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Pointless +1 to that too.

Choc, what do they do with bipods to kill the harmonics?

Obviously advocating violence is the reasonable solution to America's problems. Of course that isn't the desired solution. Remove the word "desired" and the sentence becomes more accurate. The solution begins when more people realize that positive changes comes from work and effort. Unfor...

A guy just shot up a movie theater and killed about ten people. Suddenly, national headlines. Ten gang killings spread out across a city wouldn't be national news; one mass murderer is. If we thought he was part of an organization that might try to do it again, I bet the freakout would be pretty ser...

i mean, only like OT and testing are forums that aren't dedicated to, or originated from, people arguing the fuck out of each other for the other main boards: SWvsST is explanatory OSF was full of blergh gigajoules NP is all blargh luberals blargh rethuglicrons etc. SLAM is creationoreligulons lol ...

[blinks] Wait what Anyway I think the fatness partly comes from opposition. When you have philosophers shitting on your head philosophy looks bad. When you have historians OPPRESSING you history looks boring and unfun. When you have poorly thought out college not-really-socialist screeds blaring in ...

This is the reaction of some people who have been :fukyu: ed and :smug: ed many times. They are weary and pissed off. And even useful conversations that would work even on SDN can be hard to have if there are constantly people jumping in to proclaim their philosophical superiority and actively mock ...

Well, that would make sense if it were as hard for a god to, say, pick up a rock as it was for a man- and so it is a utilitarian equal for the god to have to pick up a billion rocks and for a billion people to pick up one rock each. But generally we imagine omnipotence (or even extreme power) as mak...

Re: Adam The second half of the whole thing you set up sounds too self serving to work well after you've accepted the first half. "You have a duty to share my suffering so I won't fix your problems" doesn't really work after I've taken responsibility for things. It's like one is picking up...

The whaling thread is weird. I actually agree with you. I mean, I think that using military units for police work is a terrible idea, but I'm sure the actual police handle all but the worst riots COme to think of it, I actually wouldn't be opposed to a army-lite/national police force specifically tr...

Questor: For American evangelist Protestants the explanation is easy: Evangelical Protestantism is pig-ignorant when it comes to theology and philosophy (individual exceptions blah blah disclaimer yadda yadda, but seriously I'm talking averages here). Catholicism has this big hierarchy dedicated to ...

starku wrote:its almost like people are more interesting loudly proclaiming how right they are than actually effecting cultural change to the benefit of the public

ALMOST

That, and yelling at Broomstick. Which is one of the N&P national pastimes.

Is "God didn't make the rules" the same as "there are no rules?"

Because that's almost the same argument fundies use to say atheists are evil. "If we didn't believe in God, why not torture and kill and steal for giggles? There'd be NO RULES!"

No But you don't get it If I can knife you while you're busy and ruin your sad role playing life and force you to grind a week to get back where you were Its all worth it You (and arguably most players) just don't understand what griefing is about nd all the gonzo LIFE IN THE GAME bullshit people l...

I am confused. To the point where it is detrimental to the left wing argument, but Nitram is practically the architect of the reactionary echo chamber in N&P and nobody does shit about it. "Reactionary echo chamber?" If all three of those words mean what I think they mean... um. Could ...

I thought they'd already been doing it for a while only with helicopters instead of drones because they didn't have any robot minions. I wonder how many countries would do this kind of thing if they had drones, instead of having to send actual soldiers or spies out in force to go kill people for the...

Stuff.

Therefore, it follows by inspection that everyone is wrong. Yes, you lurkers who aren't posting are wrong too. It's obvious.

Yeah. Some weird shit. Hits you so hard, your grandchildren will have acid flashbacks. well i've never heard of online communities taking cowardly no-resoultion approaches lol its almost like hiding problems that are embarassing is easier than dealing with them You're just jealous because they don't...

Everyone's an idiot about something. They just need the right stimulus. I don't think I've ever met someone who was reasonable about everything anyone could ever ask them. Calm, maybe. Smart-sounding, maybe. Reasonable? Nah. That other forum I was talking about, they decided after like six identical...

Aaron wrote:Is fgalkin a member of HPCA by chance?

He is not.

Aaron wrote:Oh snap!

I know forums where gun control and Israel vs Palestine are both banned, even where other politics stuff is permitted, because they both lend themselves to brainless bickering.

Help, I'm being oppressed!

I really should be able to tell from looking at this who's joking.

starku wrote:are you 12

Obviously yes. How did you find me out?

btw i really don't like bringing up posts from other boards to attack someone it annoys me when teoites quote posts from here to call us trolls so i don't want to do it to someone else either Most of the time maybe yeah. Some of the time you have people here basically outright saying "I'm gonn...

Zod wrote:having a member that always sidetracks discussions with barely relevant complaints and makes them go over schedule by at least 30 minutes to an hour?

I worked at this place for three years.

Like, how many of them it has? How messed up the dynamics are in the conversations? Whether one or two people are dominating the whole meeting?

All of the above?