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Messages - Ginger
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« on: September 18, 2016, 10:03:42 AM »
Sure, I'll see what I have to trade in a few minutes
Alright, just post your FC. I will be on for a while.
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« on: September 18, 2016, 09:42:12 AM »
Does anyone want a 5 perfect IV Scyther with Adamant nature and Technician ability? I have a about 15 of them.
My FC: 1247-0005-6404
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« on: August 19, 2016, 09:27:22 AM »
I read 'of' as 'or' anyway because 'of' is the Dutch word for 'or'. Go you.
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« on: July 02, 2016, 01:35:03 PM »
Mine is tomorrow, and you will be there.
Either way, less than 35 of the 200 students in my program are graduating tomorrow. Good thing it is a combined ceremony.
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« on: June 25, 2016, 01:42:40 PM »
Probably worth noting that this doesn't really look like a plan for a European Army, per se, but just more integrated battlegroups.
The battle groups aren't legally binding. A Member State can just say, 'nah, not gonna contribute', and the EU will say, '  k.'
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« on: June 25, 2016, 01:39:31 PM »
That entire article seems...factually incorrect.
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« on: June 25, 2016, 01:31:15 PM »
Joking of course, I'm aware the education systems are completely different.
50% still seems like a strange threshold for passing though.
Like if you're a waiter, and you only get half your orders right, or your a lawyer and only win half your cases, that's pretty bad
I think it makes sense. 51% is more than half, therefore a sufficient amount. It's not a good grade, but it's a pass. All depends on the difficulty of the courses of course. A friend of mine is a civil engineer who managed to graduate with a 67% average here. He then spent a semester of his second Master's in the US and graduated with a 98% at one of the best 20 engineering universities in America, saying he breezed through it all with little to no issues and hardly any studying. You should ask Ginger about it. A 60% pass in some of the classes in her program is probably comparable to an A or 90% back in her American university.
But I can see how it could be considered strange, yeah.
He is right. I breezed through the American university system. When I got here, I was told that what I achieved in the US was great, but don't expect perfection or near perfection here. The 19-20 grade range is for students who have achieved an unheard of expertise in a subject. On exams here, it isn't enough to know the right answer, but you must be able to analytically assess why an answer is right. So technically, it is possible to have the right answer with a poor explanation be award less points than an impressive explanation with the wrong conclusion. While this may be similar in some American universities, my university experience showed that most questions had one right answer with only one correct line of reasoning (barring certain subjects like Philosophy and stuff). Oh, and multiple choice exams...LOL, what are those? They are incredibly rare, and if you do get one, pray you know the answers because not only to you get no points for not answering a question, but you receive negative points for answering a question incorrectly.
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« on: June 22, 2016, 05:58:45 AM »
I think I'm the only one who has never made an alt
I have also never made an alt, although, Challenger jokingly refers to my account as Flee's alt.
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« on: June 18, 2016, 09:59:15 AM »
meep
You told me about an anime and I actually enjoyed it. Your one of the good weebs
I don't know you, and I don't post much. Wow me pumpkin!
good taste in men, very nice when you do post
Aw.  Thanks!
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« on: June 18, 2016, 09:55:49 AM »
I don't know you, and I don't post much. Wow me pumpkin!
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« on: June 18, 2016, 09:32:46 AM »
Islam, as with many 'religions', has played a crucial role in the development of 'modern' society. I am using '...', as the definition of religion is not uniform, and because I have been taught that the term 'modern' and 'religion' are often proposed in opposite relations, which may not be entirely true. If you view all religion in its fundamental form, then you may be inclined to attribute devotion to a particular faith as being archaic or 'not modern'.
In their fundamental form, I think that all religions are pretty bad. Islam included. As Psy points out, I disagree with some of their beliefs and positions. However, Islam, similar to Roman Catholicism and many Orthodox churches, highlights the importance of community, which is less important in the Protestant religious structure as it has become more individualized. This is a position I support.
What religion has done/continues to do for the world is quite interesting. Its influence is so far reaching, that the notion of 'separation of church and state', to me, is silly, even in 'modern' developed countries. But yeah, I personally do not support any religion nor hold any religious affiliation, but I do believe it is still relevant today and has an important position in our 'modern' age.
Relevant and important how?
As the foundation of many cultural identities, the building blocks to certain legal and political systems, arguably the foundation of morals (that is debatable, of course). Many religious institutions (in Europe) play a particular social role still in welfare, education, and even run certain institutions (adoption agencies, prisons, etc). Certain religions, religious institutions (whatever you choose to call them) also worked for certain rights and against 'oppressive' government regimes (depends on what one considers oppressive of course). Some examples off the top of my head would be labor rights, combating government centralization, supporting the idea of a 'right to property'. Religion is historically significant and is more than just faith or belief. That is how, I believe, it still holds relevance and importance.
