610 Forum Posts by "House-Of-Leaves"
I don't often post in the forum anymore ( I used to) but I did want to mention something about PETA.
There is nothing ethical about how they treat human beings. There is nothing ethical with the hypocrisy.
However, I will say that they are not against the eating of meat, but rather, the slaughter of the animal. There have been experiments lately with a faux meat product grown in a lab, that is basically flesh similar to that of an animal, but it obviously doesn't require killing an animal to get it.
I am a pet owner. I don't condone animal testing. I do believe in animal rights. But my choices for not eating meat is a health one, not a political agenda. I like leather too much to give up all animal products.
At 2/28/06 08:27 PM, HinesDaMan wrote:
House_of_Leaves: Your new title is now "Southern Punk-fort"
Haha. And to think Southern Comfort is my favorite drink. Yum.
Thanks, I'm amused. :)
Oh, hell, why not. Try me. I haven't been around in ages, so...I'm not sure how easy it'll be to find out stuff, but. Go ahead!
At 2/28/06 04:25 PM, Wadger wrote: I’m thinking literacy and grammar tests for all BBS users.
Amen.
And to the original poster: Thank you. One of my biggest pet peeves. Unfortunately, I highly doubt it'll make much of a difference.
You're awesome for trying!
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All of them, gold.
At 2/28/06 05:49 PM, Snypercore wrote: heres the deal i am sick of readin crappy topics liek OMFG i killed sum1 adn they dead...with crappy grammer as shown..also i am sick of reall stupid questions and lies etc..i empose a more strict approach to completley kicking those whom force us to read this ...well ..BULLSHIT..maybe a voting system, but somethign has to be done because NG is becoming so dry for decent,funny and interesting post's, what has happened
I find it very, very funny when people bitch and moan about 'grammer' when their own words are just as bad.
As a favor, I'll translate.
:Here's the deal. I am sick of reading crappy topics like "OMFG i killed sum1 adn they dead"...with crappy grammar, as shown. Also, I am sick of really stupid questions and lies, etc. I impose a more strict approach to completely kicking those who force us into reading this...well...BULLSHIT. Maybe a voting system, but something has to be done, because NG is becoming so dry for decent, funny, and interesting posts. What has happened?
I apologize, but...well. I could fix the spelling. The sentence structure? FUCK that. I'm letting you all fend for yourselves on that one.
At 2/28/06 05:41 PM, SuburbaniteHunter wrote:
You got your car keyed because you were dumb enough to leave it sitting in front of your house or on the driveway in plain sight. Some angry pedestrian with a set of keys decided "what the hell" and keyed your car. Edn.
I'm very glad you have such an awesome view of the world and the economical position of the general public, but...Not everyone has a garage.
So. I live in an apartment building. Where am I supposed to put my car, if not in front, or in a driveway. Up my ass? In my pocket? Stuff it in my closet?
As a side note. If someone keyed my BMW, I'd be RAGING right now. I can understand the anger associated with it.
Dante, hands down.
After playing DMC3, I just can't get enough. I can't wait for DMC4!
At 2/28/06 07:58 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:At 2/28/06 07:55 AM, House_Of_Leaves wrote: Since today is Fat TuesdayShrove Tuesday, actually. Fat Tuesday just makes it sound awful and completely unrelated to Jesus's hunger strike.
Well, me personally? I understand that. Most people don't, though, and don't recognize it as Shrove Tuesday.
I suppose I should raise my expectations for the NGBBS. I haven't been here in ages. Have things really changed that much!?
Okay. So.
Mardi Gras = Fat Tuesday. The day before Ash Wednesday, when people (read: Catholics) give something up for Lent, which is the 40 days before Easter.
Since it was traditionally a time known for fasting, most people would gorge and indulge themselves on the day before, therefore, "Fat" Tuesday.
Just a note for everyone. Since I'm nice, and I was reminded by my roomie...
Since today is Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras), IHOPs all over the country are offering free pancakes. I don't know the details, but I know it's 1 short stack per person, and it's until about 2pm.
