Reveilled

Religion is not the only source of a moral framework. There are non-religious belief systems that do just as well, and arguably better, since they are not based upon a false premise. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Aren't they? Ask an Objectivist whether Communism is based on a false premise (or visa-versa), and I doubt they'd agree with you. And how do you know that religious belief systems are based on a false premise? On the contrary, I think my religion is based on a very true premise.

KotOR III: Krayt Dragon Pearl Z KotOR III: Sith Encounters for the Third Time

Who gets to decide in order to make it canon rather depends on the particular variation on Islam you ascribe to. Yes, many Muslims beleve that the consensus of the Islamic community is only applicable if it is the Scholars who are making the decisions, but ask a second or third generation Muslim immigrant in a Democratic state what they think and you'd probably get a different answer. Alternatively, ask someone from Turkey what they think of Democracy. Yes, for the next few years Iraq will have a shaky hold on its Democracy, but the fact that even death threats didn't stop 60% of the population from coming out to vote in my opinion bodes extremely well for Iraq's future as a democratic nation.

Actually, the largest Demographic is the Shi'ite muslims, not the Sunnis. Plus, democracy is not necessarily contradictory to Islam. There are many issues today which the Qu'ran and Hadith do not cover, and one valid Islamic way of making decisions in such a situation is the consensus of the Islamic community, and a democratic process is a possible way to decide these issues. Yes, one can take an extremist position and decree that democracy is godless and contrary to the policy of Islam, and everything should be decided by the Islamic holy leaders, but it is my belief that such people are the very vocal minority within Iraq. If the people of Iraq were so opposed to democracy because they believed it to be contrary to Islam, the occupation, to quote Admiral Yamamoto, would be facing a rifle behind every blade of grass.

Hah! I'd trust you about as much as a Commie would trust you with their Welfare state!

This be me, with thanks to imageshack. I need a haircut.

The saying about curiosity killing the cat has never been more fitting, I think.

When you say pron do you mean you say the animated humanoid animal stuff or are you talking about the two people wearing costumes like on trigger happy TV, with holes cut out humping each other? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Humanoid animal stuff, mostly. For some reason, seeing actual people in suits doesn't disgust me so much, because it's just two people in suits. But seeing some big hairy humanoid cat going down on a big hairy humanoid dog in extremely artistic and greusome detail accompanied by some sort of slash fanfic type story is a horrible experience for me.

I've seen dogs, rabbits, raccoons, foxes, jackals, and countless other abominations of nature. The thing is, it's almost like one of those innocent things that was taken too far. There's nothing disgusting about, say, the playboy bunny, or those little cat-ear hairbands, but then somehow, somewhere, someone went the whole hog and ruined my sanity.

Well, did you want to dress up in a full body fursuit and pretend to be a cat while making love to her? If so, then yes, you are a furry. Otherwise, lose 1d3 Sanity points for the mental image. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I remember seeing something on that on television once. They followed a guy who went to a convention for that, for the first time, really really weird <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Weird isn't the half of it. I am, much to my detriment, an unbelieveably curious person. This has meant that on certain occasions I have ended up seeing sights that have made me regret possesing sight. Woe unto the non-furry who happens to stumble across furry pr0n. I ended up having an involuntary spasm where I hit my head repeatedly in an effort to drive the memory out of my brain. I think I rolled a proverbial natural 20 when it came to sanity loss that day.

Well, did you want to dress up in a full body fursuit and pretend to be a cat while making love to her? If so, then yes, you are a furry. Otherwise, lose 1d3 Sanity points for the mental image.

Trust me, friend, ignorance truly is bliss. What I wouldn't give to be able to ask that question. What I wouldn't give for the innocence of youth...

Hmph. There's a pretty clear heirarchy, and we're at the top and get to mock people: Geeks (i.e. Nerds with social lives and friends and sexual relations) > Nerds And HP slash-fic writers, furries and trekkies clearly fall into the nerd category, so we'll mock all we want:

North and South. ...They're holding magnets, see... "

Isn't beaming someone somewhere more or less like killing them, taking all the bits of them apart, and then cloning them with the bits? That's always bothered me, because it seems to me that when you get beamed somewhere, you die.

No, no don't you see?! When they see tentacle demons portrayed as symbols of masculinity and the male sexual organ, in a freudian way, it will lead them to worship of tentacled gods, such as the Great Old Ones! And when you put that with the last few popes, and the mayan calendar, we see that the end of the world is indeed nigh! Everyone, grab your tinfoil hats!

As a D&D geek, I can't stand HP nerds. When will they get it through their heads that wands can only cast a single spell of 4th level or lower? And why are all the spells in Latin? How did people cast spells before Latin developed? And if yopu can cast spells in languages other than Latin, why not just cast them in English? ARRRRGH! I'm sorry, I'm transferring my anger at Harry Potter's setting onto HP nerds, but I can't help it. I's gots me a condition.

I haven't seen it yet, but yeah, the game was brilliant! Just remembering the babelfish puzzle...frustrated anger mixed with laughter is a strange emotion!

Who said you did it to save the free peoples of Toril? If Mephistopheles destroys Toril

Mephistopheles. " And it wasn't Bioware who came up with the name, so feel free to blame WotC or TSR.

Your alignment, if you play to it, will affect the ending. Of course, you could be the vilest creature on Faerun and then all of a sudden decide to banish Mephistopheles back to the hells and save all the free peoples of Toril, but that wouldn't be a very evil thing to do. "

DS9 sucked. Sucked so bad. Boldly sitting in one place where others have sat before. Woo. DS9 was the longest yawnfest of any star trek series. Voyager was way, way better than DS9. Not that that's hard.

Alas, I am unemployed. But I'm applying for a bunch of till jobs at the moment.

Kaftan, you sound like the sort of person who might appreciate the concept behind Progress Quest.