1,876

(28 replies, posted in Politics)

Why do I not mention a persons skin colour if they are white? Because it is normal:

It is not unusual for me to see a white person, I live in a country where minorities make up less than 2% of the population making them less populous than the unemployed, so it is natural for me to pick up on skin colour first.
I imagine the same applies to the USA and Canada too.

In a situation with "Politically Correct" people, especially in DPS' mentioned situation, I accuse the PC people of being racist because they are being racist, just in a different way than normal.

"You are a bad monkey!"
"Hey! What about Louis?"
"What about Louis?"
"He's black!"
"And?"
"You can't say that it's racist."
"So you think black people are monkeys?"
"No!"
"Then why are you accusing me of racism when all I did was call Dr Zeus a bad monkey? If you don't mind me saying I find this very psycologically revealing of you."
"What? Wait! Umm... Err... I'm not racist!"
"Yes you are" Louis

1,877

(676 replies, posted in Community)

http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv
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Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis

You approach Satan's wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.


Purgatory - Repenting Believers -Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo - Virtuous Non-Believers - Low
Level 2 - Lustful - Very High
Level 3 - Gluttonous - High
Level 4 - Prodigal and Avaricious - High
Level 5 - Wrathful and Gloomy - High
Level 6 - The City of Dis - Heretics - Extreme
Level 7 - Violent - High
Level 8 - the Malebolge -Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers - High
Level 9 - Cocytus - Treacherous - Moderate

1,878

(348 replies, posted in Roleplay)

All around the Crbrs four hundred kalikam an hour winds screamed, a continuous icy blast of raw hydrogen and argon, but Erf felt good. While they were waiting for word from the UEF Commader Krg had decided to take the ship from Blacken to the local gas giant and into the atmosphere so they could benefit from the high gravity, much better than walking around in armor all of the time.
  Exposure to the low gravity of Blacken had only lowered his bone density by a few percent, but it was enough for him to take to the exercise chamber.
  Around the perimiter of the chamber a group of heavy weapons specialists were running laps whilst carrying weight bars, ahead of them were a few scouts wearing thick iron bracelets around their wrists and ankles. Far above a group of infiltrators were leaping, tumbling and climbing around the support beams. Krg was up there somewhere.
  Although everyone on the ship was a warrior first everyone was also a specialist. Krg was an infiltration specialist, strong, agile and silent despite his Wardancer bulk. Erf was a boarding specialist. Erf entered the airlock to the vacuum chamber carrying a onehundred kalimet weightbar.

1,879

(687 replies, posted in Roleplay)

My characters are Commander and Subcommander.

1,880

(624 replies, posted in General)

Judaism - 8
Buddhism - 28
Hinduism - 13
Sikhism - 17
Taoism - 27
Bah

1,881

(624 replies, posted in General)

Atheism 2.0 is winning, hurrah!

So you only have a right to be insulted if you are not white, male, single, straight and/or Atheist?
I'm waving at you right now, and I'm not using all of my fingers.

1,883

(676 replies, posted in Community)

Cute... worship me and go to heaven, do otherwise and simply die, thinking you were right.

1,884

(624 replies, posted in General)

> ..Nemeara.. wrote:

> > Theodora wrote:
Even Islam, which many people seem to regard as barbaric is more advanced and tolerant (with regards to the afterlife) than most of the various forms of Christianity.

Honestly...learn about your religions smile




how so theo smile?
dont they believe the same? that yr not going to heaven if u didnt accept god?<


I believe the problem is rooted in the fact that the Jews dare to say that Jesus was just a man. A nice guy with some good ideas but no son of God. Alot of Christians seem to hate this idea.

1,885

(30 replies, posted in Politics)

I'm going to address the part of your post that doesn't repeat what the article already says:

"Thats actually false reporting, the Antartic has only cooled. There is legions of evidence of this."

Uh huh: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17257 Ooh look, warm bits!


