Nobody knows, particle man.
Teach them poorly, and prevent them from leading the waaaay…
Show them all the ugliness you possess outside. (Like maybe a low budget trailer park)
Sgt Schwartz
Now you know why I dynamited Courtland.
I don’t know if you’ll come back to answer this two months later…
I don’t mean this as a “told you so”-type post. I’m honestly curious: given recent developments, have you changed your mind at all about this?
Oblivion may not be enough, but infinite punishment for a finite being is waaay too much. It’s out of balance, and the concept of Hell is one of the reasons I could never accept Christianity (or Islam, for that matter). I’ve always thought that a good way to deal with monsters like Hitler and Saddam Hussein would be to make them live the life (not just the torture and/or death, but the entire life) of each of their victims. First give them a conscience, then cause them to experience every depredation they visited upon others, as if they were living two lives simultaneously. By the time they had finished, it might seem like an eternity, but they would actually have been punished in a way fitting for their crimes. Then they would be allowed oblivion.
With that you could have the satisfaction, if that’s the word, of seeing evil answered adequately, yet know that the punishment wouldn’t overbalance the crime. Since it’s all fantasy anyway, I figure I’ll have it my way.
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I believe that foxhunting is not “evil” and believe the ignoramuses who spent time & energy attempting to eradicate it are the sad people who need some sort of cause to give meaning to their lives, as well as believing that they have some moral superiority deeming them worthy of preaching to others why Their way is the best way. Tryanny of the uninformed majority.
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I believe that, regardless of the importance you place on animal life, taking pleasure in inflicting pain and suffering on any living creature is a sign of pure evil.
I believe that it should be perfectly legal for pro-hunters to be chased through the streets and slowly and painfully ripped apart with broken beer bottles
I believe that this issue is probably the one seemingly trivial debate that has caused me the most anger in the last ten years and that it probably has caused my greatest over-reaction ever. But fuck 'em. Die slowly and painfully you sick fuckers.
On that, I feel we must agree to disagree. Frankly, if the choice was between oblivion for everyone, or oblivion for the good but eternal punishment for the evil, I’d choose the latter setup.
After some 20-odd years in Japan, I firmly believe that the vast majority of Japanese males are childish, immature momma boys, most are borderline pedophiles, and I have yet to meet a one–not one, in 20 years–that hasn’t cheated on his wife/girlfriend*.
I believe Japanese women believe they have to act like 12-year old children (think 35-year old female executives with high-pitched anime voices, giggling, and hello kitty pens) if they are to attract a mate.
I believe that at this stage, blacks in America could do more on their own to impove their situation than anything else.
Guys who like guns are trying to compensate for having teeny tiny weenies.
Guys who make fun of homosexuals are secretly worried to death that someone will mistake them for being gay, and their fragile insecurity simply couldn’t handle such an assault on their manliness.
Americans, on the whole, love to talk about losing weight and saving money, two things that they clearly suck at. The number of absolute fatties per capita in the US is disgustingly high, and it’s too bad that most people only realize this after they’ve been overseas and seen that entire populations can, in fact, eat meals of reasonable proportions without starving to death. And people seem to think that having checks left in their checkbooks means they still have money left to spend - why do so many people need ‘overdraft protection’?
People working in retail should be sent to Japan for two weeks every year to see customer service at its best.
Japanese software makers, dentists, construction workers, and IT workers should be sent to the US for two weeks every year to see their respective fields at the very best.
After some extensive study, hip hop is, in fact, absolute crap that only be considered music in the way that barely legible scrawls on the bathroom wall can be considered ‘writing’.
Guys, pay attention: When girls go for sexy looks when they go out clubbing, they’re dressing for their female friends, not for us. Don’t assume otherwise.
Religion is for the weak-willed and dim-witted.
You should probably ask for a name change. 
Wow, you are the architectural opposite of me. I don’t think Frank Lloyd Wright was a hack exactly. He was a brain damaged midget that screwed up our cities and architecture in general for a few decades. Luckily, the bulldozers are getting better at knocking the shit down as long as preservationists (ironically enough) don’t lay down in front of it.
Frank Lloyd Wright was the Sigmund Freud of architecture. Freud just made up a bunch of crazy stuff and miraculously got otherwise educated people to fall for it. He derailed his field for a few decades as did Frank Lloyd Wright.
