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.orangeban said:
Enlightened Despotism, coupled with feudal elective if encountered with a regency.
Stilt said:
Read the title of the thread.
Read what the threads about.
Read the first sentence of my post.
Are we done?
Great. It's a thread about unpopular views, my comments were not aimed at the OP they were aimed at miserable people in general.
I'd like to request that you read what a threads about before replying to anyone. It saves you looking silly. He asked us for our own unpopular views which is what we've all been adding to.
How on fracks green earth you got bullying from that i'll never know. So i'll add you to my ignore to save future issues.
I think that girlfriends / wives of criminals should be charged to equal jail time if they knew what their significant other was doing. They are feeding off of the misery of others just as much as their criminal husbands are. They should never, ever be allowed to walk.
I'm a Christian that is pro-choice, liberal, and completely tolerant of pretty much anything and everything.
You'd be amazed how tiny this minority is among my religion.
You'd be amazed how tiny this minority is among my religion.
Believe whatever you like.
I genuinely dislike miserable people.
I also dislike people that start an argument for no reason whatsoever so this will be the last time I reply to you.
Those are my views, that is all there is to it. If you think that was an attack on someone then you are entitled to think that.
Funny how no one else see's it like that, even the OP himself.
Just you it seems.
Funny that.
Although I understand where your coming from I think its is unhealthy to not at least debate religion. I think people should stop being offended so easily by others saying your wrong. basically if your going to have an opinion you should be able to and ok with defending it.Tom Milner said:
I'm a Republican AND a Christian, and while my political and religious beliefs are not actually UNpopular, quite the contrary, I still have to put up with a lot of shit on the internet. Shit like: "only uneducated people can believe this," or "you must not be able to think critically and independently." STFU. I have to think about religion and politics a lot more than you, because some asshole like you is always running his mouth.
I also think that drug use (including alcohol in people under the legal limit) is stupid and a sign of weakness. Life sucks a lot of the time, and we all have to deal with it. If you need to alter the way your brain works to cope, then you probably shouldn't be alive in the first place. Had a bad day? Deep breathing and some TV works fine, and won't endanger your life.
Lastly, I don't think the government should have any jurisdiction over the institution of marriage at all. It's a religious commitment, not a legal bond. If a few parishes decide to marry gay couples, I may not agree, but I can respect their decision. If the government says we HAVE to do it, that's another story.
I also think that drug use (including alcohol in people under the legal limit) is stupid and a sign of weakness. Life sucks a lot of the time, and we all have to deal with it. If you need to alter the way your brain works to cope, then you probably shouldn't be alive in the first place. Had a bad day? Deep breathing and some TV works fine, and won't endanger your life.
Lastly, I don't think the government should have any jurisdiction over the institution of marriage at all. It's a religious commitment, not a legal bond. If a few parishes decide to marry gay couples, I may not agree, but I can respect their decision. If the government says we HAVE to do it, that's another story.
I instantly lose respect for anyone who actually thinks "The world would be better if religion never existed!" These people... have no fucking clue what they're talking about.
They use examples like the Crusades or any other time horrible, inhuman acts were done in the name of a religious doctrine. Understandable. They are horrible, inhuman acts being performed in the name of something. Therefore, it is easy to deduce that this "something" is the cause for all this evil.
Wrong.
They make claims that almost all conflict in the world is derived from differing religions.
Wrong.
The conflict is that it is in man's nature to fear and hate that which is different to him. This is not religion's doing. It is the fact that any religion is an organization of people with the belief of a specific doctrine. Thus, those with a differing doctrine will come into conflict with them.
Do you not see the obvious problem here? It's not the fact that one religion over the other is wrong or evil. It's the fact that both doctrines preach different things, and it's the people who make the decision to harm those who do not agree with them.
If religion didn't exist, are you honestly going to tell me that people wouldn't have found a different reason or cause to do the horrible things others have done in the name of religion? While we're at it, let's get rid of the different races, hmm? People have been fighting because of different skin color just as long as they've been fighting because of different gods or philosophies.
