The only question I have is what do you do when your God says your God is wrong. I know, rather that actually looking at data critically next time, the enlightened ones will continue to accept the next bullshit 'scientific study' that is trumpeted by the 7 pm media as an absolute fact because it has the word 'science' behind it. They will all the while they laugh at people who believe the world was created in 6 days.
*** This just in. A landmark scientific study conducted at Harvard over a 10 year period of time and at a cost of 20 million USD has concluded that drinking 4L of Pepsi daily may be detrimental to your health.
When will./ faggotry end. I predict that./ will continue to be populated by faggots until greenhouse gases warm the planet by 20 degrees, and dinosaurs come back to the planet.
I agree with 90% of what you say, especially about the Gang-stars that are taking over the country. However, I would like you to consider the possibility that perhaps when the patriarchs of the major religions got together and came up with let's call it a 'fiction', they were not doing it to spread violence and hatred throughout the world. They were doing it because they saw there WAS violence and hatred in the world, and they felt that by creating a being let's call him God, who would always be watching you, know what was in your heart, and hold you accountable for your actions even when nobody in the entire world was watching you, they could create a better world. And it arguable somewhat worked. Religion has done a lot of good in the world. When religion does work it organizes people along a shared set of beliefs and goals. Israel is arguably at war with Palestine, and every other semitic peoples other than Jews, but they are not at war with themselves. Jews share a common heritage and set of traditions that has allowed them to identify themselves and maintain their identity for 2000 years despite attempted genocide. Victory for religion. Christianity when it was practiced in Europe created some of the greatest art and monuments of mankind. Victory for Religion. Islam during it's heyday created the most advanced civilization on the planet. The Taliban was able to keep people from growing dope in Afganistan during it's heyday. Victory for religion. It could be argued that the pyramids were a religious monument. Victory for religion.
The problem is that despite their best efforts the patriarchs (of the major religions) were not able to change human nature. Over time their ideals and vision became corrupted, and religion became the reason for wars. My point is that even if there were not religion people would still find a reason to kill each other. Rather than kicking someone out of ones home and off of the family farm because they are not 'Jewish', they would be kicking someone off the farm because they had the wrong color skin, or the wrong types of shoes, or just because they weren't in the cool club. Violence and hatred are not the sole domain of organized religion. So what do you do when the secular world has become corrupted, witness the thugs in blue as you call them, and the Gang-stars making a living on the meth highway? I would argue that it is a time for a new religion. The religion should be inclusive, and create a brotherhood for mutual support, call for abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, and encourage scientific progress and the pursuit of knowledge. The religion would be a force for good until it too became corrupted, and then it would be time to toss it out and start a brand new one. I just do not see that the secular world based on unchecked greed being able to create a sustainable society. Some people are able to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do. Those are the blessed. Others need to have a firm belief of a vengeful God that will wipe their ass all over hell if they screw up.
That is just my 2 pennies.
You seem like a reasonable person, and I understand how you could hate religion, and call it a joke. I just don't see any alternative. What would be your alternative?
You guys do not exist. I can find no contemporary peer reviewed journal cross referenced to definitive findings by contemporary experts saying that either all or any of you actually exist or existed at this time or any other. I will attribute all you 'sage' words as just a statistical anomaly caused by cosmic rays, and further proof that slashdot needs to invest in ECC ram on all their servers.
-The great thing about./ is that 90% of people here (including me) are full of shit 110% of the time. -There are only 3 people in the world who are not faggots, Jesus Christ, Ronnie Coleman, and Chuck Norris. If you are not one of those people, guess what... -I dont' no how 2 do sigs.
40 years is long enough to live. Back in the good old days, you were lucky to live to be 36. People were not naturally designed to live these long lives that we see today. All these people living to be 80, are really just freaks. By the age of 35 or so you should be missing half of your teeth. Death is just a good way to get rid of the excess population so young people can flourish. Someone like Justin Beiber is the epitome of all that is male and good in the world. If you are older than Justin, it is time to start thinking about your own mortality. Issac Newton, Einstein, Alexander the Great, all made history when they were young. Face it if you are over the age of 25 and haven't conquered half the world or made a ground breaking scientific discovery that will be talked about in future generations, you are a fag, and it is about time you die, so someone else younger and prettier can take your place.
Borders had a good run, but it is about time they pass the torch to Amazon. Let us not cry for Borders, but acknowledge the good times that Borders gave us.
