GENIUS FORUMS

I do not recommend alcohol as a mind stimulating drug. It just isn't. Alcohol and women are the worst drugs possible for thinking. Avoid them both, and especially in concert! So why do you continue? At any rate, at one point I copy pasted a trivia game I was playing while drunk. I recently reread i...

That's it in a nutshell. You can't argue with children, and college students of any age are children in every sense of the word. Can you imagine, expecting to be spoon-fed knowledge and understanding? No one who thinks there is any value in that approach beyond vocational concerns is an intellectua...

Let me give you an example of a real article that came in at random on stumbleupon but is fairly typical. They Had No Expression On Their Faces' Updated: 13:12, Tuesday June 19, 2007 Two dozen emaciated boys have been discovered at a special-needs orphanage in Iraqi capital Baghdad. Troops helping t...

Bilby wrote:Katy, did the poll actually specifiy bombings in totally unrelated countries?

So you're saying it's OK to target civilians so long as a citizen of their country did something bad?

Since the coding change, "search" only searches the posts made since the coding change. Is there any way to update that so that it will search through all the posts again? if you go to google and in the box type site:theabsolute.net and then the search terms it does about the same thing (...

And regarding that "support for terror" - this is in the Christian Science Monitor - in otherwords, a source that is usually anti-Islamic. CSMonitor WASHINGTON - Those who think that Muslim countries and pro-terrorist attitudes go hand-in-hand might be shocked by new polling research: Amer...

I could just as easily, if not more easily, argue that misogyny is inherent in African-American culture. I mean, have you looked at music videos recently? What do you see? Black women wearing almost-nothing getting smacked around, beat up, and glorifying rape. And men wearing "bling" calli...

Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:Dan,

Would you mind explaining how "the Muslim thing" in this thread is an example of fallacy of composition, but the Woman thing is not?

You might should start another thread - he did say earlier he was done with this one.

I think you just gotta say the shahadat and then you're muslim forever. Sorry, no converting for you. You're stuck. Forever. Of course, given that, I, and I assume you, are both muslims. Just very bad muslims. Of course, it was the imam's wife in a very conservative mosque in Japan (she and her husb...

Kelly Jones wrote: I don't see anything more in this "current affairs" than romance-oriented socialising, myself.

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How interesting that you had to join in, then.

I would be willing to bet a lot that not all murders are reported over there.

And anyway, you completely missed my point, which is that the news chooses what to emphasize, and what to mention. They'll choose to emphasize religion in the case of a muslim more often than they will a christian.

News is by nature, factual, as opposed to say, current affairs programs. OK but it's a fact that I went to a biblestudy tonight. Now, you could just report that fact and come off with the idea that I'm a good christian. Or you could look at "the biblestudy was in my house, and I was rather sur...

Sue Hindmarsh wrote:-

I like The original Saint better than The resurrected Saint.

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The second image just leads to an error message.

Leyla eventually stated that most Muslims are like my friend, rather than like her, or like the guy who raped me, or like Huh? I must have missed something, but I am fairly certain that Leyla would not say that most muslims are like a rapist. In fact I'm pretty sure I saw the number 25% somewhere i...

Elizabeth Isabelle wrote:No, we don't cut the head of St. Bernards, this is what we do with them

See Dan? I told you it would make less sense...
I was responding to him being immortal - a Highlander joke.

I have never experienced any prejudiced actions towards myself from any muslims based on my gender, and this includes being quite good friends with several Saudi Arabians online for many years.

Dan Rowden wrote:I know it's true - I'm one of them!

Quick someone cut Dan's head off!

Dan Rowden wrote: And therapy cannot provide it.

Well it can, it just isn't required and costs a lot of money for something you could do on your own.

The problem with using finger lenght is that what it actually measures is the amount of testosterone in your mother's uterus. The more older brothers you have the more you are likely to have an index finger longer than your ring finger... but it isn't genetic, it's environmental. That said, Dan has ...

Please help me sort out the difference between a congressman and a senator, and what sort of initiatives each are responsible for. Here are some links that may help: http://www.senate.gov/ http://www.buchanan.house.gov/grants.shtml OK please tell me what you're specifically looking to learn here? I...

If you look at chimps, our nearest relatives, they might offer some clue. Without tools, meat is very scarce, and not a frequent occasion. Thus, when there IS meat, everyone tries to get a piece of it before everyone else does. Since plants and sweet fruits and such are all around you all the time, ...

You might have a spyware type thing telling you that to try to get you to download a program to get rid of it or something. That happened to me at one point - caused a bloody nightmare trying to get rid of the whole thing.

the judge increased her sentence to 45 days. No, the original sentence was 45 days and the judge specifically said that it was not to be shortened for any reason. That it was illegally shortened was simply corrected. And home confinement is far from standard for anyone who is not a flight risk. You...

Dan Rowden wrote: Not especially. I guess it's me!

Geeze... the man can't even recognize what an honor it is to have made such an impact on the board that they felt the need to (a) look up your picture and (b) post it in a separate thread!

What? You don't feel privilaged that they allowed your picture to grace their "zOMG Richard Dawkins is soooooo hawt!!11!!!!!!!!1eleventy11!!" thread?