Great for parties. Not so much for anything else.*

*except reliving your childhood by downloading Ocarina of Time and Starfox.

Lost a girlfriend, made a lot of money. Picked up some nasty habits, got my first 4.0 semester. Mixed bag.

safariguy5 wrote:I need to find out where they're finding the girls...and move there.

Truth.

Jeez I don't even remember it was so long ago. I want to say I googled "online risk" and this came up...

No freaking way. It's been ages since I saw you post!

Yeah hahaha, finals inspired some procrastination-inspired risk

I think I remember you

Didn't you used to have an avvy of some ...

Love the concept. Bonuses for Turkish/Greek territory, great idea for us Middle East nerds. Props to the creator.

john9blue wrote:

OnlyAmbrose wrote:Jeez I don't even remember it was so long ago. I want to say I googled "online risk" and this came up...

No freaking way. It's been ages since I saw you post!

Yeah hahaha, finals inspired some procrastination-inspired risk

Jeez I don't even remember it was so long ago. I want to say I googled "online risk" and this came up...

A dear friend of mine is an atheist, as are both of her parents. If she believed in Jesus Christ, she would be a better Christian than me. Her family is more cohesive than most Christian families I know. Saying that atheists have no morals is generalizing to an unacceptable extent.

I think ...

In the wise words of Vox Day:

Agnostic: I don't believe in God. Because there is no evidence.

Atheist: I don't believe in God. Because I'm an asshole.

Giving some serious thought to 20 years in the military and retiring at 42

Sorry, but last time I checked, "Thou shalt not bear false witness" was a pretty fundamental precept of Christianity, INCLUDING the Roman Catholic church.


And what exactly does this have to do with the Pope lifting an excommunication which had nothing to do with "bearing false witness?"


And ...

What about the rest? Geez, you guys sure like to apologize for anything a christian leader does, no matter how wrong it is.

What "rest"? I already answered you - the Pope has and continues to speak out against genocide and specifically the holocaust.

Apologize for anything a Christian leader ...

mpjh wrote:It is also his responsibility to state clearly that the Holocaust was itself amoral and a great sin against humanity.

As I wrote above, he did.

It is a "sin" in your christian terminology to deny the holocaust when you know that encourages further hatred of Jews, and you do it with that purpose in mind. Even Benedict doesn't deny the holocaust, he knows better.

The issue here is not excommunication. Benedict could have let the Nazi back ...

What is disturbing to us all, I think, though is that denying the Haulocaust would not be considered a serious sin and an offense against the church.

Oh come on. Do you really expect the Church to write down in the Catechism: "It is a sin to deny the holocaust."

I'm not going to judge whether ...

So since being pregnant is "natural" and being attached to a violinist is not, you're going to tell me the right to life is different? The only distinction you've made between the two is that one is a natural event in nature and one is not. The right to life is really that fragile? Because the ...

Sure, but that's not the problem. In fact, the entire problem is that holocaust-denial is not an offense for which you can be excommunicated.

I think catholics should be a little less concerned about rules and a little more concerned about what is right.

You have ZERO understanding of the ...

So since being pregnant is "natural" and being attached to a violinist is not, you're going to tell me the right to life is different? The only distinction you've made between the two is that one is a natural event in nature and one is not. The right to life is really that fragile? Because the ...

I'm not fond of Williamson, but getting pissed off at the Pope over this is ridiculous for three reasons:

1) Denying the holocaust is NOT an offense for which you can be excommunicated.

2) The excommunications had nothing to do with holocaust denial.

3) Lifting the excommunications therefore must ...

Let me put this another way:

It's paying someone to kill someone else to whom they didn't consent to having in the first place, hence the violinist.

Let's take something like your forehead example and turn it around.

What if there was a person in the world, who by some magic spell not of their ...

Let me put this another way:

It's paying someone to kill someone else to whom they didn't consent to having in the first place, hence the violinist.

Let's take something like your forehead example and turn it around.

What if there was a person in the world, who by some magic spell not of their ...

1. I didn't come up with the act of a dying man. You did. So don't try to tie it into Thompson's argument...

Why not? It's perfectly relevant in that it's an analogy of a situation which you do not consent to enter, but at which it could be argued you have a moral obligation to do what you can ...

Let me sum it up another way:

It is clear that by having sex, you run the risk of becoming pregnant, regardless of what contraceptive measures you use. I could easily argue that that is consent right there - in having sex, you accept the chance that you could become pregnant. That means you accept ...

I'm saying that you have absolutely no OBLIGATION to do it. You can't be found GUILTY of anything wrong if you did it. It shows you have piss-poor character and you SHOULDN'T do it, but just because you shouldn't do something doesn't mean you're obligated to. Are you saying that you believe that ...

Apparently I wasn't quite clear. I care more about the validity of Thompson's argument and how it relates to the permissibility of abortion in the circumstances mentioned (concerning CONSENT)

This is related to what I was saying to MeDeFe in the above post - I don't think consent makes a damn bit ...