608 Forum Posts by "Profanity"
At 11/5/14 01:48 PM, Kel-chan wrote:At 11/5/14 01:22 PM, DalexJ1337 wrote: republicans won m8FUCK YEAH..
(but not really, since both parties are tards and I'm a libertarian. But its cool since the republicans are closer to libertarians than democraps)
Yep. Republicans are super libertarian. Which is exactly why Democrats have been working to legalize abortion, weed, assisted death, the freedom to have sex with and marry whichever person you choose, the right to vote without poll taxes, higher minimum wages and welfare programs to enable occupational mobility, healthcare to treat sick people instead of letting them suck money out of the system, and all sorts of other liberty-enabling systems. All those liberty- enabling things the Republicans block for ideological and politically motivated reasons.
And let's not forget that the GOP raises taxes rates on the lower and middle classes in order to drop taxes for the wealthy. Despite claiming they want to lower taxes.
Or that Republican states are fighting tooth and nail to keep college students, Blacks, and Hispanics from voting. And shutting down abortion clinics using clever legislation in Texas. And removing regulations on industry, allowing carcinogens to be dumped directly into water supplies, which poisoned people along the Elk River in West Virginia last year. Or allowing explosives to be stored next door to schools, hospitals, and nursing homes, which lead to an enormous explosion in Texas a couple years ago. And for four years their representatives have been filibustering more, and blocking more appointees, and sabotaging more budget discussions than any congress in history.
OH, and the party is full of Climate Deniers, religious nutjobs, and bigots.
God Bless the Grand Old Party.
East Coast and Central are now closed.
Mountain, West Coast, Alaska, and Hawaii are still open.
If Puerto Rico, Liberia, and Israel were states of the United States, they all would be closed.
If Guam were a state, it would be open.
At 11/4/14 06:16 PM, MMHM wrote: I heard some of the questions being read off the MA state ballot or whatever it's called. For the most part it seems pretty minor. Yet you're making it out like its a general election.
Uh, what? You mean your state's ballot: MA for Massachusetts? What was your other account's name again?
The election today gives most states the opportunity to replace Congressmen, some governors, and many lower political offices. Several states will be voting on ballot questions related to legalizing recreational marijuana, medically assisted suicide, tax codes, and more general stuff. Political appointees from the White House have been filibustered, blocked, and rejected for four years. Many of the Supreme Court Justices are reaching retirement or even approaching the end of their lives.
If the Republicans take over the Senate tonight, they will be positioned to push the Democratic agenda back from the center of the Congressional stalemate which has been in place since 2010 to a Presidential Veto standoff. They will also be positioned to replace all appointees which have been not allowed to go through the Congress since 2010. They may also have the opportunity to place up to four Supreme Court Justices.
This is an extremely impactful election on the national level.
As of the time I wrote the title, the countdown was at 135 minutes in Washington DC.
Have you voted yet? If yes:
Who did you vote for? What ballot initiatives? What predictions do you have for the outcome of this election? Did you vote in person, by mail, or in some unconventional manner? Did you participate in any of the political process?
If no:
The United States midterm elections end in 120 minutes on the East Coast, 480 minutes on the West Coast. And idk, Hawaii and Alaska you know the conversions.
That is:
At 8 pm wherever you live in the United States the polls close. You will not be able to vote after 8 pm.
However, in Central Timezone states, they may be open only until 7 PM.
If you have not voted yet, you can find your polling station at votinginfoproject.org
Depending on the regulations in your state, you may still be able to register to vote in time for this election. The election which ends promptly at 8 PM and will not accept votes cast after 8 PM tonight, November 4th, also known as Election Day.
I think she's pretty cool. Why do you ask?
At 11/4/14 12:40 PM, Kel-chan wrote: Central and sub saharan Africa is the frickin armpit of earth
Also two beautiful regions full of beautiful people with a rich cultural history.
Pretty much the only continent besides North America where its inhabitants didn't discover the WHEEL!
The invention of the wheel isn't some intuitive, simple, and childlike event that occurs in the lives of every intelligent person. You are raised playing with wheels, using wheels of differing types for every basic activity from the minute you're pulled from the birth canal and loaded onto an infant gurney to the day a hearse carries you to your grave. If it were not so ubiquitous, you probably wouldn't suddenly invent it.
