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Arwon Zora Level: 35  Posts: 466/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Yeah, the envy's fucking flowing from here too, mate. Hah. (edited by Arwon on 09-13-05 10:09 AM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 467/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| You'll find that the friendship will suffer either way - if you don't ask there'll be this angst, if you do ask, there'll be a different sort of angst. Either way you'll probably drift apart. It's a sad but basically inevitable outcome of this "I like my friend" thing. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 468/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Yeah, I agree, it's a far preferable path to random dating and other such crapshoots... but I still say that if there's strong feelings there, and they aren't mutual, that tends to poison things whether one makes a move or not. It's a self preservation thing - desire and wanting mixed with the frustration and pain of the "Friends Zone" - the drifting apart is virutally inevitable. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 469/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| I agree in principle, an arbitrary cut-off is a blunt instrument and not very accurate a determiner of maturity since it varies for everyone. However you need the laws there to protect youngins from older folks, a statutory rape law - this is what the minimum age is for, not for preventing horny 14 year olds from fucking one another. Ideally it'd be 15 or 16ish, with a clause exempting people 3 or 4 years above the minimum from statutory rape prosecutions. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 470/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| I, for one, am opposed to Brasil. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 471/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Care to elaborate on why? | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 472/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| The idea that Pearl Harbour/WW2 and the current situation(s) are in any way comparable is facile, childish bullshit. And the calls for a brutal war between civilisations are facile, childish, dangerous bullshit. This thread fails rather markedly. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 473/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| 21, Australian male. Kill your boss and take his job. (edited by Arwon on 09-16-05 10:14 PM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 474/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| It's not actually tht hotly debated... most accept the dinosaurs explaination, but occasionally someone with a different idea gets way too much airplay because of the creationist wingnuts. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 475/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| It often surprises me how often religion and "science" are set up as opponents. It's pretty insane really, given how many so-called religious people accept that evolution, astrophysics, gravity, all that stuff, do actually happen. They're not exactly hard to reconcile, if you're not some psycho on a school board somewhere in Deliverance-country, or issuing fatwas out of a cave in Central Asia. So yeah, I guess we're accepting as a given that all the relevant science and stuff is a given. If so, does God matter? does he make it more beautiful or special than a random universe? From a spiritual point of view I can see the beauty in the idea that a precisely calibrated set of physical laws, a few dozen fundamental particles, could be set into motion and end up creating everything from the Milky Way to wombats to the human orgasm. I believe they call this the "clockmaker" view, with Diety-of-your-choice as the "why" and the "who" to physics and chemistry's "how". I personally think there's far more amazingness and brain-bending awe in the idea that it all just happened randomly, a confluence of chances, because as far as a Universe™ goes, the product has some serious deign flaws, not to mention numerous breaches of Occupational Health and Safety standards. At the micro level, we can see that the very foundations of the Universe™ are unstable, the flaws are, effectively, terminal. The first thing that springs to mind is that the Universe™ has inefficient energy transferrence that leads to ever-increasing entropy. This could lead to the Heat Death of the Universe, which while a great name for a band, is not exactly a sign of a stable product. This is of course assuming that there's not a Big Crunch in the works. The system is, at an atomic level, unstable. Then in the macro, you've got all the innumerable horrors of existance, which surely indicate shoddy workmanship and less than stellar commitment to quality control. You've got things like intestinal parasites, harlequin babies, asteroids and worse randomly hurtling about, and hell, the kill/eat/be eaten cruelty of nature in general, the brief blinking tragic pointlessness of any given life... An intellegent designer has a lot to answer for. But if it's all random, accidental, there's beauty in the fact that we're here at all. If things had've fallen just slightly differently, we wouldn't be. And that's something awesome to reflect on during a late night philosophical bullshit session, preferably lying in the grass with someone special looking at stars or something. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 476/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Yeah... girls are evil like that, the flirting and the leading people on and stuff. (edited by Arwon on 09-17-05 10:05 PM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 477/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| I'm not aware of any mascots my Australian schools or my Uni has, but Coronado High School in San Diego were the Islanders. Naturally, the mascot was a big immovable rock shaped like the Easter Island Statues. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 478/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Richard Thomson - Oops I Did It Again Richard Thomson is an accoustic guitarist who put out an album entitled "1000 years of popular music". The title is literal - it sweeps from the oldest round in the English Language (Sumer Is Icumen In) through some English folk and Italian opera type stuff, to some old blues numbers and then ABBA and Britney. Bloody awesome stuff, really. