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Googie | Who cares about my bio? No one does, that's who. ^.^ | 03-15-04 06:34 PM | 624 | 39 | 380784 | |
| 2102. | Super Sion | "Walking this road, Without you, To remake forgotten promises and meet you at roads end. Faded Memories, Reconstucted Memories, A dream - a dream of you, In a world without you. The dream I see in the world without you, Torn dream, like a memory from the far past, I'd like to put it together, With you..."  |
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| 2103. | solid-tbone | 03-15-04 05:53 PM | 34 | 11 | 4843 | |||
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Clockworkz | Best Senior Quote of the Graduating class in my school: 1st place: "It just keeps getting herder..." -Dick Guzinia Runner up: "Here comes the sun, doo doo doo doo, here comes the sun."  it's hard to be human: here we are, saddled with 4 1/2 billion years of biological legacy, essentially designed to live short, aggressive and violent lives on the plains of the serengeti, but yet forced to be good, contemporary citizens. life is hard for everybody. we're all trying to eke out an existence in unbelievably confusing circumstances. given our biological inheritance i think that we need to be more tolerant of ourselves and more tolerant and compassionate in our dealings with others. the standards that we have for human behaviour are at times noble, but at times quite absurd. we're genetically designed to be lustful, aggressive, gregarious, productive creatures, and it can be a good thing to hold ourselves to high community standards of behaviour, but we need to deal with ourselves as who and what we are, not just what we think we're supposed to be. the last thing in the world that we need to do is judge and condemn each other. i can understand locking someone up if they're violent, but i can't understand judging that person without compassion and tolerance. if you have a five year old child that likes to kick cats you don't abuse him and lock him in the basement and tell him what a horrible person he is. obviously you talk to the child and try to get him to figure out why kicking cats is not such a great thing to do. and you recognise that he's kicking cats not because he hates cats, but because he's expressing something that he feels and can't otherwise express. abuse begets abuse, compassion begets compassion. i'm not advocating a soft approach to criminal, violent, or anti-social behaviour, rather i'm advocating an enlightened and realistic approach to our human-ness. locking a criminal up in a horrible place and making them feel like shit is neither a compassionate nor a culturally expedient way to deal with the situation. it's also not taking into account the fact that we're all essentially guilty of the same things. if i had been brought up in a different environment that was abusive and only reinforced violence and aggression i'm sure that i would have turned out differently. so how can i condemn someone and judge someone who was raised differently from me? i can, with justification, prevent someone from hurting someone else, but i can't comprehensively condemn them for it. we're all saddled with a violent biological and cultural legacy, it's just that some of us have the skills and upbringing to deal with it. in most cases people just aren't aware of the effects of their actions. you can't take a creature who has spent the last couple of million years reproducing and fighting and living a short and difficult life and then plop them in a suburb and ask them to enter data into a cpu and expect them to be well adjusted and fine. we're supposed to be out chasing and being chased, eating and being eaten. nothing in our genetic lineage has prepared us for most of what we deal with on a day to day basis. if you took a penguin from antarctica and put him in a corn field in mexico would you be surprised if he got sick and died? same thing with us humans. for the last million years we've, for the most part, lived in tight communities and led urgent and vital lives. we're not designed to be slothful and indolent suburbanites. i'm not advocating a rejection of modern conveniences, but i am advocating an acceptance of what we've inherited and what we are as biological humans. christ took pity on us and had compassion for us, so why can't we try to have understanding & compassion for each other? -------------------- one problem with cultural conservatism: to put it simply, and it's not a problem that only conservatives have, conservatives very often confuse (or conflate) ethics and aesthetics. when gertrude himmelfarb lambasts our (as she perceives it) 'amoral', 'sexually deviant' and 'polymorphously perverse' culture she is primarily responding to something that she finds culturally foreign and threatening. i agree with her that values