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Owned by Unordained - Created on 07/07/2003 - Last edited on 11/01/2005  03/13/11 :: Reference :: (link) :: See? What did I tell you about us doing this to ourselves?03/13/11 :: Message :: Marriage and Equal Rights 03/30/09 :: Article :: The Abortion Debate Is Stupid. :: It seriously is.09/23/08 :: Reference :: (link) :: Maslow's hierarchy of needs01/17/08 :: Quote :: Gurney HalleckI'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me--all bearing for someone else to pick. 10/21/07 :: Quote :: A. SpammerI think this email passes the Turing test on accident:
Hi, how's doing? The answer is lying on the surface. You're dead on your feet, man, I can tell! But chill out, there's plenty of people just like you. Do you know that an immense grow of people suffering from a sexual disorder is observed, it's being counted by millions already. Questioned? It's a modern life style. You get-you pay. Everyth [...] 09/15/07 :: Quote :: MC Hawking
ah, yuh
that's right
this one's for all the naysayers and dream-slayers
who told the Hawk-man it couldn't be done.
Listen up.
Your momma is so fat, she's got a trashbag for a sock.
She's so hairy she looks like she's got Don King in a headlock.
Your momma is so ugly that her dog won't give her fleas.
You could stick her face in dough and make monster cookies.
Your momma is so da [...] 09/04/07 :: Reference :: (link) :: The God Fuse04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. 12/20/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Movie Ratings11/08/06 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 08/12/06 :: Article :: Lolicon lovers: a threat to society? a threat to anime? :: This whole debate puts the LOL in loli.08/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: AnswerMan responds to responses on lolicon08/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: AnswerMan opines on lolicon08/09/06 :: Article :: The Decameron :: Putting the Devil in Hell. Is that what they call it these days?08/09/06 :: Quote :: Giovanni BoccaccioAlibech turns hermit, and a monk, Rustico, teaches her to put the Devil in Hell. Afterwards she is brought home, and married to Neerbale.
Dioneus listened attentively to the Queen’s discourse, and when she had done and he knew that only he remained to complete the day’s entertainment, without trifling away the time or awaiting a command from the Queen, thus he began.
Gracious ladies, it may [...] 06/10/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: MonkeySphere01/06/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Is Europe Ready for 'Whore Power'? 11/06/05 :: Article :: Why should christians be surprised? :: 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Concepts10/18/05 :: Article :: Stub - Evolution &c :: 10/03/05 :: Quote :: Henry KissingerWe must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing. 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert FrostA civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. 07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamOnce, men turned thinking over to machines in the hopes that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. 07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamA world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition! 07/23/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Power of Nightmares07/21/05 :: Article :: New notes on marriage [Scratchbook] :: Have you read the fine print?02/14/05 :: Article :: Having a reason for laws :: Because I said so!02/11/05 :: Quote :: Bjarne StroustrupCuriously enough, the volume of interest and public debate is often inversely proportional to the importance of a feature. The reason is that it is much easier to have a firm opinion on a minor feature than on a major one; minor features fit directly into the current state of affairs, whereas major ones - by definition - do not.
[Editor's note: while this was in the context of C++ language featur [...] 11/06/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: A Vindication of Moral Liberty 11/04/04 :: Article :: A -> B -> C :: But wait..I only like B. I hate C!10/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Disease and war09/10/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Compass08/01/04 :: Article :: Don't ignore differences! :: The Vatican reminds us that women are different from men, hurray!07/12/04 :: File :: A talk about chastity with high-schoolers :: Real-Media audio07/08/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The morality police06/29/04 :: Article :: Freedom and Authority :: Shedding light on America's political system06/02/04 :: Quote :: Lao-TzuA leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
05/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Harper's Magazine05/20/04 :: Article :: The power to make people listen :: When you talk, does the world stand still?05/02/04 :: Article :: South Park and The Passion :: Thoughts on the movie's impact04/08/04 :: Article :: Fighting fire with fire :: Dealing with terrorism when you aren't sure it's wrong04/08/04 :: Article :: Consent & Ethics :: Yes, I'm telling you not to tell me what to do. Got a problem with that?04/07/04 :: Quote :: Howard ChaykinI don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon. 03/02/04 :: Article :: Anti-discrimination and the Church :: Should you be worried about gay marriage because your church doesn't want to officiate such things?02/18/04 :: Article :: Civil Disobedience and other meaningless buzzwords. :: The Los Angeles Gay Marriage Contraversy02/17/04 :: Article :: Justice and Power ...and nearly Powerless Justice :: Almost nobody is looking out for you02/17/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Hnida's story02/12/04 :: Article :: Boobygate :: New and improved! Now easier to skim and ignore!!02/12/04 :: Article :: Baring it all :: Do we have to go there?02/03/04 :: Article :: Attack of the Linux geeks! :: They're all a bunch of commie terrorists, out to get SCO, don't you know?02/02/04 :: Article :: I'm thinking in plaid! :: We strive to make sure our editorials are as trendy as we can.01/21/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Anti-Semitism: A Practical Manual 01/16/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Weekly Standard - Marriage Defeatists01/12/04 :: Article :: Standard Deviants :: We may be all over the map, but we're neighbors.01/09/04 :: Article :: Think of the children! :: Would you dare to raise your child in a sub-ideal environment?12/18/03 :: Article :: Marriage answers from Ransom :: My answers to Unordained's questions on marriage12/17/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Legal Information Institute - Marriage: an overview 12/17/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Christian Research Institute - Rape, Marriage, and the Significance of Sex: Why Traditional Values Matter12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Culture and What Courts Can't Do12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Opponents Of Gay Marriage Divided12/01/03 :: Quote :: Abraham Lincoln
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness o [...] 11/26/03 :: Article :: Same God? :: Christianity ... Islam ... Judaism ... Are they all just worshiping the same God?11/23/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Praying Doesn't Help11/21/03 :: Article :: Emergent Properties :: Self-organizing systems are 'da bomb'11/21/03 :: Article :: Knight to Cell block C3. :: Crack is the incorrect way to kill a fetus10/21/03 :: Article :: Anonymity :: Is the author's name the most important part of an article?10/09/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Two Civilized Men Among the Barbarians10/06/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Meme, Counter-meme09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mark TwainClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mae WestMarriage is a great institution -- but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
09/04/03 :: Quote :: Aldous HuxleyThere is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: George Bernard ShawThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Jones' First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution. 08/13/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Queer 'Aye' for Marriage07/15/03 :: Article :: Humanity's Two Dilemmas :: A logical argument for and against declassifying human beings07/02/03 :: Article :: Shackin' up together :: Why I'm not married07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: United States divorce statistics07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: World-wide divorce statistics06/30/03 :: Article :: Please enter your date of birth and gender :: Fighting for individuality in a world that doesn't care 12/01/03 :: Folder :: Marriage11/01/05 :: Folder :: Law & Justice |
