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| Mike | Mar 29 2012, 08:34 PM Post #91 |
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since we have tangentially mentioned worst movies, I shall say my three least favorite unequivocally magnolia (fucking hate lars von trier fucking dumbass), little man tate (Supposed to be a film about geniuses, yet severely lacking in genius. "loluguys, leptons are z particles, smaller than electrons!". I had to watch this in math class once. I was in honors math, which despite sounding smart, was mostly full of numbskulls. All my friends were a year ahead, in algebra. All the kids in my class were gen eds who thought they were smart. guh. we saw something about the fun of math or something once though, which was fun because there was this part where they were like "math can be made to make 3d models, like in this documentary for the discovery channel" and I was like "HOLYSHIT THAT'S ALIEN PLANET WAYNEBARLOWEOMYGOSH", and everybody looked at me funny. Oh well, they were gen ed.), and avatar (the blue one, not the last airbender. that seems pretty kickass, though i've never seen a full episode). |
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| Ook | Mar 29 2012, 08:35 PM Post #92 |
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anyone know Battlestar galactica? now that was a sci-fi (even though without "aliens") I enjoyed |
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| Tartarus | Mar 29 2012, 08:44 PM Post #93 |
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I found the originals were enjoyable enough (though they did at times take a long time to get to the point). I hate the modern adaptation though. |
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| Mike | Mar 29 2012, 08:47 PM Post #94 |
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what about akira? Akira is probably the best movie i've ever seen. It's also scifi without aliens |
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| Tartarus | Mar 29 2012, 08:49 PM Post #95 |
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I found that movie to be...confusing. But to each their own. |
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| colddigger | Mar 29 2012, 09:08 PM Post #96 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Oh! I'm going to be watching Akira tonight maybe! Never seen it before. Bad movies huh? hmm... I dunno, I kinda enjoy most anything... I don't like Zombieland, not because it's bad, but rather because I was bombarded by it when it came out. Same with Repo the genetic opera. |
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| Zoroaster | Mar 29 2012, 09:26 PM Post #97 |
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well I love Zombieland.... I'm hoping for a sequel.... sci fi movies? I prefer stuff like Close Encounters, Super 8, even f--king ET... I guess my favourite "space opera" movie would be Dune, even though David Lynch messed with Frank Herbert's "canon". Flash Gordon was good (the one with Max Von Sydow as Ming) but just silly nonsense "rollicking adventure". Outland was pretty good. I like all the Alien movies up to and including 3, but 4 and the VS Predator are shite. Anyone here going to see John Carter? I read ALL the Barsoom books in the early 80s... my kids tell me that it's been slammed by critics... |
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| FallingWhale | Mar 29 2012, 09:46 PM Post #98 |
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Last Airbender is a nice way to make you hate your own species. |
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| colddigger | Mar 29 2012, 10:22 PM Post #99 |
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Joke's over! Love, Parasky
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Oh my. That is why I love it. |
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| macgobhain | Mar 29 2012, 11:05 PM Post #100 |
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Ok, look, I should really calm down. I apologize for calling you guys simple minded, since I know that you're not. You are however being simple minded, so I advise you to broaden your horizons on these issues the way you have broadened them in the subject of speculative evolution and biology, since these things directly effect your lives. Agencies like the VICP exist because people decided to hold their government accountable. Even such an agency while it may appear to be a liability, can function as a government cash cow, and itself is only held up by a continual flow of cases for them to handle. It is a proven fact that vaccinating babies/toddlers as young as many people do can have adverse effects, and if it wasn't, than these lawyers would be out of a job. And if you think that there's no business in poisoning people, Russwallac, think again. This is essentially the same as keeping hemp illegal in the United States. Hemp has multiple uses, and is surprisingly resilient compared to other fabrics. I have hemp clothing that I purchased in Europe when I lived there, and I'll tell you, those are the best clothes I have. I once left some cough drops from Job Corps in the pocket of one of my pairs of shorts from Scotland (yes, occasionally people in Scotland wear shorts) made from hemp, and they sat in the bottom of my drawer for months before I pulled them out to wear them without noticing the stain that the cough drops had created from having been wet at some point. They sat in that drawer for at least 3 months. At least. If that were almost any other fabric on the market, they would've been ruined, or required some special stain removal product for the stain to come out. I threw them in the wash with regular dish soap from Walmart, and voila! They were clean. No need for a stain removal product, no need to fuss over a new pair of shorts. That knocked out two ways that I would've spent my money otherwise in one sitting. Hemp has so many uses it's not even funny, and in almost every single one of those uses it out competes the alternative that is in common use. Doesn't it make sense that the corporations threatened might have their separate government lobbies to make sure that hemp is illegal? Yes. And here in the United States, it still is. What does the government get out of this? Well, lobbyists