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Rule Changes + New Restrictions
RE: Rule Changes + New Restrictions
Yo, if you're gonna do it, you gotta do it right!

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None of that 'stop before you're properly dead' nonsense.
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: Rule Changes + New Restrictions
(November 13, 2013 at 7:59 pm)ManMachine Wrote: I always thought being deliberately provocative was the entire point of socratic debate.

For some values of "provocative", yes. It's my understanding that Socrates intended to stimulate critical thinking, not incite a beatdown.
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(November 13, 2013 at 8:05 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: For some values of "provocative", yes. It's my understanding that Socrates intended to stimulate critical thinking, not incite a beatdown.

We're all sharing opinions here, right? Cool.

In my opinion, Socrates was a laugh that a certain "Plato" cooked up, and it was so good that he just had to share that shit. It's hilarious XD

Like... greek comedy central! Or was that the tragedies? TRICK QUESTION! ROFLOL
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Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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VLB Wrote:So in the end, in spite of 9 other fingers being annoyed with him, the right Thumb was right, after all.

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If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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Don't forget about the new relevancy rules, Missy. YOU COULD BE BANNNNNNNED! Shock

I mean... I just can't see someone saying "worth!" over a poop joke. Would be horrible to see you go Sad
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I just want the Gauntlet back.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
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RE: Rule Changes + New Restrictions
(November 13, 2013 at 8:05 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(November 13, 2013 at 7:59 pm)ManMachine Wrote: I always thought being deliberately provocative was the entire point of socratic debate.

For some values of "provocative", yes. It's my understanding that Socrates intended to stimulate critical thinking, not incite a beatdown.

... and yet he got the ancient Greek version, a beatdown in a bottle.

Anyone for tiffin?


MM

(November 13, 2013 at 8:02 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Yo, if you're gonna do it, you gotta do it right!

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None of that 'stop before you're properly dead' nonsense.

The version I began with was much longer, it needed a snip to get under the avatar radar. I left the Tarantino bits in though.


MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci

"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
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RE: Rule Changes + New Restrictions
Like Max Greece, I should probably read the rules. But I'm pretty sure my post was just as relevant as yours because who the hell doesn't think about thumbs up butts when you bring up a thumb representing JohnV? I know not.

Ps. "worthit"
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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(November 13, 2013 at 8:27 pm)missluckie26 Wrote: Like Max Greece, I should probably read the rules. But I'm pretty sure my post was just as relevant as yours because who the hell doesn't think about thumbs up butts when you bring up a thumb representing JohnV? I know not.

Ps. "worthit"

See... that's just the thing, my dear: there are two kinds of people in this world. Those who have, and those who don't. When it comes to examining the relevancy of a post, and distinguishing whether I might make any particular post: I've got that. When it comes to large breasts, nonsensical one-liners, and single image posts that hardly respond properly to previous text: I don't.

"Our positions are reversed: my spring; your fall." Wink

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Savvy?
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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(November 13, 2013 at 8:33 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:
(November 13, 2013 at 8:27 pm)missluckie26 Wrote: Like Max Greece, I should probably read the rules. But I'm pretty sure my post was just as relevant as yours because who the hell doesn't think about thumbs up butts when you bring up a thumb representing JohnV? I know not.

Ps. "worthit"

See... that's just the thing, my dear: there are two kinds of people in this world. Those who have, and those who don't. When it comes to examining the relevancy of a post, and distinguishing whether I might make any particular post: I've got that. When it comes to large breasts, nonsensical one-liners, and single image posts that hardly respond properly to previous text: I don't.

"Our positions are reversed: my spring; your fall." Wink

[Image: johnny-depp-problem-is-not-the-problem1.jpg]

Savvy?



If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

[Image: tumblr_n1j4lmACk61qchtw3o1_500.gif]
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