"In my city, today, this very morning, we had snow. March 28th is the date. Snow. Our mountains have 200% to 500% of the snowpack if I use math like the climatologists, but in truth it's 150% to 400% of the typical year. There has been the strongest winter in a long long time."

We had a late winter too, it feels like they get later every year. Anyone would think the climate was changing.


"Note also the utter retraction of the words "Global Warming"? Yeah thats because they know it's not happening. So they use "Climate Change" which has been happening since humankind was put on this planet."

That is because Globa Warming is an inaccurate term. When the Gulf Stream finally breaks completely the UK will lose it's warming benefit, and we will cool, so the Warming is not global but the climate is undeniably changing.


"There has been ice shelves in the past, they went and came also... It is a part of the natural cycle of this planet."

Which suddenly accellerated over the last 200 years.
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No surprises here (-_-)

In the USSR people died, especially during Stalin's rule.
What was the cause of these deaths, and what did they die for?
Was it the fault of Atheism, caused by Atheism?
Was it abuse of the communist system by a power mad dictator?

The same applies to the Dark Ages.
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Now, is Atheism destructive?
Is Atheism without morals?

I say no to both.
I say no because I live in a country were the majority of the population is Atheist and I do not see my people as destructive or morally bankrupt, and neither does anyone else.

Except for Avogadro because apparently this obvious fact is meaningless because we are without God and therefore MUST be worse than Hitler, who first spoke of the notion of an Aryan Christ...

1,887

(30 replies, posted in Politics)

So one of Antactica's few remaining ice shelves has lost a massive chunk and it looks like the whole of the ice shelf could follow it.
It was thought that the Ice shelf would remain stable for another 15 years.
If it does go this will be number 7.


There's a 15 second advert at the start of the video.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/26/poles.antarctica


"A vast hunk of floating ice has broken away from the Antarctic peninsula, threatening the collapse of a much larger ice shelf behind it, in a development that has shocked climate scientists.

Satellite images show that about 160 square miles of the Wilkins ice shelf has been lost since the end of February, leaving the ice interior now "hanging by a thread".

The collapsing shelf suggests that climate change could be forcing change much more quickly than scientists had predicted.

"The ice shelf is hanging by a thread," said Professor David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). "We'll know in the next few days or weeks what its fate will be."

The Wilkins shelf covers an area of 5,600 square miles (14,500 sq km). It is now protected by just a thin thread of ice between two islands.

Vaughan was a member of the team that predicted in 1993 that global warming could cause the Wilkins shelf to collapse within 30 years.

The shedding of peripheral floating ice shelves has occurred elsewhere on the peninsula, allowing inland ice to move towards the sea and cause rising sea levels.

Some areas of the frozen continent have been cooler in recent years, and have added ice through accumulated snowfall. This year, the thin floating layer of sea ice that forms each austral winter and fades in summer has in fact been larger than usual, in contrast to the Arctic.

But in other parts

> coffeeking wrote:

> hahaha, i see now why you wanted me to check the forum out smile

now, i will first make a disclaimer that the post fokker is quoting is in fact my quoting of someone else and i had sarcastic intentions whilst quoting.<

Luckily the result is the same; I thought you would enjoy it.

1,889

(624 replies, posted in General)

ah, sorry for the misunderstanding.

1,890

(78 replies, posted in Politics)

To be honest I don't think anyone in England would be upset if Scotland seperated from the United Kingdom, Scotland certainly has potential, however Wales would become a concern.

