Like I've said, I'm not religious but I would be much more interested in it if we were to prove the existence of spirits. Not over the edge, and I would probably pick up Buddhism because it seems most reasonable beyond the part about spirits.

It would be hilarious though, to know that ghosts were produced in the pentagon.

This is part of my idea, I mean, this question, so what do you think so that I can better understand.

Only in THIS time, does this scenario hold so much value. When someone is born by an accident, and then is not wanted, and is raised poorly because of the fact. Why are adoption programs established in the first place? Because there are more people having sex that don't want children, there are more people without the means to have children, but want children, and there are more people out there suffering from bad parenting. This hasn't always been the case, see what I've said to Kukla.

The chances of "accidentally" having children, and the chances of not being able to care for the child, have to be higher now than any other time in history, partly due to the fact that there are just more people in general out there at this moment than any other specific time in history. If the failure rate is higher now than ever, and the number of gays raising children are higher than ever too, logically, the percent of failure has to effect the lower number, the gay adopters, more than the people having the children by accident. Also, something to conceder is, why are they failing? If it's because of the income, look at the percent of failure with a mother and father in the same income bracket than the adopter's, you will find that there is a wide gap.

Most accidental births, I'm sure, are well taken care of despite the fact that they weren't planned, more often in a higher income bracket than a lower. The people with a low income will fail, whereas the people in the higher one, even though it's accidental, will be taken care of just as well as ones raised by adopters, because they are given money, and already have the money to do so.

In all of time, there have been more straight couples with money and children than gay couples with money and children... think about it. Statistically speaking, the straight people may have failed more people over the coarse of history, but that doesn't mean that they haven't also raised more children successfully too.

Just, logically, look at what I'm saying and you shouldn't need a pretty colored chart with numbers all over it. I'm basically saying for every 999,999,999 children born in all of time, into a mother/father environment, how many have really, honestly, failed because they were "accidently" conceived of. less than .05%-.005%, and I would bet money on it. Even at that rate, that's anywhere from 500,000 to 50,000 people effected because of accidental birth, raised in a mother father environment, out of 999,999,999.

How many raised by same sex? Because it hasn't happened in nature, because it can't happen naturally, that number is significantly higher. You have 99999 people raised by gays or same sex, and you have 99 fail, that's still .09%.

Even though 49,999 people is more than 99, statistically speaking, more fail raised by same sex seeing as the the fail rate by the accidental is .005%, and the same sex is .09%.

None of these numbers are taken from anywhere, but they should be adequate enough to demonstrate my point.

Star Trek is set in the future, but at the same time, it has less substance. No real story, it seems like a quilt. All of these small "adventures", all sewn up into one story.

Star Wars though is set, strangely enough, in the past, where technology isn't necessarily "advanced", but different. Everything is still heavily mechanized, even though it's inefficient, and the elite class of soldier or peace keeper use devices like swords... sure they are laser swords (lightsabers), but they are still swords. So the story is set in the past, but it's a GIANT past. It was a long time ago, and when the film starts it gives a feeling that the world the characters live in is even older than what you see. Talks about the "clone wars", and people that have died long ago... it just gives the feeling that the universe is HUGE, and there is a ton of history there. Unlike Star Trek, which has it's history written in our real history books... Boring. Also, there is one giant story line leading you to one point, the balancing of the force.

What doesn't make much sense to most people, is why we get episode 4, 5, and 6, in the 70's and 80's, and then in 2000-2007 (or something) we get episodes 1, 2, and 3. Luke was the balance, wasn't he? No, it was Anakin.

Darth Sidious killed his master, Darth Plagueis, in his sleep. We find this out in episode 3. We also learn that Darth Plagueis "the wise" could keep people from dying, or bring people back to life. This is what turned Anakin, ultimately. The need to save Padme. All of Anakin's problems leading up to that point, were caused by Darth Sidious. In fact, Anakin wouldn't have met Padme had the trade federation not blockaded Naboo, which did so under the command of Senitor Palpatine, aka Darth Sidious.

Anywho, when Darth Sidious killed his master in his sleep, Darth Plagueis got his revenge by creating Anakin out of mediclorians. Remember, Anakin came about without conception. He was created by the force, by Darth Plagueis, to murder Darth Sidious. He did this in episode 6. The film begins in Naboo, with the blockade, and ends with Darth Vader killing Emperor Palpatine, all according to plan, but you don't realize it until seeing episode 3, which was the last out of 6.

Gah, now I look like a huge star wars nerd... but Star Wars is by far a much better series than Star Trek.

My point is, if you can prove the existence of ghosts, you can safely assume, for once, that there is a god as well. That's my two cents, and I'm not even religious.

For instance, if you were to move from a house where people listened to classic rock, to a house where people listened to country, and you didn't like the people, when you heard country again, it would probably bring up bad memories or at least subconsciously trigger the feeling of being in the place where you had to listen to country... it would make you feel shitty because your mind links the bad times with the country music.

Really though, this is a simple question, though interesting in comparison to... everything else here. When you wake up on the wrong side of the bed would you say you're in a bad music? When you turn on your radio do you hear good mood? No, you start with the mood and use music, like coffee, to manipulate it. Music effects mood, but mood is first.

