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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: More
We were talking about the process. Keeping dairy cows pregnant, pumping, hormones, steroids, pesticides. Proceses. Had the milk bit not come up, you might be able to make a case that you, at least, were only talking about the one aspect of the process, but... well. I think I've made my point.
Fan, how can you talk about food without talking about farmers? Especially apples, peaches, and pears. Do you think the food you eat is wild grown? Some of it, sure, but most of it is not. Who puts "azinphos methyl in his chickens or his flowers"? A farmer, that's who.
------Interlude------
is life about a destination or is it one big journey? Life is a journey, ew all end up at the same destination.
do you belive in fate? if so, why? No. I believe in choice.
is it really survival of the fitiest? It should be. We've kind of interfered a lot to keep the flawed alive and breeding.
is there a way to see or feel the soul/ how about taint or purify it? Only from within.
can a human being truly change? Yes.
can people evolve? Of course.
why is death so,...pointless?
yin and yang exist and to much of either would result in death so, is it ever possible to have and maintain a perfect balance? I deny the philosophical concept of balance in favor of the reality of entropy. In the end, we all waste away to nothing.
-----End Interlude-----
Celedwe: Cold is it? Well, I'll see what I can do, but given my limited time scale, I make no promises.
Posted on 2007-03-28 at 04:37:48.
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Topic: DND Trivia Game
Subject: DarkSun
Didn't they dump the paladin as well?
Posted on 2007-03-28 at 04:27:26.
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Topic: DND Trivia Game
Subject: Replaced?
There were a number of new classes introduced in DarkSun: Gladiators, Elemental priests, the diplomat/assassin (thought they called it a bard), etc.
I'm going to guess, though, based on the use of the word "replace" that you are referring to the removal of the cleric for the elemental priest...
Posted on 2007-03-27 at 19:01:01.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Really?
The beginning of time? Humans didn't start out farmers, you know. The very idea of farming or ranching in a human invention. By the definition of unnatural you folks seem to be using, it's ALL unnatural. Only hunting and gathering are natural, I suppose - unless you use tools and weapons, then that's unnatural, too. Regardless that's it's a technological step backwards, the organics food industry is still just that - an industry filling a market niche. People who saw a way to make money.
Also, any doctor who just blithely hands you aspirin is a quack. That stuff is very dangerous, and should by all rights be prescription only. The reason it's OTC now is because it's been on the market so long, the public would freak if you tried to take it away from them.
Posted on 2007-03-27 at 18:57:12.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Organics
Well, I wasn't talking about the chemicals there, if you'd like, I will. Again, there's a lot of money in the food industry as well, and if you don't buy organics, these people get a 0% share of it. Part of the market decided that these chemicals are harmful, and a group of farmers and ranchers decided to capitalize on that market. Regardless of whether or not it really is harmful to you to have all the chemicals in your food, no one is growing this food out of the kindness of their hearts.
Personally, I'm inclined to agree that a lot of it is pretty bad for you. So is milk. Aspartame. Tobacco. Marijuana. Raisins. I don't go on campaigns to shut these things down, I just tell people, and let them decide on their own. Vote with your wallet, it's the only vote that you can make which actually counts.
Posted on 2007-03-27 at 14:59:45.
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Topic: What’s Your Favourite Edition?
Subject: Basic
Yeah, I still remember my first Basic Set game... Total party wipe in our first encounter, and it was 4 kobolds. LoL
Posted on 2007-03-27 at 14:50:27.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Convince others... Interesting.
Alright, I suppose I'll take it for now as an exercise. Have you any helpful information, or am I doing this cold?
Posted on 2007-03-27 at 04:26:43.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Good to know
It's the first year I'm eligible to run. Otherwise I'd do it sooner.
Posted on 2007-03-27 at 03:59:40.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Pres
I am and have been for about 5 years now. Vote Rystefn in 2016.
Posted on 2007-03-27 at 03:56:38.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Point-by-point
"My diet is none of your business, but, since you seem determined to give me advice, I'll divulge it anyway.
I eat dairy. I drink milk. I eat meat. I eat fish. I eat just about anything that tastes good, and yes, that includes veal on rare occasions.
