I kid you not, my younger cousin saw that cartoon and ask for Log for Christmas. I remember watching my grandpa etching the L O G into the bark. Duncan seriously had a log under the tree. He's since asked for consoles and guitars and such. Behold, the power of Television.
These are two I didn't think of. Ever ask for a Tyco race track and get the hotwheels strips instead? By New Year's I had already been cracked with the orange highway several times.
A buddy of mine purchased a slot car track from Australia (I'm in the US) that was around $500. It was so tits. Took up a whole room.
Erector sets are cool but take forever to build something. Maybe that is a good thing. If my youngest tries to wreck the tower his brother built, I'll be hauling him off to the ER to have the metal extracted from his chest instead of simply listen to a 5 year-old freak.
I have three kids. 7, 5.5, and 2.5 years old. I purchased Lincoln Lumber for them last Christmas and they were not interested. They are great to step on but don't have the power to slice right through the flesh of one's foot like a Lego brick does.
The bottom line for me is that porn is a kind of pathetic replacement for the real deal. Men watch porn because what they have isn't enough. How pathetic would it be if I watched videos of guys driving really nice cars around LA and pictured myself driving those cars in my head because I knew I would never really own a Lambo myself? What if I took it a step further and while watching the videos, I set up for myself a little steering wheel and a clutch pedal and stick? Do you lock the bathroom door so no one can see you outrunning the cops? Heeee-Haaaw. I'm a Duke boy!
True, men are treated like mindless heaps of hungry flesh too. Ha! Yeah...I'm brainwashed because I think women are degraded by porn. Tell me, how can I enlighten myself beyond this? Seriously, I don't think women are helpless victims. Even the strongest baddest biker dude in prison, if gang-raped, is a victim. Does that mean he's helpless because he's been degraded? The logic doesn't wash. The reason I feel that women are degraded in porn is because most of the little scenes end with dudes spunking in women's faces. I don't think that's degrading because of my view of women as helpless, I think it's degrading because I'm a human being and I have common sense enough to know better. I feel kind of crummy for anyone who thinks sex is just sex. Sex is beyond the physical and even onto the spiritual. It is potent stuff. Why does everyone equate porn with sex in the real-world? Give me a break.
That's actually kind of funny. If you seriously think about it - is it better for me to go home and work out, or to be lazy and watch TV? Well, guess what I want to do? That's right, with chips and dip even. Prohibition was outlawed (repealed). If you mean booze, the same argument could be made I suppose. Nobody would argue that booze was just some natural harmless thing, and yet people struggle to make porn out to be. Sports - HUGE lessons to learn from sports. Have to work hard in sports. Have to give it up and put mind over what the body wants. Video games - similar to sports in some ways - strategy etc. Slashdot, learned a lot from here. I don't want to rate everything people are into. Just because it wastes your time, doesn't mean it's bad. Porn is more than that. People want porn because it triggers junk to squirt around in their brains that makes them feel good. There is no philosophy to it. It's biological. Unfortunately, people are designed to have these feelings with other people - not a monitor or TV. Nature has chosen who gets to hook up with who and how often - porn obviously tricks the brain with this one. Porn gets you high with all of the trappings that run along with getting that kind of buzz. Sure...harmless.
Wake up. You don't have to be a feminist extremist to think pornography is degrading to women. Go out and randomly sample ten porno films floating around Kazaa. Now watch those and imagine your sister or your daughter or someone you love doing that stuff. As you imagine it, aren't you proud!? No? Well, what if your sister was getting $1000 and needed or even just liked the money. Now, there is no problem, right? When people watch porn, they are paying attention. There are some intense chemicals coursing through the brain. It makes an impression. I just don't get you and people like you. Women are treated like meat in porn. You can dance around it all you like but I'm talking about real-life, not some college paper or coffee house slant on reality. Women are used in porn. So what if they get paid. Dudes watch women get used and you don't think that effects how they view women? Wake up.
