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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-14-06 11:07 PM, in To tell or not to tell? Link
A cheater is a vile person. Plain and simple. I've been on the receiving end and, let me tell you, the guilty party deserves no mercy as far as being implicated to his or her significant other. He needs to know, one way or another; if she tells him, perfect, but otherwise it's your moral responsibility to do so.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-16-06 12:13 AM, in To tell or not to tell? Link
Any romantic involvement relies on at least some small sacrifice of one's own personal security. To open oneself to another person as fully as such a relationship requires, one is taking an enormous risk. To take advantage of the person to whom one declares love (or at least affection) is a violation on two counts: first, it is simply a betrayal, and second, it is the flagrant and damaging misuse of the deep emotions that have been entrusted to the cheater by the person being cheated on.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-16-06 06:38 PM, in To tell or not to tell? Link
Originally posted by Wurl
The phrasing was kind of harsh. I'm not all like "l3t5 ch33t 0n 34ch0th3r!?!?!? lol."
I'm a bit overzealous, maybe, but I mean everything I say .
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-16-06 06:41 PM, in Survival of the Fittest and the Application Thereof. Link
I don't care how much status and personal satisfaction I'll get, I'm not going to devote ten years of my life to school and medical residency and get paid x when I could roll out of bed one morning and go get a job as at a McDonald's, and still make x. And I'd consider myself a pretty socially interested person.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-16-06 08:25 PM, in Survival of the Fittest and the Application Thereof. Link
While carrying on a casual conversation with a classmate last semester, I was distressed to hear her reason for choosing her major. She's a science major - biology, I think - and plans to go to medical school and eventually be a doctor. All well and good, I thought, until she admitted that writing is really her passion. As an English major myself, I was a bit upset or even offended to hear that she'll really sacrifice what she enjoys in order to do something that will make more money for her.

What's the point? Well, she certainly wouldn't put in the extra years and extra cash for medical school if her eventual salary wasn't so considerably larger. I'm a very idealistic person in many ways but, when examining the viability of socialism, I'm able to realize that the world is not really so ideal that a signficant number of people will disregard money as a main motivation for performing a more difficult, time consuming, or dangerous job.

Speaking of dangerous jobs, I think I'm onto something - who wants to be a coal miner, or work in a nuclear reactor, or do anything like that, when the risk of one's life is not compensated for?
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-19-06 01:41 PM, in Survival of the Fittest and the Application Thereof. Link
There is no utopia. There can never be a utopia. Any ideal society set up by a majority of good intentioned, upright people, will be taken advantage of by the type of person who will seek the easy route above all else. Where the hands of the hard-working forge a path, the lazy and evil will take advantage without offering anything in return.

Until you can get every one of Earth's six billion people to cooperate, it will not happen. And, no matter how noble the goal, six billion people will not cooperate.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-20-06 08:41 PM, in Survival of the Fittest and the Application Thereof. Link
No matter how you twist it, there is always a set of jobs that are undesirable by anyone's standards, even if they are vital to the continued functioning of civilization.

Sure, maybe a good number of would-be doctors - maybe even most of them, for the sake of the argument - enter into the profession to help others instead of to bring home a huge paycheck. But, definitely not all of them. And, considering that there isn't exactly a surplus of such professionals in the modern, capitalistic, real world, and also considering that all those who currently hold the job because of its fiscal benefits would seek an easier profession under a socialist system, the dearth of medical professionals would be incredibly dire if the monetary impetus was removed.

Conversely, there are some jobs that most people would not do regardless of the compensation, and especially not if the compensation were exactly equal to that of a far better profession. I wouldn't be a garbageman, even though I'm well aware of how vital such people are to society, and I certainly would not do the job if I didn't get paid more than someone doing something far more desirable.

Imagine it: in an ideally socialist world, where everyone gets paid the same without reference to education or actual job, we'd have an acute shortage of doctors and garbagemen, and an overwhelming surplus of bikini inspectors.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-22-06 10:42 AM, in What's your sign? Link
I'm a Leo.

