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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 1/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| Geeogree, one of the major fallacies of modern life is that because you hold a certain viewpoint, it is unwaveringly and intrinsically truth. This is simply not true, especially when it comes to subjective decisions like personal morals. We can go out on a limb and say that a thing is necessarily immoral when it violates another person's rights, but in deciding what is correct for one's own, personal constitution, everything has to be left up to the one assessing their morals. While you, personally, may look at the physical harms of certain drugs, and decide that it is a fundamental wrong to indulge in them, another person may take a look at the physical harms of certain drugs, and decide that the effects may go to help them acheive material happiness. You may not agree with them. You may think that they're incredibly dense for thinking that it could possibly be a right thing to do. But because they are not harming you, personally, in the best of all possible worlds, you have no choice but to accept their decision. In the entire situation, the only true evil comes when you attempt to curb their own Life, Liberty, or Pursuit of Happiness through the regulation of their behavior. You have to take a step back and look at it objectively, rather than adhering to this statement ( because I don't know too many people that would share that viewpoint ). The Good is subjective, and what may be seen as something destructive (i.e., cutting oneself) could in fact be positive for the person in question (i.e., allowing them a way to vent without murdering the guy that keeps on mugging him), while the person working the deadbeat job or lying in the alleyway could be having a great time in the artificial reality he created so as to escape the harshness of everyday life. I'm not going to attempt to tell somebody what is best for them. All of this, of course, leaves out the economic bonuses of cancelling the war on drugs. Income rather than expenditures, freed up justice system, etc. By this time, I'm sure that everybody has some idea of my leanings on the issue, so I'll go ahead and confirm it. I indulge in drugs quite often, my favorite being the psychedelics, though I do enjoy some codeine or vodka every now and again. (I despise marijuana). The funny thing is, some of the most potent psychedelic drugs aren't illegal in the sense that possession would land you prison time - they can be found right over the counter at any local pharmacy. XD |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 2/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| Hello. My name is Jake. A very small number of you might vaguely recall me as one of the laddies that left in a huff after an intense political discussion. I still hold the sentiments I did then, but I was browsing through the World Affairs forum and saw a post that particularly made me doing mental somersaults, so I decided to register, and since its terribly impolite to pop something off and then vanish, I figure I might as well give the place another spin. I sound arrogant, don't I. Anyways, I'm interested in the standard teenage things. Video games, music, drama, drugs, literature, politics, philosophy. My favorite band is Modest Mouse, though my mp3 collection is eclectic. My favorite play is "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead," but I doubt I'm ever able to act in it. My favorite drug is dextromethorphan hydrobromide. My favorite politick is libertarianism. It makeses the bad mens go away. Dostoevsky and Bukowski rock your house. Peace. |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 3/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| Which song was the video to? "Where The Wild Roses Go?" Because if it was, then I'm even more troubled. I like music videos when they're well done. Which doesn't always have to include music that I like. Jet, for instance, isn't on the top of my favorite bands, but they've turned out a pretty cool video. Radiohead, Modest Mouse, and the Smashing Pumpkins all had gorgeous bits of film. I also saw a pretty cool video by The Killers the other day. What it comes down to is that I'll turn on Fuse or something of the kind in the background if I've nothing better to do, but I won't really pay attention unless its a cleverly done peice. Its just something about the cadillacs and bling-bling. It gets old after awhile. |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 4/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| I take this to mean nothing less than conclusive evidence of life on mars. The question before us is now cut and dry - do we sit and wait for politicians to botch Human-Martian relations to the point of imminent destruction of the Earth by advanced beings, or do we launch a pre-emptive strike and take Mars for ourselves?! I for one choose the latter. Enlist in the Earth Defense Leage today, and take your place in a glorious campaign of righteous conquest. (Note: No such campaign actually exists at the moment. Strategians are prompted vehemently to join the EDL.) (Secondary Note: The EDL is not to be held responsible for any abductions or anal probings perpetrated against new members by the Martian Menace.) |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 5/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| FAQs make Wookies catatonic. Thank you, though. | |||
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 6/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| Maybe they're very feminine Martians with a sense of order and cleanliness. | |||
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 7/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| 1) I'm American. From Georgia, no less! 2) Nobody here has read/watched Dune? ;( 3) I'll never touch the FAQ! You'll die in the graveyard before ya' gives it to me! |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 8/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| Most likely he had an ER trip with Coricidin, which is a cough and cold medication that contains both DXM and chlorophinarine maleate, which is a antihistamine that at high dosages, acts as a depressant on your respiratory system. Pure dex medications are actually relatively harmless, as long as you know what you're doing when you take it, and don't do it too often (as it'll cause olney's lesions if you do it, say, every other day for a year). Used correctly, DXM is a powerful psychedelic that can immerse you in beautiful ambient environments. | |||
