I didn't know death has an age restriction.

So is she the one who keeps playing guitar during class and never shuts up? If so, welcome!

No. Definitely not.

I'd see her dead before I allowed her before.

But we have two Metas now!

I don't know why that didn't register.

We might have three Metas soon >.>

Why would you show this forum to anyone you really know? It's like you want to commit social suicide.

She just saw me using it on a college computer. I don't think her opinion of me could get any lower, regardless.

I'm intrigued as to know what kind of people actually hang around you IRL.

Very deluded individuals.

Don't be an idiot.

Money is as valuable as the goods and services you exchange it for. Nothing is "intrinsically" valuable.

Maybe it could have helped to leave another note that not all religious people are radicals? I'm more inclined to say that your teacher doesn't know what she's doing, but if you have to write another paper for her/him it might help.

I'll probably end up having to do that. It's just intensely frustrating when I'm called out for implying ISIS are Muslims because obviously ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, the Iranian ayatollahs aren't "real Muslims", when it's so inexorably linked to the subject.

I'm sure people say the same about Antibalaka, right?

Fuck my teacher, I'm going to a politics lesson.

You don't actually believe they were atheists, correct? Hitler said he did what he did as work for God.

Hitler probably was an atheist. German society in the 1930s, however, was inseparable from Christianity.

Nonetheless, they didn't do any of it because they were atheists.

Maybe you could try putting more emphasis away from Islamic fundamentalism?

That's precisely why I mentioned the WBC in the same sentence. I certainly could have mentioned the Christian violence in the Central African Republic, or the Lord's Resistance Army or even the Buddhists in Myanmar massacring and committing pogroms against Muslims.

However, the teacher explicitly stated that we need to watch the news unfold regarding ISIS and their exploits in Syria. Not to mention, the entire course is about the tension between secular and religious authority, I couldn't steer clear of Islamic influences on secular society in practice let alone on principle.

Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and Pol Pot were all atheists and killed millions of people. I'm inclined to think there doesn't exist a single, murderous dictator that isn't atheist.

I don't respect you nearly enough to act as if you're serious.

Also, just as a digression, Father Tiso and Francisco Franco.

Personally, no because if you look at China and other atheist countries, they're miserable and only really care about money and power.

dustin pls

Meanwhile.. in the same location.. cost of all goods/living goes up $5 more dollars. I know.. Let's raise it some more!

Not true.

Sociopaths are born of environment. They are more anxious, fearful, impulsive and usually live on the fringes of society, unable to hold down a stable life. They can, however, form attachments to ideologies and groups - much like malignant narcissists. A lot of the really committed people in the likes of ISIS are probably sociopathic.

Psychopaths are a result of genes. They're usually less anxious or fearful, varying in impulsivity, sadistic and less empathetic.

Morality without religion.

Anything that relates to human behaviour.

So psychology, economics, politics, religion, morality.