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1961

Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: December 08, 2013, 11:09:29 PM »

Quote from: Rama Set on December 08, 2013, 11:03:23 PM

Quote from: Roundy on December 08, 2013, 10:53:11 PM
Quote from: Rama Set on December 08, 2013, 10:48:42 PM
Accidents are unanticipated. If you have a set of laws that can predict the set of possible outcomes and each one in the set I s arrived at by a causal set of events then it would be an anticipated possibility.

So who anticipated it?

What did: the laws of physics.

How did an insentient concept anticipate something?

1962

Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: December 08, 2013, 10:53:11 PM »

Quote from: Rama Set on December 08, 2013, 10:48:42 PM

Accidents are unanticipated. If you have a set of laws that can predict the set of possible outcomes and each one in the set I s arrived at by a causal set of events then it would be an anticipated possibility.

So who anticipated it?

1963

Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Nelson Mandella is dead

« on: December 08, 2013, 05:22:43 PM »

“At the end of the day… violence was the only weapon that would destroy apartheid.” ~ Nelson Mandela, 1959

Let's not whitewash history here.

1964

Suggestions & Concerns / Re: FES Video

« on: December 08, 2013, 05:15:21 PM »

Quote from: Excelsior John on December 08, 2013, 05:13:54 PM

Quote from: Roundy on December 08, 2013, 04:58:59 PM
We should use EJ, he might help us get some more black people on the forums.
AFRICAN AMERICAN!!! And yes we should. I would be happy to lend my voice

I don't think we should restrict membership to black people from the Americas, it seems a bit racist.

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Announcements / Re: Permanent forum staff assignments have been made

« on: December 08, 2013, 05:13:37 PM »

We have made a very ineffectual enemy!

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: FES Video

« on: December 08, 2013, 04:58:59 PM »

We should use EJ, he might help us get some more black people on the forums.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Gateway Musicians

« on: December 08, 2013, 12:47:46 AM »

Quote from: Blanko on December 08, 2013, 12:33:33 AM

Metallica sucks.

Irrelevant.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: What Religion are you?

« on: December 07, 2013, 09:44:30 PM »

Quote from: Yaakov ben Avraham on December 07, 2013, 07:08:42 PM

Read the Torah. That makes it true.

That is pretty convenient that the Jews wrote a book that states that they have divine right to the land. Your argument boils down to, essentially, "The Jews say they have divine right, therefore they have divine right." I'm sure you can understand that nobody rational is going to take this kind of hooey seriously. If this is your reasoning, then you have no real reasoning.

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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: stats page

« on: December 07, 2013, 06:51:08 PM »

I think it was those balloons that really turned me off of that theme. If Thork would only have let them go it might have been decent.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Gateway Musicians

« on: December 07, 2013, 06:43:35 PM »

Danzig ruined a Metallica concert for me once.

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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Gateway Musicians

« on: December 07, 2013, 05:01:27 AM »

My life changed when I first heard "Walk on the Wild Side" by Lou Reed. It sparked an interest in classic rock that has informed my taste in music to this day.

Guns n Roses, Metallica, and Van Halen (their early stuff, with David Lee Roth) probably deserve joint credit in getting me interested in heavy rock music. Van Halen more than the others I guess because I heard them first, but GnR and Metallica deserve mentioning because they were the first hard rock/metal groups I ever really got into.

Without The Clash's London Calling I may never have gotten over my opinion of punk music as nothing more than repetitive and amateurish; I now consider it my favorite genre of music. Moby's Play led to a similar epiphany regarding the merits of electronic music.

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