haha galaxeeeeeeee

it's a shame PC doesn't supply a "puking" smiley...

 

The Americanization and Westernization of the world continues apace.

And I've seen anti-Semitic hate publications before. I'm not happy you thought it cute to refer me to one, nor to imply that the opinions I or some others of us have on pop culture are somehow connected to racial/ethnic/religious hatred.

 

Here ya go...

 

You need Critical Thinking 1A.

To say you feel better than someone based on their ACTS (including criminal, anti-social, crinkling cellophane in a quiet theater, whatever) is substantially different from feeling better than someone based on his/her ethnicity or other inherited traits.

You also confuse peaceful advocacy and force.

 

Yes.

 

surprise, surprise, squid... i disagree.

there is a huge difference between thinking and doing. sure, i've had all sorts of nasty thoughts in my life. but i've never had intent to act on any of them. intent is the key thing here.

thoughts tend to show up passively, at least for me. to actually carry out an action requires more than thought. it requires planning, evaluation, and finally completion of the act. that is not a passive process.

most people possess the mechanisms to control their actions. obviously someone who goes out and wipes out their own family has some real issues that go beyond just negative thoughts.

so yes, there is a large difference between thinking something bad and doing something bad.

 

Thoughts are oft times inflammatory. Knowledge of this should flavor our daily interactions with each other. How does the nice, quiet neighbor change from what we thought we knew to the mass murderer?

We live in a country where blood and guts TV and Video games rule. But we can't watch two people having sex on TV. There are more rules covering bodily exposure than ways to murder someone.

I want my freedom of expression and I know that means that I have to deal with others' freedom of expression. There is often too much government regulation as it is and as much as a site like that scares me it also educates me.

 

WOW this thread is getting really deep!

 

Deep thought are better than deep snow any day? Isn't tracybeans moving to the sunny state of California or are you going in that other direction where they have bugs and lots of old folks and hurricanes?!?

Sorry Floridians!

 

Mmmm, I think deep snow is better than deep thoughts sometimes. Especially now that Mammoth has gotten another 16" of snow today and it's still snowing. With a base depth of 10-12 feet. A very good thing about living in So. California is that you're usually within an hour's drive of the beach (or 5-10 minutes, like me) and within about an hour's drive of the local ski resorts. Or within 4-5 hour's drive of Mammoth/June mountains.

 

Don't want to scare the neighbors but I can stamp my foot and yell pretty loud!

 

Born and raised in Vermont. I like the lack of heavy jackets and tire chains that we have in California. Additionally, here you can drive up to the snow and say "oooh how pretty!" and then get back in the car and sit on the beach to watch the sunset..."aww how pretty!!"

 

Yeah, and it's dark....and it's cold. Oh, sorry, I was looking outside just now. It's winter in these here parts.

 

Even though almost all of my family lives in FL I won't move there. I got TO much to lose by living there if I got caught in a hurricane. It would be impossible to evacuate with all my business stuff.

Actually I was suppose to end up in FL with my mom and took a detour to WI and after 20 years I'm still here Me wants to go to CA someday!