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« on: June 18, 2016, 07:32:57 AM »
There are a few reason:
1. It is expensive
2. It isn't entirely necessary (in that the presumed benefits do not outweigh the presumed cost)
3. Automotive industry would literally defecate bricks (they are pretty big lobbyist)
4. Airlines would men/manstruate all over the place
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« on: June 18, 2016, 07:22:18 AM »
Islam, as with many 'religions', has played a crucial role in the development of 'modern' society. I am using '...', as the definition of religion is not uniform, and because I have been taught that the term 'modern' and 'religion' are often proposed in opposite relations, which may not be entirely true. If you view all religion in its fundamental form, then you may be inclined to attribute devotion to a particular faith as being archaic or 'not modern'.
In their fundamental form, I think that all religions are pretty bad. Islam included. As Psy points out, I disagree with some of their beliefs and positions. However, Islam, similar to Roman Catholicism and many Orthodox churches, highlights the importance of community, which is less important in the Protestant religious structure as it has become more individualized. This is a position I support.
What religion has done/continues to do for the world is quite interesting. Its influence is so far reaching, that the notion of 'separation of church and state', to me, is silly, even in 'modern' developed countries. But yeah, I personally do not support any religion nor hold any religious affiliation, but I do believe it is still relevant today and has an important position in our 'modern' age.
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« on: June 17, 2016, 12:52:15 PM »
Bang Dietrich.
This is surprising.
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« on: June 17, 2016, 12:51:44 PM »
Bang Flee.
gross
Don't knock it 'til you try it, pumpkin.
you can't have sex until your married
Your Pillowpants must be a feisty little devil.
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« on: June 17, 2016, 12:37:12 PM »
Bang Flee.
gross
Don't knock it 'til you try it, pumpkin.
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« on: June 17, 2016, 12:15:15 PM »
Bang Flee.
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« on: June 17, 2016, 12:13:27 PM »
You're so gay
I just want to have a normal sex life and normal penis. Before I was begging to have sex in my life, now I just want my penis to be normal.
Have you gone to the doctor? Just be like, "fix my dick pl0x".
Yes, I saw a urologist last month and going again next week. I know there isn't anything they can do to revert it. Circumcision is an option but I'm not doing that ever. I just have a foreskin that can pull down lower than most guys now. How that is going to affect sex, I don't know.
They could probably refer you to a plastic surgeon if there is a serious problem.
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« on: June 17, 2016, 11:10:05 AM »
You're so gay
I just want to have a normal sex life and normal penis. Before I was begging to have sex in my life, now I just want my penis to be normal.
Have you gone to the doctor? Just be like, "fix my dick pl0x".
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« on: June 13, 2016, 05:49:34 AM »
That is a rather broad statement. It is difficult to delimit the notion of religion, let alone what constitutes a person as "religious". Are you talking about personal beliefs? Beliefs that align with a particular religion? Affiliation with a particular church or denomination? Participation in certain practices and rituals? What about spirituality? "Religiousness" and "religiosity" are subjective as they are based on your own understanding of what religion is, which, in essence, is influenced by your cultural upbringing, which, inherently, includes the religious principles rooted in society and the history of the nation/province/city/town you are from.
So before one can actually have this discussion, please find me a definition of religion that can properly incorporate the dimensions of religion on both a substantive and functional basis.
I'd say, any medium through which you defer in the pursuit of knowledge (e.g. God, nature, science, empiricism, etc.)
Deference being the keyword. Having a sycophantic or dogmatic attitude towards that which you consider the arbiter of the truth and meaning of reality, and censuring anything else that could attempt to explain the truth in its own way, is religious behavior, with or without a god. It is to claim that x medium is the One True God; everything else is a false idol.
In this sense, this new throng of individuals on the Internet, who cling to notions of science and empiricism, yet resentfully shut down anything else, are ironically more religious than those who claim to follow an actual religion in the more classical sense (e.g. belief in a god, sacraments, rituals, church-going, gay-bashing, etc)--because at least you can have a dialogue with a Christian about the existence of their god.
Can you have a dialogue with an r/atheist about religion? Not without them rejecting it immediately and ridiculing the very notion of it, you can't. They'll claim vehemently that there is no god, and simultaneously position science as the only path to true knowledge. This is religious behavior. Of course, this doesn't apply to all atheists, but even agnostics can have an unctuously religious devotion to things like science and nature--especially nature.
