Anderson Cooper quizzes supporter of pastor who proposes concentration camps for gay people. Her responses are a microcosm of the conservative christian attitude.

madam1 · 2012-05-25T13:51:51.842033+00:00

"Thou shalt not commit adultery" isn't one of the 10 Commandments?

madam1 · 2012-05-25T02:43:45.080093+00:00

I agree with what you're saying, but, very unfortunately, too many people -- including far too many "conservative" "Christians" -- incorporate base bigotry into their personal philosophies.

Anderson Cooper made precisely the right point -- the Bible condemns heterosexual adultery far, far more often than it even mentions homosexuality. Hell, it's one of the 10 commandments.

supermario182 · 1 day

AAAAaaaaaiiiiiiiiii!

GreenCristina · 1 day

One of the most fun cars to drive I've ever owned.

bipoloiter · 2 days

I'm 50.

My story? Um... a lot has happened in 50 years. As I like to say, I've lived at least five lives already.

I've been a professional musician and comedian, and I've worked in a chemical plant slinging sacks of raw asbestos. I've been a homeless heroin addict and I've dined at the Cosmos Club in Washington DC with the first black member they ever admitted. I've been rich, I've been poor, and everything in between.

I'm primarily manic, diagnosed bipolar I, and Seroquel has been a miracle drug for me. I've also found DBT helpful.

amazinglyanonymous · 3 days

The sadist who decided it would be a good idea to put Rainbow Road right after Bowser's Castle in Mario Kart 7 for the 3DS.

Eternity is not long enough.

IAmAtomato · 3 days

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3D.

Just the title makes me drool.

TestZero · 3 days

Also: Clothes are hung, people are hanged.

Walter35 · 3 days

Tupac's version of The Way It Is?

rayh55 · 4 days

We used to always tune to the keyboard player.

TheTraitor · 5 days

To sum it up: Perhaps there is a diety (probably not), but if there is, it is not what all the whacko religions say it is. Perhaps it's a huge intergalactic space-dog who took a dump and poof .... universe.

And there's one of the roots of the problem -- how does one define a God or gods? If one defines it as something possible, then it is. If one defines it as something impossible, then it is.

Either way, we must separate our emotional beliefs from our rational knowledge -- and not pretend one is the other in any meaningful way.

lizarb · 5 days

I saw Spirit of the Beehive as a kid and it bored me silly.

Replace this movie with, y'know, the actual Frankenstein, which is a time-tested favorite.

TheTraitor · 5 days

So you absolutely, positively know there is no God or gods? Would you continue to hold that belief regardless of any evidence to the contrary?

Basic epistemology states that for a belief to become knowledge, it must also be true. Neither absolute atheists nor absolute theists hold this knowledge, given the evidence we have at this time.

Both must remain open to interpreting further information as it becomes available.

ButtTheHoopoe · 5 days

I just hope that whole thing doesn't incidentally turn people off to Larkin.

The OP fucked up This Be The Verse's line breaks, and Larkin was a formalist whose work doesn't stand up to that kind of futzing too well. Also, The Whitsun Weddings is one of my all-time favorite poems.

kingvitaman · 6 days

I can't believe no one's mentioned it yet:

Success -- I'm typing on it right now.

mrcriticalfailure · 7 days

For a truly authentic sound, catgut is supposed to be good. But -- and this is important -- don't use actual cat intestines.

You want the fibers from sheep or goat intestines. And if you are in a death metal band, you can hang the goat's head on your amp for Satan and stuff.

KarlPfeiffer · 7 days

Some combine EMF and words in the thought that the spirits can manipulate it so words come out.

Every fourth word from the beginning of your post:

Important is we designed meter, false for the shows.

That's some spooky stuff.

realaudiogasm · 7 days

If you've never bought Behringer, how do you know they're so bad?

realaudiogasm · 7 days

I used a Boss DS-1 Distortion exclusively for most of the '80s and '90s.

These days, I use a Digitech RP-90, which I managed to score cheap. I purchased it mainly for its DS-1 emulation, but find myself using it for a lot more these days.

I also use Line 6 products for amp and FX modeling in my home studio setup.

And those are the three brands it's hard to go wrong with, right there -- Boss, Digitech and Line 6.

It's easy to be biased towards products one uses, and dismissive of products one doesn't. Basically, any effect you like the sound of is worth owning.

bultonic · 11 days

I am an example of a sort of inverted Pascal's wager:

Believing makes me feel good, and if I'm wrong, I'll never know.

Kaveh2k · 11 days

This is our media, and I can see it just fine. (Reddit is owned by Conde' Nast.)

Macanar · 12 days

I'm another one raised by agnostic parents.

RapedByPlushies · 12 days

It was a song by the Civil Wars.

You might have heard a cover, though.

Kazlock · 12 days

If you're like me, keep it filed away in your brain, and play it whenever you're practicing.

Eventually, you'll have tons of these little licks and riffs in your head, just waiting to fit into something else you write.

whatthenig · 12 days

String Theory is interesting and may one day lead to new physical theories - but it is not currently a theory of physics.

This is something that has been bugging me for a while -- shouldn't we be calling them "string hypotheses"?

People are confused enough about what a "theory" means in the hard sciences.

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