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Or we can just kill all the children we don't want by ripping them limb from limb... brilliant, I'll make millions! What's that you say? Already allowed?! But yes in all seriousness since there hasn't been a conclusive study showing that gays cannot raise children normally it would be the right thing for society to allow them to adopt. However if some federally led report concluded that they are incapable of raising them to the same standards as heterosexually headed families, then I would support a ban on gay adoption. But until then I think it would be best if gay couples were not only allowed but encouraged to adopt children, then perhaps people won't use the excuse they're aborting their child because they'll just have a sad life in an orphanage [although to be honest when I was on vacation in Italy I went to La Citta Dei Ragazzi and it was actually pretty cool, the orphans even elected and ran their own government and had their own legal currency, each boy getting an allowance + more for the jobs they do + more if they are a government official. My immediate thought was its pretty cool, not sure if I would want to live their long term though, I spoke with one of the kids who couldn't even speak Italian yet as he recently came from Iraq and he said its nice to have all the people around but he wanted his parents who were dead. Obivously its instinctual to generally desire parental figures, but do genders truly matter?]

If you get superpowers don't be a superhero, that's just lame. Supervillian is the way to go.

Got a reason for that snipe? Only organization in this country that even cares about the rights of people anymore. Because their "care" for rights is quite corrupted. They indiscriminately back anyone who is in supposed right violation, regardless if they have broken the law or acted completely uncivil and the only right being impeded upon is their right to their incivility. It has defended the Westboro Baptist's Church to be uncivil, sued teachers for conducting a public prayer (which America would have freedom of worship, not religion if they successfully sued). It defended an ex-CIA member from an information suppression order, why should we even have an agency to attempt to protect us if they should be allowed to share information freely? They fight for more prisoner rights when they already have televisions, free housing and food, and free classes. They also think any legislation against mass spam would be (i.e. to even label it spam) would be an infringement on rights. I hate lobbyist groups.They fight for such controversial things not because they care, it is simple exhibitionism (not in the sexual way). Plus fighting for more rights all the time does not create a balanced society, it just creates more inequality needing to be balanced and more hardfeelings. Justice is what needs to be fought for. People are way too oversensitive about their already excessive rights while they allow injustice to trample the world, which in turn infringes on true freedom more then anything else.

In late defense of myself, if you actually read the thread it was a discussion if the holiday should be advocated or shunned; is it a celebration of rights or a day of malicious expression of hate. Oh and plus it was myself who reported a couple of posters to get all the pictures removed of Mohammad because it did not add to the discussion and it was just being disrespectful to Islam. So yes, you did make an obtuse comment and although I did create the "Everybody Draw Mohammad Day" DISCUSSION thread, it was not obtuse in the least bit. Again, I'm not pro-gay marriage but honestly, it is extremely hypocritical when people use their religion as the supposed grounds of their objection and they're divorced. That in itself is a higher distortion of religious marriage than gay marriage because the breakage of the bond was done by men when not even God would separate, so it is blasphemous as well as contracting vows. Edit: ACLU, ha.

Inequality is somewhat decreased. Yay, let's promote aids and children possibly having to grow up without a real mother. I'm not pro-gay marriage as some probably know, but that was a rather obtuse comment and commentary presented like that is key as to why the most intelligent topics on this forum usually deteriorate into repetitive and insulting shouting matches.

Actually you are wrong. The Church is the Catholic Church not the Roman Catholic Church. There are numerous church rites within the Catholic Church. I was saying even within the collective of the Church you shouldn't stereotype all of it just because of one church rite. Maronites are part of the Church but not Roman Catholic. Edit: To Saruman, Maronites are small but they are part of the Catholic Church as I said above. I apologize if I came on too strongly.

As I said in another thread, I think moves like this will increase the size of the Anglican rite of the Catholic Church. I think a few conservative Anglicans place gay marriage being permitted in Church as a higher issue then the supremacy of the Pope. I have no problem with gay marriage if the religion/religious superiors consent to it, but for instance you cannot force a bishop to allow it. Oppression and forcibly imposed "rights" are two halves of the same whole. Since religious scripture is public domain everyone should be able to utilize it at any given moment so gays could use it, but I believe they have no right to use a church if the church does not permit it. As for the person who said the Church is brain dead for the last 1900yrs, please stop your ignorant speech of things you don't know. My Church [the Maronites] is in much debt because for the last 600yrs the Turks forced the Christian peasants in the Middle East to pay a tax and if they didn't comply they would kill them, so all our patriarchs would use all the money in their coffers to pay for as many of the peasants tax as they could, and instead of living in their palace they would normally live in a cave or in a forest and close their palace because they couldn't afford it. For the last 1600yrs we've been getting slaughtered because we refuse to give up our works and belief, even one of our patriarchs was killed by the Mamluks in defense of a pagan. We really try to stick to true mysticism and what Jesus said even though many in the Western world has bastardized Christianity [demonstrated even in something as simplistic as the turban transforming into a miter and the word Amiin being Latinized to Amen, as well as the very poorly done translations of scripture]. Some of the goals of our life are to grow in union with God by serving others regardless of creed, pursue as much knowledge as we can and pursue success [that seems pretty not brain dead to me]. Just because you see extreme instances of opulence and greed in, say maybe the Roman Catholic Church, don't generalize all Christians.