are oftentimes a good thing, but only when they are born of an ethical and pragmatic perspective, not an aesthetic one. the conservatives want a seemingly neat and compartmentalised society wherein stable appearances are maintained and archaic cultural archetypes are adhered to religiously. i grew up in a world of rigid cultural archetypes. i grew up with white businessmen going to office buildings while their wives stayed at home and their kids went to school. or, more accurately, i grew up with alcoholic adulterous businessmen who lived culturally insular lives while their wives took sedatives and smoked cigarettes and vented their frustrations on their kids, and these same kids took reams of drugs, got abortions, drove drunk, and victimised the weaklings. i grew up in what most conservatives would consider a utopia; lots of money, prestige, cultural cohesion, and good conservative values. but their values were in fact aesthetics, and maintaining these aesthetics ruled and ruined their lives. almost everyone in this suburban bourgeoisie system hated their lives, but because they had been brought up to worship these aesthetic myths they felt that to question them was an admission of personal failure. what are these myths? they're old and platitudinal but i'll trot them out again: that money makes you happy, that society is right, that poverty is bad, that maintaining convention in every aspect of your life is the ultimate good, that aberrance from these ideas is sin, etc. i'm not going to say that the polar opposites of these clich?s is true, that would be one of the failings of the radical left. i believe that for the most part these criteria are irrelevant. money can make life easier, but it can also make life miserable. poverty can be bad, but it can also be fine. convention has some good points and some bad points. what it all comes down to is a flexibility that should allow for the well being of the individual without compromising the rights of other individuals. when conservatives trot out their litany of evils -- homosexuality, single parent families, multiculturalism, etc, i'm always left asking 'why?'. if people are happy being gay then what's wrong with that? it may be a lifestyle that's aesthetically different from what we've been brought up with, but so what? and single parent families? better a loving single parent family than a 'conventional' family wherein the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue. one reason that we have such a wide variety of alternative lifestyles is that the conventional lifestyles that the conservatives champion are often quite flawed and restrictive. restrictive mores can be terrific when applied to peoples' violent impulses, but restrictiveness is terribly unhealthy when it's used to get people to conform to arbitrary social archetypes. this restrictiveness can make people feel inadequate and inferior and it needs to be done away with. if someone's gay, let them be gay. if your son wants to marry a black woman (or white or yellow or jew or muslim) then let them. we need to love each other and support each other even if we choose to live in alternative but harmless ways. obviously if your son is a rapist or a wifebeater or a child molester then you need to question your support of his actions & values. i'm not championing a retreat from responsibility. i believe that personal and social well being is built upon a foundation of hard work, loyalty, honesty, diligence, respect, tolerance, and other good 'values'. but it doesn't matter what the cultural manifestation of the values looks like. it can be straight or gay or male or female or white or black or anything so long as it's respectful of others and makes the practitioner feel well. so my advice to cultural conservatives (and others) would be to cultivate an approach to values that's based on principles rather than aesthetics. i would also say that any pronouncements on the values of others, especially pronouncements veering into the pre-scriptive realm, need to be cautious, pragmatic, logical, and not just the typically hateful and reactionary vacuities that we've grown so accustomed to. ------------------- if you look at the course of western history you'll see that we're slowly granting basic rights to everyone. a long time ago only kings had rights. then rights were extended to property-owning white men. then all men. then wymyn. then children. then the mentally retarded. now we're agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals and animals. we need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. i define basic rights as this -- the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you. or, as the framers of the constitution put it, the ability to have "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". by what criteria can you justify denying basic rights