Doom Shepherd

Banned for having a list of games in a signature whose acronym spells out "DAWFRD."

It's the 24th century. He beams over. He gets Master Shifu to kung-fu-throw him over the pit. He uses his Jimmy Olsen watch to summon Superman to carry him over the pit. He exposes a grasshopper to radiation, then picks it up, lets it spit its juices in an open scratch, on his finger, and gains the proprtionate leaping power of a grasshopper. Then he jumps over the pit.

Banned for not being me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_store Workers were paid in "scrip," which was only usable at the company-owned stores. If the store charges high enough scrip prices in exchange, the workers can easily end up so in debt to their employers that they cannot afford to leave. Often entire towns were owned by the companies, from the hospitals to the utilities, groceries, and gas stations. Before cars were widespread, this meant they could gouge whatever they wanted, because hey, wehere ya gonna go? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town That doesn't sound like any definition I've heard of. It's certainly not what actually happened in the lasseiz-fair days before Unions.

Incorrect. False application of binary right/wrong logic. This isn't Bynaus. Your only options are not 0 and 1. Might include strawman, I'm not sure. It's not "right," it's not "wrong," it's "shit that happens." Barring the intervention of benevolent superbeings (which only happens in Star Trek,) stuff like this can't be avoided, and you're gonna have to learn to live with it. Universe ain't fair. If it was, I'd be rich.

Wait, there are Monotheists who DON'T believe that God is the supreme arbiter of morality? Which cult is that?

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I actually accidentally destroyed the world back in 2004 (that will teach me to try to teleport a cat), and you reading this are the only person I was able to back up and save in this huge virtual world. Everyone else you encounter, including the other posters who are not you, is a sophisticated simulation. Sorry about the glitches. I'm afraid the file "Politics.exe" is irreparably corrupted. But seriously, I know that none of these people REALLY believe, because they have all refused to turn their property over to me effective May 22nd. They actually expect to NEED it later. I'm curious as how they're going to rationalize their failure THIS time. Camping's been wrong before.

I'm afraid that, coming as I do from a coal town, I can't buy that. I'm too familiar with things like the "company store" and the many ways in which the owners of places like mines used that and similar methods to screw the working people over. The worker ants weren't getting to keep their food... it was all going back to the "queens." Parasitism can come from both directions.

In some weird way, you entertain me. Likewise. Personally, I think I'm entertaining for the same reason a Godzilla movie is entertaining... sometimes, you just want to see a giant lizard randomly appear and smash things. *Shrug* Opinions are what they are. Attempting to change them is usually futile. Consider this: In those Godzilla movies I just spoke of, King Ghidorah (the really bad monster with three heads) is never defeated by fluffy bunnies. It is always left up to Godzilla to kick his ass. There is a lesson here.

You have to understand that the vast majority of modern American parents are mentally incapable of believing that their children are anythying other than perfect little angels, no matter the evidence presented to them. We are talking about people who will deny VIDEOTAPE. "Your 15-year-old beat up six first-graders." "Nuh-uh." "We have the entire incident on video, his face is clearly visible." "Wasn't him. Those kids must have done something to provoke him." Want to watch the video again? They're playing hopscotch, he just wades in and starts swinging." Well, they shouldn't'a been in his way!" "Parenting" went out of fashion some time in the late 1960's, now its much more popular to be your kid's "buddy" or "supporter," no matter what they do. I blame a bunch of bad books by a bunch of crap psychologists. And hippies.

You mean daycare, right? Nope. Well, not the way it goes in the US. Here we have Kindergarten, which is a half-day of school... but in an elementary school, we were in the same building as the 1st through 6th graders. If you're in morning K, you ride the bus to school with the big kids, if afternoon K, you ride home with the big kids. I started Kindergarten when I was still 4, mainly because I was born late in the year. Most kids born as late as I was have to wait, but my parents were teachers in another district, so they had an "in."

