Ginger_Warrior

I'd personally go with new skills, but my opinion on that has the potential to change vastly depending on how the skills are trained and implemented in-game.

I'm surprised to see it locked. I expected that a few warnings might have been handed out already, so I'm even more surprised to discover it's been locked when that's not the case.

It's not my "opinion" on the term Christianity; it's established fact that different denominations of the Christian faith feel differently about marriage. Your hypothetical style of arguing is deeply inaccurate because you're suggesting, in essence, that Quakers and Catholics think "generally" the same things as each other because they just so happen to both be Christian as well. You're treating the Christian faith itself as completely black or completely white, when in reality, some parts of the Christian faith are darker shades of grey than other parts. The fact you're doing so hypothetically doesn't remove from the fallacy you're committing.

I'll repeat my warning on the use of the term "Christianity". It's like me suggesting that Americans tend to eat McDonald's so I'll pick on all Americans as an example of fast food and rising obesity rates.

There's plenty harm in assigning ranks that have no real purpose. You give people a sense of entitlement which isn't necessarily merited, you risk turning a clan into a "gentleman's club", and you make new recruits feel that progression within the clan is less obtainable. If you want to give people moderator powers, make them admins, not ranks. I feel like you're placing far too much emphasis on ranks, which from an outside point-of-view, is frankly nauseating. With respect, a lot of the "knowledge" referred to in this thread is actually freely available on sites such as XP Waste, which any new recruit should be reading anyway to progress their own personal development. It gets to the point where nothing is really gained by the clan, or offered to recruits, by giving members fancy titles and symbols next to their name in the clan list. What's needed is an emphasis on teaching new recruits how to dungeoneer properly, which EoE initially set out to do and ceased doing a long time ago, but it's something all experienced members should be willing to do in the first place, regardless of their rank. Teach people how to use DGSweeper, how to read a map, how to assess a map and pick out each individual member's "path", and then how to prioritise that assessment (doing levs before a GD you can probably solo, or dropping your gate when your path forks, for example).

Except there are denominations of the Christian faith that have no issue with gay marriage. Let's not tar all Christians with the same brush, here. The premise of the pro-gay marriage argument is that nobody should be allowed to enforce their own personal values in regards to sexuality on other people. Followers of churches who do not support gay marriage should have no right to block churches who do support gay marriage from carrying out those ceremonies. Anyone who argues against that premise is doing so in complete ignorance to the human right of free religious practice. A gay marriage carried out by an (argument's sake) Quaker church is no business of an (argument's sake) Catholic church; why should the latter be allowed to prevent the former from carrying out that ceremony? In line with that, I should have no right as someone who does support gay marriage to tell a priest in a church that does not support gay marriage that (s)he must carry out a service they feel is fundamentally against what they stand for.

They also banned American citizens from adopting Russian children at all, regardless of sexuality. Does this then also mean that having American foster parents causes detrimental effects on an adopted child?

Some of us live in its country of origin and watched it three hours ago. :P GET ON MY LEVEL

Civ 5. Go.

Big problem with IT jobs. EVERYONE is doing it in the event of a fallback, (so even those who wanted it as a main career are screwed anyway). THE BIGGEST issue, is countries in general are outsourcing and having people come to each country on visa to do IT jobs as in India, the IT industry is massive with workers. Australia wise, the problem is they come on visas to do the jobs requiring University degrees and high-end experience. HOWEVER instead they decide to work in a lower-grade IT job because it's easier for them to get in reguardless. This ends up choking entry-level workers having a chance to get in. A good example is at my mates work, a guy was hired just because he had a diploma in IT engineering....in a ENTRY level job that was hardware repairs. He's never done hardware repairs but was hired over me simply for the Uni degree. (I guess you could call it a slight rant) basically, don't rely on IT as a fallback, because EVERYONE is doing it. That may be true for Australia, but it doesn't look the case here. I don't think I've ever seen a foreigner working with computers, a lot of Asians and White folk though...natively born I mean. To me it seems like a decent job market considering, yes, lots of people know about computers but there's five more having no idea and needing repairs. Every big business needs someone to look after the network and the national infrastructure doesn't maintain itself. It seems like jobs unlikely to be outsourced. But I'll keep your concerns in mind. I might be totally wrong and see lots of under-employed people taking my jobs, idk. Just figured IT would be a better backup to a history professor than having no backup at all (I guess pizza delievery counts? :P ). @T-Tan: without a doubt it is, but it has a lot to do with manipulation. I'm not good at that nor do I feel good pushing things down on people. Sales is one of the few jobs I've made a decision I will never do. I think the reality is you need two or three "back-ups" unless you're virtually guaranteed a job post-graduate. IT, for what my opinion's worth, is a good back-up because the world is becoming increasingly dependent on carrying out basic administrative tasks using a computer; hence, even in a recession, there's no shortage of jobs in admin which require IT literacy (even if there's currently a lot of competition for them, just like every employment sector out there). Retail is also a good back-up. Even if you feel like you currently lack confidence in facing the public, you quickly learn and you'll gain confidence as you go along, confidence you can use to break your way into a better job, if it's not a long-term prospect. My personal "back-up" after dropping out of medical school was care work, and it ended up going from a back-up into something I think I'd be quite happy doing for the rest of my working life. Keep an open mind.