to any living thing? realize that by whatever criteria you employ someone could deny basic rights to you if they objected to your species, sexual preferences, color, religion, ideology etc. would you eat your housecat, or force a mentally retarded child to ingest oven cleaner? if not, then why is it ok to eat cows and test products on sentient animals? i believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme. i call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. if you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not. ------------------- somehow i've ended up on the mailing list of the christian coalition. i receive their fund raising letters fairly regularly, usually written by pat robertson. it's important to know your enemy, and i consider the far right christian coalition to be my enemy. should i mince my words and try to be conciliatory? maybe that would be diplomatic, but it would not be honest. the christian right makes me sick and here's why: 1) they are dishonest. masquerading pro-business, pro-greed, racist, sexist, homophobic bigotry under the banner of 'christianity' is disgusting. as far as i can tell their agenda has no foundation in the teachings of christ, and as far as i can tell the leaders of the christian right only proclaim themselves as christians because it's a politically expedient way to further their warped agenda. so although they claim an interest in furthering and preserving 'christian culture' it's all just a ruse to restructure the world according to their narrow-minded social aesthetic and at the same time protect and increase their wealth. 2) they prey upon people's weakness. we live in very unstable times, socially and economically. many people are eager for some sense of stability and the christian right preys upon this. rather than encourage people to go forward with open minds and a compassionate approach the christian right urges its followers to scapegoat the easy victims and focus on trivial or irrelevant issues. how is fighting gay rights and blocking multicultural education going to benefit anybody or meet people's needs? the agenda of the christian right is anachronistic and irrelevant and by forcing it upon the fearful and the unstable they are doing a great deal of harm. 3) they are shortsighted. one of the first steps in dealing with any set of problems is prioritizing. you don't worry about fixing the gutters on your house if your house is on fire. likewise you don't worry about gays in the military or immigration when the basic environmental and existential needs of the people are not being met. people eat terrible food and lead miserable lives and breathe carcinogenic air and drink polluted water. we are poisoning this planet and ourselves. if you were god what would upset you more, bare breasts on t.v or the destruction of healthy and beautiful ecosystems? i agree that people would be better off if they were more spiritual, but not in the capitalistic/status-quo way that the christian right promotes. 4) they tend to be hateful and judgemental, both of which are anathema to the teachings of christ. christ said quite specifically, 'judge not lest you be judged.' i challenge the christian right to work out their own salvation in fear and trembling and not worry about the supposed sins of others. hate, violence, judgementalism, bigotry, homophobia, and misogyny are all ugly things, but for me they're particularly ugly and upsetting when they're attached to the name of christ, whom i love. humility is a healthy and wonderful thing and something that seems to be in short supply within the ranks of the christian right. christ preached love and humility and compassion, not hate and judgementalism. my message to the christian right would be to put aside any part of their ideology that is hateful or judgemental and go forth in a spirit of love & humility. if you're going to base your life on the teachings of christ, then do so. the world could use some true christians. the world doesn't need any more hate and blame and violence, especially not in the name of christ. All essays copyright by Moby. Don't steal them. Except me. Because I can and did.  |
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Robin | 03-15-04 05:20 PM | 35 | 11 | 5058 | ||
| 2106. | Kefka | I am a cool guy in Real Life? | 03-15-04 05:16 PM | 3392 | 81 | 4826208 | ||
