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At 10/8/09 03:54 PM, Bacchanalian wrote:

At 10/8/09 07:54 AM, MCSMstudios wrote: Remember guys, atheism isn't a religion. It's the belief that there is no god. Atheism is the absence of religion if you think about it. "Atheism is no more a religion than not collecting stamps is a hobby." Can't remember who said that but I love it.

Gah! This again! So true but dishonest.

Posed the question "if God," and responding "without God," requires, from any logical person, a qualification of "God" beyond 'His' basic definition.

Atheism is not always a positive assertion in itself, but unless you've never been exposed to the concept of God atheism INVOLVES positive assertions.

It involves a positive assertion as much as anything else logically deduced. One can never be 100% positive about anything in truth, especially nothing that one has never truly touched or experienced. But to be atheist all you must do is consider god and then come to the conclusion that it's absurd, much like someone walking outside, considering that they are going to be struck by lightening, and then realizing it's absurd because it's a sunny day.

Besides, you are saying that saying atheism is not a religion is false because it involves positive assertions. You define religion by positive assertions?

I've got an awesome girlfriend. I love being around her, she's just a fun person overall. Her only flaw is that she lives in Switzerland and I live in the US, but we see each other for two month intervals every three months or so, and I'm moving there in the fall.

It's great if you find a good girl. Most of the girls out there are shite, but if you find a good one there is nothing better than being with her.

This topic deserves revival because I am still unclear:

If Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990, which I am not saying he did, he is a sick fuck. But if he did not rape and murder a girl in 1990, why wouldn't he address these allegations and prove he didn't?

At 10/7/09 06:13 PM, ViolentAJ wrote: Sadly, we still don't have an edit button...

I have read the Turner Diaries. I just got done reading Hunter too.

I'd advise you to read Civil War 2, by Thomas Chittum.

Race is far more than skin pigmentation: it has a lot to do with skull shape, facial features, shape of the body, and many other way that we are wired, including intelligence and propensity to certain emotions over others.

All of them sounded fair until you mentioned intelligence and propensity.

Culture is actually determined by genetics. Sure, you can train a person to behave in a certain way (such as myself), but in the end, they'll want to break out of that shell. It is very stressful to have to pretend to be something that you aren't (this also goes for Whites being PC and having to pretend to love Blacks).

This, though, is entirely untrue. Look, for instance, at red-haired people compared to blonde-haired people. It would not be inaccurate to say that they are different races, as they have very different racial makeup both in skin pigmentation (as well as other skin features), hair color, and so on. However, both have been integrated into the same culture.

Culture is not determined by genetics, culture is determined by cultural history. In the United States, there has been a strong cultural history of racial tension due to the fact that the United States was built upon black slavery - black slavery, by the way, being a relatively new phenomenon in human history (until the 1500's, when the Portuguese and later Dutch started exploiting the African slave trade, slaves were historically conquered peoples from other cultures, often with the same racial makeup as the people who owned them.) The formative years of American history saw blacks being seen as slaves and slaves being seen as blacks - that is, blacks seen as inferior beings, no greater than beasts.

Look at blacks raised in other countries that are more accepting of them, such as France or the Netherlands, or even England to a degree, or look at blacks adopted by whites who traveled around. Nurture defeats nature in human behavior, my friend.

You had the misfortune of being raised in a place that held a great amount of animosity towards blacks, and that is a shame.

At 10/8/09 01:02 AM, SadisticMonkey wrote: As an Australian, I really don't think we should be that high up.

I'm not too sure at all about the specifics of the study, but I'm guessing that our climate plays a big part of it, given that it's nearly always sunny and we have long daylight hours, but I'm not sure.

Climate isn't actually a factor. It's life-expectancy, literacy/education, and standard of living.

Go in your Skype preferences and turn the volume up.

At 10/7/09 05:58 PM, RubberTrucky wrote: I thought that the UK and Belgium were best shielded against natural disasters.

That also isn't a factor. Neither is overall weather patterns.

At 10/7/09 06:32 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: The Republic of Korea is at number 26... surely that's South Korea?

Surely indeed.

At 10/7/09 06:33 PM, WeirdJamFace wrote: Is there something wrong with me for understanding all that?
Glory, be!!

Thou mayest alone be.

At 10/7/09 05:57 PM, geterkikzkid wrote:

At 10/7/09 05:55 PM, HollowGrave wrote: I didn't understand a single thing you just said, but yeah people freaking out over just one pound is ridicolous.

