heyrabbit

a lot of it is politics. if you win one award you're less likely to win another, etc.

wasn't this past episode supposed to reveal something? isn't that what matrix said? or is it next episode? it turned out to be something like the jokes on that "writers of lost" you tube video. they found a car that nobody noticed before for some reason, and it ties into the flashback about hurley. maybe "creating luck" is important tot he story, but it doesn't count as "revealing" something until we know what it has to do with the island.

tom waits - watch her disappear

10, why the hell not

drew a face on his foot?

yes, but I am arguing about the truth and being an authority on a subject does not make a person's opinion any more or less valid. there's a general fallacy that says that the more you read the bible, the more truth you discover. so to treat someone as though they their opinion holds more weight, because they;ve memorized more scripture, is really to concede to this religious fallacy. it's obviously helpful to know the literature you're arguing about, but it's not imperative that you memorize every detail in order to philosophize about it. religious claims are philosophical stand points and anyone can argue them with or without scripture present.indeed, many people have memorized the bible. and as we know, the bible is open to so much interpretation that simply knowing it does not make you an authority on the context of it. and if you let a person fall back on scripture in a debate, it gives the illusion of a fair and equal argument, much like debates in this message board. the bible is really too easy to discredit. people claim that it's the word of god but how can that be so if I can improve it in 5 seconds? I can improve the bible and the koran in 5 seconds! Taht's exactly why I bug the moderates, because you'd think that they the ones who could be changed and they are the ones who must be changed.although, I do somethimes doubt it. if every violent fundamentalist "converted" to atheism, it still would not solve the problem. if ever moderate converted atheism, then I'd hope that we'd have a society which would weed out terrorists instead of supporting and apologizing for them as is the case right now. Now you say that a society is subject to a catch-22. that way of thinking assumes a couple of things. first it assumes that all people are religious, and that's obbiously not true. secondly, it assumes that people aren't capable of coming to new realizations on their own... that's a bit of a scary thought. now I know that I;m a minority, so I view it as my job to do so. now that's a bit hypocritical, but there's a difference between save someone from hell,and saving someone from being blown up. we don't know what happens in the next life but we do know what happens in this one. for the people who act like religious faith will last forever, they should realize that's not only not impossible to get rid of it, it could very easily go all but extinct in one generation. all that's required to end faith is that people not lie to their children when they ask questions. that's why it disgusts me that it does exist.

hendrix + snoop

ok cool I'll pickup hegemony or survival

it depends whether or not you'll like the job. don't take it if you think you won't like the work.

you look like a real mulatto, who's wearing fake tan

this thing is creepy as hell, I love it. it actually works very well, but it works best if you're facing the camera , like in the example i look middle eastern

two pucks to the face, I think. or maybe it was one puck to the face and one stick to the face. I forget! hahah oh garfield

this one always makes me laugh. i guess this is for the hockey fans

yeah I definitely agree. it's absolutely tantamount to child abuse. there's a moral equivalence between giving a child drugs and feeding it certain amounts of certain foods. it's really no different than poisoning a child. if we're going to say that it's immoral to give a child amphetamines, say, then it has to be immoral to feed a child disgusting amounts of unhealthy foods. in fact, you'd be way better off giving your child marijuana, maybe even alcohol, instead of teaching it to be a glutton. the reason why nothing much is done about it is because we are admonished to respect people's lifestyles. it's taboo to openly criticize obesity. many doctors don't even like warning their patients about health risks, even though it's their moral responsibility. the problem is that 3 year old's dont get to choose a lifestyle, they're given one. it's also easy to ignore this type of abuse because "baby fat is normal". you know, which sentence sounds worse? "oh isn't that cute. your baby hasn't lost his baby fat yet" "oh isn't that cute, your baby hasn't lose his high yet"

