12-04-2007, 01:46 PM
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I agree with you that it is inherently in our best interests to spread freedom, but not at the expense of life. That should be the logical sequence of priority. Unfortunately, christian dogma is ultimately flawed and influences what people think freedom is.
People like Pat Robinson and Falwell who are/were completely brainwashed by the christian psycho-babble of fag-hate and anti-abortion not to mention the many other assorted ultimatum laws of morailty is what causes me to believe that the war is religously based.
I guess I should mention that what I mean by religously based is not the christian faith against the Islamic faith, but just the christian faith.
I could say amillion other things, but I'm at work and can't write too much.
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12-04-2007, 02:48 PM
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Quote:
muss wrote
I agree with you that it is inherently in our best interests to spread freedom, but not at the expense of life. That should be the logical sequence of priority. Unfortunately, christian dogma is ultimately flawed and influences what people think freedom is.
People like Pat Robinson and Falwell who are/were completely brainwashed by the christian psycho-babble of fag-hate and anti-abortion not to mention the many other assorted ultimatum laws of morailty is what causes me to believe that the war is religously based.
I guess I should mention that what I mean by religously based is not the christian faith against the Islamic faith, but just the christian faith.
I could say amillion other things, but I'm at work and can't write too much.
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I'm still having a hard time understanding how this makes sense.
Pat Robinson(sic) and Jerry Falwell are "brainwashed by...fag-hate and anti-abortion..." therefore George Bush invaded Iraq? What?
I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
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12-04-2007, 02:59 PM
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I wasn't trying to say that the spreading the "western" idea of freedom is in our interest. Only that we beleive it to be the case - so much so that it can help sell a war.
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12-04-2007, 03:47 PM
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He who walks among the theists
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ManInTheWild,
This is the spelling police: "i" before "e", unless after "c" (for the most part).
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
George Bernard Shaw
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12-04-2007, 04:01 PM
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nkb wrote
ManInTheWild,
This is the spelling police: "i" before "e", unless after "c" (for the most part).
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Are there any weird exceptions?
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12-04-2007, 04:05 PM
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Still Kate's Bitch...
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A few:
beige, cleidoic, codeine, conscience, deify, deity, deign,
dreidel, eider, eight, either, feign, feint, feisty,
foreign, forfeit, freight, gleization, gneiss, greige,
greisen, heifer, heigh-ho, height, heinous, heir, heist,
leitmotiv, neigh, neighbor, neither, peignoir, prescient,
rein, science, seiche, seidel, seine, seismic, seize, sheik,
society, sovereign, surfeit, teiid, veil, vein, weight,
weir, weird
(Culled from somewhere on teh tinternets, this was not my own work...)
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12-04-2007, 04:07 PM
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Mistress Monster Mod'rator Spy
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Quote:
nkb wrote
ManInTheWild,
This is the spelling police: "i" before "e", unless after "c" (for the most part).
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"Or when sounded like A as in 'neighbor' and 'weigh'"
"I do not intend to tiptoe through life only to arrive safely at death."
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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12-04-2007, 04:08 PM
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He who walks among the theists
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Quote:
Waddlie wrote
A few:
beige, cleidoic, codeine, conscience, deify, deity, deign,
dreidel, eider, eight, either, feign, feint, feisty,
foreign, forfeit, freight, gleization, gneiss, greige,
greisen, heifer, heigh-ho, height, heinous, heir, heist,
leitmotiv, neigh, neighbor, neither, peignoir, prescient,
rein, science, seiche, seidel, seine, seismic, seize, sheik,
society, sovereign, surfeit, teiid, veil, vein, weight,
weir, weird
(Culled from somewhere on teh tinternets, this was not my own work...)
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I don't recognize half of those words. What the fuck is "teiid"?
I have to admit, I never actually used that rule, because of all the exceptions. It either (or is it iether, what the fuck is the rule when there is no preceding letter?) looks right, or it doesn't.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
George Bernard Shaw
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12-04-2007, 07:08 PM
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Come on, muss, aren't you ever not at work? What are these religious reasons and what is the evidence supporting this claim?
I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
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12-04-2007, 07:25 PM
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I Live Here
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If only world leaders would just read interweb forums populated by knowledgable high school students, they would be able to solve all our problems in no time. Damn them. Damn them all!
You can always turn tricks for a few extra bucks. If looks are an issue, there's the glory hole option, but don't expect more than ... tips.
~ Philiboid Studge
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12-04-2007, 09:51 PM
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I Live Here
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Quote:
nkb wrote
ManInTheWild,
This is the spelling police: "i" before "e", unless after "c" (for the most part).
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Sure thing, chief!
"Those who most loudly proclaim their honesty are least likely to possess it."
"Atheism: rejecting all absurdity." S.H.
"Reality, the God alternative"
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12-05-2007, 05:41 AM
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I wasn't trying to say that the spreading the "western" idea of freedom is in our interest. Only that we beleive it to be the case - so much so that it can help sell a war.
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Agreed.
As for Jerry Falwell and Robinson, don't tell me that you deny their major influence on voters as well as their own political interests. This is blind faith at its best.
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12-05-2007, 06:37 AM
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General of the Attacking Army
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muss wrote
Agreed.
As for Jerry Falwell and Robinson, don't tell me that you deny their major influence on voters as well as their own political interests. This is blind faith at its best.
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WHAT. DOES. THAT. HAVE. TO. DO. WITH. THE. IRAQ. WAR.
I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
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12-05-2007, 09:56 AM
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Thank you for pointing out the most important talking point in my post.
note to self – avoid italics
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12-05-2007, 10:01 AM
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If only world leaders would listen to TA’s in physics departments.
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