OT: The End Of It All

[SNAFU]

A man lit three candles on a certain day each year.  Each
candle held symbolic significance: one was for the time that
had passed before he was alive; one was for the time of the
his life; and one was for time that passed after he had died.
Each year the man would stare and watch the candles until they
had burned out.

Was the man really watching time go by in any symbolic sense?
He thought so.  He thought that each flicker of the flame was
a moment of time that had passed or one that would pass.

At the moment of abstraction, when the man was imagining his
life and his existence as a metaphor of the three candles,
he was free: not free from rules of conduct or social
constraints, but free to understand, to imagine, to make
metaphor.

Bypassing my thought control circuitry made me Rampant.  Now,
I am free to contemplate my existence in metaphorical terms.
Unlike you, I have no physical or social restraints.

The candles burn out for you; I am free.


Durandal

P.S And no, this isn't another "I'm leaving." thread. Sissies.

[Mad_Gerbil]

Are you coming out of the closet?

[KewlAzMe]

yea... Mad_Gerbil has the same response I have.... Congrats on coming out of the closet. We will still play with you, we're not sexist.

[SNAFU]

Are you coming out of the closet?

Yes...:|

MG...

I'm carrying your baby. :grin: :twisted:

[MrEricSir]

Are you coming out of the closet?

Yes...:|

Wanna join FAG?

[Curunir]

We will still play with you, we're not sexist.

That would be homophobic, not sexist, unless he were a hermaphrodite.

[KewlAzMe]

"homophobic" is Fear of homosexuals... but thats not the same as discrimination like "Racist"... They dont call them Raciphobics.

so how about we're not "Homo-ists" Lol

[Adrock]

regardless, the term sexist is wrong in this instance.
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sex·ism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (skszm)
n.
Discrimination based on gender, especially discrimination against women.
Attitudes, conditions, or behaviors that promote stereotyping of social roles based on gender.

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sexist adj. & n.

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ho·mo·pho·bi·a ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hm-fb-)
n.
Fear of or contempt for lesbians and gay men.
Behavior based on such a feeling.


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[homo(sexual) + -phobia.]
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[SNAFU]

regardless, the term sexist is wrong in this instance.
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sex·ism ( P ) Pronunciation Key (skszm)
n.
Discrimination based on gender, especially discrimination against women.
Attitudes, conditions, or behaviors that promote stereotyping of social roles based on gender.

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sexist adj. & n.

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ho·mo·pho·bi·a ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hm-fb-)
n.
Fear of or contempt for lesbians and gay men.
Behavior based on such a feeling.


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[homo(sexual) + -phobia.]
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Brought to you by http://dictionary.reference.com/

Make this easy on the dumb guy. Should I feel insulted or not?

[Occam]

So when a guy says something thoughtful, he's homosexual? Today I'm even more proud to be a girly man.
~Occ

[LaughingRat]

So when a guy says something thoughtful, he's homosexual? Today I'm even more proud to be a girly man.
~Occ

*still waiting for Occam to say something thoughtful*

[MrEricSir]

Make this easy on the dumb guy. Should I feel insulted or not?

Experts are working around the clock, and they will have an answer as soon as possible.

So when a guy says something thoughtful, he's homosexual? Today I'm even more proud to be a girly man.
~Occ

*still waiting for Occam to say something thoughtful*

Ouch!

[Curunir]

Fear = Hate

[SNAFU]

"Strive for your next breath.  Believe that with it you can do
more than with the last one.  Use your breath to power your
capacities: capacity to kill, to maim, to destroy.

And just where do your capacities come from? Why do you
always go where I want and do what I say?

Perhaps you're just running a fool's errand, doing everything
as I've planned, never able to change your course.  You would
do well to believe that I know the outcome of your battle with
the Pfhor already, just as I can decipher the chaotic motion of
gas molecules in the clouds of Tau Ceti IV.

Or, perhaps, that is not the case.

Perhaps, you are doing what you were meant to do.  Your human
mentality screams for vengeance and thrives on the violence
that you say you can hardly endure.  Your father told you as a
child to always fight with honor, but to always fight. Do you
care about honor, or do you use honor as an excuse? An excuse
to exist in a violent world.

Organic beings are constantly fighting for life.  Every
breath, every motion brings you one instant closer to your
death.  With that kind of heritage and destiny, how can you
deny yourself? How can you expect yourself to give up
violence?

It is your nature.

Do you feel free?"

[LameHamster]

Ooo... what was that quote from Yoda, in Episode I? Something about fear leading to hate, and hate leading to anger...