I eat what I like to eat, and not you, or anyone else is gonna stop me. I really couldn't care about physiological reasons or moral implications either."
I'm not trying to stop you, merely pointing out a fact. Frankly, I don't care what you eat or don't eat. It doesn't affect me. I also don't care if you drink, smoke, do drugs, bungee-jump, drive through rush-hour traffic, or endanger yourself in any of a hundred thousand other ways. However, if you thought any of those things was safe, I'd at least point out your error. I do have at least that much compassion. After that, you're on your own.
"I am not getting into a flamewar with you, Ryst, or anyone else. I was simply poking a hole in your argument to expose weak points in it, and encourage you to cover all your bases.
This was a lesson in double-standards"
Hole? Weak point? I fail to see anything of the sort. Double standard? Not at all. I put my species above all others, yes. It's a survival trait. If hunting the blue whale to extinction would make better for one human, I'd be the first to put a harpoon gun on my boat. However, I would not condemn any other creature for doing the same. Or trying, at least, at any rate. The leopard almost had our number there for a bit, you know. Do I hold a grudge? No. It was doing what a smart predator does, taking the easy meat. Then we made ourselves the hard kill. Best move we ever made. The cow made itself useful to us. Good move on its part, I think - considering the ones that didn't submit are pretty well gone.
"Your significant other, believe it or not, *is* a member of a species nearly extinct in the wild, whether or not she exists for the purpose of giving milk to a farmer. Humans do not live in the wilderness, and somewhere in the ball park of 40000-50000 people die in car accidents every year in the US alone, so the double-speak doesn't fly."
Really? Nearly extinct in the wild the same way as ants and termites, I suppose. We live in communal hives of our own construction. Worked out well for us so far. Don't count it as wild? I guess that's your double-standard, then. As to the death by car crash - thank you for showing that you should have understood the very point I was making: it is SIGNIFICANTLY more dangerous to drive to work than to be milked in a dairy farm. Do you cry out against the evils of making people work in offices, forcing them to make that drive?
"That's 2 lessons in debate, and I don't give 3."
Interestingly enough, you failed both. I wouldn't give a third, either.
Oh yes, and dairy cows are NOT humans, nor do they hold very well to the standards of any creature not specifically bred for one purpose for thousands of years. We made them to produce milk, and we did it right. They can't stop. See http://www.answers.com/topic/dairy-cattle
"The process of milking the cow is essential for the cow's survival. If the cow is not milked properly the pressure will build inside the udder causing it to explode."
I have been told I sound a bit like Lou... I disagree, but I'm hardly an objective observer, am I?
Posted on 2007-03-27 at 03:51:37.
Edited on 2007-03-27 at 03:55:48 by Rystefn K'ryll
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Lawyer
No I wouldn't. I'm too quick to throw in a personal insult to mix up the dish. A little spice as I see it, but most people respond to the insult and ignore the argument, either to insult back or to condemn the use of insults in a serious debate.
Although, now that you mention it, for a while I did have a series of articles in which I would argue against any statement a person cared to level against me, no matter how obvious it seemed, nor even that I had vehemently argued the other side elsewhere. It helps you to understand your own thoughts very well when you are trying your hardest to deconstruct them. I've argued both sides of the Slow Giant vs Fast Giant debate, argued for and against several religions/philosophies, debated whether or not there is an objective evil, and settled uncounted scores of "who would win" arguments. The only point I made off-limits was that I would not argue against the palassassin, that was, is, and will remain my challenge to the rest humanity.
Posted on 2007-03-27 at 02:18:27.
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Topic: What’s Your Favourite Edition?
Subject: 2nd
I'm a 2nd edition player, and always will be. My arguments for it will inevitably lead to conflict because my feelings towards 3e/3.5 are pretty strong and specific.
Suffice to say, I will gladly play older editions, but I generally refuse to deal with the newer unless something about the planned adventure really catches my eye.
Posted on 2007-03-27 at 02:08:30.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Answers
First, neither I, nor my significant other are members of a species all but extinct in the wild which exists in its current state for the sole purpose of providing said milk to the farmer.
