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two of my friends and i almost left to go yell at wendy's folk. then i read all the way through the post. i still wanna go yell at them for this. but i aint hungry enough. will be after the blunt. how am i gonna get: 1 fry 1 frostie 1 jbc 2 chk nugs 1 drink for six dollars? TELL ME THAT... HOW?

it has to be. reads exactly as they write.

grades. that's the problem with your college. you have grades. straight evaluations at my school.

that, is true. i dislike most of his colleagues

hahaaa. I will say a well used poli sci degree is amazing. My mom has her bachelors in poli sci with a masters in public admin. Works for environmental defense fund now. She is doin some cool shit. My stepdad just got tenure as a professor of poli sci, and is the chair of the social science department. I'd like to think he keeps his asshatery down to a min.

i dont think its so much proving you wrong as having common decency to not just opaquely claim that everyone else is wrong no matter what. this is a thread for discussion. to come in here and do that is to end that discussion. if thats your intent then why come here? why try and end something that you know full well may not matter. especially to you. just cus you see someone who believes in religion to be full of shit, doesn't give you any more right to come here and say that than they have to say we are full of shit for being empirical dogmatists. my point is. regardless of if you are right, even if i agree, it does not account for just being rude.

biggio just broke hank aarons double record. ninth in baseball history, and is now also 20th in career hits. without roids.

I haven't had the time to read through this entire thread, but I have tried to pick up the major points. I think there is a small medium between the man with the answers and dawood. I watch a shit ton of television. Not particularly because it amuses me, or because I always enjoy it. I do it to learn. I do it to understand what the rest of the people in this world are watching and interpreting. I read a statistic the other day that said one in six children under the age of two have a television in their rooms. That is fucking rediculous, no matter who you are. Dawood and casek are right in so much as there is a cultural and societal dependence upon TV as representative of the ideals we ascribe to. Even if those suggested messages are bad or have a specific agenda behind them (which i believe they do), it still follows that watching with that concept in mind can be good. I think mamerro has a rather inside and particular view of the industry we are all trying to understand and speculate about. At the same time, I see way too much politicization in commercial and programming content to find it as benign as mams sometimes makes it seem. I have spent the last two years watching headlines on google, and also spending a lot of time watching the news outlets on television. I also spend a lot of time watching vh1 and other rather trivial programming. Not to let myself become indoctrinated with the ideological messages it may convey, but to interpret the point of those messages. I suppose its a rather constructivist view of things, but I think it works rather well. I think that if anyone concentrates on such a task and allows their subconcious to sift through all of the stimuli it recieves through things such as television and internet, you can find a common thread among that stimuli. I read an interesting article recently that talked about the subconcious's larger ability to access and interpret large quantities of variables to make a well informed desicion. Much more so than concious thought for we become to focused on our subjective experience to make a correct objective choice. I think the same is true of interpreting what we see daily through television and the internet. As far as accepting the consumerism expressed through those mediums, sure, I buy my nikes, and I buy my fashionable clothing, but of my own personal choice. I am sure to some extent we are all marred with a basic choice of style that was given to us by some continued stimulus. just my thoughts.

i was hit by a car once. I was crossing westheimer (a major road in houston) on a bike. Some old bitch from river oaks didn't see the red light and continued on through it. Sufficive to say, she hit my back tire and the bike fell out from under me. I landed almost in a push up position. My head never touched the ground. I was way lucky. The funny thing was my dad was riding a bike right behind me. He watched the entire thing happen. After I was on the ground ok, he was up and bangin on the car cussin the shit out of the old woman. I thought it was funny at the time. I also got a brand new bike out of it the next day. Went for a ride along allen parkway.

at least people are stopping their continual belief in the pile of shit that the administration has thrown to them.

oh, guess i didnt lose it. sweet.

