I'd like to see someone start offering free episode downloads (without commercials) for people who pre-order the DVD set up front. I'd pay $60 or so to be able to do that. Not for Heroes, but for a show I liked.
tolerance
The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others. Look it up. Now it's time for you to sit down real hard and think real deep. Who has EVER felt the need to "tolerate" something that they did not find destructive or "offensive" or in any other way "bad?" No one, that's who. You would be correct if the definition had any use in practice beyond things that people don't like, but it doesn't.
If something really is bad it should not be "tolerated." This would include, but is obviously not limited to, blowing yourself up in crowded places, shooting doctors on the way to work, and teaching your children that the most important thing in the world is your make believe friend. These are not good things for humanity and we should not "tolerate" them. Most people would agree and if you don't it's not my problem that you're a completely amoral prick.
About the most important thing that should be "tolerated" is someone who thinks Halo is great. If you don't see the point by now you likely never will, but I've met some good, solid atheists who are extremely rational that were completely fundie lunatics into their twenties, so there may just be hope for you yet since stranger turnarounds than you have happened.
And yes, I am a zealot. A zealot for truth. What, do you think you can scare me off by calling me names and comparing me to religious freaks? The problem with "religious zealots" is that they're wrong, not that they're passionate and committed to a cause. Welcome to the 21st century, if you wake up you might just have a pleasant stay.
Actually, I totally agree with you. The "popular" belief system is very rarely the best objectively, or even subjectively (as far as I'm concerned). Secularism is in fact one of those areas. Worldwide it's the minority opinion. I would say that it is the minority opinion in The United States as well, which was the point of the second half of my statement. I was being facetious, but not really.
It seems to me that the "most fit" ideas are often objectively the worst. You can see this every day with religion. Whether or not religion began as a selection for survival advantage or as a byproduct of another adaptation it clearly is one now. It leads people to band together to fight the "others" and usually includes strict requirements to reproduce like crazy and assimilate anyone and everyone they can get your hands on, with the option to purchase the expansion pack "kill them if they resist."
Amazing how you can get so much survival power out of so little thinking. Kind of like a starfish with its regenerating limbs and no brain.
Name something other than "god" that anyone would argue for the existence of where there is not only absolutely no evidence, but no possibility that such evidence could even exist. There is no such thing. This delusion is special among all the thinking of humanity (if you can include it in such a category). That you can imagine yourself up something that can never be proven or disproved gives no more reason to believe in the existence of such a thing than if you hadn't imagined it up in the first place. I would argue that it gives even less reason to respect the ideas of, and indeed the person, who believes such nonsense.
Additionally, you perhaps should have worked your way down a little further when quote mining that Wikipedia entry. You would have gotten to the etymology of the word "agnostic." It comes indirectly from the Greek "gnosis" by way of "Gnosticism." But if you'd done any amount of thinking or reading on the subject you would have already known that. Etymologically "agnostic" is by definition much closer to "anti-theist" than "atheist" could ever hope to be. It's a shame it has been corrupted to serve as a label for the herd of fence-sitting cowards who are either too afraid or too stupid to see existence for what it is.
You might also want to brush up on the definition and meaning of "religion" while you're schooling yourself some new learning.
Cuba is communist and most of them are catholics. Though that is due to the mostly homogeneous catholic population and it was easy, as you might say, to use that absolute truth to push the agenda. Where as Stalin, probably being an atheist himself, saw the dangers of religious nuts with absolute truth behind them overpowering his nuts and toppling him.
Comparing communism to secularism is as useless as comparing it to democracy. Communism is an ECONOMIC system comparable to capitalism. Whether or not it is paired with secularism or democracy is completely incidental, but it is not inherently opposed to either.
You are wrong on both counts, dipshit. Atheism is not a religion and things that are not important are irrelevant and only a complete prick would feel the need to "tolerate" them.
So again, with bullet points:
People who tolerate things that are important and destructive* are assholes.
People who feel the need to "tolerate" unimportant/irrelevant things are pricks whether:
They "tolerate" these things.
They need to "tolerate" them.
What you have failed to do when reading that dictionary is think critically. If you had the ability to do that you would have realized that:
* No one feels the need to "tolerate" things that they find good, beneficial, or harmless, regardless of how "different" they are.
Even if they did, what does it matter? Wii isn't really competing with 360 in North America and in Japan it doesn't even matter. They might even be thinking to use the current popularity of Nintendo platforms to get some fan support behind a few of their franchises and then try to convert the players to their console. I sure do hope that I'm wrong, because that plan might actually work for them...