The general theory is to have an open, vigilant mind, taking care not to develop a sense of piety or devotion to anything.
I like your assessment.
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« on: June 13, 2016, 01:14:23 AM »
That is a rather broad statement. It is difficult to delimit the notion of religion, let alone what constitutes a person as "religious". Are you talking about personal beliefs? Beliefs that align with a particular religion? Affiliation with a particular church or denomination? Participation in certain practices and rituals? What about spirituality? "Religiousness" and "religiosity" are subjective as they are based on your own understanding of what religion is, which, in essence, is influenced by your cultural upbringing, which, inherently, includes the religious principles rooted in society and the history of the nation/province/city/town you are from.
So before one can actually have this discussion, please find me a definition of religion that can properly incorporate the dimensions of religion on both a substantive and functional basis.
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« on: June 10, 2016, 02:16:51 PM »
I don't understand why people don't abstain from the vote. Go register, and if you don't agree with either of the choices, abstain.
People say abstaining is retarded, but it's far better alternative to voting for your polar opposite. At least if there's a majority of abstentions, it shows the parties that frankly, the public don't like either of them and need to get their act together.
Not voting is lazy, emotionally charged voting/spite-voting is retarded; Abstaining shows you are unhappy with the system, and want a new one.
I do not vote. I am not even registered to vote. I chose to never register because I disagree with the two-party system. I thought that was a pretty good option. My not-voting isn't out of laziness, but as a matter of opposition to the current system. If someone is registered to vote already, then I agree with abstaining.
Wouldn't making your voice heard be more effective if you voted Libertarian in the year they probably have the biggest chance to make an impact? Hearing what Das said about it was pretty powerful.
The problem is that I don't think the system actually works for the people, and I no longer follow American politics enough to make an educated assessment. It really is a non-issue as of this point since I no longer reside in the US, but when I gain citizenship here, I will have to vote.
You see the American system as bad but you think it's better in Belgium?
It has more party options than the American system. But again, I don't follow Belgian politics either, so making an assessment of better or worse would be baseless. Voting is mandatory in Belgium, so when I become a citizen, I will have to participate. When that time nears, I will become more well versed in the political system here. At that point, I will give you my assessment, so...give or take 5 years.
Most Americans seem to have this romanticized view of democracy in Europe, that's why I asked.
There's really only 2 parties that are worth voting for in most every country. Not sure about Belgium because politicos here is a shitshow.
Things are a bit different over here. It is illegal to make donations to political campaigns and stuff in Belgium, which is totes different from the US. I'm not sure how it works elsewhere, so I don't know much more about thesystem than that.
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« on: June 10, 2016, 02:13:03 PM »
I don't understand why people don't abstain from the vote. Go register, and if you don't agree with either of the choices, abstain.
People say abstaining is retarded, but it's far better alternative to voting for your polar opposite. At least if there's a majority of abstentions, it shows the parties that frankly, the public don't like either of them and need to get their act together.
Not voting is lazy, emotionally charged voting/spite-voting is retarded; Abstaining shows you are unhappy with the system, and want a new one.
I do not vote. I am not even registered to vote. I chose to never register because I disagree with the two-party system. I thought that was a pretty good option. My not-voting isn't out of laziness, but as a matter of opposition to the current system. If someone is registered to vote already, then I agree with abstaining.
Wouldn't making your voice heard be more effective if you voted Libertarian in the year they probably have the biggest chance to make an impact? Hearing what Das said about it was pretty powerful.
The problem is that I don't think the system actually works for the people, and I no longer follow American politics enough to make an educated assessment. It really is a non-issue as of this point since I no longer reside in the US, but when I gain citizenship here, I will have to vote.
You see the American system as bad but you think it's better in Belgium?
It has more party options than the American system. But again, I don't follow Belgian politics either, so making an assessment of better or worse would be baseless. Voting is mandatory in Belgium, so when I become a citizen, I will have to participate. When that time nears, I will become more well versed in the political system here. At that point, I will give you my assessment, so...give or take 5 years.
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« on: June 10, 2016, 01:14:37 PM »
I don't understand why people don't abstain from the vote. Go register, and if you don't agree with either of the choices, abstain.
People say abstaining is retarded, but it's far better alternative to voting for your polar opposite. At least if there's a majority of abstentions, it shows the parties that frankly, the public don't like either of them and need to get their act together.
Not voting is lazy, emotionally charged voting/spite-voting is retarded; Abstaining shows you are unhappy with the system, and want a new one.
