Skeptical

I'm pro-life...pro-human life. I oppose the death penalty. As I've said - yeah, I eat meat. I enjoy it too - because, guess what: an animal is not a human. The masturbation argument is completely ridiculous because a sperm cell has not yet been formed into a child and natural biological processes waste it anyway - same to the ovulation argument. If your argument had any merit the church would be shunning those who have miscarriages. Oh, and also, it's not only religious people who are anti-abortion. Do you honestly think that certain forms of life are special because they're human? And almost all anti-abortionist happen to have some form of religious involvement. No facts to back this up, although I'll look for some numbers.

Being a vegetarian isn't too horrible, as long as you supplement like crazy, and minimize carb consumption. Pretty hard, eh?

Nobody cares what genre you consider good/not good hth! (You're not as edgy as you think you are.) I agree, although I want to modify that, since it should be: >Metal >Metalcore Just because they have the same word in their genre, doesn't mean they're in the same genre. And it is certainly not about being "edgy" (if that's a word).

They should be allowed to, unless of course, we stop building churches on the sites of Christian terrorist attacks.

I guess I'm pretty much a student. I do some computer stuff, manual labour and whatnot when I can.

I heard that he described himself as the Kurt Cobain of his generation. Seriously, I'm not a very violent person, but after hearing that....

Core That is one of the worst movies I've ever seen: not even that one dude's awesome chin could make up for it.

Death's Head - Slayer

I don't plan to buy it, unless they actually make some awesome maps, and fix the grenade-noobs.

Being vegetarian is unhealthy. Better than eating fast food? Yes. The industrial food machine commits horrors on such a scale as to not just frighten, but to rend one's mind with the sheer scale of pain and moral obliviousness.

First of all; the term used by those who oppose abortion is an untruth: they are not pro-life, they are anti-abortion. If they were pro-life, they would oppose the death penalty and be completely vegetarian. When someone insists that a fetus, stem-cell, etc. has the rights of a human being, I will laugh at them. Loudly. I will not restrain myself in expressing contempt of either an evil and archaic set of religious and moral beliefs, or the lack of a basic understanding of what constitutes a sentient being. I wish to make one thing clear. I am not a bleeding heart liberal. In fact, I shun the label of Liberal completely, unless it is applied in the sense of "a forward thinking individual". At no point, ever, is "faith" or "belief" a ethical, believable or admirable basis for a decision. If you disagree with that statement, allow me to express a mixture of sadness and fear. To address a common argument: Did you eat today? Chances are, there was some form of animal included somewhere within the calories that are currently burning to keep you alive. Now, this is a living, thinking being that feels pain and forms social attachments. Chances again are that it was raised in a life of abject misery: removed from it's mother immediately at birth, kept indoors (perhaps in a feed lot outdoors, if it was cattle), maybe without ever having seen daylight, and treated as a number by machines and companies that care nothing for it's life. It's entire life exists for nothing but our consumption. For those males among us who are vegetarian, I ask you: have you ever masturbated? That's millions of potential children, wasted... women have you ever ovulated? Religion is making a serious attempt to keep you subservient to your body, to destroy your rights, to make your entire gender second to that of men. What better way to do that then to add false guilt to the equation?

Elitism is a cruelty that we inflict not just upon the current generation, but those that follow. By refusing to provide education, by believing that there is a fundamental difference between those who have a number in a bank account somewhere, and those who don't, we are dooming the past to repeat, and the divide between the haves and the have-nots to continue increasing.

No. They also do not have "souls": morality is entirely a human construct, although I do strongly suspect that if intelligent life is ever made contact with, they would possess a similar set of guidelines to the living of one's life.

Civilians do not need pistols. No pistol should ever be offered for sale if it is capable of being fired. No civilian ever needs an automatic rifle. Ever. Period. No "magazine limits" no rate-of-fire restrictions. No. Automatic. Rifles. If you want a rifle to hunt, that's fine. Keeping a shotgun at home is stupid. If you really want one though, you can get a license, go through a background check, and have it in a month. Restrictions on amount of ammo that can be purchased. Ammunition and firearms should only be available from a system similar to the Liquor Control Board of Ontario.

They may both be gross, but BK is worse: the actual cleanliness of the restaurant is questionable, they screw up every single order, no matter how simply (ex: I order two strawberry milkshakes: I get one chocolate and one vanilla, and then they tell me that the machine is broken, so it's that or nothing.) Still, MickeyD is pretty gross too, so....

http://www.pirateparty.ca/ I'll be donating to them.

Yea, I saw this a bit ago: that is truly awesome.

They Say, by Scars on Broadway.

I'll probably see it; looks pretty good to me.

http://freetheanimal.com/2010/01/extensive-notes-on-good-calories-bad-calories.html Download & read. Only take you an hour to go over it well. The book took forever, but it might be worth it if you're interested. The Mythology of Obesity • obesity research hardly deserves to be called science; based on the assumption that excess weight results from excess calorie consumption and/or physical inactivity ("gluttony-sloth hypothesis") ◦ the attitude is that this assumption cannot be questioned, doing so makes one an extreme skeptic ◦ the evidence all points to different causes, and contradicts the gluttony-sloth hypothesis over and over • mainstream explanation of obesity epidemic: prosperity leads to overeating and higher-fat diets, and less physically demanding work ◦ a few major problems with this explanation: ▪ the increase in calories since the 70s has been primarily from carbs; fat intake has fallen ▪ the exercise mania started in the 70s ▪ obesity is most prevalent among the poor and hard-working (commonly co- existing with childhood malnutrition) • case study: the Pima Indians ◦ hit very hard by diseases of civilization (obesity, diabetes) after taking up western foods (beans, sugar, flour, soft drinks)

Good race this year. I missed a lot of it due to a family commitment, but I saw chunks here a there. I feel like Lance really had it rough, although it was his own stupidity that brought him back for another year.

Things I hate most in this world: - Fox (crappy shows, worse news, and they canceled Firefly.) - Twilight (romantic Mormon propaganda that's an embarrassment to literature.) - Everything else

The comics were pretty awesome, I've read them all. If they don't do anything stupid, it'll be a scary-as-hell show.

what if they are constantly reading their own stuff? or what about people in publishing who read tons of other peoples unpublished stuff? All writers are readers. Not all readers are writers. If you're "learning" to write by reading your own writing, then it either won't be very good, or it doesn't exist.

I've got to wonder though: with some form of physical manifestation, can we even cope with our own existence?