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Not exactly my favorite quotes- For most I just did various searches on figures I like, or some quotes I found interesting regardless of source. Most of the books where my favorite quotations actually are are in my house and not with me in college. General Aldo Leopold •"A hobby is a...

Pardon my going slightly OT I think vegetarianism is perfectly acceptable as a lifestyle choice. I think I've read articles about how (and I reserve the right to be wrong) calories are lost with each successive progression through the trophic levels. As for me, I have to eat meat. I tried...

Interesting poll, Tsuyoiko. Eating meat is OK As Maciamo and Mycernius pointed out, eating meat is part of a natural process. Humans are all part of a larger system, not apart from it. Using products from live animals is OK After all, we get products from animals that are already bred for...

I'll say, Tsuyoiko! An IQ of 75-90 is probably better than mine, at least :p

Such was one of the premises of Neil Gaiman's American Gods, I believe. A very nice read, if I may say so myself :p Sorry for the aside. Carry on! (I'll add my 2 cents when I'm not working on some **** paper.)

Hey, being an RPG buff myself, I like your analogy. :) I wouldn't worry about rep points so much. Heck, even negative rep points can sometimes be nice; in one of the favorite quotations threads (I think started by Maciamo) there's this quote that's something along the lines of: it's good to...

*looks at bossel's avatar* *knocks him down and takes him in for an autopsy :-) *

I'm with Tsuyoiko about "highly skeptical, but possible." I can't give any sound reasoning about why I think that, except that the universe is so immense, and it took only a chance fleck of life to start us off, but I'm open to it.

Thanks! That cleared things up. Yup, I agree. While doing the questions I was thinking "Wait, some religions aren't completely lacking of philosophy, like Buddhism..." Cool. Just so you know, I think it's aimed at intro-level philosophy courses (at least, that's how i got ahold of the...

Ah, I guess the fighting's all coming up again. I agree, putting people on Ignore is good to maintain order, or at least sanity. Arguments on Internet forums never get resolved except with the intervention of a moderator, I've found. Besides, didn't you ever want to try that cool feature on...

Interesting thread, Revenant! 1. What is the aim of morality? To include other people or things within the range of our consideration and sense of community when we make an action so that we would not do something bad to harm said community's wellbeing. I guess it is the prescriptive respect...

Very interesting! Midway while realizing what was going on I tried reading it at a slightly faster-than-normal speed on my first try and found out I could understand it perfectly! Upon second thought, I still don't really enjoy reading those really poor sentences you see on the net every so...

Good post, Ma Cherie. I'm also interested in the psychological aspects of racism as well. I think one of the best place to start research on psychology-related materials, besides academic journals and periodicals, would be The American Psychology Association. A quick search on their site...

Hm... I haven't had any experience with home searching, still being in college, but here goes. A) Proximity of shops and conveniences - 2 Well, I need to get the groceries. While I won't be going out every day to get to those conveniences, I'd still like to be able to get these things done...

Hmmm. I guess those guys won't find these articles very amusing. Animal-Rights Activists Release 71,000 Cows Into Wild New, Delicious Species Discovered And I'm guessing they won't like this one either: McDonald's Drops 'Hammurderer' Character From Advertising Sorry if these articles...

Oh dear, I didn't know you were in the New Orleans, pinkkillerkisou :( This is woefully late, but I hope things are doing okay for you guys. Anyway, I know the seasons as basically: Miserable allergy season (mid-late spring) Hot, humid and physically trying season, with some specks of...

Thanks, Zauriel. Actually, this doesn't come as a surprise to me, as I think PETA is usually known as a radical animal-rights group that gives a bad name to every other decent environmental/animal-welfare-related group. It's embarrasing, really. I think one of their unsuccessful campaigns...

Thanks for the article, RockLee. It's especially frightening when you realize that this could have happened to anybody. That is certainly surprising, and makes me wonder if this was an isolated case, or if there's something else going on. A quick search on Google found this article...

I always thought it correlates with post count since it's right next to it, but I guess it's more to do with reputation now that I look at some other of those points. edit: I wonder what those with a lot of bad rep points would get.

I bought it when he was a guest lecturer at my college, but haven't gotten around to reading it. I only glanced through the first few pages, but from what I've seen, it is pretty nice. I also enjoyed Paul and Anne Ehlich's One With Nineveh when I was first starting learning about environmental...