What do you think research says about porn and how it has effected a porn-lovin culture's view of women? Smart people can always justify unhealthy behavior. Porn is fake. It's tricking the brain and the body into thinking that there's intimacy, a sexual connection (something really really good), going down. Is porn good for our culture? C'mon? I think about human history and the defining moments that stand out have everything to do with sacrifice, selfless service, and a consideration for some higher cause that is more important than self. Porn isn't going to cause a complete meltdown in culture, no. But is it a good thing? Be serious. It's similar to smoking in that it makes you feel good even though it's not something the body was naturally wired to do. If you think watching porn and jerking it is the same thing as having good sex, then you might be doing the sex part wrong. Good sex is about someone else. What is better for a person, watching porn or reading a book? OK, watching porn or cleaning out your garage? How about watching porn or taking a nap? Watching porn or taking 20 minutes to think about what you want out of life while staring at your basement wall? People want porn to be OK because it feels good. Mature people, however, understand that nothing of value comes without pain. Even good sex is about putting someone elses desire before our own. Ramble ramble ramble to the touchy-touchers. Heh. 'I'm a better person because of porn!' Nice.
Anyone who doesn't think porn can jack with a young man's (or woman's) mind - in a serious way - is an idiot. I don't get how the same crowd that wants to protect a citizen's right to view a billion ways to degrade a woman is the same crew that gets all bent out of shape when women are not treated with respect. Hello!? Personally, I think the law sounds pretty foolish. But I'm sick of hearing that porn is some kind of harmless neutral thing that has no effect on people. We're forking over BILLIONS for porn. There are a whole lot of folks out there spending more on porn than they are to maintain their car that they need to get them to work every day. Naahh...probably right. Porn is innocuous. Let's have a porn-O birthday party! 'It makes me feel good so it must be a good idea!' - grow up.
I work at a school (IT) and we homeschool our kids and I'm also Bible College graduate and ordained - marry & bury, the whole bit.
I don't get how educated people keep banging the same gong, "Sure, homeschooled kids test high and are less likely to fall through the cracks of society - BUT they're not socialized, or they're crazed Christians, or freaks." This is sad coming from geeks who themselves have probably been on the ugly end of teasing from those who think, "Hey, if these guys are smarter than the average 'normal kid' - then we have to bring them down by some other measure."
I know some smart homeschooled kids who fit the profile - got the brains but arrogant and not really that great fitting in.
But this is an old argument against homeschooling and most modern homeschoolers are hip to the need to get their kids/students out and into the social mix.
As far as the Creation thing goes - I think most Christians are now up to speed with a 'Creation Event'. How could they not be with Hawking and others freely using 'God' language?
Yeah, they make real ones. But you have to be really rich or handsome to get your hands on one. I wonder how I would do with the girl touching the same way I wonder how I would be as a stuntman. A great opportunity, but would I blow it or maybe even hurt myself?
--Cuz I'm the unknown stuntman, that makes Eastwood look so fine.
Ooo. Me Grandpa was a custodian and a very smart man. Watch your mouth. I work for a school and the janitors here are smart folks too.
Most of all, they treat the lowly tech guy with respect in spite of his job and the fact that he lives in his parents basement and has never touched a girl (not a real girl anyway).
Camcorded movies are only going to significantly hurt the box office when a movie sucks it.
I now there are a lot of people who view downloaded movies as a way to see an 'extended preview'. Then again, there are movies that they want to 'experience' as opposed to just 'view'. Lord of the Rings, The Passion of the Christ, Matrixesessses....
Consumers are taking control - right or wrong, it's happening. People are networking to find out the real deal. This is good for those who put out good product but can't afford the snaz. This is bad for those who do a good job of packaging crap because they're going to be found out before fooling enough people to get a return on their garbage.
Why is it so hard to make a good movie? Why is it so hard to make a great album? Make great art that appeals to the population and you'll make bank.
I know it's not easy to make really good films or music. How about simply not making huge piles of steaming crap? How many great screenplays are sitting in boxes? How many great songs are unrecorded? And all because some suit doesn't have the smooth round ones to go outside of whatever the current formula is.
At the same time it's too bad that people need such specific laws because they have no concept of obeying common sense or the Golden Rule. We're in bad shape when it's laws that keep people in line.
As for my government in the USofA. WTF!?! You boys and girls need to make a list of the stuff that really needs tending too and hop to it.
