(December 4, 2010 at 1:12 pm)Lethe Wrote: My hatred of vice cops is articulated well here. No actual crime was committed here, which actually is news...

Great video! Hysterical AND true!

I've had arguments with people where I say that prostitution should be legal. The typical response is "That's awful!". When I ask why it should be illegal I get stuff like "It's degrading!" (and cleaning port a johns isn't?), "It spreads disease!" (and people who sleep around with multiple partners don't?), "It's dangerous!" (and earning a living as a coal miner isn't?), "I wouldn't want a brothel in my neighborhood!" (You wouldn't have one in your neighborhood! If it was legel, brothels could be restricted to certain areas, away from homes, schools and businesses).

I simply respond that it's perectly legal to be a slut. A slut can have sex with a different guy every night. The prostitute also has sex with a different guy every night. The only difference between the two is the exchange of money. So why should one be legal and the other illegal? George Carlin had a good line. He wanted to know why it's perfectly legal to give something away, but when you charge money for that same thing it suddenly becomes illegal.

Quote:So why should one be legal and the other illegal?

Another example of the way men use so-called morality to control and oppress women.

This is another reason why man-made 'religion' is, a lot of the time, very bad and provides misconceptions for people about God.

What other kind of 'religion' is there? :S

(December 6, 2010 at 12:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Another example of the way men use so-called morality to control and oppress women.

You say this as if it were a bad thing.

'Religion' is man made, that is why it fails in so many ways to be in any way a link between humans and a supernatural god being. What does succeed in doing that, however, is actually getting to know this god

(December 6, 2010 at 3:30 pm)16three-john Wrote: This is another reason why man-made 'religion' is, a lot of the time, very bad and provides misconceptions for people about God.

"God" is merely the product that religion sells.

(December 6, 2010 at 4:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "God" is merely the product that religion sells.

but, you see, my relationship with god has nothing to do with religion

(December 6, 2010 at 4:08 pm)16three-john Wrote:

(December 6, 2010 at 4:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "God" is merely the product that religion sells.

but, you see, my relationship with god has nothing to do with religion

Do tell....

(December 6, 2010 at 4:09 pm)Darwinian Wrote:

(December 6, 2010 at 4:08 pm)16three-john Wrote:

(December 6, 2010 at 4:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: "God" is merely the product that religion sells.

but, you see, my relationship with god has nothing to do with religion

Do tell....

well, I have a personal relationship with God. This is because I have personally experienced God's presence in my life, I've talked to him (by praying. by the way, its not actually like talking to a wall), and I've specifically stayed away from all this bullshit that religion offers people to eat up. I am a critical thinker, I study Sciences in college, and have a very intellectual mind. Don't believe the things that people say, like that you have to stop thinking to believe in God. I have personally found that the more I test God's existence and the reliability, the more I find myself coming to the same conclusion: that God is real, and wants to have a personal relationship with everyone