Go-Mer-Tonic

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Join date: 13-Sep-2006
Last activity: 28-Mar-2007
Posts: 928

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Post: #268829
Topic: The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/268829/action/topic#268829
Time: 30-Jan-2007 7:28 PM

First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me... ***blows out grape seed***

Blow.

Post: #266341
Topic: The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266341/action/topic#266341
Time: 17-Jan-2007 4:27 PM

Thanks C3PX, I do try to keep level headed. But sometimes when I get tired and cranky, it's not so easy.

I don't have facts handy, I thought it was an accepted truth that the death penalty has claimed the occasional wrongfully accused.

If I'm wrong about that, then I'm wrong about that.

Post: #266326
Topic: The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266326/action/topic#266326
Time: 17-Jan-2007 2:21 PM

I think that there are some cases where a death penalty makes sense. I just worry about the error rate in applying it.

That's a very serious thing to mess up. Maybe the benefit of ridding the world of the worst of the worst makes the occasioanal mis application justified. There have been cases for example where the wrong man got the death penalty and it only came out after the execution.

I would not want to be the jury or executioner in those cases.

Sure someone who runs around killing other people (not in self defense) probably deserve to be killed themselves.

It's just as I have said before, I don't hold myself in high enough esteem to make that kind of call myself.

Ferris, you made some great points, and I generally agree with what you are saying.

As far as the stupid stuff I said on TFN back in the day, I just basically maintained that the prequels were awesome, and I flamed people who dissed them.

Since I have realized how close minded and self centered that approach was, and while I do still think the prequels kicked ass, I don't think there is something fundamentally wrong with people who don't.

It's just a matter of opinion.

Post: #266139
Topic: The Go-Mer-Tonic™ Thread - Today's Topic: Whose your favorite author and why?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/266139/action/topic#266139
Time: 16-Jan-2007 2:03 PM

I have to say this thread is facinating.

What's great about me is I tend to take the opposing side.

What's great about this thread, is I get to see how you guys see the other side of your arguments.

I like it.

So much anger, so much self riteousness.

Such intricate displays of the human condition as it exists today.

Post: #265393
Topic: Naked Parties
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265393/action/topic#265393
Time: 11-Jan-2007 10:03 PM

I knew deep down you guys agreed with me.

Post: #265227
Topic: PS3 or Wii?
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265227/action/topic#265227
Time: 10-Jan-2007 11:33 PM

That is a good one.

I swear, every time I get an email from Nintendo, the header includes a warning reminding me to always use the wrist strap, and to make sure it's secure.

Post: #265226
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265226/action/topic#265226
Time: 10-Jan-2007 11:31 PM

If you guys were expecting me to be intelligent, I apologize for that too.

I didn't mean to imply that I was.

Post: #265221
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265221/action/topic#265221
Time: 10-Jan-2007 10:57 PM

Upset him? By pointing out his age?

Look, I'm sorry I upset you guys.

Post: #265210
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265210/action/topic#265210
Time: 10-Jan-2007 9:52 PM

C3PX, I appreciate your response quite a bit, I am also glad things aren't up to me. I can screw up a microwave dinner on a good day.

I get the point about them being taught to hate us, and that is certainly not something one can easily stand by and allow.

I also agree about the benefit of a Saddam-free Iraq.

I just wonder if perhaps we are also being taught to hate them.

But really, as I said. I have no answers, and only question these things to hear your explainations.

Well especially the ones that remain civil.

Post: #265207
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265207/action/topic#265207
Time: 10-Jan-2007 9:42 PM

I really didn't mean it as an insult.

Post: #265205
Topic: BEAUTIFUL WOMEN NEW RULES IN FIRST POST (NSFW) UPDATED RULES
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265205/action/topic#265205
Time: 10-Jan-2007 9:41 PM

Ahh, a thread I don't disagree with.

http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/c/images/charlies-angels.jpg

Post: #265200
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265200/action/topic#265200
Time: 10-Jan-2007 9:33 PM

No but keep guessing.