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I kid you not, my younger cousin saw that cartoon and ask for Log for Christmas. I remember watching my grandpa etching the L O G into the bark. Duncan seriously had a log under the tree. He's since asked for consoles and guitars and such. Behold, the power of Television.
Give a kid LSD?
These are two I didn't think of. Ever ask for a Tyco race track and get the hotwheels strips instead? By New Year's I had already been cracked with the orange highway several times. A buddy of mine purchased a slot car track from Australia (I'm in the US) that was around $500. It was so tits. Took up a whole room. Erector sets are cool but take forever to build something. Maybe that is a good thing. If my youngest tries to wreck the tower his brother built, I'll be hauling him off to the ER to have the metal extracted from his chest instead of simply listen to a 5 year-old freak.
I have three kids. 7, 5.5, and 2.5 years old. I purchased Lincoln Lumber for them last Christmas and they were not interested. They are great to step on but don't have the power to slice right through the flesh of one's foot like a Lego brick does.
The bottom line for me is that porn is a kind of pathetic replacement for the real deal. Men watch porn because what they have isn't enough. How pathetic would it be if I watched videos of guys driving really nice cars around LA and pictured myself driving those cars in my head because I knew I would never really own a Lambo myself? What if I took it a step further and while watching the videos, I set up for myself a little steering wheel and a clutch pedal and stick? Do you lock the bathroom door so no one can see you outrunning the cops? Heeee-Haaaw. I'm a Duke boy!
True, men are treated like mindless heaps of hungry flesh too. Ha! Yeah...I'm brainwashed because I think women are degraded by porn. Tell me, how can I enlighten myself beyond this? Seriously, I don't think women are helpless victims. Even the strongest baddest biker dude in prison, if gang-raped, is a victim. Does that mean he's helpless because he's been degraded? The logic doesn't wash. The reason I feel that women are degraded in porn is because most of the little scenes end with dudes spunking in women's faces. I don't think that's degrading because of my view of women as helpless, I think it's degrading because I'm a human being and I have common sense enough to know better. I feel kind of crummy for anyone who thinks sex is just sex. Sex is beyond the physical and even onto the spiritual. It is potent stuff. Why does everyone equate porn with sex in the real-world? Give me a break.
That's actually kind of funny. If you seriously think about it - is it better for me to go home and work out, or to be lazy and watch TV? Well, guess what I want to do? That's right, with chips and dip even. Prohibition was outlawed (repealed). If you mean booze, the same argument could be made I suppose. Nobody would argue that booze was just some natural harmless thing, and yet people struggle to make porn out to be. Sports - HUGE lessons to learn from sports. Have to work hard in sports. Have to give it up and put mind over what the body wants. Video games - similar to sports in some ways - strategy etc. Slashdot, learned a lot from here. I don't want to rate everything people are into. Just because it wastes your time, doesn't mean it's bad. Porn is more than that. People want porn because it triggers junk to squirt around in their brains that makes them feel good. There is no philosophy to it. It's biological. Unfortunately, people are designed to have these feelings with other people - not a monitor or TV. Nature has chosen who gets to hook up with who and how often - porn obviously tricks the brain with this one. Porn gets you high with all of the trappings that run along with getting that kind of buzz. Sure...harmless.
Wake up. You don't have to be a feminist extremist to think pornography is degrading to women. Go out and randomly sample ten porno films floating around Kazaa. Now watch those and imagine your sister or your daughter or someone you love doing that stuff. As you imagine it, aren't you proud!? No? Well, what if your sister was getting $1000 and needed or even just liked the money. Now, there is no problem, right? When people watch porn, they are paying attention. There are some intense chemicals coursing through the brain. It makes an impression. I just don't get you and people like you. Women are treated like meat in porn. You can dance around it all you like but I'm talking about real-life, not some college paper or coffee house slant on reality. Women are used in porn. So what if they get paid. Dudes watch women get used and you don't think that effects how they view women? Wake up.
