374 Forum Posts by "Leeloo-Minai"
.. like Darkwing Duck.
Had the best villains ever. Oh yeah.
At 12/30/06 01:42 PM, Embrace-Genocide wrote: Jesus Christ, what happened to your face?!
Wrong person.
He fell off that same staircase not one day earlier. Fell on the back of his head and his eye swelled up. Didn't think much of it at the time, but then he started throwing up so we had to take him to the hospital and make sure he wasn't dying.
PeeWee's Playhouse and the Simpson's ruled the roost then and now, hands down.
I just wish they'd still run some of the old Woody Woodpecker/Chilly Willy episodes. After all, Spongebob ain't got shit on teh penguin.
I just find it hard to digest someone with any inclination of conservatism would vote for Nancy Pelosi. But then again, she's probably what passes for conservative in Southern Cali.
Have they got their own state yet?
At 1/3/07 05:23 AM, fli wrote:
But Cubans... another hispanic demographic group. Now that's a different story--
Yeah, the Cubans got their heads on straight. Of the 6 native Cubans I've come to know, 5 have declared themselves staunchly pro-Bush and pro-conservative agenda policies. Whenever I hear their stories of reall struggle and poverty under Castro, and their impressive work ethic not only for their own prosperity, but for America's as well, I can't help but feel extremely proud of the American way.
Ya know?
Okay, I'd like to rebut your entire post, but rehashing all the regurgitated material given the opposing P.O.V. is too tedious for my obsessive-compulsive mind to conjure. For that I humbly request actually searching the presidents speeches, as well as Mr Powell's, for their respective opinions on the war in Iraq, the lack of massive amounts of WMDs (not including old bio-weapons). Mr Bush is our president, our leader, and the troops' foremost commander. What he shows is not always to be taken at face value. Please understand that.
At 1/3/07 03:54 AM, HogWashSoup wrote:
we are losing, badly. and when you keep losing and cant win, you pull out. the #1 prioity isnt iraq, its us.
Wrong. The number one priority is, and relatively speaking, has been the top priority since the surrender of the Iraqi armed forces. We aren't their to directly protect US interests per se, but to provide a willing and able overseeing force as we train new police and new Iraqi armed forces to protect themselves so we don't need to.
Guess how many Hussein loyalists made up the former Iraqi army? Guess how many were opponents of Saddam's regime?
Listen, if you believe mere invasion and occupation was our goal from the start, you're severely disenchanted. We want the Iraqis to have the freedom to choose their own destiny, and we won't hesitate to help them achieve that. They NEED to have a security force ready and able to combat insurgents who exist only to destroy what the Iraqis, with our help, have built. Isn't that a noble enough cause for American presence, at least a little longer? Maybe until the delicate infrastructure is strong enough to support the weight it needs to bear for an impoverished peoples?
each country is responsib for themselves. iraq is going to go into a massive civil war no matter what, and they will probebly go into one again and again. thats just how things are in the middle east. just constant fighting. its pointless to try and stop it because it just wont stop. not now, not any time soon. eventually it will, but not for a long time.
So we should keep our noses out of it and let the most violent and ruthless once again gain control and do with it's peoples however it wishes, including the gassing and extermination of those not in favor with that particular regime? Yes, the middle east has been at war for a very long time. Yes, there is sectarian slaughter taking place on a daily basis. WE DON'T LIKE THAT, AND NEITHER DO PEACE-LOVING MIDDLE-EASTERNERS.
Dammit, when a stranger is drowning you gotta help them out of the river and teach them how to swim. In the case of some ME nations, providing water wings isn't a bad idea either.
I'm not ignorant of the view that the middle east should be allowed to consume itself, but we are there now, and like it or not, when the drowning Iraqi's flailed in the water, we took notice and had a closer look. We can't throw them the lifefloat without dragging them onto shore.
God I'm tired..
Ocean man, take me by the hand make me understand..
Great stuff.
At 1/3/07 04:00 AM, Imperator wrote:Oh, I thought you'd be able to explain the difference to someone like me, layman-style, instead of forcing me to research both on my own and draw my own conclusions based on the premise that they are completely different.In other words, you want someone to do the work for you while you reap the benefits. Fine, I'll do the honors, but next time, do your own damn homework....
Hey smartass, if I wanted your opinion on the matter, I'd have asked it. Being a cunt is fun, eh?
The only difference I've managed to gleen is that one can be caused by drugs while the other is not.
MPD - The presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states. The disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance (e.g., blackouts or chaotic behavior during Alcohol Intoxication) or a general medical condition (e.g., complex partial seizures).
Schizophrenia - People with schizophrenia suffer from problems with their thought processes. These lead to hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking, and unusual speech or behaviour.