There's a DS version of Advance Wars called Dual Strike, and it kicks ass with the old ones. There's also a sequel coming with the promise of online play (or is that just wishful thinking?). I agree though, there aren't enough really great RPGs on DS. But there are quite a few pretty descent ones.
People spouting christian nonsense in biology class should be turned out on their ear. There has never been a credible challenge to Darwinian evolution and likely never will be, and it definitely wouldn't be discovered by a couple of pricks who got lost on the way to Sunday school and wound up in BIO101.
There is no reason to rationally, or otherwise, "defend" evolution from clowns like yourself. Every "argument" you guys have ever come up with has been torn to pieces a thousand times over. You have NOTHING. If all we do is kick you out of class and laugh at you once you're gone be lucky.
Tolerance is just another word for putting up with shit that you can't stand. And there is no god.
We've got two kinds of people who "tolerate" shit in this world, both are pricks. We've got the asshole who "tolerates" gays, blacks, jews, and whoever else they hate for no fucking reason. And then we have the assholes who "tolerate" mass genocides, corporate imperialism, and teaching children that a magic fairy named jesus created the world 6000 years ago.
We don't need anyone who "should tolerate" these things, so why do we care if they do or not? We don't need tolerance. What we fucking need is some grown ups.
Secularism is a better philosophy than Islam in the same way that rationality is superior to delusion. I'm not sure what you think that has to do with The United States though.
What's the advantage of paying for client-hosted online games? On xbox you're just paying for the privilege to play on Johnny Teabag's cable line that's paid for by his mom. The people who pay for this are paying for it because microsoft said to and no other reason.
People from microsoft have even come straight out and said that they were charging for xbox live just to get people used to the idea of paying for every little thing. Please, this shit should be free and only a moron would pay for it.
You missed an "r" in there, chief. That's what got the typing nazis in such an uproar. Grammar and spelling nazis are fine, but fuck these assholes who get on typoeos.
If you mean windows say "windows." It actually makes you look kind of dumb when you do that.
Also, and this is way off topic (but not a troll or flamebait as I'm sure it'll get modded), but mother theresa was a fucking cunt and the world is a better place without her in it.
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I'd like to see someone start offering free episode downloads (without commercials) for people who pre-order the DVD set up front. I'd pay $60 or so to be able to do that. Not for Heroes, but for a show I liked.
If something really is bad it should not be "tolerated." This would include, but is obviously not limited to, blowing yourself up in crowded places, shooting doctors on the way to work, and teaching your children that the most important thing in the world is your make believe friend. These are not good things for humanity and we should not "tolerate" them. Most people would agree and if you don't it's not my problem that you're a completely amoral prick.
About the most important thing that should be "tolerated" is someone who thinks Halo is great. If you don't see the point by now you likely never will, but I've met some good, solid atheists who are extremely rational that were completely fundie lunatics into their twenties, so there may just be hope for you yet since stranger turnarounds than you have happened.
And yes, I am a zealot. A zealot for truth. What, do you think you can scare me off by calling me names and comparing me to religious freaks? The problem with "religious zealots" is that they're wrong, not that they're passionate and committed to a cause. Welcome to the 21st century, if you wake up you might just have a pleasant stay.
Actually, I totally agree with you. The "popular" belief system is very rarely the best objectively, or even subjectively (as far as I'm concerned). Secularism is in fact one of those areas. Worldwide it's the minority opinion. I would say that it is the minority opinion in The United States as well, which was the point of the second half of my statement. I was being facetious, but not really.
It seems to me that the "most fit" ideas are often objectively the worst. You can see this every day with religion. Whether or not religion began as a selection for survival advantage or as a byproduct of another adaptation it clearly is one now. It leads people to band together to fight the "others" and usually includes strict requirements to reproduce like crazy and assimilate anyone and everyone they can get your hands on, with the option to purchase the expansion pack "kill them if they resist."
Amazing how you can get so much survival power out of so little thinking. Kind of like a starfish with its regenerating limbs and no brain.
Name something other than "god" that anyone would argue for the existence of where there is not only absolutely no evidence, but no possibility that such evidence could even exist. There is no such thing. This delusion is special among all the thinking of humanity (if you can include it in such a category). That you can imagine yourself up something that can never be proven or disproved gives no more reason to believe in the existence of such a thing than if you hadn't imagined it up in the first place. I would argue that it gives even less reason to respect the ideas of, and indeed the person, who believes such nonsense.