I would be kind of apathetic to knowing to be honest. I'm going to die anyway, my knowing or not of exactly when should not effect the way I live.

Well I live in America but I have a strong allegiance to my culture. I've never liked patriotism or nationalism for various reasons, but I do find the embracing of one's culture is important to the fabric of communities within larger society. I find patriotism to be extremely similar to nationalism and they lead to bad results, such as the idea of racial/national supremacy and an "us- versus-them" mentality. I'm Middle Eastern and its very interesting because all Middle Eastern people who embrace their culture to any degree seem to mix really well together, no matter what country they're from. I don't feel like Middle Eastern people are superior, we just meld well because of similarities I presume. Belonging to Arab American society I don't have the need to have patriotism for the United States, but I am grateful for what I have here and I would like to assist America and help those in need as much as I can, but that's more out of helping people in general and not specifically America. I have never understood the militant patriotism taught in the United States which leads to people thinking the government is infallible.

I was invited to my Egyptian friend's house to eat a middle eastern dish we both like called malahea. It has many different ways to be made, but I did not anticipate this. It had the consistency of slimy seaweed and it was made with what I can only explain to be aged fish. EW

ENTJ It's like they're stalking me :ohnoes: However I find "Little patience" an understatement for how I get when I assign someone a job in a group and they fail to meet my deadline. Hahaha so true...

Skull, that is brilliant.

Ah yes, so Obama wishes to pass more restrictions in mediums of information? The imminent infringement thought crime? What is next, cameras in the TV, implementing of newspeak and the banning of oldspeak?

I would find it interesting if there were a psychology study done on the effects of different parental relationships in regards to their children compared to each other. I'm thinking a straight couple, an incest couple, a gay couple, a polygamist marriage, a man-rock marriage and a man-goat marriage. It's already been proven parental relationships and actions affect the behavior and habits of offspring so I wonder how differently couple types would also affect children. I find incest marriages unethical as you're consciously marrying someone with similar genes which has a good chance of resulting in children who display normally recessive unhealthy genes. Incest seems not to be as large a problem as it was though because there is usually no more materialistic/titular motive.

I sat down on the bench to my grand piano and remembered I couldn't play the piano so my mom called me a noob. What should I do?

^That's ridiculous, congratz.

GQ, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, Time and National Geographic.

What loser takes responsibility for something that's solely their fault?

There's a fallacy in there somewhere. Not sure which one though, I don't keep a list, but if any of the more knowledgeable posters do, please say it... :lol: It's interesting that you post this after mentioning how blinded the anti-Israel side is, though. IT is a red herring, specifically an "irrelevant conclusion" fallacy. a) You support it b ) they call themselves a humanitarian flotilla conclusion: you support it therefore [fallacy] you also call it a humanitarian flotilla. My point exactly, if someone calls themselves something and then you support them you agree with what they are calling themselves Thank you tortilliachp for your support :thumbsup: I believe you are using the reasoning fallacy "[bleep] hoc ergo propter hoc", I think that's the term. The incorrect assumption of an irrelevant conclusion due to solely its association.

The only surefire way you could get rid of bad grade grades is next time you have to find an active volcano and drop the report card in. The lava won't tell anyone.

I remember when I was a freshman I had a bet that I'd get all straight A's every trimester for every class and I think it was in Physics I got a B+ on the final so I took it, burnt it and mixed the ash into a painting I was painting and no one ever questioned where my report card was. I must say I think that was the most brilliant way of deposing of something without minimal trace evidence. Think more eccentrically next time and you won't get problems like that. Or you can just tell your parents you consumed large amounts of food from Sonic and the resulting load of defecation warped the pipes of your house causing leaks.

Nice video 5 Stars! This is a good comparison to the reality of the audio tape IDF released and the kind of "peace" Israel advocates; one that is fabricated from lies and mocks the weak. And just a personal peeve, I rather dislike how some speakers of Hebrew can't say Hamas. It's Hamas, not Khamas. The IDF didn't release this video. How is this fabricated from lies? That hamas givens children guns or that they receive billions in aid or the hamas is a terrorist organization They were pronouncing hamas in Hebrew http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.HTML You obviously do not read what other people say as I said the reality of this video is comparable to that of the audio tape IDF released. And on that note I will leave this thread as it shows Israeli supporters like you blindly support Israel and do not even read what they reject. By the way it was missiles to Palestinian children, not Hamas giving guns to Hamasi kids, so that denotes that all Palestinians are terrorists who exploit children which is incredibly racist, not to mention a supposed Turk is wearing the headdress style of a Saudi. By the way if they were suppose to be Arabs how come they pronounced Hamas in Hebrew? They can't even make a consistent satire.