What do you think research says about porn and how it has effected a porn-lovin culture's view of women? Smart people can always justify unhealthy behavior. Porn is fake. It's tricking the brain and the body into thinking that there's intimacy, a sexual connection (something really really good), going down. Is porn good for our culture? C'mon? I think about human history and the defining moments that stand out have everything to do with sacrifice, selfless service, and a consideration for some higher cause that is more important than self. Porn isn't going to cause a complete meltdown in culture, no. But is it a good thing? Be serious. It's similar to smoking in that it makes you feel good even though it's not something the body was naturally wired to do. If you think watching porn and jerking it is the same thing as having good sex, then you might be doing the sex part wrong. Good sex is about someone else. What is better for a person, watching porn or reading a book? OK, watching porn or cleaning out your garage? How about watching porn or taking a nap? Watching porn or taking 20 minutes to think about what you want out of life while staring at your basement wall? People want porn to be OK because it feels good. Mature people, however, understand that nothing of value comes without pain. Even good sex is about putting someone elses desire before our own. Ramble ramble ramble to the touchy-touchers. Heh. 'I'm a better person because of porn!' Nice.
Bring an explanation as to why you like to be around other dudes in heat.
Anyone who doesn't think porn can jack with a young man's (or woman's) mind - in a serious way - is an idiot. I don't get how the same crowd that wants to protect a citizen's right to view a billion ways to degrade a woman is the same crew that gets all bent out of shape when women are not treated with respect. Hello!? Personally, I think the law sounds pretty foolish. But I'm sick of hearing that porn is some kind of harmless neutral thing that has no effect on people. We're forking over BILLIONS for porn. There are a whole lot of folks out there spending more on porn than they are to maintain their car that they need to get them to work every day. Naahh...probably right. Porn is innocuous. Let's have a porn-O birthday party! 'It makes me feel good so it must be a good idea!' - grow up.
I work at a school (IT) and we homeschool our kids and I'm also Bible College graduate and ordained - marry & bury, the whole bit. I don't get how educated people keep banging the same gong, "Sure, homeschooled kids test high and are less likely to fall through the cracks of society - BUT they're not socialized, or they're crazed Christians, or freaks." This is sad coming from geeks who themselves have probably been on the ugly end of teasing from those who think, "Hey, if these guys are smarter than the average 'normal kid' - then we have to bring them down by some other measure." I know some smart homeschooled kids who fit the profile - got the brains but arrogant and not really that great fitting in. But this is an old argument against homeschooling and most modern homeschoolers are hip to the need to get their kids/students out and into the social mix. As far as the Creation thing goes - I think most Christians are now up to speed with a 'Creation Event'. How could they not be with Hawking and others freely using 'God' language?
Yeah, they make real ones. But you have to be really rich or handsome to get your hands on one. I wonder how I would do with the girl touching the same way I wonder how I would be as a stuntman. A great opportunity, but would I blow it or maybe even hurt myself? --Cuz I'm the unknown stuntman, that makes Eastwood look so fine.
Ooo. Me Grandpa was a custodian and a very smart man. Watch your mouth. I work for a school and the janitors here are smart folks too. Most of all, they treat the lowly tech guy with respect in spite of his job and the fact that he lives in his parents basement and has never touched a girl (not a real girl anyway).
Camcorded movies are only going to significantly hurt the box office when a movie sucks it. I now there are a lot of people who view downloaded movies as a way to see an 'extended preview'. Then again, there are movies that they want to 'experience' as opposed to just 'view'. Lord of the Rings, The Passion of the Christ, Matrixesessses.... Consumers are taking control - right or wrong, it's happening. People are networking to find out the real deal. This is good for those who put out good product but can't afford the snaz. This is bad for those who do a good job of packaging crap because they're going to be found out before fooling enough people to get a return on their garbage. Why is it so hard to make a good movie? Why is it so hard to make a great album? Make great art that appeals to the population and you'll make bank. I know it's not easy to make really good films or music. How about simply not making huge piles of steaming crap? How many great screenplays are sitting in boxes? How many great songs are unrecorded? And all because some suit doesn't have the smooth round ones to go outside of whatever the current formula is. At the same time it's too bad that people need such specific laws because they have no concept of obeying common sense or the Golden Rule. We're in bad shape when it's laws that keep people in line. As for my government in the USofA. WTF!?! You boys and girls need to make a list of the stuff that really needs tending too and hop to it.