Here Here (not sure if that is correct. let the grammer nazzies call me a faggot). Exercise has certainly helped me become less depressed and less gay, so it should work for everyone. There used to be a lot more manual labor jobs in the USA. Working with your hands was expected and appreciated. Now a days it seems like only illegal immigrants are allowed to work with their hands. ( They also have the lowest rate of mental illness). Good old fashioned hard work is frowned upon, and derided as being unnecessarily faggy (unless you are illegal, and then it is cool). Is it a coincidence. I think not.
As Stalin said, "The only cure for mental suffering is physical pain"
In spite of the fact that Stalin was a big faggot, he at least got this right. You can not worry about your mental problems if you are suffering physical hardship. The physical hardship doesn't have to be starvation like Stalin suggested, it could be building a house, or working on your deadlift.
I thank you for letting me know this. I knew I was an idiot, but had no idea that I was a moron also. I have found that some people take offense when you insult them. For example when I call people fagot they get mad. I always felt it was better to actually to have a clear understanding of where I stand in the world than to continue to delude oneself. If I'm a fagot, I want to know (apparently I am). If I am a moron, I want to know. I am not one of those small minded individuals who can not take criticism. So again I thank you.
I also thank you for letting me know that none of those individuals were criminals. Apparently Alabama was all for integration, and equality between black and whites. It was perfectly OK to be Jewish in Nazi Occupied territories in WWII. Hitler was big proponent of the Zionist movement, and Jewish rights. The Vatican always too an enlightened view to a secular understanding of God's creation.
I just never knew these things. Probably because I am in idiot & a moron.
Wait is this the same supreme court that decided slavery is legal, and that the Government can adversely take someones house under imminent domain if it decides to because the pharmaceutical companies would pay higher taxes (bribes) to the city than the home owners.
If it is, I am all for it, I don't see what could possible go wrong.
On the other hand, I am also a big fan of the military being subservient to the civilian government, I just don't think the civilian government should be subservient to the Supreme court, which basically gave themselves power.
-What do Martin Luther King, Ann Frank, and Galileo have in common. There were all criminals. When you make more laws you make more criminals.
-The law should be subservient to truth, but in the USA today, the law is subservient to money. Obedience to the law is obedience to tyranny.
This is exactly what we want. If we can recreate the warm climate that the dinosaurs basked in, maybe they will come back. You will then be sorry when velocoraptors(sp) overrun your house, and you do not have any assault rifles to deal with them. Whereas we conservatives will have a grand old time hunting down dinosaurs with our Hummers, and large calibre assault rifles.
-But you still have not addressed the fundamental issue of my post, as to why you hyper elite global warming believing jerks have a problem with OP for being a black gay man. Me's thinks that you elite global warming believing jerks are a might bit more prejudiced than you will ever admit to yourselves. You don't like black people. You think all conservatives ride cars. (I drive a bicycle), and apparently you don't like dinosaurs either. Why do you want to keep the climate so cold. Do you see why people think you are jerks?
-If we can just warm up the planet 20 degrees we will have the same climate that the dinosaurs had. -Al Gore.
Typical assholes. You can't be black or gay here. You get mooded down by the hyper elit global warmining believing jerks. I go from great karma to terrible karma in 2 hours for posting a comment questioning global warming. You will probably get the same treatment by the mods for being a gay nigger. Sorry. I feel your pain.
Absolutely. Cars kill thousands of people each year. When can we get some politicians to act responsibly and do the right thing. Think of the children. More kids die each year in automobile accidents than they do at abortion clinics. We need to start holding the automobile, and asphalt companies responsible. These companies are making millions of dollars off the blood of our innocent children. When will this assault on the children cease? I ask you. Which politician has the courage to stand up and do what is right.
I have also noticed a direct correlation between automobiles and faggotry. We, in the United States, have an epidemic of faggotry. It wasn't always the case. Today cars are like fags, they are everywhere. In the 50's and 60's there were fewer cars, and fewer fags. In the 1700's there were no cars on the road, and no fags( at least none that would admit it). Sure correlation does not imply causation, but can we take the chance. We sure as hell shouldn't be taking chances with our kids, and we should not be exposing the population for potential vectors for gayness.