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 479/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| For every official act of "reverse discrimination" against whites, how many unofficial moments of regular discrimination are there? There's a whole entrenched, subtley race-biased system and just pretending everyone's equal won't really make it go away. Quotas and shit arent the way to go, but then, I'm skeptical that they even exist as government policy. I'm honestly not sure, but given the entrenched and dysfunctional nature of race relations in the US I would't be surprised if people, including employers, imagine these quota policies exist much more than they do. At any rate, it really is amazing the extent to which prejudice and discrimination can be entrenched in a society or governmental strucutre without ever actually referring to race in any direct way. Just as a couple of random examples. I'd firstly cite 150 years of local government politics, zoning laws and "neighbourhood associations" in Los Angeles - one of the most segregated and racially fractuous cities in the country, if not the world, but never do you see anything officially perpetuating the inequality... it's just entrenched, and perpetuated by people mainly looking out for things like property prices and neighbourhood "standards". Or as another example, voting in southern states. Georgia for example requires an official photo ID - 35 bucks a pop, which isn't a lot but still constitutes a de facto poll tax that disproportionately serves to disenfranchise the poor who don't drive, which means disproportionately disenfranchising the black. Throw in the fact that many counties don't apparently have any facilities to make properly sanctioned official IDs (including Atlanta itself, I'm told) and you can see what I'm getting at. Lifelong disenfranchisement of felons, is another one. Then there was Ohio in 2004. Funds for elections are distrubted on a state level, it's very odd that the lack of machines and long lines seemed to be solely a phenomenon in poor black neighborhoods... Or if we wanna talk about Australia, the written, formal, proscriptive nature of our education system places zero value on the Aboriginal cultural disposition towards oral histories and so forth, and so there's an institutionalised discrimination there that leads to less than stellar results and has a whole slew of flow-on effects. Throw in the fact that anyone who's now in the parents generation had some truly nightmarish experiences with formal official eduation and you see there's a whole culture of not engaging with the education system which is very tough to crack. Moreover, different cultural attitudes towards information and questions (It's generally far more effective to ask leading questions - "Your father was from around here?" rather than "Where is your father from?") leads to the indigenous thinking white folks are pushy and intrusive and rude, and whites thinking the indigenous are indolent, shiftless and evasive. You can imagine the consequences these cultural differences have in courtrooms for example. Yet, officially, "everyone's equal!" even though these multitudes of differentiation exist. These is just a couple of snapshots of the variety of ways in which group X can be marginalised and discriminated against without anyone actually consciously doing so. Yeah, people get overlooked for jobs and stuff because of official affirmative action policies... yeah, people get screwed by these official policies designed to counteract these entrenched socio-cultural or demographic issues. I personally thing the only workable affirmative action programs are education-based policies and employment subsidisation for the young and disadvantaged, anything else seems to be "after the horse has bolted". BUT. Really, for every official act of "reverse discrimination" how many unofficial acts of "regular discrimination" are there? And it's not enough just to say "everyone's equal" when you have a huge variety of social, demographic and culture factors working against people, so utterly entrenched. They won't go away on their own. (edited by Arwon on 09-17-05 11:30 PM) |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 480/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Global papal anarchy. All temporal power is vested in the Pope, but he is forbidden to communicate through any means except interpretive dance. The result is that his power can't actually be exercised, everyone else is left trying to figure out what he means, and the general populace just does their own thing, comes up with ad hoc arrangements, with the pope setting a general, but vague, moral tone. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 481/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| You don't necessarily need much in the way of restrictions on the market to construct a decent social welfare state, it's a false dichotomy. That's why we have the term Social Market Economy. | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 482/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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Originally posted by Wurl 4.0Originally posted by Arwon So West Germany, was it a "socialist" or a "capitalist" democracy? The idea that it's either/or seems utterly absurd. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 483/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| You mean like in Somalia? | |||
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 484/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| There's a large realm of difference between the name Seminoles and the name Redskins. The latter is akin to having a team called the Predatory Faggots (they'll beat you so bad you're bound to feel violated). Also at issue is the way the mascot is presented... an offensive caricature making the stereotypical mouth noise and brandishing a comical hatchet versus, well, not doing that. Of course, these points have already been made. Continue. |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35 Posts: 485/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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| Labor or the Greens, depending on how I'm feeling. |
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