Call your local IHOP to find out the details.
I'd like to point out again that it's not a real list. It was meant as a joke...
At 9/14/05 01:29 AM, FUNKbrs wrote::
Not dead yet, I promise.
and here I was hoping...;)
Kidding kidding. Good to hear!
I agree with not having it available during school. Kids DO need to make choices on their own, but if they have water or juice, it makes for a healthier student body.
Wow, it's been a long time since I poked my head in here.
How is everyone?
Goth foods:
Blackberries.
Black cherries.
Black coffee.
Dark chocolate.
Count Chocula.....
I swear to god, me and my roommates laughed SO HARD to this. While I was painting my boyfriend's nails black.
I'll be back later, I'm off to kill a kitten, and worship Satan while getting ready to sleep excessively and think about sex.
I shouldn't be laughing so hard. But I can't help it.
At 1/4/04 07:33 PM, JudgeFUNK wrote: Women. Yet another great argument for homosexuality.
HAHAHAHAHAHH!!!!
Oh, wait. I'm a woman..
HEY.
(Still true.)
I'll join! I LOVE HER GLASSES!
Granted, I've never really looked at her cam before, but her glasses make this club VERY worthwhile! LOL
UPDATE!
Work is awesome.
But I HAVE NO TIME ANYMORE!
Bah.
So, I'm not dead. Just so everyone knows.
My life has gotten hectic again, and will continue to be such, but I'll check in as often as I can. :)
I missed the bong hit?? DAMMITALLTOHELL!
At 10/19/03 08:02 PM, General_Patton wrote:At 10/19/03 06:17 PM, House_Of_Leaves wrote:She is not worshipped, she is prayed to for help and as a guide.
Praying to someone, to me, means that they're seen as a sort of deity or all-powerful being that has the ability to help when they do not. I'll add this again and again, so you get it. This is my opinion. If you don't agree? Fantastic, but don't give me 'facts' when they are simply religious doctrine and opinion themselves. I'm not catholic for a reason. You can be catholic all you want.
Actually, Jesus himself gave Peter, the first official priest/pope of the church permission to forgive sins. Just being sorry and asking god in your head for forgiveness is too easy. If you kill someone, and your sorry, thats great. However, when you go to the priest, he's going to say you'll need to give yourself up for forgiveness. YOU (not YOU specifically, bu this fictional YOU) willprobably just think that God has forgiven you and you'll just do some good stuff.
This, I have a problem with. Jesus gave Peter the permission to say, 'Yes, God forgives you.' Fine, but read that paragraph carefully.
Asking God in my head for forgiveness is praying. You just said that it's not good enough. That I have to go to a fallible human being to get saved, instead of my Maker. Sorry, but no. That's exactly why I don't like the idea of confession. It becomes more important to confess your sins to a MAN than to GOD. God is most important. Not a priest.
First of all, Jesus is the one who CREATED the idea. Also, when it is blessed, it is NOT considered to be the actual biological remnants of Christ, but to be the holy CHARACTER of christ. If christ said he is in the "crackers" and you BELIEVE he is christ, then i guess he can't be wrong.
Jesus said, 'Eat this, for this is my body, do this in REMEMBERANCE of me.' Yes, that's paraphrased. I'm not ignorant to where that came from, I know these things, I -still- disagree with it. I've taken symbolic communion, yes. I've eaten the crackers and sipped the wine. I don't disagree with communion itself. I disagree with thinking that the cookie, very literally, becomes God.
Jesus also taught tolerance and understanding, as well as forgiveness of sins. Jesus can forgive a man for never learning of him, or believing in him, as long as he leads his life according to a similie of his moral teachings. As that God is a loving God, he's not going to smite you just because you're of the wrong religion.
I'm not one to quote the bible all the time, since I have my issues with that, but...
Ephesians 2:8-10 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
I don't have time to say more, it's late, but...yeah. I did have a good time at rehearsal. :)
Alright...my issues with the catholic church.
