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AuroraOrodel

  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty.

    Because I'm equally bored... :smt001 Just because I'm rather bored: The (uncorrupted) law is not subjective, ever. It is a set line that when crossed, punishment will be faced. Determining ...

    Jan 2, 2011
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Mayan Prediction: 2012 Prophecy

    I'm really excited for the media blitz that'll be happening all next year. I think I"ll make a "Mayan Disaster" scrapbook...

    Jan 2, 2011
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Humanity's Beginning

    Judging by the way you phrased this question, it's something of a personal dilemma, so a more relevant question might be: why does it matter so much to you that ...

    Jan 2, 2011
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Violence in Media

    To Confictura: Children may mature but that is not the point!! Don't you get how it can damage a child forever if they watch just one gory or sex scene? ...

    Dec 30, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Racism

    Broadway speaks the truth. :D That's what third graders do. How much more so should a man have that much chivalry? None at all, but that's a different subject entirely. ...

    Dec 27, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Caning Children

    I hope you all aren't getting the wrong idea. I don't mean spanking when it is just a small offense. I was put in time out more often than i ...

    Dec 24, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Caning Children

    Suppose a child moves to touch a fire on a birthday cake. A parent would usually quickly smack the hand of that child out of the direction of the fire, ...

    Dec 23, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Violence in Media

    That's because books don't fall under the FCC. It exists to regulate wire, radio, television, cable, and as of today, the internet, and the FCC isn't a censorship organization. Yes, ...

    Dec 21, 2010
  • Media Reviews Re: The Laramie project

    The same theatre company did a 10 year anniversary play last year. They went back to Laramie and interviewed some of the same people. They even got in to see ...

    Dec 20, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Caning Children

    JOJO at what point is it justified? Either caning or spanking, I can't see it. I can understand the expediency and short-term benefits easily enough, but all it teaches children ...

    Dec 20, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Existence of God

    Also, with all the different religions, who's right? Does one have to be a foot-washer baptist to get into heaven? Or a Christian? Or a Mormon? Or a Methodist? In ...

    Dec 10, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Existence of God

    My religious ethnography professor used to tell us that the burden of proof for the existence of God/deity was on the believers, and that trying to find proof to convince ...

    Dec 9, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: One way trip to Mars?

    Personally, I've read too much sci-fi to ever want to leave the planet! :shock:

    Dec 9, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is homosexuality a choice or a result of nature?

    It's not arguing, it's debate. The purpose of debate is to explain and compare conflicting views. You stated your views without an explanation, and were asked to defend your position. ...

    Dec 9, 2010
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: One way trip to Mars?

    We didn't climatically alter the desert around Vegas...it's still desert. We just pumped in a ton of water. I agree that chucking some folks out to Mars is a bad ...

    Dec 9, 2010


"The trouble with Borrowing another mind was, you always felt out of place when you got back to your own body, and Granny was the first person ever to read the mind of a building. Now she was feeling big and gritty and full of passages. 'Are you all right?' Granny nodded, and opened her windows. She extended her east and west wings and tried to concentrate on the tiny cup held in her pillars."
— Terry Pratchett, Discworld: Equal Rites