He would be famous with a job at the wax museum.
(Yes, I'm a terrible person.)

Is he sure it wasn’t poor shielding against Mars’s high radiation levels?
(Yes, I’m a terrible person.)


Scary to think a surgery caused this growth. I wonder if he’s secretly pissed at his parents that they tried to remove the small lump triggering this.

@newtboy, it's not that they shouldn't be doing anything about the water situation; obviously, they should.

But just because problem 1 (water) is worse doesn't mean you can't deal with problem 2 (animal abuse).

Think about it this way: if Jones HAD proposed removing the anti-sodomy laws as part of this legislation, the state senate would have wasted even more time having a completely pointless debate about it. Instead, he chose the pragmatic route of ignoring something that isn't and hasn't been a problem* to use his limited legislating time to pass a useful law around animal abuse.

Also, IANAL, but from what I've read on the topic, one bad section does not invalidate an entire bill.

It saddens me greatly that in 2016 in a developed country, there's even a debate on an anti-sodomy law, and quite frankly, anyone who supports one is a terrible person and should get the fuck out of politics (and preferably life) at the earliest opportunity.

But that's the US political climate.

* when was the last time anyone was actually prosecuted under this law? Honestly, someone should confess to sodomy, get prosecuted and have the law struck down in court.

What you're missing is that people are pushing back to the point of destroying other peoples livelyhood.
It's not worth telling an edgy joke at a university if a group of individuals, who cannot control their own emotions, go ballistic and start telling everyone that will listen about what a terrible person you are. Before you know it people are protesting your next gig and you are being featured all over TV for being horrible.
It's not the fact that people get offended that is the problem, it's the fact that they get so offended at any perceived slight could have you wind up in a lawsuit.
A certain story about feminists in Canada comes to mind.

When I first read her article, I almost dismissed it immediately because of Christie Blatchford, who is a terrible person/journalist. It's one of those things where you have to read and do your own research, because she's been so biased in the past. I'm actually surprised she didn't put her own terrible spin on this one.

The verdict comes down in October, we'll see what happens after that.

That is so wrong.

I laughed. A lot.

I'm a terrible person.

Does laughing at this make me a terrible person?

What I call "good" is acting according to the golden rule...treating others as I would have them treat me. That means always honestly, even when it's uncomfortable. You don't need to know the 'truth' to not lie. It also means thinking before acting of the possible consequence to others as well as myself.
I agree, if thought crime is the same as real crime, I'm a terrible person, but I prefer to judge people's actions as I think it gives better insight to who they are.
If judged by the 10 commandments, I'm still hosed simply by not believing in the unbelievable. I would guess that if thought crime counts on that front, heaven is an empty, lonely place filled only with Asperger's sufferers and other abnormaly brained people, as those requirements are not possible for normal humans.

Heaven is filled with people just like you and me, who absolutely cannot qualify to get into Heaven on account of their own righteousness. When you stand before God you will be judged one of two ways, either by your righteousness or the righteousness of Jesus Christ, which is credited to your account through faith. No one has what it takes..I screw up all the time but God is always there to help me. Through His help I am doing a lot better than I did, but I have a long way to go. I didn't and still don't deserve anything God has done for me. Put your trust and faith in Jesus and you will be prepared for eternity.

Your plane analogy doesn't hold water. Instead of jumping from a plane, I think it's more like being led, blindfolded and deafened, to a doorway, being told by dozens of people the differing things they are CERTAIN are on the other side of the door (but not one of them has ever seen it open) and deciding to trust one line of belief and putting that parachute on because your guy said you're on a cliff and need a parachute, but you might as easily be underwater and need scuba gear instead, then your parachute is a trap, or in space and it's just useless, etc.. Since there's no way to know what's beyond the door, many prefer to go unencumbered by anything, accepting it's likely there's absolutely nothing there, but ready for what may come. In the unlikely event that in the end there is a just god there judging my life, I feel I'll be fine unless ritual is more important than action. It's not a possibility I feel is likely.

