my *shudder* alama mater. A private Christian university. We had required chapel days, where the entire student body was required to meet for a religious seminar. Don't ask. Anyway, one day a member of the student body gets up and gives a rambling testimonial about how his roommate caught him jerking it to porn. the guy felt so 'dirty' and 'sinful' that he felt it necessary to confess it in front of a couple thousand of his peers. It was the most inane, embarassing display of public humiliation I've ever seen. What supporters of this opt-in idea are missing is the rest of the picture. This boy was made to feel dirty. Sinful. For something completely normal. You think he just invented the guilt on his own? No, it was instilled in him by a sexually repressed religion. I realize that this program would work nicely in libraries or schools. Those are places to learn, not self love. Ethics and morality mean more than just following along... modern Christianity needs to stop pretending it is a good subsitiute for therapy and common sense. Men and women will only be made to continue to feel worthless for what SHOULD BE safe, sane, and healthy. Sex addicts? Sure they exist, addicts need to be taught moderation... soemthing they didn't 'get' the first time around.
Blogging is mental masterbation. May as well get paid to do it if that's your thing. The rest of us who are too busy to blither on endlessly about ourselves will continue looking away embarrassed.
That wealth is not just 'cash sitting around'. It's the accumulate of numerous investments and stocks. His money probably keeps more people in a job and stimulates more industries and economies than you can fathom.
It's been prophesied for almost two thousand years in Revelations that the world would eventually all use one currency, and so it doesn't surprise me at all.
Unclench, get a grip. It's completely FUCKING obvious what I was talking about you pedantic blithering ass. The only 'educating' going on here, is us, 'learning' what a sodding idiot you are. We're all QUITE familiar with the fact that there are many countries in this hemisphere of ours, but those of us who DON'T have our panties is a knot easily accept that when people use the term 'American' in CONTEXT (that's right, CONTEXT, a new word for you) it's usually quite obvious what we're talking about. Only an idiot (ie. you) would have been confused by 'American' when used in the CONTEXT that I (and the post I was replying to) used it in. No reasonable person could EVER have confused 'American policy' for example with 'Brazilian Policy' when used in proper CONTEXT. But then, if it makes you feel better (and it looks like nothing short of prozac would to it) We'll have the W3C write up standards for political jargon for use here in Slashdot. We'll all ignore it of course, until some silly wank like you comes around and makes us have to s-i-m-p-l-i-f-y the discussion for those of you who can't keep up.
I don't think he's proposing that the American model of free speech is the best, or even that it would/should be acceptable in all cultures. But free speech IS a basic human right. The broadest definitions of free speech SHOULD be a given right of every human. I don't think he's far off in saying that it is something worth fighting for. BTW, you're not Ameri-centric, OR an asshole for believing in basic human rights. He might not have been explicit about what model (at least not enough for you, ya yammering prig), but he's on the right track.
Brilliant argument though. Here the post I was replying to had NO qualms about refering to 'Americans' in the purely North American, American sense, but suddenly, no, while that pretense is acceptable for him, it's not for me. Sloppy thinking there. BTW. Generalizations about American arrogance are STALE. They're BORING and you're showing a total lack of wit in plumbing these already tepid waters.
You're generalizing. I doubt that you even KNOW enough people to constitute an effective cross section of the American people. Ill-informed bias is is still ill-informed, no matter how 'witty' or 'insightful' you think you're being. Every man, woman, child, group, country, or state acts out of self-interest. If you think otherwise, you're grossly mistaken.
You're right, I think it would have been more precise if I'd just refered to "Genre" films in general. But then, I didn't think anyone would be that irritatingly picky, since, you got my point.
That was the worst synopsis ever. Did you even READ the bloody books? Hell, glancing at a wizard every now and then would give you a better clue about the details. It's the 'Tower of Babel' story line, and it's a decent, if fast paced yarn.
Remember kids, SEX IS BAD! In case you hadn't noticed. Sex, ALL SEX is about the objectification of the male/female form. Noone ever 'got off' on another's good intentions, or general well meaning behavior. If that was meant to play such a big part in the reproductive process, no animal would get ANYWHERE. Sex is about parts, smells, curves, angles even. And women's literature is FULL OF IT. The softporn novelettes that line grocery store check out stands are as big as hentai manga. And who buys them?!? So long as 'women' continue to view themselves as the more 'evolutionary' of the species, there will continue to be confusion and derision. As I see it there is LITTLE difference between the genders that isn't IMAGINED. BTW, there are FAR MORE female sci-fi/fantasy fans out there than you think. Been to a Buffy convention lately? LOOK at the attention Marsters gets and TELL me it's not about sex... You're living in denial.
