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Spider AL

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Posted in: Tolerance
  Spider AL
09-23-2004, 6:12 PM
#21
So it's okay to just ignore the old testament? So why then is it still part of the Christian bible? As an unbiased atheist I would say you should ignore the old testament because it's an uber-fanatical hebraic text detailing how only those who believ...  [Read More]
Posted in: Centripidal and centrifugal forces
  Spider AL
09-21-2004, 2:55 PM
#8
RenegadeOfPhunk: ...and to me, centrifugal and centripital forces come under the classic heading of 'opposing forces'. To me, this renaming of things in modern physics doesn't represent a new level of understanding at all. It's just a renaming exce...  [Read More]
Posted in: Centripidal and centrifugal forces
  Spider AL
09-21-2004, 10:54 AM
#4
While Renegade is slightly correct in pointing out that centrifugal and centripetal "forces" are terms used to describe the behavior of say... the water in a bucket that's being spun around, and the bucket itself,.. I have to agree with ET...  [Read More]
Posted in: Pc
  Spider AL
09-24-2004, 4:27 AM
#27
Whatever you do, whatever you say, you're going to end up insulting an idiot who has too much time on his hands...Actually I don't feel remotely insulted. :eek:...  [Read More]
Posted in: Pc
  Spider AL
09-23-2004, 6:22 PM
#25
This has nothing to do with political correctness, it is about politeness.That's what the PC brigade said too. Personally I couldn't give two figs what people call each other, it's not going to change anything. And I'm just fed up of the natural prog...  [Read More]
Posted in: Pc
  Spider AL
09-21-2004, 4:39 PM
#11
Agreed. And then all of the sudden everyone thinks you like guys just because you don't hate homosexuals.....This is pretty much the problem. You're either in one camp, or another, no pun intended. Of course it can also be the same in reverse. I've b...  [Read More]
Posted in: Violence
  Spider AL
09-21-2004, 4:28 AM
#45
So I apologize and I break down my morallity towards violence in the simplist form, and you don't accept the apology, call me illogical, and take the credit because you reminded me to break it down.Actually you fail miserably to apologise, demonstrat...  [Read More]
Posted in: Violence
  Spider AL
09-20-2004, 9:46 AM
#43
Spider, you're looking at everything individually and then trying to turn us against ourselves. Its not going to work. Its totally arogant for you to sit there and disect each and everyone of our moral systems and yet all you can say is 'Well, I'll t...  [Read More]
Posted in: Violence
  Spider AL
09-20-2004, 6:07 AM
#40
Kain: Werd, Tyrion, indeed I did. I'll admit when I'm wrong.And yet an apology to Spider for immaturely calling him nasty names is not forthcoming. Figures. :rolleyes: Spider: I don't like having enemies, its bad for the soul, causes unessicary stre...  [Read More]
Posted in: Violence
  Spider AL
09-19-2004, 3:40 PM
#29
You just don't get it, do you? What do you get out of trying to drill everyone's beliefs? Do you like making enemies?Actually as Tyrion said, you were the one trying to "drill" my beliefs. Still, you've asked a valid question, and one that...  [Read More]
Posted in: Violence
  Spider AL
09-19-2004, 2:23 PM
#26
SkinWalker: The earliest examples of agriculture, which also offer a record of human activity begin with the Mesolithic period in Natufian Palestine. This marks the period in which people began to become sedentary and move from hunting/gathering to...  [Read More]
Posted in: Violence
  Spider AL
09-17-2004, 10:07 AM
#17
Doomie: Look, jsut because he isn't afraid of hitting women, doesn't mean he does it all the time. You say you're not afraid to hit men. But you don't hit every man that comes near you. He's just saying that Men and Women have an equal chance of a b...  [Read More]
Posted in: Violence
  Spider AL
09-16-2004, 6:59 PM
#14
I don't believe in hitting women, no matter the age or reason...unless of course they start it and I know I'd be in trouble if I didn't fight back.That attitude went out when equality came in....  [Read More]
Posted in: The real Threat to American safety?
  Spider AL
09-19-2004, 3:56 PM
#11
Yes, one should be wary of governments. Minimalistic governing and deregulation, however are not desireable results of such wariness. Regulation is required to effect the nessecary redistribution of the wealth that makes for a strong and stable socie...  [Read More]
Posted in: An interesting read.
  Spider AL
09-19-2004, 1:45 PM
#102
Ok, I shall speak to the deliberately deaf one last time.Your tone has not altered from pious disrespectfulness through the entire thread, and you have not surprised me at the last. How predictable. :D The answer has been given again and again; loss...  [Read More]
Posted in: An interesting read.
  Spider AL
09-19-2004, 8:54 AM
#99
"They" are no longer existing to not have that option.As explained before, doesn't mean they haven't lost it. You don't have an answer to that, apparently. I need no excuse. And since you unsurprisingly are disinterested in the why of my s...  [Read More]
Posted in: An interesting read.
  Spider AL
09-17-2004, 6:58 AM
#97
Not quite viewing existence as such, merely observing that I do not see any point and cannot know with certainty any reality (other than the existence of I). Real or not, there is no real loss in affecting it.Ha! There is a real loss in losing existe...  [Read More]
Posted in: An interesting read.
  Spider AL
09-16-2004, 4:36 PM
#95
It was the point of the argument.Actually the point of my argument was to highlight the fact that for someone who views the realm of existence as totally inherently pointless, substanceless and without reality, you're remarkably interested in affecti...  [Read More]
Posted in: An interesting read.
  Spider AL
09-16-2004, 1:16 PM
#93
The point being that they hold these beliefs for reasons more emotional than rational. Where they develop them out of the emotional turbulence I think we all can recall from puberty, I have contemplated these matters more rationally for approximately...  [Read More]
Posted in: An interesting read.
  Spider AL
09-16-2004, 11:02 AM
#91
Just trust that I'm well over the age for this philosophy to be merely a pubertal rage against the world.Even if I were to believe out of hand that you were over twenty, I've met my share of arrested adolescents in the past, and no doubt I will again...  [Read More]
Posted in: An interesting read.
  Spider AL
09-15-2004, 2:39 PM
#89
You're the one branding them as silly, not I. I'll retarget the argument and by the same rationale claim that since many fearful people hold dogmatic beliefs, chances are that the beliefs too are based on fear, e.g. the religious.You SHOULD brand the...  [Read More]
Posted in: An interesting read.
  Spider AL
09-15-2004, 11:15 AM
#87
But you presented it like that was the case with "the one step",Oh, THAT. That's merely another incontrivertable truth: "Those that agree with Spider have done something right, whether they realise it or not." :p This relates to...  [Read More]
Posted in: An interesting read.
  Spider AL
09-15-2004, 8:34 AM
#85
You don't really think I've taken any step after reading your post, now do you? You brought nothing new to my mind, as I told you.If nothing new was received by your mind following my post, it's hardly my responsibility. ;) I am not struggling for...  [Read More]
Posted in: An interesting read.
  Spider AL
09-14-2004, 4:03 PM
#83
All these thoughts have been through my head and they have all been scrutinized again and again, and we quite agree that the two major factors against suicide is fear of what might lie beyond death and genetic selfpreservation instinct.Excellent! You...  [Read More]
Posted in: Very good things! *keep it clean* (big images)
  Spider AL
09-16-2004, 6:39 PM
#51
Hmm. I bought a new copy of Neuromancer by Gibson last week. My old copy wore out. Oh yes, I bought some sandwiches yesterday too....  [Read More]
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