GOFSLRKFJ;owaenvasdf;lawdfva.... i just typed out a response... fuck goddamn loosing a shit ton of typing. I need to just start responding in word and pasting... fuck.

argument vs. decrying someones entire belief system is a bit different. My grandfather is muslim, and I have to say a lot of what Dawood says is not incorrect. Nor is his representation of the faith so limited. Like fermentor said before me, he even accepts its connections to the other two associated religions. And he was right earlier in stating that people are misinterpreting its dogma in today's time. Fanatacism is fanatacism is fanatacism. People will take literal construals of dogmatic texts until the day humanity is finished. And those people will always represent the darker and more fucked up side of a religion. I read an interesting article the other day about the phrase "the christian right." It was written by a roman catholic who felt that the politicization of the word christian was blasphemous. He, instead, suggested the use of the word "christianism." Essentially the argument is that such an extreme and vague representation of the religion for a specific agenda does not effectively represent the social diaspora that lies within. Also that such an attempt to do so is disrespectful to the religion and to the people who adhere to it. I think the same thing is happening with people's conceptions of Dawood's islam. Most are taking it to be "islamism," if you will. I mean that in so much as Dawood presents his personal take on Islam. Albeit he sometimes speaks in the general, what one must realize is that he only represents his thoughts. Which are most of the time at contention with the commonly percieved notions of Islamic fanatical dogma. Dawoods blind faith is nothing to scoff at. If anything it is rather hopeful to see someone who is focusing on the benevolent and rather cool teachings Islam has to offer. Not once has he said kill the infidels. He has only defended his position from the dogmatic and scriptural bases he knows. O, and man with the answers, read this book. Zero, the history of a dangerous concept. It outlines the progression of the void and the infinite throughout societies. Not only as a numerical concept and its mathematic implications but also as a spiritual and philosophical ideal. Good book. It's absolutely amazing the way that math works around the oddities of zero. Or, conversely, how hard it makes it.

yeah. shit is nuts. I think there are gonna be some very key things that will determine the next few years. (with the next few years determining the future of this country). anywho, i feel like what will be important is: 1. What cheney says in his testimony against Libby. 2. How much Arlen Specter continues to go after the NSA wiretapping. 3. How much power Negroponte's office gets a. With Hayden's confirmation it only makes things worse. b. monitoring of protest activity, even of students at colleges. 4. Immigration reform. a. do we send back all the mexicans and fuck our economy, especially in texas? b. do we reflect a progressive stance and say fuck it, open boarder. c. do we pull the same guest worker bullshit and only increase the socioeconomic divide in this country. i. will this cause the same racial tensions that we see in france and other european parallelels 5. Will Bush and Cheney get impeached? a. This leaves us with Hastert? WOOOOO...note my enthusiasm 6. Will the democratic party grow some balls and go after the real issues with the current administration and republican ticket? a. False reason for war. b. Destruction of civil liberties. c. Sweeping and unconstitutional expanse of executive branch d. Destruction of certain political norms, eg privacy for safety, possi comitatus, etc. i think thats all i got for now.

i remember i had a fellow athiest friend back in eighth grade. we differed in that he looked for the argument with people just to show them how stupid they are. he also had much of the same attitued towards other's beliefs just as bruce does. he was smart, just annoying.

well field forces themselves are a little fucked up. i think that is one of the largest shortcomings of physics, the inability to mechanize the inherit qualities of some forces, eg. that of the strong, weak, gravitational, magnetic forces. the unobservables i was discussing were the unobservables of entities. HUP, is fascinating in its many possible implications. One of my favorite articles I've read was on how we choose our own reality with conciousness acting as the guide through which we choose the alternate possibility inherit to HUP. Basically, because of the uncertainty of position at a given time, it creates the possibility of an electron existing at two places. This creates an infinite set of possibilities per any instant in time. Our conciousness, whatever you may take that to be, thus guides us to our preferred reality. Not to say there is any merit to that, but interesting none the less. I feel its a nice attempt to reconcile free will with quantum mechanics.

thats awesome. i love how these people never seem to manage it correctly after they have won though.

Does the demographic really matter gamber? Either way, from what i understand and read of him, the reason he talks down on dr octagaon was cus he felt he didnt have enough time. Thus perhaps the reason he is coming back to it. Personally I would love to see another album between him and Dan the automator. The beats off that album were sick. Qbert did his thing too. I never really dug many of the other albums that much. Diesel truckers was alright. Doom was cool. But it will be interesting to see where he takes this version.

i think man with the answers just pissed her off.

well kudos to you.

campy 70's grind horror vs. shockhouse contemporary horror. there's yall's comparison. i thought the end was supposed to be funny by the way.

symbols= :love2: and congrats on the nature articles...

and still dirk novitski

atmosphere

I have infact calculated the exact time, and there is no fucking time for any goddamn icecream.