>> ^fjules:

>anime
>art
AHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHA, oh my god lol!
I bet you also think vidya games is art and listen to anime soundtracks when driving your car...oh man

It's even funnier!! Seriously, it is!
>> ^KnivesOut:
Whether anime is shit or not isn't the point.
"Rap music is a prime example that 300 years of mistreatment, slavery, segregation, and abuse wasn't enough."
What would your response be then, anime-haters?



I bet you think Chinese people drive poorly and are good at math, Jew's are tight with their money, and the black's can't be trusted with the white women.

Again, for the especially slow and simple (fjules) this isn't about hating on Anime, it's about being a bigot. Apparently it's OK to be racist against the Japanese.

>anime
>art
AHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHA, oh my god lol!

I bet you also think vidya games is art and listen to anime soundtracks when driving your car...oh man


It's even funnier!! Seriously, it is!
>> ^KnivesOut:

Whether anime is shit or not isn't the point.
"Rap music is a prime example that 300 years of mistreatment, slavery, segregation, and abuse wasn't enough."
What would your response be then, anime-haters?

I personally don't like anime at all, but found that comment to be funny... uh, NOT really. Agreed, that was an extremely WTF dumbshit comment to make. Guess that it is funny in that sense. I was like, " WHA???" I was positive that this had to be an Onion Network News report. Ridiculous FAAAAAIL!

>> ^KnivesOut:

Whether anime is shit or not isn't the point.
Imagine him saying "Rap music is a prime example that 300 years of mistreatment, slavery, segregation, and abuse wasn't enough."
What would your response be then, anime-haters?

Whether anime is shit or not isn't the point.

Imagine him saying "Rap music is a prime example that 300 years of mistreatment, slavery, segregation, and abuse wasn't enough."

What would your response be then, anime-haters?

Your video, QI: Why it took 300 years for Giant Tortoises to get a name, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

How old is this melody?

300 years?

>> ^Fade:

The problem with fission is resources. There just isn't that much fiisile material for long term use. He mentions this issue in passing in the talk but it's actually really important.

Not true for Liquid Flouride Thorium reactors. Thorium is abundant everywhere on the planet, it's cheap to mine and doesn't require costly processing like uranium. LFT reactors also produce a fraction of the waste byproducts that current fission techonology produces, the byproducts are not suitable for weaponizing, the waste only needs to be stored for 300 years instead of 10,000 and you can even use LFT reactors to burn radioactive byproducts from current fission reactors. It's also a proven technology. We know it works.

Thorium reactors were not developed when fission energy began in this country precisely because you could not make weapons out of the waste material. Considering it's relative safety (it's a self stabilizing reaction) there are essentially no rational reasons not to use LFT fission reactors today.

From your response you didn't comprehend any of what I wrote. I propose an exercise in logical deduction.

He who thinks he hears voices in his head is schizophrenic and institutionalized.
He who thinks he hears the voice of god/jesus, is considered blessed.

Life is all a matter of perception. Oftentimes the very same event perceived by multiple individuals is entirely different. What is considered mundane to the logic minded, may seem magical to the easily impressed. This is even more profound in ages past when even less was understood about nature.

While a flashlight today is considered commonplace. 300 years ago you would have been accused of witchcraft and burned at the stake for possessing gifts from demons. Alchemy (chemistry) was considered evil magic. Individuals died for practicing it. Modern technology was born from Alchemical research. The technology you now hold so dear and sits in your hands as you read this. Contradicting the church with scientific truth was life threatening. Galileo suffered imprisonment as a result. Even greater numbers died for standing up for their contradictory 'beliefs'.

Many of the truths you even accept now for fact, were once 'heretical' by the very people who first wrote the Bible you hold so dear. Yet have been 'selectively' forgotten due to incontrovertible proof proving their 'bible imbued truths' as being completely false and were based purely on superstitious suppositions rooted in fantasy.

Here is where the logical fallacy lies: By accepting the Bible as the truth, yet only accepting PARTS of said work as truth, and the rest as metaphor and/or ignorable is simply hypocritical. It must be accepted as a whole, or rejected as a whole if your 'faith' in it being the '100%' word of God is required. Partial acceptance is simply a partial commitment and is not complete faith. Total faith in the 'word of God' as written in the Bible means accepting all the hypocrisies, accepting the vengeful/horrific god of the old testament, and believing that killing one's children for not listening to you, and slaughtering non-believers simply because they are non-believers is acceptable.

I ask not this question of you, but you should ask this question of yourself. Do you accept, and fully understand all parts of the bible fully as 100% infallible truth, and can honestly tell yourself that you will follow all teachings, even the ones warranting the stoning of children and non-believers as complete truth as spoken from the 'mouth' (if he has a mouth) of god. Is a talking snake the pure 100% truth. Is the speaking burning bush 100% truth? Did the flood of Noah actually occur absent of any physical evidence (where would all the water 'drain' to anyway may I ask?).

The question isn't mine to answer. The question is for you to answer for yourself.. to either believe 100% in the bible, or live life in a state of partial belief. Partial belief has been tantamount to heretical belief in the eyes of the church for thousands of years (save for more recent, somewhat saner, times).

I guess all the wild-lands caught fire before the fed, charcoal must of been a lot cheaper back then. Thank goodness we have the fed to manage to keep out of harms way like in Katrina and the Great Depression. Public education is one the best in the entire world, people are always talking about how we are the number 1 in the world for our education system. The problem with government is it is never big enough or in control of enough. We all know political ambitions are never corruptible, so people who make laws are always going to make better decisions than we would ourselves. It is a good thing that the feds finally stopped the smoldering ashes of the national fire that had been raging for 300 years before they existed.

Lol.. JesusFreak takes on the old stick-finger-in-ears approach.

