by Komuniste » Mon May 24, 2010 9:13 pm
by Rolamec » Mon May 24, 2010 9:16 pm
by Lackadaisical2 » Mon May 24, 2010 9:16 pm
*Specfically, there is a provision forbidding people from selling goods or services at a price higher than the average price of similar goods (business caught selling goods above the average price are immediately shut down and forever forbidden from doing business again in Boys State).
The Republic of Lanos wrote:Proud member of the Vile Right-Wing Noodle Combat Division of the Imperialist Anti-Socialist Economic War Army Ground Force reporting in.
by Sun Aut Ex » Mon May 24, 2010 9:22 pm
Strykyh wrote:I wasn't trying to be intelligent.
Keronians wrote:So you think it's ok to waste valuable police time and resources to pander to minority superstitions?
"All available officers, report downtown, armed suspected firing wildly into the public."
"I'll be about ten minutes, I have to go to ID a Muslim woman."
Yes.
Unless of course it's not OK for a woman to ask for a female to ask for a female officer to carry out body checks. In which case, the answer would be no.
"All available officers, report downtown, armed suspected firing wildly into the public."
"I'll be about then minutes, I have to go to carry out a body check on a woman."
by Blouman Empire » Mon May 24, 2010 9:26 pm
by Nobel Hobos » Mon May 24, 2010 9:26 pm
by Nobel Hobos » Mon May 24, 2010 9:27 pm
by Cobhanglica » Mon May 24, 2010 9:27 pm
by Komuniste » Mon May 24, 2010 9:27 pm
by Nobel Hobos » Mon May 24, 2010 9:30 pm
Komuniste wrote:You're both wrong. Please don't try to guess my state.
As a note, they don't necessarily enforce Christianty, they enforce some sort of ultra-patriotic monotheistic cult that mimics American Christianity (it's pretty much the same gooey hollow religiosity you see in Boy Scouts, from wha I gather) - their prayers are JUST vague enough for me to assume ANY god in place of "God," hence my plan to become a Satanist if they try to get me to do any prayers or oaths (it's obvious they were implying that "God" is the Christian god, but I can nitpick the law).
by Komuniste » Mon May 24, 2010 9:31 pm
by Parnassus » Tue May 25, 2010 1:07 am
by Querinos » Tue May 25, 2010 3:28 am
Komuniste wrote:I'll be going to Boys State (no I won't tell you which state ) this summer.
1.) Crush Mike Huckabee in a debate during the questioning session after he speaks. He's a total moron, from what I've researched about him, so it shouldn't be too hard. I expect to be able to strike a small blow to his campaign - being humiliated publicly by a 17-year-old isn't exactly good for one's political career, after all.
Komuniste wrote:2.) If they try to require me to pray or swear an oath, I will do so in the name of Satan. While I don't worship Satan, I do admire him as the only being to have directly defied Yahweh and lived, so if anyone could make a good god, it's him.
Komuniste wrote:3.) Sue the churches (in the Boys State legal system, not in a real lawsuit) if they insist on forcing me to go to a church service. I can't sue Boys State, but I CAN sue the churches, I think. (I'm not sure if I'll have to do this. They stated in the orientation that we would be REQUIRED to go to a church service (and they only offer Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish), but the Boys State Constitution explicitly says otherwise)
Komuniste wrote:4.) Of course, I'm running for office. However, if the reviews of the population of Boys State are correct, I probably won't get very far.
by Scarsaw » Tue May 25, 2010 4:30 am
Komuniste wrote:Oh, no, I WANT to go so I can forward my own agenda. The worst thing they can do to me is kick me out. And plus, I'm already signed up, so I have to go no matter what.
by The Zoogie People » Tue May 25, 2010 4:44 am
Komuniste wrote:Dang, you guys are replying fast...
I'll say it again: I don't hate the program, I hate the law governing it. For those of you who don't know, Boys State is essentially a political microstate that recruits high school students to go to it for a week to learn about politics and government. You can run for offices, hold political rallies, hold protests (I assume), and the student-elected legislature somehow makes the laws. If I can somehow get my followers (if I have any) to gain a 75% majority in the legislature, we could rewrite the entire Constitution. I believe that although my cause is hopeless, I must try; who knows, maybe the charming anti-Christian guy who's obsessed with politics might, with the power of his superior reasoning and knowledge, convince the population to vote for him.
Somehow, Boys State is widely thought of as one of the best educational programs for government in the country, and it's also worth a college credit in political science.
I WILL go to cause "trouble," as you say. I want to cause a scene. I want to get the press all over these guys, and I want to build a name for myself.
Also, I don't have a choice anymore. I signed up before I found out all this stuff about the program, and I can't change my mind about going. I would still go anyway just to verify the reviews and attempt to create a controversy.
by Blouman Empire » Tue May 25, 2010 6:16 am
Komuniste wrote:Dang, you guys are replying fast...
