How about we all just put up that Freakazoid episode that Jack did the voice for himself, explaining the MPAA rating system. "Hello, I'm Jack Valenti and these are my cheeks."
"Point taken. But if porn were truly harmless, then we would allow children to see it... or leave it up to the parents, not the state, to decide."
I hope this does not come as a surprise to you, but kids at about age 9 or so and up start to seek out this forbidden material and often manage to view it in one form or another. Most of them do not suffer harm or damage from this.
"Of course, this is not to mention that porn (and the resultant wanking) is a form of expression, the prohibition of which would be both absurdly authoritation and impossible to enforce."
I think what we need is a "department(or ministry for Brits) of silly wanks", That way I can get a government grant to develop my unique artistic style of expression.
"I'm reminded of the vehement blogs or postings about people who march peacefully who then get arrested. You know what? Good for them. You might not like getting arrested, but that was the point in many ways of marching and a likely outcome; you tied up resources, got a story out to the masses about it, and made people pay attention."
I have a problem with it from a constitutional perspective. We are guaranteed a right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. If they are peacefully marching/protesting and what not, they should never be arrested. They should be protected, and if they are blocking public resources, maybe some fat lard ass politician should see what they have to say and maybe do something instead of ordering them tear gassed and arrested.
Free speech zones are bullshit, unless they are meant to imply that when they are set up they are true America as defined by our founding documents, and everything outside is magically the empire of king George (not bush).
"Can a man have premarital sex with a woman but "not look at her with lust" and thus not commit adultery?"
In the context of the topic being discussed, I suspect a lot of male and female porn performers at a point no longer have much feeling/lust for the others they work with. From what I have seen/heard it's just plugging away at a paycheck. Just like how gynecologists practice their love of women (thems the presidents words not mine).
Read this and this. Maybe they wont convince you, but it does explain how it was created, and issues that it has. Some quotes from the first paper "The King James Bible has undergone three revisions since its inception in 1611, incorporating more than 100,000 changes." and "The KJV includes one very definite error in translation, which even KJV advocates would admit. In Matthew 23:24 the KJV has 'strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.' But the Greek has 'strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.' In the least, this illustrates not only that no translation is infallible but also that scribal corruptions can and do take place-even in a volume which has been worked over by so many different hands (for the KJV was the product of a very large committee of over 50 scholars)"
The first paper a rather good read, and it has encouraged me to search out some good translations to read even though I'm agnostic at best.
From my reading of the Constitution all I get is how the government is set up.
From my reading of the Bill of Rights, equality and many other things are (nowhere is God or a higher power mentioned) the basis for our rights.
The only founding paper that talks of God or a creator is the Declaration of Indipendance. Maybe it's time people (left and right) actually read up on the founding of our country, it's laws, and all that before talking out their ass.
The problem I think is that people using dictionary.com only get "Sex before marriage" as a definition of fornication. Later at the bottom of the page it talks about Mosaic law and how it is often used in the context of the bible to refer to a means a forsaking of God or a following after idols.
Here is what they have:
Sexual intercourse between partners who are not married to each other.
Word History: The word fornication had a lowly beginning suitable to what has long been the low moral status of the act to which it refers. The Latin word fornix, from which fornicti, the ancestor of fornication, is derived, meant "a vault, an arch." The term also referred to a vaulted cellar or similar place where prostitutes plied their trade. This sense of fornix in Late Latin yielded the verb fornicr, "to commit fornication," from which is derived fornicti, "whoredom, fornication." Our word is first recorded in Middle English about 1303.
in every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law (Lev. 21:9; 19:29; Deut. 22:20, 21, 23-29; 23:18; Ex. 22:16). (See ADULTERY.) But this word is more frequently used in a symbolical than in its ordinary sense. It frequently means a forsaking of God or a following after idols (Isa. 1:2; Jer. 2:20; Ezek. 16; Hos. 1:2; 2:1-5; Jer. 3:8,9). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
My wife, there are times one can not "be with" the one you love. Worst thing in the world is traveling for a week at a time over 2/3 of the year just after being married.
Some religions view of the afterlife is rather complex. Hindu religions often have reincarnation as well as heaven, hell, and partying with the supreme being. The way I was taught it works is in life you will do good or evil, and assuming you do not die a saint and go straight up to hang with the dude, you are provided pleasure for your good deeds in heaven or are punished for your evil (sometimes you do both) in hell and then re-incarnate on the Earth for another go at doing things right so you can hang with the dude.
Considering they were holding him down and at point blank range (according to the reports I saw) when they murdered him, how they fuck did they miss that many shots? Then again they lied about him having a large backpack and a heavy winter coat as well, so who knows what really was going down.
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Toyota told me to only use regular unleaded in my 2002 Prius.
That's just because she is out with Riff Raff.
Dreamcast came out first and the PS2 did not, yet look how things turned out.
