caze
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1 billion cookies in 2 hours, 240k/sec right now
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fuck you usagi. I can't stop.
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Timothy Leary was a 'vicious asshole' too:
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i really liked this one. ;) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3021360/ thanks for the tip, great little film. leland orser was great. "lick my face", lol. would join her cult, 10/10.
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http://www.theonion.com/article/only-news-source-man-trusts-has-logo-eyeball-cross-53106
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The only special equipment you need is a decent pizza stone, or some cast iron, or a pizza steel if you can afford it. You can't fully recreate an authentic neapolitan style pizza, but you can do a passable imitation (certainly better than chain-takeaway style or frozen pizza). You can recreate a proper sourdough one if you're willing to put in the time, but a basic packaged-yeast recipe is fine as well. The key to the whole thing is getting enough heat, I managed to get it down to around 4 mins cooking time once, which is pretty impressive for a domestic oven (using a pizza stone above the cast iron it's cooking on). The next most important thing is quality ingredients, obviously that's not a problem either as long as you put the effort in.
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no doubt.. turned out fine though, success... i wonder why frozen pizza is never as good as non frozen, small pizza shop stuff. i mean, they should be getting close nowadays to a perfect frozen pizza. frozen pizza is disgusting. this shouldn't be surprising, a proper pizza is made by hand with quality ingredients and cooked in as little as 1 minute (if it's a proper pizza oven, over 400 degrees C, wood fired preferably imparting its own unique flavour). a frozen pizza is made on an assembly line with shitty ingredients and silly amounts of salt and sugar to attempt to impart some flavor into it, par cooked in a shitty industrial oven, topped with low quality toppings, frozen, and then slowly reheated for 10-20 mins in a shitty conventional oven. how on earth would you expect this to ever taste anything like a proper pizza? it's relatively easy to make halfway decent pizza at home though, far better than any shitty takeaway or frozen nonsense. just takes a little practice. I'm not immune from ordering a domino's though occasionally, always end up regretting it afterwards though, the amount of salt and sugar they put in there makes it the food equivalent of crack.
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https://newrepublic.com/article/134311/orlando-exposed-islams-huge-homophobia-problem
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That's some nice whataboutery. I'm not a fan of other forms of homophobia either. No they don't, they just show there's no evidence yet that he had any contacts or direct support (he did know the american suicide bomber who killed himself in Syria). He clearly has ideological links. Terrorists don't need direct support anyway, having isolated cells is the whole point with modern terrorism. No I haven't, that's what you keep attempting to make it look like I'm doing to straw-man me. The different forms of Islam are obviously not equal, and some are clearly objectively better than others - given the effect they have on the rest of the world, they are all forms of Islam though. No it doesn't. Because I support them whenever they do it, unlike many on the left who claim that such people are traitors, native informants, etc. That's the kind of thinking that allows idiotic Trump ideas enter into the mainstream. No it's not, you've just ignored everything I said and repeated what you said before. Religion as a political force is separate to religion as a form of social control, both are bad, both are present within Islam today in worrying ways.
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I wouldn't call anything Trump says 'critical commentary', 'bigoted rambling' would be a better phrase.
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I'm not talking about ISIS, al-qaeda say ISIS doesn't represent their version of Islam either, it means nothing. This attack (or at least the choice of venue) was primarily motivated by homophobia by the looks of things (possibly exacerbated by the conflicts created by his own homosexuality - if that turns out to be true), and you can't really argue that homophobia isn't the default position in mainstream Islam, it's not just in the fringes. He was also obviously motivated by the militant islamist ideology to some degree as well, how deeply integrated he was into that world isn't really known at this point though other than he had made statements in support of them in the past and looked up islamist stuff online a lot over the last few years. They are the outsiders in that example though, ISIS are the only ones who can speak for their form of Islam, there is nothing un-Islamic about them, they just disagree with mainstream interpretation of the texts, their version is still based on the texts though, it's still a valid reading of them in as much as any reading of them is valid (all readings of religious text are nonsense IMHO), and from the outside we can categorise which ones are more damaging to the outside world, but we can't say which ones are or are not 'authentic'. No, it goes far beyond political control, it's about controlling morality, social norms, sexuality, etc. This takes place not through political means, but through social conditioning enforced via schools, religious groups, familial structures, etc. Of course that just gets worse with Islamism (or any Theocracy), where all that becomes the force of law.
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Religion is generally defined by the majority of the leaders of the religion, and the people practicing it. So just like a Christian fundamentalist doesn't represent Christianity as it is currently practiced, neither do fundamentalist Muslims represent Islam as it is currently practiced. Christian fundamentalists represent Christianity as they currently practice it, non-fundamentalist Christians represent Christianity as they currently practice it. You really don't seem to get a very simple point that it's not up to outsiders to define what religious people do or don't represent or believe, they do that themselves. The majority of Muslims worldwide represent Islam in all it's conservative, misogynist and homophobic glory, they represent themselves when they do this, the minority today who take an even more backward literalist approach (Deobandis and Salafists) represent Islam as they practice and understand it, the progressive Muslim minority who do neither of those things represent their own interpretation of Islam in their own way; all three groups are Muslims (and there are many more groups besides). fixed that for you.
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Not sure if you're just hugely ignorant about this stuff at this point, or if you're just trolling.
