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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: Another Reason I Hate Living In Florida.... |
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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 5:52 am
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| Part of me wants to send him a bible with note reading: "While you're burning books that have morally reprehensible content, you should burn this one as well." Condemning the qu'ran while revering the bible is rather like the pot calling the kettle black. But I find this kind of iconoclasm... |
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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: Keith Olberman is my new hero |
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 4:47 pm
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| Just a reminder: She graduated 'cum laude' from Cornell in history, and in law school became a member of the 'Order of the Coif', a fairly exclusive club for honours law students, which means she's probably smarter than most people on this board, and I don't exclude myself..... Ann Coulter could ha... |
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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: Keith Olberman is my new hero |
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Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:46 am
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| Now let me ask, what groups are actually in NYC, on the ground, protesting this proposed Mosque? American Freedom Defense Initiative, the Tea Party, American Family Association, and so forth: NONE OF WHICH have been mobilized in such a way against Westboro! These particular groups don't care about ... |
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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: Keith Olberman is my new hero |
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Posted: Wed Aug 18, 2010 9:05 am
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There is no "atheist manifesto" Keith, but thanks.
My friend posted something amusing to his Facebook feed, which I subsequently posted on Twitter:
"In fairness, we've been building 'ground zeros' near Iraqi mosques since March 2003." |
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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: Regarding Prop 8... |
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Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:21 am
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| Ramiel: I'm sorry, but like I said, I have no desire to argue about these things. I have my own thoughts and opinions on both of these issues, as do you, but I'd just rather not get any deeper with them online [partly because I have a hard time controlling myself when it comes to controversial topi... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Atheism |
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Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 6:23 am
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| ...and to me atheism is still a belief system, the belief in no gods... No. Rejection of belief is not a belief. That's like saying bald is a hair color. Atheists have no dogma, no creed, no manifesto. The only thing we're all united on is the rejection of the supernatural. As for the rest, I reall... |
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Forum: Humour Topic: 101 (or More?) Frightening Ice Cream Flavors |
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:33 pm
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| And now you know about all those lovely* other variations you can try! But I can imagine that the cherry blossom ice cream can be good; people also try to make ice cream and other dishes with other flowers, like roses. Hopefully for you and Centurion (if you like ice cream), they also sell vanilla ... |
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Forum: Humour Topic: 101 (or More?) Frightening Ice Cream Flavors |
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 5:39 am
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| We need to get our Viscus to do a Bad Communication podcast on this Japanese ice-cream. -- Nephele Haha, I didn't even know that there were that many. Didn't see any mention of jellyfish ice cream on there though, that's an odd one that a student told me about a while ago. Sakura-flavored (cherry b... |
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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: America's Ruling Class: A Potentially Epoch-Making Document |
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Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:34 am
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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: Should There Be A Separation of Church and State? |
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Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2010 2:27 pm
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| I noticed that practitioners of Eckankar also lobbied to have their symbols on grave markers--which is a New Age Californiaesque cult. I guess they figured they had to draw the line somewhere. Scientologists will be next, I suppose. That said, personally, I don't see why a person can't have any sym... |
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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: Should There Be A Separation of Church and State? |
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 7:53 pm
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| Absolutely not. Pretty much enough said, but because I'm in a debate mood I'll reinforce my point. 1.) Which One? Which religion would provide unison between Government and State? Most likely Christianity, with it being a majoritical leader (plus, the U.S.A. was built on the prospect of Christianit... |
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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: Should There Be A Separation of Church and State? |
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:21 am
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| I'm still not comfortable with magical beings informing people's decisions that have consequences outside of their own lives. It's wrong to force people into changing their thinking, but I like to think that they can be reasoned with. |
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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: Should There Be A Separation of Church and State? |
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Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 5:09 am
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| That said, the public square CANNOT discrimminate AGAINST people of faith. Everyone brings their deepest values into every aspect of their lives and conditions every aspect of their lives, politics included, and Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, etc. have every right to have their p... |
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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: Should There Be A Separation of Church and State? |
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:19 am
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| I dream of the day when religion or faith isn't mentioned in American civil discourse at all. I remember feeling repulsed during the 2004 presidential debates when both Bush and Kerry were falling all over themselves talking about how "faithful" the were. Faith being something totally irre... |
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Forum: Politics & Related Topic: Should There Be A Separation of Church and State? |
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Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:07 am
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| Here's something to think about: Back in High School, I sang in the school's chorus. Most choir music is religious. A lot of it happens to be very good music, but because of our school's policies regarding that type of thing, we were only allowed to sing secular works. Anyone familiar with choral m... |
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