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 9/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| All this proves is that there are hobo martians. Now we have no choice but to give them a dollar to go away. That's step one in their invasion plan. First thing, you have hobo Martians cleaning your car windows and getting paid small sums. Next thing you know it, they're busting into your house, raping your women and spearing your babies on bayonets. Or it could just stand slightly tilted so that all dust slides off. Oh, hey! There's also this neat thing called "wind" I've been hearing so much about! I wonder what that is? That's just the kind've crazy talk I'd expect an agent of the Martians to use. |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 10/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| You know, I've never been goatsed. I treat that as a point of pride on my part. I'm really not here 100% for the debate forum. Anyways, I find them interesting as they help to promote different points of view, and hopefully refine your own thinking. All it takes is a little intellectual honesty. Which, admittedly, is rare, but one can only hope... |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 11/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| I'm neutral on the teacher question. They're paid what the state thinks it can afford, and the teachers are cool with that, or else they wouldn't be teaching. They can fight for more pay, but it all comes down to how many taxes the government can raise up. Privatization of the school system would solve the issue. Wages according to supply and demand, and teachers that give all they can due to competition and being subject to review. Best for everybody. (I've had some pretty shit teachers.) |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 12/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| Hooray for vouchers and government subsidiaries. In the case of loving it but not liking the pay, eventually you have to come to a cross roads where you decide what you love more - material wealth or career satisfaction. I may like being an author, but there's no guarantee that I'm going to make any money off of it. I may like being a sociologist, but there's no guarantee I'm going to have a job. I may like being a teacher, but the pay may be less than what I want. If people have problems with pay, they can unionize. Its happened before - it will happen again. As it is, though, there's really no point. Teachers make a comfortable living, and as simple mathematics tells us, any money that would go to increased salary has to come from somewhere. (edited by Generation Terrorist on 12-25-04 01:42 PM) |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 13/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| You don't see how being addicted to a substance could be a good thing because you don't know, or even desire to know, the effects of the substance. If you were in a state where you desired a burst of stress relief or relaxation, you might consider the situation differently, and the health risks a reasonable cost for the psychological plus. Its all Economics, man. What you might not see as a reasonable cost in exchange for something might be entirely acceptable for somebody else. | |||
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 14/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| Well, they do it cause they love kids and want to make the kids contribute to society one day. Or at least the good ones do. They are not "cool with it" in many places. In fact, last year, in my own school district, there was a 2 day period where teachers went on strike against the district office for not giving anyone a raise in TEN YEARS. And they still havent had the raise. Once again, they're weighing their career enjoyment against their monetary needs. We can complain about actors or football players making more money, but that's because they're not being paid in tax money. Tax money is finite, and it has to go to books, administration staff, custodians, custodial equipment, utilities, etc... Public schools are always scrounging for money (as I know, coming from a school in Northern Georgia), and generally don't have anything extra to give to teachers. I think somewhere along the line we're going to have to agree that there's nothing we can do given our present means, and that teachers aren't exactly getting minimum wage here. |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 15/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| A person that has killed another person has demonstrated not only the capacity (which anybody has), but the willingness to kill another person. They're a loose cannon. Crime of passion, premeditation, insanity - there's only so much rehabilitation can do. I don't hold with the poverty argument either - I've lived all my life around people who are skirting the edges of subsistence mode, or actually there, and very rarely have I ever encountered anybody who holds morals that makes murder acceptable. If a dog kills a human, we kill the dog, as it is a threat to the species. The same holds true for a 'renegade' human. hhallahh, to speak from the magic of ignorance must be bliss! To see the world from glasses without tint of wretched experience, ah by the heavens how that must be! To never have had anyone die within your hands, or to never have experienced such agony! Lo, it is the man whose hands and innocence lost who hath the best interpretation! Rhetoric makes the baby Jesus cry. |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 16/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| Justification? Who needs justification? Posted direct from my blog: I had an epiphany the other day. Every time I get into a discussion about the war in Iraq, I generally focus on the positives that bridge from it. More freedom in the economy leading to more freedom in the government leading to more freedom for the people. The end of tyranny. Etc. When it comes to actual motives for the government's actions in Iraq, however, I normally outputted a complete blank, with people taking advantage of the pause to throw out accusations of oil and money. Whilst talking with a friend of mine, however, everything seemed to click together. To give my argument some basis in history, let's recall two events. First of all, let's remember the actions taken by Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. Both of these nations strove for buffer zones, normally the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia), areas that would give some measure