That's why The Wheel didn't exist until around 5,500 years ago. Circles existed, cylinders existed, axels existed, brackets existed, and flat lands existed. And they all existed in Africa. They just weren't put together mechanically by anyone sitting around trying to invent new tools.
let alone learn to create two story buildings or agriculture.
What use is a two story building or a grove of plants in an environment which is as vast and open as Africa? Africans weren't stuck in one place with high population densities the way Europeans and Asians were. Staying in place is enough to make you vulnerable.
Africa is spoiled for choice with rich cultures, languages, diversity, and powerful empires which conquered territories vast enough to make Alexander or Genghis Khan look like petty crooks.
Its pretty much a failed experiment in human evolution so I suggest
No. Just: No.
At 11/3/14 09:57 PM, Sensationalism wrote:At 11/3/14 04:35 PM, Profanity wrote:You should just stop being Autistic for a second. You're very misunderstood in thinking pretentious is a good word that means super intelligent.At 11/3/14 02:25 PM, Sensationalism wrote: It's great that you pay attention during science class. You should probably stop sleeping through English class.Preposterous nonsense. English classes don't teach the word pretentious because the term reeks of anti-intellectualism. People mistakenly apply it to matters of knowledge or affectation rather than assuming distinguished titles like "doctor" without a doctoral education. In the African-American community, this anti-intellectualism has hit such an obscene low that speaking with proper diction can earn you the socially reprehensible title of "Acts White". As a member of that community, I will not be told to sit down and shut up by some anti-intellectual slice of Wonderbread.
If I remember correctly, this entire side discussion began with a couple of simple declarations which anyone could have verified in an ordinary Encyclopedia. The ante was raised by someone who wanted to follow through with my assertions that neither pink nor black are colors. That someone lost his follow-through and I have defensed with my argument against anyone who chose to quote me.
More nonsense from the Nonsense Queen. If you think that misrepresenting me is going to stop me from reiterating, you're mistaken.
I'm not telling you to shut up, I'm not anti-intellectual, and I'm not food.
In more words, that is exactly what you are doing. That's exactly how you impact the discussion. And that's exactly what you look like to me. You porous supine softened slice of factory baked loaf.
It's clear your ego is incapable of hearing the truth and only hears what you want. So telling you anything other than you are super intelligent and you're clearly better than every else is just a waste of time.
My ego?! Does the ego drive a man to share utterly fascinating factitos with other people? Maybe I am misunderstood, and not the way I took you to mean it.
Pink, black, and white are not colors. They are mistaken for colors by the human mind, and that fact alone is enough to elucidate deep recesses in our knowledge of the world we see. That fact alone is enough to propel a man from the absurd culture of hate which teaches us White is a clean and pure color of the whip cracker, Black is a dirty and evil color of the slave laborer, and Pink is the lurid and erotic color of a man's whore.
Hey there, good lookin'
At 11/3/14 05:47 PM, AxTekk wrote:At 11/3/14 04:41 PM, HeavenDuff wrote:For the record I don't think this is at all hypocritical either. There's no inconsistency between not giving a shit about labour rights and wanting men and women to be equal.
With no prior knowledge of this exact Feminist group, there is no inconsistency in their message from this particular factor. It does alight the fact that their work is focused on comparatively and arguably minor equality issues within the privileged world while the majority of the world outside their bubble toils away for scraps. It casts them as selfish, narrow-minded, unawares, hypocrites.
Why should we pay attention to a lesson in social ethics from people who haven't been thorough in understanding their own products? Or don't care how they were produced? Why should we support bills to match pay in the first world if that means stealing pennies from millions of sweat shop laborers overseas? Why shouldn't we holla at a fine ass hoe on the street just because some Hollywood tap dancer wears a shirt imported from a country which doesn't use police resources to investigate rape accusations?
At 11/3/14 02:25 PM, Sensationalism wrote: It's great that you pay attention during science class. You should probably stop sleeping through English class.
Preposterous nonsense. English classes don't teach the word pretentious because the term reeks of anti-intellectualism. People mistakenly apply it to matters of knowledge or affectation rather than assuming distinguished titles like "doctor" without a doctoral education. In the African-American community, this anti-intellectualism has hit such an obscene low that speaking with proper diction can earn you the socially reprehensible title of "Acts White". As a member of that community, I will not be told to sit down and shut up by some anti-intellectual slice of Wonderbread.
