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Artsy peoples! in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Sunday, April 24 2005 01:23 Profile #6 quote: Everyone just needs to die, everyone including me. No, they really, really are that bad. [ Sunday, April 24, 2005 01:24: Message edited by: Morgan ] Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
THE GREAT DEBATE in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Saturday, April 23 2005 03:35 Profile #9 I'm a vegetarian, but not from the animal liberation angle. Still, I know all the arguments regarding political vegetarianism pretty well, so if nobody else stands up, I'd be willing to take it. [ Saturday, April 23, 2005 03:35: Message edited by: Morgan ] Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
NEW POPE! in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Tuesday, April 19 2005 08:35 Profile #4 This is very bad news for the Catholic Church (and people in general). He's about as conservative as it's possible to get, so don't expect any nice liberal teachings on abortion, contraception, gay people or women priests. The only blessing is that hopefully he won't be around for long. [ Tuesday, April 19, 2005 08:36: Message edited by: Morgan ] Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Message board basics in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Thursday, April 14 2005 21:53 Profile #8 Welcome back, Sushi. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Favorite Author in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Thursday, April 14 2005 09:22 Profile #46 I'm torn on the Shakespeare debate. I adore Shakespeare's works, but I feel the need to differentiate myself from Kel's and Stugie's very 19th century (not to mention inhibiting and stagnating) view of what poetry should be. I believe that the free verse format was ultimately a good thing, but I see no reason why we should ignore the geniuses of poets who were bound to a format, nor ignore the genius of Shakespeare himself. To take a musical example, any comparison between, say, the Beatles and Miles Davis would be utterly meaningless, since they were both adhering to very different musical standards. Language is an evolution, the use of language moreso. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Phaedra in Blades of Avernum
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Thursday, April 14 2005 06:00 Profile #119 Am I the only one that finds the description of women as "whores" and "sluts" far, far more offensive than Phaedra's costume? Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Phaedra in Blades of Avernum
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Wednesday, April 13 2005 09:48 Profile #76 quote: If wearing bikinis is pleasurable for men and there is a social pull for it, then it is an act of dominance which intrinsically reflects sexism. By the same measure, if curries give pleasure to people, and there is a social pull for Indians to make it, then it is an act of dominance, which intrinsically reflects racism? quote: Furthermore, women are being relegated to objects. This is what aggrevates me. I take pleasure in the female form. Does this mean that I am objectifying her? Of course not. It's only a short logical jump from here to inferring that taking pleasure in a woman's company is sexist. quote: From the perspective of the woman wearing the bikini, it is submitting to sexism. She is deigning to wear an outfit which she KNOWS will have an effect on the men around her- halter tops are not worn for comfort, nor are bikinis, nor are thongs. If they are worn to get a rise out of men, it is women selling their dignities for palpable control, which is akin to selling one's self for intercourse for capital. In other words, whoredom. If women wear such garb for the purpose of getting laid, then it is often for gaining social standing. (For instance, statistics report that most women do not find pleasure in sex, especially after repeated instances.) I find this to be more sexist and derogatory than anything posted on this topic so far. Whoredom? Really, TM? The implication I find in the bulk of your post is that women can not possibly sexually compete on an even footing with men, which strikes me as abhorent. quote: Women as sexual objects has dragged me to a level where I cannot see any woman beyond her sexual potency- it is a struggle to view girls even down to the age of twelve and lower as actual human beings beyond their sexual capabilities, and it has been rigorous to try and reverse my training as a capitalist stormtrooper as such. This is you trying to apply your own insecurities and problems onto the rest of us. Just because you cannot view women as anything other than sexual objects, does not mean the rest of us are incapable. I also dislike the implication that porn is by definition immoral. But then, I take a far more European attitude to matters of sex anyway. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Phaedra in Blades of Avernum
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Sunday, April 10 2005 02:53 Profile #42 This topic is so achingly hilarious it hurts. Feminism is in a sorry state of affairs when TM has become its poster boy. [ Sunday, April 10, 2005 02:55: Message edited by: Morgan ] Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
General thoughts and comments in Geneforge Series