I've been told it to my face, by 'well meaning', 'moderate' Christians, who can't understand or cope with a world where people get along just fine without religion, God or such. they assume that 'deep down inside' we're really struggling with issues of religious import, and that we're all actually 'lost' souls, groping in the darkness for an answer. Well, aren't we all? Some of us just aren't so lazy as give up and settle for one answer (atheism) or another (organized religion). Active, vital, imaginative minds are always on the look out for percieved flaws in 'truth', and ready to fight for the empirical, rational man.
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The surgeon who replaces Tom's eyes gives a big speech about getting screwed over, then does....nothing bad. Fixes the eyes, leaves a nice sandwich
Duh, he gave anderton the eyes of an asian male. Cruise is NOT an asian male, so it would have been a dead giveaway to anyone scanning him in person. Don't be dense... FOLLOW ALONG.
Grow some cajones man! This is hardly superficial 'extremism'. If there's a 'war' being raged out there for the minds of people then I'm on the side of rationalism and logic, not superstition and mysticism. Certainly those things make for good fodder for movies and horror books, but they make for lousy politics. Little things like this go a long way toward educating people about the inanity the Christian Right wants us to embrace. They'll get sick of the Pat Robertsons faster than the Carl Sagans in the long run.
Amen;) I'm sick of being called 'unprincipled' and 'of weak morals' simply because of my agnostic, leaning-to athiest beliefs. I want to be called those things because I'm an evil, obnoxious bastard. Really though people, let's keep supersition in the horror genre where it belongs. It makes for far better entertainment than it does a basis for life.
But that's just you... Many DO end up buying most of the music they download IF it's music that they consider worth the $$. Indeed I've bought MORE music because of it, since I've had the opportunity to sample music I would NEVER have found out about if it hadn't been for online trading communities like AudioGalaxy. And I'm not unusual. I know several DJs in the area who do exactly what I do. Music is our hobby, and we've never begrudged an artist their due, OR the industry it's due for making high quality production. I do it because i like the convenience of not having to burn/copy and because... well, I like the shiny pictures in the cases. I also like to shop. You can't often get great quality copies of some tracks online... often a good reason to get the album. Hobby-ists do give back!
Who said it did...? When you shed some skin cells, you don't get harrassed by bible thumpers either, but that doesn't seem to stop you people when it comes to early term abortions (the only ones I support).
Good lord. Both of you are blithering idiots. First: Not a kid here. That same 'anonymity' prevents YOU from knowing anything about ME. See how that door swings both ways? Second, I WAS a pro-lifer. Bible-thumping, god-fearing, holier-than-thou righteout fire etc., NONE of the comments you've made have been anything other than the most boring, tired rhetoric I've heard a million fucking times. To say that I have to suffer a life of melodrama 'holding my dying child in my arms' as Wagner plays in the background in order to understand pain/loss/value of life is complete ignorance AND rhetoric. You fall into the same aegist horsecrap I've heard thousands of times. (IE, 'the diff between a conservative and a liberal is 25 years).
You do yourself AND your cause a real disservice by attempting to invalidate the REAL experiences of others. I've known more radical, ignorant 'pro-lifers' than I ever have moderate well thought ones, so yeah, excuse me if I wretch when I hear yet another pro-lifer spewing the same recylced shit I've memorized.
Nary a one of you gets to the core of what I said: The living outnumber those in the womb, their life depends upon our cognizance. The life they lead will be influenced by our choices today. The thing that gets YOUR blood boiling is this: We have a sacred duty to ensure the best possible world for the unborn, this includes ensuring that they have every opportunity available to live a life of freedom and option. Sure the 'kids are alright' and certainly I believe that abortion is a VERY poor substitute for birth-control, but the unborn can wait until they can be raised with all the love they can get. I think it is a matter of life/death, but what of it? I think the life part is important enough to ensure the best possible chances. You wanna pull the melodrama card? You come visit my aunt's house. She takes care of foster children in her county. There's some of the saddest cases you've EVER seen. Am I cold enough to say those kids 'shouldn't exist', HELL NO. What I'm saying is that with education, contraception, AND in worst-case abortion, souls like these might have a better chance of dodging a bullet (their abusive parent's fists). They're not the 'victims' of liberal ideology, but of hamfisted, retrogressive reproductive thinking.
Was I dealing in rhetoric in my previous post, sure. Was I being faecitious? Possibly. I've known pain, real and imagined, and it's certainly colored my logic on this issue. I also happen to be a failed abortion. My mother was sitting on the table, waiting to be operated on, when the doctor, against the wishes of my mother and the diagnosis of another doctor, decided she was 'too far along' (laws in CA were different then). My mother decided to go ahead and bear me out. So I think I have some perspective on the issue.