That kinda leads me to believe that the two are NOT mutually exclusive. I simply asked for the difference in laymen's terms, since the scientific definition was too vague for me discern.
"Skitzo" is a medical condition wherein the individual's concept of reality is skewed, altered, or otherwise dyfunctional . . . They hallucinate, hear voices, etc.
So the difference would be that one merely "hears" voices in their head, and the other "is" the voice in their head that the afflicted person has unconsciously created? Again, the two still seem remarkably similar, if not for all intents and purposes of this thread, the same.
The Greek of schizophrenia means "split mind", which is the common reason why it is often confused with multi-person disorder.
Indeed.
At 1/3/07 02:18 AM, TheSovereign wrote: Can you spot it?
If you ever read an iSpy book, you'll know.
TVs make lousy mirrors?
At 1/3/07 03:16 AM, stafffighter wrote:At 1/3/07 02:59 AM, LtSurge659 wrote:I know. But see them in any game and they work as long and as well as a yard stick
'Scuse me? Flamethrowers?
You've obviously never played Contra for the NES. Flamethrower is like, balla-range weapon.
By the same token shotguns are short range in gun terms but that dosen't mean the pellts spread too wide to more than scratch a guy from down a hallway
Again, I site Contra's spread weapon, killer at short range, still one-shot lethal across the side-scrolling screen.
At 1/3/07 02:08 AM, HogWashSoup wrote: iraq was pretty bad before, but the main point is that no one is taking any blame what so ever, not even a microscopic one.
Saddam got hanged and the Baathists are out. Isn't that blame enough for you?
america never ever takes the blame when something goes wrong, even when it is clearly obvious it is our fault.
Fault? So you'd have rather left Saddam and his cronies in power, BECAUSE of their loyalists tenacity. People like you we need less of, for you're the type of paper tiger, elitist snob that EVERYONE hates, not only muslim extremists, but your countrymen alike.
At 1/3/07 01:33 AM, HogWashSoup wrote:
another reason why iraq is pissed off is probebly because our troops havent left yet.
Yeah, our troops are the ones destabilizing the region to the bane of the new Iraq. Get a fucking job, kid.
At 1/2/07 11:24 PM, Sigma-Lambda wrote:
Pride is a weak emotion, especially pride in something that you did not have anything to do with, like heritage. You should respect it, but there is no reason to be proud of it, you did not build it, you did not help it, you did not take part in it. At least reserve pride for something you have done.
But helping to sustain that heritage is just as good a reason for being proud as creating it is, if it's beautiful :)
Pride is not a weak emotion; it motivates countless people, whether or not they'd mastered and directly created their source of pride is nominal. Pride and devotion go hand-in-hand, and look where those two features have guided countless people to strive to achieve more than wearing black clothes and bitching about animal rights. Sorry for the generalization, just using it for selfish means.
Pride is not merely reserved for accomplishments, either. Pride can be held for works-in-progress (as this Alan Jackson song I'm listening to can attest to). I can have pride in being a good parent, lending me strength that mere respect can't.
Gosh, I think I just missed a load of sarcasm in your post..
At 1/2/07 08:55 PM, FUNKbrs wrote: I just stopped drinking from newyears at about 9 last night.
I also witnessed an act of domestic terrorism (this was entertaining, not traumatizing)
So what was it? C'mon, don't be a tease.
I've been really fucked up in the head lately. However, I have more friends now than I ever have.
Sadly, I still get almost no emotional support from all my friends. It used to be I only had one or two friends who fulfilled all my emotional needs, and I have scores of them that don't. What makes it so bad is that all of my new friends think I'm really great, and they actually DO recieve a lot of emotional support from me.
Just don't forget that blood is thicker than water, and when push comes to shove, your family will have your ass covered, or at least provide one of those special hemorroid pillows to ease the pain.
I've had to learn to rely upon self-utilized tools for emotional release. Like vids, music, the net or al three. I know you have your music, but sometimes that just isn't enough to vent and obtain some sort of closure. Sometimes you gotta go directly to the source to resolve the issue. This is where having emotional support matters. I hope you can deal with your own head without inadvertantly hurting your suicidal relative. Providing the solid shoulder for her to let loose upon may be just what she needs. I hope I'm not being too bold :/
Now that I think about it, I blame the dominatrixes. Or maybe some fresh moral failing on my own part. I just feel like I've become a really different person in the last 6 months, and I don't know if I like him.
You are You, just now with more experience than before. Experience is priceless, and to write anything off is an exercise in ignorance.
I DO know more other people like the new me, which is weird because I'm nothing like any of them.
Life :) Take it with a grain of salt, and a shot of tequila if necessary. Hope you can find yourself and be what you need to be to those who you love and love you.
