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Skydude Armos Knight                    Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| This comes to mind when I hear talk of selling souls.
Gotta love Perry Bible Fellowship. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| Well, except that you can't really have a discussion on abortion without asking questions such as what the alternatives are. Particularly when one side labels themselves pro-choice I think the other choices women have are a rather important topic. | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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Well, it's more snow than ice, but...
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| Well, I think one of the important considerations in that is whether it is a one-time barrier that must be passed, or whether the self-sufficiency thing is in itself important. If it's the latter, then people on life-support aren't human beings either. If it's the former, that raises a question that's actually similar, in a sense, in the impact of technology on human life. A premature child can survive on life support, and the age at which survival is possible has decreased. Has an increase in technology actually changed when the child became a human being? | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| What's especially odd about that is that not only were you not #2, tied at first, you were listed first in the rankings for that day. | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| Bumpage aside, I have mixed feelings on it. I really don't think the Harry Potter movies are a good example for filmmakers taking liberties, since I think that while not nearly as good as the books, they largely stay relatively true to the story. If you want to bring up examples, how about the Resident Evil and Doom movies? Just awful, both of them. A Zelda movie could potentially be decent...but could also be complete crap. I'll wait for some more solid news, since I don't think anything's come out since the article initially referenced, but I doubt it'll actually happen. | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| The Acguy is such a lovable teddy bear/turtle mech...and I really wish I could find the Acguy pancake picture I've seen around. It's...amusing. | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| That's odd, I swore I posted a reply to this thread this morning. I remember typing it up and hitting reply, even. Basically it said I found what you did clever, though I didn't get it for a second, and that don't worry, I don't even know the general region of Canada where Milly lives. | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| Perry Bible Fellowship, actually. Really good stuff. And Dei, that's always the first thing I think of whenever someone is excited about their birthday.
You know, if you think about it, celebrating someone's birthday is little more than saying "Congratulations! You went another year without dying!" |
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Skydude Armos Knight  Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| One thing that I feel needs to be thrown in here is terminology for one of the sides. While generally referred to as anti-choice or anti-abortion, the terms aren't exactly accurate...at least not for all involved.
Most if not all Pro-Life people are anti-abortion, but not all anti-abortion people are Pro-Life. Think of how a square is a rhombus, but a rhombus isn't always a square. The Republican party, for the most part, is anti-abortion rather than Pro-Life, at least on official stances, though of course there are Pro-Life members within the party. What's the distinction, you might ask, and it's something that I've been explaining to people for years. If you're just anti-abortion, then your stance is pretty much that abortion is wrong, and should be illegal. Beyond that, opinions of individuals with the view differ, but that's about all it entails. Pro-Life, on the other hand, doesn't seek merely to make abortion illegal and be done with it. Those who are Pro-Life would support, ironically enough given terminology used, actually giving more viable choices to women, support during pregnancy and afterwards if necessary. As it is, many women who abort their children are doing so largely because they really don't have a viable option to do otherwise in society today. For us, making abortion illegal wouldn't be the end of the battle...it would merely be a shift into a different stage. I think Feminists For Life puts it very well:  |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| A countdown to Xkeeper's manhood in the legal sense, I would hope. With just about any other definition, that would be creepy. | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| Well, the thing is, in some cases, it's not exactly the woman's choice, and it's a coercive act. Of course, in those cases, it's often a coercive act for her to abort the child as well, which makes it a bit more complicated. Especially when, as is the case in the admittedly rare cases of abuse, the abortion serves to cover up the evidence of the relationship, such as a 30 year old with a 15 year old girlfriend, as the "clinics" won't reveal that information. And thus the abusive relationships continue.
To some extent, however, you may in fact be correct, I'm not sure. I say that because at least half of children aborted are those of women who have had that done before. This suggests repeated either unreported abuse, or not being careful enough. In that same vein, in cases that aren't abusive or coercive, you are indeed making a choice by choosing to have sex. You can use birth control of various sorts, but it's not 100% effective, and this is known. If we communicate that it's not 100% effective and people choose to engage in activity anyway, they are effectively acknowledging than they are aware of the risk for the activity that they are doing, and thus become responsible for consequences. (edited by Skydude on 04-04-06 06:12 PM) |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| Well, this timer should probably be fine. I don't think he's going to change when his birthday is, and it seems to be working fine. The last one just screwed up because he changed it, after all.
Though maybe his birthday will suddenly become last week. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| So I guess everyone is ignoring the more nuanced position of the choice made in consensual sex than I put forward and choosing instead to respond to the simple version, which is of course much easier to refute.
Simply restated, then, the choice that you have is to have sex. You can take precautions if you want to avoid pregnancy, realizing that these precautions are not 100% effective (as is stated on most if not all birth control, effectively creating a contract as far as product law is concerned). Abstinence is the only 100% effective method of preventing pregnancy. But then, you want to have sex, so that isn't a choice you want to make. Consider an analogy...but please don't respond to it literally, I know they're not exactly the same, an analogy isn't meant to be exactly the same, it's only meant to illustrate a point. Let's say you want to go skydiving. Your parachute is almost certain to work...but it might not. And you know that going into it. If you choose to skydive, you choose to take the risk that maybe it won't work that time. Similarly, if you choose to have sex, and take precautions, you choose to take that risk, small as it may be. You make the choice when you have sex, or jump out of the plane (or both at the same time, if you're adventurous  ) knowing full well what the consequences might be. Now, if makers of birth control claimed their products were 100% effective, that would be different, you would make the choice thinking there was no risk whatsoever of what you didn't want to happen. You make a choice based on your view of what the potential risk is. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| Even if government cannot be made perfect, a vision of a utopian society seeks to discover what is lacking in the current system and suggest how it might be improved. In many cases, if not most, such changes aren't feasible, and so the discussion must be left merely as fantasy, but sometimes an idea might come up that does not conflict with how society is, and might be used to improve the current government. So it's hardly pointless. | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| I think the problem is that we've hyped this so very much, pretty much whatever happens will be disappointing.
Though I will be glad when my computer doesn't blow up. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| You're only allowed 3 MAX in your sig...even that can be annoying. Speaking of which, HM, that big quote in your sig takes up way too much room, mind removing it? | |||
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| Wow, Silvershield, wow...you just did a lot of work for me. And in return, I'll help you out a bit on that last point.
A child in the womb...or fetus, if that's the term you prefer (which itself is merely the Latin term for a baby, ironically enough) is not a separate entity from a human being, but is just another stage of development. As this human goes through life after birth, subsequent stages of development are observed, such as infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age. What this being goes through within her/his mother is really just another stage of development. We exist in our lives on a continuous cycle of development. You're different, albeit just a tiny bit so, today, than you were tomorrow. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish Well, I don't know if it's better or worse, but I looked on the page that calculates it, and that's what's said there. And Colin likely just copy/pasted that. Welcome back, asdf, make it interesting. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6568 days Last view: 6568 days |
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| I've got to say...in not having a DS, I feel rather left out. One of my friends continues to try to convince me to get one, but the fact is, I haven't even finished playing the GBA games that I got...I'd rather play a console when I can, and there aren't that many times for me to be playing portables. So it really might not be worth it to get a DS. |
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