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Policing the Internet : Are there any ethics left?

Discussion in 'General Discussions' started by Edward Palamar, Sep 15, 2011.

  1. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

    Could you spare a few hundred k and send it my way?

    Upon receipt of funds I'll happily fill out a resume with my SWAT credentials. I assure you, they are epic. I am really, REALLY tough on the internet.
     
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  2. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

    Location:
    North


    Seriously not the way I'd talk to the guy who owns the place.
     
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  3. Street Pattern

    Street Pattern Very Tilted

    Are you making any effort to collect on this debt?

    Years ago, I obtained a money judgement in my favor against an extremely passive/dysfunctional city government in Connecticut.

    Since they were not inclined to lift a finger to pay me, I had to levy on their bank account.

    This had the effect of freezing all their expenditures until they produced a certified check to me for the full amount owed.
     
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  4. Cayvmann

    Cayvmann Very Tilted

    There is nothing 'historic' about the flood or the ark in that story. The Jews (it's their story) that I know don't even consider it literal. I only know about 3 Jews personally though. They are practicing their religion.
     
  5. Charlatan

    Charlatan sous les pavés, la plage

    Location:
    Temasek
    Why do people insist on taking the Bible, especially the Old Testament, at face value?

    It does more to undermine your credibility than anything else you might do (and in the case of this poster, there is no shortage of crazy).

    From where I am sitting, there is no shortage of ethics on the Internet.
     
  6. redravin

    redravin Cynical Optimist Donor

    Location:
    North


    As a Jew myself, I can say I don't believe it's historic.
     
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  7. Fremen

    Fremen Allright, who stole my mustache?

    Location:
    E. Texas
    I read somewhere that multiple cultures have their own version of a "flood" story.
    I think I read that on the internet.
     
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  8. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    This is waaay too far in the future. Could you update us again in 358 and 403 days?

    Are you a fortune teller? Your user name is an anagram for Ward Read-a-palm, from P.T. Barnum's Circus.:D
     
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  9. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    It's like some people don't even know what facts are.

    Also, flood stories predate the Bible.
     
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  10. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    One fact worth remembering:

    Noah's Ark (if it really existed) was built by inspired amateurs.:)

    The Titanic was built by well-paid professionals.
     
  11. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    Everyone knows that the best shipbuilders of their time were the Vikings.
     
  12. Lindy

    Lindy Moderator Staff Member

    Location:
    Nebraska
    Hey, you're talkin' 'bout my ancestors.:D
     
  13. Today is exactly one year from what has become to be known as Judgment Day. It will last for 45 days. Another prophecy relates that the earth's population will be reduced by 2/3rds.

    The prognosis that the Three Days of Darkness will occur towards the end of those 45 days seems quite slim.

    Given the week prior to next March 25, (2016 A.D.) and the foretelling in other prophecy, that more likely seems to be the time when nuclear holocaust will come upon the earth.

    The most likely scenario as to weighing various prophecy is that an earthquake will strike the United States of America in the beginning of next March.

    Other nations will see this as a time to kick the USA's ass.

    As relief efforts fail and the prospect becomes more grim, general pandemonium will increase.

    As the actual fire comes through the hand of God, and not me, I can only see these things in patches.

    I am the king of Daniel 11:3 (which is the same as 8:23 and 11:21), also know as the Antichrist. The actual basis for the count is in knowing all the kings in Daniel 11 in relation to the reliable source of already fulfilled 16th French prophecy.
     
  14. Chris Noyb

    Chris Noyb Get in, buckle up, hang on, & be quiet.

    Location:
    Large City, TX
    Cynthetiq is male. I seriously doubt that that is his ass in his avatar.

    Edit--Plus one for being careful about attacking the guy who owns the TFP (credit to Redravin since I'm not sure how to quote him while editing).

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    Do you believe that there is only one "true" religion, only one "true" religious text, and only one "true" Supreme Spiritual Being?

    A thought--If Adam & Eve were the first and only humans, that makes all us of the children of incest.

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    From my understanding, the number of flood accounts from many cultures and peoples around the world suggest that there was indeed a major flood. I say it was a phenomenom of nature, not an act of "God."
     
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  15. Cayvmann

    Cayvmann Very Tilted

    Some people think that nothing predates the bible. Yeah
     
  16. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
    Which is sad, because there was some great stuff created in the 1,000+ years of literary history before the earliest parts of the Bible came about—The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Eridu Genesis, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, etc. The first two in that list refer to the (pre-Biblical) Sumerian creation/flood myths I hinted at above.

    People say "Noah built the ark," but Atra-Hasis did it before it was cool (but with instructions from Enki).
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    I just wanted to point out that the workers who built the Titanic worked nearly twelve hours a day, with only Saturday afternoons and Sundays off, and eight of them died on the job, including a 15-year-old Irish boy (always the Irish). So I hope they were well-paid. (I'm doubtful.)
     
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  17. Zen

    Zen Very Tilted

    Location:
    London
    Edward, others have made comment on this statement. I add my support to them.

    May I also add this: I joined this site because it purported to promote and further human evolution in areas of relationship and sexuality. I so respect my membership and the work of the founder and his moderators that I feel personally insulted by your response.

    Do you realise you are addressing a community who are willing to give serious thought to your serious assertions, and who ask nothing more than that you respond to their seriousness with equal respect and rational effort.
     
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  18. There is nothing respectful in men exploiting men, much less women.

    You ought to feel personally insulted, and much worse, though I haven't insulted anyone.

    The exploitation of woman is not evolutionary, it is the real story of the wife of Adam, the first man, who has been raised from the dead.
     
  19. SirLance

    SirLance Death Therapist

    An interesting question....

    I subscribe to no religion and consider it to be mythology. Complex, derived from earlier and concurrent sources, but a mythology nonetheless.

    However, neither can I take the position that there is no god and there cannot be.

    I think there is a "force" (for want of a better word) that unites all of the universe. The weave in the tapestry, if you will. I would call that god. I think that love is a product of that just as falling is a product of gravity. And I have absolutely no factual basis for this belief.
     
  20. Today, Friday, October 23, 2015 A.D., is the 2,102nd day in the 2,300 day cleansing period of Daniel 8:14;
    the 1,137th day in the 1,290 and 1,335 day periods of Daniel 12:11 & 12, respectively.
    (Jerusalem Time/Day beginning at sunset/International Dateline)

    There are 198 days (including today) remaining until
    the Day of the Lord, Ascension Sunday, May 8, 2016 A.D.,
    the First Year of the Judgment. (Malachi 4:5)

    This is the Twenty-Third Day in the Second Month
    in the Years of Judgment began
    September 1, 2015 A.D., the Final Day of Indiction.



    [Link removed, again. Stop spamming us with your shitty website. -Martian]
     
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