Yes cars are gay. When you go to work in the morning, you have a choice. Do you sit endlessly in your pussy mobile built and designed by someone with more mechanical knowledge than you, or do you man up, and brave the onslaught of careless drivers in a suicidal dash to save 15 seconds of your compute on your bicycle. Yes Bicycles are manly. Bicycles expose you to danger and the elements. You become one with the bike and the road. You feel the wind rushing through your hair. You become and active participant in the morning commute, rather than just allowing yourself to be ferried like a ferry to your gay ass job.
I have evidence too. The Hollandish (aka the Dutch) are known for being exceptionally tall, good looking, hard drinking, and endowed with long hard dicks. There is nothing gay about them. They all drive bicycles, because they know cars are for faggots who do not care for their children.
I am not sure. My knowledge of history is pretty much what I learn on Wiki, the history channel, and the bible channel. I bet it is probably in the Talmud though. We always could just ask one of those lying, cheating retarded ass Canaanites about their oral history, but Ohh wait there aren't any.
Whenever I want to be crass, and make some crude rascist joke about retarded people, I stop, and think 'Hey, this ain't right. I could get my ass beat for making this joke', and then I turn it around, and make it about those stupid Canaanites, and everyone laughs.
- No one gives a fuck about Canaanites, you shouldn't either. -Ghanhi
Yes, you can say whatever you want about the Canaanites though. Noone really cares about them. The Canaanites were wiped out to the last women and child by the Jews. This was justified, however, because God ordered them to do it. This is completely different from the attempted Genocide of the Jews ordered by Hitler largely because Hitler lost his war, and the Jews won theirs.
-Fuck you Canaanites. Haha, I can dance on your graves. People care less about your worthless asses than they do about Arabs, white people, or even poor white Southerners. Canaanites are the lowest form of life UNDER the planet Earth.
Living today, in the political climate that we do it is easy to say he was a hero. I wonder what percentage of people here would have been calling him a fagot, and want him locked up for his crimes if this were 1950. I am guessing it would be close to 98%.
It is indeed fortunate that we are all living today, and can all make fun of those people who were living in the past who were all wrong in their thinking. We are not racists, because we do not live in the South. We are not Nazis because we do not live in Germany in the 30's. We are not pedophiles because we do not live in Ancient Greece. In short we are all blessed to be alive at this one moment in time, when humanity is thinking the proper things about the proper set of people. In the future our children might not be so lucky. They might end up doing something wacky like giving emancipation to all animals. In the past our grandfather's were all forced by societal pressure to carry on their racist bigoted ideas.
We should all feel pretty smug to be alive at this time.
Now I am going to make fun of some southerners because they are all prejudiced.
People die from fire related deaths each year. I suppose if we banned matches, we could do a similar job at curtailing arson. People die each year from drowning . Maybe if we banned swimming pools we could curtail some of those deaths.
Guns like matches are a tool. You can use the tool wisely or you can not. It is a question of freedom, and whether you have enough faith in humanity to not go around shooting each other just because they can. I being a freedom loving conservative have a great faith in individuals, but not so much in governments, which over time grow corrupt. That is why I would choose to let people have the means to defend themselves in such eventualities. As a liberal, you probably have a distrust of people, but believe a government will protect you from the lone wacky individual, when you don't trust yourself to (by arming yourself). We should just agree to disagree.
Our cutter was one of those weather stations. 98% of the time the data we gave out was bogus. Obviously some data is good. My point was one should not place blind faith in what people are telling you. You should question assumptions, and the validity of the world view.
-Or you can just go on putting blind faith in the experts, and believing the results of the latest scientific study that contradict the results of the second most recent scientific study.
I am just using the only data and evidence that I have available to me; mainly my own knowledge and experience. Admittedly I have only my have one sample point, and I hope that all the rest of the data is good,as everyone is putting blind faith into it (although there is no reason to believe it is unless I want to believe that weather scientist are omniscient god like entities who never submit to societal pressure). However I don't have access to the rest of the data, and apparently it is proprietary information. So given the fact that I do not access to this proprietary data, and the only data that I do have is false, I have two choices. I can believe what ever the media is saying, or I can use my own common sense and the very limited data I do have. I have to look outside the window, and ask myself if the weather is going haywire. No. Is it likely that the climate of the planet is changing. Yes. Has it changed in the past. Yes. Would it be great to have a warmer climate, and have dinosaurs running around and shit like they did in the past. Yes. Does it make sense to throw all humanity's efforts into combating this weather change, that might in the end be inevitable? No.
