Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Um, you can't call Reeves selfish. I don't think there's a damn person who gives a rats ass about parapalegics before they get paralyzed. How many people can you name that care about them anyway?
Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Um, you can't call Reeves selfish. I don't think there's a damn person who gives a rats ass about parapalegics before they get paralyzed. How many people can you name that care about them anyway?
Ouch!Originally posted by: crab
Reeve is pretty damn low on my list of 'people I like'. I beleive he IS selfish.
<---C5-C6 quadriplegic for exactly 4 years, 1 day, and about 3 hours.
That is horrible!Originally posted by: Stratum9
That guy is an a$$.
I never gave money or even much thought (other than a moment of sympathy) when I'd see those commercials for The March Of Dimes Foundation showing all those premature babies.
Until my wife gave birth to a baby boy five months premature and managed to survive in an incubator for three months before he died. Only then, did the Foundation's efforts have personal meaning to me.
So, I ask this of this guy: Do you give money to The March of Dimes, and to every other thousands of Foundations supporting some cause or disease that hasn't touched your life in a personal way?
Originally posted by: Eli
That is horrible!Originally posted by: Stratum9
That guy is an a$$.
I never gave money or even much thought (other than a moment of sympathy) when I'd see those commercials for The March Of Dimes Foundation showing all those premature babies.
Until my wife gave birth to a baby boy five months premature and managed to survive in an incubator for three months before he died. Only then, did the Foundation's efforts have personal meaning to me.
So, I ask this of this guy: Do you give money to The March of Dimes, and to every other thousands of Foundations supporting some cause or disease that hasn't touched your life in a personal way?
Mann, what a rollercoaster that would be.. So terrible that he didn't make it after 3 months. My condolances.
Originally posted by: hawkeye81x
Stem-cells anyone?
Delicious stem-cells...
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: hawkeye81x
Stem-cells anyone?
Delicious stem-cells...
Oh, you're so silly. Bush and the rest of the conservative god-fearing bible-thumping delegation would NEVER allow stem-cell research if they got their way. Never mind the fact that products of stem-cell research has the potential to provide rejection-free heart, lung, and kidney transplants...or regenerate spinal cords in people who are paralyzed...The fact is, conducting research on stem-cells that would have been discarded anyway is messing with god's plan!!! The Church absolutely disapproves of this line of research with great vengeance and fuuuuuuurious anger! But I guess it's okay to deprive millions of Americans of life-saving therapies because a bunch of high-holy religious authorities think it's not consistent with the bible. So forget it. You need a new heart..a new spinal cord? You'd better pray for one because you ain't getting it through stem-cell research.
Valsalva
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: hawkeye81x
Stem-cells anyone?
Delicious stem-cells...
Oh, you're so silly. Bush and the rest of the conservative god-fearing bible-thumping delegation would NEVER allow stem-cell research if they got their way. Never mind the fact that products of stem-cell research has the potential to provide rejection-free heart, lung, and kidney transplants...or regenerate spinal cords in people who are paralyzed...The fact is, conducting research on stem-cells that would have been discarded anyway is messing with god's plan!!! The Church absolutely disapproves of this line of research with great vengeance and fuuuuuuurious anger! But I guess it's okay to deprive millions of Americans of life-saving therapies because a bunch of high-holy religious authorities think it's not consistent with the bible. So forget it. You need a new heart..a new spinal cord? You'd better pray for one because you ain't getting it through stem-cell research.
Valsalva
Because nobody cares about causes like this before they effect them personaly does not mean that Reaves isn't selfish, it means that we are all selfish, self centered chimp...humans.Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Um, you can't call Reeves selfish. I don't think there's a damn person who gives a rats ass about parapalegics before they get paralyzed. How many people can you name that care about them anyway?
