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I do several people who had "just friends" talks, though. Lo and behold, they're still "just" very good friends...

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Not what I meant to type!

—Alorael, who can't see a double entendre, horrible or otherwise. He can only see the blatant and entirely unveiled statement.

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the holy catholic church,

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Edit - Dang it! Re: question 2, if you wanted to answer "This question doesn't apply," please choose "No." The trained monkey which created this poll has been severely punished for the lack of proper answers.

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My wife didn't have to worry about getting a telegram saying I'd been killed when my integral blew up.

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Originally written by XLNC IN ORTHOGRAPHY:

Maybe this topic should be split into aliens and religion?

On disregard for human life: I think that's untrue. In fact, I think that's remarkably untrue. Human life was cheap in the early 20th century. Human life was literally for sale in America into the mid 19th century. The North and South fought a huge war over, among other things, slavery.

Let's look at the death tolls, too. The American Civil War was an unprecedented bloodpath. The Battle of Shiloh killed more men than all previous American wars combined. WWI's carnage dwarfed its predecessors'. The Holocaust was like nothing before it or since, although the "since" is mostly due to lack of organization and infrastructure.

I'll agree without qualm that wars have claimed more and more lives. I dispute that it's due to any change in morals, though. The difference is mostly in weaponry. You can only kill so many people with swords and spears. Guns make that easier. So do standing armies. Automatic weaponry adds on, and so do bombs. We don't want to kill each other any more now than we did millenia ago. We're just better equipped for it.

—Alorael, who on the contrary thinks that aside from the right-wing reactionaries liberal democracies have made amazing leaps in tolerance of and completely acceptance of very different people. Racism is at least ostensibly censured. Sexism is already dropping dead. Rigid insistence on one right way to live is slowly dwindling. It's a decline in Judeo-Christian morals, but it's a great advance in humanism.

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Originally written by Koranuso:

Tyranicus....you rock :)

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Not really. I just know how to use Google. :P

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Maybe life out there is really weird. The only molecules that have the complexity for life are carbon-based, as far as we know, but that could be because the only life we know is carbon-based.

To answer some questions, though, life obviously doesn't need oxygen and can exist in an enormous range of temperatures even on Earth. Water's the big question, though, as the article points out. It has to be compartmentalized because that's what life is, really: self-replicating, self-contained bundles of reactions. Something entirely homogenous can't be alive, and something without cells (or equivalent structures) can't be alive.

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First off, Mac is not an acronym. :P

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—Alorael, who thinks it's about time to plug Phoenix. It has a great community.

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I say we go harass Lady J until she gives us Phoenix back.

Wasn't it actually popular tho for a time? I just made the boards. I didn't actually do anything on them. Haha.

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Originally written by Nicholiah:

I have been cut off from my ex-girlfriend as it were. It wasn't our choice to seperate but we had no choice. We both still want to be friends but I don't know if that is ever going to happen. What would you suggest doing? :(

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[qb]Be a mod for free!

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Originally written by Nioca:

I meant between the new message board and the Roost.

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I know. Muffin's boards can hardly be called competition to the Roost.

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Originally written by lolocaust:

hosting that new TCoA

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