I do not vote. I am not even registered to vote. I chose to never register because I disagree with the two-party system. I thought that was a pretty good option. My not-voting isn't out of laziness, but as a matter of opposition to the current system. If someone is registered to vote already, then I agree with abstaining.
Wouldn't making your voice heard be more effective if you voted Libertarian in the year they probably have the biggest chance to make an impact? Hearing what Das said about it was pretty powerful.
The problem is that I don't think the system actually works for the people, and I no longer follow American politics enough to make an educated assessment. It really is a non-issue as of this point since I no longer reside in the US, but when I gain citizenship here, I will have to vote.
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« on: June 10, 2016, 10:43:27 AM »
I don't understand why people don't abstain from the vote. Go register, and if you don't agree with either of the choices, abstain.
People say abstaining is retarded, but it's far better alternative to voting for your polar opposite. At least if there's a majority of abstentions, it shows the parties that frankly, the public don't like either of them and need to get their act together.
Not voting is lazy, emotionally charged voting/spite-voting is retarded; Abstaining shows you are unhappy with the system, and want a new one.
I do not vote. I am not even registered to vote. I chose to never register because I disagree with the two-party system. I thought that was a pretty good option. My not-voting isn't out of laziness, but as a matter of opposition to the current system. If someone is registered to vote already, then I agree with abstaining.
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« on: June 10, 2016, 03:18:01 AM »
I thought you were for the death penalty. My mistake. I never once was referring to the enemy combatants things, but okay, I do not really know how I feel about it. Drones, I'm not too keen on, but sending in special teams and stuff, that, to me, is different.
And we can't really have a discussion about this when your personal belief that there is no such thing as a right to privacy means that the international charters that list privacy as a fundamental right are "bogus". The fact, and this is a fact based on actual evidence, is that 'privacy' is held as a right which is protected by certain courts. I get it, you are saying that there is no such thing as true privacy thus there is no right to it, but that is NOT what we are talking about. We are talking about the existence of governments/institutions/laws that PROTECT the right to privacy. These certainly do exist. They are not unicorns that are talked about but never seen. You are trying to argue a philosophical point which is a different topic all together.
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« on: June 09, 2016, 03:21:42 PM »
The constitutional courts of certain countries do, in fact, uphold the right to privacy. The ECJ, in matters that fall into the scope of Union law, also uphold those rights.
Your delimitation of the notion of privacy seems very narrow and is contrary to the basic point that the U.S. does not value certain human rights as highly as other countries.
Apart from the controversy concerning enemy combatants, what are these human rights America "does not value as high as others"?
Last I looked you can be jailed in several European countries for """anti semitic"""" views and other things deemed as """hate speech""".
Well, I already mentioned privacy and protection of personal data, which are considered fundamental rights in the EU. Of course, there is the whole no death penalty throughout the EU as well, but you don't think people have the right to life after committing a heinous crime. I'm not an expert in this field, but some of this is just a matter of personal perspective. You say that privacy doesn't exist, I say it does to a certain extent. You think certain bad guys should be put down, I don't agree. I'm fine with your personal stance, but two of those examples I have given about two or three times now and you keep ignoring them. So yeah. There are the examples. I am pretty sure what you said about the hate speech stuff is true, but again, I am not 100% sure. You have to remember that the history of Europe is pretty darn different than that of the US, and those actions and memories have lingered to influence the current political and legal culture of European countries. Have a good day!
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« on: June 09, 2016, 11:59:40 AM »
The constitutional courts of certain countries do, in fact, uphold the right to privacy. The ECJ, in matters that fall into the scope of Union law, also uphold those rights.
Your delimitation of the notion of privacy seems very narrow and is contrary to the basic point that the U.S. does not value certain human rights as highly as other countries.
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« on: June 09, 2016, 05:02:54 AM »
As far as the conspiracy theory goes, I wouldn't say the rest of the world was in on it, but that's a whole separate mess I'd rather not get involved with. You cannot ignore that aspect of it if you want to really review all of the facts. It is not a separate mess, but one that is linked to the main mess. That is all I have to say. <3 you Deci 
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« on: June 09, 2016, 04:47:45 AM »
And you don't need to completely disregard the conspiracy theory, but you do need to put it into its proper context: as a conspiracy theory. Believing it was a conspiracy is tantamount to also assuming the rest of the world was in on it, which is just wrong. If you look at the measures the rest of the world went to to bring the accused to justice, you couldn't possibly believe it was a conspiracy.
You may not want to argue, but when you post what you did, you have to foresee the repercussions and accept that a discussion will occur.
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