Even if you disagree with everything bad I've said about this movie, there's one point I think everyone can agree on: Keanu Reeves' ass does not need to be seen, ever. Not only do they show you his pasty white a$$, they do it in the most contemptible way possible: right after a titty scene. They try to trick you into popping a boner, then WHAM. Keanu's corn hole. There's an acceptable degree to how many times his ass can be shown in a movie, and that degree is either 0, or negative (negative means that Keanu Reeves' ass gets cut off, which would rule). On a side note, in case you get in an argument with a Matrix nerd cult member, the "Keanu's a$$" argument always wins. It's like playing rock, paper, scissors and sucker punch to the throat. The sucker punch always wins. Don't believe me? Try it: next time a Matrix nerd starts rambling on about "Christological symbolism" and other geeky sh!t that nobody cares about, just say the magic words. I guarantee you'll either win the argument, or give the impression that you're an acute homophobe. Either way you win.. sort of.
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: hawkeye81x
Stem-cells anyone?
Delicious stem-cells...
Oh, you're so silly. Bush and the rest of the conservative god-fearing bible-thumping delegation would NEVER allow stem-cell research if they got their way. Never mind the fact that products of stem-cell research has the potential to provide rejection-free heart, lung, and kidney transplants...or regenerate spinal cords in people who are paralyzed...The fact is, conducting research on stem-cells that would have been discarded anyway is messing with god's plan!!! The Church absolutely disapproves of this line of research with great vengeance and fuuuuuuurious anger! But I guess it's okay to deprive millions of Americans of life-saving therapies because a bunch of high-holy religious authorities think it's not consistent with the bible. So forget it. You need a new heart..a new spinal cord? You'd better pray for one because you ain't getting it through stem-cell research.
Valsalva
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: hawkeye81x
Stem-cells anyone?
Delicious stem-cells...
Oh, you're so silly. Bush and the rest of the conservative god-fearing bible-thumping delegation would NEVER allow stem-cell research if they got their way. Never mind the fact that products of stem-cell research has the potential to provide rejection-free heart, lung, and kidney transplants...or regenerate spinal cords in people who are paralyzed...The fact is, conducting research on stem-cells that would have been discarded anyway is messing with god's plan!!! The Church absolutely disapproves of this line of research with great vengeance and fuuuuuuurious anger! But I guess it's okay to deprive millions of Americans of life-saving therapies because a bunch of high-holy religious authorities think it's not consistent with the bible. So forget it. You need a new heart..a new spinal cord? You'd better pray for one because you ain't getting it through stem-cell research.
Valsalva
You're getting quite adept at being able to smoothly slip a religious rant into all threads. Let me take a wild guess here; You were sexually abused by a priest at some point?
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: hawkeye81x
Stem-cells anyone?
Delicious stem-cells...
Oh, you're so silly. Bush and the rest of the conservative god-fearing bible-thumping delegation would NEVER allow stem-cell research if they got their way. Never mind the fact that products of stem-cell research has the potential to provide rejection-free heart, lung, and kidney transplants...or regenerate spinal cords in people who are paralyzed...The fact is, conducting research on stem-cells that would have been discarded anyway is messing with god's plan!!! The Church absolutely disapproves of this line of research with great vengeance and fuuuuuuurious anger! But I guess it's okay to deprive millions of Americans of life-saving therapies because a bunch of high-holy religious authorities think it's not consistent with the bible. So forget it. You need a new heart..a new spinal cord? You'd better pray for one because you ain't getting it through stem-cell research.
Valsalva
You're getting quite adept at being able to smoothly slip a religious rant into all threads. Let me take a wild guess here; You were sexually abused by a priest at some point?
I'm glad you bring that up. I wasn't personally sexually abused by priests, but I know hundreds of children have. Now this uncovers another serious question: if God is so omnipotent, then how could he ALLOW his own representatives, his priests, to conduct such a heinous act of child molestation? And it's not like there were a few of them...there were hundreds of cases of Catholic priests molesting multiple children. How could God so unjustly allow his own children..young children..be sexually abused in such a disgusting manner? Perhaps he was punishing the children for misbehaving? Perhaps these children didn't pray as hard as others...no, they did, because I recall hearing that the priests selected the most succulent choir boys... Everybody trusted these priests...how could your God allow this to happen? I dunno...you tell me.
