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#241
General Discussion / Re: Saddam Hussein
Thu 04/01/2007 23:19:02
Alynn said:
Quoteand enough money to support multiple wives

I enjoy this combination.
#242
Wha-a-a-at?
#243
General Discussion / Re: The Afterlife...
Sat 23/12/2006 08:13:40
Quote from: shitarâ,,¢ on Sat 23/12/2006 07:58:20
Quote from: EagerMind on Sat 23/12/2006 07:11:46
Quote from: shitarâ,,¢ on Sat 23/12/2006 02:55:01If it is the way nature intended for us to be why would we do it any other way? Im sure antelope dont enjoy being eaten by the lion but it happens anyways. You dont see them building spears to escape their destiny.

The implication being that the history of human civilization is somehow unnatural?

It's natural for ants to dig habitats in the earth and scavenge resources from the surrounding environment. It's natural for a pride of lions to live, hunt, and otherwise coexist together as a social unit. It's natural for a hornet hive to send out some hornets to massacre honeybees hives and steal their honey. But it's not natural for humans to form and develop civilizations?

What makes you think that humans are anything other than what nature has intended them to be?

Because we are the only species of anything in the known galaxy that is capable of destroying its own planet (nukes)?

If you want to make a philosophical or ethical demand, make it. But there's no natural and self-apparent distinction between us or anything else that occurs on this earth because we've made nukes.
#244
General Discussion / Re: The Afterlife...
Sat 23/12/2006 04:30:39
Quote from: Raggit on Sat 23/12/2006 02:35:16
Should we revert to our original ways, and become animals in the wild, killing each other, and taking what we want? 

I am having trouble telling you what the human should be doing, because it's already doing the only thing it could be doing. The situation that has led to this point is massively complex, interfacing, and holistic.

I was objecting to dividing a human down the middle, here's your atavistic side, and here's your rational side. I've had a long experience trying to live that one out and it didn't lead to anything viable. If anything, the many facets of a human being are tied together and support each other to create an unfathomable, singular configuration that is beyond our moral scrutiny.
#245
General Discussion / Re: The Afterlife...
Sat 23/12/2006 00:36:57
the word that creates problems is 'side'. We are animals.
#246
General Discussion / Re: The Afterlife...
Fri 22/12/2006 23:16:17
We don't get 'rid' of shit. And also 'animal side'? You can't cauterize that sort of thing out.
#248
General Discussion / Re: The Afterlife...
Tue 19/12/2006 22:41:01
How disappointing...
#249
General Discussion / Re: The Afterlife...
Tue 19/12/2006 21:07:47
You certainly care enough to let an internet forum know how much you care. That's the extent to which any of us can testify. Otherwise, deeds, not words seal the deal. Get to it. There's a lot of causes where your eagerness to die would be welcomed.
#250
General Discussion / Re: The Afterlife...
Tue 19/12/2006 15:10:08
QuoteSeriously, I was held in a cage and beaten with Bibles.  Helm, I think you had a little bit more laid back experience to understand.

Well I don't know... I've been chased by idiots for months, eventually caught and beat up for not being a good christian in school. I've been dumped for being satan's child too. What could be more substantial than physical and emotional harm to make me an extremist?
#251
General Discussion / Re: The Afterlife...
Mon 18/12/2006 13:57:35
It's an odd thing for me to see people who are atheists, like me, attack organised religion and get the knee-jerk reaction of wanting to stick up for the latter. I mean, it must really say a lot about the level of argumentation 'my side' has going on if I feel the urge to mutiny.
#252
yeah you're contradicting yourself a lot
#253
Quote from: Jaws on Sat 16/12/2006 23:14:23
Oh come on .. thats a personal oppinion.

Yup. Sure is. Is there any other sort of oppinion?

QuoteYou can't discredit a director simply because you don't like his films.

Why is that? I'd say that's the best reason to discredit a director. What am I supposed to do, give him credit because other people like him? A lot of people buy Pussycat Dolls cds, am I supposed to see the merit in their work too?

QuoteI'm not much of a Tarantino fan, the rape in Pulp I thought was too much. But I apprechiate the guy as a good director even though I'm not a fan. I'll give you the donkey thing in Clerks 2 was over the top, but it was hillarious and had another director (say Tarantino) tried the same it would probably be more discusting then it was in Smith's movie.

You're putting Tarantino and Smith in two corners here but I find both to not be very appealing. At least Tarantino knows his cinematography, he can do good timing, inventive angles and use the relative strengths of the medium, unlike Smith, I guess. But still, it goes to show what kind of level we're talking about when there's people like Darren Aronofsky, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Chan-wook Park making movies and we're comparing Kevin Smith and Tarantino.
#254
I think Kevin Smith movies are really bad mostly. I enjoyed Chasing Amy to a degree. The rest - and I've seen sadly, 4 more films of his - were very bad in most respects. I wonder why he has a following.
#255
General Discussion / Re: The Afterlife...
Fri 15/12/2006 23:57:40
QuoteAthiests are skins, you guys can be shirts!

Taste the man-sweat.
#256
General Discussion / Re: Stop the RIAA
Wed 13/12/2006 21:47:12
Quote from: Helm on Wed 13/12/2006 16:11:53
QuoteNickelback is one of my favorite bands.
sorry, this is off-topic, but OUCH
Why "OUCH"?  Because you don't like Nickelback?  Well ... they must suck then.  I'm sure their millions of fans who keep them at the top of the billboard charts and selling out concerts world wide would agree.
Quote

Yeah all I ment was 'nickelback sound awful to me'. It doesn't have any bearing on this discussion, I just find them extremely bad. I am certain the millions of fans that like them think otherwise, but then again, they're mostly stupid, probably.
#257
General Discussion / Re: Stop the RIAA
Wed 13/12/2006 16:11:53
QuoteNickelback is one of my favorite bands.

sorry, this is off-topic, but OUCH
#258
General Discussion / Re: Stop the RIAA
Wed 13/12/2006 15:32:21
The subject, though open to a lot of viewpoints, is not very confusing, Darth, and you're fast becoming incoherent.
#259
Bad grammar, that's what I ment. Sorry.
#260
General Discussion / Re: OROW V
Wed 13/12/2006 00:50:07
7-13 is fine with me.

People, stop messing with the OROW concept. Just get ready for it. Nobody's going to cry if your game is two rooms or one room. Make a game! Try stuff! Have fun! Suffer the last-two-day-crunch!
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