Silver_and_Jade_Tears

Silver_and_Jade_Tears

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Reply to Should "In God We Trust" be removed? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

This is taking it literally. And even if there are people that don't believe in anything, they usually believe in themselves. If they had any imagination, they could regard it as a trust in themselves. To take offense at something like this is like taking offense because someone's neighbor has a garden gnome in their front yard. Sure, it may be obnoxious in their mind, but trying to force their neighbors to remove it so that they don't feel o

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Reply to Should "In God We Trust" be removed? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Not to mention what it would cost to replace every bill out there. The idea alone is ludicris and ignorant.[/quote] I think that the solution to that, were it to happen, is to just have the new bills/coins come out lacking the term, versus literally replacing the currently circulating currency

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Reply to Should "In God We Trust" be removed? in Current Events Stardock Forums

Let me clarify this post before I state my opinion. I am an agnostic, and while I don't disbelieve in God, I don't pray or go to church. (At least, anymore.) That being said, I think that "In God We Trust" needs to be left alone. It doesn't say Jesus, it doesn't Mother Nature, it doesn't Allah, or Buddha, or Zeus, or Lamborghini, or any other variation of person, place, or thing, that someone could consider their own personal god. My god may not be your god, an

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Reply to Irony of Humanity in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]Not just tools but art, language, poetry, music, and stories. Last i checked animals had none of these.[/quote] Animals don't have these by HUMAN standards, but they certainly have versions of it for themselves. A bird sings, not just out of mating, or communication, but for joy. I believe all animals have a type of language, different barks, different caws, and for some mammels, like dolphins, perhaps more. Poetry and stories, I agree with, animals prob

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Reply to You're Banned!: The Forum Game in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="General Homsar" comment="797"] banned for wanting us to support another forum Banned for not wanting to support another forum, not having an avatar, and not using capitalization OR puctuation. [/quote] Banned for banning based on so many reasons.

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Reply to Irony of Humanity in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote who="koda0" comment="39"] If we are only here because of our capability to lie, than what happens when another specie gains this capability? Will we compete? Will we accept? Or will we destroy, out of Instinctive fear? Also, what of our ability to difference ourselves from other species? I think a majority of our "dominance" is that humans cannot share an ecosystem with an animal that requires the same resources as it. Neanderthals, for exampl

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Reply to Irony of Humanity in Everything Else Stardock Forums

Nope, I'm not, actually. It was mentioned that human's ADAPT quickly, and I made the comment that I believe we evolved because of our ability to lie. Now if you would like me to argue that... While human's aren't the only creatures that deceive, we are the only ones that have mastered it so completely that we can not only lie to other mammels, and even others of our own species, but to ourselves as well. If this weren't so, the delusional state you menti

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Reply to Irony of Humanity in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

[quote] Humans are not the only species to advance technology in order to obtain a goal, nor the only species to employ deception, or solve logical puzzles, or any number of claims of unique behavior among humans.[/quote] You keep implying that this argument has been made. Nowhere did I mention that what we have done is UNIQUE, you're arguing a point that was never made. I didn't say we were the only ones that lied ("employed deception") or created tools, or had creativity

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Reply to Random quotes in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Samurye" reply="12" id="2138200"] Quoting Orodum, reply 11 The fact that the US has never technically lost a war (technically, our last war was WWII), and only lost one impromtu war, shows that we have good commanders and a strong industrial base - from which can be concluded that we have "smarter" people, better policies , and more pride in our nation Or simply better propaganda. Samurye. [/quote] Or, m

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Reply to Irony of Humanity in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

[quote]most, if not all animals compete with one anther[/quote] Compete yes... try to complete annihilate, not so much. There is no documentation of healthy animals trying to destroy themselves, or their entire species.

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Reply to Irony of Humanity in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

[quote]Chimps hunt with spears and fashion stone tools for cutting and pounding. Woodpeckers employ the use of twigs in digging insects out of their bores. Ravens possess analytical genius.[/quote] I didn't say we were the only creatures that did so. All animals use tools of some sort or another, whether it is part of their body, or something such as a stick. And I believe that more animals than we realize have analytical skills. Dolphin's seem to even have name

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Reply to Irony of Humanity in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

And while we are not, by far, the only creatures that do these things, we are, in most cases, better at it, because of our lack of physical defenses.

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Reply to Irony of Humanity in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

[quote]Explain this, please. How does the ability to lie protect an animal from predation?[/quote] I don't mean lying in just the verbal, "Honey, I'm NOT having an affair," kind of way, (though that could be one way, haha,) but as a general term that covers things such as manipulation of nature, and camouflage. For example, We can't out-fight a wolf, but we can make it believe that we are something we are not, with the use of banging rocks, and shouting. Camouflage

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Reply to Joeuser People That I miss in Blogging JoeUser Forums

[quote who="CharlesCS" reply="11" id="2137844"]Nice find. 2004? Damn, not even sure if I was on here at the time. [/quote] Nick Name: CharlesCS Member Number: 2571195 Member Since: 8/17/2006 LoL, guess not.

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Reply to A way to fight piracy other than DRM. in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

[quote]You can make it a minor pain to patch a pirated game while at the same time making sure the legit users get the benefits of the update before the pirates do. And then there is still other things such as a game manual, support, multiplayer etc... [/quote] Which is fine... but it isn't going to deter the majority of those that pirate now. When one doesn't have the money to spend on a 60$ game, then they will put up with these inconveniences if they want to play t

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Reply to Your First PC Game in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

First game ever? Fool's Gold, on a late 80's Mac (or early 90's, I was only 4 or 5.) PC gamer since early-childhood! :D

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Reply to Obama did not cause the crisis! in Republican JoeUser Forums

[quote]What has either party done that they haven't said was wrong when the other party does it?[/quote] Absolutely nothing. Both sides are hypocritial, and I agree with you completely. Republicans and Democrats are the same in everything except name, and a few "moral" laws here and there.

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