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Saturday, April 2 2005 12:47 Profile #3 I've yet to play it but... quote: Geneforge 3 has a huge and open storyline. You can help one of several factions, each with its own goals. There are dozens of different endings. You can help the rebels, or fight them. I'm sure glad that Jeff hasn't been running out of original plotlines. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Le pape est mort. in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Saturday, April 2 2005 10:30 Profile #0 Thoughts, anyone? First thought: Very sad, but at least his suffering's over. Second thought: Maybe I won't have to hear quite so much of the royal wedding anymore. [ Saturday, April 02, 2005 10:33: Message edited by: Morgan ] Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Two years to the day. in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Saturday, April 2 2005 09:06 Profile #50 quote: Yes, well, such is war. If they didn't want trouble, they should never have messed with Israel. Where to begin. Frankly, a statement like that insults your intelligence, Drakey. I'm going to leave aside the main thrust of the problems I have with the state of Israel, since we can argue that and never get anywhere ever. The implicit racism in that sentence is disgusting. Presuming "they" is a reference to the Palestinian people as a collective (since I very much doubt that even you would say that no innocent civilians have been killed by the Israeli army's mad quest for retribution) it is only one jump from what you are saying to saying that Palestinians deserve whatever they get. Do you really believe that all Palestinian people who get in the way of the Israeli army condone suicide bombing? And that, even if they did, they somehow deserve to die? Then there's the whole issue that the Palestinians began the aggression in the first place, but I can rattle on about the war crimes of Ariel Sharon for hours, and like I said, it won't get us anywhere. Are you actually advocating total war here, Drakey? Last time I checked that was illegal under international law and is generally condemned by the world community. Suffice to say, I'm appalled. [ Saturday, April 02, 2005 09:15: Message edited by: Morgan ] Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Work Visas For Illegal Immigrants in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Monday, March 28 2005 12:54 Profile #13 I think the problem Alorael raises is the only valid argument against open borders immigration - if a first world country is pinching the professionals (doctors, teachers, nurses, etc.) from a third world country, then said third world country will suffer. I can think of one of two ways of solving this dilemma. Either employ an ethical policy not to pinch other countries' professionals, or recompense them the same amount of money as it would take to train the same professional in the first world country. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Work Visas For Illegal Immigrants in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Monday, March 28 2005 02:48 Profile #11 My belief is that the immigration policies in existence today are more counterproductive than having no immigration policy at all. There may be some happy medium between the two, but I think it will be found towards the open borders approach. You make the presumption that society will need to draw a line and that mass migration will happen - the presumption that the only thing preventing the masses from destroying our society is a strict immigration policy. Take a British example - it was feared that after the EU was expanded, we would receive a flood of East European workers seeking a life in the UK. Never happened. I believe there may have been a negligible increase in immigration, but nothing that would have any effect on the numbers. For some reason everyone is happy to assume that all Mexicans, say, will leave their family, their friends, their country, everything they knows, everything they holds dear for the US if given the chance where they will not be appreciated and stuck doing meaningless jobs for the rest of their lives. I simply do not believe that this is the case. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Work Visas For Illegal Immigrants in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Sunday, March 27 2005 12:42 Profile #9 I would agree with you also, i, if I believed that immigration had an adverse effect on the economy. That's simply not true - immigrants bring more money into the British economy at least than they take out. Perhaps you could make the overpopulation argument if people were emmigrating to China. However, I never noticed that America was particularly short on open space - the idea that a country is overflowing is a myth put about by populist politicians and the public too willfully ignorant to ignore them. I notice how you think this only seems to apply on an international scale. You can argue that New York is overpopulated - does that mean that people from Texas should be banned from moving there? [ Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:44: Message edited by: Morgan ] Posts: 2862* \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Work Visas For Illegal Immigrants in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Sunday, March 27 2005 08:04 Profile #6 I find the very idea of trying to control where people can go and live in the world to be utterly abhorent - to this end, the best immigration policy is to have no policy at all. Ultimately, this would probably end up curbing immigration - the only reason that employers wish to employ illegal immigrants is because they do not have to pay them the minimum wage - if these immigrants were no longer considered illegal, employers would have no such incentive, leading them to employ "home grown" labour, leading to a fall in immigration. Outside of a totalitarian state, all attempts to control immigration are doomed to failure. (Discuss) [ Sunday, March 27, 2005 08:05: Message edited by: Morgan ] Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Graphic Requests... in Blades of Avernum
