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Submitted by <antiflag248.at.yahoo.com> (View user info) at 2003-09-05 21:16:39 EDT
One day a bunch of people decided to get together and attack logic. Hence forth he is barely seen.
Number one: The American Measurement System.
a - First off, this system has no logic at all. None. I don't want to here your fucking shit about a mile being from one castle to another and a foot being one kings foot or whatever it actually was. Just because it was made for a reason doesn't make it logical.
b - We (as in only America, I believe) still use it. Do I have to say more? A system based on multiples of tens and a system based on pretty much random numbers. Were we too lazy to change as the other countries changed? Did we just say, "Aw, fuck it."? I want my metrics and I want them now mother fuckers.
Number two: The Death Penalty.
a - Okay, okay, so...this person kills someone, right? So, to punish them, we kill them, but this is not wrong? This is not in any way what so ever hypocritical? This is not, might I say, childish? It is like when you are in elementary school and someone touchs you and runs away so you must find that person and touch them and run away, just because. Let's just say its not hypocritical or childish, is it civilized? Is this what civilized people would do? Is this what we are teaching our children, that it is okay to hurt someone as long as they hurt you? Why is it they can do this and nothing happens but if say I got in a fight at school I would most likely get suspended?
Number three: Homophobia
a - I have yet to hear a logical reason as to why someone is homophobic. I have yet to hear a reason other then
-"Ew it is so nasty. I mean I'm 20 years old but for someone someone that wants to have sex with the same sex disgusts me like I'm ten. There are <people of opposite sex> I wouldn't have sex with and that is alright because they probably don't want to have sex with me but for some reason I think every homosexual of my sex wants to have sex with me because I sometimes don't put logical thinking into it."
OR
-"Yeah, this book, written 2000 years ago, with little proof other than what 12 guys I really don't know much about say it is wrong like 4 times so it must be wrong."
The last statement leads me into...
Number four: Religion
I'm all fine and dandy with most people about religion because you can't prove anything. That is the thing. But yet some people are just so crazy they refuse to listen to what you say or they do some crazy action such as murder.
- What happened to innocent until proven guilty? Does that not in some way imply false until proven true? Take this desk for example. There is not real evidence of it walking, and I have never seen it walk. So should I logically believe it can walk or that it /could/ walk but it is more likely it doesn't. This paragraph is kind of hard for me to say because I do believe in God. I'm just...scared.
Scared. If you really think about it, the christian religion could easily be made up for power. That is what they had, too. Still pretty much do. You see, you make up this mystical power this man has, and say he is the son of GOD. Then, you write a little book about him with little rules that you want people to follow in areas. Then you take the simple fact of if you don't follow these you are going to ETERNAL DAMNATION!
Now there are people who take these rules and just fuck other people over. Like the man who was recently sentenced to death for the abortion clinic bombing. You can not prove when something is tured into a human, and you can not prove that they have a soul when they are created. Or the man with the ten commandment statue in the government building. The fore fathers of America would be crying. Most of them were atheist of had no religion. One HUGE thing on the foundings of America was the seperation of church and state. Seperation.
Number five: (Some of) The Constitution
My teacher last year and a substitute brought up how great it was that we still have our constitution and I believe he said ours is the only yet to be taken down. Some of these laws were made for people who lived in the 1800's. Like the one on quartering soldiers. We also do not need a right to bear arms. Charleton Heston stated he does not need a gun in his home really. Fuck. Fucking greedy bastards. Fucking lobyists (or however you spell it).
Number six: Sex sells
The fact that more time was probably spent in the media discussing if a president got a blowjob then if the president stole the election.* Period.
Number seven: WOMD
I guess once the war ended the WOMD weren't there anymore so no need to look.
Logical?
*On a side note, most of the presidents had affiars (I believe) but apparantly now a days sex sells.
"Kill the king, but spare the man."
