Recent content by MatumbeJack

Not the consciousness as you would think the abstraction per se, but the actual organisms that make up the 'body' of the Hivemind. What cells are to you, as an organism, monstrous space-faring beasts are to the Hivemind. And you are mistaken; 'light year' is a measure of length on a stellar...

Personally my vote goes toward the Tyranids of the Warhammer 40k universe, for a good number of reasons. They are controlled by a single consciousness that spans the entirety of their race, unsurprisingly called the 'Hivemind,' the physical manifestation of which is measured in LIGHT YEARS...

This is more a PSA than a directed attack. "Gay people are not born gay," reads more like a pseudo-fact than it does an opinion, which is why I called Semitendon on it. Arguing opinions doesn't exist, because they are empty, superfluous things that cannot be quantified. What people do when...

Wait, they're not 'born homosexual?' How do you know that when most respectable psychological, genetic, and medical professionals admit that they don't have (and that there currently does not exist) a concrete answer? I'd like to see your basis for this blunt and generalized conclusion.

Evolution is an imperfect mechanism, and offspring are prone to mutation, which in itself makes a genetic basis for homosexuality entirely possible. Changes take place so slowly that even useless or harmful genes are kept in circulation for quite a length of time. Whether or not homosexuality...

"You know their name escapes me right now, but there was an army of homosexuals so powerful even Rome was afraid of them." That is metal as fuck.

Back when I was in the peace corps, I met a remarkable man. In the steamy jungles of the DRC, there was a lieutenant who fought for the Liberalia Resistance Front. His name was Kule Matumbe, though many of the people he had been fighting with were English mercenaries, and had thus given him...

That was a pretty fantastic book. Your implication that homosexuality influenced Rome's fall I interpreted to mean (along the lines of) 'general hedonism' and 'surrendering to excess.' Now I'm not so sure... :/ But I will say that homosexual tendencies were present in Roman culture...

Sweet voodoo jesus, to call Prototype 'fun' is like calling the Holocaust 'unfortunate.' I rented it from a local chain and I swear they'll have to have a collection agency come after me before I relinquish my copy. Like, a new profession will have to be invented. Video Game Repo-Men.

The quote is nonspecific regarding spirituality or scientific pursuits - it simply seeks to quell a tendency to commit logical fallacy. Science itself begins with the absence of knowledge. Indeed, that is why science exists at all; we use its tested methodology to answer questions we could...

That they're still working on it? "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." As a christian I'm sure you're familiar with the mantra.

... Okay. There are married couples who are unable to have their own children, yet their marriage is never discounted as any less legitimate than a couple with more 'fecundity points.' Marriage does not constitute an agreement to have children, and there are married couples without them. The...

I am the elusive Oher. The class of many professions, Jack of all trades, Jill of all specialties.

I think your mistaking 'marriage' with 'Darwinian evolution.' Honest mistake.

Er. Wikipedia is, by virtue of being an encyclopedia, a reference tool, irrespective of what 'good academic universities' (whatever that may mean) decide. The information contained within is consolidated from a variety of sources which, most often, sit humbly at the bottom of the page...