Additionally, you perhaps should have worked your way down a little further when quote mining that Wikipedia entry. You would have gotten to the etymology of the word "agnostic." It comes indirectly from the Greek "gnosis" by way of "Gnosticism." But if you'd done any amount of thinking or reading on the subject you would have already known that. Etymologically "agnostic" is by definition much closer to "anti-theist" than "atheist" could ever hope to be. It's a shame it has been corrupted to serve as a label for the herd of fence-sitting cowards who are either too afraid or too stupid to see existence for what it is.
You might also want to brush up on the definition and meaning of "religion" while you're schooling yourself some new learning.
Cuba is communist and most of them are catholics. Though that is due to the mostly homogeneous catholic population and it was easy, as you might say, to use that absolute truth to push the agenda. Where as Stalin, probably being an atheist himself, saw the dangers of religious nuts with absolute truth behind them overpowering his nuts and toppling him.
Comparing communism to secularism is as useless as comparing it to democracy. Communism is an ECONOMIC system comparable to capitalism. Whether or not it is paired with secularism or democracy is completely incidental, but it is not inherently opposed to either.
So again, with bullet points:
What you have failed to do when reading that dictionary is think critically. If you had the ability to do that you would have realized that:
* No one feels the need to "tolerate" things that they find good, beneficial, or harmless, regardless of how "different" they are.
That's why /. needs a +2 Awesome mod. Your sig kicks ass, btw.
Even if they did, what does it matter? Wii isn't really competing with 360 in North America and in Japan it doesn't even matter. They might even be thinking to use the current popularity of Nintendo platforms to get some fan support behind a few of their franchises and then try to convert the players to their console. I sure do hope that I'm wrong, because that plan might actually work for them...
There's a DS version of Advance Wars called Dual Strike, and it kicks ass with the old ones. There's also a sequel coming with the promise of online play (or is that just wishful thinking?). I agree though, there aren't enough really great RPGs on DS. But there are quite a few pretty descent ones.
You should have Splunked it.
No one benefits from the "innovation" of microsoft lock-in. So no, we don't all benefit.
Oh, so that's what god needs with a starship!
People spouting christian nonsense in biology class should be turned out on their ear. There has never been a credible challenge to Darwinian evolution and likely never will be, and it definitely wouldn't be discovered by a couple of pricks who got lost on the way to Sunday school and wound up in BIO101.
There is no reason to rationally, or otherwise, "defend" evolution from clowns like yourself. Every "argument" you guys have ever come up with has been torn to pieces a thousand times over. You have NOTHING. If all we do is kick you out of class and laugh at you once you're gone be lucky.
Tolerance is just another word for putting up with shit that you can't stand. And there is no god.
We've got two kinds of people who "tolerate" shit in this world, both are pricks. We've got the asshole who "tolerates" gays, blacks, jews, and whoever else they hate for no fucking reason. And then we have the assholes who "tolerate" mass genocides, corporate imperialism, and teaching children that a magic fairy named jesus created the world 6000 years ago.
We don't need anyone who "should tolerate" these things, so why do we care if they do or not? We don't need tolerance. What we fucking need is some grown ups.
Secularism is a better philosophy than Islam in the same way that rationality is superior to delusion. I'm not sure what you think that has to do with The United States though.
For real, next time someone just buy that guy a blankey and some tissues.
What's the advantage of paying for client-hosted online games? On xbox you're just paying for the privilege to play on Johnny Teabag's cable line that's paid for by his mom. The people who pay for this are paying for it because microsoft said to and no other reason.
People from microsoft have even come straight out and said that they were charging for xbox live just to get people used to the idea of paying for every little thing. Please, this shit should be free and only a moron would pay for it.
You missed an "r" in there, chief. That's what got the typing nazis in such an uproar. Grammar and spelling nazis are fine, but fuck these assholes who get on typoeos.
Halo 2 was better? Please. Halo 2 was boring, repetitive, and frankly, contained lackluster gameplay.
You just described the whole series. So what was your point again?
And a lot of idiots LOVE 3ds max. There's simply no accounting for taste these days!
This is absolutely true. In fact, most people who I come across these days seem to be at the most indifferent to that little bastard.
And did anyone else know that his christian name is actually Clipper? But I guess only his mother calls him that.
Does the A-Team have a scientist?
If you mean windows say "windows." It actually makes you look kind of dumb when you do that.
Also, and this is way off topic (but not a troll or flamebait as I'm sure it'll get modded), but mother theresa was a fucking cunt and the world is a better place without her in it.
PC does not mean "windows." Please don't make this mistake again in the future.