But, I wouldn't even be in this thread if not to point out how ridiculous the idea of astrology is, at least when it's based on the period of one's birth. Not to offend anyone's beliefs, but it's visible in everyday life that even people who are born under the same zodiac symbol can be vastly different. How does one reconcile that with the fact that horoscopes and whatnot insist that people who are born within the same roughly month-long period share a number of constant personality traits? I know scores of other Leos, and I'd hesitate to say that any resemble me in personality, or even that any are all that close to one another. Yet, when a person finds that he or she does line up well with what the zodiac describes, it becomes automatic evidence for the validity of astrology.

On a related note, unless I misunderstand it, such systems as the Chinese calendar run on the notion that all people born in the same year share a number of similar attributes. Well, nearly every person that I know, at least here at college, is my age and shares my birth year, yet an enormously small number of them resemble me in personality. It just doesn't fit, I'd say.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-22-06 11:02 AM, in What's your sign? Link
Originally posted by max
astrology is as stupid as any other made up belief (like christianity)
Touche, max. Brilliant remark.

In seriousness, though, whether you believe in Christianity or not, you'll be hard pressed to disprove it (just as I'd be similarly hard pressed to prove it). But, here, I'll disprove astrology:

The zodiac says that I will share a number of personality traits with people who have the same sign as I do. Well, not only do I not share any such traits with other Leos that I know, and not only do many of those other Leos not share traits with one another, but I don't even fit into what a Leo is "supposed" to be. Even though astrology says that "Leos are this and Virgos are that and Cancers are this other thing."

Happy?

Edit to remove the malfunctioning e with an accent, and again to add this edit notice.

(edited by Silvershield on 02-22-06 12:20 PM)
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-22-06 01:03 PM, in What's your sign? Link
Originally posted by Snow Trout
...astrology isn't really about "All Leo's are [insert personality trait here]". That's what we call modern "astrology". If you bothered to study it and look into the origins of these things... you'd know that.
Ok, well, I did "bother to look it up."

Originally posted by Wikipedia
The idea of an astrological birth sign is that the person would have some characteristics of the mythic symbolism that the ancients identified with that constellation; so, for example, a "Libra" (the scales) will be balanced and stable.
Well, my ex-girlfriend is a Libra, and she's anything but balanced and stable.

Again, I'm not trying to demean anyone else's beliefs. A great many people would say that my own faith is based on an ancient fairy tale. Yet, if that which one believes is able to be empirically disproven, how valuable can it really be?

Edit to remove redundant quotation marks.

(edited by Silvershield on 02-22-06 12:18 PM)
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-22-06 03:55 PM, in What's your sign? Link
Originally posted by Snow Trout
Again, that's modern astrology.
Whatever it's called, this thread explicitly pertains to that branch of astrology that concerns the zodiac. And, of the sources I've seen that describe any of the zodiac's twelve designations, all have said that a person's mental attributes are in direct relation to when he or she was born. And, as I've said in previous posts, we've all witnessed examples in real life that are in direct contention with that belief.

