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Re: Keith Olbermann on Gay Marriage
The fact that you are an Atheist doesn't make you any less an idiot and ass.
Please respond on your thoughts of why "family resources" is the sole measure of worth of a family. Then please illustrate how the families of gay couples are not acceptable resources and how that should bar them from being legally wed. After you are done that feat, please explain how a gay family is any different from a straight family, or a single-parent family, or an adopted family, or a mixed-race family, or a family started by orphans.
Please explain all of these things... please try and explain why your are bat-shit crazy.
Please respond on your thoughts of why "family resources" is the sole measure of worth of a family. Then please illustrate how the families of gay couples are not acceptable resources and how that should bar them from being legally wed. After you are done that feat, please explain how a gay family is any different from a straight family, or a single-parent family, or an adopted family, or a mixed-race family, or a family started by orphans.
Please explain all of these things... please try and explain why your are bat-shit crazy.
By: Wolvan
Re: Keith Olbermann on Gay Marriage
Only problem with bone marrow transplants is that a sibling is only 25% likely to be a match... the majority of all transplants are from unrelated donors.
By: Wolvan
Re: Keith Olbermann on Gay Marriage
So this is your big argument? Family resources.
A bastard-child is less of a person because they have less resources to pull from than a non-bastard child?
Forget that for a second... what about an adopted child? Is an adopted child only okay if they have two parents and those parents aren't bastards? What if one of those parents is estranged from his family or their estate? Is that adopted child even less of a worthwhile person because he has a bastard parent?
What if your parents and their family are poor? What if there are no resources to fall back on... are you less of a person? What if your parents are orphans? What if you are an orphan?
Is a bastard with one rich parent more of a person than a non-bastard with poor parents?
Is an adopted child of a gay couple less worthwhile because their parents are gay? What if their parents are rich? What if their parents have lots of resources to fall back on?
What if the child is the actual blood-relation of one of the gay parents? Is a surrogate-born child of gay parents less of a person?
Is a black child less of a person? A child of Christian parents?
...
I am not adopted. My father was adopted by my Grandad. I am largely estranged from my mother and her side of the family - even if I wasn't, they have precious-few resources to share. Am I less of a person, less of a human, less worthwhile, because my last name was not given to me because of the blood in my veins?
Should I not be allowed to marry because I am the spawn of an adopted father and a bastard mother?
Your argument has no merit - furthermore, it is abhorrent for all of the things that you will not say but obviously believe.
A bastard-child is less of a person because they have less resources to pull from than a non-bastard child?
Forget that for a second... what about an adopted child? Is an adopted child only okay if they have two parents and those parents aren't bastards? What if one of those parents is estranged from his family or their estate? Is that adopted child even less of a worthwhile person because he has a bastard parent?
What if your parents and their family are poor? What if there are no resources to fall back on... are you less of a person? What if your parents are orphans? What if you are an orphan?
Is a bastard with one rich parent more of a person than a non-bastard with poor parents?
Is an adopted child of a gay couple less worthwhile because their parents are gay? What if their parents are rich? What if their parents have lots of resources to fall back on?
What if the child is the actual blood-relation of one of the gay parents? Is a surrogate-born child of gay parents less of a person?
Is a black child less of a person? A child of Christian parents?
...
I am not adopted. My father was adopted by my Grandad. I am largely estranged from my mother and her side of the family - even if I wasn't, they have precious-few resources to share. Am I less of a person, less of a human, less worthwhile, because my last name was not given to me because of the blood in my veins?
Should I not be allowed to marry because I am the spawn of an adopted father and a bastard mother?
Your argument has no merit - furthermore, it is abhorrent for all of the things that you will not say but obviously believe.
By: Wolvan
Re: Interview with Richard Dawkins on Fairy Tales and Retirement
I've read a couple of his books and I found them all to be quite enjoyable reads, as well as informative and educational. Pretentious is not something I would ever describe Mr. Dawkins as - brilliant, passionate, illuminating... those are much better describers.
By: Wolvan
Re: Magnetic Hybrid Motorbike Unveiled in Japan
KANEDA!!!!!!!!
This is pretty cool though... I was thinking of just such a motor a couple of years ago - told I was sorta nutty by a few people I described it to :P
This is pretty cool though... I was thinking of just such a motor a couple of years ago - told I was sorta nutty by a few people I described it to :P
By: Wolvan
Re: Star Trek: Amok Time Fight Scene
You forget that a Vulcan has like 3 times the strength of a Human. With that in mind, it is entirely feasible that Spock would be able to push Kirk away with his feet while maintaining control of the weapon.
<- dork.
ps. Who says that space-gong has the same physical properties of brass or other metal we have? Or possibly that the pitch of the note isn't different in an intact gong?
:D
<- dork.
ps. Who says that space-gong has the same physical properties of brass or other metal we have? Or possibly that the pitch of the note isn't different in an intact gong?
:D
By: Wolvan
Re: Interview - Naomi Wolf - Give Me Liberty
People like Naomi Wolf are why those of us in the rest of the world look(ed) up to America. Here's hoping that there are enough people like her left to do something.
By: Wolvan
Re: Sam Harris on Stem Cell Research
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwUG9aV6Ybk&feature=related
The entire thing - this is part 1 of 10.
The entire thing - this is part 1 of 10.
By: Wolvan
Re: Colbert Report: Jan 7, 2008
Hit up http://broadband.thecomedynetwork.ca/comedy/Default.aspx if your a Canuck for full episodes of Colbert and The Daily Show
By: Wolvan
Re: Tori Amos: Smells like Teen Spirit, Live
Bah - it was really good. There were a couple parts where I think she could have taken it a different way, but on the whole it was very good.
By: Wolvan
Re: Waking Life: Free Will and Physics
Maybe this is just too simple of a response, but it's the first thing that popped into my head as soon as guy got into describing the electrical pulses through the nervous system that makes your arm move:
That is action not initiation. Yes physical, biological, and chemical interactions govern how our bodies work and may even influence what we are thinking or are want to act on... but there is a definite point of initiation. Choosing to take that thought, desire, or impulse and putting it into action - to move your arm forward and initiating that electrical pulse through your nervous system to your arm is something beyond reactionary programming.
That is action not initiation. Yes physical, biological, and chemical interactions govern how our bodies work and may even influence what we are thinking or are want to act on... but there is a definite point of initiation. Choosing to take that thought, desire, or impulse and putting it into action - to move your arm forward and initiating that electrical pulse through your nervous system to your arm is something beyond reactionary programming.
By: Wolvan
Re: Christopher Walken Singing, Dancing, Stripping
I don't care if I met Christopher Walken at a charity dinner and he was the nicest guy on the planet... I would still shit my pants. He is the single-most scariest man on the planet, even when he's doing an amazing song and dance routine.
By: Wolvan
Re: Mr Rogers Plays Donkey Kong
Heh, I have an original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade unit from '89 and one of the coolest things was pulling that thing open and seeing how exactly the controllers worked. It was also pretty neat seeing that a lot of the earlier arcade games didn't have a interface for programming the difficulty and amount of lives and such, those functions were all handled by switches on the board.
By: Wolvan
... The more you know!