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  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Living Wills and Terri Schaivo (part rambling)

    Her husband couldn't prove she said it, or in what context it was said. He was wrong on all accounts.

    Apr 1, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Living Wills and Terri Schaivo (part rambling)

    I believe that parents are children's guardian. That doesn't give them the right to kill off their progeny.

    Apr 1, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Issues in Africa

    Well, you certainly showed me, didn't you? Moving on to someone who made a relevant comment to the discussion, Nate: the concentration of AIDS is greatest in Africa, but it's ...

    Mar 30, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Issues in Africa

    1. People are starving everywhere. So what? By the very definition of economics, nothing is infinite. Why are Americans going to feed Africans when we have homeless and starving Americans? ...

    Mar 29, 2005
  • Randomosity Re: all the people we meet

    Not really, no. Consider that by that logic, we are all connected all the time. I find this not so, as a connection is only built through understanding. Understanding a ...

    Mar 28, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The right religion

    It's not cynicism. It's realism. Regarding religion as an escape from reality, interestingly enough, Deleuze and Guattari were interested in ensuring that philosophical/critical studies did not set up

    Mar 28, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The right religion

    Strictly speaking, religions are only escapes from reality. If you can escape, you've done fine.

    Mar 27, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The right religion

    Truth is a relative concept. If I'm not comfortable with parts of Plato, or Aristotle, that says as much about what I want as it does about either of them. ...

    Mar 27, 2005
  • Lounge, The Re: Post your pic on thread 2

    eh-heh. I'm glad to see you all care so much about me. A) Huffing crap doesn't physically alter your nose. B) Biology and Anthropology majors should be well-aware of the ...

    Mar 27, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Equal rights for homosexuals

    Theologically, there was both man and woman. This is how all religions describe homosapien creationism, if you will. Science has to agree, lest we are to say humans were, at ...

    Mar 27, 2005
  • Official Polls Re: Favorite Genre

    My favorite genre is Literary/Critical Theory (i.e. Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Badiou). I can't usually choose a "genre" because every timeframe encapsulates all genres. So in the way of timeframe

    Mar 26, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty. Right Or Wrong?

    Isaac Elhrich determined that for every inmate executed, seven lives were spared because others were deterred from comitting crimes. Ernest van den Haag, a Professor of Jurisprudence at Fordham Univer

    Mar 26, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: The Death Penalty. Right Or Wrong?

    Answer this with complete honesty: If you are contemplating homocide (and are not manic enough to think you won't be caught, as few actually escape), and you know the results ...

    Mar 26, 2005
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Security in Schools

    Aside from my belief that the public education system should be abolished, I'm going to say that tighter security measures only limit well-intentioned students from learning, as many of these ...

    Mar 26, 2005
  • Lounge, The Re: Post your pic on thread 2

    There's about a year and a half span between the pictures. Different hair styles. Different weights (drugs make you lose lots of weight). My ear has been pierced for quite ...

    Mar 23, 2005


Doubt thou the stars are fire, doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, but never doubt I love.
— "Hamlet," William Shakespeare