If I remember correctly, this entire side discussion began with a couple of simple declarations which anyone could have verified in an ordinary Encyclopedia. The ante was raised by someone who wanted to follow through with my assertions that neither pink nor black are colors. That someone lost his follow-through and I have defensed with my argument against anyone who chose to quote me.
At 11/3/14 04:01 PM, TurkeyOnAStick wrote:At 11/3/14 03:52 PM, TomFulp wrote: Now that the forums are back to orange/brown, do you miss the grey?YES. OH GOD YES, BRING BACK THE GREY.
Fuck's sake, Thomas. Can't you see the man's in agony? Bring back the grey for the love of God.
Unless you specifically buy ethical products or make your own from raw materials, you will not be able to avoid this sort of manufacturing process. That is how all of your clothing and other goods are made.
I'm sure you're mostly all aware of this fact, but let's drive the point home. Your lifestyle exists because of international slave labor, predatory employment practices, and cheap automation. At this point, we have enough resources to give the entire population of this planet a healthy lifestyle but we choose not to do that because it would destroy the drive of impoverished uneducated masses who are well-behaved when employed in jobs which support the wealth gradient.
At 11/1/14 06:14 PM, GamesArmor wrote: Jesus fucking Christ. I thought there was a limit to how pretentious/edgy a person could be, but you sure proved me wrong. I don't think I was this bad even when I was 13...
Holy fucking shit. Having knowledge and using it in a discussion makes a person pretentious and edgy? You were capable of understanding basic principles of quantum electromagnetism, photonics, their applications to theory of mind, cognition, and neuroscience at 13, but decided it was all "bad" and didn't use it in discussions online? I guess it's a good thing you grew out of actually using your brain. You might have come to understand too much in the next eight decades, decided it was all bad, and then decided to napalm libraries.
Good work, GamesArmor. My savior. My God. I have seen the light. I will now go around this forum spreading the word of "restrict yourself to the mental capacities of a 13-year-old who is afraid to be verbally aggressive". No more shaking things up. Ever.
At 10/31/14 05:50 PM, Monster-64 wrote: Buddhism doesn't necessarily have a deity in it, as far as I'm concerned. Buddism believes in the idea of a civilied lifestyle, and by no means do they worship "Buddha", they only regard him as a great philospher, and no, they don't believe in reincarnation or rebirth. That would be Hinduism.
Buddhists do believe in reincarnation or rebirth.
You must be thinking of McBuddhism, or, How Americans picked the parts of Buddhism they liked and discarded the actual religion.
At 10/30/14 05:03 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: thigh bone trumpet representin'
I don't actually own one. Would like to get my paws on one though
That is pretty interesting. Does it need to be made from an actual human femur to be something you want, or can it be carved from wood? Or some sort of ceramic?
At 10/30/14 07:47 PM, stafffighter wrote: Did you know that 100% of all people who point that out are typing with one hand because their own cleverness is the only thing left that makes them hard?
It has other cultural meanings. You were not the only person to read the cracked article explaining this. Move on.
(A) it shouldn't be completely shocking for anyone to discover that you've degenerated to the point of comparing negatives to "shit" and insulting others to sexual impotence. Maybe you can turn it around soon, champ?
(B) it has nearly ZERO meaning compared to THOUSANDS of years of those "other cultural meanings" you dismiss
(C) No, I don't read Cracked. Did they also prepare a Diwali article like the ten thousand other online publishers who are doing their best to rid the world of American ignorance? Obviously they didn't deliver the message effectively if you read an article about tolerating Hindu culture on Diwali and then went ahead to act like a child on this forum. We can try this again next time there's an excuse to force an idea through your thick skull.
Did you know that 100% of all swastikas are used by people who are "attempting to be clever" by posting a definitely nazi symbol in order to seem edgy and antisemitic? It's 100%. Actually maybe even 200%. Totally.
Ignoring that outside of American and European education systems, the Swastika is a proud symbol which has nearly nothing to do with the Nazis. And the symbol is literally plastered all over buildings to bless them, sewn into clothing, chiseled into temples, and used to demarcate important locations on maps.
At 10/30/14 01:33 PM, BrenTheMan wrote:At 10/30/14 02:47 AM, Gagsy wrote: Fair comment, but they've already been around for donkey years and its a trend very much in decline. Until atheist clubs hold marriage and funerals, what is the point of them.What's the point of any club?
