My top 10 list varies from week to week. Sure, Gmail is always my most visited, but sometimes I get briefly obsessed with certain sites only to completely abandon them the following week. What can I say? I'm fickle. That said, here's my current Top 10:
- http://www.www.geekologie.com
- http://www.thebestdesigns.com
- http://www.craigslist.org/pets
- http://www.spring.org.uk/ (PsyBlog)
- http://www.myspace.com (Don't judge me!)
- Craftzine (http://blog.craftzine.com/)
Dictatorship. Statistically speaking, a better chance exists that a dictatorship would be benevolent than there is that a whole society of anarchists would have one another's best interests in mind.
Yes, totally. Especially if that nerdy chick is me. No, seriously. Beauty fades. Well, mine probably won't. I'm going to use my intelligence to figure out a way to be hot forever. But that's not the point.
This is a subjective question, and my subjective answer is that being hot for a significant other on a long term basis is nearly impossible if you don't respect the person, and it's hard to respect a dim bulb.
No. Though not religious, I do believe in a God. It is actually the very reality of evolution, knowledge of science and the complexity of our universe and everything in it that convinces me that there is some sort of higher power. At this point in time, it makes more sense that a higher power exists than the idea that a galaxy that possesses such scientific complexity is due to a series of haphazard coincidences.
There are actually several secular sources believed to be reliable documentation that someone known as "Christ" did exist. The writers that refer to a figure known as Christ outside of any Biblical context include (but aren't limited to) Plinius/Pliny The Younger - Governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor (A.D. 112), A Roman historian named Suetonius (A.D. 120) and a historian from the first century named Phlegon.
Given the fact that there are secular references to Jesus's existence, Jesus Christ was a real person.
However, whether or not Jesus was a miracle worker or the Son of God remains has not been proven scientifically or historically.
It's not fatalistic. Education would be a benefit, but wouldn't absolve us of anything. I'm not saying we are doomed to repeat history no matter what. But as long as long we, as a society, continue to deflect the blame of conflict to any third party entity, we are attempting to absolve ourselves of responsibility and therefore doomed to repeat mistakes.
Maybe zombies aren't statistically likely, but I have about 3 escape plans. You know, just in case. No one likes crappy surprises, especially when that crappy surprise is an undead creature trying to eat their brain.
You know, I really don't think there's any way to absolve human responsibility. Blaming the world's conflicts on things like religion, video games, or any other third party entity is just a way of deflecting blame from ourselves as a species, thus ensuring that we repeat our mistakes on a massive scale.
This really depends on what your gaming goals are. The systems are very different in not just their execution, but also their usage.
The Wii is a great console if your goal is to have something that non-gamers can easily pick up and play, and if you plan on playing in more of a party/social setting.
The Xbox is better if you plan on doing a lot of online gaming and/or plan on playing more "serious" games like shooters and RPGs.
I have both consoles, and up until about 3 months ago I didn't do a lot of gaming. However, now I find that I'm enjoying a range of games from Mass Effect and GTA IV to silly Xbox Live games like Brain Challenge, UNO, and Marble Madness thanks to the 360. I play with the Wii occasionally, but it's usually when I have people over that aren't big gamers, and we tend to stick with the Wii Sports games or, more recently, the new Mari Kart.
I also use the Xbox as a Media Center, streaming movies and TV shows from my computer and my roommates' computers to my HDTV. I've also been using it as my primary DVD player, and occasionally downloading HD movies from Xbox Live. The Wii, unfortunately, can't do any of those things.
I'm definitely getting more value out of my 360. If I had to choose one, that would be it.
Yes, sometimes those ideologies are religions. However, they are not always religious. Getting rid of religion altogether wouldn't get rid of any of the other sources of conflict either.
But there are actually places where religion does some good. Not always, mind you, but enough to where having religion in the world does have it's benefits in terms of helping the poor, sick, creating a sense of community, or providing support for addicts. Getting rid of religion altogether would greatly take away from this, and although not everyone needs religion to accomplish these things, there is still a large part of the population that does. Excluding their needs would not only exhibit a sense of moral superiority, but acting on a "This is What's Best for You Attitude" is still a conflict of ideologies, so nothing is really solved there.
For the record, I am not religious. However, I understand that blaming the world's problems on religion is a dangerous way to absolve our personal (human) responsibility for a variety of conflicts.
I agree. I buy local and/or organic whenever possible simply to avoid pesticides, antibiotics, and genetically altered food as much as I can. I know it's impossible to avoid all carcinogens all the time, but if a little extra cash means I might be actively avoiding some of them, that's good enough for me.
I also grow my own food whenever possible for the same reason. Plus, anything I grow myself seems to taste better. Nothing is quite as nice as the fruits and vegetables of my own labor.
Actually, colonialism, opposing ideologies, ethnic conflict, and financial loss or gain are what fuels wars. Religion used in war has already been perverted by a government in order to impose an agenda on its people and gain support.
No. Without religion, the world would still have war and conflict as a result of colonialism, opposing ideologies, and ethnic conflicts, to name a few things. Although religion is often used as an excuse for war and conflict (usually an angle fed to a populace by its government in order to gain support for a particular initiative), the truth is that colonialism, ethnic conflict and financial gain are what's truly at the heart of these struggles.
Religion, in it's truest form, is simply a collection of guidelines for leading what should be a good and morally sound lifestyle. The fact that people use religion as a mask does not change the fact that an absence of religion would not get rid of the true cause of struggle: humanity.
Here's a nice summary of how disaster capitalism works, for those that are interested.
Yes, we are going to attack Iran. The reason given to the public will probably be something along the lines of how it's a breeding ground for terrorists, but the actual reason will be much more subversive. It's about creating large financial benefits for the world's richest and most powerful.
See, although the war in Iraq has cost the US government around 3 trillion dollars, individual corporations such as BP and Halliburton (and many, many more) have profited from this war by privatizing Iraq's economy, right down to it's water system. The heads of these corporations are getting filthy rich, and the US government is bending and creating laws that are helping them do just that, because the individual politicians stand to personally benefit from it come election day.
Iran's economy is next on the list to be privatized by these corporations. Iran is being positioned in the news as a threat slowly but surely in order to gain support (or at least less criticism) for the imminent war. However, the real reason behind it has nothing to do with the safety of the US or Israel or the world. It's about individual corporations, political leaders, and CEOs enjoying a large financial gain by creating chaos.
Depressing? Yes. But sadly, disaster capitalism is very, very real, and because of that, so is a future war with Iran.