that keep the same people in office, and multiple different billion industries to tax instead of just one. The same goes for the fluoridation of water. Just because fluoride in water has 1 or even 2 good uses, does NOT mean that the government should be dumping it into everyone's water source. By that logic, Ambien, which is proven to help people sleep in the majority of cases, should also be dumped into our water en masse so that we can all sleep better, let alone the side effects that it has on some people. The fact is that every time someone gets sick from one of the MANY health issues that have been proven to be linked to fluoride, money stands to be made. People purchase health insurance, people go to doctors, people buy drugs, etc. The insurance and pharmaceutical companies lobby for politicians who continue spreading propaganda, cut them deals, and sponsor programs that keep them in business, and the politicians are rewarded with high incomes, pensions, and more money to tax to feed the expansion of government. All it is, is one big money pump. Just because we don't have feudal lords ruling over we the peasants who trade our hard labor for protection, doesn't mean that we're not being exploited in other ways. The ways in which governments exploit their people have simply gotten a little more complicated as the day and age has also gotten more complicated. Like I said, it's always been this way in one way or another. Why should it be different now? It's because of these health concerns connected to fluoride that a number of states have rejected the fluoridation of their water, albeit it still gets in where water is taken from rivers that are shared with other states... |
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| macgobhain | Mar 29 2012, 11:34 PM Post #101 |
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Ah I didn't see the whole other page here. Yes dialforthedevil, I know. Some of you are citizens of the UK and Australia, two nations that are far, far, far worse on their healthcare issues than the United States. The health department in the UK requires that natural vitamins be watered down to the point that taking real vitamins is virtually the same as taking drugs, which is something that they came out and said a few years ago. I remember hearing about that while I was there. "We need fluoride to live. Fluoride deficiency is more common than fluoride poisoning even with fluoridated water if you exclude labs." - FallingWhale Really so the fact that The Department of Health in New Jersey found that bone cancer in male children was between two and seven times greater in areas where water was fluoridated was what, nothing? How about the fact that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) researchers confirmed the bone cancer-causing effects of fluoride at low levels in an animal model. A new study has shown that fluoridation of water is linked to uterine cancer deaths. And the studies that indicate its linked to bone deformities and causing fractures? Here's a page dedicated to the many studies done on Fluoride in general. You guys can check it out if you want. This is anything but a conspiracy theory. Some of the most respected organizations in medicine have published these studies. http://www.fluoridation.com/abstract.htm#DENTAL%20FLUOROSIS One thing about debating that you guys all love to site is that you need to know what you're talking about and have a good source. The other thing you guys don't often talk about, is that you need to be familiar with both sides of the argument. Since I've spent the last 8 years or so reading about this, I suggest any of you who want to continue to criticize me as a "conspiracy theorist" research the other side. Otherwise, I respectfully ask you to keep your mouths shut. Edited by macgobhain, Mar 29 2012, 11:37 PM.
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| Kamidio | Mar 30 2012, 12:04 AM Post #102 |
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Here's an Idea. SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT FLUORIDE LIKE LAMNA SAID AND GO START YOUR OWN TOPIC FOR IT IN THE 'IN-DEPTH DISCOURSE' LIKE A GOOD LITTLE BOY, OKAY? Jeez the nerve of some people, thinking they can disobey mods like that. |
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| Kamidio | Mar 30 2012, 12:08 AM Post #103 |
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Sorry for the double post, but continue your debate/bitching here: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/4744584/1/ |
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| macgobhain | Mar 30 2012, 12:26 AM Post #104 |
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Hahaha, I really couldn't care less whether lamna said to post it somewhere else or not, since he's equally as guilty of continuing the discussion here. Still, I agree that it's highly off topic and if we want to discuss it then it's better done somewhere else. Thank you for creating a new topic for it, Fakey ![]() Some questions about Star Wars. If the Jedi are so all-knowing, why didn't they know that they were talking to a Sith lord when they were working with Palpatine? I'm sure that the members of the Jedi Council had to deal with him on more than one occasion since he was elected High Chancellor? Shouldn't they have sensed something seriously wrong with him? And I also never read any of the Star Wars books like my older brother Cal did, but do any of them ever explain Darth Maul's line "...at last, we will get our revenge." Revenge for what? What did the Jedi do? Did they really hold a grudge over some defeat for a millennium? I don't remember the movies ever explaining the details of the war that Jackson's character (what was his name?) referenced. Edited by macgobhain, Mar 30 2012, 12:27 AM.
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| Ànraich | Mar 30 2012, 01:15 AM Post #105 |
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My god, do you hear yourself man? You're saying that politicians are keeping promises. Are you mad? |
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We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar. "The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming Tree That Owns Itself
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