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At 10/19/03 10:43 PM, TheShrike wrote: What if you had a Big Black Guy Named Ben?

For some reason I feel like there is a hidden message in that, I just can't find it. And no, I probably still wouldn't go to a bar in Anacostia.

At 10/19/03 10:29 PM, TheShrike wrote: Do you know this for a fact? Have you been shot in Anacostia before?

I was kind of exxagerating, yes. I still would never go to a bar in Anacostia.

At 10/19/03 10:17 PM, Anti_Society wrote: I'm not sure what I am really. I wouldnt say I'm athiest, because I do believe their is some god for some of the bizarre things that happen in this world that are unexplainable(or at least for the time).

Agnostic then. Unitarian works also.

At 10/19/03 10:18 PM, TheShrike wrote: You forgot to mention that Dupont is also in the center of the 'safe' part of town at night.

Well, I think everyone has that in mind when they go out. I sure as hell wouldn't go to a bar in Anacostia. I'd be shot the second I walk around there.

It's pretty much known in the DC Metropolitan area that Dupont Cirle is the local gay hangout.

It's also the place with the best bars in DC. So, it comes down to the choice of being hit on by gay guys, or going to shitty bars. In the end, getting hit on by gay guys wins.

At 10/19/03 09:32 PM, Anti_Society wrote: Is it wrong to not follow your grounding if you are right?

Since they are your parents, they are 'right' and you are 'wrong'. Not following it will just lead them to pointing out to you that you are a typical rebellious child etc etc.

At 10/19/03 09:41 PM, Anti_Society wrote: In my opinion total freedom could never be possible, ones freedom usually interupts anothers. Or at least most freedoms worth having. We need restraints to have some sort of freedom, if that makes since.

I think that goes back to what they were discussing earlier. Where does the restraints begin and the freedom end ?

At 10/19/03 09:23 PM, punk_disease wrote: Also, the columbine shooters preffered KMFDM and Rammstein over Manson, how come no one blamed those artists?

There was actually an article/interview in a local paper here in Maryland about KMFDM, and how they felt about one of the kids involved in the Columbine shooting sporting a KMFDM hat.

I can't remember what exactly they said, but it was along the lines of society needing someone to point its finger at.

At 10/19/03 08:51 PM, mrpopenfresh wrote: Smoking weed is something pretty current. Hey, alot of people do itm and thats a fact. What people don't do very much is raping/killing. Weed is alot less dangerous than other things music endorses. So thats why people are influenced.

So, the severity of what they are doing ? If people are so easily swayed by the glammer of the music industry and its lyrics telling you that smoking weed is cool and hip, then by all means, light up that blunt and take a hit. Just remember, it's puff puff pass.

At 10/19/03 07:11 PM, mrpopenfresh wrote: But what I do think music does influence people into smoking weed. But I think its pretty much the only thing music can do.

How does music influence people do one thing, but not another? The severity of what they are doing ?

At 10/19/03 04:51 PM, izuamoto wrote:

:Marylin Manson, Slipknot, Eminem; they don't cause society to be what it is. Society made them.

Society made them. Yes.

However, their music does not help society.

At 10/19/03 04:41 PM, bumcheekcity wrote: Does rock music with offensive lyrics and gory content (Marilyn Manson/Slipknot etc.) actually affect us or not. After Columbine there was a lot of Anti-Manson feelings. Some of his songs definately have violent lyrics but do/can they actually affect young teenagers and compel them to commit atrocities such as the shootings at Columbine High School?

Music is not the only place where these gory contents are displayed. Movies, tv, etc. The world has become apathetic to violence. It has become a normal yawning event that it doesn't phase society as it once did. People hear that someone was shot in their county, they just strike another notch on the chalkboard.

At 10/19/03 03:37 PM, BWS wrote: "I promise to..."

Which is heard in just about any campaign speech.

At 10/18/03 04:35 PM, punk_disease wrote: Allah and Yahweh, perhaps?

Which both mean God, just in another tongue.

At 10/18/03 05:20 AM, Slizor wrote: Put this another way, if there are no laws against me moving, but I am chained to a post, can I move?

Yes. Only as far as the chain allows you to move however. Which, in essence, describes the freedom within this world. There is no such thing as freedom anywhere in this world. It is a controled device. Take freedom of speech for instance. You have the freedom to say anything you want. As long as you don't offend anyone.

Everybody falls under a set of constraints set either by the government or by nature. Everyone has the freedom to try anything in this life. Whether they succeed or not depends on what they try. True freedom is nothing buy an illusion created by pictures and movies.