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Submitted by MindlessUrine999 (user info) at 2003-09-06 15:58:14 EDT (#)
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also, Criminals do not obtain weapons legally, the guns can be traced by the registration you fill out when you buy the gun. so if no one had guns we would all be defensless against the people who illegally obtained the weapons. I do beleive that a criminal is one who takes part in illegal activities. also if no one else had guns the cops probably wouldnt feel the need to have them, haven't you seen demolishion man. so we really do need the right to bear arms. Support the NRA.
Submitted by MindlessUrine999 (user info) at 2003-09-06 15:52:06 EDT (#)
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We do need the right to bear arms What am I going to shoot if we didnt have the right to bear arms I love my Glock-17, and my 357 magnum. Stop dissing the right to bear arms man.
Submitted by virgil (user info) at 2003-09-06 11:33:51 EDT (#)
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Most of the founding fathers were not atheists. They did, however, believe in seperation of church and state.
Submitted by atz (user info) at 2003-09-05 23:46:45 EDT (#)
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shadowdragon: I thought it was called the U.S. Customary System. I seem to remember reading that in a math textbook.
Submitted by atz (user info) at 2003-09-05 23:44:27 EDT (#)
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As far as the U.S. Customary System rather than the Metric System, it seems to be a lot like the English language, in that it isn't the best, but we (Americans) think we're better than everybody else so we do what we want (of course, I don't fluently speak any other language, so I don't know what language is the best).
Also, it would be difficult to change. For one thing, I doubt any President would make it a top priority. Think about it...
"As your President, I will make sure the Metric System has completely replaced the U.S. Customry System by the end of my term."
Not only that, but many people I've talked to actually think our system is better. It reminds me of how people in Spanish class will think that the Spanish way of forming sentences is illogical, when English is a pretty shitty language itself.
Submitted by shadowdragon (user info) at 2003-09-05 23:36:45 EDT (#)
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1 First of all, it's called the "Imperial Measurement System" (because it originated in Britain). The system is based on the number 12. This number was chosen for the same reason time uses the number 60: it has a lot of factors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 30, 60). So it's easy to get 5 or 10 or 30 minutes, which we use all the time.
12in = 1ft
5280ft = 1mile
Factors of 5280: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 20, 22, 24, 30, 32, 33, 40, 44, 48, 55, 60, 66, 80, 88, 96, 110, 120, 132, 160, 165, 176, 220, 240, 264, 330, 352, 440, 480, 528, 660, 880, 1056, 1320, 1760, 2640, 5280 (48)
Factors of 10000, a nice round base-10 number: 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10, 16, 20, 25, 40, 50, 80, 100, 125, 200, 250, 400, 500, 625, 1000, 1250, 2000, 2500, 5000, 10000 (25)
2 Why do we kill someone who kills someone else? Because there's a universal silent agreement that says "I won't kill you, you won't kill me, so we all can live without worrying about it." If someone has the mental motive to break this agreement, it's possible that they'll do it again. The point is not to punish them, just to make sure it doesn't happen again. I guess you have to argue are we upset because someone was killed, or because someone killed?
4 Religion can't be proven, yes. But it doesn't matter. It serves it's purpose; to have faith that there is someone up there watching out for us, that we will go somewhere after we die, that our morals and ethics will pay off, stuff like that, theyre guidelines for our lives.
At one point the church WAS used for power. A guy named Martin Luther took care of that.
5 Actually, I agree. We don't need the right to bear arms. If it was illegal to have a gun, then a shitload people would have them, and a shitload fewer murders. If no one had guns, no one would need them. The police could easily take care of the few who did in that situation.
Ok, I think I've said enough.
Submitted by atz (user info) at 2003-09-05 23:32:29 EDT (#)
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I bet you're not a Republican.
Submitted by ess2s2 (user info) at 2003-09-05 22:45:38 EDT (#)
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Almost forgot...
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Submitted by ess2s2 (user info) at 2003-09-05 22:44:20 EDT (#)
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Ummm, we don't need the right to bear arms? Stop breathing.
Submitted by chipolatte (user info) at 2003-09-05 21:40:32 EDT (#)
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No one wants to hear your crappy opinions that have been stated by every other cross-bearing loser a million times before.