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Destiny Smasher | Somehow, it seems that about EVERYONE ELSE besides me on this board seems to THINK they know what kind of person I am...But they don't. And I don't blame them. We're all humans, afterall, and some of use try a little harder than others to be themselves. Apparently, I don't 'blend in' good enough, and any time I try to provide criticism after it's been given to me first, I automatically am an idiot because people don't agree with me...Quite strange, no? I also seem to have quite a bad habit of STRUGGLING to be nice to people, only to SOMEHOW get them angry at me...I don't quite understand it myself, but I think it has something to do with the fact that people, as a collective, are idiots, and they don't like to see someone like myself break down the walls to escape their mundane world. Believe what you want of me- but you'll never know who I REALLY am until you meet me, which I doubt you will. Anyway, I've come to the conclusion that although there are plenty of VERY AWESOME folks here, there's plenty more who want nothing more than to make my online life an adorable little hell. ^_^ Therefore, I doubt I'll come around here much anymore...Probably here and there. But I always have my mailing address, and I'm always writing my fanfiction. http://www.fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=337633 They say when someone who breaks the mold shows up- someone who doesn't think like everyone else- people will try to deny that person's true character if only to make themselves feel right... *shrug* I don't know how people as a whole work- but I DO know how I work, and I do know that too many people judge me by my cover, and not by my pages. People can think what they want of me...Sadly, however, they are wrong if they think me as a prideful bigot. Right, then. Go on now- on your bike. :P If you actually READ this, then that freaks me out. |
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gnkkwinrrul | 03-15-04 04:54 PM | 647 | 39 | 402054 | ||
| 2109. | Gremio | With a bit of a mind flip, you're into the time slip, bwhahaha. | 03-15-04 04:52 PM | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2110. | Brandon | 03-15-04 04:16 PM | 21 | 9 | 2351 | |||
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blackhole89 | [ POSTLAYOUT V2.1b ]
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03-15-04 04:13 PM | 971 | 47 | 739208 | |
| 2112. | TikalFan2K5 | 03-15-04 03:58 PM | 34 | 11 | 4843 | |||
| 2113. | Knuckles T15X | I do NOT feel like retyping my entire bio ATM. | 03-15-04 03:48 PM | 134 | 20 | 37896 | ||
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Ultima4701 | 03-15-04 03:24 PM | 7 | 5 | 452 | ||
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BEAR | Nothing much at the moment, just playing games all life and going to college and other stuff. | 03-15-04 03:16 PM | 11 | 6 | 891 | |
| 2116. | Kenny3900 | 03-15-04 02:22 PM | 9 | 6 | 659 | |||
| 2117. | Izaden | 03-15-04 02:17 PM | 6 | 5 | 359 | |||
| 2118. | Ease | 03-15-04 02:04 PM | 1 | 2 | 24 | |||
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Surverus | 03-15-04 01:41 PM | 149 | 21 | 44438 | ||
| 2120. | Mike A | 03-15-04 01:19 PM | 1 | 2 | 24 | |||
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Ashly | 03-15-04 01:08 PM | 57 | 14 | 10514 | ||
| 2122. | guruzim | 03-15-04 12:58 PM | 6 | 5 | 359 | |||
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| 2126. | Xavious | 03-15-04 11:42 AM | 2 | 3 | 69 | |||
| 2127. | setrodox | 03-15-04 11:29 AM | 238 | 26 | 89717 | |||
| 2128. | Vagla | 03-15-04 11:08 AM | 1 | 2 | 24 | |||
| 2129. | Bola | 03-15-04 11:02 AM | 38 | 11 | 5723 | |||
| 2130. | Abdul | 03-15-04 11:02 AM | 2 | 3 | 69 | |||
| 2131. | Gemini | 03-15-04 10:45 AM | 72 | 15 | 14928 | |||
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Angel |     Acmlm Best photo album (thread) picture Acmlm Mosts Summer 2004? o_O |
03-15-04 10:43 AM | 573 | 37 | 335160 | |
| 2133. | Sain | 03-15-04 10:30 AM | 30 | 10 | 4015 | |||
| 2134. | Tuvai | 03-15-04 10:30 AM | 211 | 24 | 74894 | |||
| 2135. | Kario | 03-15-04 10:29 AM | 2082 | 65 | 2321379 | |||
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Geiger | 03-15-04 10:26 AM | 460 | 34 | 241080 | ||
| 2137. | Mr Blonde | RATE ME A ZERO PLEASE | 03-15-04 10:12 AM | 39 | 11 | 5951 | ||
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Kazooie074 | 03-15-04 10:00 AM | 24 | 9 | 2873 | ||
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Legolas | My Interests Include ----------------------------- > Computers > Music > Writing |
03-15-04 09:58 AM | 50 | 13 | 8639 | |
| 2140. | Elric | IM Converstaion between myself and the president of Qrush Technologies, on Friday, Sept. 30, 2005: [01:40:37] Elric: Poor guy. Using IE. [01:40:45] Elric: Told him to get a real browser: Maxthon. [01:41:15] Ganon: i use ie and refuse to use anything else [01:41:32] Ganon: its the most stable one with the best (not fastest) render engine [01:41:53] Ganon: if you have had the experience i have programming for different browsers, you would understand why i think most are absolute shit [01:42:04] Ganon: comparing other stuff to ie is like comparing linux to windows [Bronze Trophy Image] Most Best Veteran Winter 2004 |
03-15-04 09:54 AM | 687 | 40 | 440016 | ||
