Sweet!

Thank you very much.

I was going to ask you why you didn't upvote the comment and then I realized that you can't. Thanks for letting me know you appreciated it, though! I love it when people take the time to do that.

In reply to this comment by philippeoc:
Wow. I love your thinking: the best comment I ever read on a video.

In reply to this comment by thepinky:
1. That is some good marketing right there. (This is NOT just a home video.)
2. She is HARDCORE.
3. I'm sure she had a choice.
4. There should be a femme tag because that woman is ridiculous cool.

You don't miss a trick. That's my favorite line from that song.

In reply to this comment by ziggystardust:
Clever quote from the song.

I wish! I thought it was really convenient that my brother was dressed in a kimono, though. Like some cat from Japan.

In reply to this comment by ziggystardust:
Bowie is brilliant. Did the Spiders from Mars join you on Halloween?

I love your avatar and username. I'm a Bowie fan. I dressed as him for Halloween last year. I tried to look like this:

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/David-Bowie---Aladdin-Sane-Poster-C10034689.jpeg

It wasn't easy.

Thanks. You're right, I did like it. Numbers can limit and define woman in our society.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Here's something you might like. Or hate...

http://www.videosift.com/video/How-Much-of-a-Woman

Thanks, Kev! That's very nice of you to say so. I need the encouraging comments sometimes.

In reply to this comment by Kevlar:
thepinky, I have yet to contribute to your Sift Talk discussions but I have read them, and kudos for stirring the pot a bit. Always good to have a vigorous debate around here.

-Kev

Thanks. I just think it's a terribly interesting discussion to have with what I like to call "internet personalities," most of whom are probably porn-users.

And it's also really cool that I discover good people like you and others when I argue with the losers. That's mean. They're not losers. They're just victims of a warped society.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Don't despair, ThePinky. It's a helluva fight you and LittleRed picked to have on the internet. And please don't take any of it personally. You both have my utmost respect for even trying.

cc: LittleRed

That's alright. Totally understandable. You have to wait until the afternoon to have the power to do that? How do I prevent other people from making the same mistake? Should I just include that fact in the description or something? Thanks.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
oh crap. I'm sorry about that. I'll promote back into the queue this afternoon. ok?

In reply to this comment by thepinky:
I submitted the music video created from Mark Osborne's original short. The music video and the Mark Osborne movie are two separate entities.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
There are several copies on youtube, but every one appears to have embedding disabled. This recent duplicate post from yahoo seems to have a working copy, for as long as it lasts.

I submitted the music video created from Mark Osborne's original short. The music video and the Mark Osborne movie are two separate entities.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
There are several copies on youtube, but every one appears to have embedding disabled. This recent duplicate post from yahoo seems to have a working copy, for as long as it lasts.

Hold on hold on hold on! Can I contest you discarding a video I submitted?

No problem. You're cool.

In reply to this comment by marinara:
Well I'm sorry I lectured you, I didn't realize you were not receptive to my opinions about LDS.


In reply to this comment by thepinky:
I am LDS. I just refer to the church and church members in the third person in order to avoid accusatory and/or defensive language. People always start attacking ME instead of engaging in a good discussion of the CJCLDS, so I thought I'd try it this way for once. And people always try to convert me.

In reply to this comment by marinara:
So why are you so attracted to LDS?
Who is attracting you to LDS?
Why are they attracting you to LDS?
Why does LDS need to help you?

Thanks for your comments. You make some really valid points here. I just want to say that I know many agnostics who are extremely arrogant and feel superior to religious people because they are "more logical" and for other reasons. The pure ideology, before it is skewed by its practitioners, is good stuff and not inherently arrogant. And neither is religion.

To show my own arrogance: I think that moral relativism is ridiculous in every way and that the ideology is devastated in every way by basic logic, but you can believe what you like.

Societal control structure? Like gender, family, education, agnosticism, and a million other things? Yep, I guess you could say it is. And thank goodness there is something to prevent moral relativists from assuming free reign.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
I'm not talking about political correctness. I'm talking about humility, one of Jesus' fundamental lessons. Basically all organized religions have that aspect of arrogance to some degree. But no, I would not agree that any and all ideologies share that characteristic. There are plenty of irreligious philosophies which espouse exactly the opposite. Agnosticism for one. Science for another (though many scientists do not).

I definitely disagree that the notion of One Truth is philosophically sound. I don't consider the term "moral relativist" an insult. But that is an entirely different conversation.

I wasn't trying to pick on Mormons necessarily - that just happened to be the video in question. I pretty much view all organized religions with the same disdain. They purport to be avenues to truth, when in fact they are little more than societal control structures, designed to concentrate power in the hands of a few and keep the rest in line. That this is done in the name of salvation and couched in moral teaching only makes it worse. At least with authoritarian governments, for example, people aren't generally blind to their purpose (North Korea being a notable exception).

In reply to this comment by thepinky:
I see where you're coming from, but I dunno. It just seems like people expect religion to be politically correct when it just cannot be. Wouldn't you agree that there is always a certain amount of self-righteousness to ANY ideology, whether religious or not?

As far as LDS's are concerned, they have the (philosophically sound) notion that there is only one truth. They also believe that they have it. All religions believe that, they just don't know it, and they don't have to deal with the controversy as Mormons do.

Contrary to popular belief, the CJSLDS is one of the few religions that highly discourages speaking badly of other churches and beliefs, and they believe that all people, with the exception of the very vilest of sinners, will be saved from physical death and inherit a kingdom of eternal glory.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
The whole missionary attitude would probably be the biggest thing. Despite repeated references to being non-judgmental in the bible, missionaries in general (and Mormons in particular) seem to have an attitude that is rather negative to those who don't convert. Hypocrisy was not really the right word to use. It's probably fair to say that I'm more irked by the arrogance of those who claim not only to know the mind of God, but to be the only ones who can convey the message accurately or with authority.

In reply to this comment by thepinky:
I'm curious to know what you considered hypocritical.

In reply to this comment by jonny:
I like your posts btw - I was torn between up or downvoting the mormon vid. On the one hand, it is an interesting view inside the church; on the other hand, it is an incredible piece of hypocrisy (even in terms of internal consistency with LDS).

I am LDS. I just refer to the church and church members in the third person in order to avoid accusatory and/or defensive language. People always start attacking ME instead of engaging in a good discussion of the CJCLDS, so I thought I'd try it this way for once. And people always try to convert me.

In reply to this comment by marinara:
So why are you so attracted to LDS?
Who is attracting you to LDS?
Why are they attracting you to LDS?
Why does LDS need to help you?

Thanks for the compliment.

To what point and purpose ought I to compare them? I firmly believe that I will form a more just opinion of both by comparing them individually.

I ask you to seek an understanding of the CJCLDS from good sources and form an unbiased opinion based on facts instead of propaganda. But that is just too much to ask of some people. They would rather just watch some videos and read the first Mormon criticisms they can google.

In reply to this comment by marinara:
I think you are really pretty ..... that I compared LDS to Scientology. Well, you are certainly right, I'm always unhappy when someone compares ME (to anyone else).

A movie you haven't seen, a religion you don't know, some people who certainly seem happy with the religion they've chosen.

Actually I'm glad you asked me about the LDS. I certainly used hard language in the comment, it's obviously not a constructive comment.

Spending a few minutes googling LDS people who have left the church is really, gives me a sadly familiar feeling. I have to reflect on what these people seem to be feeling. A raw feeling of loss, a cold horror at all that had been taken from them. Even without the exit stories, the LDS is just unfamiliar and strange.

Seems like you asked me not to compare LDS and Scientology. Rather, I ask you personally to actively compare the two.