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Omg.
Do you know that laughter that's so intense no sound is even coming out yet?
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@PressF4Respect
In what. DART's upcoming rendition of Rocky Horror Picture Show?
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@Lunatic
The thread title is asking if Jesus is me?
It is also asking if Jesus was "a" Lunatic, as if there are more of you. Are you a clone? Or a robot android with multiple other identical models? When is your friend Liar going to get here? Is he also a robot? The title question implies he is. Or a clone. Like you.
I find this highly suspicious. Clearly you and your friend (who is yet absent, probably busy setting up a sniper position while you keep us all distracted, I don't doubt) are planning a takeover with your robot clone armies who may or may not be named Jesus.
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It is time to acknowledge that the HoF and its spinoff controversy was 100% the history-making melodrama shitstorm spectacle we were all hoping for.
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He always gets mad when I ban him and I'm like, "Dude I'm just increasing your street cred. Uh, you're welcome."
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@AvoidDeath
What, you mean the homophobic and racial slurs he used on bish? Slurs against mods are not prosecutable. If you banned him just for that, you'd be banning him a month for no violation. You'd be cool with that? Can't relate.
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Wylted was banned for a personal attack in a zero-tolerance thread and for campaigning on Discord. He did not repeatedly lie to moderators, submit fraudulent evidence, or try to deceive me. I really don't see it as comparable. That's a whole other kind of nasty.
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@RationalMadman
Yes, people who dislike us are probably gonna like the posts of those who are criticizing us.
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@Mopac
I could also simply say "so it seems to you" to dismiss your theistic experience. It can be applied to pretty much anything.
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I honestly keep forgetting it's there. I've barely used it. Seems like 90% of the posts I see have 0 likes. The ones that do have likes usually don't seem to have more than 1 or 2.
What percentage of posts that you like do you actually bother to click the like button on?
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@RationalMadman
It is. Multiply them by the children they will vs won't have, then also consider that spiders tend to build webs more rapidly and actively when they detect other spiders doing so in the vicinity (they are more gang-like than people think).
True, they do multiply like demon spawn. Ever come across one of the females carrying all those babies on her butt? Freaks me out.
Certainly in the big picture they play a vital and very beneficial role in the ecosystem. Without them we would be overwhelmed by insects. But that doesn't mean I have to like them, and when it comes to the benefit a few spiders and their spawn could give me personally... eh. I still don't think it's enough to overcome my psychological barriers with them. Psychological barriers developed in childhood are pretty hard to overcome in general.
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@RationalMadman
That's true, but not all of them to the same degree, and to be honest I have a bit of an overgrowth problem, so fewer plants would not be entirely unwelcome.Pesticides damage the environment and have big side effects for the plants too (which require more chemicals to counteract).
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@RationalMadman
And that's... bad?You're more sympathetic to the insects that will annoy the crap out of you than you are to yourself.
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@RationalMadman
I probably kill less than 1% of all spiders in my immediate area. It's just not enough to make much difference either way.
Certainly not enough to make me go to the trouble of collecting materials and carefully lifting and carrying the spider outside. Especially not when it's nighttime and I'm cozy. Pesticides achieve the same thing, anyway. So all the spider really is is a threat to my peace of mind. And the way they kill their prey is so horrific. *shudder* Not that horrific predation is uncommon in nature. Quite the opposite.
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Oh there goes my damn sense of humor, I see a spider. Great.
It's on my ceiling. They know I'm short. They mock me.
They go up there to die and then a stray waft of air makes their curled-up husks fall on me. Do you see how they use psychological warfare even in death.
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@Ramshutu
Insubordination. Blatant insubordination to the Cock of Cocks.
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@Vader
It may be startling at first, I know, but in time it will all make sense.
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@A-R-O-S-E
It actually stands for Cock of Cocks, bish's name for his genitalia. Do you know how the Persian emperor Xerxes was called the "king of kings"? It's kind of like that.
This is a state secret and not widely known, of course. Which is why I'm telling you in private.