Isn't the chip implanted in our body ? So would we like, dig the chip out each time we had to scan it ?

As the possibilites are endless, so are the consequences and possible errors that come with this idea.

At 10/16/03 07:48 PM, General_Patton wrote: No, unnatural means that it is not the CORRECT method of sexual intercourse.

Who determines what is correct and right ?

It has always been like this.

When Micheal Irvine was caught with coke, he was given a minor fine, compared to his annual salary which was some obsene amount in the millions, and put into rehabilitation.

At 10/15/03 07:58 PM, OpIvy420 wrote: But what do you say to the kid who gets the shit beat out of him every day at lunch because he won't say the pledge?

I have never heard of anybody getting beat up for not saying the pledge. I honestly don't believe kids in elementary school know what they are saying, other than that it was one of the first things taught to them as they entered kindergarten.

By middle school, kids know of different religions and more than likely don't care.

High school, I can possibly accept someone getting beaten up for not saying the pledge. But then, that person is a bigot who himself needs to be get the shit beaten out of him.

Since you mentioned baseball.

*lynches said cubs fan*

Game 7 Pedro vs Roger

At 10/15/03 12:20 PM, Solamnus wrote: The only lawsuit I agree with was the one against Phillip-Morris; i.e., cigarettes. They should have been sued for billions of dollars because they intentionally made cigarettes addictive.

That I'm going to have to say no to. People knew that cigarettes can cause harm to their lungs, addictive or not. And people should be smart enough to know that when so many people have tried to kick the habit and failed that it was addictive and not because they wanted to pollute their lungs some more.

:However, I do not believe that the indiviuals should have recieved that money. It should go to cancer research instead.

That, however, I can agree with.

People as a majority, whoever may it be, will almost always shun that which is different from themselves.

At 10/15/03 10:49 AM, Slightly_Crazy_Dude wrote: I too think its a very "outthere" idea but, would it be a bad thing after all ??? As said above these people would have their stats logged into this chip which can be scanned and therefore saving their life. It does however bring "branding" into it, would you be treated as a social outcast if you didnt purchase one or would it be the opposite would people think that the people who purchase these are snobbish and "higher" in status than the rest??? Its still open to discussion.

Call me crazy, call it seeing one to many sci fi movies, or whatever. I personally don't believe that this should be 'installed'. And honestly, how hard would it be to have this chip give off a low frequency wave. We already have things that do this already. Another Big Brother piece of equipment that I do not believe society needs.

At 10/15/03 12:16 AM, punk_disease wrote: speaking of boobies, I WENT TO MY FIRST RIOT TONIGHT! YAY!

Hehe, almost sounds like what happened when Duke beat us, Maryland, in the Final Four three years. Bonfires everywhere. Huge amounts of people just roaming College Park. The place where I work, a bakery, had two of its windows broken because of drunk people tossing chairs through it. Quite a interesting night.

And then next year, when we won the National Championship, the same thing happened again. Go figure.

Well you really can't 'arm' yourself with a nuke. Unless you are walking around carrying a remote with a large red button on it saying 'Wipeout mankind'.

Why change the pledge ?

If you are offended by it, you do not have to say it. By taking out the phrase 'one nation under god' will that make more people say it, or want to say it ?

At 10/14/03 04:55 PM, House_Of_Leaves wrote: 3: Islam and Christianity are only different in tradition and Saviour. As it's been pointed out, it's the same God. They even believe Jesus will come back to save the world as Christians do. But they don't believe he's the Son of God. They believe that the Bible is an outdated book, and that Mohammed (their prophet, and I can't be certain that's spelled right) was giving out a more updated and correct version of how things were/are/will be.

They also differ in fundamental beliefs. While they believe many of the same core things there is one difference between the two. Christianity is redemption through faith. Islam is redemption through acts.

As much as I would like to believe that tracking capabilities won't be implated into these chips, I find the whole idea sketchy at best.

This is basically the same as placing a barcode on our neck and branding us.

At 10/13/03 02:41 PM, bumcheekcity wrote: Don't think so me old bean. We (UK) had 68 deaths from firearms in either 2003 or 2002 I think. In the same year, American had 11,000+ deaths. America has approximately 5 times as many citizens but more than 30times the amount of gun deaths.

Nowhere in my post did I say anything regarding gun related deaths. I mentioned overall crime. My point is that people, whether the sale of firearms is illegal or not, will still buy them for crime.

I give it a few months tops before people will be able to counterfeit these new bills as well.

I swapped one out of the drawer at my work =p