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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Treznor » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:58 am

Galloism wrote:
Kormanthor wrote: If you truely don't know the meaning of wrong, I suggest you read the Bible.


A) I was making fun of the spelling mistake. I don't know what "worng" means because it's not a word.

B) I have read the Bible, cover to cover, 6 times, and once upon a time I was a minister. Don't assume. How many times have you read it?

No, he's got a valid point. As a former preacher, I know that you'd have to dig pretty deep to find a better example of a text that better epitomizes the word "wrong."

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Postby EvilDarkMagicians » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:59 am

Galloism wrote:
Kormanthor wrote: If you truely don't know the meaning of wrong, I suggest you read the Bible.


A) I was making fun of the spelling mistake. I don't know what "worng" means because it's not a word.

B) I have read the Bible, cover to cover, 6 times, and once upon a time I was a minister. Don't assume. How many times have you read it?


Even I can work out that simple spelling mistake...:L

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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Free Soviets » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:00 am

South East Europe wrote:So since there is a compromise for nearly everything that people make a serious issue, I ask you this, why can't we all just compromise?

because when there is a right and a wrong, compromise between them is wrong.

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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby South East Europe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:02 am

Getbrett wrote:What the fuck are you babbling about? Black people are treated like gods? You're living in a fantasy land. These words you're spouting bare no reflection on reality.


Well, I did over exagerate. But, in my experience, blacks have gotten better treatment than most other minority groups and most majority groups. Not a fantasy land, but reality. The over-exageration didn't bare any reflection on reality, you are right. But, I know for a fact that, in my city, blacks get preferential treatment. As is true in most places that I visited. For example, if schools have "minority achievement" programs, why are only certain minorities i.e. blacks and hispanics the only ones allowed? Guess being 1 in 300 or 1 in 2000 isn't a good enough minority. Plus, I have higher grades than anyone in my high school who is a member of "minority achievement" and my high school is nearly 2000 students and 40% of the school is in "minority achievement". It's a school located in the inner suburbs, I wonder why 60-70% of my school is a so-called minority when 90% of my cities population is a white heterosexual catholic. A minority has to be at least 1 in 50, I guess, to be considered a minority?
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Galloism » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:02 am

Treznor wrote:
Galloism wrote:
Kormanthor wrote: If you truely don't know the meaning of wrong, I suggest you read the Bible.


A) I was making fun of the spelling mistake. I don't know what "worng" means because it's not a word.

B) I have read the Bible, cover to cover, 6 times, and once upon a time I was a minister. Don't assume. How many times have you read it?

No, he's got a valid point. As a former preacher, I know that you'd have to dig pretty deep to find a better example of a text that better epitomizes the word "wrong."


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I know what the Bible says is wrong. I'm fully aware of exactly what it says. However, the letters "worng", in that order, do not form a word. Therefore, when you type "w-o-r-n-g" and I point out that I don't know what "w-o-r-n-g" means, I'm not saying I don't know what "wrong" means. I know what "wrong" means. I don't know what "worng" means.

Holy shit. I can't believe I had to make 3 posts about this.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby South East Europe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:05 am

Conserative Morality wrote:If she's against homosexual marriage, I'd like to hear her reasoning without involving God, or the massive amount of fundies in this country.


Well, she claims that homosexuality is unnatural and not based on science or evolution but personal choice. She says, nature made a penis and a vagina for one purpose. However, being against anal sex, she claims that oral sex and masturbation are not against nature. So her reasoning is lousy at best.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:05 am

Galloism wrote:Image

I know what the Bible says is wrong. I'm fully aware of exactly what it says. However, the letters "worng", in that order, do not form a word. Therefore, when you type "w-o-r-n-g" and I point out that I don't know what "w-o-r-n-g" means, I'm not saying I don't know what "wrong" means. I know what "wrong" means. I don't know what "worng" means.

Holy shit. I can't believe I had to make 3 posts about this.


Helmet boy... why do you complicate yourself so much and explain what was, obviously, a joke on your part? Hm?