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@Greyparrot
True, but Trump gives even 20-somethings gray hairs, so I still get my Worrier License. Bam.You're supposed to have grey hair before you are properly qualified to worry about hypotheticals.Young people would never get married if this was not true.
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@zedvictor4
If he is reelected, the collective power of my redoubled shame, grief, humiliation, disappointment in humanity, and hopelessness that we will ever learn, may physically kill me.
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@Greyparrot
I do have a beleaguered liver as it is...
Too much Mike's Hard Lemonade and White Russians.
SHE SAID "WHITE RUSSIANS" SHE'S A RACIST TRAITOR. GET HER!
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@Mopac
My experience has been quite devoid of God.
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I constantly worry we're going to be devastatingly taken advantage of by other countries who know we have a moron in charge and capitalize on the weakness.
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There is no meaning in the universe save that which is projected onto the universe by humans. I consider meaning to be something that must come from within, not without. It is up to us to choose a purpose and decide why we are here. It's a daunting prospect.
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@RationalMadman
I probably shouldn't have made that last post. I wasn't trying to start anything or stoke the fire. It's my bad.
It's over, you won into the HoF, that says everything that needs to be said imo, and it may be best to put this drama behind us.
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@Mopac
The human experience is a very personal thing in general.
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@Mopac
Making an atheist secretary of religion sounds pretty USSR.Just saying
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@Vader
Well, I only have jurisdiction over one of those people. I don't know what Rash supposedly said, if it was actionable mod-wise, or what or if action was taken. 😕
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Oh, of course I can. This problem is damn frustrating.
If safety is the real issue why haven't these things been done already?
I think it's because Republicans and Democrats are politically deadlocked and the issue of gun violence is caught between them in their turf war. We need a good bipartisan effort to put changes like that in place, but instead what we have is a tug-of-war where neither side wants to give an inch for fear their enemy will take a mile. So we get nowhere. They both seem to agree gun violence is a problem, but can never agree on what to do about it.
A searchable database seems like a no-brainer, but many Republicans and pro-gunners use the "slippery slope" argument -- that sure, today it's just a searchable database, but tomorrow they'll be taking our guns away entirely.
P.S. Sorry if this is a dumb question, but why can't they just manufacture shorter magazines that you physically cannot fit more than 10 bullets into? None of this spacer nonsense.
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I think the idea of a God who doesn't hold your hand is just never gonna appeal to most theists. He has to be personal. He has to be watching over them.
Religion is a psychological survival tool, and when you have an indifferent and impersonal God, that tool is no longer serving its purpose. It's no longer helping humans psychologically survive. So they'll cling to their survival tool and use deist arguments to protect it, regardless of the disconnect between the two.
When it comes to the deist God, I have often heard theists say "Then what is the point of a God like that?" Which is interesting -- why does whether or not something objectively exists depend upon whether it is useful or desirable to humans?
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@Greyparrot
Honestly, I don't know Exactly what the Warhawks wanted Trump to do.A) Pull a Benghazi and allow the 26 troops to die by not pulling them out.B) Start a war with Turkey.C) Start a war with Syria.Pick one or more of these, please.
Oh, I doubt they would have died. Killing American troops and starting a war with the U.S. is suicide, and Turkey knows it. If Trump had left the troops there, I don't think Turkey would have invaded.
Regardless, you're right that those lives were at some risk. But how many lives will now be lost because of all the ISIS members who have been unleashed back into the world? How many more terrorist plots can now be restarted, how many citizens of the free world will perish as a result of all the progress we just lost in one stroke?
Is it really a tribute to our soldiers overseas to undo all their work and everything they and the Kurds have been fighting for? To un-save the lives they've been trying to save, and ensure that good men died for nothing?
It's always hard to leave men out there at risk. I get that. But I have to say that I would have sent reinforcements and held the line. ISIS is simply too great a threat to the free world.
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@Vader
How did you mean it? Perhaps I misunderstood.
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@Ramshutu
Get out of my head.I have a particular strong suspicion that this is just an attempt to make it seem like RM was the beneficiary of campaigning, after their preferred candidate(s) didn’t make it and/or lost out for the same reason.
