Posts by scotsman

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Exotic Vacations: your favourite places on the globe
by RAYZORBLADE in
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ok folks, honestly, i know many of you have travelled some, and a few have ventured into some pretty exotic far off places.

where did you go on your last vacation?

where is the most exotic place you have visited?
scotsman

Where did you go on your last vacation? Sardinia
Where is the most Exotic place you have visited? Morocco
What place would you recommend to a single person? Manhattan or the High Atlas
What place would you recommend to a married couple? Paris/Florence
What place would you recommend to a family with children? Norway
Have any of you experience strange or unusual events during your travels? Being bombed in Kiryat Shemona on the Israeli/Lebanese border. Visiting a cult HQ in Brooklyn
Where is the next place you are going to go to (vacation)? Poolewe, Scotland (this weekend hooray!)
But the best holiday I had was cycling around the island of Corsica, and the most exotic experience was sailing at night across a bay on Milos beneath the Milky Way while trailing my fingers in the water and witnessing phospheresence as we headed to a restaurant for dinner.
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A Child Molestor Wins Best Director....WoW
by teenyuck in
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2. entertainment
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i recall when roman polanski molested (raped) a 13 year old girl..... now he wins an oscar....something is wrong...
scotsman

Hi Teenyuck
Comparing the middle ages (or the middle east) to now does not hold water. What was legal then is not legal now....at least in most of the US...(Parts of Utah, Appilacia and the deep South )
Do you object to Polanski on grounds of criminality or abuse? Artists of the Renaissance may not have committed crimes but that does not mean that what they did was not highly abusive.
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A Child Molestor Wins Best Director....WoW
by teenyuck in
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2. entertainment
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i recall when roman polanski molested (raped) a 13 year old girl..... now he wins an oscar....something is wrong...
scotsman

He got the Oscar for his art not the rape.
When you look paintings or sculpture, listen to classical music or read poetry do you cease to appreciate it because the artist had sex with a minor? Maybe we should remove the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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how do you feel re homosexuality?
by nowisee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
scotsman

"For me, Biologically, it all fits... "
Is that by choice or through genetic predetermination?
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how do you feel re homosexuality?
by nowisee in
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2. beliefs
scotsman
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how do you feel re homosexuality?
by nowisee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
scotsman

ThiChi
I'm sorry, but you've misheard my tone. I am interested in the theory and am looking for books to read after my exams in May.
I confess to a little sarcasm earlier about your debating boast but it was intended lightheartedly.
So go on, spill on Dr Peck's theory.
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how do you feel re homosexuality?
by nowisee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
scotsman

Sorry I am reading back through the posts to see if the theory has already been explained and it doesn't seem to have been. But..
Conceptually speaking, the "I am who I am" is a trap that no one should be in. Why limit yourself? Why label yourself?
"I am who I am" is maybe not a trap, limit or a label.
Paedophiles do use the arguement for the acceptance for homosexuality as credence for their own sexual prediliction, which just shows how clever they can be. What you haven't responded to is the consensual difference between homosexuality and rape and murder. Is the acceptance of an omnisexual society (I believe this is the most fashionable term) the first step on the "slippery slope", inexctricably linked to increased rates of rape and murder?
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how do you feel re homosexuality?
by nowisee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
scotsman

Hi ThiChi
I doubt the nurture/nature debate will be settled on this forum no matter how hard you try to educate us, but I would like you to give us a brief synopsis of what Dr Peck's "dely of gratification" theory is. I don't have time to read his book at present but if it is as interesting as you say i may in the Summer.
I delayed my sexual gratification until i was 30 and still chose a partner of the same sex but maybe I totally misunderstand the theory, but I am also assuming you mean delay and not 'dely'.
p.s. if you use spell check I'll read a book on debating skills :-)
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Here we go... War with Iraq.
by Elsewhere in
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2. current
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judging by bush's recent comments and the recommendation that the un inspectors leave iraq, it looks like the war will be starting any day now.. i wonder if bush intentionally timed it so that things would be starting on st. patricks day the day that commemorates the saint who drove the snakes from ireland.

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scotsman

Let's hope they make as good a job in Iraq as they have in Afghanistan - this year's heroin production looks like a being a bumper crop.
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how do you feel re homosexuality?
by nowisee in
1. watchtower
2. beliefs
scotsman

"I was on a debating team in college and I am a judge for a regional debates for High Schools"
Is this a boast?