Valsalva
Originally posted by: tbates757
Valsalva, I'm not sure that you understand the concept of God, he/she/it doesn't allow or prevent free will, but it will be accounted for and judged in the afterlife. God oversees all, not controls all
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I'm glad you bring that up. I wasn't personally sexually abused by priests, but I know hundreds of children have. Now this uncovers another serious question: if God is so omnipotent, then how could he ALLOW his own representatives, his priests, to conduct such a heinous act of child molestation? And it's not like there were a few of them...there were hundreds of cases of Catholic priests molesting multiple children. How could God so unjustly allow his own children..young children..be sexually abused in such a disgusting manner? Perhaps he was punishing the children for misbehaving? Perhaps these children didn't pray as hard as others...no, they did, because I recall hearing that the priests selected the most succulent choir boys... Everybody trusted these priests...how could your God allow this to happen? I dunno...you tell me.
Valsalva
I see your point. That line of reasoning raises all sorts of questions though. Such as; If God loves us why does he allow a waste of oxygen like you to exist? Sadly, we'll never know the answer to these sorts of questions. Interesting point though.
Originally posted by: tbates757
Valsalva, I'm not sure that you understand the concept of God, he/she/it doesn't allow or prevent free will, but it will be accounted for and judged in the afterlife. God oversees all, not controls all
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: hawkeye81x
Stem-cells anyone?
Delicious stem-cells...
Oh, you're so silly. Bush and the rest of the conservative god-fearing bible-thumping delegation would NEVER allow stem-cell research if they got their way. Never mind the fact that products of stem-cell research has the potential to provide rejection-free heart, lung, and kidney transplants...or regenerate spinal cords in people who are paralyzed...The fact is, conducting research on stem-cells that would have been discarded anyway is messing with god's plan!!! The Church absolutely disapproves of this line of research with great vengeance and fuuuuuuurious anger! But I guess it's okay to deprive millions of Americans of life-saving therapies because a bunch of high-holy religious authorities think it's not consistent with the bible. So forget it. You need a new heart..a new spinal cord? You'd better pray for one because you ain't getting it through stem-cell research.
Valsalva
You're getting quite adept at being able to smoothly slip a religious rant into all threads. Let me take a wild guess here; You were sexually abused by a priest at some point?
I'm glad you bring that up. I wasn't personally sexually abused by priests, but I know hundreds of children have. Now this uncovers another serious question: if God is so omnipotent, then how could he ALLOW his own representatives, his priests, to conduct such a heinous act of child molestation? And it's not like there were a few of them...there were hundreds of cases of Catholic priests molesting multiple children. How could God so unjustly allow his own children..young children..be sexually abused in such a disgusting manner? Perhaps he was punishing the children for misbehaving? Perhaps these children didn't pray as hard as others...no, they did, because I recall hearing that the priests selected the most succulent choir boys... Everybody trusted these priests...how could your God allow this to happen? I dunno...you tell me.
Valsalva
I see your point. That line of reasoning raises all sorts of questions though. Such as; If God loves us why does he allow a waste of oxygen like you to exist? Sadly, we'll never know the answer to these sorts of questions. Interesting point though.
Now, I'm dropping this in the hopes that this thread won't get bastardized anymore. Feel free to take your shot at me and then just let it go if you would. I think people are getting tired of your religious ranting. I know I am.
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I'm glad you bring that up. I wasn't personally sexually abused by priests, but I know hundreds of children have. Now this uncovers another serious question: if God is so omnipotent, then how could he ALLOW his own representatives, his priests, to conduct such a heinous act of child molestation? And it's not like there were a few of them...there were hundreds of cases of Catholic priests molesting multiple children. How could God so unjustly allow his own children..young children..be sexually abused in such a disgusting manner? Perhaps he was punishing the children for misbehaving? Perhaps these children didn't pray as hard as others...no, they did, because I recall hearing that the priests selected the most succulent choir boys... Everybody trusted these priests...how could your God allow this to happen? I dunno...you tell me.
Valsalva
I see your point. That line of reasoning raises all sorts of questions though. Such as; If God loves us why does he allow a waste of oxygen like you to exist? Sadly, we'll never know the answer to these sorts of questions. Interesting point though.
