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by OnlyAmbrose
Mon Jan 03, 2011 3:05 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Wii Gamers
Replies: 24
Views: 638

Re: Wii Gamers

Great for parties. Not so much for anything else.*

*except reliving your childhood by downloading Ocarina of Time and Starfox.
by OnlyAmbrose
Mon Jan 03, 2011 1:03 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: 2010: What Did You Do?
Replies: 26
Views: 784

Re: 2010: What Did You Do?

Lost a girlfriend, made a lot of money. Picked up some nasty habits, got my first 4.0 semester. Mixed bag.
by OnlyAmbrose
Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:58 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: MANswers is the worst show ever
Replies: 13
Views: 563

Re: MANswers is the worst show ever

safariguy5 wrote:I need to find out where they're finding the girls...and move there.


Truth.
by OnlyAmbrose
Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:44 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: How did you end up here?
Replies: 35
Views: 826

Re: How did you end up here?

Jeez I don't even remember it was so long ago. I want to say I googled "online risk" and this came up...

No freaking way. It's been ages since I saw you post!

Yeah hahaha, finals inspired some procrastination-inspired risk

I think I remember you

Didn't you used to have an avvy of some ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:57 am
Forum: The Atlas
Topic: Cyprus [Quenched]
Replies: 241
Views: 162609

Re: Cyprus [Quenched]

Love the concept. Bonuses for Turkish/Greek territory, great idea for us Middle East nerds. ;) Props to the creator.
by OnlyAmbrose
Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:12 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: How did you end up here?
Replies: 35
Views: 826

Re: How did you end up here?

john9blue wrote:
OnlyAmbrose wrote:Jeez I don't even remember it was so long ago. I want to say I googled "online risk" and this came up...


No freaking way. It's been ages since I saw you post!


Yeah hahaha, finals inspired some procrastination-inspired risk ;)
by OnlyAmbrose
Thu Dec 09, 2010 4:41 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: How did you end up here?
Replies: 35
Views: 826

Re: How did you end up here?

Jeez I don't even remember it was so long ago. I want to say I googled "online risk" and this came up...
by OnlyAmbrose
Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:01 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Question for the religious (Americans)
Replies: 58
Views: 1260

Re: Question for the religious (Americans)

A dear friend of mine is an atheist, as are both of her parents. If she believed in Jesus Christ, she would be a better Christian than me. Her family is more cohesive than most Christian families I know. Saying that atheists have no morals is generalizing to an unacceptable extent.

I think ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Sun Jun 28, 2009 2:36 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Am I the only Agnostic?
Replies: 38
Views: 3227

Re: Am I the only Agnostic?

In the wise words of Vox Day:

Agnostic: I don't believe in God. Because there is no evidence.

Atheist: I don't believe in God. Because I'm an asshole.
by OnlyAmbrose
Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:23 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: U.S. Retirement Poll
Replies: 47
Views: 692

Re: U.S. Retirement Poll

Giving some serious thought to 20 years in the military and retiring at 42 :P
by OnlyAmbrose
Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:37 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter
Replies: 120
Views: 2676

Re: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter


Sorry, but last time I checked, "Thou shalt not bear false witness" was a pretty fundamental precept of Christianity, INCLUDING the Roman Catholic church.


And what exactly does this have to do with the Pope lifting an excommunication which had nothing to do with "bearing false witness?"


And ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Thu Feb 05, 2009 2:21 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter
Replies: 120
Views: 2676

Re: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter

What about the rest? Geez, you guys sure like to apologize for anything a christian leader does, no matter how wrong it is.

What "rest"? I already answered you - the Pope has and continues to speak out against genocide and specifically the holocaust.

Apologize for anything a Christian leader ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:18 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter
Replies: 120
Views: 2676

Re: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter

mpjh wrote:It is also his responsibility to state clearly that the Holocaust was itself amoral and a great sin against humanity.


As I wrote above, he did.
by OnlyAmbrose
Wed Feb 04, 2009 11:02 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter
Replies: 120
Views: 2676

Re: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter

It is a "sin" in your christian terminology to deny the holocaust when you know that encourages further hatred of Jews, and you do it with that purpose in mind. Even Benedict doesn't deny the holocaust, he knows better.

