That's not Aquaman-Just some ordinary sea-man...

Yummy, arguing on the internet!
I haven't done this in years, I'm gonna throw my hat in the Ring now.
I spent countless hours here for years, just enjoying the show. Staying out of all this, in the end at least, unimportant chatter. I came for the videos. Then somebody starts singing about sluts and I end up with an account. What can I say? I like sluts.
I spent much time reading and skipping over the posts of @shinyblurry here. And I still wonder why people feel the need to argue with him in such detail and length. He talks a lot about his faith in God and Jesus but what it come down to is this: He believes in The Bible.
The Bible features God and Jesus and all that but most important of all, it features a heckload of arguments for all kinds of things that are often in direct conflict.
Earlier in this thread, somebody threw a Bible quote about how rape victims have to marry their rapist in @shinyblurry's face and he actually started to explain (correct me if I misunderstood) how it's a punishment for the rapist that he has to pay money and marry the woman if the father chooses that.
I have money to burn. Is Jessica Alba married and where does her dad live? She's super hot and I *need* that kind of punishment. God wants her to fulfill her marital duties, right? If she's not available, I could make a list.
Now, I could argue this IMO rather distasteful idea with him, quoting the Bible back and forth, using other philosophical sources for arguments (I'm sure Hitchens mentioned rape somewhere sometime) but all that doesn't matter.
He believes in The Bible.
If I went back in time and edited early versions to my liking to include gems like "Every man shall also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed no abomination: they shall surely be praised", old shiny here would organize gay pride parades now. Because it's in the book. Whatever is in there, it's the truth. Whatever.
It's the same reason why creationist (I have no idea if old shiny is among them) can not accept evolution. It's not in the book.
They believe in this powerful, omnipotent god, not just in I-can-command-all-sea-animals-god. No, not that Aquaman shit the Greeks had, I'm talking about I-invented-the-universe-god. Get this, this guy did *invent* the universe. And still it was all some Siegfried and Roy BS we *know* to be nonsense. 7 days? Really? Was he in a hurry? Couldn't he wait until we get to the Game of Thrones and Tivo part of History? Was there another Earth to take care of? Contract work?
The idea to credit that dude for creating Evolution itself is too much to ask for these people. The idea that God created a giant machine (the universe) and allowed it to feature other tiny, tiny machines that repair, reproduce and improve themselves (life itself; evolution), is too mindblowing.
Who's more awesome in your book? The god that can do magic or the god who could do magic but opted for inventing everything science has discovered so far?
You know, science failed to disprove the existence of god. They can't do that yet. But they can disprove The Bible, at least parts. And yet, they still side with that darn book.
They don't care about God, the don't even care about Jesus. They care about what they read about them. They care about their perception of it.
Telling @shinyblurry that Jesus was a little, brown, jewish Hippie who got mixed up with existing mythology is like telling a fourteen year old that Ed Cullen is, by his own admission, a creepy murderer who stalks underage girls 80 years his junior. They don't want to hear it because that is not what the book said. They book didn't say that god created the natural laws of physics, chemistry and biology and set them upon the universe to wreak havoc until dinosaurs showed up. The book said it took 7 days. And ribs and dirt.
The Bible says so. Nothing else matters.
That's why it's pointless to argue scripture with him. The book is everything and allows so brilliantly for circular logic and cherry picking. It worked with slavery and how many are willing to argue nowadays in front of a TV camera for it? But gays are not slaves and women can always be picked on. Some wrong ideas are easier to conceal behind a book cover than others.
The Bible is everything to him, God and Jesus are just featured players. In the end they could be replaced by Donald Duck and Batman, they just weren't around back when they started to write it.
That doesn't mean I wouldn't love to hear your thoughts about the latest Daft Punk single, @shinyblurry. Or are you more into Rock music?

>> ^Porksandwich:

They should study the ocean, because I want to live underwater and have a pet shark that I can feed with people I don't like. Oh and maybe super powers are down there, that's a reason for anything....although Aquaman has lame powers in the scope of superpowers, they'd still be pretty awesome.


Sharks. Laser beams. Frickin' heads.

They should study the ocean, because I want to live underwater and have a pet shark that I can feed with people I don't like. Oh and maybe super powers are down there, that's a reason for anything....although Aquaman has lame powers in the scope of superpowers, they'd still be pretty awesome.

There's a GURPS advantage called Sanitized Metabolism, which reads:

"You are totally clean. Your native intestinal enzymes and symbiotic bacteria eliminate your body odor and make efficient use of food and drink, leaving minimal, sanitized waste products. You never suffer from bad breath, excessive perspiration or unsightly skin problems."

Always wished I could put that on my RL character sheet.