Rather that snipping at each other and making snide character comments it would be better if humanity could work together to try to get off the planet. Rather than worrying about what impact humans have on the climate, climate scientist could be looking into Terra-forming Mars. The only way to eliminate the affect that humans have on the planet, would be to eliminate all the humans. Ohh wait, I forgot only conservative people affect the climate. OK, so just kill all the conservatives, and I a sure the planet will be happy.
Wait. I am trying to use logic and reason. The OP said that as a conservative I am naturally disadvantaged in this regard, but I will try nevertheless. If banning guns won't prevent murders, and will in fact just prevent the good people from defending themselves against the gun crazed lunatics, what is the purpose of banning guns.
I have first hand experience with fudging numbers. In the coast guard, we were required to submit a weather report to NOAA every 4 hours called synoptic weather. There were 2 of us on the cutter that took the job seriously. Everyone else I knew pretty much just made up numbers, because it was time consuming, and made it difficult to do some of the other BS that watch standers were supposed to be doing. I can't help but think that a lot of this garbage data made it into the hands of 'scientist' who were trying to model weather. I just hope scientists are looking at the accuracy of the data that is being submitted to them, and make appropriate allowances. But I doubt it. I know I would not feel comfortable making policy decisions based on the data we gave them. But everyone on slashdot seems to think that the word of scientist is the word of God almighty himself, rather than actually taking the time to look at the situation critically.
I don't know what the 'scientist' are worried about. Thanks to the 'liberals' there are no hand guns hand guns are illegal in Australia, and therefore it is impossible for anyone to carry out one of these threats.
UA lost my luggage on a trip to the Philippines. I lost all my dive gear that I was planning on using in Cebu. After spending hours on the phone to a call center in India, I was still not able to get my luggage. I am shit out of luck. Still haven't been reimbursed three years latter. This is entirely OT, but I just though I would get it off my chest.
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The only question I have is what do you do when your God says your God is wrong. I know, rather that actually looking at data critically next time, the enlightened ones will continue to accept the next bullshit 'scientific study' that is trumpeted by the 7 pm media as an absolute fact because it has the word 'science' behind it. They will all the while they laugh at people who believe the world was created in 6 days.
*** This just in. A landmark scientific study conducted at Harvard over a 10 year period of time and at a cost of 20 million USD has concluded that drinking 4L of Pepsi daily may be detrimental to your health.
When will ./ faggotry end. I predict that ./ will continue to be populated by faggots until greenhouse gases warm the planet by 20 degrees, and dinosaurs come back to the planet.
I agree with 90% of what you say, especially about the Gang-stars that are taking over the country. However, I would like you to consider the possibility that perhaps when the patriarchs of the major religions got together and came up with let's call it a 'fiction', they were not doing it to spread violence and hatred throughout the world. They were doing it because they saw there WAS violence and hatred in the world, and they felt that by creating a being let's call him God, who would always be watching you, know what was in your heart, and hold you accountable for your actions even when nobody in the entire world was watching you, they could create a better world. And it arguable somewhat worked. Religion has done a lot of good in the world. When religion does work it organizes people along a shared set of beliefs and goals. Israel is arguably at war with Palestine, and every other semitic peoples other than Jews, but they are not at war with themselves. Jews share a common heritage and set of traditions that has allowed them to identify themselves and maintain their identity for 2000 years despite attempted genocide. Victory for religion. Christianity when it was practiced in Europe created some of the greatest art and monuments of mankind. Victory for Religion. Islam during it's heyday created the most advanced civilization on the planet. The Taliban was able to keep people from growing dope in Afganistan during it's heyday. Victory for religion. It could be argued that the pyramids were a religious monument. Victory for religion.
The problem is that despite their best efforts the patriarchs (of the major religions) were not able to change human nature. Over time their ideals and vision became corrupted, and religion became the reason for wars. My point is that even if there were not religion people would still find a reason to kill each other. Rather than kicking someone out of ones home and off of the family farm because they are not 'Jewish', they would be kicking someone off the farm because they had the wrong color skin, or the wrong types of shoes, or just because they weren't in the cool club. Violence and hatred are not the sole domain of organized religion. So what do you do when the secular world has become corrupted, witness the thugs in blue as you call them, and the Gang-stars making a living on the meth highway? I would argue that it is a time for a new religion. The religion should be inclusive, and create a brotherhood for mutual support, call for abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, and encourage scientific progress and the pursuit of knowledge. The religion would be a force for good until it too became corrupted, and then it would be time to toss it out and start a brand new one. I just do not see that the secular world based on unchecked greed being able to create a sustainable society. Some people are able to do the right thing because it is the right thing to do. Those are the blessed. Others need to have a firm belief of a vengeful God that will wipe their ass all over hell if they screw up.