Let homosexuals be the judge of that. I'm sure they don't need you to speak for them on how strongly they feel about this. Who are you to decide how much effort they'd put into fighting for marriage rights, if there were no financial benefit to it? Just assume that they would for argument's sake, and answer the question that was put to you.

Weak answer. Very weak answer.

Nope, and there doesn't need to be. Just because a heterosexual married couple cannot procreate at a single instance in time doesn't mean they'll be unable to procreate in the future, unlike homosexuals which by definition cannot procreate. I'm reasonably sure that a heterosexual woman who's had a bilateral oophorectomy or a hysterectomy will fall under the definition of "cannot procreate" equally as much as a homosexual couple will. Perhaps more so, even, than a lesbian couple where one spouse is bisexual.

I hope you know that you just made me laugh like a retarded seal.

<_< I enjoy the odd night out just as much as the next guy, but this is beginning to get irksome...

And look how calm and well-reasoned the gun control row has turned out. What a model example to cite for the use of emotion in sound decision-making.

It isn't a good concern to have in a logical discussion at all, since the claim you are making is unfalsifiable and thus cannot possibly be reasoned against. As for the second part of your sentence, is emotional irrationality really the most appropriate basis on which to define the laws that govern our societies?

Is a purely speculative argument which holds zero weight in a logical discussion.

Wrong. A very quick database search of my university library's subscribed sources for the terms "homosexuality* AND parenting*" found several hundred studies specific to the subject of psychology. To conduct a more useful search, you would have to define what specific detriment you're looking for. Increased levels of anxiety, for example. Edit: Limiting the constraints to journal articles published in the past five years still produced 74 results.[1] That's only for the journals my university is subscribed to; there are many more out there. Does this qualify as 'legitimate research'?

We have a saying: If you don't buy a ticket, you can't win the lottery. I don't buy lottery tickets, but the odds of finding a girl who'll say 'Yes' are a damn sight higher than winning the lottery.

Given your title, I'm disappointed to have not found a picture of you walking along the ceiling of the GWD.

Oh, well... if he's gay and doesn't support same-sex marriage himself, then there must be something wrong. Quick everyone, find a black man who wouldn't mind working a cotton farm while shackled in chains! I don't think that Christians are evil. Firstly, not all Christians are as against homosexuality as implied in the first instance. Secondly, even if you are, you have just as much right to that opinion as an atheists or followers of any other faith who also happen to disapprove of homosexuality. Your right to hold and express those opinions however, end when they start to infringe on the rights of other people. From a British perspective, and I acknowledge that the issue is debated along different lines here than it is in the US, my frustration with the Church and gay marriage comes from the sense of entitlement. They claim that marriage is this great social institution (and even as an atheist, I agree with that), but then they draw up their own rules which prevent everyone in that society from enjoying the benefits of that institution. Furthermore, their beliefs are completely out of sync with public opinion; attitude to same-sex marriage has been becoming consistently more liberal over the past twenty years, and we're now at the point where those who believe homosexuality is fundamentally wrong are in a minority. Quite apart from that, western societies are generally much more secular now than ever before... if a religious organisation doesn't want to carry out same-sex marriages in their own churches, then we can all understand that, but why then try to impose those beliefs, and deny marriage as an institution, to people who do not share your beliefs?

The lack of activity was the main reason for me leaving, amongst a couple of other things. Towards the end, it became near impossible to get a full floor going, despite there being a couple dozen people in the clan chat. It's not like they were AFKing either, they were in the chat and just talking over anyone who was calling a floor. You shouldn't take this as a vote towards anything, since I'm not really intending on returning to EoE and I have left the clan, but if I had a say-so on the matter, I'd be asking to start over. It really is the best way to "trim the fat", so to speak.

What is going on here?!

Made a totally original song for you. Tans gonna pop some tags. He's got 18 mil in his pocket. H-h-he's planting, lookin' for a skillcape. This is [bleep]ing nerdy.