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  1. I think easter involves going to church, but none of my family actually does it. Personally, I'm agnostic, undecided as it were. Perhaps one day I will see Jebus and be converted, religiously awakened, and perhaps not.
  2. More importantly though, it was Karl's weapon of choice in Die Hard.
  3. I like the Steyr AUG, It just looks really mean, and how could we do without an AK47
  4. Speaking in these terms set me thinking back to an earlier discussino we had about chaos and order. I remembered that I argued that since all life is negatively entropic, we might regard entropy as the opposite of life. Therefore a universal definition of evil for any thinking (alive) being would be that which is entropic. Consider Maoist China or Nazi Germany for a minute, states where absolute order coincides with absolutes chaos, the constant revolution, kids running around with little red books burning thousands of years of history, the ruthless pursuit of mass murder of a Jewish population. - but the trains run on time, and unless you want to wind up on the wrong side of an unstoppable mass movement you better start making the right noises, and having the right opinions. No place for diversity here.
  5. No. You saved a life at a cost of only a slight business inconvenience to a successful merchant. The fact that it was your own is completely irrelevant. In the example the action does not appear evil, not predetermined to cause harm, but rather to save life. Nevertheless I prefer to measure evil with the negative impact your actions have on others, because the 'you' in the equation is tied to the notions of selfishness and selflessness, you can't always presume to know why people do what they do, which is why it's important to keep an eye on the ball ; on the negative effect your actions have on those around you. Notwithstanding these unlikely hypothetical moral dilemmas that attempt to wiggle out of either a good or an evil response.
  6. Sounds like an incredibly minor selfish act, one that the merchant will barely notice. You can consider yourself 5% evil and 95% undetermined.
  7. The perpetration of genital mutilation through generations is a perfect example of religion as an entrenched negative group dynamic. It does not respect the individual. You can't write or perceive anything without perspective, of course perception matters, that doesn't mean you have to completely reduce the concept of good and evil to relatives, they are abstract constructs, but ones fundamentally based on the ideas of selfishness or selflessness, of how you yourself would wish to be treated by those around you. Religious or ideological wars between two kinds of 'right' usually end up perpetrating countless more kinds of 'wrong'. You can't change generations of social strictures by force of arms, and you should know better than to try. The answer to your hypothetical posit I guess is that you are both evil.
  8. Yeah, that would depend on whether there actually was a water god, and whether he would drown everyone in a terrible storm of vengeance if not appeased. Religion can be a negative group dynamic, there are plenty of examples of this, I think you have to decide whether the religion is inherently humanistic and respecting of both individual and group at the same time. There aren't that many world religions that live up to that maxim, Christianity is homophobic, almost any religion is dismissive of other religions, etc. If forced to pick one, I would probably go with Buddhism, because of it's traditional acceptance of many and diverse sects,and traditional Japanese Kami worship, because of its acceptance of other gods.
  9. Acting entirely selfish without concern for the group or, for the way you would be wish to be treated is considered evil, while doing something selfless, for the benefit of the group, even if such a group situation is entirely hypothetical would be good. I would argue that these broad definitions are universal, except maybe at a satanist convention.
  10. You don't have to be Arnold to pull a trigger.
  11. Get a proper cord mouse
  12. I hate the new logitech drivers, during install it wants to install all kinds of datamining/spyware and toolbars, what the **** is that. Just unprofessional if you ask me, and 1 time out of 10 the control applet just fails load on startup. It also autoinstalls in the task bar. Certain programs are task bar worthy, and others are just not, I don't want 20 things down there giving me stress and popping up update windows. Get one with a cord, cordless is for laptops they can't compete at all when it comes to gaming, I still have a microsoft optical I bought over 6 years ago, opticals usually last forever, if the resolution is decent you won't need to buy another one untill the buttons break or get so loaded up with gunk they stick to their contact points.
  13. What exactly is Sweden fighting in Africa ?
  14. It's a pen with mouse buttons on you move across a magnetised surface to enable you to draw on the screen. I take it there is something in the makeup of the toolset that makes this desirerable. Other than that you would use it for art programs.
  15. For the record though, I agree that being polite is a win-win proposition, it feels good, and you may be rewarded.
  16. My conclusion is that you are getting to that age where everything used to be better, more refined and possessed of greater worth than what is now. Don't worry, it's a perfectly natural progression, like the one from wide eyed idealist, to shriveled up conservative.
  17. I prefer sneaking around undercover, and then invariably being detected and having to run and gun my way out of there, like hitman. I don't want the game to be over just because I got discovered.
  18. Gorgon

    Books

    I'm reading Mao 2 by John Delillo.
  19. A walter can't even penetrate clothing at it's maximum range.
  20. Bond is all style and not enough realism, that was just great for the 70s and 80s, not so much anymore. Bourne, well the new one, not the one starring Richard Chamberlain was excellent, although the whole brainwashing thing got kinda old, not much material there for serializing unless you start off in another direction. Bauer was great for a TV show but it's great weakness is the plot which is usually everywhere and nowhere at once, that just gets to be really annoying after a while. For secret agent type I hope they find something more original and less generic.
  21. The guys at studio ghibli are better than that.
  22. @Gorgon QUOTE a significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system Well yes, thats all true, but is that doesn't mean it's a good thing. The test doesn't ask whether it is correct but whether you agree. Dictatorships can get things done quicker, while that is an advantage of sorts, there are much greater disadvantages for the populace. The test only asks me if I agree with one side of the issue, which is misleading, since the answer is yes, but that should certainly not suggest that I believe dictatorships are a preferable form of government.
  23. A true hippie would never use negative vibes, man.
  24. Will and Grace is comedy ? I thought it was just one of those things you wind up watching out of force of habit, like King of Queens or Raymond. Seinfeld wasn't bad in its day. I can't believe anyone would mention Friends and Futurama in the same sentence.
  25. All this fails to explain Benny Hill.
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