Wonder if anyone has seen this vid:
Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
Aren't you the one always saying poor people commit crimes because it's their survival instincts? Make up your mind.
I would never claim all poor people commit crimes because of their survival instinct, just like not all poor people are 'victims of circumstance', but it's one of the leading causes of crime and the one we should gaze into.
Ok, I tried to moderate this but obviously some people here are not interested in anything other than parading their own egos.
Dr McBeefington, an official warning to you for ignoring what I said.
The current argument stops now. THis soical thrad is no longer to be used for such things. If it continues to be used so I shall close the thread.
If you wish to hold such arguments, open a thread in the relevant part of the GDF.
Originally posted by UshgarakI don't get it. You tell him he has to see something the way you see it, and if he doesn't [religion, much?] he can get banned for it? You can ban traditional Jews for expressing their traditional Jewish views? [I swear the rhyming was an accident]
Ok, I tried to moderate this but obviously some people here are not interested in anything other than parading their own egos.Dr McBeefington, an official warning to you for ignoring what I said.
The current argument stops now. THis soical thrad is no longer to be used for such things. If it continues to be used so I shall close the thread.
If you wish to hold such arguments, open a thread in the relevant part of the GDF.
Is that in the rules?
Originally posted by Ushgarak
[B]Ok, I tried to moderate this but obviously some people here are not interested in anything other than parading their own egos.
Dr McBeefington, an official warning to you for ignoring what I said.
In fact, you should be happy that some of us have decided to add some real life relavance to this forum by introducing political and social debates. I have no clue as to why you even involve yourself here seeing as how we're all learning something new about each other's views everyday.
Originally posted by Dr McBeefington
I'm glad you realized that I was ignoring what you said. I have no intention to respond to what you wrote in any fashion. If you want to write the rules of this forum as you go along, be my guest, you'll just see that this forum ceases to exist.In fact, you should be happy that some of us have decided to add some real life relavance to this forum by introducing political and social debates. I have no clue as to why you even involve yourself here seeing as how we're all learning something new about each other's views everyday.
Jesus Christ, Sexy! We genuinely agree on something! What has the world come to?! I mean, what's next? Uwe Boll makes a good movie?
Anyway, I'm kind of freaked out right now. I need a therapist.
Uwe Boll?
I've heard about this petition, but it's honestly all pointless. Even if it gets up to a million names, do you honestly think he's going to stop?
And I don't understand why people are so obsessed with 'stopping' directors. I mean, Uwe Boll is a piece of shit director according to basically every movie-sane person on the planet, but we don't have to watch his films. It doesn't really harm us if he makes bad movies, so long as we don't watch them, and do we honestly have a right to stop his self-expression because we do not like it? That's contradictory to the concept of moral relativism, being that our opinion is subjective in nature and we do not have a right to force upon someone who does not harm us in any real way.
[Just kidding, I signed it months ago. **** Uwe Boll.]
Originally posted by Eminence
I'm too young to watch that video. Mature content and all.
Haha, you immature brat!
Originally posted by Eminence
W00t. You had me worried.
Don't worry. Cinema is one of my passions, and I cannot sit by and allow Uwe Boll to continue his desecration of the magnificent art. He must suffer the consequences.
By the way, did you hear of an event called 'Raging Boll'? Apparently a bunch of critics who abhorred his movies were challenged to a boxing match with him, and they actually agreed to do it. I mean, wtf?
Originally posted by Master CrimzonNuh uh...
Haha, you immature brat!
Don't worry. Cinema is one of my passions, and I cannot sit by and allow Uwe Boll to continue his desecration of the magnificent art. He must suffer the consequences.Rofl, yeah. Take a look.By the way, did you hear of an event called 'Raging Boll'? Apparently a bunch of critics who abhorred his movies were challenged to a boxing match with him, and they actually agreed to do it. I mean, wtf?
Originally posted by Eminence
Rofl, yeah. Take a look.
These bunch of noobs got owned by Uwe Boll, it would seem. That's very, very sad, and annoyingly cements the reputation of film critics being glorified nerds.
Why couldn't I have been there? I would have introduced him to the age-old Israeli Krav Maga karate movie of doom, a move responsible for victory over the disgustingly evil Palestinians. It's alternatively called 'sodomy', but we prefer to use its proper name.
Ush, I don't think any of that was necessary. No one has had their feelings hurt from this thread and the level of discourse has been far above the level of most of the threads in the GDF. We have an honest to goodness difference of opinion and the chance to (attempt to) explain our worldviews and understand those diametrically opposed to them can only be a good experience.
The need to verbalize well has cleared up some of my own views, and (with luck) has helped to develop our identities beyond that of 'I think like my parents' or 'I don't think like my parents' or 'I think this just 'cause'. I can't see a single downside to the discussion at hand. It exposes us to points of view that are otherwise heavily censored, be it by our own choice of media outlet (Faux news, anyone? Or Keith Olberman, for that matter?) or simply the company we keep. One of the (few?) truly revolutionary qualities of the internet is that it unifies the world like never before. No longer are our interactions limited to our neighbors and acquaintances.
Anyway, do you really want to make the decision that a social setting can only ever discuss shallow concepts?
Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Ush, I don't think any of that was necessary. No one has had their feelings hurt from this thread and the level of discourse has been far above the level of most of the threads in the GDF. We have an honest to goodness difference of opinion and the chance to (attempt to) explain our worldviews and understand those diametrically opposed to them can only be a good experience.The need to verbalize well has cleared up some of my own views, and (with luck) has helped to develop our identities beyond that of 'I think like my parents' or 'I don't think like my parents' or 'I think this just 'cause'. I can't see a single downside to the discussion at hand. It exposes us to points of view that are otherwise heavily censored, be it by our own choice of media outlet (Faux news, anyone? Or Keith Olberman, for that matter?) or simply the company we keep. One of the (few?) truly revolutionary qualities of the internet is that it unifies the world like never before. No longer are our interactions limited to our neighbors and acquaintances.
Anyway, do you really want to make the decision that a social setting can only ever discuss shallow concepts?
Well said, but I think the Iron Sheik has made up his mind.