That is just my 2 pennies.
You seem like a reasonable person, and I understand how you could hate religion, and call it a joke. I just don't see any alternative. What would be your alternative?
ok your fly is down
You guys do not exist. I can find no contemporary peer reviewed journal cross referenced to definitive findings by contemporary experts saying that either all or any of you actually exist or existed at this time or any other. I will attribute all you 'sage' words as just a statistical anomaly caused by cosmic rays, and further proof that slashdot needs to invest in ECC ram on all their servers.
-The great thing about ./ is that 90% of people here (including me) are full of shit 110% of the time.
-There are only 3 people in the world who are not faggots, Jesus Christ, Ronnie Coleman, and Chuck Norris. If you are not one of those people, guess what...
-I dont' no how 2 do sigs.
--I don't respond to Anonymous Cowards. And, no, I am NOT an American.
So you are not from Mexico, Canada, Argentina, The Falkland Islands, or Paraguay. Where are you from, might I ask.
--I would respond to Anonymous Cowards, but my karma is too low. And, no I am NOT an Antarctician.
40 years is long enough to live. Back in the good old days, you were lucky to live to be 36. People were not naturally designed to live these long lives that we see today. All these people living to be 80, are really just freaks. By the age of 35 or so you should be missing half of your teeth. Death is just a good way to get rid of the excess population so young people can flourish. Someone like Justin Beiber is the epitome of all that is male and good in the world. If you are older than Justin, it is time to start thinking about your own mortality. Issac Newton, Einstein, Alexander the Great, all made history when they were young. Face it if you are over the age of 25 and haven't conquered half the world or made a ground breaking scientific discovery that will be talked about in future generations, you are a fag, and it is about time you die, so someone else younger and prettier can take your place.
Borders had a good run, but it is about time they pass the torch to Amazon. Let us not cry for Borders, but acknowledge the good times that Borders gave us.
RIP Borders.
Here Here (not sure if that is correct. let the grammer nazzies call me a faggot). Exercise has certainly helped me become less depressed and less gay, so it should work for everyone. There used to be a lot more manual labor jobs in the USA. Working with your hands was expected and appreciated. Now a days it seems like only illegal immigrants are allowed to work with their hands. ( They also have the lowest rate of mental illness). Good old fashioned hard work is frowned upon, and derided as being unnecessarily faggy (unless you are illegal, and then it is cool). Is it a coincidence. I think not.
As Stalin said, "The only cure for mental suffering is physical pain"
In spite of the fact that Stalin was a big faggot, he at least got this right. You can not worry about your mental problems if you are suffering physical hardship. The physical hardship doesn't have to be starvation like Stalin suggested, it could be building a house, or working on your deadlift.
I thank you for letting me know this. I knew I was an idiot, but had no idea that I was a moron also. I have found that some people take offense when you insult them. For example when I call people fagot they get mad. I always felt it was better to actually to have a clear understanding of where I stand in the world than to continue to delude oneself. If I'm a fagot, I want to know (apparently I am). If I am a moron, I want to know. I am not one of those small minded individuals who can not take criticism. So again I thank you.
I also thank you for letting me know that none of those individuals were criminals. Apparently Alabama was all for integration, and equality between black and whites. It was perfectly OK to be Jewish in Nazi Occupied territories in WWII. Hitler was big proponent of the Zionist movement, and Jewish rights. The Vatican always too an enlightened view to a secular understanding of God's creation.
I just never knew these things. Probably because I am in idiot & a moron.
Wait is this the same supreme court that decided slavery is legal, and that the Government can adversely take someones house under imminent domain if it decides to because the pharmaceutical companies would pay higher taxes (bribes) to the city than the home owners.
If it is, I am all for it, I don't see what could possible go wrong.
On the other hand, I am also a big fan of the military being subservient to the civilian government, I just don't think the civilian government should be subservient to the Supreme court, which basically gave themselves power.
-What do Martin Luther King, Ann Frank, and Galileo have in common. There were all criminals.
When you make more laws you make more criminals.
-The law should be subservient to truth, but in the USA today, the law is subservient to money. Obedience to the law is obedience to tyranny.
