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At 1/30/05 08:16 PM, AlbertTheFish wrote:

My first was Michael Jackson's "Bad" album. Feel free to make any Michael Jackson/Pedophile jokes, it's an alright album, and I was about 7, I didn't know no better.

Hey the first album that was ever bought for me was Bad, when I was 7. What a coincidence.

But the the first CD I ever bought myself was Core by Stone Temple Pilots when I was 11.

At 1/28/05 05:40 PM, BozoHimself wrote: and its G.G Allin, not Allen.
and, he played ROCK, not punk.

How many rock stars sing the song 'ass fucking, butt sucking, cunt licking masturbation'?

I noticed that the voting in the audio portal seems to be incredibly erratic, I mean stuff I vote on in the flash portal may move by only .01 points. Does anyone know anything about how voting works in the audio portal? Does your voting power from the flash portal affect it? Can you vote more than once on the same song ever?

At 1/27/05 09:06 AM, Acosta wrote: you're only taking the 'punk' that you hear on the airwaves to make that assumption.

The last good wave of punk bands was in the mid 90s when everyone was taking NOFX's lead, when bands like Good Riddance, No Use for a Name, Pulley, and my personal favorite Bracket, were growing like hell. Even Blink 182 was a part of that, and then it hit the mainstream really hard. Just like it did before. Now it's dead again, but that doesn't mean it won't come back.

By the way, I predict 2005 to be the year of the death of metal again... by the end of this year numetal should be scarce and dead, dragging along a lot of the support of the underground bands. This means next year's Ozzfest should be a total disaster.

At 1/27/05 03:52 AM, Tai_Nite wrote: I know I like punk, that much I can say.... I just can't tell what is and what's not. So I wanna ask...
Is Papa Rouch, Disturbed, Killswitch, Lords of Acid, Pink, System of a Down, Punk?

Not a single one. You have mentioned bands from the metal, numetal, and industrial genres.

Anyway punk is pretty much dead again. All the new punk songs on the radio are about homework and parents. Pop punk may have killed off old-school punk, but this new-school punk makes me want to vomit.

And the fact that the punk trend is so marketable right now, what with Avril and all those other poseurs, is ironic considering the entire idea of 'punk' used to be 'fuck the man, fuck the corporations, fuck money, DIY'

Hey everyone, I just finished a new song!

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/view.php?id=130096&sub=19329

Reviews please!!

At 1/10/05 10:51 PM, zeppelin_man wrote: The think is, the idea of God and the big bang is equally illogical basically. Like for the big bang, how did the gravity get created?

Gravity is a cosmological constant present everywhere in our physical universe, and throughout the multiverse we reside in.

-- Or how the heck did it even happen? Where was the energy created?

It is likely that the energy was spawned by the collision of two branes, gigantic multidimensional spaces explained only by math. You'll have to see "The Elegant Universe" or something similar for it to make much sense.

You can continue to explain more and more complicated pheonomenon such as the big bang, a decades-old theory, using recent breakthroughs in physics. And it will keep on going indefinitely.

I actually read that article on evolution in Discover magazine this month and it was good... things are looking worse and worse for all those people who still believe in creationism. The sad part is, they will continue to deny the facts and believe their stupid beliefs.

It's funny that some people spend their entire lives preparing for the afterlife, which isn't there.

Man you don't need Marilyn Manson to prove that God doesn't exist... just use common sense

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At 6/27/03 06:12 PM, Commander-K25 wrote: It's easy to write off all aegregationists as bastards, but it's not that simple. He was a man of his time that stood up for a commonly held idea back then. As times changed, so did he. I do no believe that the Strom Thurmond that just died is the same Strom Thurmond as fifty years ago.

True, the quote in the initial post was delivered in 1948. That was 55 years ago. Have you heard anything racist come from the guy in the last half century?

At 6/27/03 07:48 PM, swayside wrote:
natural selection is not proof of evolution. it's proof that dumb people don't think fast enough to get out of bad situations. it's proof that a creature with long legs will probably outrun a creature with short legs while running away from a preditor. big deal. this doesn't have anything to do with evolution.

You're accurately describing the process of evolution. If a creature that has been born with long legs outruns a creature with a gene for short legs, it survives longer and has a higher chance/rate of reproduction. When the longer-legged creatures outnumber or outlive the short-legged creatures, the species is fully evolved one more step.

Our government does plenty of things that allow us to live in large grows fairly easily and efficiently. However, some of the things they force us to do, like getting emissions testing, is a pain in the ass. But it's probably necessary.

