885 Forum Posts by "TheloniousMONK"
Want to prevent nuclear war? Give every sane and democratic nation nuclear capabilities.
At 2/11/05 06:33 PM, The_FUNK wrote: You still don't get it, do you? Democrat and Republican are PLATFORMS. Our governmental style is called FEDERALISM. The governmental style FASCISM is diametrically opposed to FEDERALISM. Both left and right wings of the FEDERALISM system are as opposed to FASCISM as the other.
Funk wins again!
At 2/11/05 04:25 PM, Kev-o wrote: Not long ago President Bush condemned Saddam Hussein for recruiting Palestinian suicide bombers by offering to pay $25,000 to their families. Last week, Mr. Bush proposed raising the death benefit for U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq to half a million dollars. When I learned of Mr. Bush's proposal, I couldn't help wonder: Will such payouts will create American martyrs?
He would have a point if the money was all that the Islamofacists are interested in when they willingly give their lives. I could see maybe a COUPLE of people trying this. Other than that, American soldiers have a bright life to look forward to in America, or any other developed nation. This is something the Islamofacists do not have. Also, 99% of American soldiers do not believe they have to earn their way to heaven by killing infidels or dying in combat fighting infidels to get there. Conversely, the Islamofacists do believe in these principles.
At 2/10/05 05:48 PM, drDAK wrote: So this woman felt she wanted to commit suicide one day (I'm so casual about things) and she's teetering back and forth on the edge of a bridge located near Seattle and deciding whether or not to jump off. It looked high from her view, but so did the world.
Then, after traffic begins slowing down due to cops halting the flow to try stopping the twenty-six-year-old from killing herself, the travelers get impatient. Hence, a few bastards shout to the woman:
"Jump, bitch! Jump!"
She then jumps off the bridge and narrowly misses her death.
I wonder if any of the "bastards" were charged with anything. It would be impossible not to admit their words were used to incite violence.
At 2/8/05 09:26 AM, awkward_silence wrote: It is fairly clear that we are running full steam into a large(r) national recession. The only reason that we haven't felt something harsher is that China, Japan, and like nations are buying our dept like its their job. But that's not free money, that we have to pay back.
I hate the economically ignorant who make voter issues out of the economy. A DEGREE OF NATIONAL DEBT IS HEALTHY. Do I need to say it again? Maybe italicized this time? A DEGREE OF NATIONAL DEBT IS HEALTHY.
Please, do yourself a favor and learn about the yield principle. Ever since the 50's, and in instances before, every time we have significantly payed off the national debt we have been rewarded with a recession.
At 2/3/05 02:05 AM, BeFell wrote: We consider ourselves to be God's children so it would be reasonable to assume there would be some kind of family resemblence.
Or uh... God's sheep. Well, that is a scary thought.
At 2/3/05 12:46 AM, awkward_silence wrote: Here's my take on it. If there is a God, in the literal popularized humaneque form, and it did create us in its image. Then God would look like the ones that it first created(Adam and Eve) . As far as we can tell, that's Australopithicus Africanus.
Not really, because if you want to take The Bible literally then there would not have been time for evolution.
'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'
A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year.
Prostitution was legalised in Germany just over two years ago and brothel owners – who must pay tax and employee health insurance – were granted access to official databases of jobseekers.
The waitress, an unemployed information technology professional, had said that she was willing to work in a bar at night and had worked in a cafe.
She received a letter from the job centre telling her that an employer was interested in her "profile'' and that she should ring them. Only on doing so did the woman, who has not been identified for legal reasons, realise that she was calling a brothel.
Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit. Last month German unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month to 4.5 million, taking the number out of work to its highest since reunification in 1990.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA, this is great! Germany legalizes prostitution to stop crime, but in doing so, they endorsed the position that prostitution is moral behavior. Now, women cannot opt out of taking the job based on morality. I cannot wait to see America's next batch of welfare reform.
