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  When You Were a Child /or Now - Your Favorite Cartoon Characters ?

  by flipper in

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  i know, a far cry from the sexiest actor/actress thread, but hell; let's be a kid for a weekend for a bit!

  it brings back fun, good memories !

  so, when you were a kid, did you lean toward disney or warner brothers ?

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  From the 1960's, The Rocky and Bullwinkle show. From the 1990's, Beavis and Butthead. In my opinion, the Rocky and Bullwinkle show was one very cool cartoon because it featured stuff that both adults and children could appreciate. I'll never forget one episode of the Rocky and Bullwinkle show when they made a pun on the name "Francois Villon," who was a sixteenth-century French poet. I really couldn't believe my ears.

  As for the contemporary stuff, I like the Simpsons. I dislike "Family Guy" because too much of the satire is very cruel and mean-spirited. "South Park" is a little better than "Family Guy," but again the "humor" on South Park can also be cruel.
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  what kind of epitaph do you want?

  by Hortensia in

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  just thought i'd carry the funeral thread a little further.

  what do you want them to carve on your tombstone?

  i'm inclined toward the smartass epitaph, something like "what are you looking at?

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  "I love my Tombstone [frozen pizza]."
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  What Does An Ultimately Cruel Universe Reveal About God?

  by hamilcarr in

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  an interesting unanswered question raised by inkling in my thread on creation and god, which i'd like to devote a separate thread to: i would love to hear from some of the resident fundamentalists on this one.... why did got create a achingly beautiful, but ultimately cruel and twisted universe?.

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  [ink].

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  "That he will soon destroy all those who do not obey!" Wow, real one, you're just as "loving" as your pestilential, infanticidal, genocidal "god." You're a "real one," alright - a real idiot.
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  what kind of epitaph do you want?

  by Hortensia in

  1. jw
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  just thought i'd carry the funeral thread a little further.

  what do you want them to carve on your tombstone?

  i'm inclined toward the smartass epitaph, something like "what are you looking at?

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  "I'll be right back."
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  WORDS are dangerous things!!

  by Terry in

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  it is sometimes easy to be confused by the difference between:.

  what we call things.

  2.how many key words that make up my world view are really bad lables?.

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  I think that, for the purposes of this discussion, the theories of the Geneva-born Swiss linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure, are still quite relevant. Saussure was the father of twentieth-century linguistics. He had a great influence on many thinkers who came after him such as Barthes; Levi-Strauss; Lacan; Derrida; and Foucault. Saussure is famous for his Cours de linguistique generale. One of Sausure's major ideas was the disjunction, the gap between the signifier [le signifiant] and the signified [le signifie]. The relationship between the two is utterly arbitrary.
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  Pentecostals? Should I be afraid of them?

  by ThomasCovenant in

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  just finished watching the film 'borat'.

  in it there is a scene where he attends what i assume is a pentecostal church meeting.

  for all i know it is a setup.

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  When Pentecostals "speak in tongues," they are doing essentially the same thing as vocal jazz singers do when they perform "scat" singing. Scat singing is vocal improvisation with nonsense words and syllables. But, whereas scat singing is a melodic and rhythmic art form, "speaking in tongues" is cacaphonic gibberish. With Pentecostals, it's a question of learned behavior and mimicry; they learn to "speak in tongues" by watching the people around them. They start off by uttering simple strings of nonsense syllables, and then "progress" to longer strings. They literally train themselves to speak continually longer strings of nonsense syllables and gibberish. There's nothing "mystical" about it. The only difference between "speaking in tongues" and scat singing is that scat is pleasant to listen to because of its rhythm.
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  Pentecostals? Should I be afraid of them?

  by ThomasCovenant in

  1. watchtower
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  just finished watching the film 'borat'.

  in it there is a scene where he attends what i assume is a pentecostal church meeting.

  for all i know it is a setup.

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  "Democracy is different in America. For example: Women can vote. Horses cannot." - Borat
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  What kind of a funeral do you want?

  by Princess Daisy Boo in

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  so all this talk at the moment about funerals and stuff got me thinking... what kind of an exit party would i like?.

  i reckon i would not want anything too formal, but i would want loads of people saying how great i was - i people to notice that i am no longer around, and be sad about it!

  i want people to share good memories.

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  "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." -Woody Allen
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  Careful with that axe, Eugene

  by + in

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  careful with that axe, eugene.

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  Alle ist klar, herr Komissar?
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  God Damn America - in context

  by mavie in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvmbevqj6lw.

  sucks to be suckered.

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  BizzyBee - Even though you say that slavery, discrimination, and segregation are "very old news," the truth of the matter is that today - in the year 2008 - slavery continues to be a world-wide scourge, especially [but by no means exclusively] the enslavement of children for sexual purposes. And when I say "world-wide," I mean world-wide. It happens often in Europe and in the United States. Children [and adults] are held in bondage against their will. They are literally nothing but chattel, another person's property.

  And, as for segregation and discrimination, both nefarious forces are alive and well in the United States. American society is one of the most racist societies in the world. It was founded on racist ideology such as the notion of the "white man's burden." One of the founding fathers - Thomas Jefferson - was a slave-owner. Even today - in the year 2008 - if a person is born black in certain parts of the United States, they may as well be born dead. There are some ares of the United States in which black people have the same life expectancy as people in Bangladesh. The low life expectancy of black Americans lowers the average national life expectancy of the United States in general. There are quite a few countries with a higher life expectancy than the U.S., and the reason for this is the inequality in life expectancy rates between whites and blacks in the U.S.

  So, by no means are slavery, discrimination and segregation "very old news;" they are as persistent and as destructive as they always have been previously.