This is how art works, it builds off itself. If you really love Cowboy Bebop, then you should applaud somebody trying to reach the masses with something based on the original.
Typical people might not care about anime, but if they watch this movie, and like it, and then someone says 'you know it's based off an anime', then maybe they will watch the original! And the original art gets more exposure than it would have if it had been keep in it's 'sacred' box and never taken out.
The church does not marry people legally at all dude, they do it spiritually, and the government gives them a 'license of union' or marriage license. If a church decides gays can marry then it would be a marriage, even if it's the church of the flying spaghetti monster.
If the state can issue a marriage license for a straight couple, then they have to issue one for a gay couple (per my interpretation of 1st amendment).
So either they allow gay marriage, or all marriages become legal civil unions and churches can call them whatever they want.
And asking Gays to make it 'more palatable' with a different name is like asking women to say they don't have the right to 'vote', just the right to 'suggest'.
Creator doesn't imply any particular God either, it seems deliberately chosen to be ambiguous. 'Year of our Lord' is a common expression.
Thomas Jefferson who wrote that document is well known to have been interested in Jesus, but not God, incredibly progressive for his time.
Jefferson aimed at laissez-faire liberalism in the name of individual freedom, He felt that any form of government control, not only of religion, but of individual mercantilism consisted of tyranny. He thought that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
'Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.'
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
'But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.'
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
The treaty of Tripoli written in 1796 states: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;"
--Authored by American diplomat Joel Barlow in 1796, the following treaty was sent to the floor of the Senate, June 7, 1797, where it was read aloud in its entirety and unanimously approved. John Adams, having seen the treaty, signed it and proudly proclaimed it to the Nation.
So while obviously many leaders were probably Christians and went to church, it seems clear that the founders were attempting to separate church and state, and were incredibly progressive in doing so.
But seriously sights of nudity and sex will not destroy a child. Parental abuse on the other hand...
I saw porn at age 8 due to discovering a friend's older brother's cache, and I am not a rapist nor would I ever hurt anybody...in fact, the porn was not that interesting until I hit puberty.
All it did was make me realize how much of the world was being hidden from me by adults, and it got me to read some childbirth books in the library to confirm the rumours.
So my theory is beating your children will make them rapists, not porn, because violence is taught best by action and those with bitter hearts will have less mercy.
Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
Meyers-Briggs is a good personality test, and the above poster is confused because companies aren't using Meyers-Briggs because it is not built to judge good or bad employees like the Minnesota tests were.
Meyers-Briggs tells you how you think, but doesn't tell employers anything unless they want to make ridiculous assumptions and claim an entire personality group is 'flawed'.
Make a girl laugh and her brain will release strong pleasure chemicals. The only time I've seen a 'built' man lose a girl is when his competitor, regardless of body shape, kept her laughing.
on the contrary, progressive movements always take 2 steps forward, 1 step back. Our parents are almost universally more liberal than our grandparents.
It's just hard to see because the battleground shifts and we think the war never ends, but the fact that politicians even dare to speak of homosexuals is a huge shift from the 60s.
Sometimes doing nothing is the right choice, sometimes calm and cautious action is the right choice, and sometimes sudden and rash action is the right choice.
What's important however is to evaluate your ideology, and the actions you are taking to promote that purpose, on a daily basis because blind faith leads to atrocities. Even those who believe in peace, freedom, and justice can commit them in the name of their beliefs.
But their atrocities were based in ideology, which religion is a subset of.
If one believes in a cause, perhaps one can kill for a cause.
Of course, mysticism is popular and easier to use than political beliefs..., but Stalin and Hitler were able to use other beliefs to the same effect. All of it uses a similar mantra: "you need to be afraid of the enemy, assume the worst, and strike first. To do otherwise is to let them win." Ironically the phrase 'Evil needs only for good men to do nothing' is a double edged sword.
The caveat is that for good to succeed all that is required is for evil men to do nothing.
If all causes can be used for evil, then sometimes doing nothing is the moral choice.
I'd still be playing WoW if I could forego the monthly payment and just pay for the times I actually login. But if I have a busy month it feels dumb to shell out 15 bucks for logging in twice to check auctions.
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This is how art works, it builds off itself. If you really love Cowboy Bebop, then you should applaud somebody trying to reach the masses with something based on the original.
Typical people might not care about anime, but if they watch this movie, and like it, and then someone says 'you know it's based off an anime', then maybe they will watch the original! And the original art gets more exposure than it would have if it had been keep in it's 'sacred' box and never taken out.
