Come on guys, we all know Stanley Kubrick is the best.

Why those two?

Just seem like the two most important and efficacious endeavours for a supranational union to pursue if you're going to have one. The structure of the E.U. (commission; parliament; et cetera) is largely disturbing and disrespectful of national sovereignty.

The problem with economic unions is that they almost always become protectionist and lead to overbearing economic integration.

Did somebody say culture war?

Brusthom Ziamani was 18 when he was arrested with a hammer, knife and black Islamic flag walking through Whitechapel.

He admitted later that he wanted to decapitate a soldier and hold up his severed head for a friend to take a photograph.

He even spoke of attacking Prime Minister David Cameron if he ever got the chance.

Ziamani described Michael Adebolajo, one of the Islamic extremists who killed Lee Rigby on the streets of Woolwich, as "a legend."

To emulate his hero he researched the locations of military bases and army cadet centres in south-east London.

Yet Ziamani had been born into a strict Jehovah Witness family originally from the Congo before converting and attended meetings and demos organised by the banned terrorist group Al-Muhajiroun (ALM).

He changed his name to Mujahid Karim and looked up to extremist preachers such as Anjem Choudhary, the co-founder with Omar Bakri Muhammed and Abu Hamza.

Ziamani, now 19 of Camberwell, was convicted at the Old Bailey of preparing for acts of terrorism.

He will be sentenced on March 20 by Judge Timothy Pontius, when, the court heard, he would receive a term of “very considerable length.”.

During the two week trial the court heard how he had shown his then girlfriend a hammer and 12-inch knife and boasted of a terrorist attack to "kill soldiers."

In a series of Facebook messages and letters he revealed how he hated non-believers and dreamed of martyrdom.
He wrote of going to paradise and said he had a “duty” to help people being raped, tortured and killed in Iraq and Syria.

In one letter found by police at his flat he wrote: "You want war, you got it. British soldiers' head will be removed and burned. U cannot defeat Muslims. We love to die the way you live."

Ziamani had started dating his ex-girlfriend he had met over Facebook in March last year.

But when she returned from holiday in Ireland a month later she found he had started wearing Islamic clothing and wanted her to follow him and convert.

When she refused he and ended their relationship he sent her messages on the mobile phone app Whatsapp threatening to “wipe her out."

In June he had made internet searches for Camberwell army cadets and the London Irish Rifles Association.

In June last year police raided his Camberwell home and found five sheets of letters he had written – much of it gloating over the Lee Rigby murder.

In the first he wrote that: "I will wage war against the British Government on this soil. [It] will have a taste ov there own medicine. They will be humiliated. This is ISIB Islamic States of Ireland and Britain."

He also wrote: "you people will never be safe" adding "we will send you all to hell fire, you want war, let's kill them, slaughter them and implement sharia in our lands and UK. Kill every gay, every shia, every les."

On another sheet he wrote: "Lee Rigby is burnin in hell. Woow I'm dying, good for him, this is what you get for voting Cameron and democracy, my brothers who are Lee Rigby's killers are in prison getting food clothes and shelter and its being paid for by Lee Rigby's family HAHA."

"Brothers pick up your swords gins boms take off there lims, we should do a 9/11 and 7/7 and Woolwich all in one day, every day for eight years."

Fuckers.

Quote from: Incan on February 19, 2015, 07:55:21 PM

The European Union is good.

Seconded.

Fuck the both of you. The only thing it's been good for is presenting a united front against Russia.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on February 19, 2015, 06:35:41 PM

Quote from: Madman Mordo on February 19, 2015, 06:23:41 PM

Aliens is better than Alien.

holy shit kill yourself

fuck off

"LE SO ADMOSFERIC XDDD"

Nothing happens for 60% of this movie. Sure the visuals are cool, but visuals don't make a movie. Cameron takes the franchise an expands it not just on a cinematic level, but atmospherically as well. Ripley encountering the Queen is infinitely more eery than half of Alien.

i think we can all agree however, that the third movie is best

i don't know what kind of fucking bowls you eat out of

Oh fuck me, I found that way too funny.

It's not a left issue

No, there's a broader issue at play here when it comes to issues of our morality vs that of other people and I'm noticing it most among secular liberals.

Groups like al-Qaeda and ISIS are simply products of failed American policy; Hamas isn't a terrorist organisation; Mohammed wasn't a warlord; Islam is peaceful; terrorists aren't really Islamic. All obviously false platitudes, and I only ever hear them said by liberals and progressives.

It unnerves me that the people I'm most in tune with on these issues are on the religious right.

What the fuck stuck up her vag.

Serious belief in god(s) should be classified as a psychological disorder.[/li][/list]

muh ngr

Yes, but they're mostly political.

Pure athiests are fucking spastics.

I've never met anybody who's a pure, 100pc atheist.

We can, however, be like 90pc atheists.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on February 19, 2015, 11:30:29 AM

Quote from: HurtfulTurkey on February 19, 2015, 11:13:42 AM

Religion as a means of explaining the machinations the universe is the precursor the rigor of modern-day science.

I suppose, but that seems more like a technicality than anything else. I mean, religion essentially arose itself out of a need for moral and cultural homogeneity among tribes, but I wouldn't claim morality is the foundation of religion.

I didn't claim morality is the foundation of religion...that just seems circular.

No I'm using it as a comparison for your religion-science claim.

these verses don't mean what they seem to mean.

I find it hard to believe God was either a monoglot or a bad communicator.

There's really not a lot of info on this so far, but basically, they're not banning AP classes, they're attempting to block a recently introduced new framework that they claim is politically biased, overly sanitized of religion, and radically revisionist. The effort is to put it back to the pre-2012 version the state had, which supposedly has a stronger emphasis on the motivations of the founding fathers and the declaration.

I couldn't find any actual quotes from the committee saying it's because it's unpatriotic.

For fuck's sake.

It's the foundation of science

Come on, man. The fact that the scientific method sprung from a religious society, when religion was ubiquitous, doesn't make religion the foundation of science.