I thought the point of clubs would be to socialize with people who share your interests in a way which facilitates growth and shared improvement. Clubs often act as a platform to organize community service, and you'll often see signs on the sides of highways saying they're cared for by the "Muslim Madrassa of So and So" or "Atheists of Somewhereville".
If you have ever stepped foot on a college campus, you're already aware of the phenomena of in-your-face campus preachers who tell the passersby that they're going to hell for whatever. And if you've ever gone to an abortion provider in the United States, you're already aware of the phenomena of in-your-face protestors who verbally abuse patients and try to block them from entering the clinic. Or in the Middle East and Africa—basically everything. I would assume that the discussions at an Atheist Club meeting would center around the latest news surrounding the constant assault of religious fanaticism on people's civil rights. Or maybe a topic relating to the latest science news.
At 10/29/14 11:11 PM, Viper wrote:At 10/29/14 06:36 PM, Profanity wrote: Are you trying to help this forum? Honestly, that does the complete opposite of creating a manageable discussion which promotes deeper thought. All you're doing is threatening teenagers with punishment for exercising their minds.He's trying to prevent this thread from turning into a massive shit fest. Like damn near all religion related threads do on here.
"A massive shit fest". You have spent so much time being coddled by this easy-mode forum that you've lost the ability to articulate yourself.
I know exactly what he's doing, and I don't like it. There is nothing more disgusting about this BBS than the regulars patting themselves and the people with usernames they recognize on the back for sidestepping active debates using mod tools.
Not Atheism specifically, but we did have two clubs which always seemed to focus on taking an objective and intellectual approaches to thinking about the world. Those were the Institute for Social Thought (political science club) and Socratic Sessions (Philosophy Club).
At 10/29/14 05:53 PM, stafffighter wrote: I'm giving this a chance at not being a flame war, as so far people have been fairly civil. Keep being civil or users and eventually the thread itself will go down. This will be the only warning.
Are you trying to help this forum? Honestly, that does the complete opposite of creating a manageable discussion which promotes deeper thought. All you're doing is threatening teenagers with punishment for exercising their minds.
At 10/29/14 03:31 PM, Scintillating wrote:At 10/29/14 11:22 AM, Profanity wrote: Yes. Eight years ago, FOURTEEN WOMEN testified UNDER OATH that Bill Cosby had sexually assaulted them.If it was under oath then this changes everything!
It does.
The plaintiff had a strong enough case that she was able to summon 13 other victims as character witnesses. Thirteen is not a small number of scorned lovers, victims, or—as the fifty trimester fetuses of this thread seem to believe—conspiring panhandlers manipulating the justice system. It's a particularly large group for a man who has been married since 1964. Their testimonies were enough to convince the Cosby defense to settle out of court. Or maybe he's just saving fourteen women from being locked up for perjury? What a gib gibbledip gentleman.
And during his long career, has been alleged to have fathered a child in Nevada for whom he has paid $100,000 despite refusing to acknowledge that he is the father. Does it strike you as the behavior of an honest man? Is he simply an extraordinarily charitable supporter of a woman he once kinda sorta knew?
At 10/28/14 08:54 PM, Tybia99 wrote:At 10/28/14 04:08 PM, Profanity wrote:Wait, all 14 of them were testifying he had assaulted them? I thought they were just random witnesses or people who knew Cosby or the victim talking about their relationship.At 10/28/14 03:54 PM, Lorkas wrote: people who make false accusationsAt 10/28/14 03:30 PM, NeonSpider wrote: Sounds like bullshit to me.Fourteen women came forward and testified that he had sexually assaulted them. If even one of those women is telling the truth, then he is exactly the opposite of the character he presented to the public.
You are inclined to believe that fourteen women who had contact with the same man (the upstanding citizen we are led to believe Bill Cosby to be) would conspire to destroy his life and shake him down for his life savings?
Yes. Eight years ago, FOURTEEN WOMEN testified UNDER OATH that Bill Cosby had sexually assaulted them.
He and his legal defense settled out of court. What this means is that he paid them money to go away and stop talking about it.
In 2014, Hannibal Burress called him out during a performance, and so one of Bill "Actor and Alleged Rapist of at Least 14 Women" Cosby's victims thanked Mr. Burress publicly.