At 1/2/07 09:56 PM, stafffighter wrote: I just want to ask one more time, where's the racism for the people who were killing Americans in the second world war?
Nuked and sold into western capitalism per Japan...and the Italians? They played their part executing Mussolini and holding to peace accords after the war. What's so beneficial about kicking an old, beaten dog, when mocking a cowardly neighbor might produce some sort of valiance in the future?
I think Elfer's comment about time needs a little more attention.
Time is merely a measurement of change, if the universe were a static element, time would have no substance, especially in the absence of a free-willed observer (the pinnacle of change).
At 1/2/07 09:32 PM, Sigma-Lambda wrote:At 1/2/07 07:43 PM, Leeloo-Minai wrote:What's the difference? Other than the spelling of course. I'm just curious how it affects the topic at hand.Schizophrenia is a completely different condition, it has nothing to do with multiple personalities at all. It seems to have been confused with multiple personalities by much of the public. I wasn't even correcting the OP, just one of the posters.
Oh, I thought you'd be able to explain the difference to someone like me, layman-style, instead of forcing me to research both on my own and draw my own conclusions based on the premise that they are completely different.
Do you think scientific testing of a soul should be authorized...I don't really understand why you just went on with that.
I'm just trying to expand a little on the conversation, and since you'd decided to give input from a scientific perspective, I figured asking you to expand on your position wasn't out of the question. I apologize if it was.
It's sort of like asking if chocolate would be poisonous to a dragon, you have some basic arguments, but you don't have any information about a dragon's biology, so you can't really do much in the way of answering the question.
Well, what makes up a soul? Moral fiber? Consciousness? Ego? Sometimes studying the components that assemble into the whole give you a better picture than a chocolate-eating dragon. For example, what is love? Scientifically, love is the triggered release of certain chemicals meeting certain receptors producing a profound feeling, described using the common understanding of other feelings, like happy and contented, or fulfilled.
What I mean is, we've never landed a robot on a star in the Magellanic Cloud, but by studying it's interactions within it's environment, we're able to determent what it's made of, how it's moves and other fine things of great importance.
Ya understand what I'm trying to get at?
How do you interpret the soul?
So how long, altogether, did the little purples last?
At 1/2/07 07:55 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote: You have no life and are going to become a burnt out druggie living out of your van with no money to your name when you grow up.
I hope I brightened your day.
Are you one of those people who pretends to be a kiddie and solicite online sex to congressmen and priests?
If so, type 55.
At 1/2/07 07:51 PM, Begoner wrote: Why can't the soul go into heaven while still retaining its multiple-personality disorder?
Theoretically, one part of the person committed atrocities and didn't repent, while the other was steadfast and upright.
At 1/2/07 07:34 PM, Sigma-Lambda wrote: First of all, schizophrenia is not multiple-personality disorder, just to clear that up.
What's the difference? Other than the spelling of course. I'm just curious how it affects the topic at hand.
Second, it's very difficult to answer the question. Seeing as how the soul can not be proven scientifically (I'm not endorsing, or denying the possibility), you can't really answer any questions about it scientifically.
Do you think scientific testing of a soul should be authorized? If not, what if consent was given from the subjects being tested? Should soul-extraction and experimention become a new field of scientific study?
Science relies on definitions and proofs verifying them. Nobody is bold enough to define a soul, then carry out the necessary steps in providing a stable environment in which to test it upon, because the human soul is thought to live long after the body dies. The right to life trumps science, unless science approves of the making of "soulless" humans, like clones, manufactured from non-biological donor material. Until that point in time, the concept of soul will remain sketchy as best, and ignored by the scientific community.
Tanx :)
At 1/2/07 07:27 PM, Begoner wrote: Although I do love the colorful simile, MoralLibertarian does happen to have a very narrow view of economics, and I bet that he'll even admit to that himself.
Speaks volumes of his humbleness, I must say.
At 1/2/07 07:28 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote:Where do you get these comparisons?You're as credible a source as a kremlin hitman with a gambling debt.At 1/2/07 05:31 PM, LazyDrunk wrote:
First ya gotta act like both your ankles itch at the same time...
At 12/30/06 02:38 PM, I7REI7I7 wrote:At 12/30/06 02:06 PM, Leeloo-Minai wrote: Personally, I see both the insane murderer and the 16+ murderer in the same boat. The fashion and motivations behind murder cases ultimately decides their fate.What about coaching? I think the young accomplice in the DC sniper shooting (17-year-old Lee Boyd Malvo) was tried as an adult, even when it seemed fairly obvious that he was coached into it.