At 1/30/05 01:42 PM, King_Hammurabi wrote: I've noticed a lot of Christian fundamentalists bashing Islam by calling it a pagan religion. Nothing could be further from the truth. Islam is, without a doubt, a completely monotheistic religion.
You are an idiot. Paganism has nothing to do with monotheism. By definition, paganism is anything but Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
A bunch more crap.
You have completely missed the point. Christians do not have a problem with Islam because they believe they worship a different god. Rather, there are two main reasons that Christians reject Islam.
1. Muslims do not believe Jesus to be anything more than a prophet and even place Muhammad on a higher pedestle than he.
2. Qur'an vs The Bible. While there are many similarities, as both stem from Judaic philosophy and history, there are very large conflicts. For example, the Qur'an is supposedly completely the word of Muhammad as given to him by God. Christianity prides itself in having a religious text written by many different people across a long period of time. There are also a few big philosophical differences as well as many subtle ones.
I would not get your hopes up; this law will be totally ineffective.
Hawaii would not stay united as a collection of islands. Just about every island, or small groups of islands, would be its own entity. Some islands are extremely xenophobic, and, as it is now, only allow Native Hawaiians to live on them. Others, like O'ahu, are already diverse enough to remain that way.
Where do you get men whose first allegiance would be to the UN? And can you imagine what kind of a logistics nightmare it would be anyway?
There is far more than one answer to this question, but I will go ahead and touch on the one that is probably most obvious.
It is a given that America is the most powerful nation in the world. Thereby, we have the ability to do the most damage economically, politically, as well as militaristically. Plus, we are generally rather stubborn, and when we do not get our way we are willing to do the types of damages cited. Other nations realizing this, and fearing these repercussions, feign support or decide not to get in our way.
At 1/23/05 12:07 AM, Snozzwang wrote: WE'RE PULLING OUT OF THE UN! PREPARE TO BE NUKED, TERRORIST FUCKS!
If only.
At 1/22/05 02:01 PM, BeFell wrote: Hooray for abortion killing off millions of girls so they don't shame their parents.
That was just made illegal.
Savage is entertainment, nothing more. Sort of like Moore.
At 1/19/05 11:18 PM, spanishfli wrote: That's throwing out most of your argument against homosexuality. All that's left is Paul's little bit in Romans and Corinthians.
While we are no longer under the law, because of Christ, the Old Testament still gives us an important perspective on God. God is immutable; He was the same yesterday as he is today as he will be tomorrow. Seeing how God took to such sins in the past is indicative of how He regards such things today. The only difference is that today the blood sacrifice has already been made, Christ's death, and we have atonement when we ask for it and believe it.
Me personaly: I think Jesus is gay and loved everyone even though people hated him.
It is my understanding you believe Christ was a homosexual. While it is scriptually supported that Christ loved everyone, saying he was a homosexual is not. Like I stated before, God is immutable, and since Christ IS God and given his disposition toward homosexuality, it is unlikely He would be gay.
At 1/17/05 09:34 PM, Evil_Alex37 wrote: My main quarrel with BJU is that it doesn't teach students that their are different people out there with different beliefs and different ideals than you.
We are well aware of the Satanic forces at play outside of our force field protected campus. Every weekend we go out and battle those forces and bring them to justice.
They seel themselves away from other colleges and try to create a fake "pure, unsinful" atmosphere.
We do not try to create a fake pure atmosphere, we try to create a pure atmosphere. We know that we cannot, but it is our moral obligation, set by God, to do so.
Sex isn't a sin, it's a part of life. Life is formed through sex, so I'm not against it.
We love sex. However, sex outside of marriage goes against God's word, so we frown upon it.
Homosexuality. Homosexuals have been around as long as the earth began, and I think god has more to worry about than who is banging who.
God has great interest in all of us. So, next time you and Joe are sharing keep in mind GOD IS WATCHING.
It just pisses me off that only in America we have a school that teaches that things you will do in life are sinful and wrong.