At 10/28/14 04:17 PM, Ejit wrote:At 10/28/14 03:54 PM, Lorkas wrote: What's even more messed up is that people who make false accusations (that can potentially ruin someone's life, and 100% ruin someone's reputation even if they're proven to be fake) are barely punished.Would that be even more messed up than drugging and then using your position of power to rape a woman below the age of consent (less than half your age), though?
How flimsy must your legal case against having not raped a woman be, if as a multi-millionaire you're having to reach private settlements rather than rebut the allegations themselves?
I would also advise the aesthetically Phil Collins-esque thread starter that there have been many more than these two rape allegations against Cosby.
Wow, that certainly would be messed up. I don't know anyone who would commit such pathological predatory acts. Then again, I also don't know anyone who would father a child with a woman living in Las Vegas and pay her $100,000 secretly over the course of that child's life in exchange for her not revealing that they had an affair and a child.
What's more, I don't know anyone who would prop himself up as a voice of wisdom and sensibility during political upheavals in the United States and then covertly go around paying hush money to women he has victimized throughout his life.
Not personally, anyway. And not me. Seems like Bill Cosby's circle does.
At 10/28/14 03:54 PM, Lorkas wrote: people who make false accusations
At 10/28/14 03:30 PM, NeonSpider wrote: Sounds like bullshit to me.
Fourteen women came forward and testified that he had sexually assaulted them. If even one of those women is telling the truth, then he is exactly the opposite of the character he presented to the public.
You are inclined to believe that fourteen women who had contact with the same man (the upstanding citizen we are led to believe Bill Cosby to be) would conspire to destroy his life and shake him down for his life savings?
Not cringeworthy at all. They really capitalized on the shock factor to grab my attention.
At 10/26/14 02:40 AM, Stereocrisis wrote: Cringe-worthy. Definitely didn't like the adult fat woman towards the end.
The message was clear, and was presented without any dignity.
I despise when people have the same beliefs as me, and give it a bad name.
It is important not to rape. Equal wages are important.
But this trailer trash, couch potato mom speech works better coming from a person with dignity.
Instead, what we have is a good message, being delivered by little girls, who were coached by their tasteless mothers.
That sounds more like a problem you have than an actual criticism of the video. Fat's unattractive, but you don't need to be attracted to either of the women in this video to get the message. She must have a lot of dignity for her to put herself on camera a despite the knowledge that doing so will result in a lot of hate directed toward her eating disorder and body type.
PS about the swastikas
99.99999% of everything about the swastika has nothing to do with Nazis or Jews. Do you really think the Unicode Consortium would have added a Nazi symbol to the Unicode standard? Come the fuck on.
Also, that myth about left-facing and right-facing or twisted symbols having different meanings isn't accurate.
At 10/23/14 08:06 AM, NuScarab wrote: I live in an area with quite a large Indian population and the Diwali lights/displays are lovely. They often outdo Christmas and New Year's in my opinion.
Absolutely! Diwali outshines Christmas hands down…and the displays are tasteful not gaudy. Plus, the sweets are on a whole different level.
The only downside is that my cat dislikes fireworks. :(
I've heard that cats will learn to accept things like fireworks and thunder if their owners play loud music often.
At 10/23/14 08:09 PM, Painbringer wrote: I live in a heavily East Indian neighborhood. So yeah, there are several lit houses and the occasional firecrackers going off.
Nice! Have you befriended any of your neighbors, or do you just have the benefit of experiencing the decor?
There's even a Diwali shrine at one of the local supermarkets.
Take a pic!
At 10/24/14 12:17 PM, Gimmick wrote: ITT: goddamned swastika bitching. All you need is some Wriggle.
Haha I know. That's going to be a regular fixture of American-European interactions with Indian and Asian cultures for a while to come. It's been 500 years and they still haven't learned to call Native Americans by their tribe's names.
I celebrate it...but not the popular part. Used to burst firecrackers, then stopped, not because I became environmentally friendly but because I couldn't be arsed to go buy firecrackers from some shops.
You're getting old, Gimmick. Wriggle blows shit up all the time and he loves swastikas. I bet he inadvertently celebrated Diwali all by himself.
What I did do instead, was pour oil all over myself
and then lit a match
jk
Hhaha
Today is the first day of the festival which celebrates the victory of light over dark. It is customary to clean your home, feast, and decorate with as many lanterns as you can line up!
Do you or does anyone you know celebrate this week?
It's your fault I'm in a bad mood.