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my *shudder* alama mater. A private Christian university. We had required chapel days, where the entire student body was required to meet for a religious seminar. Don't ask. Anyway, one day a member of the student body gets up and gives a rambling testimonial about how his roommate caught him jerking it to porn. the guy felt so 'dirty' and 'sinful' that he felt it necessary to confess it in front of a couple thousand of his peers. It was the most inane, embarassing display of public humiliation I've ever seen. What supporters of this opt-in idea are missing is the rest of the picture. This boy was made to feel dirty. Sinful. For something completely normal. You think he just invented the guilt on his own? No, it was instilled in him by a sexually repressed religion. I realize that this program would work nicely in libraries or schools. Those are places to learn, not self love. Ethics and morality mean more than just following along... modern Christianity needs to stop pretending it is a good subsitiute for therapy and common sense. Men and women will only be made to continue to feel worthless for what SHOULD BE safe, sane, and healthy. Sex addicts? Sure they exist, addicts need to be taught moderation... soemthing they didn't 'get' the first time around.
HA HA Some stereotypes NEVER get old!
Blogging is mental masterbation. May as well get paid to do it if that's your thing. The rest of us who are too busy to blither on endlessly about ourselves will continue looking away embarrassed.
Oi, leave fat bob out of this.
That wealth is not just 'cash sitting around'. It's the accumulate of numerous investments and stocks. His money probably keeps more people in a job and stimulates more industries and economies than you can fathom.
It's been prophesied for almost two thousand years in Revelations that the world would eventually all use one currency, and so it doesn't surprise me at all.
I'm sorry, who's the freak?
Unclench, get a grip. It's completely FUCKING obvious what I was talking about you pedantic blithering ass. The only 'educating' going on here, is us, 'learning' what a sodding idiot you are. We're all QUITE familiar with the fact that there are many countries in this hemisphere of ours, but those of us who DON'T have our panties is a knot easily accept that when people use the term 'American' in CONTEXT (that's right, CONTEXT, a new word for you) it's usually quite obvious what we're talking about. Only an idiot (ie. you) would have been confused by 'American' when used in the CONTEXT that I (and the post I was replying to) used it in. No reasonable person could EVER have confused 'American policy' for example with 'Brazilian Policy' when used in proper CONTEXT. But then, if it makes you feel better (and it looks like nothing short of prozac would to it) We'll have the W3C write up standards for political jargon for use here in Slashdot. We'll all ignore it of course, until some silly wank like you comes around and makes us have to s-i-m-p-l-i-f-y the discussion for those of you who can't keep up.
I don't think he's proposing that the American model of free speech is the best, or even that it would/should be acceptable in all cultures. But free speech IS a basic human right. The broadest definitions of free speech SHOULD be a given right of every human. I don't think he's far off in saying that it is something worth fighting for. BTW, you're not Ameri-centric, OR an asshole for believing in basic human rights. He might not have been explicit about what model (at least not enough for you, ya yammering prig), but he's on the right track.
Brilliant argument though. Here the post I was replying to had NO qualms about refering to 'Americans' in the purely North American, American sense, but suddenly, no, while that pretense is acceptable for him, it's not for me. Sloppy thinking there. BTW. Generalizations about American arrogance are STALE. They're BORING and you're showing a total lack of wit in plumbing these already tepid waters.
Wow. Nitpicking is an understatement. That's just flat out insipid.
You're generalizing. I doubt that you even KNOW enough people to constitute an effective cross section of the American people. Ill-informed bias is is still ill-informed, no matter how 'witty' or 'insightful' you think you're being. Every man, woman, child, group, country, or state acts out of self-interest. If you think otherwise, you're grossly mistaken.
You're right, I think it would have been more precise if I'd just refered to "Genre" films in general. But then, I didn't think anyone would be that irritatingly picky, since, you got my point.
That was the worst synopsis ever. Did you even READ the bloody books? Hell, glancing at a wizard every now and then would give you a better clue about the details. It's the 'Tower of Babel' story line, and it's a decent, if fast paced yarn.
Remember kids, SEX IS BAD! In case you hadn't noticed. Sex, ALL SEX is about the objectification of the male/female form. Noone ever 'got off' on another's good intentions, or general well meaning behavior. If that was meant to play such a big part in the reproductive process, no animal would get ANYWHERE. Sex is about parts, smells, curves, angles even. And women's literature is FULL OF IT. The softporn novelettes that line grocery store check out stands are as big as hentai manga. And who buys them?!? So long as 'women' continue to view themselves as the more 'evolutionary' of the species, there will continue to be confusion and derision. As I see it there is LITTLE difference between the genders that isn't IMAGINED. BTW, there are FAR MORE female sci-fi/fantasy fans out there than you think. Been to a Buffy convention lately? LOOK at the attention Marsters gets and TELL me it's not about sex... You're living in denial.