Do you like pain? Is that it? 'Cause I can give you pain if you like it. :twisted:
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Galloism » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:06 am

Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Helmet boy... why do you complicate yourself so much and explain what was, obviously, a joke on your part? Hm?

Do you like pain? Is that it? 'Cause I can give you pain if you like it. :twisted:


*walks away grumbling*
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Cameroi » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:07 am

Free Soviets wrote:
South East Europe wrote:So since there is a compromise for nearly everything that people make a serious issue, I ask you this, why can't we all just compromise?

because when there is a right and a wrong, compromise between them is wrong.

but since the real wrong is to cause suffering and harm, is it not then truly the greater wrong to NOT do so? (though for reasons pointed out i shy away a bit from this word compromise and the way its most often used. again its not a matter of synthasizing some arbitrary middle ground, but of finding a point of sanity, often unrelated to any extreme nor relationship between supposed opposites)
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby South East Europe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:07 am

Getbrett wrote:South East Europe is a reductio ad absurdum argument.


No, I am a "hypocritical racist bigot". Get it right sir.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Treznor » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:08 am

Galloism wrote:
Treznor wrote:
Galloism wrote:A) I was making fun of the spelling mistake. I don't know what "worng" means because it's not a word.

B) I have read the Bible, cover to cover, 6 times, and once upon a time I was a minister. Don't assume. How many times have you read it?

No, he's got a valid point. As a former preacher, I know that you'd have to dig pretty deep to find a better example of a text that better epitomizes the word "wrong."


Image

I know what the Bible says is wrong. I'm fully aware of exactly what it says. However, the letters "worng", in that order, do not form a word. Therefore, when you type "w-o-r-n-g" and I point out that I don't know what "w-o-r-n-g" means, I'm not saying I don't know what "wrong" means. I know what "wrong" means. I don't know what "worng" means.

Holy shit. I can't believe I had to make 3 posts about this.

Relax, man. I was just making a joke about his insistence that we should read the Bible. 8)

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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby South East Europe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:09 am

Galloism wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Helmet boy... why do you complicate yourself so much and explain what was, obviously, a joke on your part? Hm?

Do you like pain? Is that it? 'Cause I can give you pain if you like it. :twisted:


*walks away grumbling*


Why walk away? Compromise by hitting her and letting her hit you.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:10 am

Treznor wrote:Relax, man. I was just making a joke about his insistence that we should read the Bible. 8)


Call him Helmet Boy. It gives a certain je ne sais quoi to his name. 8)
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Galloism » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:10 am

South East Europe wrote:
Galloism wrote:
Nanatsu no Tsuki wrote:Helmet boy... why do you complicate yourself so much and explain what was, obviously, a joke on your part? Hm?

Do you like pain? Is that it? 'Cause I can give you pain if you like it. :twisted:


*walks away grumbling*


Why walk away? Compromise by hitting her and letting her hit you.


What we do in the bedroom is none of your business.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby South East Europe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:10 am

Treznor wrote:Relax, man. I was just making a joke about his insistence that we should read the Bible. 8)


An insistence on reading the Bible is perfectly valid. But then we should also read the Quran, Book of Mormon, etc... Religion can also have a compromise.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:11 am

Galloism wrote:What we do in the bedroom is none of your business.


:palm: :blush:
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Postby Conserative Morality » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:11 am

South East Europe wrote:Well, she claims that homosexuality is unnatural and not based on science or evolution but personal choice. She says, nature made a penis and a vagina for one purpose. However, being against anal sex, she claims that oral sex and masturbation are not against nature. So her reasoning is lousy at best.

:palm:

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Let's go over this... If it's unnatural, than many things are unnatural. Computers are unnatural. I have yet to find one in nature, made by natural processes. Clothes are unnatural. Does she drive, ride a bike, wear shoes, or live under a man-made roof? Congratulations! That's unnatural! Not only that, but while I'm no biology major, I'm fairly sure that anal sex and homosexuality exist in several species, of which do not create 'unnatural' objects.
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Postby Conserative Morality » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:12 am

South East Europe wrote:An insistence on reading the Bible is perfectly valid. But then we should also read the Quran, Book of Mormon, etc... Religion can also have a compromise.