If you believe religion shouldn't exist because of conflict in the world, then you also believe that people shouldn't form different governments, that people shouldn't be able to form their own ideas and opinions, and that anything unique about any individual shouldn't exist as well. For it is that people are different that there is conflict today. Ostracizing and getting rid of religion is utterly foolish and serves as yet another case that YOU hate what is different to YOU. YOU don't believe in a religion. YOU would have no qualms about ending its existence, because religion is different from what YOU believe.
Anyone who truly thinks this loses my respect, because it shows not only that they have a very narrow way of thinking but that they have no mind for any bigger picture other than themselves.
They use examples like the Crusades or any other time horrible, inhuman acts were done in the name of a religious doctrine. Understandable. They are horrible, inhuman acts being performed in the name of something. Therefore, it is easy to deduce that this "something" is the cause for all this evil.
Wrong.
They make claims that almost all conflict in the world is derived from differing religions.
Wrong.
The conflict is that it is in man's nature to fear and hate that which is different to him. This is not religion's doing. It is the fact that any religion is an organization of people with the belief of a specific doctrine. Thus, those with a differing doctrine will come into conflict with them.
Do you not see the obvious problem here? It's not the fact that one religion over the other is wrong or evil. It's the fact that both doctrines preach different things, and it's the people who make the decision to harm those who do not agree with them.
If religion didn't exist, are you honestly going to tell me that people wouldn't have found a different reason or cause to do the horrible things others have done in the name of religion? While we're at it, let's get rid of the different races, hmm? People have been fighting because of different skin color just as long as they've been fighting because of different gods or philosophies.
If you believe religion shouldn't exist because of conflict in the world, then you also believe that people shouldn't form different governments, that people shouldn't be able to form their own ideas and opinions, and that anything unique about any individual shouldn't exist as well. For it is that people are different that there is conflict today. Ostracizing and getting rid of religion is utterly foolish and serves as yet another case that YOU hate what is different to YOU. YOU don't believe in a religion. YOU would have no qualms about ending its existence, because religion is different from what YOU believe.
Anyone who truly thinks this loses my respect, because it shows not only that they have a very narrow way of thinking but that they have no mind for any bigger picture other than themselves.
An intelligent theological conversation is one thing, being told that: "a priest should rape you in the ass for being stupid enough to believe in God" is another. The only arguments I've ever heard for atheism have been no more than belittling name-calling.Zack1501 said:
Almost everything I think is unpopular. I'm not sure if conventional logic is just stupid, or if I'm just a contrarian and like getting into arguments(probably both.)
- James Cameron is not good at his job. Titanic was mostly carried by DiCaprio. Aliens was just him helping out the much better Ridley Scott. Terminator was stolen from the much better scifi writer Harlan Ellison who thankfully successfully sued Cameron for his intellectual property theft. Avatar was the blandest sci fi possible mixed with Disney faced blue aliens, fern gully, and dances with wolves; because James Cameron can't come up with an original idea to save his life.
- J.J. Abrams is overrated, the best parts of lost were the early seasons when he wasn't there.
- Gene Roddenberry is overrated, Gene Coon did most of the work making Star Trek what it is.
- Dragon Age 2 is not nearly as awful as 90% of people say it is, and not nearly as good as the other 10% say it is. It's average.
- Alpha Protocol is a good game, with some of the best writing of the past decade.
- Skyrim is slightly above average at best and pretty undeserving of most of the praise it gets.
- IQ means pretty much fuckall. Its alright at ballparking people as average, stupid or smart. but anyone between like 125-160 is on pretty much even ground. People put too much stock into it.
- Ultima Online is the best MMORPG ever made.
-Benedict Arnold was awesome, and Washington is the one who pushed America's best general into switching sides.