1,891

(46 replies, posted in Roleplay)

It does not know the words, it does not know the names, but it knows the things, it knows and it understands. It understands that this was always possible, and it understands that it is better for the end to be like this.
It falls, a tunnel of pain carved through its chest by the bullet, but it does not let go. It understands that it must do its duty, no matter what, and that to do its duty it must be prepared to go further than it has ever gone before.
It locks its jaw, its long canines pierce the skin and tear the flesh as its molars scissor closed, cracking bone and slicing vein. There is a spurt of blood, a glittering wet arc of red in the air, and a scream.
The man beats at its head with his remaining hand but it is futile; he is dying, just like its master, its partner, the one that could have used his radio to call for medical help. But that will not happen now.
As the blood leaves his body his strikes become weaker and weaker, but it feels atronger than ever even though it is dying too. Maybe this is because of a sense of duty, maybe this is hate born out of grief, or maybe this is just primal instinct. Only it truly knows.
It pulls, twisting its head this way and that as it crushes its jaw closed, and there is a wet tearing, cracking sound.
The beating stops and the man breathes his last rattling breath.
It drops the hand, still clutching the gun, and slowly, on shaking legs, it turns. It takes a few steps, its breath rasping and bubbling as its lungs fill with blood, then takes a few more, and collapses.
A heavy, shaking hand  weakly strokes its head, "Good boy..." Its partners last breath rattles from his body.
It places its head on his chest as its eyelids grow heavy, and with a final twitch of its tail it lets the darkness come, happy.

Darkness.

> coffeeking wrote:

> atheism and satanism were killed because they are " the most damaging or destructive religion in terms of its principles, the way it treats its members or the way it treats non-believers etc. "

so tough nuggets all you educated hippos!<
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Aside from the strange insistence that Atheism, which by definition is a lack of religion in the same way that Asexual is by definition without sex (A-theism, A-sexual), I find the insinuation that Atheism and Satanism are damaging and destructive, and ask for proof.

1,893

(624 replies, posted in General)

> coffeeking wrote:

> atheism and satanism were killed because they are " the most damaging or destructive religion in terms of its principles, the way it treats its members or the way it treats non-believers etc. "

so tough nuggets all you educated hippos!<

Visit politics.

1,894

(126 replies, posted in Politics)

Men have strength and power in many ways; the ability to put more "oomph" behind whatever they do.

Women have speed and stamina due to a better balance between short and long muscle fibres, agility due to their tendons and muscle housings being much less brittle, balance but to their centre of gravity being in the centre of their bodies and not at a point just below the neck (Which is why men swagger when they walk), and their brains can handle three tasks with the same amount of brain power a man uses for one.

All of these facts, which are easily studied via Google or your local library's medical section, make women superior to men, so let us do our penises a favour and steer clear of the superiority argument before the girls get nasty and do us some real damage, OK?
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I think this discussion has gone as far as it can go without revisiting old arguments. Or getting very stupid.

1,895

(78 replies, posted in Politics)

You know what? I actually miss "Tarzan". big_smile

1,896

(78 replies, posted in Politics)

My opinion has changed from "Scotland wanting to leave the UK is [beep] retarded" to "Scotland wanting to leave the UK is unfortunate"

Gaelic: I don't think so, but then again I don't think anyone has tried to address the house in Gaelic to try and prove some idiotic point before.

1,897

(624 replies, posted in General)

So why exactly are the people who voted against Atheism and Satanism voting for Buddism, which has much in common with both?
Not only do they share a lack of belief in a God they also look inward, to themselves, for the solutions to lifes problems, rather than outwards, to a God.
Or is such a lifestyle unoffensive to your sensebilities only when it's wearing an orange bedsheet and pretending it's happy all of the time? tongue

Judaism - 8
Buddhism - 27
Hinduism - 13
Sikhism - 11
Taoism - 23
Shinto - 8
Bah

1,898

(280 replies, posted in General)

"I can do better than that"

1,899

(221 replies, posted in Politics)

conservatism 4
socialism 6
libertarianism 10
liberalism(not american) 5
social democracy 14
authoritarianism 5
totalitarianism 2
nationalism 3
anarchism 9
enviromentalism 6
neo-liberalism 1
neo-conservatism 5

1,900

(78 replies, posted in Politics)

I think that's everything covered now... I still don't like it, but I do understand it.

Regarding Welsh in Westminster: It is actually banned, but the reason you have already stated. To be honest I think the few Welsh that are kicking up a stink over the subject are just doing it for the sake of getting on English nerves.

You know what we need? A good war.