Spend some time in the Middle East.
that's my 5 cent.
Yeah, we realize.
At 1/17/05 01:12 PM, Evil_Alex37 wrote: Are there any black people at BJU?
Me.
At 1/17/05 09:32 AM, Evil_Alex37 wrote: What kind of college chooses not to be accredidated? What kind of college chooses not to have psyhical contact between students? What kind of college chooses not to let students listen to music? Apparently Bob Jones University in south carolina. It's a sad, sad school. It doesn't teach Science. oh, and this blows a lid off, <A> www.bju.edu/academics/accred.html .
Why are you making fun of my school, again? I attend BJ and love it. They have one of the best physics programs in the world, which, by the way, is a science.
As far as social atmosphere goes, I meet all kinds of ladies that I have interesting and engaging conversations with. I go to all the hottest Bible conferences and fill my soul with the love of Jesus Christ. Most importantly, at this school I feel safe from Satan. His influence cannot penetrate the Godly force field that surrounds our school.
I think you should do your own research for your essay.
At 1/16/05 05:36 AM, EnragedSephiroth wrote: The chain of command didn't pursue it, and it might have been for the reason you gave, and it might not have been, you don't know for sure, unless you're an officer that makes those kinds of decisions, if you are then I will unquestionably believe you because you're the person that makes the decision, but until then your suggestion remains as a "what if" statement.
Congratulations, I think you just made the most worthless argument ever.
At any rate, it does not take a Ph.D. to realize how the military operates. As taxman hinted at, they judge outcomes as either wholly beneficial, or wholly not beneficial. In this situation, having a worthless man out there, unwilling to fight, would not be beneficial.
At 1/15/05 09:01 PM, spanishfli wrote: It was a bad idea for Chile, special intrest groups are involved whom are intrested soley business and not in the welfare of people, etc...
This was pretty much a direct question I was asked in my interview to get my Congressional Nomination for the Air Force Academy. They asked what course of action I would take if I was sent to somewhere like Iraq, and I did not want to go.
I guess that means they find this to be a much larger problem then one would think, which is why I imagine they will go to great lengths to make an example of this guy who is in the spotlight.
At 1/11/05 01:24 AM, Apathetic_Tragedy wrote: funny thing about the tsunami too. like 650,000 died or something right? or was it 65,000?
Latest estimates are almost up to 150,000 deaths, actually. And this is really only the beginning. Disease, infection, starvation, etc... are still going to kill thousands and thousands more before this ordeal is over.
somewhere around there. but i think its funny that the first thing reported was about the 100 something americans that were killed. something is screwed up in that.
Maybe you just need to pay a little better attention to the news. Besides, it is impossible for them to estimate the total number of American deaths before Indonesian deaths.
At 1/9/05 10:43 PM, Izu wrote: I smoke! My first cigarette was not cherrylicious D-lites. You know what it was? It was a two dollar Leggitt. It burned like a mother fucker and it tasted like shit. And I still smoke. I'm very much in control of my habit. I don't have to smoke, I go long periods without them and I feel no withdrawl symptoms. I'm fortunate. I do it because it IS enjoyable to me and a lot of other folks, and it mellows you the hell out. That's why it's attractive to kids, the same reason it's attractive to adults. Not the fact that there's some stupid camel on it.
So, tell me. Would you rather be fit, healthy, and satisfied or unhealthy and "mellow?" We both know the answer. Although, if you choose the latter, realize that it is a pathetic cop-out for achieving what you could have and want.
At 1/4/05 09:54 PM, Proteas wrote: I present to you, the general public of Newgrounds, material that hardly anyone has thought to bring up within the past week. And after you read this, I want you to turn a couple of things over in your minds;
At 1/4/05 10:52 PM, red_skunk wrote: So does aspirin.
Everyone knows you are not supposed to use aspirin when you are pergnant. How is that anything like marijuana?