However, the government has a habit of throwing themselves in the path of people's personal habits. When you get your emissions tested you are proving to the government that you are below the legal pollution output level, and therefore, minimally hurting those around you. But when you do things that don't harm people at all, and the government prohibits it, that's where they have crossed the line.
Examples:
Gambling
Prostitution
Marijuana consumption

These are all things that, when done legally (not involving murdering, raping, assault of any form, robbery, blah blah) harm no one. The illegality of certain types of instances is what makes one's actions during these activities illegal. Smoking weed never hurt anyone. Maybe someone that smoked weed and punched someone in the face was illegal. The illegality lies in the punching in the face, and good luck finding a link between usage and violence.

How can things like this happen and U.S. citizens still support their country? There's a few ways, and they are suprisingly similar to why people hold to their religion:

1. The media never tells us about it. Even if you hear someone like Michael Moore or fark talk about it, it never gets out to the vast majority of people, only a few who are not slaves to mass corporate media.

2. When those who do hear and understand the message try to tell others that support the government about it, they reject it with statements like "I'm sure that didn't happen" or "I'm sure the government knows what they're doing", both statements which rely on faith in the government. That's like trusting some guy you've never met to run your life for you, just because his ancestors were good people.

3. Americans have always grown up thinking "We live in the best and most fair country in the world because we make a big deal about equal rights and shit" so they never believe that America could do such a thing.

Americans REEEEALLY need to wake up and realize their government does plenty of things that hurt not just us, or the entire world's population, but humanity as a whole. If this country continues down the current path, we're FUCKED.

It'd be different if they were doing it in the park or something, but whatever goes on in their private abode is beyond my control/concern.

Hell, they could be having sex with goat fetuses in a feces-covered bathroom for all I care, it's not like I have to be exposed to it. Fortunately for them there's not much legislation against fecofetilephilia.

At 6/22/03 04:08 PM, bumcheekycity wrote:

Rascist could (and should) be applied to anyone who uses the word 'n!gger, but not negro. We should call them negros, for that is what they are, same as I am Cantonese (could someone check thats for white people, cos I have no idea.)

Cantonese is a type of Chinese person, so if you're white, you probably mean caucasian.

At 6/19/03 12:39 PM, Bobby_Jenkins wrote: I have all the Monkey Islands(played the first 2 on the amiga, where it was first spawned), Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Sam n Max, The Dig, Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle
And I've played Loom, all the Indiana Jones adventure games and Zak McKrackan.
That's only the Lucasarts games, I'm not gonna start on the other company's ones....I'm just a big adventure games fan, I rarely play any other genre.

Old Sierra games! Police Quest, King's Quest, SPACE QUEST, and don't forget Leisure Suit Larry!
(and all the other Sierra adventure games)

At 6/20/03 06:41 PM, damndifwedordont wrote: first of all i must say that i dont care about religion i am an agnostic which is a nice athiest and many of you may wounder whats he mean by that? well ill tell you that means that i do not hate any religion but i have no god an athiest hates christians and another religion i forgot because i dont care.

Just to clear this up:

An agnostic does not practice a religion. An agnostic is the 'undecided' category, a person who doesn't know, and doesn't care.

And atheist is someone that does not believe in God. (Theist means religious, atheist means not religious) Yes, some, probably lots of atheists hate christianity, but it is not one of the principles of atheism.

That's the cool part about atheism: there's no rule to it. The simplest belief someone can have. No God.

At 6/20/03 12:34 AM, Dobio wrote:

It's natural selection folks. But, this doesn't prove evolution, per sa. It might prove that some people are idiots, and some people have natural instincts that alligators = danger. Then again...we didn't need prove of that, cause it's a known fact.

True, this isn't really evidence of evolution, this is evidence of natural selection, which is evidence of evolution.

At 6/19/03 09:47 PM, alejandro1 wrote: Umm... I read the article, but I don't see how it pretains to evolution at all.

Two boys had the instinct to remove themselves from the vicinity of alligators. One did not.

The two with that instinct will probably procreate, while the other one never will.

"Christianity is the realigion you should chose!! a few reasons why

You know, it still bothers me that people choose a religion that is appealing to them. Wouldn't it be more accurate to practice one that seems correct instead of one that sounds preferable?

Shit, if we can pick what religion we want based on its appeal then I'm starting my own. And I'm going to steal the idea from a previous post and change God's name to Super Joe.

