Central Scrutinizer

The students at Columbine had opinions and acted upon them. Does the end justify the means if the opinion is damaging or harmful to a people, a race, or at the very least a general degree of civility?

Every Grain of Sand is an amazing song.

Dunno if this hasn't already been posted ("Nevermind" -- Emily Latella) but Dave Stewart (how on earth did he disappear for so long?) has created a song/video for Obama. An American Prayer

Don't forget, they also like guns. Lots of guns.

It's like NASCAR. People on watch to see a crash.

I did a search and didn't see this brought up -- I took my daughter to an Against Me concert at the House of Blues-Orlando and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists were one of the opening acts. Really impressed me with their song writing, vocals and overall sound -- although they appeared to be touring by their shoelaces. If I was to characterize them it would be a '70s Joe Jackson channeling Bruce Springsteen. Definitely worth a listen if they get near you.

That's why the angels wanna wear my red shoes.

If Colin has a kid, would he be a semi-Colin?

"Does this song make me look fat?"

Makes sense. Then when they give the perfect show they can pour a cooler of Gatorade over the soundman with hilarious -- and tragic -- consequences.

I have a 16mm copy of "Night of the Living Dead" and over the past dozen years I've had a tradition of showing it in the front yard, projected against a screen strung across a volleyball net. Depending on the ages of kids in the neighborhood, by the second reel a dozen people or so have dragged lawn chairs over to watch. We have neighbors who have gone over the top. One did a haunted butcher shop a few years, with stuff set up throughout their house. The blue-ribbon winners though last year recreated a Star Trek theme, with their old minivan made into a shuttle and a large scale Enterprise b

Hey, our species was responsible for George W. Bush. Got faith?

That is some interesting stuff. I posted a link to his most recent book sometime back .... But we're not in a science community. I have home-field advantage. You're up!

I'm betting there's a sucking sound following you whenever you go. BTW, it's exponentially.

No, actually the onus is on you -- "a" theism. By very nature of the word you are the contrarian.

If that's the case, God doesn't breathe, he puckers.

That is a great irony, since the nature of the new testament (other than Paul's politics) is the freedom of the old testament constraints (other than snipping your thingie and the whole blood thing). In that sense jnick is most assuredly right; there is a nature among many people to wish to surrender control, they look to create rules where there are none. But as you point out, this is not spiritual, this is operational. It's embarrassing, in some cases to see churches -- through "contemporary" or "alternative" services (u2charist) to recreate spirituality.

That is as I've always assumed it. In that sense, *it* exists outside of the corporal experience which goes back to the *whys* (Why am I here?). I would say that is a theology. But there's no sense in placing labels. It's a means to gaining sense and comfort with existence and a means of attaining a fullness of being.

The soul precedes/succeeds the corporal body? Does the Buddist look at others as having souls? Do they run parallel or are they part of a communal eternity?

I think his point is that it can all be boiled down to chemicals and synapses. Our sense of spirit is our internal VCR queueing up "Heaven's Gate." It just seems rather pointless to me that you can say the greatest works of art, the deepest throughts and inspirations are the product of zoological accidents, that the appreciation of the depth and development of these accidents can be pursued intellectually. That idea seems to fall in upon itself. There should be no pursuit of art because it is at its face value, accidents and false. Amen!