I think it was a reference to the currency. Not weight.

Sayeth he nay in jest.

At 10/7/09 05:23 PM, M-Y wrote:

At 10/6/09 09:07 PM, LeroyJ wrote: fuck you. i can think of atleast 100 things i can do or buy with $100.

such as?

100 golden John Adams coins.

Ne'er have I in my times more angry been, than when a knave with nary a penny, nay, a child's elders, when asked to put forth their weekly dues of two crown to two pound, rue the day that Jesus Christ, our lord and saviour, was born. Whenst thou so haggardly becometh, thou thinkest a mere quid forlorn, mine respect, thou shalst ne'er recieveth! A pound taketh qualities of herring and myrrh - 'tis expendable, such as that of the peasantry knoweth.

Think, O! ye who hark these words which I hath put forth! O that I may be heard by mine own people! All of Americashire containeth, by the King's will, nay but eighty-thousand pounds. Look, ye, upon a single pound. Forsooth! whenst thou spendeth an pound from yesteryear to the Ides of March, 'twould take you many a year for all to be begotten! 'Tis mine hope the pleasure of becoming ye Cyrus' Babylon of our Lord's speaking is but thine as hitherto unknown and nay forsaken!!

Should thee in sooth too slovenly a peasant that a pound too high ist, see to it that thine hands be in shackles before daybreak! Otherwise you're just a whiny bitch.

At 10/7/09 03:35 PM, ViolentAJ wrote: Obama is changing things for the worse. I believe that people are now being forced to realize that racial equality does not exist and openly admit it.

What makes you think this? Obama is showing that racial equality, at least mental racial equality, obviously does exist. He's a highly intelligent man who also is (according to the American term for it) black. There are many other intelligent men in the world who also happen to be black, as well as many other intelligent men who happen to be white/hispanic/whatever other ethno-racial group you want to name.

This goes for womenfolk too, by the way.

Of course, others want to believe in the fantasy (nobody wants to admit that they are inferior).

I'm assuming you are saying that people that believe that they are not inferior due to being born with different pigmentation and bodily make-up are living in a fantasy.

This is going to lead to racial conflict, I presume.

People recognizing that race is only skin deep (with occasional implications for milk/alcohol digestion and/or disease frequency) is going to lead to racial conflict?

Just my theory.

A very warped one indeed. You should read "The Turner Diaries", it sounds similar to your prediction of racial conflict.

At 10/6/09 05:28 PM, Eddyking wrote: OH TEH NOEZ, USA IS NO GOOD PLACE 2 LIVE????

I find it interesting that some people automatically assume that just because an American sees flaws in the HDI they think it is because it doesn't favor the US.

You know why places like Iceland make it into the top three? Because they don't run around the world killing anything and everything that dares speak out against them.

Right.

As I said before, even if the HDI took into consideration more factors, such as human rights and censorship, the USA would probably be somewhere close to its current position. Places like Australia and Germany might be lower, but places like Switzerland, Sweden, and the Netherlands may be higher. Norway would probably still be on top.

Covering Slipknot is actually quite difficult, and you are on your way to a successful career, my friend.

Some tips though:

You can play guitar too for this. It doesn't matter if you can't play guitar, simply take a guitar, plug it in (some preliminary hits with a hammer will do its tuning patterns nicely) and start smashing away.

Have you ever seen the video where the kid is not allowed to play World of Warcraft? He is the guru of this pattern of vocalising. Watch his video and mimic it until you feel confident enough to play Slipknot's music. He taught them everything they know.

Do these two at the same time, and all sorts of pre-pubescent middle-classed boys who don't understand themselves or the world around them will flock to you because they realize they have emotions and don't know what to do with them. Everyone's favorite demographic!

You'll go far, my boy. You'll go far.

At 10/7/09 04:58 AM, GeneralAC wrote: Fucking trolls... Seriously, fuck this shit. I am out.

Woah there, calm down, Junior.

Dump her because she got upset that you ditched her for your friends? On her birthday? While screwing other girls and doing coke?

You've got some nerve, pal.

I find it ridiculous, as I have said in the politics forum, that Australia is number 2 given its insane amounts of government censorship. And Singapore is on it? Their human rights record is not that desirable...

100 dollars is about 1/12 of my net worth.

The desire to smoke Cuban cigars is not the main reason that lifting the embargo would be desirable to both Cuba and the US. I'm sure you don't think that though.