I've been told it to my face, by 'well meaning', 'moderate' Christians, who can't understand or cope with a world where people get along just fine without religion, God or such. they assume that 'deep down inside' we're really struggling with issues of religious import, and that we're all actually 'lost' souls, groping in the darkness for an answer. Well, aren't we all? Some of us just aren't so lazy as give up and settle for one answer (atheism) or another (organized religion). Active, vital, imaginative minds are always on the look out for percieved flaws in 'truth', and ready to fight for the empirical, rational man.
Duh, he gave anderton the eyes of an asian male. Cruise is NOT an asian male, so it would have been a dead giveaway to anyone scanning him in person. Don't be dense... FOLLOW ALONG.
Grow some cajones man! This is hardly superficial 'extremism'. If there's a 'war' being raged out there for the minds of people then I'm on the side of rationalism and logic, not superstition and mysticism. Certainly those things make for good fodder for movies and horror books, but they make for lousy politics. Little things like this go a long way toward educating people about the inanity the Christian Right wants us to embrace. They'll get sick of the Pat Robertsons faster than the Carl Sagans in the long run.
Amen ;) I'm sick of being called 'unprincipled' and 'of weak morals' simply because of my agnostic, leaning-to athiest beliefs. I want to be called those things because I'm an evil, obnoxious bastard. Really though people, let's keep supersition in the horror genre where it belongs. It makes for far better entertainment than it does a basis for life.
Gosh you're witty. I mean, wow. Look at all that wit in one place.
But that's just you... Many DO end up buying most of the music they download IF it's music that they consider worth the $$. Indeed I've bought MORE music because of it, since I've had the opportunity to sample music I would NEVER have found out about if it hadn't been for online trading communities like AudioGalaxy. And I'm not unusual. I know several DJs in the area who do exactly what I do. Music is our hobby, and we've never begrudged an artist their due, OR the industry it's due for making high quality production. I do it because i like the convenience of not having to burn/copy and because... well, I like the shiny pictures in the cases. I also like to shop. You can't often get great quality copies of some tracks online... often a good reason to get the album. Hobby-ists do give back!
But how many Bothans will have to die before it's more than just vaporware?
Who said it did...? When you shed some skin cells, you don't get harrassed by bible thumpers either, but that doesn't seem to stop you people when it comes to early term abortions (the only ones I support).
Oh good lord. What a fucking geek.
You must only know the well brain-washed pro-lifers. I know too many drooling sycophants to NOT assume you're one.
Good lord. Both of you are blithering idiots. First: Not a kid here. That same 'anonymity' prevents YOU from knowing anything about ME. See how that door swings both ways? Second, I WAS a pro-lifer. Bible-thumping, god-fearing, holier-than-thou righteout fire etc., NONE of the comments you've made have been anything other than the most boring, tired rhetoric I've heard a million fucking times. To say that I have to suffer a life of melodrama 'holding my dying child in my arms' as Wagner plays in the background in order to understand pain/loss/value of life is complete ignorance AND rhetoric. You fall into the same aegist horsecrap I've heard thousands of times. (IE, 'the diff between a conservative and a liberal is 25 years).
You do yourself AND your cause a real disservice by attempting to invalidate the REAL experiences of others. I've known more radical, ignorant 'pro-lifers' than I ever have moderate well thought ones, so yeah, excuse me if I wretch when I hear yet another pro-lifer spewing the same recylced shit I've memorized.
Nary a one of you gets to the core of what I said: The living outnumber those in the womb, their life depends upon our cognizance. The life they lead will be influenced by our choices today. The thing that gets YOUR blood boiling is this: We have a sacred duty to ensure the best possible world for the unborn, this includes ensuring that they have every opportunity available to live a life of freedom and option. Sure the 'kids are alright' and certainly I believe that abortion is a VERY poor substitute for birth-control, but the unborn can wait until they can be raised with all the love they can get. I think it is a matter of life/death, but what of it? I think the life part is important enough to ensure the best possible chances. You wanna pull the melodrama card? You come visit my aunt's house. She takes care of foster children in her county. There's some of the saddest cases you've EVER seen. Am I cold enough to say those kids 'shouldn't exist', HELL NO. What I'm saying is that with education, contraception, AND in worst-case abortion, souls like these might have a better chance of dodging a bullet (their abusive parent's fists). They're not the 'victims' of liberal ideology, but of hamfisted, retrogressive reproductive thinking.
Was I dealing in rhetoric in my previous post, sure. Was I being faecitious? Possibly. I've known pain, real and imagined, and it's certainly colored my logic on this issue. I also happen to be a failed abortion. My mother was sitting on the table, waiting to be operated on, when the doctor, against the wishes of my mother and the diagnosis of another doctor, decided she was 'too far along' (laws in CA were different then). My mother decided to go ahead and bear me out. So I think I have some perspective on the issue.