That said, there's a strict hierarchy of super powers:

Level 1, God:
Omnipotence
Batman

Level 2, Cosmic:
'Omnipotence'
'Reality' Manipulation
Time Manipulation

Level 3, Rule the World:
Mind Control
'Luck' Manipulation
Kill Anyone
Speed
Magic
Genius
Hyper-Technology

Level 4, Super:
'Luck'
Invulnerability
Healing Factor
Insubstantiality
Invisibility
Teleportation
Telekinesis
etc.

Level 5, Overrated:
Ninja
Flight
Eye Beams
Strength
etc.

Level 6, Worthless:
Aquaman


I spend a lot of time thinking about this.

*eia

No disrespect by that. Just as Michael Phelps is a literal Aquaman, this dude seems like he evolved into a crazy climber.

>> ^eric3579:

dead


Thanks and fixed.

Isn't AquaBudda one of AquaMan's nemeses? Or is it slang term for Poseidon?

"Let's think about it a minute. If BP/the gov't gives carte blanche for all reporters, what's going to happen? The next day they're going to have thousands of reporters standing in the way of the actual work being done. All of the workers will be talking to reporters instead of working. They will create a disruption."

Yes, because workers are to ignorant to say "Mr. Reporter, I'm here to do a job, and cant talk now."? Reporters, generally are an intelligent lot (except for Fox News reporters...). They'll keep out of the way. They might even ask to help, if only to explain to the general public what the task is like to do. Reporters would not cause any disruptions, unless someone is doing something illegal in the first place. Last I checked, 'Freedom of the Press' trumps corporate shannanigans.

"I'm not defending BP for the oil spill at all, but having a little fucking common sense, people. The media does have access. There's a web cam on the spill itself for Christs' sake. That does NOT mean any random person can just walk right up to it and get in the way. It's no difference than me going to the White House, and after being denied access, claiming that because of that, they have something to hide."

Is that camera in place due to the press? Or by BP? Did BP do that, in the goodness of its corporate heart? Or threaten? And if some random person can just, as you say '...walk right up to it and get in the way." You do realize, that camera is about a mile UNDER THE WATER? Do you have any idea, how much pressure is exerted on the human body, a mile under water? I think it is safe to say, NO ONE, not even Aquaman, will be 'wandering' up to the pump or the camera, looking at the pump. And you can claim your a reporter, and show up at the White House. And if your not on the approved listed of people, from a creditible news agency, they'll laugh in your face, as they should. There are news reporters at the White House on a daily basis.

And yes, you *ARE* defending BP, since, you did start your comment off 'bitching' at hippies.

"Also, take a look at that shot. It's dead. There's not a ton of reporters there. Everyone knows the rules"

There's not alot of reporters there, BECAUSE, as the reporter (that black guy you say), pointed out: BP doesn't want reporters monitoring, studying, and observing how it does things. So, if BP doesn't want that, it will do what it can to keep said reporters away from reporting anything, including the truth.

"Do keep this in mind one day when you finally go over the edge, and after mowing down half a school's worth of kids in your Prius after a hella cocaine bender, the media can't follow you right into your place of work because you too enjoy protections like the workers of BP! Isn't America wonderful."

Ah yes, the confusing ramblings of a conservative Republican. Only in America, do we have a whole section of our population that can ignore reality for their version of 'Fantasy Land'. Reporters can't follow me in to where I work, because its....PRIVATE PROPERTY. A PUBLIC BEACH, is just that. Its OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Maybe you should go look up the definations of the words 'private' and 'public' as its refers to property. You might be enlightened.

Can't wait 'til Aquaman washes ashore.

he does whatever an aquaman can. which, is quite a lot!

I didn't know Aquaman could fly.

Just like Aquaman when you put him under a heat lamp...

Aquaman is already dead. Choked on a bottle cap he thought was a delicious shrimp.

As HollywoodBob said, they are washed away from streets or coastal areas. also a lot of is from the ships that traverse the Pacific ocean. Over the short 40-50 years of plastic history, all those ships that went around the Pacific ocean pretty much just dumped all the garbage they produced while traveling into the ocean, since it is a "vast" place. What people over that period failed to realize till recent;y is that the "North Pacific Subtropical Gyre" formed by all the currents around Pacific ocean have pushed all the trash into one location forming the "great garbage patch". Since the only way for these man made polymers to degrade is UV ray from the sun over a long long exposure.(No microbes can break down plastic yet) being in the water shielded most of it from UV ray making it takes even longer to photodegrade.


>> ^ravioli:
To me it's not clear how this garbage actually leaves the dumps and ends in the ocean. It's not just stuff left on the beach that's pulled by the waves. It's not just stuff thrown overboard by seamen. It must be transported and conveniently dumped in the ocean while no one is looking. Probably the cheapest way to get rid of garbage, and it's been going on a large scale for decades. Ships travel between Asia and America with marchandise on one way, and have to be filled with something on their return. I wonder if half of all the plastic bottles sent to China for recycling ever get there.
Please AQUAMAN!! We need you!!