This is exactly what we want. If we can recreate the warm climate that the dinosaurs basked in, maybe they will come back. You will then be sorry when velocoraptors(sp) overrun your house, and you do not have any assault rifles to deal with them. Whereas we conservatives will have a grand old time hunting down dinosaurs with our Hummers, and large calibre assault rifles.
-But you still have not addressed the fundamental issue of my post, as to why you hyper elite global warming believing jerks have a problem with OP for being a black gay man. Me's thinks that you elite global warming believing jerks are a might bit more prejudiced than you will ever admit to yourselves. You don't like black people. You think all conservatives ride cars. (I drive a bicycle), and apparently you don't like dinosaurs either. Why do you want to keep the climate so cold. Do you see why people think you are jerks?
-If we can just warm up the planet 20 degrees we will have the same climate that the dinosaurs had.
-Al Gore.
Typical assholes. You can't be black or gay here. You get mooded down by the hyper elit global warmining believing jerks. I go from great karma to terrible karma in 2 hours for posting a comment questioning global warming. You will probably get the same treatment by the mods for being a gay nigger. Sorry. I feel your pain.
If Hitler had won, everyone would be accusing everyone of being a socialist.
Hitler was a vegetarian, therefore Vegetarians are National Socialists. Nazi's are evil, therefore Vegetarians are evil.
Absolutely. Cars kill thousands of people each year. When can we get some politicians to act responsibly and do the right thing. Think of the children. More kids die each year in automobile accidents than they do at abortion clinics. We need to start holding the automobile, and asphalt companies responsible. These companies are making millions of dollars off the blood of our innocent children. When will this assault on the children cease? I ask you. Which politician has the courage to stand up and do what is right.
I have also noticed a direct correlation between automobiles and faggotry. We, in the United States, have an epidemic of faggotry. It wasn't always the case. Today cars are like fags, they are everywhere. In the 50's and 60's there were fewer cars, and fewer fags. In the 1700's there were no cars on the road, and no fags( at least none that would admit it). Sure correlation does not imply causation, but can we take the chance. We sure as hell shouldn't be taking chances with our kids, and we should not be exposing the population for potential vectors for gayness.
Yes cars are gay. When you go to work in the morning, you have a choice. Do you sit endlessly in your pussy mobile built and designed by someone with more mechanical knowledge than you, or do you man up, and brave the onslaught of careless drivers in a suicidal dash to save 15 seconds of your compute on your bicycle. Yes Bicycles are manly. Bicycles expose you to danger and the elements. You become one with the bike and the road. You feel the wind rushing through your hair. You become and active participant in the morning commute, rather than just allowing yourself to be ferried like a ferry to your gay ass job.
I have evidence too. The Hollandish (aka the Dutch) are known for being exceptionally tall, good looking, hard drinking, and endowed with long hard dicks. There is nothing gay about them. They all drive bicycles, because they know cars are for faggots who do not care for their children.
I am not sure. My knowledge of history is pretty much what I learn on Wiki, the history channel, and the bible channel. I bet it is probably in the Talmud though. We always could just ask one of those lying, cheating retarded ass Canaanites about their oral history, but Ohh wait there aren't any.
Whenever I want to be crass, and make some crude rascist joke about retarded people, I stop, and think 'Hey, this ain't right. I could get my ass beat for making this joke', and then I turn it around, and make it about those stupid Canaanites, and everyone laughs.
- No one gives a fuck about Canaanites, you shouldn't either.
-Ghanhi
Yes, you can say whatever you want about the Canaanites though. Noone really cares about them. The Canaanites were wiped out to the last women and child by the Jews. This was justified, however, because God ordered them to do it. This is completely different from the attempted Genocide of the Jews ordered by Hitler largely because Hitler lost his war, and the Jews won theirs.
-Fuck you Canaanites. Haha, I can dance on your graves. People care less about your worthless asses than they do about Arabs, white people, or even poor white Southerners. Canaanites are the lowest form of life UNDER the planet Earth.
Fuck you, Fuck you couch, and fuck your telescope. No-one messes with congress and gets away with it.
Living today, in the political climate that we do it is easy to say he was a hero. I wonder what percentage of people here would have been calling him a fagot, and want him locked up for his crimes if this were 1950. I am guessing it would be close to 98%.