There's no way come hell or high water that I will 'merge' or 'compromise' my religion with Judaism, Mainstream Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, et cetera.
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Postby Greed and Death » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:13 am

Ashmoria wrote:
South East Europe wrote:Here is my dilemma!
Pro-"Life" or Pro-"Choice"? There is a compromise is there not?
Anti-Homosexual "Marriage" or Pro-Homosexual "Marriage"? There is a compromise is there not?
Socialism or Capitalism? Fascism or Communism? There is a compromise is there not?
Unisex Restrooms or Binary Restrooms? There is a compromise is there not?
Fiscal Responsibility or Liberal Spending? There is a compromise.
Environment Conservation or Environmental Preservation or Environmental Destruction? There is a compromise.
Dangerous Substances or No Dangerous Substances? There is a compromise.
Healthcare Reform or Anti-Healthcare Reform? There is a compromise.
So since there is a compromise for nearly everything that people make a serious issue, I ask you this, why can't we all just compromise?

i think you need to propose the compromise in all these things....

for example what is the compromise between unisex and sex segregated bathrooms?

Hermaphrodite bathrooms.
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:13 am

greed and death wrote:
Ashmoria wrote:
South East Europe wrote:Here is my dilemma!
Pro-"Life" or Pro-"Choice"? There is a compromise is there not?
Anti-Homosexual "Marriage" or Pro-Homosexual "Marriage"? There is a compromise is there not?
Socialism or Capitalism? Fascism or Communism? There is a compromise is there not?
Unisex Restrooms or Binary Restrooms? There is a compromise is there not?
Fiscal Responsibility or Liberal Spending? There is a compromise.
Environment Conservation or Environmental Preservation or Environmental Destruction? There is a compromise.
Dangerous Substances or No Dangerous Substances? There is a compromise.
Healthcare Reform or Anti-Healthcare Reform? There is a compromise.
So since there is a compromise for nearly everything that people make a serious issue, I ask you this, why can't we all just compromise?

i think you need to propose the compromise in all these things....

for example what is the compromise between unisex and sex segregated bathrooms?

Hermaphrodite bathrooms.


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Postby The Cat-Tribe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:13 am

Those lucky African-American bastards. First, they got coddled as slaves for about 300 years. Then they got to benefit from segregation for another 100 years. Now they get to enjoy higher poverty rates, higher unemployment, lower pay for the same work, lower annual income, higher incarceration rates, longer sentences for similar crimes, higher mortality rates, lower home ownership rates, blatant discrimination on a daily basis, AND subtle discrimination.

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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby South East Europe » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:14 am

Galloism wrote:
What we do in the bedroom is none of your business.


In jest... You could compromise and invite me in. :twisted:

In jest... I never asked about what you did in your bedroom, but we could reach a compromise. You tell me some of the things you do in your bedroom and I tell you some of the things I do in my bedroom. :evil:

In seriousness... Eww, I don't want to know what you do in your bedroom. Where did you get that insane idea? :shock:
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Postby JuNii » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:15 am

greed and death wrote: Hermaphrodite bathrooms.

:blink:

is there some special... plumbing... that is required for Hermaphrodies?
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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:15 am

South East Europe wrote:
Galloism wrote:
What we do in the bedroom is none of your business.


In jest... You could compromise and invite me in. :twisted:

In jest... I never asked about what you did in your bedroom, but we could reach a compromise. You tell me some of the things you do in your bedroom and I tell you some of the things I do in my bedroom. :evil:

In seriousness... Eww, I don't want to know what you do in your bedroom. Where did you get that insane idea? :shock:


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Re: Why can't we all just compromise?

Postby Galloism » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:16 am

South East Europe wrote:
Galloism wrote:
What we do in the bedroom is none of your business.


In jest... You could compromise and invite me in. :twisted:

In jest... I never asked about what you did in your bedroom, but we could reach a compromise. You tell me some of the things you do in your bedroom and I tell you some of the things I do in my bedroom. :evil:

In seriousness... Eww, I don't want to know what you do in your bedroom. Where did you get that insane idea? :shock:


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