Words today rarely have the same effect as they have had in the past. People are too cynical, skeptical and generally desensitized to everything. Unless the words are backed up with, or followed by actions they aren't likely to get anything done. There was a saying I heard "You can get more done with a kind word and a gun, than you can with a kind word alone"
The fact that we only live once makes life worth living. The fact that we die makes life special and important. If we lived forever, or over and over again, what would be the point of ever doing anything? There would be no limitations, and we would crave death. As for living more than once, I don't see why anyone would want to anyway >_>
Heretic is a term created by theists to describe anyone who doesn't believe in the exact same magic sky fairy as they do. To a protestant, Catholics are heretics and the same vice versa. An atheist is technically a "heretic" to any and all theistic religions, however it is not an insult or in any way demeaning to said atheist because you have to believe in a god for it to have a meaning (the same with "Go to Hell", if you don't believe in that such a place exists it is hardly insulting, but the sentiment is usually clear lol)
Damn you >: I was going to mention that ;D She ain't dead =]
http://www.oxegen.ie/2008/faq Mum was selling my Oxegen ticket on eBay and she was showing me something in the FAQ I have no idea how it got in the CTRL-V though =S
I happened upon this when it was on TV. What some of the parents shown were doing to their children amounted to serious child abuse. A child does not know the difference between right and wrong, and certainly cannot form any opinions on what their belief system is going to be. Forcing a child to church every sunday and drumming the parents religion into them is cruel and should be illegal. I also remember seeing the woman who home-schooled her child. She taught him that creationism is right and everything else is wrong. She closed his mind to everything, raising an ignorant and bigoted child to ruin the next generation. These people are terrible parents who should never have been allowed to have children. *phones social services*
I love sundays ;D We get time and a half pay =D And the 5 hours we can work fly by, and we get a 20 minute (unpaid >_>) break :3
This game is cruel >:
It isn't really a why question lol It just is. Humans are different to most other animals. Maybe it has something to do with our sapience? Sets us apart from the rest. Lol I just had another thought. Coupling this with the disease thread, could it be there is actually is a Mother Nature type thing? Lol as in, something that is trying to reign us in as a species. With diseases like cancer then natural diasters and now the increasing amount of homosexuality xD Actually, forget I said any of that because it actually makes no sense and goes against pretty much all I hold as fact xD
Not necessarily, as I said we don't allow the fallacies to die anymore. We strive to keep people alive when by rights (in nature anyway) they would be dead. This means that natural selection no longer has any effect on humanity and we are stagnating as an evolution-affected race.
The more people quote the slippery slope argument the more it's mentioned lol And yes I know that it is said that the government should fear its people, not the other way around. But what is the point of a government with so little power and that is so weak that it is in danger of being taken over at any moment? Governments need to be in power for a certain amount of time for them to have any effect. They need have the time to see some of their legislation through.
Many gay men married women and had children just to avoid the taboo, doesn't change the fact that they were born with the brain struture of a gay man. Also (and I know you said don't quote you, but hey we all need to learn from our mistakes, it's how we better ourselves ;D), there are homosexual animals in nature xD They serve the purpose of looking after orphaned children etc They still have a place in society, but they just don't take part in the reproduction lol (I think it may have been chimps or something similar, they are also the only other animal which takes part in recreational sex ;D).
Bacteria are organisms. Their lot in life is to enter host organisms and live. That's it. They aren't programmed (or sentient enough lol) to care. They go on living until we find them and stop them whatever way we can. Other diseases are unfavourable genetic mutations (because not all mutations are bad). They cause damage to genes which control the functions of the body. Think of us like computers. It would be like damaging the cooling fan or memory or something. Doesn't happen to everyone, and it depends on your genetic makeup. The reason we try to cure diseases is probably closely linked to the survival instinct. Except, this being spread to the entire race. If we see someone of our own species suffering we want to help them. This will in turn help to ensure the survival of our species. It could also be taken as being selfish. If we cure them, then they can't pass it on to us so we won't get sick. As for Evolution, the way it works is by mutations in the genetic code. If our genes and DNA didn't mutate then every single organism on the planet would be exact copies of each other. Mutation allows both improvements and fallacies to develop, the problem with humanity is we don't allow our fallacies to die out.
It should at least be Amended (again I don't see the point in this, either it stays in its entirety or it goes completely and is replaced >_>). The slippery slop argument is a slippery slope in itself <_>
There are many different kinds of immortality. For example, we live on as memories in other people (as corny as it sounds >_>). We are all just information really. We exist as what other peoples senses tell them that is there, as well as what our senses tell us. Of course it does go beyond that, with our consciousness and sapience. Really it all depends on what level of immortality you are looking for, or are willing to accept. The Romans are immortal, their empire died long ago and yet we still all know who they were and many of their feats (both good and bad). There is also the fact that dying makes life special. If we lived forever life would lose what little meaning it has. There would be no constraints and nothing to move us forward and progress as both individuals and race as a whole. As for biological immortality, people are living longer all the time and it is already being seen as a bad thing. Massive increases in pension costs, debilitating diseases and all the costs that involves as well as the general loss of space. Unless we were willing (as an entire race) to basically stop having children, we could not afford to be immortal. Children or immortality? Progression or perpetuity?
I agree with Repliku in that there does need to be more study. I'd say that this should be taken as a preliminary study and that there will be hopefully more to follow. Who knows, maybe bisexuals have characteristics of both heterosexual male and female brains? Would make sense lol
The problem in America is not the legislation. It is not the fact that the majority of the population owns at least one gun ( >_> ). It is the mindset. It is a mental problem with (apparently) the general American populace. For example, in Canada there are more guns per capita than America, and yet the proportionate number of gun related fatalities every year is massively less. How can this be possible? Also, taking guns off of people would not work now. People have had them for too long and it is completely ingrained into the society. It would just end up being driven even further underground. As for the part about it being against the "Constitution" *cough* that is an obsolete section which should be removed as soon as possible. It has been left over from when there was no American army. This meant that civilians had to keep weapons so that they could be called up as a militia at short notice. Nowadays the USA has a rather large army and therefore no need to arm its population.
When the East Wind begins to blow.................. ................and the fog rolls in.................. SHE appears Scary Mary Hide your children
I'm going to see You Me At Six on saturday and I was going to Oxegen in July but I'm trying to get my ticket sold xD; Have fun at said concert Kay <3 (I saw Alanis Morissette on The Graham Norton show, Dame Edna thought she was American xD)
Saw you today for the first time xD So it'll be.............................................................................. 7/10 8D