The classic styles are all that should be allowed because they have tried and true timeless beauty. More importantly, whole districts can grow organically over time. Putting a bunch of FLW buildings in a single place would just create an ugly, schizophrenic mess. His supposed seminal piece, Falling Water isn’t terrible but when I get richer, I plan to buy it and then have it knocked down in the middle of the night just on principle.
Preach it, brother! It needed to be said. (And I’ve already had a name change!)
Slaps Liberal on face (not too hard).
I believe in slapping people who say the universe and everything in it is not real
I believe that we would be better off without Platonism, and the idea that what is “real” or not is at all an interesting question, or even a valid question.
The prophet Mohammed had Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. A lot of ancient Jewish holy men had OCD. At least some of the founding fathers of the Catholic Church, and from what I’ve heard, some number of ancient Hindu holy men were the same. And they either covered for it (“er…God wants me to act this way! I’m not crazy”), or rationalized it away (“If I feel I must act this way, God must be trying to tell me to do it.”) with the cloak of religion.
Hell yeah! It’s getting so I can’t turn on the TV without seeing some jerks yelling about the nature of dialectic or the theory of forms. If I could just go one day without some random person buttonholing me about the “third man” paradox or whether it is better to seem just or to be just, I’d be a happy man. But I can’t get any work done because everybody in my office is going on and on about the tripartate nature of the soul.
Damn it but there sure is way to much Platonism going around!
Seriously though, 
I believe social conservatism is a mental disorder, and will ultimately be treated as such.
Whew. This is some thread.
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I believe that there may or may not be an afterlife, but I will never be certain as to the truth. I also believe that there are an infinite number of joys to be experienced so long as I am alive. Accordingly, I believe that no fate is worth death; I’d prefer a substantial amount of physical or emotional suffering to the cessation of existence, and the consequent definitive end of any opportunity to experience the good parts of life. I would never sign a do not resuscitate order under any circumstances. Keep me alive, so long as my brain is functional. If my brain is no longer functional, I’m not alive anyway, so I don’t care what you do with the leftovers.
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I believe that abortion is flatly immoral under any circumstances save immediate threat to the life of the mother.
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I believe that abortion should be completely legal.
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I believe that homosexual couples should be allowed to marry legally, with no restrictions.
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I believe that prostitution is not immoral at all. In fact, I believe that in a better-adjusted world, it would be much more common and much more casual than it is in ours.
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I believe that reasonably well-done breast implants are attractive.
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I believe that the current system in baseball, in which the DH is used in the American League but not in the National, is the absolute perfect system and should not be changed for any reason.
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I believe that Derek Jeter is frankly ovverrated. I believe that if I could choose any current Yankee to start a new team, I would choose Alex Rodriguez without thinking twice.
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I believe that in ten years, it will be generally accepted that Peyton Manning is the greatest quarterback who ever played.
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I believe that actual Evil is tremendously rare.
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I believe that the vast majority of people fall below the mean of human intelligence.
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I believe that people who have no desire to have children are fundamentally inexplicable to me.
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I believe that most television is NOT drek, and that a fairly significant amount of television qualifies as art. I believe that a definition of “art” that does not include SURVIVOR, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, and LOST is nonsensical.
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I believe that the smell of cigarette smoke is actually oddly pleasant (I am a nonsmoker). I believe that banning smoking in bars and restaurants was a stupid decision.
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I believe that a BA degree in Mathematics makes one better qualified to effectively teach high school math than a BA degree in Education.
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While I’m at it, I think the way schools are set up and run is irredeemably bad. I believe that the educational system should be dramatically revamped, or else privatized entirely.
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I believe that 95% of the individual human beings involved in the pharmaceutical industry are motivated by a sincere desire to help people and make the world better and all that fluffy bunny crap.
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I believe that Stephen King has improved as a writer. I believe that CARRIE was crap and that the last book of the DARK TOWER series was outstanding.
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I believe that everyone should play video games, and that people who roll their eyes at video games are missing something fundamentally interesting.
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I believe that most people, myself included, actually get around to doing less than half of things they’d most like to do.
…and I believe that one usually gets a BS in Mathematics, not a BA. Oops.
Whoa. Okay, now I’m shocked. 