The issue here is not excommunication. Benedict could have let the Nazi back ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:25 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter
Replies: 120
Views: 2676

Re: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter


What is disturbing to us all, I think, though is that denying the Haulocaust would not be considered a serious sin and an offense against the church.

Oh come on. Do you really expect the Church to write down in the Catechism: "It is a sin to deny the holocaust."

I'm not going to judge whether ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:20 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Moral Permissibility of Abortion
Replies: 123
Views: 2761

Re: Moral Permissibility of Abortion

So since being pregnant is "natural" and being attached to a violinist is not, you're going to tell me the right to life is different? The only distinction you've made between the two is that one is a natural event in nature and one is not. The right to life is really that fragile? Because the ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:59 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter
Replies: 120
Views: 2676

Re: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter

Sure, but that's not the problem. In fact, the entire problem is that holocaust-denial is not an offense for which you can be excommunicated.

I think catholics should be a little less concerned about rules and a little more concerned about what is right.

You have ZERO understanding of the ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:52 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Moral Permissibility of Abortion
Replies: 123
Views: 2761

Re: Moral Permissibility of Abortion

So since being pregnant is "natural" and being attached to a violinist is not, you're going to tell me the right to life is different? The only distinction you've made between the two is that one is a natural event in nature and one is not. The right to life is really that fragile? Because the ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Wed Feb 04, 2009 3:48 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter
Replies: 120
Views: 2676

Re: World Leader of Christians Rehabilitates Nazi Supporter

I'm not fond of Williamson, but getting pissed off at the Pope over this is ridiculous for three reasons:

1) Denying the holocaust is NOT an offense for which you can be excommunicated.

2) The excommunications had nothing to do with holocaust denial.

3) Lifting the excommunications therefore must ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:05 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Moral Permissibility of Abortion
Replies: 123
Views: 2761

Re: Moral Permissibility of Abortion

Let me put this another way:

It's paying someone to kill someone else to whom they didn't consent to having in the first place, hence the violinist.

Let's take something like your forehead example and turn it around.

What if there was a person in the world, who by some magic spell not of their ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:10 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Moral Permissibility of Abortion
Replies: 123
Views: 2761

Re: Moral Permissibility of Abortion

Let me put this another way:

It's paying someone to kill someone else to whom they didn't consent to having in the first place, hence the violinist.

Let's take something like your forehead example and turn it around.

What if there was a person in the world, who by some magic spell not of their ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Wed Feb 04, 2009 12:02 am
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Moral Permissibility of Abortion
Replies: 123
Views: 2761

Re: Moral Permissibility of Abortion


1. I didn't come up with the act of a dying man. You did. So don't try to tie it into Thompson's argument...

Why not? It's perfectly relevant in that it's an analogy of a situation which you do not consent to enter, but at which it could be argued you have a moral obligation to do what you can ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:51 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Moral Permissibility of Abortion
Replies: 123
Views: 2761

Re: Moral Permissibility of Abortion

Let me sum it up another way:

It is clear that by having sex, you run the risk of becoming pregnant, regardless of what contraceptive measures you use. I could easily argue that that is consent right there - in having sex, you accept the chance that you could become pregnant. That means you accept ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:46 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Moral Permissibility of Abortion
Replies: 123
Views: 2761

Re: Moral Permissibility of Abortion


I'm saying that you have absolutely no OBLIGATION to do it. You can't be found GUILTY of anything wrong if you did it. It shows you have piss-poor character and you SHOULDN'T do it, but just because you shouldn't do something doesn't mean you're obligated to. Are you saying that you believe that ...
by OnlyAmbrose
Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:35 pm
Forum: Acceptable Content
Topic: Moral Permissibility of Abortion
Replies: 123
Views: 2761

Re: Moral Permissibility of Abortion

Apparently I wasn't quite clear. I care more about the validity of Thompson's argument and how it relates to the permissibility of abortion in the circumstances mentioned (concerning CONSENT)

This is related to what I was saying to MeDeFe in the above post - I don't think consent makes a damn bit ...

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