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- (5 votes) Cybersex…
i think you people are living in ignorance; blissfully unaware of the very high percentage of pregnancies each year caused by unprotected cybersex.
an unprotected phone line is a dangerous thing, many a young woman’s life has been changed dramatically by thinking that just because no physical contact takes place, no chemicals are exchanged and the two participants are sometimes thousands of miles apart, nothing can happen to them. sadly, this is simply not the case.
according to the official statistics regarding the number of unwanted pregnancies caused specifically by cybersex, 100% of them were. this is a worryingly high number.
thankfully, the solution is often very simple; a good firewall and a double insulated phone line (yes it may cost more, but it’s worth it) combined are very effective. and remember, these methods aren’t just effective at preventing unwanted cyberbabies, they are also a very neccessary defence against cybersexually transmitted infection.
spermbot seek & destroy is a very effective (and free) bit of software, which is quick to download and easy to use. all the best.
- written 2 years, 9 months ago – voted for by Pianosaurus Rex, ..Minerva.., Commander Ikari, Alkaline , redringedmidnight - (4 votes) gone
it is possible. i think it’s more likely someone in some random country in the middle of nowhere has a house, and that house is quite old, and it has a few light switches that don’t do anything, and the owner knows it and so doesn’t touch them because they’re useless. and then their nephew came to visit for the first time in years and played with the switch, and that’s what fixed it.
- written 3 years, 2 months ago – voted for by M.y.a, ♫ Pepper Potts ♫, darkscorpia, Dr. Ralph - (3 votes) What’s So Bad About Being Selfish?
it depends; selfish people often find it more difficult to form relationships which can affect your life personally and professionally. friendships, romantic relationships and professional relationships are based on trust, when someone is seen to act selfishly it undermines that trust. this usually means that although people may like the person concerned, they are less likely to invest deeply in the relationship.
as a result, many exceptionally selfish people (in my experience) complain of feeling excluded, iscolated or generally overlooked.
however, that depends on how sociable they are. some people either don’t care about the negatives, or don’t notice (selfishness often goes hand in hand with narcisism or arrogance, another reason why selfishness is seen as a bad attribute), or are never exposed to the negative sides because they associate with similar, selfish people.
at the end of the day, everyone is slightly selfish, but if you are too selfish you lose the ability to depend on people, because they stop depending on you. this means when things do go wrong (as they do for everyone at some point) you may find you have no-one to turn to.
- written 2 years, 10 months ago – voted for by Dalek Karan, Richard Cor de Lyon, ~AGAPE~ - (3 votes) Texas tries to outlaw homosexuality.
also, i wonder how many of those texan lawmakers watch lesbian porn? :p
- written 2 years, 10 months ago – voted for by Legion, black rose (male), Dr. Ralph - (2 votes) Why not build a Mosque near Ground Zero?
it seems to me there are two discussions at the heart of this;
1) is it morally or ethically right to build a mosque near groud zero
2) is it reasonable and practical to build the mosque there
as far as 1) goes, i personally think yes. i know some people are still haunted by 9/11, but the fact that the terrorists were muslim doesn’t reflect on the muslim religion, as many have pointed out their actions go against many of the core precepts. george bush was a terrible president who began illegal wars and abused many people’s human rights, he was a christian. i don’t see anyone saying there’s any problem building any churches. i know the situations are slightly different, but not that different; the only real difference is public visibility (and therefore trauma). 9/11 was one big event that everyone could see, crimes committed by presidents (or prime ministers, or whoever, bush is just an example) are less visibile and so there’s less uproar. if guantanamo wasn’t so far away there’d be much more furor about it. so my point here basically is that ethically speaking, there is no problem building a mosque near ground zero, the people likely to go to it would be new yorkers, did they not suffer the trauma along with everyone else? there were doubtless some germans in london when the war started, they endured the blitz along with everyone else. nationality (or in this case faith) is no guarantor of shared opinions.
in terms of 2), i feel this is the real issue here. and unfortunately i’d have to say no, it probably is not practical to build a mosque near ground zero. before i go on, i must stress i place no judgement with the following statements, they are just what i percieve to be the case, i’m not having a go at anyone. basically, as everyone knows the individual may be smart but the crowd is dumb. and in the case of america, the public as an entity is intolerant of the muslim faith, and probably wouldn’t stand for there being a mosque there. this is understandable, america has a long history of villainising a particular group in order to unite it’s people, originally it was the british, then more recently it was the russians (the fear/hatred of communism was used to make america stronger as a union), now the cold war is over the war on terror has begun and faith is the new target.
part of this is due to the media ‘following established narratives’ as dan gardner would say, in his segment on newswipe he illustrates this; in 1995 Timothy Mcvey bombed oklahoma city, he was a white anti government radical, http://help.com/post/397872-why-not-build-a-mosque-near-ground#reply-5867204which at the time because the terrorist stereotype. if you look at reporting of terrorism up until 9/11 it’s nearly all white radicals, militias etc. however, after 9/11 the focus shifted to the stereotypical bin laden style muslim radical. in 2005 oklahoma city joel henry henrichs blew himself up outisde a football stadium. this was a suicide bombing, but this wasn’t reported around the world. we didn’t really get this in the UK at all, no-one knows his name, if he’d have blown himself up in the late 90’s he’d be international news, but he did it post 9/11, to quote dan gardner directly, “his name was joel heny hendrichs, not mohammed, so he was widely ignored”.
this isn’t a conspiracy thing, don’t think i’m some sort of mental conspiracy nutcase, this is just practical media common sense; they sell what people are interested in. after 9/11 people became worried about muslim radicals, so that’s what the media reported on. however it becomes a self reinforcing cylce and ends up scaring and fearmongering more and more, which makes people less and less tolerant.
- written 2 years, 10 months ago – voted for by Kalen, rekaru