You can tell me you disagree, I'm not trying to pull you out of the church if you happen to be catholic, but please don't try to change my mind. It won't work. This is my opinion.
1. There is only one mediator between man and God, and that is Christ. Yet there's prayers to Mary. Mary was good and holy and Christ's mother, but she isn't a deity, and she shouldn't be worshipped as one.
2. I will ask God for forgiveness, I will praise Jesus, I will pray and sing and thank Him for His blood, but I will NOT ask a human being(read there: priest) to absolve me of my sins by giving me so many rosary repetitions to read.
3. The cookie. The cracker. The 'body of Christ'. Whatever you want to call it. It is symbolic. The catholic doctrine demands that it's people believe the cookie actually BECOMES JESUS. Not a symbol, or a gesture, or ritual or tradition. But Christ himself, in a cracker. I can't do that, and I won't.
4. Damned if I don't have time to find the exact gospel this is in. I will later. But. "No man shall come unto the father BUT BY ME." Jesus said that. He didn't add, 'Oh, yeah, but if you DON'T want to believe in me, you can go volunteer at your local YMCA.'
I know I sound really...I dunno...bitchy. But I know these things, and you can't convince me otherwise. I'm not completely ignorant to the church myself. I almost converted for a man I was engaged to a while back. I've been there, I've done that, I didn't even WANT the t-shirt, let alone the rosaries and confessionals and the Jesus Cookie. I can understand the beauty of it, and in a perfect world, it would all work. But...think about this.
One of the commandments is against false idols, yes?
Which do you trust in more? The church? The doctrine? Or God himself?
Doctrine and churches can, in themselves, be false idols if you serve the church or yourself before God.
I'm off to rehearse. Buhbye!
Man...you guys suck. Seriously. LOL
I was offered a job in a band last night! It's a bad that's recently disbanded because they lost their drummer, and when the drummer left, so did the vocals. So the guitar guy is talking to the bass guy today. I've spent time with this guy, too. Met his girlfriend last night, went out, had a blast...it was SO fun! And so, hopefully, I'll be getting some gigs around here. :)
That does't mean I won't come to Memphis!
At 10/18/03 01:02 AM, dudeitsallama wrote: There is a difference between choosing a child's gender and trying to make a boy live as a girl. Most of the people in this world are forced to be a boy or a girl. We're born that way. Should intersex children not have the same rights or lack their of because of a birth defect?
This is exactly my point. HOW is it different? I understand the obvious differences, but if you force an intersexed child to grow up as male, when inside he feels alllll woman, HOW is that a good thing? How on earth can you take that choice away from him when he says, 'Daddy, I wanna be a girl.'
The circumstances are different, but the principle is the same. It still applies to the nature/nurture argument. While I agree giving an infant a 'he' or 'she' to identify with is necessary, doing something as drastic as surgery isn't the answer.
And as far as I know, it is -fact-, not opinion, that they cannot and will not do gender assignment on infants. They have to wait for the testes to descend and the hormones to start to kick in for puberty. THAT was part of my paper, too, but damned if it isn't 6 am and I won't look for the info right now. You'll have to wait.
No, actually, that wasn't my intention. When I was growing up, I liked playing with trucks AND dolls, I got rowdy with the boys, and I had tea parties with the girls. I'm not saying it's an all-encompasing importance, but let's be realistic.
What about the relatives that buy It's a Girl/It's a Boy balloons and gifts and cards? What about giving the child a name? You can pick something ambiguous, and you can let all the relatives know that it's neither he or she, but in reality, most parents of pseudohermaphroditic children do and will assign some sort of gender to the child.
I can't speak for thousands of people though, so I suppose that's what -I'd- do. I did some thinking on this when I studied pseudohermaphroditism for that paper.
I'd obviosly have genetic testing done, but they'd do that anyway. If it was an XXY chromosome, and if I chose to raise the child as a boy for the most part, I'd keep an open eye and mind as to what the child wants, and -always- be honest with him about what he's likely to feel. It would depend on the dominant physical genetalia present, probably. I really don't know, though. I've never been faced with that decision.
