efforts are working against something, that is the equivalent of fighting against it. Nice try.
They also fight against the Second Amendment and for things like abortion. They are not actually fighting for the rights protected by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; they are redefining them as they see fit.
You can read their journals, if you like, as well as The Federalist Papers. That should show the point. Several of the Founding Fathers were also ministers. Jefferson ran a Christian university after he retired from politics.
Deism treats the Universe like a clock that God wound and then left alone to run on it's own. God does not answer prayers, nor does He acknowledge that you exist in any way. He probably does not even have any awareness that you exist because He does not care enough to look.
Every Continental Congress was opened and closed with prayer, they stated that they were inspired by God, and they stated that He had an affect and was guiding them. Those points all refute deism and any claim that God was not part of the process, in their eyes.
Why are the Ten Commands on the walls of the Supreme Court then?
It is not spurious. The founding documents state that rights are God-given and that those involved in government are accountable to that same God to protect those rights. If you remove that God and that accountability, you remove any motivation to protect them.
Are you going to assume that men's "good intentions" will keep them safe? We have seen what that has done so far.
You assume incorrectly. There was nothing in either Jefferson's writings or the Federalist Papers to indicate that. What does the Declaration of Independence say about the source of our rights?
Not at all, though a lot of people like to think that. Deism does not allow for a God that grants rights. And the Declaration of Independence says what? That all rights are created by God, are granted by Him, and that they are inalienable.
None of the Founding Fathers were deist. It is a fiction. The First Amendment removes the government's ability to control religion at all. It can't say ya or nay about anything, if you follow it as written.
America was formed on Christian principles, not Buddhist principles. It is a Christian country and it is defined and based on those assumptions. If you change that, then the assumptions loose their value. If you can change those assumptions, you can deny people their rights.
Musical notes are a system where by music is created. Everybody uses them to create source material. If they just threw them together, they would create garbage. Since White Wolf and Sony both drew from the same source material and neither changed it much, it makes sense that the result they created was exactly similar.
If I had stated that they both used English, so their results were the same, then your music analogy would hold water. I am saying they both used Rock & Roll (a style of music) and Sting (an artist with a particular style) as their source, thus their respective pieces of music came out sounding pretty darn close to each other.
White Wolf swallowed a lot of material in creating the World of Darkness. You literally can't use any vampire or shapeshifter legend from any culture because they have included it as a clan or a tribe. And they basically swallowed the whole world as well. You can't use a locality that is real, without that treading on an area that WW has also used. You could create a fictional area though. But what if you want to use real localities? Like Underground Seattle, for example?
Except that there was nothing in Love of Monsters that as original. I kept feeling like I was rereading the same material from other sources. The only thing that is different is that Sony managed to make a movie first and make it visual to the audience first. That gives them all kinds of merchandizing tie-ins that White Wolf wants. That is something that White Wolf has tried to get financing for, for the longest time without success because of the failed TV show (gratis, it failed because of the death of the main actor).
I did read all of your post. My point is that just because they have used myths and legends in their work, does not make it theirs. What they have that is their original work (which is not all the much really) is what they can protect and keep people from using. They don't have the right to put a lock on "intellectual property" that they have copied from other sources.
that White Wolf has to stand on it the World of Darkness itself. Unless Underworld actually says that phrase, WW doesn't have a case. Everything else can be found in other cultures and books where THEY took it from.
you only found this stuff in the World of Darkness. However, that is not the case. All of this stuff can be found in other works of fiction as well as in ancient myths and legends. Not to mention what was stolen from other folks who did piece work for them.
None of the points mentioned here are original to WoD and can be found else where. The only that that White Wolf has done is gathered all of them in one place. For example; ancient vampires being mummified as they waken and recovering from drinking blood. That was in Bram Stoker's Dracula, both his work and the movie.
You can get it.... if you eat like a cow. The trick is that a lot of those vitamins are only available in trace amounts. If you had multiple stomachs and a digestive system designed for plant matter only, you could actually get them. But you don't eat hundreds of pounds a day like a cow does. And your nutritional needs are different from a cow. Which is why you were not designed/evolved as a vegetarian. You can't get the long proteins and you can't get the needed vitamins in sufficient amounts to sustain good health. That isn't FUD, that is just the facts.