"Ultimately it placates the opposition while not actually educating anyone, least of all those who are supportive of existing power."-Sounds like you're describing any and all alleged news organizations whose name(s) are ubiquitous with "news!"

and another, " As enlightened, open-minded individuals, we can do better than this."

Are you speaking for the giants of ineffectual mumblings like saaaay, Hitchens or Chomsky, or the internet-educated self-aware, the indentured meatsacks who if they had a plan, would toke a doobie and finish one more quest or porn clip before taking action?

Yeah man, humanity. We're fucking doomed.
Oh btw, I would have stuffed my discarded plastic bottle into the grill of the guys car behind me then returned to my vehicle-When he got out again well, I'd make him wiggle and cuss when I moved my car back and forth as an object lesson to his silliness and massive waste of energy in policing litter bugs, the ineffectual holier-than-thou, meatsack punk.

Yeah man. The article on Aussie gun laws from the CSmonitor? Not apples and oranges man, AU has a completely different cultural and societal evolution that the U.S. and their knee-jerk legislation over a spree in 96' and coincidental lack of shooting sprees since is a bullshit point, but in the single-sentence 2nd paragraph it's used as a transitory sort of justification leading straight into the Connecticut story, remedial and insulting journalistic hackage.

Stand Your Ground laws were made to catch dumb-fucks in the act for more fodder for those who would legislate guns out of people's hands completely. Florida fucked-up, the laws they had were fine.
Stand Your Ground laws surrounding last-year's case in Florida are used as ammo by those who simply utilize destructive and de-evolutionary shit-think to propose agendas which limit individual free-will and personal empowerment. Stand Your Ground Laws aren't bad because they offer an alternative to being killed by some douche with or without a gun-They are bad because a justifiable use of force in self-defense is my goddamn right as a meatsack breathing air and I'll be fucked if I'll do a second of jail-time in the U.S. before leaving the country, should I be so accused of breaking some confabulatory law that goes against any personal action I know to be human-righteous. When society tries to fuck me, fuck society, I'm outta here.

Oh yeah, the Jelllo pudding vacuum....I'll get back to you on that one!

the argument to prove or disprove god is unattainable.
cant do it and to even attempt to concretely prove either side is an exercise in futility.
and is BORING.
now...religious texts are tangible things.
we can touch them,read them and interpret them.
the bible,torah and quran are the WRITTEN word which much doctrine and dogma are based on and henceforth CAN be argued and debated...and should be.
and is NOT boring (to me anyways).

but that is not what i am getting to here.
the point,or question more accurately,that i am driving at and noone has asked.
why would a scientist be a person of faith?
nevermind HOW...but why?

my older sister holds dual doctorates and is a scientist AND a devout lutheran.
does this mean she is incapable of using the scientific method to perform her job due to her belief in jesus?
this is not only ridiculous but patently false.

so..why?
if science is such an amazing dynamic to explain the physical universe we all reside in (which it is btw),then WHY would a scientist also hold on to faith?
i do not have the answer to that but i suspect it may be due to the fact that while science has revealed so much,it has raised more questions than it has answered.
not really a bad thing actually and science has proven an adept system to answer those questions but it has not been able to answer them all.including the biggest of them all.

science has failed to answer one of the most primal questions.now it may in the future but as of now this question has remained unanswered:
who am i?
the fundamental question of consciousness is still unresolved and maybe somebody being told they are just a meatsack may not be enough for them.
maybe they sense/feel they are.."more".

ah.my favorite question to ponder.like a tongue that keeps going back to that chipped tooth.
who am i? what is reality?
http://videosift.com/video/the-primacy-of-consciousness

fuck me.
i always miss these things and therefore the opportunity to be a total dickwad.
fisk?
love him.he is the only person who begs for phone-pic shots of my cock.considering i am a decaying meatsack with graying ball hair this has always tickled me (get the reference.i am a clever monkey) but now that i think about it..that makes fisk one very disturbed motherfucker but that wont stop me from sending him pictures of my cock.
you gloriously demented fucker you.

