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Recent content by Super Gnat

  1. Super Gnat

    Am I completely insane?

    *hugs* Wow, that whole situation sounds really scary; it's hard when you're doing things that you know aren't rational but still can't stop. Reading your post, it's possible that you have tendencies toward an anxiety disorder. It seems like you've found already that caffeine makes things...
  2. Super Gnat

    WARNING: How U.S. Jihad will Start; with cases like this!

    I didn't say it was unjust; that's a matter for the courts to decide. I'm saying that the same strategy has been used in situations where treatment was definitely unjust, so it makes sense that they would use the legal system to redress what they see as a injustice. I don't see how that...
  3. Super Gnat

    WARNING: How U.S. Jihad will Start; with cases like this!

    I don't see how it's an abuse. It's like the NAACP's modus operandi: when a law/policy is unjust, peacefully violate it and then take it to court so the law/policy will be revoked as unconstitutional or whatever. This situation wasn't exactly non-violent resistance, but it's next-door...
  4. Super Gnat

    Moral Relitivism and Pop Culture

    Well, let's say for a moment that God didn't call me, and that my real reason for becoming a Christian was something else. Even given that, how can you say that my real reason is because I like the morals of Christianity? There are other reasons why somebody might join a religion. Maybe I...
  5. Super Gnat

    WARNING: How U.S. Jihad will Start; with cases like this!

    The hatred for and misinformation about Muslims.
  6. Super Gnat

    Cultural relativism trumps women's rights. Again.

    Ugh, that's horrible. I hope that poor woman doesn't get murdered. There was a lady in my county who tried to get a restraining order for her husband, but the court didn't think there was enough justification. A little while later, he poured kerosene over her and set her on fire. :sigh:
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    WARNING: How U.S. Jihad will Start; with cases like this!

    *sighs* This thread is just plain depressing. Don't make me pull out that Niemoller quote, people.
  8. Super Gnat

    This fumes me.

    What does that have to do with it? Bill Gates is asking for more legal immigration. From the article:
  9. Super Gnat

    Moral Relitivism and Pop Culture

    Sorry for the late reply. I'm a grad student, so every once in a while I get a lot of work dumped on me and have to disappear. This is not my understanding of moral relativism. Quoting from Wikipedia: and from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Most often [moral relativism] is...
  10. Super Gnat

    Cuddly polar bear cub better off dead, activist says

    And if it were released, it would just die like they want it to, so it really makes no difference. /callous Anyway, dude's views aren't as bad as all that: Which makes a bit more sense, though I'm not entirely sure I would agree (but then, I don't know a lot about zoo practices either). Also...
  11. Super Gnat

    Here's a slavery apology I can support.

    Well, it's not an individual apology, but a group apology. The states of Virginia and perhaps Maryland Georgia (which were around during slavery) are "expressing regret" for slavery. (Which cunningly avoids the issue by not designating an object. They could be apologizing only to the...
  12. Super Gnat

    Moral Relitivism and Pop Culture

    I think we're not on the same page here, and it's probably my fault. Let me back up and start again: I would agree that Christianity as it is practiced often has fluid morality based on the culture in which it is practiced. However, I also believe that God's standards do not change. People...
  13. Super Gnat

    I have had enough. It's open season on Ras.

    You secretly wrote this, didn't you ;) Anyway, I only wander into CF about two weeks of every year, but you always seemed pretty coolpants to me. (I do wonder if whatever you're currently embroiled in would be better resolved through PMs, but since I don't know what's going on I may be wrong.)
  14. Super Gnat

    Moral Relitivism and Pop Culture

    In no particular order: 1) I was not talking about all moral value sets; I was talking specifically about moral relativism and about Wicca. Islam, for example, would not be subject to the same criticisms. 2) Thanks for telling me all about my life, but you're incorrect. There are many things...
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    Here's a slavery apology I can support.

    You're free to think that it's pointless, but many of us who belong to the group being apologized to think differently. At any rate, I don't see how Irish discrimination comes into it. Irish-Americans, as a group, don't seem to desire an apology, and that's fine. But it doesn't mean that...