Posts by the_classicist

You are the Robot! You are characterized by your rationality. In fact, this is really ALL you are characterized by. Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human. For instance, you are very humble and don't bother thinking of your own interests, you are very gentle and lack emotion, and you are also very introverted and introspective. You may have noticed that these traits are just as applicable to your laptop as they are to a human being. In short, your personality defect is that you don't really HAVE a personality. You are one of those annoying, super-logical people that never gets upset or flustered. Unless, of course, you short circuit.

To put it less negatively:

1. You are more RATIONAL than intuitive.

2. You are more INTROVERTED than extroverted.

3. You are more GENTLE than brutal.

4. You are more HUMBLE than arrogant.

Compatibility:

Your exact opposite is the Class Clown.

Other personalities you would probably get along with are the Hand-Raiser, the Emo Kid, and the Haughty Intellectual.

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Name the place.

by John Doe in

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ok, pretty simple.

i took this picture a couple of days ago in a well-known city in my home state.

can any of you guess where it is?

the_classicist

Eugene, Oregon.

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What REALLY is Hell?

by defd in

is it truely a firey place of torment as some religions teach?

or is it just the grave, as another religion teaches?

the_classicist

Hell is other robots.

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Many many books from library on 586/87

by ithinkisee in

i have listed all the books i found at the library that mention 586/87 as the fall of jerusalem.

i was also able to link to all of them (except the first one listed) on amazon.com!

many are out of print or unavailable as new books but you can buy almost all of them used on amazon.com ... some are only $10-12 each!

the_classicist

No, celebrated WT scholars

I swear, this scholar fellow must be a really involved satirist.

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C.S. Lewis statement....

by Shining One in

lewis says jesus' claim to be equal with deity leaves us only one other choice: .

a man who was merely a man and said the sort of things jesus said would not be a great moral teacher.

he would either be a lunatic on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg or else he would be the devil of hell.

the_classicist

As a Christian, I find YEC claims as laughable. I don't think I believe in "intelligent design" either; not many see beauty and order in khaos, though.

I haven't read the Chronicles of Narnia, but it's on my list. I just bought it in one volume.

All that being said, the totality of reality is not scientifically observable.

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Stem Cell Research article

by DevonMcBride in

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in today's wall street journal there was an excellent article about stem cell research.

the united states used to be number 1 in science research.

we are now number 2 and continually on the decline even more.

the_classicist

Human life begins at conception: when the cell takes upon the 48 chormosomes of human beings. It's not about whether pregnancy is viable or not, it's that scientists are creating human life in a laboratory and usually destroying it, which is what happens regularly in IVF. Does it really matter if they can't feel any pain? I would think that even bacteria can feel a certain kind of 'pain', but not the kind produced by our sophisticated neurological system for even bacteria are able to sense harmful substances and move away from them. What is pain, anyway, except the detection of a negative or harmful stimulus? Nevertheless, it wouldn't be permissible to kill someone even if we made sure they didn't feel any pain. Some may argue that there is no consciousness, while that may be it's still a human.

The only reason most people "need" IVF is because they delay nature and fertility by putting their careers ahead of raising a family. To say my controversial thing of the day that people are going to yell at me for: it is extremely irresponsible to put one's wish for a genetically related child ahead of the human life of the rest of the embryoes that are "discarded."

Likewise, the use of those embryoes in scientific research is tantamount to experimenting on a child or using it's organs for harvest. Well, we've already "disigner babies" that parents use to harvest genetically compatible material for their sick children. We must respect the bounds of life and death or else human life is cheapened, moreso than it already is.

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JWs not chauvanists

by stillajwexelder in

before i came in da troof i thought cleaning was womens work - after i came in the truth i noticed elders cleaned windows and held janitorial positions - so jws are not male chauvanists

the_classicist

Rich ones are, the types that become dictatorial patriarchs, but they're not only in the JWs, they're everywhere.

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Stem Cell Research article

by DevonMcBride in

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in today's wall street journal there was an excellent article about stem cell research.

the united states used to be number 1 in science research.

we are now number 2 and continually on the decline even more.

the_classicist

That's not to say we can't use the research that was acheived by using embryonic stem cells as that has already been contributed to science. For example, the Nazi doctors did horrible things to research drugs and other things on human beings. We don't disregard this research, but we would never use the unethical practices used to obtain the research nor do we condone it.

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Stem Cell Research article

by DevonMcBride in

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friends

in today's wall street journal there was an excellent article about stem cell research.

the united states used to be number 1 in science research.

we are now number 2 and continually on the decline even more.

the_classicist

I'll say no, as the zygote had no choice in the matter. And someone will bring up the issue of blood, but that is different as an individual freely chooses to give up their blood to help another and the extraction of blood doesn't negate an actual human life.