All you have to do to get to Heaven is smoke a bowl now and then to keep you from being an asshole, and everyone gets laid at least 4 times a month. Heaven is a big cloud where you hang out with all your friends from life, do whatever the hell you want, and Super Joe comes by twice a day with a blunt. And everyone sleeps on a bed made out of titties.

Goddamn, that sounds way better than Christianity! I guess I'll believe in that instead.

Damn, Optimus Prime would be a cool name to have. And there's no copy protection on names. I should change mine too!

Not to make light of the situation or anything, but here's a little evidence of evolution at work:

'Brian Griffin was pulled under the dark water Wednesday, minutes after two friends spotted alligators and screamed for him to get out of the Dead River where they had been swimming, witnesses said.

"We saw gators all day," said 14-year-old Justin VanGorder, who said he was swimming with Brian. "Every time we saw them, we would get out of the water."

Justin said he and the other boy saw alligators and got out of the water, but Brian wouldn't get out.'

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/South/06/19/alligator.attack.ap/index.html

Ok we all know that religion has its merits. Other than the fact that it gives one a sense of well-being, protection, and meaning in life, it also allows people of similar tastes and attitudes to congregate together in a (generally) peaceful manner. And it tends to teach people morals.

Now on to the bad things. Religion can be a very dangerous tool. Constant reinforcement of an idea develops a schema in the minds of those that believe. A schema, as I have said before, is basically an idea or theory that a person comes to accept as fact, and because the brain is hard-wired to believe the idea, that person cannot fathom the possibility that any opposing theory or idea could be true. Once the brain is working in this manner, any time someone presents evidence that opposes the person's belief, they respond by either 1. ignoring the message or 2. coming up with an explanation/excuse.

Ever heard of science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard? In the 70s he created a religion called Scientology. In the 90s he finally admitted that his religion was completely false and repeatedly stated that he only created it to see if he could get people to believe in it. 50,000 people worldwide still practice Scientology.

What if Jesus had said 'Oh just kidding, I made that all up guys. Just wanted to see if you'd believe me.' All of his followers would most likely come up with an explanation for it. 'Oh it's a test to see if we really believe!!!'

Schemas can be very dangerous in certain cases. Religious persecution for the entireity of written history have been schemas in the minds of followers. Other schemas have included the Salem witch trials, Nazi beliefs, McCarthyism (the persecution of communists), and most recently, American patriotism combined with the strong feeling that 'terrorism must be stopped'. In all cases, an idea was reinforced until a mass group accepted it as fact and supported it.

Muslim extremists have a schema. Christians have a schema. Even atheists such as myself hold a schema true to themselves and cannot have their minds changed. Keep that in mind next time I give good evidence as to why Christianity, Islam, Judaism, And nearly every major religion worlwide are false and therefore unnecessary. You WILL give a counter-argument spawned by your schema.

Has anyone seen the Monkey Island submission?

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view.php?id=104710

I've seen lots of movies that use game sprites but this one looks perfect and I love the Monkey Island series.

Someone should do one of these with Day of the Tentacle or Loom.

Primordial soup is a FORMATION Theory and not a CREATIONIST Theory.Sure we are FORMED from Primordial soup but, everything in the Universe exists and thus must have been CREATED into existence following simple cause and effect logic.The only way to have CREATED the Universe is if it was from something that exists outside of the Universe.
In Judaism we call this force an infinite God.

I do not see how the existence of suffering can logically lead to saying God doesn't exist.If God is infinite we would be incapable of understanding the true nature and purpose of suffering.

With the suffering argument I wasn't discounting completely the idea of a God, just the idea of an omni-benevolent (or all-good) God, which most popular religions tend to embrace. Not many people can even consider the idea that God is not how they imagine, a big guy that watches over and protects us. It's more likely that God is not a being, but something that spawned existence, rather than dictating the positions and movements of all celestial structures and creating life by hand.

So this kind of God solves one problem: where did matter come from? God did it. Now the only problem is figuring out what caused God to exist.

My argument is not that all those people were necessarily innocent. That would imply that they are receiving a judgement. I merely view it as physical laws applying themselves in a random way, since there is no real reason for why we exist.

Truthfully, I don't really care about anyone that died or was injured in that whole deal. I'm sure if I personally KNEW someone that was involved, I would feel differently.

I wish we could get a statistic of the percentage of people that prayed during the attacks.

I like the idea of calling God "Super Joe". I'm going to use that.