Recent content by DVL

The thing is that Mister House is an unempathetic dick. He's basically the Ayn Randian wet dream. He's a brilliant genius who ignores the common man and nonetheless still feels he's the one who is going to be holding up the world on his shoulders. The truth is that he's an exploitative robber...

It's just going to be slavery. A Roman slave could have a reasonably good life and a reasonably generous and fair master. Or he could be working the salt mines. He might even free you one day. Or not. And mind you, freedom isn't always a good thing, since that's just sometimes a way that he can...

Luck 10 and blackjack means you have more caps than you need.

Little Yangtzhe is filled with "communist scum" which have been randomly picked up by robots and other artificial intelligences, fitted with collarrs and dumped into the camp. These could just be random wastelanders, lobotomites or whatever. Alternatively, ghouls which have been deliberately...

Rose actually used "Legionary way" or some such turn of phrase to suggest that she thought you might be gay. Whether Legionaries actually did bang each other or not, or whether this was just her way of taking the piss out of the Legion, I don't know. But it makes sense to me that they might know...

I'd feel this would be relevant if the rationale for Scotland leaving was based around racism or some cliched Braveheart thing screaming about "FREEEEEEDOM" or some other contrived mythology of the sort. Putting it simply, Scotland wouldn't just be leaving the UK, they'd be staying in the EU...

I never really quite appreciated how constant and innate some things about the human nature are until now. Tribalism, wanting to fuck and the search for meaning are inextricable. And people will default to being assholes, being codependent or being delusional if that's the only recourse. It...

I've heard one Rabbi confess that God did not conform at all to classical theodicy. He was not omnipotent or omniscient but merely benevolent and more of a passive instructor than an active agent in the world. Suffice it to say, he's a Jew with a pretty liberal interpretation.

The problem with I have with most fictional portrayals of the supernatural, or even the metaphysical discussion of it (one is basically a thought experiment of the other problem), is that supernatural things actually aren't supernatural. If you have a zombie, you now have a physical problem in...

And since you demanded it, and I'm het up enough, I'm going to give you my unsparing criticism about what pissed me off about the rest of your post. If you strawman, misattribute or just plain didn't read, then I will say so. Your expectations of the unusual or "coincidental" are purely...

I'm going to call your bluff and also compile all the verses you dropped here. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah 31:31-34 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke 22:20 http://biblehub.com/1_corinthians/11-25.htm https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews...

Revised. See above. Also: http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-17.htm I already said you were textually wrong about how Jesus said to ignore the OT. Frankly, I'm tired of you pretending to more about your religion when I can spend five minutes proving that you don't. It's crap like this that makes...

Except it's not. This is really simple. Religion makes grandiose claims about the nature of morality, the origin of the universe and so-and-so-forth. It is often used as the final say in all study of cosmology and ethics. If your religion was the leastwise true in the least of its convictions...

The burden of proof is still on the Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or whatever. For practical purposes, nobody asks "How do you know for a fact that there are no unicorns?" The same thing applies to little grey men, ghosts and fairies. And I am not joking when I say that people are in earnest...

The thing is that there are a lot of other things animals don't consent to anyway. Let alone being food or being sexed. We routinely spay/neuter animals so they aren't aggressive. We force them into breeding programs for very specific characteristics that leave them prone to crippling congenital...