- There has not been a good president for at least 100 years, and probably not one since JQ Adams. Obama continues to trod on human rights and makes terrible policy decisions. JFK got us into Vietnam and was pretty run off the mill as far as politicians go, the only reason hes so revered is because he died. Lincoln tried to suspend Habeus Corpus, and made veiled threats of force to antiwar senators, as well as showing up on one senators lawn with a company of soldiers to arrest him for speaking out against the war. And don't even get me started on FDR.
- Martin Luther King is only famous because he died. He subverted the movement multiple times and if left up to SNCC and CORE the civil rights movement would have achieved its goals much faster. There are easily 15(probably more) civil rights leaders who were way more influential and important than MLK. Bayard Rustin is way cooler any day of the week.
- True Atheism is just as silly and logic defunct as Theism is.
- Violence is cyclical and the only way to end it and progress as a species we must interject ourselves into those cycles of violence and break them by showing love when presented with hatred and peace when presented with violence. (Also if someone put a gun to my head and tried to steal one single dollar from me, I would make them kill me rather than give them the dollar.)
- The Doors are a severely overrated band.
- Dubbstep is repetitive and boring as is pop music and most nouveau rap.
- Incest does not have any big biological drawbacks except that diversity of genotypes could save the species in an unforeseen disaster(But there are probably enough people across the world already to ensure that level of diversity either way.) The reaction against incest is either psychological(I forget the theories name) and/or social. If psychological a child growing up in close proximity to someone will take them off the table as a sexual partner, and thus is irrelevant of relation and can/is applied to very early childhood friends as well. The anthropologist/social theory is that it created a welfare net back in the day. Because if your wife is from a different family, you have more people who have family ties to you, who can be asked for help in an emergency. If you are however super freaking rich, marrying out means that you now have more people who can ask to borrow money from you; hence why all the European royalty/nobility as well as the US's Southern Aristocracy married cousins: to concentrate the wealth.
- All drugs should all be legalized, actions while on drugs should not be. If you can shoot up on heroin responsibly(lol) then go ahead and do it.
- Not really sure what people think overall on it(though from what people have said to me and from the political actions on it it seems an unpopular stance) but NASA needs to continue shuttle missions and they should have had their funding doubled. The research we get out of it, the amazing work they do on their tiny budget, and the inspiration they could give our youth by continuing to reach out further into the stars; is well worth the money.
- The US military should be recalled unilaterally out of all 149 foreign countries they are deployed in. Any bases owned should be sold back to their countries, all leases we have should be made to lapse.
- As stated previously in this thread, 99.9% of foreign aid is stupid. Historically it has either empowered warlords,
- US Military funding should be cut by at least 75% namely in its research capacity and high end weapons acquisition.
- Quake 2 is the best FPS game ever made.
- Libertarianism is the mostest superiorest political philosophy.
- People should follow the constitution. While this one seems popular its mostly a rallying cry for people who haven't read it and who think the constitution should only be enforced for the things they like but should be for everything else. I honestly don't give that much of a shit if you want to amend it to say that the government can tax income or if you want to amend it to say that healthcare should be free for everyone(though I think that's the wrong choice.) But goddamn actually amend it to say those things, don't just do them and then completely ignore the law of the land. And no I don't think the general welfare clause means government gets to do whatever it wants.
Am I doing this thread correctly?
- James Cameron is not good at his job. Titanic was mostly carried by DiCaprio. Aliens was just him helping out the much better Ridley Scott. Terminator was stolen from the much better scifi writer Harlan Ellison who thankfully successfully sued Cameron for his intellectual property theft. Avatar was the blandest sci fi possible mixed with Disney faced blue aliens, fern gully, and dances with wolves; because James Cameron can't come up with an original idea to save his life.
- J.J. Abrams is overrated, the best parts of lost were the early seasons when he wasn't there.
- Gene Roddenberry is overrated, Gene Coon did most of the work making Star Trek what it is.
