In fact she was considering what her shift should dress up as for Halloween this year (last year was all pirates) and one possibility was cowboys & indians. I discouraged her from it as someone, like yourself, would pitch a fit.
It doesn't offend me personally, but do you really not see why people dressing up as an "Indian" would actually be offensive to many Native people? Because that's the issue here.
I can explain it if you're curious:
White people came over from Europe and committed atrocities against the native population of the Americas for hundreds of years, and now some of us think it would be fun to dress up as a member of that (still oppressed, discriminated against, and suffering lasting effects of the aforementioned genocide) culture.
I can see why someone from a Native American culture would be offended, so I don't dress up as an "Indian", and if you choose to anyway, I'll probably think you're an asshole.
Can I come to your house and scream at you about why my value system is great, and your value system is terrible? How about your job? Want to invite me along next time you go jogging or riding a bicycle so I can mock your religious views? Can I sit shotgun on your morning commute and berate you about your lifestyle choices? Care to have me preach about satanism at your local church?
No? Are those safe spaces for you?
You have a misunderstanding of the term safe spaces. It should be obvious by now that most people have plenty of "safe spaces". But, imagine you're a LGBTQ college kid who shares a 12' x 12' dorm room with a bigoted moron. Where do you go to get away from that.
And I agree that shouting down others as a primary form of debate is awful, and all too common. But if you think it's somehow limited to liberal college kids, you must have a very narrow view of the world yourself.
You need to read it again...the world class expert 'learned' how to grow plants in the thin atmosphere by chanting over them (the chanting over them was just the hippy version of 'reverse the polarity of the tachyon beams' style bullshit).
Also the entire colony, including the 'world class expert in closed biosystems' was recruited from the parking lot of a dead show, 5 hours after the show ended...because reason. IIRC part of reason was: 'Deadheads are actually the smartest people, all the smartest people are hippies.' That's pretty much where it exceeded my ability to suspend disbelief.
It was a silly book written to play to the world view and egos of silly people. I won't send another penny the authors way on any more of the series.
There is nothing "unfair" about your situation at all. Are you actually getting upset that some members of your group were training to improve themselves?
These can be used to simulate a tongue piercing by placing one on the top of your tongue, and another below it. Obviously this leads to at least a few teenagers swallowing magnets as well.
Dawkins does differentiate between weak and strong atheism. He readily admits that it is impossible to conclusively prove the absence of god.
Your "For all we know" statement is the problem with agnosticism. The classic example: For all we know, there is a very small teapot orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. Are you agnostic about this possibility as well, or would you refute the statement, pointing out how absurd it would be?
I honestly don't believe that I am a Dawkins fan boy.
I had the same complaint, but then, after a few seconds I discovered that you can click back one directory (or as many as you like) using the address bar. It shouldn't be too far from where you would have had to click that little "go up one directory" button.
I swear, this story was on/. before, or at least mentioned in a similar article, but I might be wrong.
After actually applying, and realizing it's something I might end up getting picked to do, I realized just how much this would suck. I'm almost positive I will not go through with it.
That being said, anyone know of any other good PAID research studies to participate in?
Except that the indigenous people living in Peru and in Namibia might not have the same concept of ownership as the western world. Land that they had lived on for hundreds or thousands of years was most likly taken without their consent, or otherwise stolen, because they have chosen not to participate in this train wreck we call modern society.
Pie to the face. Fun yet classic.
Or make it a brick if you feel really daring.
Anyways, I don't have to know copyright law to know the MPAA and RIAA cases are bullshit. I know that SHARING music, movies, and pretty much anything else, is not wrong. I don't care if it's legal or not.
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In fact she was considering what her shift should dress up as for Halloween this year (last year was all pirates) and one possibility was cowboys & indians. I discouraged her from it as someone, like yourself, would pitch a fit.
It doesn't offend me personally, but do you really not see why people dressing up as an "Indian" would actually be offensive to many Native people? Because that's the issue here.
I can explain it if you're curious:
White people came over from Europe and committed atrocities against the native population of the Americas for hundreds of years, and now some of us think it would be fun to dress up as a member of that (still oppressed, discriminated against, and suffering lasting effects of the aforementioned genocide) culture.
I can see why someone from a Native American culture would be offended, so I don't dress up as an "Indian", and if you choose to anyway, I'll probably think you're an asshole.
No? Are those safe spaces for you?
You have a misunderstanding of the term safe spaces. It should be obvious by now that most people have plenty of "safe spaces". But, imagine you're a LGBTQ college kid who shares a 12' x 12' dorm room with a bigoted moron. Where do you go to get away from that.
And I agree that shouting down others as a primary form of debate is awful, and all too common. But if you think it's somehow limited to liberal college kids, you must have a very narrow view of the world yourself.
You need to read it again...the world class expert 'learned' how to grow plants in the thin atmosphere by chanting over them (the chanting over them was just the hippy version of 'reverse the polarity of the tachyon beams' style bullshit).
Also the entire colony, including the 'world class expert in closed biosystems' was recruited from the parking lot of a dead show, 5 hours after the show ended...because reason. IIRC part of reason was: 'Deadheads are actually the smartest people, all the smartest people are hippies.' That's pretty much where it exceeded my ability to suspend disbelief.
It was a silly book written to play to the world view and egos of silly people. I won't send another penny the authors way on any more of the series.
Are you and I thinking of the same book?
There is nothing "unfair" about your situation at all. Are you actually getting upset that some members of your group were training to improve themselves?
Nearly ONE IN THREE CALIFORNIANS VOTED TRUMP! Who is enslaving whom exactly you insensitive clod?
This is simply untrue. Population of California: 39,144,818 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Ballots Cast in California: 9,430,998 - http://vote.sos.ca.gov/returns... Only one in four Californians even bothered to vote, let alone voted for Trump.
These can be used to simulate a tongue piercing by placing one on the top of your tongue, and another below it. Obviously this leads to at least a few teenagers swallowing magnets as well.
Dawkins does differentiate between weak and strong atheism. He readily admits that it is impossible to conclusively prove the absence of god. Your "For all we know" statement is the problem with agnosticism. The classic example: For all we know, there is a very small teapot orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. Are you agnostic about this possibility as well, or would you refute the statement, pointing out how absurd it would be? I honestly don't believe that I am a Dawkins fan boy.
I had the same complaint, but then, after a few seconds I discovered that you can click back one directory (or as many as you like) using the address bar. It shouldn't be too far from where you would have had to click that little "go up one directory" button.
I swear, this story was on /. before, or at least mentioned in a similar article, but I might be wrong.
After actually applying, and realizing it's something I might end up getting picked to do, I realized just how much this would suck. I'm almost positive I will not go through with it.
That being said, anyone know of any other good PAID research studies to participate in?
You can always use swatch internet time.
Except that the indigenous people living in Peru and in Namibia might not have the same concept of ownership as the western world. Land that they had lived on for hundreds or thousands of years was most likly taken without their consent, or otherwise stolen, because they have chosen not to participate in this train wreck we call modern society.
Do you ever have time to post on the WIFS boards?
...and yet, despite your superior intelligence, you cannot seem to type a cohesive sentence to brag about it.
Pie to the face. Fun yet classic. Or make it a brick if you feel really daring. Anyways, I don't have to know copyright law to know the MPAA and RIAA cases are bullshit. I know that SHARING music, movies, and pretty much anything else, is not wrong. I don't care if it's legal or not.