You mean teamwork? As I understood it, Malvo was the trigger man operating from the trunk of a truck specially designed to house a serial killer. How that killer earned his stripes for his demented father-figure is merely a testament to the maliciousness of them both. It's one thing to have an agenda to murder, and another to twist the minds of the dim into tools for that agenda. Along with being charged with multiple murders (because Malvo DID murder mulitple people) he should be evaluated by professionals to deem whether or not therapy should be provided. If they think he can be reformed and essnetially turn over a new leaf, while serving his sentence, place his work program in an environment where an upstanding authority figure can try to reteach fatherly values. Not necessarily directly, but a role model.
Or he can watch reruns of Fresh Prince for 80 years while serving his term.
True for the most part, except for those free slaves who instead chose to return to Freetown (Sierra Leone).Back to Somalia; How about instead of adopt a child, Africa initiates an "adopt a country" program?Maybe. But last time we tried that they started out slaves and ended up citizens.
I just imagine an adoptions process could be tendered out better than say relying on the good will or grace of neighbours (Ethiopia in Somalia's case, or Nigeria in the case of Sierra Leone).
At 12/30/06 02:18 PM, MickTheChampion wrote:At 12/30/06 02:07 PM, Grammer wrote: I think the the problem is Mick, that people don't mind giving up condoms if their priest tells them to, but are a little hard of hearing on that whole "wait until marriage" thing.Then why blame the Catholic Church for that?
Convenience, mostly. Ignorance, usually.
Didn't you know all church-goers are sheeple? Like, even I know that :/
But seriously, folk who like to have casual sex first without getting to know their latest fuckbuddy intimately are opening themselves to a plethora are potential problems, with limited benefits. I just don't think insurance should cover STDs, unless specifically stated.
At 12/30/06 01:38 PM, I7REI7I7 wrote:At 12/30/06 01:05 PM, Leeloo-Minai wrote: executions take years and years to process. Murder someone gruesomely at 16? You may be tried as an adult, and if your state allows it, sentenced to death.Hey Leeloo :)
Hey babe :-P>
How is having a juvenile on death-row until old enough to be put to death any different than say forcing a mental patient to take meds so that they're no longer classed "insane", and can therefore be put to death?
Personally, I see both the insane murderer and the 16+ murderer in the same boat. The fashion and motivations behind murder cases ultimately decides their fate.
Insanity is all in your head, after all, and once that's "fixed" with drugs or counseling or an environment found to "cure" their insanity, what exactly makes them insane? It's their inability to live and function in our society without creating more problems than they help fix. How is keeping an insane murderer with no concept or understanding of law, order, or even the basic right to life benficial to a forward-thinking society?
Putting kooks in cages to rot their lives away, being waited upon hand and foot (because they cannot be allowed to live free and independent, hence their admission into asylums [still talking murderous psychos here]) is merciful at best, sadistic at it's worse.
Imagine being forced to take experimental drugs because you thought being nuts was better off than being convicted as a sane person for some heinous crime. Once you're deemed insane, there are MOUNTAINS of change you must endure, convincingly, in order to avoid being treated like a pyschopathic killer who could re-snap at any moment.
I think the point here is they were juvenile or insane when they comitted the crime, and therefore should remain exempt as such, if that's the law.
The law is double-edged.
To be fair, the US have signed the treaty, but for 17 years haven't ratified it. One reason the Bush administration has against it is "the right to privacy", which might entail giving teens unhindered rights to abortion.
The right to privacy is indeed a multi-faceted issue, involving not only abortion but private property rights as well. I think this right to privacy issue hasn't had NEAR the attention it deserves, either. Not necessarily by the judicial system and congress, but by the general populace.
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Back to Somalia; How about instead of adopt a child, Africa initiates an "adopt a country" program?
Maybe. But last time we tried that they started out slaves and ended up citizens. Notch one more up for imperialism founded on hard work and the dollar.
At 12/23/06 06:27 PM, ArabFreak wrote:
You know you could have just REFRAINED FROM POSTING, right?
Or at least posted bobs.
Here's me.
It's hard to summon a leader, especially an American president who holds gnarly amounts of power, to hold his horses when there are throngs of people openly chanting death to america, death to israel, death to england, death to the west.
I know it makes me feel like a big pile of shit whenever the president tempts his boundaries in the name of security after seeing such large-scale, state-sponsored demonstrations.
Know what I mean?
At 12/30/06 12:58 PM, I7REI7I7 wrote:
"The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which forbids capital punishment for juveniles, has been signed and ratified by all countries except for the USA and Somalia."
Hard to say who this reflects more badly on; the un-state of Somalia, or the U.S. of A?
I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on American capital punishment, but when's the last time a "juvenile" has been executed on US soil? I'm going to guess never, based on the fact that executions take years and years to process. Murder someone gruesomely at 16? You may be tried as an adult, and if your state allows it, sentenced to death.
Something tells me the correlation between Somali justice and American justice is akin to MIchael Madson and Deliverance.