We need to get back to the old school of the 80's with Deathtrack.
Well the RIAA already has "Math is hard." down pat.
How about we all just put up that Freakazoid episode that Jack did the voice for himself, explaining the MPAA rating system. "Hello, I'm Jack Valenti and these are my cheeks."
But is it a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel?
You really need to add a (#457356) string or random numbers to the end of it.
Funny thing is the most sexually deviant people I know/have ever met are all right wing religious types. I'm serious.
If people believe that lusting after ones mate is sinful or wrong they need to immediately check themselves into the nearest psychiatric hospital
"Point taken. But if porn were truly harmless, then we would allow children to see it... or leave it up to the parents, not the state, to decide."
I hope this does not come as a surprise to you, but kids at about age 9 or so and up start to seek out this forbidden material and often manage to view it in one form or another. Most of them do not suffer harm or damage from this.
"Of course, this is not to mention that porn (and the resultant wanking) is a form of expression, the prohibition of which would be both absurdly authoritation and impossible to enforce."
I think what we need is a "department(or ministry for Brits) of silly wanks", That way I can get a government grant to develop my unique artistic style of expression.
"I'm reminded of the vehement blogs or postings about people who march peacefully who then get arrested. You know what? Good for them. You might not like getting arrested, but that was the point in many ways of marching and a likely outcome; you tied up resources, got a story out to the masses about it, and made people pay attention."
I have a problem with it from a constitutional perspective. We are guaranteed a right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
If they are peacefully marching/protesting and what not, they should never be arrested. They should be protected, and if they are blocking public resources, maybe some fat lard ass politician should see what they have to say and maybe do something instead of ordering them tear gassed and arrested.
Free speech zones are bullshit, unless they are meant to imply that when they are set up they are true America as defined by our founding documents, and everything outside is magically the empire of king George (not bush).
This may be shocking but Latex is used for more then sexual fetishes.
And an intern is a trainee, so in fact Clinton did not have sex with that woman.
So thats the secret ingrediant.
"Can a man have premarital sex with a woman but "not look at her with lust" and thus not commit adultery?"
In the context of the topic being discussed, I suspect a lot of male and female porn performers at a point no longer have much feeling/lust for the others they work with. From what I have seen/heard it's just plugging away at a paycheck. Just like how gynecologists practice their love of women (thems the presidents words not mine).
The first paper a rather good read, and it has encouraged me to search out some good translations to read even though I'm agnostic at best.
From my reading of the Bill of Rights, equality and many other things are (nowhere is God or a higher power mentioned) the basis for our rights.
The only founding paper that talks of God or a creator is the Declaration of Indipendance. Maybe it's time people (left and right) actually read up on the founding of our country, it's laws, and all that before talking out their ass.
The problem I think is that people using dictionary.com only get "Sex before marriage" as a definition of fornication. Later at the bottom of the page it talks about Mosaic law and how it is often used in the context of the bible to refer to a means a forsaking of God or a following after idols.
Here is what they have:
Sexual intercourse between partners who are not married to each other.
Word History: The word fornication had a lowly beginning suitable to what has long been the low moral status of the act to which it refers. The Latin word fornix, from which fornicti, the ancestor of fornication, is derived, meant "a vault, an arch." The term also referred to a vaulted cellar or similar place where prostitutes plied their trade. This sense of fornix in Late Latin yielded the verb fornicr, "to commit fornication," from which is derived fornicti, "whoredom, fornication." Our word is first recorded in Middle English about 1303.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
in every form of it was sternly condemned by the Mosaic law (Lev. 21:9; 19:29;
Deut. 22:20, 21, 23-29; 23:18; Ex. 22:16). (See ADULTERY.) But this word is
more frequently used in a symbolical than in its ordinary sense. It frequently
means a forsaking of God or a following after idols (Isa. 1:2; Jer. 2:20; Ezek.
16; Hos. 1:2; 2:1-5; Jer. 3:8,9).
Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
"Fun fact: The Talmud specifies the minimum frequency that couples should have sex. It varies depending on how much time you spend at work."
Do you have some kind of chart or referance I can build a chart from?
My wife, there are times one can not "be with" the one you love. Worst thing in the world is traveling for a week at a time over 2/3 of the year just after being married.
Some religions view of the afterlife is rather complex.
Hindu religions often have reincarnation as well as heaven, hell, and partying with the supreme being.
The way I was taught it works is in life you will do good or evil, and assuming you do not die a saint and go straight up to hang with the dude, you are provided pleasure for your good deeds in heaven or are punished for your evil (sometimes you do both) in hell and then re-incarnate on the Earth for another go at doing things right so you can hang with the dude.
You know we will end up having to send James Randi up as the skeptic.
Considering they were holding him down and at point blank range (according to the reports I saw) when they murdered him, how they fuck did they miss that many shots?
Then again they lied about him having a large backpack and a heavy winter coat as well, so who knows what really was going down.