Only God can reveal Himself to you. It won't be because you feel the possibility is likely that suddenly you will start to believe. I didn't believe it was likely either; the last thing in the world I imagined would happen was that I would become a Christian. It is only because God gave me personal revelation that He is real and Jesus is His Son that I became a Christian. God is knocking on your door right now, and if you choose to open yourself to what He wants to show you, He will reveal Himself to you as well. That's what happened to me; He didn't just make it clear, He made it crystal clear and He'll do the same for you too. Ask Him to show you what the truth is so that you do not have to deal with possibilities. Pray and ask God to show you whether He is there and Jesus is His Son. Read the gospel of John and pray and ask God to show you whether it is true or not. God isn't hiding from you, it is simply a matter of whether you are willing to repent of your sins and turn to Jesus, or not.

What I call "good" is acting according to the golden rule...treating others as I would have them treat me. That means always honestly, even when it's uncomfortable. You don't need to know the 'truth' to not lie. It also means thinking before acting of the possible consequence to others as well as myself.
I agree, if thought crime is the same as real crime, I'm a terrible person, but I prefer to judge people's actions as I think it gives better insight to who they are.
If judged by the 10 commandments, I'm still hosed simply by not believing in the unbelievable. I would guess that if thought crime counts on that front, heaven is an empty, lonely place filled only with Asperger's sufferers and other abnormaly brained people, as those requirements are not possible for normal humans.
Moral perfection is an impossibility. What's morally perfect from one viewpoint may not be from another.
Your plane analogy doesn't hold water. Instead of jumping from a plane, I think it's more like being led, blindfolded and deafened, to a doorway, being told by dozens of people the differing things they are CERTAIN are on the other side of the door (but not one of them has ever seen it open) and deciding to trust one line of belief and putting that parachute on because your guy said you're on a cliff and need a parachute, but you might as easily be underwater and need scuba gear instead, then your parachute is a trap, or in space and it's just useless, etc.. Since there's no way to know what's beyond the door, many prefer to go unencumbered by anything, accepting it's likely there's absolutely nothing there, but ready for what may come. In the unlikely event that in the end there is a just god there judging my life, I feel I'll be fine unless ritual is more important than action. It's not a possibility I feel is likely.

yep, there is a difference between "your video is awful" and "you are a terrible person and should be ashamed".

As someone with plenty of experience with this subject, I can't say it's as easy as you may think.

It's not simply a lack or hope, or anti-hope. Many people with depression are very hopeful. They want things to change. What they don't see is any possibility of that hope coming true. They see no actualization of that hope.

"Hey, it gets better" is a hopeful statement that almost no one with real, severe depression will ever take to heart. Because frankly, what sometimes goes through their head instead is "yeah, things will get better when I'm not here."

Then again, depression is different for each person. And it's not always a lack of seeing a "future." There's also the waking up every morning and having to look at yourself, and see that terrible person looking back. That failure, complete loser, totally unloved and unbearably ugly. No amount of "hope" will change that. You can't "hope" you're way out of the feeling of total, complete and utter useless. To feel like anything you do matters.

Hell, hope can sometimes make it worse. You can hope for something, and then when it doesn't materialize, it makes the depression worse.

That, and as the video points out, there's also just simply a lack of enjoyment in life. Hoping to enjoy something?

Ultimately, the thing I love most about this video is the narrator doesn't mention hope. He doesn't talk about hope. Hope isn't the solution. The entire time, exercise was running through my head and finally he said it.

IMHO, the ultimate cure is to face it. Head on. When the black dog tells you are ugly, you prove it wrong. When it says stay home, you go out. Of course, the issue then becomes learning which voice is the dogs, and which is simply your own.

^Exactly (x3).

The most dumb-shit thing about him is there's not a single shred of logic behind his pronunciation. He just demands everyone pronounce it that way "because I said so."

There's no debate about it. There's only one logical, meaningful way to pronounce it and most everyone pronounces it that way.

“The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft G, pronounced jif. End of story.” —Steve Wilhite

I am so, so, so guilty of this. I've used that first line within the last week.

I'm a terrible person. In the car, at any rate.

I don't see how that makes him a terrible person though.

Yeah I laughed at that, and my wife (who wasn't watching my screen) said "You're a terrible person.">> ^probie:

I'm not versed in ASL so I could not help but laugh out loud when she signed "jogging under a tree". Fantastic skill at being able to keep up with all the information, re-verbalizing it for mouth readers and translating the proper inflections of speech into visual cues. That can't be easy to do that all at once.