of defense in case of attack from an outside nation. In fact, one of the underlying principles behind Hitler's extension of the Third Reich, outside of master race devilry, was the concept of lebensraum, or 'living space.' Its generally been accepted by major nations in the past that it is a good idea to have some space between yourself and hostiles - Even America took advantage of this during the Cold War, working on the domino theory to try to keep Communism at bay. Which brings back my second point in history - acting on the domino theory, America would often endorse anti-Communist factions in order to keep the system from taking power in another country, ignorning the idealogy of the faction (I point to the Mujahadeen as a piece of my case evidence). Given time, these factions would often turn against America, or pay lip service while oppressing the people of the country and ruining economies. The latter of these would often give rise to revolutions that spawned anti-Western nations, giving rise to a very uncertain and murky realm of politics. The "he's a son of a bitch but he's our son of a bitch" Cold War foreign policy failed in the long run. Enter modern times. For years, the middle east has become increasingly dominated by fundamentalist powers that oppress its people and are very anti-Western in leaning, creating political difficulties, especially considering the economic influence of the area. As some of these nations began developing territorial ambitions, as well as nuclear capabilities, the political threat began to grow. Some hold was put upon them in the first Gulf War and by supporting Israel, but such nations as Iran and Saudi Arabia were still hosts to hostile bodies. Ever since the end of the Cold War, neoconservatives have been pushing for programs to introduce pro-democratic regimes into the world. Not only would this better the world as a whole through economic pluses, and people in general as gross breaches of human rights were ended, but it would be beneficial to the US, giving it the political equivalent of lebensraum, with more room to manuever. What we're seeing now is action on these ideas - regime changes in Afghanistan and Iraq (formerly anti-Western authoritarian states), both very strategic areas (militarily speaking) of the Middle East, and signs of movement against other such nations. The difference between the regime changes of now and the contras of yesteryear are that by this time, the US has (hopefully) learned that a functional democracy is better politically speaking than a dysfunctional authoritarian regime. The very fact that efforts to rebuild Afghanistan and Iraq (clumsily though they have been proceeding) suggests that the US has learned from its past mistakes. Under domino theory, we should be seeing an increase of basic freedoms in the Middle East as a whole very soon. Opponents to the War that I talk to often wonder one other thing. Why now? Why this particular time? For that, one only has to look at Vietnam. On a domestic front, it was an absolute fKitten Yiffer - lack of morale and extreme anti-war sentiment. This is because it was a war of ideas, not of imminent threat. It is much harder to go to battle over an idealogy than over the possibility of death when one is prosperous. To avoid the problem of Vietnam, a spark needed to be generated, something to put a mass movement into motion, and justify an enaction of the program that would bring about a political buffer zone. 9/11 gave that spark, finally giving the neocons a way to see a realization of their dreams. Self-serving? Yes. But isn't it a main purpose of government to see to the needs of its people? Beneficial to the people of the Middle East and the world as a whole? Also yes. It means more freedom, greater economic boosts, and fewer sleepless nights about which unstable regime might be holding the nukes next. I've never met a single person who would say that a second North Korea would be a Good Thing. |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 17/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| But the priority list right now is Iraq, then Iran, then Afghanistan (what is really being done to correct the corruption that happened in the most recent elections there?). Take a look at the map. Notice anything about Iraq and Afghanistan? As for Iran, there's already a lot of discontent about the government in the populace. Before the upgrade of the Iranian's nuclear program, it was a simpler matter to wait for things amongst the people to come to a head. Of course, that's changed now. Some nations don't want democracy. It doesn't matter. All it takes for the social contract to be null and void is one person who doesn't like the government. The only system that can really solve that problem and give a voice to all concerned is that on a democratic model. Democracy doesn't work in collapsed regions because massive corruption takes hold. Ever see an Eastern Europe capitol city? That's because its easier to work up that sort've corruption in an economically impoverished area. Don't you remember the politics of the Industrial Revolution? When you have a lot of desperate people, they're going to follow what they think can get them out of poverty. This "democracy" you speak of is capitalism, and not everyone needs an inherently corrupt system to rule their nation. Inherently corrupt? XD |
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Generation Terrorist Mini Octorok Level: 7 Posts: 18/18 EXP: 1355 For next: 93 Since: 12-22-04 From: 100 steps forward, 99 steps back. Since last post: 279 days Last activity: 242 days |
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| Way to ignore the rest of my post, which provides the basis for my statement. Calling me a hypocrite is all well and fine, but if you don't want to face the music, stay away from the concert hall, buddy. Rhetoric is all well and fine, but the purpose of conversation is to refine your own thinking, not shove your fingers in your ears and say, " I don't like you, I'm not listening!" Even if a hundred percent of the people in a country could agree that they didn't want to have a democracy (doubtful), then you would still have to decide on a political system. And this political system, in order to provide the freedom that a person would have under a democracy/that would allow a vote to return to democracy if the populace so wished, would have to be on the democratic model. Democracies are about minority protection as much as they are majority rule. (edited by Generation Terrorist on 01-26-05 03:04 PM) |
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