Whatever else astrology is beyond that, I don't care. Like I said, even if it is totally bogus, I have no more of a case against it than anyone else has against Christianity. But I feel like I have strong empirical evidence against this particular branch of the topic at large, which is why I'm calling it out. I'm not insulting anyone's belief that the stars play some major role in the workings of mankind, though I don't personally subscribe to such an idea.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-22-06 05:19 PM, in What is your Religion? Link
Originally posted by Plus Sign Abomination
Good for them. However, most historians will tell you that the Occidental Christian Church is what is called in modern terms the "Roman Catholic Church" as well as the "Greek Orthodox" with their various Patriarchies (also included are the modern Coptic and other Orthodox Churches). Thusly said, regardless of what Protestant theology and Reformer dogma states, history rules that the Catholic Church WAS all that was Christian.
So, to put it in more legible terms, the Catholic Church could never have "come along" and altered general Christian doctrine because the Catholic Church is effectively what Christianity was for a number of centuries. It was already there, it's not as if it arose from out of nowhere and began playing with the established tenets of the religion, because there were no established tenets. If anything, the various Protestent sects came along and added or removed various beliefs.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-22-06 05:33 PM, in What's your sign? Link
Originally posted by Snow Trout
SS: You can prove anything false if you try hard enough.
No, no you can't.
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Posted on 02-23-06 01:46 PM, in US to Rest of World: Sorry About Iowa Link
Originally posted by Rom Manic
For example, would you date a 14 year old if you're 20? The law says no, and thus our judgement on the subject is forced upon us. Yet the female of 14 is just finished going through that phase where she is now ready to bear a child. Physically and mentally. Unfortunately, society says she will fail because she is too young to bear a child and cannot afford it.
A modern American (or other Western) female, age 14 years, is not mentally prepared to bear a child. Certainly she is physically capable - she may even be able to at 13 or 12 or even younger - but the emotional and psychological aspect is beyond the capacity of nearly any girl of that age.

And, there is something to be said about disobeying an unjust law. Some laws may direct us to alter an intrinsic moral sense in order to line up more closely with what is right according to society, but there is no dishonor in ignoring such a statute that violates an undeniable moral principle. I don't think American laws are so drastically immoral that they force the average person to significantly alter his own moral compass, though; at least, I can't think of a single example.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-23-06 05:55 PM, in Ockham's Razor Link
Also related to scientific parsimony, a principle that holds a simpler theory as superior to a more complicated one, given that they are both equally correct and their only constrasting factor is the level of complexity.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-26-06 04:57 PM, in Photo Album thread. Link
Originally posted by Giko Cat
Okay... so you're showing that much tit in your "recent picture", yet claim you feel naked without the eyeliner?
Haha...tact is absolutely wasted on you .

I'm not big on makeup - on girls, I mean, not myself - but a bit of eyeliner is better than what I see all too often. That is, so much makeup that a girl literally resembles a porcelain doll. Feel free to cover up blemishes, sure, but don't cake it on so thick that you look like you've been airbrushed. Huge turnoff for me.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-26-06 05:02 PM, in Holocaust denial Link
It may be naive to say so, but I really don't think the likes of the Holocaust could ever occur in the modern day. Political correctness and its related institutions are so widespread that any sort of hate speech is supressed before it has any chance of reaching such a scale. Surely there are white supremecists and similar groups, and they spout their nonsense, but we'll never reach the point of any major segment of the population shouting "kill all the [ethnicity]!" because I really can't imagine something as relatively minor as "we hate all the [ethnicity]!" reaching the mainstream. And, before Hitler began eradicating the Jews, he had to get the majority of the nation's populace on board with Jew-hating sentiment, a development that I really couldn't imagine in the modern First World.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-26-06 07:45 PM, in Holocaust denial Link
I'm not familiar with what happened in Rwanda, but I don't think it's a First World country and, as such, its media and social conventions are not as developed as those in, say, America.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-26-06 09:10 PM, in Holocaust denial Link
Originally posted by emcee
Originally posted by Silvershield
I'm not familiar with what happened in Rwanda


Exactly.
...what?

Originally posted by emcee
My point is, for all our political correctness it doesn't stop us from turning a blind eye when a situation doesn't directly effect us. I can't say for certian what happened in Germany, but I suspect not everyone got behind the whole extermination idea, its just easier to look the other way.
It's easy for us to turn a blind eye to Rwanda because it's across the ocean. I don't forsee any such incident in our own country, though.
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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 02-26-06 09:24 PM, in Holocaust denial Link
Originally posted by Wurl
The fact that you don't know about the genocide in Rawanda disproves the fact about media preventing genocide somewhat.
How is that?
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