At 10/6/09 04:47 PM, fli wrote:

I think it's a fair outlook. I think people are shocked because the US isn't on top, but the thing is... the US heavily favors the wealthy over the less wealthy.

Just so you know, it is me who is talking about this, not "people". And I am in no way shocked about it.

If we want to be on the higher up on the list, there's are a few ways that we could change... but that involves taxes... people, note... the higher ups tend to be people who have a relatively high tax per person ratio.

Right, again, this is not about the US; this is about which countries would actually be the best to live in. Chances are if human rights, censorship, freedom of press/speech and etc. were actually taken into consideration, Norway and Sweden would still be at the top and the US would still be where it is, but places like Australia and Singapore would be much farther from their current positions.

At 10/6/09 04:42 PM, Head-Full-Of-Acid wrote: I think everyone should agree:

Those who support marijuana want it to be legalized and will defend there opinion until they die.

I find myself in this category, but I wouldn't defend it until I die if I was proven wrong. I will explain my opinion until someone with some sort of logic or rationality comes by to show me that it is flawed, but I have never experienced anything of the sort.

I usually listen to Yes, such as the album Relayer, so that way I feel like the world is exploding around me and I am driving through space with meteors crashing through my windows.

At 10/6/09 04:36 PM, Canas wrote: I smoke dope in my garage

Woahhhh....

Ken i b ur friend?

At 10/6/09 03:35 PM, hugplz wrote:

At 10/6/09 04:33 AM, fli wrote: It was a wonderful time, but not if you were gay, homeless, retarded, mentally sick, or in another country...

Tell me you scum, do you get a boner everytime you pull the race card out of your ass? Nothing personal, I am just curious.

Reread his post without the two races he included and it is still perfectly legitimate and true.

At 10/6/09 04:24 PM, reviewer2 wrote: Okay, fine. So, let me get this straight....
Never mind, it's cool. I mean, who WOULDN'T want to bundle a bunch of chemicals together,

If you are talking about marijuana, you are being insanely abstract by considering it a bunch of chemicals, and with that same logic by eating a piece of lettuce you are ingesting a bunch of chemicals.

light it on fire and break the smoke from it? Or maybe it's GOOD to inhale the smoke produced from burning an addictive plant that will will practically sprinkle cyanide on your brain.

If you are talking about marijuana, you still don't know what you are talking about as it has no physically addictive properties. It can be habit forming, like a hobby, and if someone forms too strong a habit of it it may be detrimental to their health, but it isn't inherently harmful. Similarly, if you eat too much food it will harm your health.

As for the cyanide analogy, you need to do some neural research bud.

At 10/6/09 03:21 PM, Rucklo wrote: yikes! while 16 is pretty damn young, i stil hope you two manage to get around and do the best of the situation. So, congrats ^_________^

Given that he met her 5 months ago and had the carelessness to impregnate her 2 months after, I highly doubt this will happen.

But good luck anyway, kid.

The HDI combines three dimensions:

* Life expectancy at birth, as an index of population health and longevity
* Knowledge and education, as measured by the adult literacy rate (with two-thirds weighting) and the combined primary, secondary, and tertiary gross enrollment ratio (with one-third weighting).
* Standard of living, as measured by the natural logarithm of gross domestic product per capita at purchasing power parity.

It doesn't include human rights or anything like that, so one must recognize that it is far too simplified.

At 10/6/09 03:08 PM, gamekillereater wrote: Old news, but why would it matter anyway?

Apartheid is Dutch as well.

So HA!

At 10/6/09 02:41 PM, The-Great-One wrote: Funny, last time I checked David Letterman is funnier than Conan O'Brien which clearly states people watching David Letterman more.

After 25 years ago of not checking you should recheck.

At 10/6/09 03:12 PM, SCUD14 wrote:

At 10/6/09 03:06 PM, GOTHCLAWZ wrote: Well, no?

I'm tempted not to reply with something cutting because I'm bored of you but.

Well, fuck you?

You chose wisely in not replying with something cutting.

According to this, the HDI factor puts Norway at the top and Australia at the second.

I find this extremely flawed though. Australia has probably the most strict government censorship in any democratic country, and it's strange that this isn't a factor.

And then places like Finland have mandatory military service... And Singapore at 23? Their government is renowned for being quite oppressive and harsh with their punishments.

What do you think the best countries are to live in, and why? You cannot say the country you currently live in simply because you have lived a good life in it, you must have actual reasons.