What I'm saying is that hate,violence,fear and elitism are the fundametal to Islam. the problem is not that they should adhere to the quran, it's that they do adhere to it, and they are negatively influenced by it as a consequence. I didn't call anyone stupid and I really don't think intelligence dictates a person's faith or lack thereof. And I'm not saying that there's a disconnection between their faith and actions. My argument is the exact opposite of that. I think there's a direct connection between belief and action. I never once claimed to know more about quran than mulsims do. my knowledge on the quran is actually extremely limited. However, I'd argue that I don't require an extensive knowledge on the quran or the bible in order to discredit either one. While I haven't talked religion with a muslim since high-school, I suspect that I'd receive a response similar to those usually given by christian moderates - they'd either evade the question(usually by saying it's a matter of "interpretation", or hypocritically denounce its significance. That's if I were talk to a local muslim. I think it would be a different story if I were to discuss the quran with someone currently living in the MidEast. okay, to the murder analogy.let's not lose perspective. you essentially said that it's pointless to argue about religion because it will always exist. well, people can lose faith in the same way that people lose the notion to kill. it's really a crappy analogy because violent extremists are murderers, but whatever. the point is that when we decide that something is dangerous, it's not only not impossible to do something about it, but it's immoral to do nothing about it. also, it would be the those who disapprove of murder who should decide how we treat murders in society, just as it is now. punishments and whatever is just taking it too far and confusing the analogy.

perreault is a good pick-up, but ferguson is just playing safe. he's probably not even allowed to make trades, I bet he has to ask richard peddie first. colangelo is making ferguson look terrible the smyth trade was actually a good one. edmonton got o'marra, robert nilsson, AND a first round draft pick. smyth is unrestricted FA in the summer, so watch them get him back. I haven't the islanders make a good deal since , before I was born

that's why they made the finals last year, great management. the leafs couldn't afford tucker, but they signed him. and that's why they probably won't make the playoffs

THEY TRADED SMYTH, WHAT?! that's a little weird. maybe they expect to get him back in the summer.

I haven't said everything that could be said on the subject, not by any stretch. again, how am I arrogant? I'd like to point out that I never called muslims filthy, or even moderate for that matter. my most recent posts, including the introductory post, have been dedicated specifically to explaining that moderate Islam does not exist in the MidEast! So don't trivialize my posts when you haven't even read them. I've said before that I think it's an important issue. You've also done this before. you ignore most of my points, and then presumingly conclude that my argument is a pointless one because "religion will always exist". Well, I don't know that that's true and, of course, you're not offering any reasons for why it is true. Even if we're going to assume, for arguments sake, that mass delusion will always exist, then tell me why that's that a good reason to ignore the problems posed by religious faith? Murders will always exist so why bother ? it's an entirely assuming and defeatist position to take. You fail to note the significance of what it would mean for these religions to cease to exist. If, one day, nobody believes in god, it won't be because he exists and "we just don't know it". It should really tell you something. people are suffering severe consequences for these beliefs. If these beliefs are are false then we should want to come to this conclusion sooner rather than later because a lot of people are dying for nothing. It might as well be an "out of the blue" thread. I make no apologies for it and it won't the last one I make. I don't advocate anger or disrespect. All I'm saying is that we should criticize religious belief in the same way that we criticize every other belief. There really is no equivalence between how we criticize religious faith and how we criticize every other marginalized belief. There's not even an equivalence between how we normally criticize faith and how we criticize the Inquisition, say. Everybody admits that the horrors of the Inquisition were immoral. This is a problem because the men of the inquisition were not extremists, they were catholic(in the same way that Islamic terrorists are not "extremists"). I don't want anybody to blindly accept anything I'm saying. That would be hypocritical of me, indeed, and it would miss the point. I want people to have reasons for their beliefs. And as carl sagan said, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". Well, there is no extraordinary evidence. There is really something to be said about testing prayer with the scientific method. I don't think it's a coincidence that the results of prayer are always consistent with random chance. you'd get the same results praying to god as you would praying to a brick. That really should not be a satisfactory outcome.

I like how they forced them to hurry up with their speeches, although this year was the worst for speeches. do you think that's a coincidence? or were they just boring speeches

his avatar is made from the same type of spidey toy that my friend has

if you want to trivialize my posts then you should want to give reasons otherwise yours will be the opinion that seems trivial and arrogant. I'm not above criticism. in fact, I go out of my way to quantify my points and to respond to everything everyone says. what makes you think that religion will last forever? faith is subjective opinion. people gain it and lose it all the time and there's every reason to believe that it's possible, even likely, to go the way of the "flat-earth" belief.

I wrote stuff above, see? ;)

theyre on the other island... but they haven't told us where they are yet, so I don't know.

is looking up and away at something