It is indeed fortunate that we are all living today, and can all make fun of those people who were living in the past who were all wrong in their thinking. We are not racists, because we do not live in the South. We are not Nazis because we do not live in Germany in the 30's. We are not pedophiles because we do not live in Ancient Greece. In short we are all blessed to be alive at this one moment in time, when humanity is thinking the proper things about the proper set of people. In the future our children might not be so lucky. They might end up doing something wacky like giving emancipation to all animals. In the past our grandfather's were all forced by societal pressure to carry on their racist bigoted ideas.
We should all feel pretty smug to be alive at this time.
Now I am going to make fun of some southerners because they are all prejudiced.
I suppose you are right.
People die from fire related deaths each year. I suppose if we banned matches, we could do a similar job at curtailing arson. People die each year from drowning . Maybe if we banned swimming pools we could curtail some of those deaths.
Guns like matches are a tool. You can use the tool wisely or you can not. It is a question of freedom, and whether you have enough faith in humanity to not go around shooting each other just because they can. I being a freedom loving conservative have a great faith in individuals, but not so much in governments, which over time grow corrupt. That is why I would choose to let people have the means to defend themselves in such eventualities. As a liberal, you probably have a distrust of people, but believe a government will protect you from the lone wacky individual, when you don't trust yourself to (by arming yourself). We should just agree to disagree.
weather stations all over the world!
Our cutter was one of those weather stations. 98% of the time the data we gave out was bogus. Obviously some data is good. My point was one should not place blind faith in what people are telling you. You should question assumptions, and the validity of the world view.
-Or you can just go on putting blind faith in the experts, and believing the results of the latest scientific study that contradict the results of the second most recent scientific study.
I am just using the only data and evidence that I have available to me; mainly my own knowledge and experience. Admittedly I have only my have one sample point, and I hope that all the rest of the data is good ,as everyone is putting blind faith into it (although there is no reason to believe it is unless I want to believe that weather scientist are omniscient god like entities who never submit to societal pressure). However I don't have access to the rest of the data, and apparently it is proprietary information. So given the fact that I do not access to this proprietary data, and the only data that I do have is false, I have two choices. I can believe what ever the media is saying, or I can use my own common sense and the very limited data I do have. I have to look outside the window, and ask myself if the weather is going haywire. No. Is it likely that the climate of the planet is changing. Yes. Has it changed in the past. Yes. Would it be great to have a warmer climate, and have dinosaurs running around and shit like they did in the past. Yes. Does it make sense to throw all humanity's efforts into combating this weather change, that might in the end be inevitable? No.
Rather that snipping at each other and making snide character comments it would be better if humanity could work together to try to get off the planet. Rather than worrying about what impact humans have on the climate, climate scientist could be looking into Terra-forming Mars. The only way to eliminate the affect that humans have on the planet, would be to eliminate all the humans. Ohh wait, I forgot only conservative people affect the climate. OK, so just kill all the conservatives, and I a sure the planet will be happy.
-Regards freedom loving libertarian.
Wait. I am trying to use logic and reason. The OP said that as a conservative I am naturally disadvantaged in this regard, but I will try nevertheless. If banning guns won't prevent murders, and will in fact just prevent the good people from defending themselves against the gun crazed lunatics, what is the purpose of banning guns.
I have first hand experience with fudging numbers. In the coast guard, we were required to submit a weather report to NOAA every 4 hours called synoptic weather. There were 2 of us on the cutter that took the job seriously. Everyone else I knew pretty much just made up numbers, because it was time consuming, and made it difficult to do some of the other BS that watch standers were supposed to be doing. I can't help but think that a lot of this garbage data made it into the hands of 'scientist' who were trying to model weather. I just hope scientists are looking at the accuracy of the data that is being submitted to them, and make appropriate allowances. But I doubt it. I know I would not feel comfortable making policy decisions based on the data we gave them. But everyone on slashdot seems to think that the word of scientist is the word of God almighty himself, rather than actually taking the time to look at the situation critically.
Just my 2 pennies.
I don't know what the 'scientist' are worried about. Thanks to the 'liberals' there are no hand guns hand guns are illegal in Australia, and therefore it is impossible for anyone to carry out one of these threats.
-Sincerely a freedom loving conservative.
UA lost my luggage on a trip to the Philippines. I lost all my dive gear that I was planning on using in Cebu. After spending hours on the phone to a call center in India, I was still not able to get my luggage. I am shit out of luck. Still haven't been reimbursed three years latter. This is entirely OT, but I just though I would get it off my chest.