Sounds reasonable...
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minimart
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Life is like painting miniatures....when we first start out we have no idea what we are getting into. After we have some experience we still have no idea what we are really getting into because we do not know where it will lead us. Then we we become more proficient, better able to predict what will happen, and then someone asks us straight up to paint perfect eyes on 10 minis in a row, first time every time 10 times in a row
Do we go for it? Sure because what have we got to lose. Are we successful, probably not, but nobody ever said we couldn\'t have redoes. We get up we go again, pick up some elses (slayer) sword or effing trident, pick up a friend along the way and go make things right. What happened to the painting...we forgot about it for a minute because we had to set something right .
BTW you got room for someone with a claymore?
Do we go for it? Sure because what have we got to lose. Are we successful, probably not, but nobody ever said we couldn\'t have redoes. We get up we go again, pick up some elses (slayer) sword or effing trident, pick up a friend along the way and go make things right. What happened to the painting...we forgot about it for a minute because we had to set something right .
BTW you got room for someone with a claymore?
darthfoley
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Thousands of years of strife cause those two couldn\'t sort out a disagreement and buy each other a beer.
I\'d just like to point out that a lot of people are saying that violence begets violence.
Only because you\'re not being violent enough.
If the other person is dead there is no way for the violence to continue.
I\'m a firm believer in the judicial use of violence, however you got to be able to go all the way.
Only because you\'re not being violent enough.
If the other person is dead there is no way for the violence to continue.
I\'m a firm believer in the judicial use of violence, however you got to be able to go all the way.
I love this thread...
It lurches from comedic farce to deadly seriousness with alarming regularity and never, ever rises from the gutter
Let\'s face it folks...we ain\'t ever gonna agree on this one...:flip:
*EDIT* What one???? The subject has changed several times.......\"We ain\'t ever gonna agree...\" that\'s more like it:bouncy:
It lurches from comedic farce to deadly seriousness with alarming regularity and never, ever rises from the gutter
Let\'s face it folks...we ain\'t ever gonna agree on this one...:flip:
*EDIT* What one???? The subject has changed several times.......\"We ain\'t ever gonna agree...\" that\'s more like it
:bouncy:Let me clarify...
I\'m not saying if some guy hits on your sister, you kill him, but sometimes there is no alternative to violence, unless you consider extinction a viable alternative.
Violence has been bred into us and every animal on this planet, mother nature is not just the green of growing things, but also the red of tooth and nail, rending and ripping for survival.
The argument that we, as a race, are more civilized than this is a farce, considering the eyeblink of time our civilization has exsisted.
Nature has lasted, and will last far longer than mankind ever hopes, and nature is a violent bitch.
I believe that the animals have it right with the fight/flee mechanisms.
Of all the animals on the planet, only humans fight and kill over concepts. Concepts that cannot be proved or disproved.
So when someone calls me a violent animal, I simply say \"Thank You.\"
And to be honest, If someone threatens my family, my way of life, or is dangerous to my society as a whole, whether it be a group of religious fanatics, a culture that hates and tries to kill my culture, or martians who want to steal our women, I have no qualms about wiping them out to ensure the safety of my own.
Let\'s face it if everyone felt this way their would be a lot less wars.
If you knew that by attacking me, that I would wipe everyone you knew, loved and held dear off the face of the planet, with no hesitation, I would tend to think you would think twice about screwing with me.
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But other than that , I\'m really a nice guy.
I\'m not saying if some guy hits on your sister, you kill him, but sometimes there is no alternative to violence, unless you consider extinction a viable alternative.
Violence has been bred into us and every animal on this planet, mother nature is not just the green of growing things, but also the red of tooth and nail, rending and ripping for survival.
The argument that we, as a race, are more civilized than this is a farce, considering the eyeblink of time our civilization has exsisted.
Nature has lasted, and will last far longer than mankind ever hopes, and nature is a violent bitch.
I believe that the animals have it right with the fight/flee mechanisms.
Of all the animals on the planet, only humans fight and kill over concepts. Concepts that cannot be proved or disproved.
