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Interesting oO I just did a Buddhism test for my religion course earlier today. But yeah, like what I wrote down there, if I wasn't Catholic, I'd be Buddhist because of its practice of the Middle Way. I said in another thread where I believe moderation is the key, but the funny thing I think of sometimes is how Buddhists took moderation to the extreme.

When I said my POV, I meant they understand what my posts mean, and why I'm posting. You don't have to see it my way, I'm just saying that people here understand what marriage is, and what freedom is. I didn't close my ears, I said the word 'acknowledged' so many times. But this kind of logic being used against me confuses me. Let me understand a bit better, here's an analogy of mine and explain where I'm wrong: Say I'm from a culture that believes in God. Culture and religion go hand in hand because pretty much everything we celebrate that we call tradition is related to our religion. And an atheist comes in from a different culture - he says, "you're a moron because God doesn't exist." We're at this point now where I will go "yeah well, you shouldn't be saying that because your culture has a different view of what intelligence is" What am I missing here?

*SPOILER* He does help the terrorists, but probably cause he might have some defense contract or oil connection that would make him a lot of money if the US goes into war

No proof no care :lol:

...what? Jeez, sorry if my vocabulary sucks, but that's not even what I'm getting at. He wants me to speak to a "universality of humanity" when people here can understand me. When I talk about freedom and marriage, people here actually understand what I mean. There's no need to speak 'universally' when people here can fully understand me. And don't tell me you don't argue from your point of view either, you do it all the time. Everyone does it, but according to some people, I have to go the extra mile for no reason.

You forgot the bolded huge letters dude. Don't worry, I fixed it for you. Was *I* flipping out again? :lol:

Screenies Loading Menu Loading image when joining a game (map of the destination) When the game finally loads.. Choose your job from Engineer, Medic, Sniper, Assault, Heavy SS w/ no weapon Sniping Using a boat Using helicopter Using humvee Looking at scores Losing Winning I uninstalled the game from my laptop temporarily because it owns my homework too much :uhh:

I drowned kittens before. Put them in a sack, tied it, and then threw it in a body of water. Does that make me a horrible person :shock:

My point is how you claimed my culture to be yours. Which it's not. You know nothing of my culture. You keep pointing out the inconsistency of my posts, but what about yours? How can you prove that arranged marriage is for the betterment of the society? How can you prove that the ability to choose your own spouse is for the worse? I'm not going to pretend to be on their shoes when I don't want to. I'm criticizing it from this point of view which I've acknowledged so many times now that I'm tired of it. I'm not going to use their logic because I have mine. Using theirs defeats the purpose of me criticizing them. If people were to take things from the other side's point of view, what's the point in arguing? My views does not equal theirs. I got that the first time you posted. But that is NOT why I made this thread. I made this thread because of my point of view. How many times do I have to reiterate this?

I never claimed my culture to be perfect. But the thing is, this thread isn't about my culture. If I wanted a thread pointing out the faults of my culture, I would've done so. But no - I made this thread to discuss the issue with other people who are mostly not influenced by such tradition. I expect people to agree and disagree obviously, but because they understand what I'm coming from. I understand what you're trying to say, but like I already said a few times, that is not the point of this thread. You may claim that cultures that still use arranged marriage may show more commitment, but I don't believe that at all. Be careful with what you claim as 'our families' or 'our culture' as my culture is sure to be different from yours. Marriage is something permanent and is dear to us. I'd even be willing to say that from the people I've met over the years, people of my culture have a much stronger family bond than others. Why do you think my country doesn't even have divorce? I understand that that is another form of lack of freedom, but that's for another thread. My culture is as rich as the ones which employ arranged marriage. Rich culture seemed to have become synonymous with the phrase third world countries, but that's exactly where I came from. I'm proud to be of that culture - something that you probably are not a part off. But rich culture isn't always synonymous with the phrase arranged marriage. What your culture may have a fault at will not be the same with mine. That's why I spared the technicalities and spoke the general terms most of the people here can understand.

Watched Pan's Labyrinth at school today. Awesome movie, kinda creepy at times though

It's a girl rubbing their arse on a guy's crotch. It's basically dry-humping.

Oh yeah, so I remember it wrong then. I just vaguely remember it from a news report a few years back.

IIRC, there are some parts in the world where water would move up when you spill it on the road

Grinding isn't dancing :shock:

Nuclear war involves the use of nukes from both sides. Only one side using a nuke isn't nuclear war, that's just pure ownage. But yeah, it seems like China is preparing for something though <<

Reason what? That they have a different point of view in terms of what freedom and marriage is? I already acknowledged that. But that is why I'm criticizing it because it is not what I think it should be. If I wanted the obvious to be said to my face, I would have said so in the beginning. With Locke's reasoning, he wants me to post reasoning for people that do not exist here. Everyone here understands 'my' meaning of marriage and freedom. I wouldn't be here if I wanted to discuss arranged marriage with people who were restricted to that kind of mentality and fully oblivious to the societies that do not employ arranged marriages. I'm not here to discuss why they exist, I'm here to discuss why they are barbaric to us. Some countries culture involves them killing off female children because males are much more wanted. Maybe it's right to them, but I can't [bleep]ing care less because it's blatantly wrong to me. Want to prove me wrong? Tell me the merits of having arranged marriage

Arabs... not Asians, rofl

Serious discussions don't need to involve useless pedant. It's okay if you don't understand. I forgive you.

Oh jeez, are you freakin serious? Did you try reading the thread? I know I've been warned about making fun of you, but just stop rofl. You're trying too hard

Universality of humanity? This forum is a subsection of a gaming forum that has people living a majority of it in Western countries. All who posted in this thread alone live in a country that understands my meaning. To go to the depth you want me to would only appear as useless pedantry.

I already admitted that it's MY point of view. How does that make any less of a criticism? The fact that it's "their culture and you can't criticize it" doesn't make sense to me. Am I not allowed to make my own opinion? Maybe in THEIR sense of freedoms or rights, they don't. But fortunately (or unfortunately?) for me, I can. If a culture condones slavery, rape, murder, are you saying NO ONE outside of THAT culture can comment on it? That's a ridiculous logic.

Station here called Global broadcasts the show for Canada. Pwned :D :P

Prison Break starts at 8. Heroes at 9. 24 at 10. 3 shows in one channel ftw

To any culture, anyone understands the notion of freedom. The ability to choose what you want. Using your definition of their marriage (which I'm sure some people would disagree as 'love' isn't something contained to one culture), it's basically slavery. It's basically the family trading off their child to ensure family ties with people of their choosing. If it's my point of view that tradition is barbaric, so be it. It doesn't make it any less of a legitimate criticism. Using the "just because it's their culture" reasoning doesn't make it any more right.