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Lord Rahl | Member of Acmlm's Message Board. Member of XeoGaming.  |
03-15-04 09:48 AM | 792 | 43 | 544657 | |
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JaCory | 03-15-04 09:38 AM | 323 | 29 | 141854 | ||
| 2143. | Six String | Intellectual Snobbery Time: "You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world." - Octave Mirbeau, "The Torture Garden" |
03-15-04 09:32 AM | 5 | 4 | 273 | ||
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Kirby PopStar | Taking a break from Acmlm's Board! See ya soon! Salutations! I'm Kirby PopStar, as the name says! (My real name is James.) I'll keep my introduction short. Uh... I enjoy: Drawing, Sculpting, Anime, Designing Computer Games, Partying, Eating Sugar (Equal will do -_-), and... uh.. playing rhythm games such as Dance Dance Revolution, BeatMania, ParaParaParadise, Donkey Konga, Parappa, anything in the rhythm genre! |
03-15-04 09:12 AM | 431 | 33 | 218655 | |
| 2145. | Grinto | Hi. | 03-15-04 08:56 AM | 43 | 12 | 6890 | ||
| 2146. | Rage | 03-15-04 08:51 AM | 8 | 6 | 552 | |||
| 2147. | KawaiiImoto-e |       Yep, that's me. Disclaimer: Nothing is really directly owned by me. Parallels to existing characters, persons and other things are mostly intentional and to be regarded with sarcasm. A Fanfic written by KawaiiImoto-e Melody's Revenge Prologue The weather is freezing cold in the Bainkhala Mountanrange in southern China. The Guide is not in his cottage, and therefore not enjoing the warmth of the fire nor a hot cup of tea. So he's not able to witness, how two shapes fastly approach the cursed training grounds of Jusenkyo. He is indeed on a much earned vacation. Enjoying the hot rays of the caribian sun, watching his daughter having fun in the sea. Thus he could not warn those unlucky travelers, warning them from the slumbering danger of the valley. But doesn't anyone ignore him anyway? The soon to be cursed ones reached the veally in, obviously in a great haste. Wearing strange clothings, they may be pursued by the locals 'cause of that. Following them is not a outraged mop of chinese citicens, but a thenfold more outraged young adult, approaching at high speed. The apperant couple is looking for something to hide behind. The next best thing for that is a cottage on the other side of the valley, and the hundreds of little springs with bambooboles sticking out of them. So they try to haste trought the valley, along the spring, and aware of the danger presented by them. The girl stumbels while fleeing with her lover from the outraged straight in a nearby spring. Her Lover tries to get a hold on her, but she's allready being draw in the deep waters. The young man is watching the bubbles in the spring, calling his lovers name, whilest the outraged young woman is approaching him carfully and shouting at him, calling him names. He goes in a standard fighting stance feeling confient to beat her. She just stops on a somekind save spot between three springs and looks at him showing his lack of skills in any martial arts. He stumbels over his own feet and lands with his face on the floor, she takes advantage of this situation and holds him in a headlock. Suddenly something eruptes out of a nearby spring, speeding past them. Startling the outraged girl enough, to locker her grip on him, he uses the hole in her defence to shove her in the next best spring, and then fleeing in the opposite direction the thing run. A head emerged from the waters and it's eyes looked over the valley, taking everything in. As the valley was clear of more dangers, a humanoid shape climbed out the spring, freezing in the cold air, feeling the danger of the place, and carefully leaving the valley, it's tail wailing behind. End Prologue Chapter 1 Sibylle Ranko Tendo, Goddess 1st Class, Unlimited, competend for Details, Head Ministress of the Ministery for Public Transportation and Electricity. Champion of the annual Creativity Tournament and Debugress par excelence, is known for many things, but not liking the cold. She was freezing, on her way to her turn on guarding the grounds. She doesn't like it, nobody likes it, to guard the cursed training grounds of the valley of Jusenkyo in the Baikhala Mountain range in southern China. And there was only one thing she hated more than being in the freezing cold. Being late. And being late she was, over a day overdue. Should had arrived yesterday, but due to some distress and mostly the mood of the chief administrator, she had to fix things in the system, thus making her late in her shedule. |
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Vyper | 03-15-04 08:48 AM | 256 | 26 | 100094 | ||
| 2149. | Kon-Tiki | Born, living and will die. In the meantime, I have collected:
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| 2150. | DJ Bouche | 03-15-04 08:40 AM | 35 | 11 | 5060 |
