DesDownunder
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I blame the fashion industry for the "attitude" look.
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I'm not holding out on you, you can have the Sydney guys, I'm keeping the real beauties from Adelaide for myself.
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Brings back many memories of happier days when I was a projectionist showing Star Wars on real film in 70mm.
Note how dependant the force of the experience, and the experience of the Force, is on the music score.
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If only they would leave us alone, but they just can't seem to do that.
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Should be watched by everyone in my opinion. Shocking to some, no doubt, but in reality it is liberating in its exposé of religion's cruelty and manipulation of the people and their beliefs. Above all, it enables and empowers our ability to realise that sex is not a sin. The remnants of the horrors were still apparent when I was a young man, and still needlessly influence many today.
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I only use Skype for three people, but I haven't set any privacy settings. Whilst I agree with things getting worse under Microsoft, I haven't suffered the problems you have encountered, Mike. If you like we could compare settings if you have the time...
As for other programs I haven't been able to find anything else that offers any better.
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But My cat loves me. He loves to bite my ankles and claw my limbs till they bleed.
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Bravo James, a poem that brings to mind Arthur Rimbaud's A Season In Hell.
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Don't you Americans have the right to roll up your shirt sleeves to have bare arms, or is that bear arms as in being cuddled by Bruin?
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We'll keep your seat warm until you return. Have fun.
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Found it on YouTube (in 3 parts)
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I'm a terrible reader. I think nothing of scooting ahead to see where, what I'm reading is going. But with Cole's writing that would be a betrayal of all his time and effort to build suspense whilst advancing the story. So I suffer, quietly excited, reading as he intends us to do.
It comes as no surprise then, that at the culmination of the story, my reading bursts not so much into laughter, which happens anyway, but into a fulfilling moment of joy and satisfaction.
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So, is the equivalent old-manish word, penile?
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Wordweb dictionary says: Of or like a feeble old woman
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Thanks Cynus, that was great.
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Colin has now received offers from several thousand people all wanting to move into his spare bedroom.
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There was f*cking in the parlour,
And f*cking on the stairs,
You couldn't hear the music for the swishing of the hairs.
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I remember Tim and enjoyed it very much.
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I'm on what we call ADSL2 Broadband with 20MB/s limit. In reality my distance from the exchange limits me to 6MB/s.
Webpages load between 1 to 10 seconds, and YouTube streams fine. In reality it seems the web is slower than my connection, most of the time.
My generation demands instant gratification, so I'm happy with the speed as porn is so fast I often miss the money shots. (No, I'm kidding. I've never missed a money shot, and neither has the keyboard.)
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Okay I am Australian, in Adelaide South Australia and I knew all the answers except Snookie, who I thought was the name of the lady's cat across the road.
Now please don't ask me the equivalent questions for Australia, although I can tell you that our current Prime Minister is thought of as the Village Idiot.
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An atheist's Discussion Points
The Denson article really only touches the basics in same sex relations. This is not surprising as the author states he is only looking at the Christian perspective, leaving a more detailed historical analysis aside. I don't have a quarrel with this, but there is danger in this approach which leaves the adaptive evolutionary factors out of the discussion.
Again, this is not surprising, as we really don't have a lot of anthropological information about our primitive ancestors. I hasten to add that more is being discovered, and I suspect Denson knows about them from the hints at the end of the article. It is important to look for origins earlier than the civilisations of antiquity.
There is, I think, some concern with going down the path of conciliation with religious views, in that it will hinder our consciousness to fully appreciate reality. Even so, such a delay would certainly be preferable if it inhibits current threats of homocide. (Have I invented a new word?)
Anthropologically, we might well propose a speculation that long before language, even perhaps earlier than grunts, our primitive ancestors formed intimate and sexual relationships in the circumstance of their needs to survive; where the young were shown how to hunt, gather, and find shelter. Such activity may well have been the foundation for desire to live with one another with affinity for natural expressions of affection.
What we can say is, that if those ancestors did not form relationships, and with compassion for the less fortunate, then we would probably not be here to discuss them. I would also submit this is where natural morals were born with conscience, and were later co-opted by religions as their moral laws after the beginnings of tribal language.
From the atheist, or non-believer, point of view, if we find ourselves justifying cultural customs of superstitions involving the supernatural to gain acceptance as LGBTQ people, we may well delay our evolving cognitive reality. Remember that there is no demand biologically, for us to actually develop our ego-consciousness beyond adaptation to our life circumstances.
Self-awareness brings with it the question of what is Consciousness: life, death and the whole magnificent catastrophe? I would contend, that questioning curiosity under the strict rules of evidentiary scientific investigation is the means to our discovery and appreciation of reality, and is in fact hastened by the omission of religious irrational faith which has no further use once we realise that everything works without it.
On the other-hand, loss of such faith cannot be demanded, and does not in itself pose a threat so long as it is not used to indoctrinate or force itself on others. Ego-consciousness is an adaptive process, one in which it can no longer be acceptable to use ignorance as an excuse to eradicate people who differ from one another in ethnicity, belief or sexuality. How the various cultures cope with such adaptation will influence human endurance, existence, evolution, or our extinction.
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I'm with Camy, I want one too. I don't know what I would do with it, but it looks inspirational.
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I speak with forked tongue for effect of rhetorical whimsy and verily, to feed your amusement.
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At times it's a bit like, "This is Peter, whom I shall call Paul." ~ I lost interest after that and became an atheist.