Posts by Kracklite
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Reading Mary Roach's Stiff a few months back, I was impressed by the sensitivity and respect that medical students were taught to show towards cadavers - and they were voluntarily donated.
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After the recording this avo, I dropped in at St. Patrick's Cathedral...
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Oh, goody. Goat blood...
And that is the other reason why we love him.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to nzlemming,
One of my favourite videos too - it's obviously influenced by Ralph Gibson's photography.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to nzlemming,
there are many, many more who claim and do both of those things.
Indeed, hence the distinction.
You are also calling for disrespect of individuals for what they do and say.
Well, that's a corollary, but not what I meant... in isolation, anyway. I believe in the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. Now defining wrong is really a can of anacondas...
religion has nothing to do with spirituality
I suppose that's why I'm more comfortable talking about someone's faith, denoting their spirituality, than their affiliation, as denoted by "religion".
And on the right to be wrong, find it in the lyrics below...
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to andin,
If only it were that easy. Cause the number of people who use the loophole of, well I/we are human and fallible but my/our god/spirituality cant be judged by my failings, is truly mind boggling.
I find that rather charming, actually, when it's sincere. I know a number of faithful Christians who demonstrate true humility, which manifests as "I cannot claim to know the will of God, or to speak for Him". That I respect - and it makes them of a fundamentally different order from the Ratzingers, Bushes, Capills and Phelps of this world.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Yes, interesting that… kinda. The questions were often so worded that you could agree on principle with one half, but in order to indicate your agreement with that half, you also had to agree with the other, more overtly fascistic half. I do not think that this is accidental. It made me quite uncomfortable, and I generally retreated to the moral libertarian stance of “well yes, but even so, the state should not have a role in determining it” and clicked “(strongly) disagree”.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to Steve Parks,
Steve, FWIW my own position, which I admit that I self-censored somewhat, turns out to be not so radical in this discussion after all, is to agree with you.
Anyway, if it was good enough for some Pharaohs...
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Emma’s link doesn’t seem to work, but this does.
Stanley H. Tweedle in a sidecar, he's a middle-aged man in a suit. Judging by his prose, I thought that he was an adolescent pimple farm.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Now I’m thinking of Mister Universe’s marriage to his lovebot in __Serenity__…
How about this: make a pass in the Turing Test a mandatory prerequisite for a marriage license.
Jack, thanks.
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Hard News: Gaying Out, in reply to BenWilson,
No, it's what happens when you meet a stranger in the alps. Which version were you watching?