All I know is that you can't call a child 'it' while he or she is growing up. If nothing else, a gender has to be chosen so his or her peers don't have to say, 'It's so cute!'
At 10/17/03 04:28 PM, dudeitsallama wrote: Have you been recently lobotomized? You can't leave a child without a gender (or would it be with both?)!
I'll take my time with this one, since you're obviously not seeing the bigger picture. Of course there has to be SOME sort of gender assignment. A name, for one. What to tell the family, number two. What clothes to buy, what toys to buy, things like that. What I'm speaking of, mainly, is SURGICAL assignment. Or forced feminization of a child who obviously wants to be male, or vice verse: the forced masculinization of a child who wants to be a girl, and is giving clear signals.
That's sick and wrong. Can you imagine how traumatic and horrible that would be?
Click the link I gave, and tell me that isn't traumatic and horrible.
You should have SOME knowledge of human anatomy...how the testes don't drop til later in life, how puberty develops a body, all that. As far as I know now, it is normal to leave intersex babies that way til they hit puberty and have begun to develop, and can make a more informed decision.
Any intersex child left intersex should have the legal right to shoot their parents in the face.
Right, I'm glad you can approach this with maturity and logic.
Parents of pseudohermaphroditic children have to be more attuned to what their children want. There's clear signals, growing up, whether or not there's male or female tendencies.
An operation to establish a definite gender for a baby is definitley not unnecessary.
Please see above. It is unnecessary and probably impossible, since there's still things that need to develop. Even back in '66/'67, when the man I spoke about had his penis burned off in a botched circumcision, they didn't do an operation right away. They didn't just right then and there give him a vagina. They waited.
A sex change operation for an adult who has a wierd hormonal imbalance or, more likely, a screw loose is unnecessary.
Uh...well. Glad to see you're living in the now. Let me guess. Are you afraid of drag queens, too?
You can't expect a child to live their life without a gender and then have to pick one on their own. I'm really disgusted by this whole topic.
Mhmm. Well continue to be disgusted. Until you think it out clearly, you won't see the need to let a child grow up without being forced to be a boy or girl. Click the link, read it, see why.
At 10/17/03 01:41 PM, aviewaskewed wrote:At 10/17/03 02:54 AM, House_Of_Leaves wrote:See...I'm not really nice after, either, but I won't really explain what I mean. Hahahaha!But you were nice to me last night...oh wait a minute...I think I just figured that out ;).
LOLOL!
Of course I was nice to you. :) I'm always nice when I haven't been watching hockey. *cackles*
Okay, so that's a lie.
But anyway.
The riot! Part of me wishes I was there, because it feels GOOD to let loose like that sometimes. But then I woulda had guilt and all that stuff. At least you're alright, Punk. :D
At 10/17/03 12:01 PM, Sekky wrote: To experience being both sexes though...man I can't even begin to comprehend that.
I'd like to read documentation on that, House Of Leaves if you would find it. :)
I can sure do that. :) I can't give you documentation on Tina, since that was a 1 on 1 interview, and I respect her privacy. But the other, I certainly can.
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HAH! Goes to show how horrible my memory is. See, the paper I wrote? To be honest, wasn't for me, or a class I was taking. It was for a fellow music major that was trying to put together her senior recital on her cello, and she had an extra $50 bucks. ;) So after I finished it, a lot of the little details left me. Like...I'm not quite sure if his REAL name is John, but I'm almost positive it is. It might be something else. But it wasn't 'Jane' they called him, but 'Joan'.
I found a few articles I can link you to, the one that's first on the Google list is this:
http://www.infocirc.org/rollston.htm
There you go. Granted, when I did the paper I had mostly hardcopy info, books fromt he library and shit. THAT was a pain in the ass. Oh, if I'd only Googled it, that $50 would have been easier.
If you want more info, just Google the words 'botched circumcision john joan', and you'll come up with plenty.