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^ great movie
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amazing i liked the bit where he destroy's the earth
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What if I killed someone right now and called 911 and said it was out of allegiance to ISIS? Would that make me an islamic extremist? Seeing as you're not a muslim it would be unlikely, if you were to convert and killed him due to some religious justification, then you would be. He was a muslim though, and did something pretty extreme, at least in part (possibly largely) because of his religious beliefs, so yes, I think it's pretty fair to say he was an Islamic extremist.
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Interesting to note that she seems pretty convinced he was coordinating the attack with somebody else, talking in arabic to someone else, or maybe he was on the phone to the police again after the first instance she talks about (where he plegged allegiance to ISIS)? He could also have been just so demented that he was talking to himself of course, but interesting none the less.
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Hilarious, you can't be serious with this. No-one is trying to silence criticism of Islam??!?!? The first thing that happens when anyone attempts to offer even the tamest criticism of Islam is that conservative Islamic groups cry Islamophobia, quickly followed by the useful idiots of the left backing them up, both groups are attempting to shame people into silence with slanderous claims of bigotry. More nonsense, we've been over this before, you were as wrong then as you are now. If a christian fundamentalist bombs an abortion clinic then that act of terrorism is linked with christianity, quite clearly. Okay, well now we're all having interpretation issues here. I think no one's on the same page haha So, the link between terrorist acts in the name of religion are there on a fundamental level (of course).. As in some crazy extremist found a violent verse in his holy text, and took it literally and acted upon it. So yes- a link in that literal sense- but on a higher more abstract level- in terms of legitimate societal link, different story. "Link" is more murky, but then again the subject is really murky too. Apples example, I used earlier- A rotten apple doesn't dilute all apples, nor does identifying a rotten apple as a rotten apple make any kind of political statement on apples as a whole. Of course, if one just referred to a rotten apple as "an apple" and nothing more, it might not necessarily be fair, or telling the full story. Context. That rotten apple is still an apple of course, but it wouldn't quite do justice to all apples to not use the term rotten. At the same time, calling it just a "rotten" or putting it into another category of fruits entirely might be pleasing for other apples who aren't rotten, but it's not truthful, nor is it helpful in identifying the issue. Hence rotten apple is the most logical and sound way to describe what it in fact is- a rotten apple. yes but pointing out a link to Islam, or Christianity, or any other ideology, doesn't automatically taint others who follow those ideologies in different non-problematic ways. that's just projection on the part of the religious apologist. there is no true/single/pure version of any religion, and religion isn't defined by some subset of beliefs westerners or any other group find acceptable, it's defined by the beliefs and practices of the people who identify themselves with that religion, often in contradictory ways.
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Hilarious, you can't be serious with this. No-one is trying to silence criticism of Islam??!?!? The first thing that happens when anyone attempts to offer even the tamest criticism of Islam is that conservative Islamic groups cry Islamophobia, quickly followed by the useful idiots of the left backing them up, both groups are attempting to shame people into silence with slanderous claims of bigotry. More nonsense, we've been over this before, you were as wrong then as you are now. If a christian fundamentalist bombs an abortion clinic then that act of terrorism is linked with christianity, quite clearly. You can read accounts criticizing islam all over the net, and in all the mainstream media. No one with any power is trying to silence criticism of Islam, and no one here is either. I wasn't wrong then, and I'm not wrong now (solid argument by the way). No it's not, it's the act of a deranged individual who has warped the core tenets of Christianity to fit his world view and to justify his actions. Silencing criticism doesn't mean the government arresting someone and putting them in a reeducation camp, you're in serious denial here. You were wrong then, and you are wrong now, and that isn't my argument, my argument was presented back when we had it before. Yes it is, one of the core tenets of Christianity is that the life begins at the moment of conception, so from that point of view abortion is clearly murder (this isn't open to discussion, that's the logical consequence of that belief), this tenet isn't being twisted in any way, this person's worldview is a profoundly Christian worldview. Sure they'd have to violate some other tenet of the religion to kill another person because of this, but religion is never internally consistent so it doesn't really require twisting things to end up where such a person would end up, it just takes a certain reading to arrive at there. Just as the readings literalist Muslims give to their scripture are perfectly valid from their point of view, clearly justifying their severe homophobia, misogyny, and bigotry.
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Hilarious, you can't be serious with this. No-one is trying to silence criticism of Islam??!?!? The first thing that happens when anyone attempts to offer even the tamest criticism of Islam is that conservative Islamic groups cry Islamophobia, quickly followed by the useful idiots of the left backing them up, both groups are attempting to shame people into silence with slanderous claims of bigotry. More nonsense, we've been over this before, you were as wrong then as you are now. If a christian fundamentalist bombs an abortion clinic then that act of terrorism is linked with christianity, quite clearly.
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Radical Islamism (or Jihadism or Militant Islamism) is a more accurate term, plain Islamism doesn't imply anything about terrorism or violence in general, it just means the imposition of the religion of Islam through political means, the other 'modifier' terms mean the end state of political Islam is achieved through violent means (not necessarily terrorism, but it's usually part and parcel). The problem is greater than simply Islamism though, mainstream conservative Islam is inherently homophobic, and combining that with an American society which has it's own problems with homophobia, gun control, and mental health, isn't likely to lead to good outcomes. So broadly speaking, Islam in general has a lot of work to do to reform it's mainstream positions if it wants to get along with a western society that has been forced to do much reforming itself in recent decades (and still has a way to go). Failure to reform will only help more extreme forms to prosper at the fringes.
