I got nuthin'. I can't hope to compensate for this level of stupid with my meager intellect. I haz encountered a force of nature, and lost.


For what it's worth, Drich, misogyny and subjugation of women did not end any time prior to Hypatia's death. So, no, if anything, I've yet to see that day come.


Crossing the Rubicon is a standard analogy which refers to Julius Caesar's taking his armies into Rome with him, in spite of the Roman law forbidding such acts. He took the bull by the balls and cast it into the sky.

I have a collection of steel orbs. Would you like to see them?



I think I've mined this vein for as much comedic value as I can. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. Even if that barrel is an untapped keg of whiskey.

(October 12, 2012 at 1:25 pm)Drich Wrote: Why are their other gods? Because like you not all men want to worship The God. They want to have a say in what is right and how they worship. With The God of the bible it is not possiable. So they create their own gods.

Like I've said before, this is because your god is a terrible designer.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that violence is rarely an ends in itself. It's true that some people commit violent acts for the sake of violence, but if humans commited vilence against one another for the sake of violence, we would have gone extinct long ago. Cooperation is in our genes.

I googled my memory.

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(October 14, 2012 at 6:00 pm)Drich Wrote:

(October 14, 2012 at 5:31 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Basically what I'm trying to say is that violence is rarely an ends in itself. It's true that some people commit violent acts for the sake of violence, but if humans commited vilence against one another for the sake of violence, we would have gone extinct long ago. Cooperation is in our genes.

Or our desire to procreate is greater than our need to kill each other.

Don't you mean "our need to procreate is greater than our desire to kill each other"? How would killing each other provide an evolutionary advantage? In fact, the very existence of society is the only cause for war; without it everyone would have to kill everyone else, and the species would die. If they fight together against another group for some cause, then the surviving group will continue on, but they wouldn't fight a war for the sake of having a war. No sane nation would, even if they knew the people would not oppose it.

(October 14, 2012 at 9:02 pm)Darkstar Wrote: but they wouldn't fight a war for the sake of having a war. No sane nation would, even if they knew the people would not oppose it.

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There are often excuses for wars. Seldom is the reason given because we wanted to flex our muscles however that might be the case.

(October 14, 2012 at 3:42 pm)Tino Wrote: What is the "should" level?

(October 14, 2012 at 4:00 pm)Drich Wrote: Everything that I am.

Why are you uncomfortable or unwilling to discussing the financial expectations of your church?

(October 14, 2012 at 9:34 pm)jonb Wrote:

(October 14, 2012 at 9:02 pm)Darkstar Wrote: but they wouldn't fight a war for the sake of having a war. No sane nation would, even if they knew the people would not oppose it.

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There are often excuses for wars. Seldom is the reason given because we wanted to flex our muscles however that might be the case.

Maybe even for the simple sake of acquiring land, whether justified or not. But...maybe I have too much faith in humanity (not that I had that much faith in them before). All I mean to say is that the levels of violence worldwide have decreased consistenly as time went on. It only seems like it is more violent nowadays because the media sensationalizes everthing. I'm not saying there sin't violence in the world (especially the middle east).