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#199410
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Violence VS. Non-Violence ~~~ Debate
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199410/action/topic#199410
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Originally posted by: sybeman
Originally posted by: Nanner Split
And what if the Gandhis made sure no Hitler would be born?


But wouldn't that task require violence?


Not really. Just contraception. Hey, there's an idea. When we start genetically modifying people, too, let's just turn off the violence gene.


But since you wouldn't know which kid would be the Hitler, wouldn't that require MASS contraception?
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#199401
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Jokes thread : Reloaded
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199401/action/topic#199401
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I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.

FOR EXAMPLE: One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed.

Well, the passion starts to heat up, we were all over each other and just when I was ready to pound nails through two inch plywood she looks up at me and says "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me."

I said "WHAT??!! What was that?!"

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear... "You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man." She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?"

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all
dear, let's go to the cashier."

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it."

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled WHAT?"

I then said "Honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?"

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either....but at least that bitch knows I'm smarter than her
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#199388
Topic
The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199388/action/topic#199388
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
R2-D2 was refferenced as Artoo's serial number (or something like that) in TMP. We know from the Death Star countdown sequence that the GFFA uses arabic numerals, so aparently they've had some sort of contact with an Earth-esque culture. Perhaps Roman letters are to them what Greek letters are to us--archaic symbols no longer in use except for droid clasification.


The name itself came from an abbreviation of "Reel 2, Dialogue 2" when Lucas was shooting "American Graffitti", or something like that. I'm not sure of the specifics, I'm just sure of the "Reel 2, Dialogue 2" bit.
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#199386
Topic
Violence VS. Non-Violence ~~~ Debate
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/199386/action/topic#199386
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Originally posted by: ricarleite
And by the way, while the whole point has been to resort to violence to defend yourself from an outside violence, what I am asking is for neither violence to take place. Why? Because, that outside violence is always a response to another kind of violence, be it directly or indirectly. Someone atacks you because you have either atacked someone first, or someone else has done it. Violence does not come out of nowhere. And if we stop this circle of perpetuating, by stopping BOTH sides, we'll then achieve peace.


That's not completely true, Ric. Have you ever read Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"? Perry Smith and Dick Hickock murdered a family of four just because of a rumor that there was a safe containing ten thousand dollars in the family's house. The family didn't use the least bit of resistance, and they all wound up dead. Now I ask you: how can you ask for neither violence to take place, when you have no control over the other side?