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I'll tell you what, I don't remember backing down from any challenges, but if you all feel I'm a troll, so be it. I'll continue to enjoy these boards, but I will no longer make my views known. Honor, swordsman3003, LeftTentacleGreen, feel free to browbeat anyone you please to either see your side in...

swordsman3003: I'll try to keep this shorter than my last response to you. We wouldn't want you missing any valuable educational opportunities while crafting a response. No, I do not believe they are true. I accept them as true on a tentative basis. Use the proper terminology please. I don’t believe...

Seth Marati: In my worldview, conviction is one of the most important things a person can have. However, conviction has nothing to do with attacking anyone who has a different perspective. If instead of automatically calling into question the validity of anyone's beliefs, certain people of this boar...

...And it's at this point where you cross the line to where you are either a liar or an idiot. I say this without the intent to be unnecessarily abrasive or insulting... Merely very, very clear. "Liar" in this instance could be expanded to include someone who's making a false argument for the sake ...

And that's why I love arguing with swordsman3003. You bring into question his beliefs and he flies off the handle just like any other zealot. swordsman3003: Once again, you seem to be mistaking defending your beliefs, standing up for your beliefs and fighting for your beliefs with "going out and kil...

*looks at the security feed and wonders how a ghost can even access a computer terminal. even if rev could activate the voice commands, he'd have no access because he's not officially part of the crew.* Oh well, if he can't requisition those things, I'll do it for him. He's been dead so long, it'd b...

I'll start this off seriously, but it'll veer off in an equally accurate and truthful, albiet much more humorous anecdote. Be warned. I was "officially" tested in the second and fifth grades. I never really cared what the scores were because they put me in the gifted program for the school system an...

I think all of your responses could be valid, depending on the person. I don't think I've ever said that sort of thing to anyone, but if I did, my reasoning might be "I want to let you know that I'm interested in you but I know you're in a relationship, so I won't make a move on you as such because...

I agree that swordsman3003 is intelligent and well-educated. I'm just trying to make him understand that he's using his intelligence and education in such a limited way. His latest posts are prime examples. He still insists that I advocate violence and anarchy, even though I have pointed out that it...

Holy shit, Churba! Is she legal? She's damn cute, and I look young for my age, but I'd be afraid to go outside with her. She may not be young enough to be my daughter, but she certainly looks young enough to be a slightly older and still highly illegal friend of any children that I may have. But hey...

Mine isn't so much a self-esteem issue. I have a very high opinion of my self-woth. I can sit here and list all of the things that I could do to make MistressMaggie, xnapalmxmorningx and even Honor very happy (be it physically, emotionally, intellectually, etc.) and be confident that at least some o...

Nope... Exactly the right amount. Which is not at all. My "perceptions" are dispassionate. Which means I tend to see theology as exactly the steaming, putrid, damaging, disgusting, barbaric, and idiotic pile of soupy rat dung it is. Which is my point. Theology is none of those things. Certain group...

OOC: I'm not familliar with the Traveller universe, so if there's anything pertinent to the universe I should know for my job, I'd appreciate it if someone told me. Right now, I'm basing all of the computer tech off a combination of standard sci-fi conventions and a light mix of Rifts tech (mostly j...

swordsman3003: Either you're intentionally only reading half of what I say, or you're an idiot. I'm not some sociopath who's itching to kill anyone with a different opinion. I've stated clearly, several times, that this is in a case of someone else (be it religious, governmental or domestic influenc...

Xero: You could twist the logic however you wanted. The fact remains that incest is illegal because the majority of society wants it to be illegal. All you've shown is a high interest in a specific subject by the minority of society. I could make a website and post nothing but rape/snuff stories. If...

Actually, if you actually look at the numbers on that site, you'll see that "Erotic Couplings" has over 7000 more stories than "Incest/Taboo". Using your logic, the majority still prefers straight one-on-one sex to anything else. Also note that "BDSM" has almost as many stories as "Incest/Taboo", ar...

Ah, but that's my entire point. If society felt that incest wasn't wrong and was willing to defend those beliefs, there would be no peer pressure. Any given religion would be able to say whatever they wanted to about incest, but the majority would disagree. Religion can only say incest is wrong beca...

Challenge all you want with whatever witnesses you'd like. History has shown that if a group of people is willing to fight for what they believe in, they either win or they die. Religion can only control the people who choose to be controlled by it. Once a person lets someone else's beliefs overpowe...

Or, they'll rebel against those beliefs and start gathering like-minded individuals to help them preserve their beliefs. That's how societies evolve, someone introduces new ideas and people either accept them or reject them. Either the new idea or the old idea ends up being supressed and held only b...

Have religions ever forced anyone to believe anything? No, they state their beliefs, they persuade people to believe them and sometimes they kill those who refuse Wait, what? That sure sounds like forcing to me. Actually, I believe that would be known as an attempt to force. You can't actually forc...