Interesting point? I have hundreds of them like that...points that directly challenge the basis of the Christian belief system and reveal gross inconsistencies in Christian thinking. As usual, you fail to address the matter that I bring up and instead resort to half-witted ad hominems out of frustration. These are obvious questions that stem from the priest molestation scandal...yet you sound as though you have never thought of them. Why don't you take some time and see your belief system attempts to explain how your supposedly omnipotent God allowed his religious representatives to molest young choir boys. Put up or shut up.
Valsalva
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I'm glad you bring that up. I wasn't personally sexually abused by priests, but I know hundreds of children have. Now this uncovers another serious question: if God is so omnipotent, then how could he ALLOW his own representatives, his priests, to conduct such a heinous act of child molestation? And it's not like there were a few of them...there were hundreds of cases of Catholic priests molesting multiple children. How could God so unjustly allow his own children..young children..be sexually abused in such a disgusting manner? Perhaps he was punishing the children for misbehaving? Perhaps these children didn't pray as hard as others...no, they did, because I recall hearing that the priests selected the most succulent choir boys... Everybody trusted these priests...how could your God allow this to happen? I dunno...you tell me.
Valsalva
I see your point. That line of reasoning raises all sorts of questions though. Such as; If God loves us why does he allow a waste of oxygen like you to exist? Sadly, we'll never know the answer to these sorts of questions. Interesting point though.
Interesting point? I have hundreds of them like that...points that directly challenge the basis of the Christian belief system and reveal gross inconsistencies in Christian thinking. As usual, you fail to address the matter that I bring up and instead resort to half-witted ad hominems out of frustration. These are obvious questions that stem from the priest molestation scandal...yet you sound as though you have never thought of them. Why don't you take some time and see your belief system attempts to explain how your supposedly omnipotent God allowed his religious representatives to molest young choir boys. Put up or shut up.
Valsalva
"Failure to address the matter and instead resort to half-witted ad hominems"? You must be joking. Read over the pm's you've sent in response to my pm's. You're quite good at doing the same which makes you nothing but a hypocrite for criticizing me. Besides, how do you really expect me to take such stupidity seriously?
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
Originally posted by: ValsalvaYourHeartOut
Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl
I'm glad you bring that up. I wasn't personally sexually abused by priests, but I know hundreds of children have. Now this uncovers another serious question: if God is so omnipotent, then how could he ALLOW his own representatives, his priests, to conduct such a heinous act of child molestation? And it's not like there were a few of them...there were hundreds of cases of Catholic priests molesting multiple children. How could God so unjustly allow his own children..young children..be sexually abused in such a disgusting manner? Perhaps he was punishing the children for misbehaving? Perhaps these children didn't pray as hard as others...no, they did, because I recall hearing that the priests selected the most succulent choir boys... Everybody trusted these priests...how could your God allow this to happen? I dunno...you tell me.
Valsalva
I see your point. That line of reasoning raises all sorts of questions though. Such as; If God loves us why does he allow a waste of oxygen like you to exist? Sadly, we'll never know the answer to these sorts of questions. Interesting point though.
Interesting point? I have hundreds of them like that...points that directly challenge the basis of the Christian belief system and reveal gross inconsistencies in Christian thinking. As usual, you fail to address the matter that I bring up and instead resort to half-witted ad hominems out of frustration. These are obvious questions that stem from the priest molestation scandal...yet you sound as though you have never thought of them. Why don't you take some time and see your belief system attempts to explain how your supposedly omnipotent God allowed his religious representatives to molest young choir boys. Put up or shut up.
Valsalva
"Failure to address the matter and instead resort to half-witted ad hominems"? You must be joking. Read over the pm's you've sent in response to my pm's. You're quite good at doing the same which makes you nothing but a hypocrite for criticizing me. Besides, how do you really expect me to take such stupidity seriously?
Woh, man. The pm's you received were in direct response to the offensive and snide remarks you initiated...However, irrespective of our PM conversation, I brought up some valid points and you can either address them directly or you can shutup. Your whining about this and that is a waste of my time.
Valsalva