Gorgon

How do you know exactly what the bias of any given media has. I think it's prudent to sample a little bit of everything. Also there are still newspapers out there that people buy because they still retain an editorial standard that is higher than TV or radio.

Brutal social realism bores the crap out of me. Always has, probably because for the longest time those were the only kinds of movies we knew how to make in Denmark.

The question gets around empirical standards of evidence by virtue of not being part of the physical world, but rather an unprovable and unimpeachable hypothesis.

Well it's like Curly says, you gotta find that one thing... Even if faith is self hypnosis, if it makes you happier and more able to deal with life's challenges, who are you to say it's worthless.

Lucas and Spielberg are busy trying to piss all over the decent movies they made in the past. Dunno why, boredom, can't be that they need the money.

Africa is a strange place. Magic, both the good and the bad kind are still alive there. I mean there are people who think raping a virgin will cure them of AIDS. I wonder if the LRA still remembers what it was they were supposed to be fighting for.

Terrentino is a more than decent director and a really horrible actor, I think he knows and doesn't care, he's in it for the experience. Takeshi Mike directed this, he's usually a lot better at 'weird'.

Ugh I lost almost all interest when I saw Terrintino in it. God awful blowhard sob. I'll probably still watch it though. Watching the Japanese actors butcher the English language is funny, but the movie is just weird, and the wrong kind of weird, weirdness for it's own sake without any kind of edge. Just pointless posing, bad acting and unlikely slapstick stunts.

I like the 'so far' part of that. Wouldn't that be nice, irrefutable evidence about the existence of god.

How can you be an extremist in regards to an either/or proposition. There are ramifications that are inescapable either way. Are you suggesting it's better to wobble somewhere near the median of the scale and not really think on what your stance means.

So wanton destruction and callous disregard for civilian death is ok because the people you are fighting are just as bad.

You expect a plot twist that makes sense from Battlestar gallactica. Why, pray tell. At least we are done with the frakking prophecies of pithea, the show had been dragging that lame ball and chain around for practically 3 seasons.

I'm guessing the reason they are doomed to repeat the same story over and over again is some kind of metaphysical cosmic loop caused by the cylons cheating death and being reincarnated the same, thus not making any progress on the wheel of karma as it were.

The Geneva convention doesn't address irregular warfare. Not that I'm trying to make Hamas out to be guerrillas, just saying they are rules for regular armies that should supposedly make wars a little less gruesome.

Blindness. It was absolutely terrifying.

Everybody and their grandmother is a Cylon.

So in answering perhaps the most significant question of them all you can either go with 'yes' in which case all is well, or with 'no', in which case you are merely being contrary and hurtful towards believers. In other words, believers are allowed to use the word 'god' when answering the question of whether he exists, but non believers are not. Good to know.

Ask yourself this, is Hamas better than Israel. If Hamas possessed rockets capable of killing 10.000 Israelies rather than 10 do you think they would blink before using them. Yes Israel is guilty of a terrible disregard for civilian casualties, but so is Hamas, and I want you to acknowledge it.

But it would buy influence with Israel, and who knows Obama may be less business as usual than one might expect on Israel/Palestine.

I can't help but wonder if there was some special significance to the metal thingiemagingie Duala picked up on earth. What was that supposed to be.

A church is only as strong as its congregation. Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but you make it sound like churches just get free money from he government. They get serious tax breaks, but they have to raise money in order to get the tax break on it. The state doesn't just give money to every guy with a bible and a pulpit. That's exactly how it works here, priests, bishops, the works, they are all public servants. Of course you don't get to be a priest without a 6 year degree. Everyone is a member of the church per default, you could save 0,5% or something on your taxes if you bothered to withdraw from church membership, but few people do. I don't know exactly how the Church of England is financed, but I don't think priests have to pack them in to guarantee their own salaries like in the US.

The advertising campaign is backed by the British Humanist Association and prominent atheist, Professor Richard Dawkins. Hanne Stinson, chief executive of the British Humanist Association, said: "I have difficulty understanding why people with particular religious beliefs find the expression of a different sort of beliefs to be offensive. The reason for the ad is for people to have the same discussion we are having now.

Churches are on the government tit most places, they don't need customers, they get paid either way.

Tell me, how is an advert with the message 'there is no god', different from one that says 'there is one'. Religions across the board are allowed to make all sorts of wild claims regarding the nature of the universe, but when atheists do it it's somehow insensitive. I don't get it.

It's a tactical shooter with unlimited ammo and 2 idiot companions that are only good for getting in the way in the firefights. You can't take control of them, and you can't get rid of them. Also there is no planning stage, like in the older games, so calling it 'tactical' would actually be quite generous. They are like a set of very unwelcome conjoined twins joined at your hips, and when one them dies the objectives suddenly cease to matter and you, I dunno call time out and go home for their funerals, rather than try to stop the terrorists that are trying to blow up the proverbial school bus. In any case you have to start the level all over again.