- Dragon Age 2 is not nearly as awful as 90% of people say it is, and not nearly as good as the other 10% say it is. It's average.
- Alpha Protocol is a good game, with some of the best writing of the past decade.
- Skyrim is slightly above average at best and pretty undeserving of most of the praise it gets.
- IQ means pretty much fuckall. Its alright at ballparking people as average, stupid or smart. but anyone between like 125-160 is on pretty much even ground. People put too much stock into it.
- Ultima Online is the best MMORPG ever made.
-Benedict Arnold was awesome, and Washington is the one who pushed America's best general into switching sides.
- There has not been a good president for at least 100 years, and probably not one since JQ Adams. Obama continues to trod on human rights and makes terrible policy decisions. JFK got us into Vietnam and was pretty run off the mill as far as politicians go, the only reason hes so revered is because he died. Lincoln tried to suspend Habeus Corpus, and made veiled threats of force to antiwar senators, as well as showing up on one senators lawn with a company of soldiers to arrest him for speaking out against the war. And don't even get me started on FDR.
- Martin Luther King is only famous because he died. He subverted the movement multiple times and if left up to SNCC and CORE the civil rights movement would have achieved its goals much faster. There are easily 15(probably more) civil rights leaders who were way more influential and important than MLK. Bayard Rustin is way cooler any day of the week.
- True Atheism is just as silly and logic defunct as Theism is.
- Violence is cyclical and the only way to end it and progress as a species we must interject ourselves into those cycles of violence and break them by showing love when presented with hatred and peace when presented with violence. (Also if someone put a gun to my head and tried to steal one single dollar from me, I would make them kill me rather than give them the dollar.)
- The Doors are a severely overrated band.
- Dubbstep is repetitive and boring as is pop music and most nouveau rap.
- Incest does not have any big biological drawbacks except that diversity of genotypes could save the species in an unforeseen disaster(But there are probably enough people across the world already to ensure that level of diversity either way.) The reaction against incest is either psychological(I forget the theories name) and/or social. If psychological a child growing up in close proximity to someone will take them off the table as a sexual partner, and thus is irrelevant of relation and can/is applied to very early childhood friends as well. The anthropologist/social theory is that it created a welfare net back in the day. Because if your wife is from a different family, you have more people who have family ties to you, who can be asked for help in an emergency. If you are however super freaking rich, marrying out means that you now have more people who can ask to borrow money from you; hence why all the European royalty/nobility as well as the US's Southern Aristocracy married cousins: to concentrate the wealth.
- All drugs should all be legalized, actions while on drugs should not be. If you can shoot up on heroin responsibly(lol) then go ahead and do it.
- Not really sure what people think overall on it(though from what people have said to me and from the political actions on it it seems an unpopular stance) but NASA needs to continue shuttle missions and they should have had their funding doubled. The research we get out of it, the amazing work they do on their tiny budget, and the inspiration they could give our youth by continuing to reach out further into the stars; is well worth the money.
- The US military should be recalled unilaterally out of all 149 foreign countries they are deployed in. Any bases owned should be sold back to their countries, all leases we have should be made to lapse.
- As stated previously in this thread, 99.9% of foreign aid is stupid. Historically it has either empowered warlords,
- US Military funding should be cut by at least 75% namely in its research capacity and high end weapons acquisition.
- Quake 2 is the best FPS game ever made.
- Libertarianism is the mostest superiorest political philosophy.
- People should follow the constitution. While this one seems popular its mostly a rallying cry for people who haven't read it and who think the constitution should only be enforced for the things they like but should be for everything else. I honestly don't give that much of a shit if you want to amend it to say that the government can tax income or if you want to amend it to say that healthcare should be free for everyone(though I think that's the wrong choice.) But goddamn actually amend it to say those things, don't just do them and then completely ignore the law of the land. And no I don't think the general welfare clause means government gets to do whatever it wants.
Am I doing this thread correctly?