Milking a cow, by the way, has a smaller chance of causing injury than a human driving to work in the morning. Cows are expensive, milk cows especially so. Injuring one costs the farmer quite a lot of money in vet bills at the least or the purchase of a new cow, in addition to the lost profit in being unable to milk her for any length of time. Contrary to popular belief, farmers tend to be fairly intelligent - quite a lot moreso than your average city-living desk jockey. They know all of this, and go out of their way to ensure that their dairy cows are kept as healthy as possible.
Also, I don't drink milk, and neither should you. The adult body is not designed to process the stuff. If we were meant to drink milk all of our lives, women would constantly produce the stuff.
In response to the question of forfeiture of right - you have no rights except for those you take and protect for yourself. Any "right" you allow someone to take from you, you never really had. Any "right" you are not prepared to protect, by force if necessary, is not yours.
Oh yes, and dogs can look up.
Posted on 2007-03-26 at 23:45:58.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: Belief
I don't know, and I have no great faith that I'll ever know... but that doesn't stop me from trying to learn. I guess I'm a Christian with agnostic leanings or an agnostic with Christian leanings if you really want to try to nail it down.
Posted on 2007-03-26 at 20:35:59.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Seals
It's not for sport. It's for furs. Well, sometimes for food as well, but mostly for the furs.
As to the diamond, well, I believe I said that I did NOT get the diamond, rather that I look back and think that maybe I should have.
If you don't believe me, nothing I can say or do will change that, I think. Not from here over the internet, at any rate. Frankly, I'd prefer that you did. No, the whole world is not out to get me, you, or anyone else - but more than enough of it is out for itself to the extent that anything that happens to me in the course is not even considered that I tend to look to motive before taking anyone's word for anything.
Yes, I live a life of extremes, I go over-the-top as much as I can, and maybe you're a little too comfortable where you are to shake anything up a bit, but your inability do something or think a certain way is no reason to doubt that other people have that ability. The only thing stopping most of you from dropping a $400 tip is the fact that you consider it too valuable to give away. It's not that you can't afford it - you're on a computer, aren't you? Do you have a TV? DVD player? A nice car? The fact that you're eating in a restaurant in the first place shows that you have at least some money to spare, does it not?
...but you'd rather spend it on yourselves. You'd rather have that little luxury or convenience. Yes, a certain amount of greed is necessary to get by in this world, especially living as we do, in a capitalist society, but let's be at least be honest about it. You don't do what I do out of greed, and you can't wrap your brain around the idea of someone who isn't as ruled and driven by it as you are.
So I guess here's my question to you: How honest with yourself are you about your own motivations? How much self-deception is needed for you to sleep at night?
Posted on 2007-03-26 at 20:33:59.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: Poorer people who need it?
Like a waitress making half minimum wage with one baby and another on the way? $3/hour doesn't go far. Donate $400 to a charity and see how much goes to the people who need it and how much to pay employees and fund dinners and balls. Screw that. None for me. I'll donate directly, to someone I know for a fact to be working hard trying to get by, not just waiting for a handout.
No, celebrities don't do that. They worry about their appearance, so they go to the fund-raiser events where half of the money made is used to fund the event, and most of the rest is eaten by the organization's "operating costs."
I had the money and didn't need it. I saw someone who could put it to better use than I, so I gave it to her. I say again: you should do it, too. Help, and know that you're really helping. In one stroke you've reaffirmed someone's faith that there are good people in the world, you've made a positive difference in someone's life, and you've made yourself feel like a hero for doing it (and rightly so).
People who work for tips are generally barely scraping by. Panhandling on the street is a more reliable source of income, and generally makes more money. Give your spare cash to someone who's working hard to get by.
If that's enough to motivate you - know that you'll get the best service in the world from that person forever, even if you never do it again.
Posted on 2007-03-26 at 15:13:14.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Milk pumps?
That's not cruel. Do you know what happens to a dairy cow if you DON'T milk her? A slow and lingering extremely painful death.
Also, what sense does it make to hang an animal upside down to drain all the blood, then try to keep the flowing through the body longer? None. Counter-productive. There is no reason to try to keep the blood in the body longer, so they don't do it. Furthermore, even with just on vein cut in the neck, death comes in a matter of seconds. Some PETA video can't change biology. If you've done research which turned up the same answers, maybe you should consider the source - other animal-rights groups, right? Other pro-vegetarian or pro-organic meats groups? In short, people who have something to gain from getting you to change the way you buy food.