NO ONE IS STILL LIVING FROM 300,000 YEARS AGO, SO HOW CAN WE KNOW ANY OF THIS CLIMATE SCIENCE GRAPHS!!!!

What an asshole. Does he realize no one can verify that Jesus was ever on Earth. No one can prove he became a zombie after three days and escaped his grave.

Oh, someone wrote it down you say. Which is more reliable, some book written from emotional pleadings and personal accounts.. Or gas trapped in ice.

Are you saying we can't rely on tree rings? Because no one was alive 300 years ago to confirm the tree really was alive / growing back then.

I dunno about you, but I have a good job that I'd like to keep. I could not afford to spend time in jail. California has an "At Will" policy and can legally terminate your employment due to incarceration. I know this from experience and it holds up in a court of law. Look up California employment laws. I'm not a lawyer, but one of my bosses used to be one and my mother works in a law office. Inefficacy might not be something that would stop determined minds who have dedicated their lives towards such pursuits, but when the majority of people are mostly spending their days being employed and enjoying (or just frantically keeping up) the fruits of their labor, despite their opinions (and especially if they have a family to support), are faced with moral dilemmas above the evil of government.

If you've ever read anything by Milan Kundera, you might be familiar with The Unbearable Lightness of Being in which the protagonist, a Czech surgeon named Tomas, is forced by the Soviets to either renounce a loosely anti-Communist article he wrote or step down as surgeon. He steps down and becomes a window washer. He is approached by his estranged son and a man who was impressed by the article, requesting his signature on a petition to free political prisoners. Tomas, remembering his wife's smiling face, declines to sign for fear of what the secret police might do.

As the days go by, he can't remember why he didn't sign, but when justifying to himself why he didn't, he recalls Czech history: 1618, in defiance of their emperor, the Czechs threw several high officials out the window of a castle in Prague, leading in part to the Thirty Years War. A war of which resulted in the death of 1/3 of the population of Czechoslovakia. More than 300 years later, at the 1938 Munich Conference, it was decided that Czechoslovakia would be given up to appease the Nazis. Here, the Czech leaders showed caution in not opposing, leading in part to World War II.

"Einmal ist Keinmal," says the author. Or, "What happens once might well have not happened at all." Meaning, we cannot ever know if caution or courage are the correct choices in situations. And, because I'd rather not spend time interpreting what I know of this philosophy into words, will quote Wikipedia: (Which is pretty accurate in this case.)

"By this logic life is ultimately insignificant; in an ultimate sense, no single decision matters. Since decisions do not matter, they are light — that is, they don't cause us suffering. Yet simultaneously, the insignificance of our decisions — our lives, our being — causes us great suffering. Hence the phenomenon Kundera terms the unbearable lightness of being: because life occurs only once and never returns, no one's actions have any universal significance. This idea is deemed unbearable because as humans we want our lives to mean something, for their importance to extend beyond just our immediate surroundings."

Some of us know this, or rather, believe this through experience, informing our actions or lack thereof. Yes, life can be unbearably light; and, through a combination of survival, providing for our families, understanding that courageous action can lead to catastrophe and that we have no way of knowing the whole truth in any given situation, do not go out disobeying the government to demonstrate.

Most of us wanna do the right thing, but sometimes the right thing isn't easily determined. I'll tell you what, though: if it came down to it, like Han Solo, I'd most assuredly fly back and shoot Darth Vader. (I'm going off on a tangent unrelated to my lack of conviction towards CD.) But in California, it is currently a time of peace and, despite having friends and relatives who are currently, faithfully blowing shit up (Semper fidelis), I am focused on being monetarily sound (and philosophically open) -- I really need more vespene gas.

^I heard that once before as well and it made feel like 300 years old
also, couldn't agree more with Sarzy about ppl who eat potato chips and/or (cause one thing usually goes with the other) talk during the movie. makes me wanna go Fargo on them

Wow.. I thought the hardcore Christians were stretching things to make them fit into their book that was mostly written 2-300 years after the death of Christ. In Iraq there is an 'astronomer' who insists the earth is flat and the sun is real small and circles the earth because his holy book says so? Wow.. that even tops the banana guy.

I swear I was born about 300 years too early. I would love to be able to witness this stuff first hand from the observation deck of a star ship.

^Farhad2000:
>> ^imstellar28
I never knew asking questions can make me intolerant.

asking questions can't make you intolerant, but the questions you ask can reveal that you are in fact, intolerant . For instance, if I asked you "why should gay people be considered real human beings?" You were trying to insinuate that I was a polygamist to get me to shut up, pure and simple. People do the same thing with supporters of gay rights--they question them about being gay to prey on their insecurity in the hopes of silencing them.

I don't see you offering any other system that would allow for the minority to be equal.

A republic which is a rule of law. We write a constitution which says that all humans have basic rights which cannot be violated, then we set up a police, military, fire, and legal system to ensure these rights aren't violated. The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness covers just about everything. Sounds vaguely familiar right? This is the system of governance that thousands of people died for 300 years ago, and the system which has since been replaced by democracy. freedom is hard to obtain, and its even harder to keep.

That single line "the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is enough to ensure gay rights, polygamist rights, womens suffrage, forbid slavery, racism, protect freedom of speech and religion, maintain economic liberty, and guard against any other form of oppression.

Its only when the majority (or a despot) comes in and overrides the rule of law that the minority (or majority) is oppressed. A legitimate system of law based on fundamental human rights is the only system which can protect against oppression.

A system where "laws" are created based on the whims of the majority (democracy) is not a legitimate system--it just another system of oppression. That is why we don't have gay marriage in this country--our system of law is not legitimate, it is just a glorified lynch mob: if 51% of people think you should die (or not marry someone of the same sex) then that is your fate and theres nobody to protect you.