So when someone calls me a violent animal, I simply say \"Thank You.\"
And to be honest, If someone threatens my family, my way of life, or is dangerous to my society as a whole, whether it be a group of religious fanatics, a culture that hates and tries to kill my culture, or martians who want to steal our women, I have no qualms about wiping them out to ensure the safety of my own.
Let\'s face it if everyone felt this way their would be a lot less wars.
If you knew that by attacking me, that I would wipe everyone you knew, loved and held dear off the face of the planet, with no hesitation, I would tend to think you would think twice about screwing with me.
*edit*
But other than that , I\'m really a nice guy.
Originally posted by Evil Dave
Let me clarify...
I\'m not saying if some guy hits on your sister, you kill him, but sometimes there is no alternative to violence, unless you consider extinction a viable alternative.
Well, I think extinction might be a bit unavoidable with your self-perpetuating idea of self defense.
\"You killed my brother for killing my sister? Die!! \"You killed Dave for killing your brother for killing his sister? Die!!
Violence has been bred into us and every animal on this planet, mother nature is not just the green of growing things, but also the red of tooth and nail, rending and ripping for survival.
The argument that we, as a race, are more civilized than this is a farce, considering the eyeblink of time our civilization has exsisted.
I believe that the animals have it right with the fight/flee mechanisms.
Of all the animals on the planet, only humans fight and kill over concepts. Concepts that cannot be proved or disproved.
Well, whats the problem with fighting over concepts and thoughts? Part of the reason we are one of the only animals that does that is because we are one of the animals that can. So shoot us. Once again, conceptual thinking itself is a part of our nature just as much as violence is. Don\'t fight nature, as you say. We\'re humans, and humans do as humans do. Are other species somehow better than us because they\'re ruled by their primal instincts of food, mate, etc.? No, because we too are ruled by primal instincts, they just happen to be slightly different. Okay, so with our \"conceptual thinking\", we cause many wars, but with our conceptual thinking, we can also see the stars, philosophize, create vaccines, and make life easier for ourselves as we know how. Sure animals might be less destructive, but do you truly think a parasite, if it had as much power as us, would stop short of taking over the planet? Would a bacteria willingly hold itself back to save the environment?
Mmm, I kind of lost track there. Basically, I don\'t see the point of shutting down our \"conceptual thinking\" if we have it. It\'s a part of us. It may be destructive, but it doesn\'t have to be. Killing when the urge strikes you isn\'t, in fact, getting back to nature and our roots, as the conscious mind is our roots. The \"good old days\" aren\'t always the good old days. Romantic as it may sound, there is a reason why we don\'t still hunt for our food, drag it back to our cave, eat it, and make it\'s skin into fur, why we don\'t only kill for food. It\'s, sadly, in our nature as humans. And as messed up as it may be, there\'s that little thing called evolution....
So if I come over to your house and piss on your lawn, are you gonna kill me?
If you knew that by attacking me, that I would wipe everyone you knew, loved and held dear off the face of the planet, with no hesitation, I would tend to think you would think twice about screwing with me.
I agree with this to some extent....that\'s exactly the problem with the Star Wars program, in my opinion. It takes out a large portion of the fear of retaliation factor for the States, at least in terms of nuclear war.
Originally posted by Nelson
So if I come over to your house and piss on your lawn, are you gonna kill me?
Nope, that is no threat to me or mine.
However, if you came into my yard with the intent of harming my family or friends, because your god or your ideals tell you to, I will put you down without hesitation.
If you preached about the evils of my culture while beating your women and attacking my cultures children, I again would have no problems putting you down.
Any culture that does not respect, and condemns the cultures of others and does not respect basic human dignity for half of it\'s own population is dangerous to the vast majority of the other cultures on the planet.
I will put you down without hesitation.
Hey, no need to bring species into it. When I said I\'d piss on your lawn, no thought of my avatar ever entered my mind.
Any culture that does not respect, and condemns the cultures of others and does not respect basic human dignity for half of it\'s own population is dangerous to the vast majority of the other cultures on the planet.
I don\'t think our culture is that bad. Give us some credit....
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