Statistically, it's the people who aren't adopting because the people who can accidentally have children don't always accidently have children, and those who do, aren't always bad parents. Also, even though the adopters may be great parents, it doesn't make things any better if the kid doesn't accept their false parents... Most people aren't gay, so the kid may feel even more alienated than if s/he were brought up with straight guardians.

From the highest level of the government to the lowest citizen, just do your part.

Why do people commit crimes??? Why do people lie, cheat, steal? Why do people push so hard? Play by the rules, tell the truth, earn what you want. If you are so right, you can convince people that you are, you won't need to push if you talk and listen. Basic things really, just do your part in society. Please.

If you're rich, pay those taxes. If your poor, get educated and apply yourself.

As I'm typing this there is someone doing, maybe, 60mph down a very narrow street in a lifted white chevy, tires squealing around the corner, just to slam on the brakes and stop in the middle of the street to get out and scream at a house... it's 2:34am, this is what I'm talking about. The guy out there, in any case, is an idiot. Why does he need to be doing what he's doing... and now he's speeding off.

Goodnight.

I mentioned this to one of my customers tonight, and he praised Hitler because he was strong, and "almost conquered all of europe"... without recalling that he did this by declaring marshal law and breaching the limits of the Treaty of Versailles on the basis that a) a terrorist set ablaze the german parliament, and b) jews are to blame for everything... and there's a master race that was meant to rule them all... because after all, they were a bunch of fascists and they "understood" that some were better fit to rule than others...

Fascists and Socialists have one thing in common. When they push their agenda, they point at the worst possible implementation of the ideology and use it to declare the ideology EVIL.

People shouldn't pick sides. Life is not perfect, it is not built around your life. Do what you can when you can. If that means standing above the rest, go right ahead, when that means giving all you have to the person "bellow" you, do it. There is no reason anyone should be so dead set on any particular order of things.

It's good that you don't feel guilty though, because it's nothing that you've done directly, I hope. Segregation on the basis of skin color or ethnicity should be left in the 1900's with Hitler.

Also, by stereotyping black people as "colt-45-swilling" and "Oprah watching", you are essentially feeding the very monster that you've proclaimed to free yourself from.

I was talking with a black girl yesterday at the college I go to, and even she mentioned how some people say that a certain professor grades blacks and whites differently. She said it was bullshit, and he didn't but that most black people that come in just aren't as interested in class or being on time as white people. Rather than making it an issue, she just said that they come from different parts of town, with different sociological backgrounds, and this is to blame, not skin color.

I felt guilty then, knowing that she had to even think about it. Anglo Americans are to blame for this, and I am of decent, so I feel guilty that race or skin color is even mentioned before statistics and social class.

Even though we've elected a black president, it doesn't mean that there isn't something still wrong. If we're making a big deal about a black president, then it's obviously something that we recognize as unusual or something to mention.

Also, the article above is biased.

It's like the prohibition of marijuana on the bases that it's a "gateway drug". It may be true that people that are now on heroin have tried weed, it doesn't mean that it lead these people without control, to heroin. The same as saying people that do drive-by-shootings began their vehicular criminal life by driving to the mall, or at the DMV.

The theoretical implication to marriage between a man and man or a woman and a woman are the same as a man and woman. Then again, maybe you should be so bold as to ask a more correct question "How can marriage, in general, hurt anyone".

What I mean is, I would go to this party and tell everyone that they need to act like they have a life and post some better debates. Something that isn't exactly YES vs. NO. Go read some philosophy, a chapter in morals and ethics, create one that is actually useful and difficult...

I would like to see though, just what people are really like here on CD, in RL, especially JoeC.

I feel like I know this society, I know what I want from it, and this type of theft is something that you cannot just make a law against and expect people to follow. They are planning to escape. It's not elusive or meant to be undetected. The go in thinking that we will know, and now, because they've done it maybe three times, they are probably getting the idea that not only do we know, but we will not take action.

Now, I had a friend a while back, in fact a few of them, that have had things stolen from their houses, and they called the police, and in one case the person thought someone was still in the house. The police never showed up. The only time they did was for a grand theft auto, and it was only to have the owner of the car file paperwork. I cannot trust the police here to do anything about it.

Maybe though, I can call the sharif department, and ask them to come sit in the alley one Friday and Saturday. We know, roughly, what the vehicle looks like, and it's make and model. I can give them a print out of the guys face, if they think they match, haul them off.

This is unlikely to happen though, and like I said, my boss is a wiener. Maybe instead of attacking the assailant I should just collect all of the information that I can, and file a useless report. They might be doing this elsewhere too.

It would feel so good though to trap the rat and make him pay. Take what he thought was his, and hand him his $90 tab and tell him to pay it while the police are (supposedly) on the way. The only problem is, if the driver of the car comes into the equation once they realize that the runner is not coming back.

^Opinion^

The reason I feel like I should do something, is that I am there every night, and this one asshole comes in, when everyone else is struggling to pay, and he grabs beer, of all things, a luxury item, and runs with it. I don't think that the worst people in society should have things when the better people play by the rules that I too follow, as a supporter of community, and TAKE opportunities from them like that. It's not only disrespectful to me, but the owners who are christian koreans too. They don't have to deal with it directly, as I do, and these people down here shouldn't get the idea that MY shitty little store is a good place to demonstrate their civil disobedience.

Punishment is immanent, but how should I execute the punishment? Should I feed my anger by dealing with it myself, or should I depend on a pretty slow and insecure reactionary organization...