With all the gender fluidity and dozens of incomprehensible pronouns, there are still only TWO possibilities:
Either male to female or female to male. That's it.
Well, is it possible to become a hermaphrodite? Or anything else?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-QfBEnGgT4
A thought experiment: Try doing this to Muslim or Mexican children and stand well back to watch the fireworks.
If all cultures are equal, it shouldn't matter. Right?
You're restricted to 1950s thinking. Get over it.
We had a bit more sanity then.
Quote from: pr126 on July 30, 2017, 01:03:22 PM
We had a bit more sanity then.
No, we had more bullshit then. Remember "Rebel Without a Cause"? James Dean wasn't rebelling against society, he was freaking out that his parents weren't being the Cleavers. Dad wore an apron when cooked, and Mom, GASP, worked outside the home. Bullshit.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on July 30, 2017, 03:37:45 PM
No, we had more bullshit then. Remember "Rebel Without a Cause"? James Dean wasn't rebelling against society, he was freaking out that his parents weren't being the Cleavers. Dad wore an apron when cooked, and Mom, GASP, worked outside the home. Bullshit.
I would shit can all you hippies ... going back to 1960 ... when Ike was still President (not really). You were a bunch of French Existentialist scum in the 1950s, and it didn't get better after that. Should have drafted all the college students in 65, kept them chasing VietCong until they were all dead. Then we would have fewer Marxist professors today, eh? Should have kept all the poor Black men at home.
Quote from: pr126 on July 30, 2017, 01:03:22 PM
We had a bit more sanity then.
We had Johnny Quest in Black & White .. no ambiguity in that ;-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U79al1GPvmg ... season 1 episode 1
The damn commies have colorized them!
Look out! There's a communist behind every tree! They're everywhere, I tells ya! Commies to the left of me; commies to the right of me! They're hiding under my bed and in my closet! And for some reason they're magically connected to everything I happen to personally hate... Muslims, immigrants, transgenders... Whatever shall I do??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8U4inAO7Cc
Funny how people feel the same way about Republicans and Trump ;-)
Quote from: pr126 on July 30, 2017, 01:03:22 PM
We had a bit more sanity then.
Oh yeah, back in 'the good old days'! Sure. The past is always warm, cuddly, welcoming and good. Right...........................
Quote from: Mike Cl on August 01, 2017, 09:15:00 AM
Oh yeah, back in 'the good old days'! Sure. The past is always warm, cuddly, welcoming and good. Right...........................
What of the future?
If we carry on the road to collective insanity, where will the western world be in 50 years from now?
I predict - extinct.
What I am seeing is that the millennials are programmed to self destruct.
So saith every generation about the generation after them.
Quote from: Baruch on August 01, 2017, 06:36:41 AM
Funny how people feel the same way about Republicans and Trump ;-)
Except that unlike communists, Trump and the Republicans (and Teresa May and the Conservatives)
actually exist in the US (and the UK)! ;)
Quote from: Atheon on August 01, 2017, 11:47:49 AM
Except that unlike communists, Trump and the Republicans (and Teresa May and the Conservatives) actually exist in the US (and the UK)! ;)
If you weren't in Taiwan, but in the US, would you count? Does Shiranu count? You seem mighty pinko to me ;-)
Quote from: pr126 on August 01, 2017, 09:40:09 AM
What of the future?
If we carry on the road to collective insanity, where will the western world be in 50 years from now?
I predict - extinct.
What I am seeing is that the millennials are programmed to self destruct.
Now that even Israelis are Nazis ... Netanyahu ... we are Nazis all the way down, not turtles.
The Germans and Japanese and Italians engaged in collective insanity ... and two of those are Western. So yes, the West is quite capable of collective insanity. Ever hear of Vietnam?
Quote from: pr126 on August 01, 2017, 09:40:09 AM
What of the future?
If we carry on the road to collective insanity, where will the western world be in 50 years from now?
I predict - extinct.
What I am seeing is that the millennials are programmed to self destruct.
Predictions of the end of the world are at least 2,000 yrs. old--probably older. 50 yrs. from now?? Don't have a clue and I won't be around to find out, either.
Edit: Erased. Sorry, it's not worth the spiritual damage to get angry and try and refute him, because his argument comes from a place of hatred and fear rather than rational thought.
Pr, I hope you stop living in such fear and hatred. I sincerely do. No one should live in such negativity for one day, much less the rest of their life. And I hope the people who have sold you these lies pay for what they have done to countless people like you.
Quote from: Mike Cl on August 01, 2017, 06:09:15 PM
Predictions of the end of the world are at least 2,000 yrs. old--probably older. 50 yrs. from now?? Don't have a clue and I won't be around to find out, either.
Republicans were saying that FDR's election in 1932 was a sure sign the country was doomed.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 01, 2017, 07:51:21 PM
Republicans were saying that FDR's election in 1932 was a sure sign the country was doomed.
Not to mention how fucked up rock and roll has made us.
Quote from: Mike Cl on August 01, 2017, 06:09:15 PM
Predictions of the end of the world are at least 2,000 yrs. old--probably older. 50 yrs. from now?? Don't have a clue and I won't be around to find out, either.
It is possible the world will self-destruct socially or environmentally in the near future. I used to regret that I would not live to know the long future of humanity. I no longer have that concern. Now I hope I will die peacefully before the end happens.
People were calling it the end of the world when Attila was rampaging around. Disaster mavins love that kind of shit.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 03, 2017, 06:18:49 AM
People were calling it the end of the world when Attila was rampaging around. Disaster mavins love that kind of shit.
Attila in particular was fond of it. If you were a Late Roman, would you be consoled that in the future, France would have 250 kinds of cheese?
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on August 03, 2017, 06:18:49 AM
People were calling it the end of the world when Attila was rampaging around. Disaster mavins love that kind of shit.
Attilla was a cruel crazed asshole. But he wasn't stupid. He was merely a very talented terrorist. If we ever found his burial place, we should nuke it. Today, he would lead Al Qaeda...
Quote from: Cavebear on August 03, 2017, 10:43:34 AM
Attilla was a cruel crazed asshole. But he wasn't stupid. He was merely a very talented terrorist. If we ever found his burial place, we should nuke it. Today, he would lead Al Qaeda...
One thing is in Atilla's favor. He didn't start a religion.
Quote from: pr126 on August 03, 2017, 11:00:29 AM
One thing is in Atilla's favor. He didn't start a religion.
It's not that he didn't try. But it was just a cult of personality. Like Jesus or Mohammed. He just didn't have enough imagination and famous spectacular death.
From Jesus Christ, Superstar:
"Tell me what you think
About your friends at the top
Now who d'you think besides yourself
Was the pick of the crop?
Buddah was he where it's at?
Is he where you are?
Could Muhammad move a mountain
Or was that just PR?
Did you mean to die like that?
Was that a mistake or
Did you know your messy death
Would be a record breaker?"