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Through the air, a CadiDragon, suddenly.

  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Feminism, Tolerance and Sex in a Secular Society

    Nightshade, I know that my first post was very long, but I'd like to suggest that you read at least the first of the links in my final postscript - ...

    Oct 26, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Feminism, Tolerance and Sex in a Secular Society

    Answers to questions! Well, actually, before I answer the questions: regarding Elevator Man. I don't know if you clicked through to the video about the elevator incident , but I ...

    Oct 25, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adoption Not Abortion!

    If you flick back about three pages, you'll see that those of us already in the thread can't come to an agreement on that, Rob. Why don't you share your ...

    Oct 18, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adoption Not Abortion!

    Oh, and something I intended to mention in that last post... The best way for medical procedures to be carried out (and how it happens in the UK, though I ...

    Oct 17, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adoption Not Abortion!

    There's a vast and important difference between "Sarah's mother forced her to have an abortion" and "Sarah weighed up her options and concluded that abortion was the best route". The ...

    Oct 16, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adoption Not Abortion!

    Wow, we're seriously going in circles here. I know there are a lot of pages in this thread, but we did spend quite a lot of them on things like... ...

    Oct 15, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adoption Not Abortion!

    I didn't realise "the point of foetal viability" was "an arbitrary point".

    Oct 7, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adoption Not Abortion!

    Ignorance, I'd like to refer you to pretty much every point I made here . In particular, the bit about not having to "be a slut" to get pregnant, and ...

    Oct 2, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Adoption Not Abortion!

    Largely to Rubric- I'd like to start by saying that my first post largely grew out of frustration at hearing the same anti-abortion arguments over and over, so there are ...

    Oct 1, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is our system of mathematics flawed?

    The Babylonian system was based around 12s and 60s. These two numbers go well together because, if you count by tapping your thumb on each joint of your four fingers, ...

    Sep 30, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Is our system of mathematics flawed?

    As Snoink says, multiplication is just repeated addition. 4*3 is 4 lots of 3 apples: so line up 3 apples, line up 3 next to that, and another 3, and ...

    Sep 29, 2012
  • Lounge, The Re: What's the most beautiful word? Thoughts?

    There's a song that includes the line... ...a Lenny lined the rifle up and let the lead fly... I love how it rolls out. And then I realised that's the ...

    Sep 28, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Cross-dressing.

    In my experience, all that does is make it slightly more awkward finding the right size to buy.

    Sep 24, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Divorce and Remarriage

    Uh, in this context, not a lot. "Separation of church and state is a cool thing, man."

    Sep 23, 2012
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Divorce and Remarriage

    I'm not entirely keen on the idea of marriage. But between personally significant gestures of commitment and legal/financial benefits, I can kinda understand why people do it. In terms of ...

    Sep 22, 2012


You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace.
— Rod Serling