I was reading at age 2, and my parents insisted on entering me into school when I was 4, instead of waiting until I was 5, which is when most kids in my area started school. So I ended up being the smallest kind in my class, as well as the smartest. Add to that the fact that I grew up out in the country, where my neariest neighbors were a half-mile away through the woods, and they were all girls older than me, meaning I got very little social interaction and never really lerned sports, and it was a recipe for disaster. I got bullied because I was small. I got bullied because I threw off the grading curve. I got bullied because I didn't know all the intricate rules to team sports. I got bullied because I wasn't good at interacting with other people. I survived mainly because I had an extremely well-developed self-image. I understood that most of the people who were bullying me were morons, or sheep who were going along with the morons, out of fear, and I wasn't about to let the opinions of people who I had no respect for influence me in any way. Screw that. I wasn't about to get into any fights, because even though my parents would have backed me up for fighting back, my school had a "punish everyone" policy so that it didn't matter if it was self-defense or not. (That's one thing I would change if I could.) Anyway, once they realized that they weren't actually hurting me, or even really upsetting me, (almost no one ever tried to actually hit me, which is fortunate), it pretty much subsided. And the rest of it ended in 9th grade when I threw the football team's kicker across the cafeteria (that's another story.) Also, eventually I learned both self-defense and firearms skill, and then it really became a nonissue.

Never doubt it. What about the 14 kids on Pan Am Flight 103, that passenger plane Gadhaffi had blown up over Scotland? And the two on the ground? This is a civilization that considers you an adult when you can pick up an AK-47. It's also a civilization that hasn't learned yet that it's not a good idea for military commanders to haul their families around with them. It's also one that has a history of employing children as human shields. The ones you should be asking "what about the children?" are their parents and grandparents. Assuming the story is true at all... http://theglobaltime.blogspot.com/2011/05/gaddafis-grandchildren-may-have-lived.html

I don't bother to minus rep people. Mocking them is much more satisfying. I only vote people up on those very rare occasions when I feel they've said something uncommonly smart. Whoever's getting you, it's not me. Whoever's upvoting you... is probably an alt account. A Ouija board? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? Because yes, items of ULTIMATE ARCANE POWER are mass-produced by Parker Brothers and sold at Toys R' Us between Monopoly and Pictionary. The Ouija board has one function, although it is very good at that one function. That function is scaring gullible preteen girls. Playing with "magick," been there, done that, got the "aww, nothing happened... EVER..." T-shirt. Hell, I used to "hire" myself out as a ghost/curse/magic buster, because NOTHING could ever happen when I was around (because nothing ever happens, since magic doesn't exist, I just took credit for that fact.) Kids would give me money to remove whatever "whammies" they fooled themselves into believing other kids put on them. It was quite lucrative, for a while. Keep this up, and we'll have to revoke your username, change it to "ThatGuy."

Speaking of evidence... I have a conclusive Scientific Test for God-ness. Now all I need is a bunch of followers willing to enter their God/s. Test #1: Under controlled conditions, impregnate 1 (one) virgin. Test #2: Under controlled conditions, revivify 1 (one) dead human. Test #3: Choose one: 1: Feed 1 (one) multitude, defined as the population of a preselected third-world nation, for 1 (one) full year. 2: Heal 1 (one) physically handicapped person, chosen by the Judges. This person will be an amputee. The winner will recieve approbation as the one true god, plus all money, possessions and property held by churches, organizations and representatives of the losing gods. These possessions may be distributed according to the whim of the winner.

The Most Important YouTube video I've watched so far...

This is the Argument from Incredulity fallacy, combined with Hoyle's Fallacy. It's been debunked in the evolution thread already, Repeating it will not make it true now.

I'm straight, and that annoys me as well. Although, on the subject of the parades... you know, I hate to say this, but some of you dress more embarassingly than any straight I've ever seen. I mean seriously, This guy.

I presume you all are familiar with the fable of the ant and the grasshopper? Well, as an ant, I support any system wherein the ants keep the food and the grasshoppers die. Unfortunately, none of the above systems seem to be entirely in-line with that. Let me know when you come up with one.

Hm. Global warming and Peak Oil, leads to attempts to remedy the problems using biofuels, leads to higher food prices plus soil depletion plus fertilizer runoff poisoning the sea? Economic collapse leads to stimulus packages leads to printing oodles of money leads to heavy inflation leads to economic collapse?

They're not targeting his family... they're targeting targets. When you believe in nepotism, and you appoint your kids to high posts in your military, then you MAKE them military targets, and shit happens. Saif (the son) was appointed a military commander in the Libyan Army during the uprising. No good reason to be mad at NATO.

I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool.

I think it'd probably be easier to irrigate and farm the Sahara than colonize the arctic (which is water) or antarctic. After all, it USED to be much greener before the climate shifted. Maybe the continental shelf.