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Thursday, February 24 2005 07:50 Profile #28 DreamGuy - You are completely and utterly bereft of a sense of proportion. Say I'm writing a report for school. I need a picture of some sort to accompany the text. Are you saying that I must e-mail all the photographers involved in the pictures and ask them if it's alright if I use them in my school report? It's comparable to picking a penny up on the street and reporting it at the local police station. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Favorite Movie. in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Thursday, February 10 2005 22:36 Profile #5 Copenhagen probably, or maybe American Beauty. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Root of all evil in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Sunday, January 30 2005 08:54 Profile #217 quote: Its just that logically there's no sense to do so if no one is in supreme authority to set laws. This argument falls down in two ways. Firstly, it assumes the brain is a logical construct. Secondly, even if the brain was a logical construct, there is still sense in following society's rules of what is good and what is evil. I'm not going to go into the "everything we do, we do for pleasure" theory, mainly because I don't agree with it for the most part, but at least here it is applicable - we are more likely to get pleasure from obeying society's views on good and evil than we are from not. I'm not even convinced that God has ever superceded society in the role of "supreme authority". [ Sunday, January 30, 2005 08:56: Message edited by: Morgan ] Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
New look for www.spidweb.com in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Thursday, January 13 2005 22:34 Profile #17 quote: Geneforge 3 is the third part of a continuing storyline that will extend for several more games Just no. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
In the Spirit of fantasy... in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Tuesday, January 11 2005 09:09 Profile #1 I'd imagine you were best off looking on eBay. Sword fetishist friends of mine have had success getting that kind of thing from there in the past. [ Tuesday, January 11, 2005 09:10: Message edited by: Morgan ] Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
You can drown plowing the fields or you can drown seeing the sights in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Friday, January 7 2005 09:02 Profile #41 Thuryl - my mother was recently diagnosed with cancer. For her at least, and saying this in the least ghoulish way possible, she says the tsunami has helped her put things in perspective - that she has lived a reasonably long, affluent life in a first world country, while countless thousands have died without living much of a life at all, though I realise this isn't quite the point you were addressing. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
Recommended Reading in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Friday, January 7 2005 08:58 Profile #52 I think that Asimov tried to address the fifties culture bias in the last two books (the preludes), even if only by beating us over the head with the cultural diversity of Trantor. And the idea that it doesn't sag in places? Foundation and Earth sucked hard. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
You can drown plowing the fields or you can drown seeing the sights in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Wednesday, January 5 2005 10:04 Profile #36 I object to idea that just because you don't know someone you can therefore not empathise with them. Suffering is suffering, regardless of your geographical view point. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
You can drown plowing the fields or you can drown seeing the sights in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Tuesday, January 4 2005 11:48 Profile #31 I read a disturbing report this morning about the actual likelihood of the governments giving all the aid they have promised. Apparently, of the 1.1 billion dollars promised after the Iranian earthquake in Bam recently, only 17.6 million was ever delivered on. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00
You can drown plowing the fields or you can drown seeing the sights in General
Morgan Shaper Member # 22	written Sunday, January 2 2005 11:30 Profile #28 I think the realisation that it will not happen again for a while is of little comfort to those in Asia who have lost everything. Broadly, I agree, but it's better that people give their money to Asia and ignore Africa than it is for people to ignore both. Posts: 2862 \| Registered: Tuesday, October 2 2001 07:00

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