Please justify to me that how this photo could be construed as anything other than a cry for help. Perhaps it is a kind of performance art. My 6 year old has a better understanding of composition and aesthetics. This poor women looks as though she's about to lay a deuce.
You are among friends. Grade 4, Elmer's glue, dry on palm and peel...... heaven.
I'm sorry to hear about your Ouma's diagnoses. The silver lining is good people and science. I found it hard to watch as well, and very touching.
Yes, that seems to be the concensus. I truly hope they are able to aclimate and thrive in a more open enviroment.
As I tell my children when they express concern about the ghost in the corner, or the monster in the closet; humanity has had thousands of years to come up with proof for their supernatural claims. Zip, zilch, nada. Every single claim from ignorance has been supplanted by a comprehensible scientific explanation. The…
Sorry, I didn't mean to be a dick about it.....
I absolutely agree with you about the likelihood that controls were an issue in regards to the chimps. It could be argued that conditions were a necessary evil to avoid contaminating the results. I nonetheless feel compassion for them, and admit to a somewhat visceral reaction. No, I am not arguing that this specific…
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Well, I'm definitively not in the PETA category. Chimps ARE our closest living relatives in evolutionary terms. In some sense, I believe we are more or less related to every living creature. It seems to me that when a society tolerates the abuse of animals, there is a direct correlation to the level of enforced civil…
What a pathetic way to treat our closest living relatives. It seems absolutely clear to me that these are sentient creatures, and it breaks my heart to imagine the psychological trauma visited upon these chimps. In anticipation of those who will decry my sympathy for my simian cousins in favor of homo-sapiens; yes, I…
That was absolutely beautiful. Hearted.
An atheists nightmare....The Banana - "Notice it has a point at the top for easy entry. It's just the right shape for the human mouth... and it's even curved toward the face to make the whole process so much easier." I'm not sure what he's getting at, but I wouldn't necessarily consider it a 'nightmare', so much as a…
Someone took the idea of a hooter shooter too seriously. I bet they felt like a real boob afterwards.
Rape: a physical invasion of a sexual nature committed on a person under circumstances which are coercive. You might argue that as a male, Jason may be affected in ways different than the average female, but this does not change the fact that he was raped. It is not OK to to suggest that males are open to…
Very elucidating. Thank-you for your explanation.
I believe that with Avatar, humans were actually looking for other inhabitable planets for exploration and scientific purposes, and got side lined with the so-called Unobtainium. Humans initial reasons for traveling to this planet, as well as their subsequent mining operations seems logically consistent. The aliens…
Her character's focus is on her faith. Her faith in God. Her faith in Jesus. What prejudice is betrayed by referring to her as the Christian girl? She is in fact, emphatically portrayed as one of the few people who has not had their faith shaken. Ethnicity, by contrast is much more a matter of birth right and genetic…
I do acknowledge that the issue is complicated, and perhaps more nuanced then some would care to admit. I simply cannot accept the simple mentality of 'guns don't kill people....'. The idea that 'the good responsible people' need to arm themselves as a counter measure to the unstable elements of society seems to be a…
Now that you mention it, guns are wonderful. They are not made with the express purpose of killing and wounding animals and people. We should all put a loaded gun on our table with safety off, and see what happens. Whatever happens, I agree that it won't be the guns fault. It will be the prick who purchased it.…
