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no. i was asking you whether you knew what your own argument was, because you seemed a bit confused. you keep claiming that and yet nobody believes you. odd, isn't it?

you mean you don't know? and it's your responsibility to state what it is before you start to complain that others don't get it.

it beats being the forum village idiot.

btw which do you think is more jaunty? a tin beret? or a tin sombrero? me, i think the sombrero. helps to protect against the mind control satellite at lower latitudes plus it offers shade protection.

i'm a big fan of GM food. why would i want to eat food that's genetically inferior? the thing which makes me larf that the people who typically hate GM food are the ones who tend to buy 'organic' food, i.e. food riddled with diseases and parasites. yeah, because that's so much healthier...

forget GM food. the real conspiracy is that the CIA has been using an orbital mind control satellite to monitor our thoughts. i will be selling tin foil hats on ebay if anyone wants them.

a star wars joke? episodes 1 and 2. those were a joke, weren't they?

i used to hand-tie the baggies myself, but now i have some of the younger kids do it for me.

'manual cars' is tautology because a car without manual isn't really a car - it's like a larger version of those bumper cars they have at fun fairs, with 'go' and 'stop' pedals.

no. it's all better thanks. it was just for about 12 hours following the maintenance that it was super-sluggish.

well, that leaves a lot to discuss don't it? atlantis could have been real. or it might not have been. it might have been near cyprus. or near gibralter. or somewhere else. or it might not have existed. but some guy thinks he's found it. or some ruins anyway. which may or may not be atlantis. or just some other ruins.

automatics suck ass.

maybe you should read something else besides star wars novels then.

the original star wars book was pretty good. i read that when i was 8. the star wars picture storybook was also good. it had nice pictures.

a good prep school can get the dullest student an adequate SAT score. hell, most intelligent republicans acknowledge that bush is dumb. you'd have to be a real stooge to claim he's otherwise. yeah bill clinton got a lot of connections from growing up in that trailer park in arkansas...

sure there is. but not among C students... to yale? no, not really.

LOL, not really. a C student at an ivy league school would be a C student most everywhere else as well. nor would Bush have gotten into yale save for his family connections. had Bush not been from a wealthy dynasty, he would have been a C student at the midtown Houston community college instead. recognise humour much? it's the bit that comes before the 'seriously'...

huh, he was in skull & bones. you'd think that might prompt an interest in the occult... but seriously, given the advantages of 'his background' (an ivy league education, his dad in the white house) bush's ignorance of most things is pretty hard to justify. until he became president, the only foreign country he'd visited was mexico for fcuk's sake...

sure it does. it's a purely empirical claim about how many people in a given country recognise wicca as a religion. if you mean there's no objectively-given threshold of what proportion counts as 'widely' (40%? 60?), then you're right. but it's false to claim that you can't count the number of people who recognise wicca as a religion, nor make verifiable claims about its low level of recognition relative to, say, christianity or judaism.

where did i say that? i simply noted that wicca is not widely-recognised as a religion. arguing that people shouldn't demean other religions is fine, but - as a moral standpoint - people at least have to agree that such-and-such is a religion before that rule can take effect. whether bush's ignorance is excusable, is another matter. bush is ignorant of a lot of things so the fact that, as commander-in-chief, he doesn't seem to be aware of US military guidelines on paganism doesn't exactly surprise me.

no. most people in western countries haven't heard of it. so your evidence that wicca is a widely-recognized religion is (1) a chapter in the US chaplain's handbook; (2) recognition for tax purposes; (3) borders has a paganism section; (4) the existence of student groups; and (5) references to wicca in a couple of genre shows. LOL. whatever buddy. that's okay, you don't strike me as terribly objective on the matter. hmm, empirical stuff... so what? sikhism and jainism have millions of followers, but i doubt most people in western countries could tell you what the fcuk a jain is. how am i advocating anything? i'm merely stating sociological fact. most people in western countries don't recognize paganism or wicca as a religion. if you want to get huffy, fine. makes no difference to me.

i ain't going back to juvvie.

did i say that? i said that wicca wasn't a widely-recognised religion, not that it wasn't a religion.

A promising career with possible free lodgings, and food. that's a popular misconception. crack dens take more looking after than most people realise.

no doubt you'd be criticized if you said such a thing about any of the widely-recognized religions. the point is that wicca isn't one of those religions.