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@Vader
The mods wont side with RMThey sided with him during this Wylted situation, they may do it again
We did not choose sides, Supa. We just enforced the rules that were put up to ensure a fair election. Personally I'm extremely irritated that you had to lose all those votes, through no fault of your own, because one person deliberately snuck around violating election ethics. You were denied your fair shot here. And you deserved a fair shot.
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Even Trump-supporting Republicans are furious about this. I think there's a higher-than-normal chance for it to go through. But that still doesn't mean it's enough.
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@Dr.Franklin
Ignore him, let it to the proffesionals
I see your wisdom and I am ashamed.
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@Harikrish
No, you definitely shouldn't assume that. And when did I threaten banning?
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@ebuc
I feel like you're missing my point. They're not wrong because they're Islamic, ebuc. They're wrong because they're invading and destroying.
Trump uses people for a specific purpose and then throws them under the bus.
Well, yes. He does that. I can't keep track of all the people he's fired or turned on, it's rather dizzying. He tries to run the government like a business, where the CEO has near-absolute power and if he isn't getting what he wants he just fires people.
What Trump has done is to give the go ahead to kill allies who beat the hell out of ISIS.
That is also true.
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@Greyparrot
Aw. Now I can't hate you for being my sociopolitical opposite. And every American lives for hating their sociopolitical opposites. It is known.
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@Greyparrot
School vouchers.
... I quit.
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@Greyparrot
I think right now he's somewhere around "Kurds bad, Turkey meh."Well, at least he didn't say Kurds good Turkey bad.Or did he?
Last I heard he'd slapped Turkey on the wrist for all the Kurd killin', levying sanctions and deploying Mike Pence to go over there to talk to 'em, but the effort seems rather half-hearted and obligatory. I think he finds it hard to sympathize with the Kurds because they're the ones his personal critics and political enemies are defending.
Most people aren't going to understand that. They can only understand X good and X bad.
THEN TELL ME WHAT HOPE THERE IS FOR HUMANITY, GREY. TELL ME THAT.
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@blamonkey
Lol. Yeah, I don't know either. Perhaps they don't fully understand the realities of the job at the time they express the desire? Maybe they're thinking of it more as a promotion than as a spirit-draining chore. I definitely would never have asked for it like that. I was reluctant to even be a recusal mod, and I have it way, way easier than bish or Virt.
But I think it's just about accepting that there will always be impossible-to-please malcontents and it'll always be a mostly thankless job. But apparently not completely thankless, thanks to people like yourself.
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@ebuc
Sorry, to answer your response to me:
I don't think vilifying Turkish culture and adding religious intolerance to this on top of everything else is going to help anything. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Remember that Turkey is our ally, too. The situation here is that two of our friends are fighting. One friend is much bigger and, at present, more aggressive than the other.
While the larger friend is the aggressor at the moment, he is still an ally, and it's not a good idea to antagonize and alienate him completely. We have to be more far-sighted than that. That's diplomacy for you.
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@Greyparrot
Ugh, why didn't he just stick to his other reasons for the withdrawal? They were contendable. This was such a stupid thing to say. His attitude should be "I sympathize but this was necessary," not "who cares, you're people of low character anyway." Especially when those people have just done us a solid.Because the people stupid enough to not know a damn thing about Turkey and the Kurds need an explanation like that. Those people are easy to talk to.
So he fires off an unjustified insult on the people who have been on the frontlines fighting ISIS for us because... Americans are stupid? Too stupid to understand reasons like "in the long run our presence in the Middle East does more harm than good for both us and natives of the region"? So stupid the only thing that will penetrate our thick dumb skulls is "America good, Kurds bad"?
That is just sad.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
It's important to remember that their hearts are in the right place. They just want us all to be safer. They want to stop more people from losing their lives. They want to be able to send their kids to school without worrying about their safety. They want to be able to go to a concert or a WalMart without fear of being shot and killed.
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@Harikrish
Can't replace ethan. Rare to have such a friendly rapport with someone who is so ideologically opposite me.
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