I'll say it again: I don't hate the program, I hate the law governing it. For those of you who don't know, Boys State is essentially a political microstate that recruits high school students to go to it for a week to learn about politics and government. You can run for offices, hold political rallies, hold protests (I assume), and the student-elected legislature somehow makes the laws. If I can somehow get my followers (if I have any) to gain a 75% majority in the legislature, we could rewrite the entire Constitution. I believe that although my cause is hopeless, I must try; who knows, maybe the charming anti-Christian guy who's obsessed with politics might, with the power of his superior reasoning and knowledge, convince the population to vote for him.
Somehow, Boys State is widely thought of as one of the best educational programs for government in the country, and it's also worth a college credit in political science.
I WILL go to cause "trouble," as you say. I want to cause a scene. I want to get the press all over these guys, and I want to build a name for myself.
Also, I don't have a choice anymore. I signed up before I found out all this stuff about the program, and I can't change my mind about going. I would still go anyway just to verify the reviews and attempt to create a controversy.
by Komuniste » Tue May 25, 2010 7:25 am
The Zoogie People wrote:Komuniste wrote:Dang, you guys are replying fast...
I'll say it again: I don't hate the program, I hate the law governing it. For those of you who don't know, Boys State is essentially a political microstate that recruits high school students to go to it for a week to learn about politics and government. You can run for offices, hold political rallies, hold protests (I assume), and the student-elected legislature somehow makes the laws. If I can somehow get my followers (if I have any) to gain a 75% majority in the legislature, we could rewrite the entire Constitution. I believe that although my cause is hopeless, I must try; who knows, maybe the charming anti-Christian guy who's obsessed with politics might, with the power of his superior reasoning and knowledge, convince the population to vote for him.
Somehow, Boys State is widely thought of as one of the best educational programs for government in the country, and it's also worth a college credit in political science.
I WILL go to cause "trouble," as you say. I want to cause a scene. I want to get the press all over these guys, and I want to build a name for myself.
Also, I don't have a choice anymore. I signed up before I found out all this stuff about the program, and I can't change my mind about going. I would still go anyway just to verify the reviews and attempt to create a controversy.
Nah, is that worth it?
You can hold your own political beliefs - and I'd agree with a good deal of them, I'd guess - but you can't go into anything with that kind of attitude and expect a fruitful result. You can't have the attitude of "I'm right, and these guys are so wrong they're stupid and pathetic."
Go in, make friends, debate, and maybe win some people to your side by being persuasive and leading by example - namely, showing a level of open-mindedness. Don't go in there thinking you're just going to show everyone up with your superior philosophy, 'cos that's not gonna happen. Even people who hold flawed (and that's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it?) beliefs are sometimes very intelligent. You don't want to show them that they're wrong, you want them to be less blindly convicted to certain things and then maybe find out for themselves that they're wrong. Because if you do the former, you just make them stick to their guns even more. Which is pretty much the opposite of what you're trying to accomplish.
Here is a good quick example of His prayer.
"Father Satan, my dark lord and master. I call to you from the deepst parts of Hell, I praise your name with every breath of my body, I worship you with every fibre of my being. You shown me what true strength is. you have shown me what true free will is. Out of the darkness you came to show, me the true light.
My Keeper, my Lover and my Lord what a great gift that is.
Hail to the King, baby."
by Blouman Empire » Tue May 25, 2010 7:26 am
Komuniste wrote:snip.
by Zoharland » Tue May 25, 2010 7:32 am
Komuniste wrote:*snip*
by Kamsaki » Tue May 25, 2010 7:41 am
Komuniste wrote:1.) Crush Mike Huckabee in a debate during the questioning session after he speaks. He's a total moron, from what I've researched about him, so it shouldn't be too hard. I expect to be able to strike a small blow to his campaign - being humiliated publicly by a 17-year-old isn't exactly good for one's political career, after all.
by Komuniste » Tue May 25, 2010 7:41 am
by Komuniste » Tue May 25, 2010 7:43 am
Kamsaki wrote:Komuniste wrote:1.) Crush Mike Huckabee in a debate during the questioning session after he speaks. He's a total moron, from what I've researched about him, so it shouldn't be too hard. I expect to be able to strike a small blow to his campaign - being humiliated publicly by a 17-year-old isn't exactly good for one's political career, after all.
I would seriously recommend doing a trial run of that here before jumping straight in. Bear the following thought in mind: Huckabee will rightly dismiss your question if it is seen as too aggressive, but will shoot it down and refuse you the right to reply if it has an obvious answer.
Don't go in with the presumption of trying to "win" - the intent must be to find some vulnerability he's never before defended and make him defend it, whether he does so successfully or not.
by Blouman Empire » Tue May 25, 2010 7:44 am
Komuniste wrote:And no, I don't have a problem with people being hapy. I have a problem with people being oppressed by your evil religion.
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