The church does not marry people legally at all dude, they do it spiritually, and the government gives them a 'license of union' or marriage license. If a church decides gays can marry then it would be a marriage, even if it's the church of the flying spaghetti monster.
If the state can issue a marriage license for a straight couple, then they have to issue one for a gay couple (per my interpretation of 1st amendment).
So either they allow gay marriage, or all marriages become legal civil unions and churches can call them whatever they want.
And asking Gays to make it 'more palatable' with a different name is like asking women to say they don't have the right to 'vote', just the right to 'suggest'.
Lal ftw!
America!
Fuck Yea!
Though a southern democrat is often more conservative than a northern republican.
Creator doesn't imply any particular God either, it seems deliberately chosen to be ambiguous. 'Year of our Lord' is a common expression.
Thomas Jefferson who wrote that document is well known to have been interested in Jesus, but not God, incredibly progressive for his time.
Jefferson aimed at laissez-faire liberalism in the name of individual freedom, He felt that any form of government control, not only of religion, but of individual mercantilism consisted of tyranny. He thought that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, any more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
'Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.'
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
'But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.'
-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782
The treaty of Tripoli written in 1796 states: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;"
--Authored by American diplomat Joel Barlow in 1796, the following treaty was sent to the floor of the Senate, June 7, 1797, where it was read aloud in its entirety and unanimously approved. John Adams, having seen the treaty, signed it and proudly proclaimed it to the Nation.
So while obviously many leaders were probably Christians and went to church, it seems clear that the founders were attempting to separate church and state, and were incredibly progressive in doing so.
for adults.
But seriously sights of nudity and sex will not destroy a child. Parental abuse on the other hand...
I saw porn at age 8 due to discovering a friend's older brother's cache, and I am not a rapist nor would I ever hurt anybody...in fact, the porn was not that interesting until I hit puberty.
All it did was make me realize how much of the world was being hidden from me by adults, and it got me to read some childbirth books in the library to confirm the rumours.
So my theory is beating your children will make them rapists, not porn, because violence is taught best by action and those with bitter hearts will have less mercy.
Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
isn't for suckers, theoretically... It's supposed to mean you work whatever damn hours you like and they judge the result, not your exact attendance.
I know things rarely work that way though.
Meyers-Briggs is a good personality test, and the above poster is confused because companies aren't using Meyers-Briggs because it is not built to judge good or bad employees like the Minnesota tests were.
Meyers-Briggs tells you how you think, but doesn't tell employers anything unless they want to make ridiculous assumptions and claim an entire personality group is 'flawed'.
Make a girl laugh and her brain will release strong pleasure chemicals. The only time I've seen a 'built' man lose a girl is when his competitor, regardless of body shape, kept her laughing.
So finally the upper class is a literal definition!
is that you?
Just eat it fatty!
Childbirth is child porn!
(wait, what?)
on the contrary, progressive movements always take 2 steps forward, 1 step back. Our parents are almost universally more liberal than our grandparents.
It's just hard to see because the battleground shifts and we think the war never ends, but the fact that politicians even dare to speak of homosexuals is a huge shift from the 60s.
Stupidity. The cause of and solution to life's problems.
I did not say apathy was a solution.
Sometimes doing nothing is the right choice, sometimes calm and cautious action is the right choice, and sometimes sudden and rash action is the right choice.
What's important however is to evaluate your ideology, and the actions you are taking to promote that purpose, on a daily basis because blind faith leads to atrocities. Even those who believe in peace, freedom, and justice can commit them in the name of their beliefs.
which is why the US is a constitutional republic.
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But their atrocities were based in ideology, which religion is a subset of.
If one believes in a cause, perhaps one can kill for a cause.
Of course, mysticism is popular and easier to use than political beliefs..., but Stalin and Hitler were able to use other beliefs to the same effect. All of it uses a similar mantra: "you need to be afraid of the enemy, assume the worst, and strike first. To do otherwise is to let them win." Ironically the phrase 'Evil needs only for good men to do nothing' is a double edged sword.
The caveat is that for good to succeed all that is required is for evil men to do nothing.
If all causes can be used for evil, then sometimes doing nothing is the moral choice.
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You know, some people are actually poor, and have to make decisions like 'should I eat lunch or pay rent?'
I'd still be playing WoW if I could forego the monthly payment and just pay for the times I actually login. But if I have a busy month it feels dumb to shell out 15 bucks for logging in twice to check auctions.
And it's raspberry!