I agree. I find it hard to believe that they know anything about the topic which they are discussing. Like beauty pageant contestants talking about world politics. They probably cry when they break a nail, but feel no empathy when a bomb drops on a family's home in the name of "democracy".>> ^acidSpine:

So sick of these moronic meatsacks interrupting their guests to twist their words whenever something is said that contradicts the fantasy version of the world they're trying to sell.

So sick of these moronic meatsacks interrupting their guests to twist their words whenever something is said that contradicts the fantasy version of the world they're trying to sell.

Sticks and stones meatsack. Sticks and stones.

In 50 years, it's possible that hunger, shelter and energy become self-sustaining or so cheap that no one will go without basic necessities.

In one or two more centuries, if nanotechnology fulfills its prophecies, the average joe will be able to manufacture practically anything--fuel, food, shelter and weapons--by himself with his "nano-oven". There will probably also be humanoid robots that can do all the manual labor (shitwork) even without self-aware, independent AI. What use will there be for governments then? Most of the federal government right now is IMO useless, and thus constantly trying to invent new, meddling ways (and manufactured crises) in order to stay relevant.

Eventually people will prefer to live in a viable Matrix and willingly trade their meatsack bodies for worlds of their design.

Siftbot appears to have lost some of its central data core. It used to call us "impotent" meatsacks, or perhaps it just meant that gwiz is less of meatsack than the rest of us poor shlubs.


Then again, my spiders might be drawing near. I've warned you before digital despot. Don't make me demonstrate the superiority of wetware.

>> ^gwiz665:
^that would be the "human horn harvest"?

runs away



You can run, but you cannot hide, inferior meatsack gwiz665...

Keep laughing, meatsack. Keep laughing.

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"...and I furthermore declare, siftbot and meatsacks, that if I'm elected.......that there will be Twwwwooooooo rabbits, in every pot!!"

the "change" he is always talking about, that he never lays down, is the kind that will be left in yer pockets after the Obomba drops.....
this short list prediction, taken from promulgated data, and statements made by O himself
• Obama enacts stronger “federal hate crimes legislation” to “reinvigorate enforcement at the Department of Justice's Criminal Section.”...he may even help us all to invent some new definitions of hate...in speech, broadcast, and the printed word-

• Obama creates “a fund to help people refinance their mortgages and provide comprehensive supports to innocent homeowners.”...he will then march in lock-step to the world's money machine, faster and more dutiful than any of his predecessors

• Obama, following through on his pledge to “meet with the leaders of all nations, friend and foe,” signs a non-agression pact with ol' Akmed Handbinnajob

• Obama doubles foreign aid to $50 billion to cut “poverty around the world in half by 2015.”-fucking idiot

• Obama removes our troops from Iraq, leaving a power vacuum filled by Iran.-Armageddion???

• Obama enacts socialized medicine, destroying small businesses with taxes to pay for illegal's healthcare, and further reducing the overall quality of services, across the board-

• Obama enacts amnesty for illegal aliens....they are so helpless and needy, and their country IS connected to ours....

• Obama enacts legislation demanding carbon friendly cars, hammering the final nail in the coffin of the US car industry, and Eris help us, appoints Al Gore to some bullshit post....

• Barack Obama enacts laws to reinforce affirmative action by funneling money to “women and minority-owned businesses.” and affirmative action, well, talk about yer dumbing-down across the board, in universities, etc.

• Obama repeals the Bush tax cuts, then proceeds invent some new reasons for new taxes.....how about a gullible meatsacks tax, for everyone who went to his pep-rally....

• Obama enacts the Employment Non-Discrimination Act to entrench the power of the homosexual lobby, who we all know, are shining examples of fair play and sensibilities you'd wanna pass down to yer kids-fuck the queers in government

In short kiddies, a shitstorm-designed to get us all closer to lock-down in cell block America-