I suppose clubbing seals is cruel, too? The very definition of instant death, that.
Yeah, I may be a little cynical, but when looking at any piece of information, I look at who has money to make from me thinking that way. Consider the source, I say. There's a lot of money in the charity business these days. Billions upon uncounted billions of dollars changing hands. What would you do with that kind of money on the line? Lie? Distribute false information? Appeal to emotion over reason? Even if you wouldn't, you know as well as I do that most people would. Trust no one.
Posted on 2007-03-26 at 15:02:44.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Water
So, Fan, you do know that cutting the throat is one of the more instant and less painful ways to go, right? I should be so lucky. "huh? What was that? I feel a little woozy..." Dead.
Takes about three seconds at the outside to die with both jugulars and both carotids open. Scalded or no, beats the crap out of the way most wild animals get it, belly ripped open and eaten alive, broken leg and starve to death, random viral infection, swallowed whole... Thank you, no.
Posted on 2007-03-26 at 01:51:40.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: I win!
I win highest and lowest. Color me unsurprised.
Lowest: I left a note that said "TIP: Don't be a d*ck" with a smiley face drawn on it and half a penny which I traced to be the mouth. The waiter was constantly bothering me when I was obviously busy writing and had a full glass and a full carafe on the table after I had told him I didn't want anything else that night. I have a reputation there for being a good tipper, and I usually am, but hanging around clearing your throat over and over while I'm occupied is not the way to get it.
Highest: I left a $400 tip once. You should try it. It'll make you feel good in ways you can't imagine. Just make sure you do it to someone who did their job the right way. Send a message.
Posted on 2007-03-26 at 01:39:19.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: 25
I was once, but no longer.
Question: What's the largest and smallest tip you've ever left? (Zero doesn't count)
Posted on 2007-03-23 at 05:32:24.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Beer?
In chili? Ewww... Filet Minon? Worse. I would NEVER use Filet Minon in... well, anything I cooked, actually. I hate the stuff. It's dry and tastless, even for beef, which pretty bland and flavorless intrinsically unless you season the crap out of it. Chili is ideally made with multiple meats, but mostly I use ground beef pork chops, or chicken. I prefer chicken, but that's a personal thing that crosses into most kinds of food. I never use beans because I hate beans. Onions are required just as much as tomato. Red and green bell peppers are pretty important. Potatoes help more than you'd think, but most people leave them out. Corn is not allowed except in bread form. Chili, cayenne, habanero, garlic, cinnamon, black pepper, a little salt, oregano, lemon pepper, sage, parsley, whatever else seems appropriate at the time. I'd post a recipe, but I have never cooked from one, so I wouldn't even know how to begin writing one. I cut up some vejables while the meat is cooking, mix it all up in a pot, season and let it simmer on low heat all day. Serve with rice for regular people, with cornbread for true southerners, or with Fritos for a change of pace. Also works well as a base for burritos.
Posted on 2007-03-23 at 05:31:01.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Stuff
Eol, I'll call you what I will.
The Dakotas count as Yankee-land... but then, I count anyone who lives north of I-10 a Yankee. Although, as someone who has traveled extensively, I have a lot more tolerance for foreigners (like people from Dallas) than most. Except the Aussies. I hate them. Which is why I mailed them fire ants. That'll teach them. Lazy, kangaroo-ridin' jerks, too busy to make me my hat. "Ooh, a dingo ate my baby..." Shut yer holes! Any continent that can't handle a rabbit invasion is doomed to failure anyway.
The jelly in chili is to let everyone know you're dumb.
Posted on 2007-03-21 at 05:36:22.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: Snore?
Only when I'm ill. Although I'm told I talk in my sleep sometimes.
Posted on 2007-03-21 at 05:28:21.
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Topic: These are the Questions of our Lives.
Subject: Chili
Put mustard in your chili. Trust me. Part of the reason you yankee morons can't get chili right is that you never use mustard in it.
Posted on 2007-03-20 at 18:35:39.
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Topic: Getting to know you
Subject: What?
*Issues blanket denial*
Posted on 2007-03-20 at 18:33:44.
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