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ShadowTemplar

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Posted in: More Crap from the Culturally Corrupt
  ShadowTemplar
03-11-2006, 3:15 PM
#1
Be pissed off. (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/7/102326/8499) Be very pissed off. And then consider whether you really want a party that has not kicked out the gutter rat who distributed this to be in control of all four branches of government...  [Read More]
Posted in: Abortion (newer thread)
  ShadowTemplar
03-11-2006, 7:05 PM
#167
So you would chose practicality over principle? Just a yes or no will work. Have you stopped beating your girlfriend? 'A yes or no' manifestly will not work. Yes, there are some situations in which practical considerations will have to trumph some...  [Read More]
Posted in: Abortion (newer thread)
  ShadowTemplar
03-11-2006, 7:02 PM
#165
It's because of your failure to point out when they become a 'human' that it comes back too. Firstly, there is no such point. Contrary to your implicit assumption, 'humanness' is not a binary operator. During foetal development, the foetus is partia...  [Read More]
Posted in: Abortion (newer thread)
  ShadowTemplar
03-11-2006, 7:37 AM
#147
I will start with this, because it seems to me the most important feature of this debate. And I would ask the anti-choicers here to adress this point before they move on to my other points. The anti-choice side here is arguing from fundamentally fal...  [Read More]
Posted in: Abortion (newer thread)
  ShadowTemplar
03-06-2006, 7:25 PM
#48
Brain activity can be stopped completely, that is, people can have a 'flat' EEG [and still survive]. Not for a week. So yes, a person in the same cognitive capabilities of a fetus should be let to die, but that is another discussion for another tim...  [Read More]
Posted in: Abortion (newer thread)
  ShadowTemplar
03-06-2006, 6:46 PM
#46
You wake up the unconcious man, he is able to think. You let the baby grow, it is able to think. How are those so different? Myelinated nerves. I agree, especially by the 2nd and 3rd trimester I don't see how anyone can justify it (assuming there a...  [Read More]
Posted in: Abortion (newer thread)
  ShadowTemplar
03-06-2006, 6:38 PM
#44
Moral relativism is absolutely useless making objective value judgements, [emphasis mine] Woah, that's profound reasoning! [/stinging sarcasm] And the problem with the death penalty is that it gives the government too much power. The power to end a...  [Read More]
Posted in: Abortion (newer thread)
  ShadowTemplar
03-06-2006, 5:34 PM
#42
@ Dravis: You're citing from a secondary source as if it were the primary source. That's bad scholarship. Please include the secondary source in your bibliography. I believe that the fetus should be just as protected as the baby because the fetus is...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  ShadowTemplar
03-03-2006, 2:46 PM
#122
Don't see "taking blasphemy seriously" as part of that definition... Someone who takes blasphemy seriously is, by scandinavian standards at least, a radical and revolutionary zealot. That blasphemy is a serious matter is a radical and ali...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  ShadowTemplar
03-02-2006, 3:01 PM
#119
do you always act like that?????? Yep, that's Skin in a nutshell. Although he doesn't usually shout that much. i'm talking about the countries that deal with some people deferently thatn others, the countries that stood against everyone who mocked...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  ShadowTemplar
03-02-2006, 2:26 PM
#116
@Korf: I have a friend. He's called Uppercase Letters. I think you should meet him, he's a really nice guy. @Skin: No, that's not what I mean. That's what the talk.origins regulars call argumentum ad CAPSLOCK :D Correct me if I am wrong, but you se...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  ShadowTemplar
03-02-2006, 9:23 AM
#112
Except they affect more than just the extremists. I happen to subscribe to the notion that being offended by blasphemy is extremism. Basically it's like the U.S. bombing the **** out of a city in Iraq. Sure, a few bad guys get hurt, but so do a lot...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  ShadowTemplar
03-01-2006, 5:28 PM
#108
What definition is that? That would be this one (http://thesaurus.reference.com/search?q=extremist): Main Entry: Extremist Part of Speech: Noun Definition: Zealot Synonyms: agitator, die-hard, fanatic, radical, revolutionary, revolutionist, ultra,...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  ShadowTemplar
03-01-2006, 5:23 PM
#107
In my opinion, this smells to be a plan to increase the tension in the world, plan prepared by the fanatics. That's not how I read the situation. I think that what we see here is the result of decades of pent-up frustration with European and America...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  ShadowTemplar
03-01-2006, 2:54 PM
#102
Meh - stupid v.Bulletin chewed up my post when it got too long... No one ever has any right to treat the beliefs of other's as if they aren't true and therefore those belifs don't matter. Why not? Why can we not tell creationists that their lunacy...  [Read More]
Posted in: Muslim anger at Mohammed Cartoon & Freedom of speech
  ShadowTemplar
03-01-2006, 2:03 PM
#101
I felt this issue was interesting enough to get its own thread. When you think about it its a pretty complex issue.. I fail to see how it's more "complex" than - say - the creationist teach the controversy scam. The imamic outrage has abo...  [Read More]
Posted in: The Separation of Church and State
  ShadowTemplar
03-11-2006, 3:23 PM
#83
"You can tell a bigot, but you can't tell him much." - Jargon file, The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing Best. Quote. Ever....  [Read More]
Posted in: The Separation of Church and State
  ShadowTemplar
01-31-2006, 4:47 AM
#9
Interesting. I scored a 15 as well. On question 5, where did the separation of church and state originate, I could have sworn it was France. During the French Revolution, France became increasingly secular. At least that's what they're teaching in h...  [Read More]
Posted in: Survey sez: Hillary is out
  ShadowTemplar
03-03-2006, 2:42 PM
#27
On the economic front, I'm inclined to agree with you - but their social policies are anything but....  [Read More]
Posted in: Survey sez: Hillary is out
  ShadowTemplar
03-02-2006, 6:53 PM
#25
Templar: Skin is correct though. Neo-conservatives are actually based on the ideals of Democrat liberals who defected to the Republican Party during I think the Red Scare. They are actually liberals claiming to be conservatives. That might be where...  [Read More]
Posted in: Survey sez: Hillary is out
  ShadowTemplar
03-02-2006, 3:32 PM
#23
How do you square this with the factual increase in Federal government hiring under the Bush II and III Presidencies? Is that with or without Operation Iraqi Screwup? Maybe I don't follow the idiom of 'mudering the government.' Does that mean reduc...  [Read More]
Posted in: Survey sez: Hillary is out
  ShadowTemplar
01-27-2006, 11:30 AM
#8
I'm pretty sure every major candidate is going to be a bad choice. Both Republicans and Democrats are too extreme in their own way. As a matter of fact the current extreme division in the American political spectrum is entirely the fault of the Repu...  [Read More]
Posted in: Buy a T-Shirt, support the suicide bombers!
  ShadowTemplar
01-25-2006, 11:36 AM
#5
It's mostly a domestic political stunt, and if they had chosen their terrorist groups with a little more care, they would even have had a pretty strong case. Y'see in Europe and in the US there's such a thing as 'terror lists'. If your organisation...  [Read More]
Posted in: 403-3
  ShadowTemplar
01-25-2006, 11:06 AM
#164
That's basically a summary of what toms said. The real difference is he sounds a lot more fair in his judgement. I believe he is incorrect in his assumptions, but at least he sounds like he gave it thought. What's unfair about calling a demonstrated...  [Read More]
Posted in: What is reality? (Philosophy)
  ShadowTemplar
03-06-2006, 4:46 PM
#22
Is that not simply a tautology?...  [Read More]
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