Oh, and just to make it final:

The moderators are all fantastic people. Every last fucking one of the rest of you are deluded, arrogant cunts, and I hope you all die in a fire, with your childrens' entrails dangled before you as the last thing you see.

Just dropping a note to thank NSG for its contribution over the years. You know, closure and all that. I learned next to nothing from you, but you inspired me to learn much in the futile attempt to relieve your steadily growing ignorance. Once upon a time, General was a place where people with well-...

Mikedor wrote:I'd hide if I was you:

Robot assassins patrolling the skies.

You just wanted an excuse to post an XKCD comic, didn't you?

Kyoto. Copenhagen. America, notoriously, doesn't care about the environment. And yet today we have the government acting all high and mighty on the need for environmental safeguards, new low-carbon fuel use and the accountability of British Petroleum for the damage inflicted by their operations. Sud...

As blatant an attempt to open Godwins on any form of socialism as Self-Esteem is pulling, there is a legitimate point in pointing out the historical origins in Left thinking of the German form of National Socialism; namely, in Hegel's Philosophy of Right. You see clear elements of the march of histo...

While one side of the argument might be yelling "the market will fix all problems", and the other side might be yelling "the government will fix all problems", it will be the handful of people bouncing around in the middle finding a thousand solutions that don't work, that will ...

Brogavia wrote:Does anyone actually give a shit?

It is the entire point of Sarah Palin.

"Duh, boobs, must ignore incoherent political philosophy."

Inventing religion is difficult, since all religion is basically personality cult with political structure and esoteric metanarrative. Firstly and foremostly, religion grows out of a person or group taking charge, being audacious and drawing positive attention to themselves. Manufacturing it is abou...

Kayliea wrote:A smiling Mr Cameron said: "It's good to have her back."

Don't worry; it's just a plot to rescue Cameron's image among the "Blessed Chris"es of the conservative party. He doesn't mean it.

... I hope. Eep.

When I graduated with my Bachelor's degree in English Lit and Comparative Literary studies in 2003? I suspect the core of his ire is directed at Critical Theory, rather than the study of literature per se. That such tends to be rather dominant in academic liberal arts departments right now probably...

ZellDincht wrote:True Love is commitment.

I got committed once. 3 years on and a nice supply of antidepressants and I'm safe for re-entry into normal society now.

EDIT: WOO 1000 POSTS HELL YEAH

so if 82% of idiot people get paid the minimum to permict smarter person like me to flourish...well I consider this a natural form of Justice All I can say is I'm very tempted here to make a comment that would break my Red Tag cherry. It's a shame NSG's rules are somewhat stricter than the law, sin...

Because you'd have to kill him otherwise, and thats just troublesome. You know the way addicts have rehab clinics? I reckon we should have clinics for nihilism. Except rather than group therapy sessions, you're interred in a slave labour camp. EDIT: I actually meant interned, but being buried alive...

Just generally feeling utterly scunnered at the moment due to uni being over for a while, looking for work then finding nothing even remotely interesting, and having been single for too long. Don't dream to your work; Work to your dream. If you have something you want to do, do it; your job doesn't...

Existence for the sake of existence is liberating! It is also immensely irresponsible. If all you live for is to fetishise your own personal being, then your life is wasted on you; why should I tolerate your continued drain on the world's resources when there are others prepared to invest life in c...

You know why socialism works in Norway? Because its people take responsibility for the functioning of the country, and don't try to exploit everything that comes their way without due respect for each other and the future. America doesn't want its country to be like Norway; it just needs its people ...

But if you're implying that the government itself has an office to meet with any religious organization that wishes to speak with them, then I have to shudder with disgust. That's just it. You can't stomach the fact that the extent to which religious divide plagues your nation is an issue important...

This has nothing to do with "meaning" and everything to do with what spirituality is to begin with. What is its ontology? You want to deal with ontology prior to understanding? I find this an odd notion. We don't say "there is XYZ" and then shoehorn everything into XYZ whether i...

As for omnipotence, it is an unnecessary fiction. Oooh, you're missing the real power of omnipotence in the discourse of religious justification. It's the lynchpin of facilitating unusual action, because as a self-conflicting notion, it's what renders conventional logic inappropriate in normalising...

Trippoli wrote:Then perhaps they should have returned once they were economically stable.

Europe, economically stable? Oh, the ironing.

Caninope wrote:There would be a void if there was no God.

Maybe there is a void, and all you see is pure unfiltered Chaos, but where pure unfiltered Chaos, being Chaos, is temporarily undergoing the illusion of order.

Just so OP knows, agnosticism isn't some third option between theism and atheism. All agnostics are theists or atheists, but their faith or whatever isn't as strong as those who claim to know that God exists or doesn't exist. Ah, another one of you people! Maybe you can enlighten me on this. Where ...

I'm sorry if I get confused here, but you're not making sense. You support the establishment of a state religion within the US? How are we unifying religious and secular politics by way of the vote? And why the hell should religious politics have anything to do with secular law? Religious politics ...

I'm quite open on the use of divine narrative as a cultural and meditative device, and reasonably happy with the idea of God (though obviously outwith empirical discourse), but fiercely opposed to hierarchical and supremecist religion. My stance is simply to oppose any attempt to monopolise truth. I...

You're still going to want to say that we can interpret the Will of God, though, right? Otherwise, it would be crazy of God to make commandments. If by interpret them you mean do what they say. Yeah, but "what they say" is an intentional thing; it relies on our grasping what it is they wa...