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Re: The Devil and Harry Potter?
The article uses a lot of postmodern mumbo-jumbo to come off as 'intellectual' and 'well-read'. Boil it all down and there's nothing left but cheap connections. And besides, why do ...
Aug 2, 2005 -
Re: The Devil and Harry Potter?
Christian critics of the Harry Potter series make broad generalizations with no real specifics. They heard 'magic' and 'flying on brooms' for the books, thought kids might try it (and ...
Aug 2, 2005 -
Re: Indian Names
MSG in Chinese food is still a stereotype, isn't it? I've never heard Redskin called an 'offensive' or 'racist' word.
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?
What?
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: Indian Names
This is also termed Political Correctness.
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?
The definition as it pertains to humans, which is what this discussion is about.
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?
Asexuality means you are not sexual - you don't reproduce. It's a growing trend in be asexual, that is.
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: Indian Names
Freedom isn't really a thing we desire anyway. BUT, let's not get caught up there.
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?
A virus is never crushed. It always reemerges, rematerializes itself elsewhere. This is precisely what happens with sexuality: it never vanishes. Instinct can be repressed, which leads to some pretty ...
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: Indian Names
No, Qi, that's called being a literalist: someone who has so much pride they can't see the rest of the world. And sure, you could be shot. But having a ...
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?
I said sexuality is in the form of a virus. Not necessarily 'homosexuality' or 'heterosexuality'. And, by the way, Qi, there are numerous books and thousands of doctoral dissertaions dedicated ...
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: Indian Names
Qi, you're no more correct to speak than anyone else. And besides, it's not like the entire Native American population is upset; there will always be those who dissent. Political ...
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: How Do We Decide Sexual Preference?
In the philo-political view, homosexuality as a sexuality emerged through Capitalism. Marx's opening lines in 'The Communist Manifesto' claim that 'all that is solid melts into air, all that is ...
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: Organized Religion (Branch off of "What religion are yo
Thus ideologies are a general set of organized principles. If you wanted, you could make conservatism a religion by celebrating George Bush as the Subject-Who-Knows, but since most people aren't ...
Aug 1, 2005 -
Re: Things you hate
The f*ck?
Jul 30, 2005