Look, I'm obviously upsetting people, and I will be the first to admit I'm just not very good at arguing politics in the first place.

I'll just admit that I really don't have all the answers, and I appreciate you guys explaining your point of view.

Post: #265188
Topic: Naked Parties
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265188/action/topic#265188
Time: 10-Jan-2007 9:13 PM

To me being partisan means: I don't know know everything about politics, so I'm going with these guys.

Post: #265186
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265186/action/topic#265186
Time: 10-Jan-2007 9:10 PM

You are 14.

Post: #265181
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265181/action/topic#265181
Time: 10-Jan-2007 8:58 PM

Post: #265178
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265178/action/topic#265178
Time: 10-Jan-2007 8:51 PM

I am appalled by the way our ancestors took this country from it's native inhabitants and that makes -me- a pshychopath?

The only reason I haven't debated your points about what their faults are, is because I don't contest them. You are right about a lot of that.

I'm just worried about us stooping to their level.

Post: #265171
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265171/action/topic#265171
Time: 10-Jan-2007 8:41 PM

I think invading another country has to be done for solid, valid reasons, not unfounded paranoia based on hearsay.

When the President told me why we had to invade Iraq, I had his back up until it turned out that that reason turned out to be fictitious.

I argued in his defense to my other friends. I told them that sometimes, extreme measures are needed.

Now it turns out that was bogus.

Now to the rest of the world, it looks like there is the chance that we will just come up with a reason if we don't have one.

Whether they actually manufactured the false data, or were merely acting in good faith on something they believed to be true, that's bad to me.

What is it with us white people? We come to America, claim the natives are "savages" and then kill a lot of them off and take their land.

To dehumanize other groups of people like that is just a tad dismissive to me.

As far as their propensity to kill other people in vicious ways, they certainly aren't cornering the market in that area.

Try looking at this from the other side. You say that we can't fight them fair because they won't fight fair. Well what if that's the reason they aren't fighting fair either? Is this justification only good for us?

Post: #265168
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265168/action/topic#265168
Time: 10-Jan-2007 8:34 PM

Is it so much to ask to come up with a plan that takes the moral high road?

Post: #265163
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265163/action/topic#265163
Time: 10-Jan-2007 8:25 PM

I really am not sure what the best way would have been. But I think it would have helped to wait a little longer before we acted.

Post: #265159
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265159/action/topic#265159
Time: 10-Jan-2007 8:15 PM

To be fully honest, I have yet to reach the "finish line" on this one.

There are some good points being made.

I just don't think 2 wrongs make a right. There was a proper way to handle this.

Post: #265157
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265157/action/topic#265157
Time: 10-Jan-2007 8:12 PM

To pretend this is black and white is a shortcut for thinking.

If Iraq had broken into our bedroom, I wouldn't have had a problem with any of this.

Post: #265139
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265139/action/topic#265139
Time: 10-Jan-2007 6:35 PM

Your inability to see them as individuals, and instead as one big group of "Extremest Muslims" shows me that it is about their religion.

You don't understand their individual sides in the matter, and you don't want to.

Post: #265137
Topic: Global Warming
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265137/action/topic#265137
Time: 10-Jan-2007 6:28 PM

I'm talking about the suspicion of weapons of mass destruction. That's the one reason the masses got behind the invasion, and then when it was all said and done, turns out our memos were faulty.

None of those other things were enough to get people behind invading Iraq. We never did tie 9-11 to them.

Post: #265120
Topic: Naked Parties
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265120/action/topic#265120
Time: 10-Jan-2007 5:43 PM

Yeah I'm off in my own little world, just like everyone else is.

I just admit it is all.

Post: #265103
Topic: Naked Parties
Link: https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/265103/action/topic#265103
Time: 10-Jan-2007 4:34 PM

I'm not a liberal.

I have a unique point of view unto myself.