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Love me, leave me, pay me.
Is a ring now considered a contract?
In some regards, it already is considered a contract. In New York State, if a man gives a woman an engagement ring and the engagement later ends, the woman is legally required to return the ring if he requests in back. Now, this has been fought in the courts quite a few times, there have been times where the woman has been allowed to keep the ring, but the precendent that an engagement is a legal contract of sorts,... [more]
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at 9:54 AM on July 25, 2008
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Carlos Is an Asian at Heart
I relate so much to that Carlos kid. Like him, I was a gifted Latino kid. So gifted that, yes, people often asked me whether I was really Latino.
I'm with you on that vacapinta. My brother and I grew up in an all white community, excelled, and everyone assumed we were from Iran. The idea of a mexican being on top academically just didn't fit with the prevailing culture, from both mexicans and especially whites. Even my americanized last name was too... [more]
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at 7:30 AM on July 24, 2008
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I'm the Batman
this is why christian bale isn't getting oscar buzz and heath ledger is.
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at 12:35 PM on July 18, 2008
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"Loaded with soul...under control"
This is just a sympton of the gentrification of Manhattan. Whenever I'm in Harlem, I see tens of signs announcing the creation of advocacy groups trying to do their best to stop the encroaching middle class suburbanite who has decided that they want their NYC experience but they don't want to actually have to live in it.
But, hey, there's always the bronx, right?
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno
at 9:35 AM on July 9, 2008
WTF? Are you suggesting that these are people who live in the city and work in the suburbs? Or do you really mean that they're *really* people who've come from hick towns to work in the city -- like virtually everyone in NYC?
No. What I really mean is that the new inhabinants of Manhattan come from white, upper-middle class suburbs and expect to move to NYC, find the job of their dreams, and turn the new environment that they are living in into what... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno
at 10:50 AM on July 9, 2008
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Here he stands. He could not do otherwise. God help him.
Salus extra Christum non est is Luther's contribution to the world
Wrong. His contribution to the world is "sola fide" (faith alone) and his doctrine of justification by grace through faith. This thought alone helped push the Reformation into reality, caused the split with Rome, the 30 years war, and the religious schism and split that has influenced world history ever since he posted his 95 theses to that door of that little German church.... [more]
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at 9:10 AM on July 8, 2008
Before Luther, though, Christianity didn't seem to have the very clearly-worded "with-Christ-or-against-Christ" tenet of intolerance that is embedded in Lutheranism and its historical derivatives — particularly Baptist and other fundamentalist faiths.
It would be nice to troll you but I'm not. I'm just disagreeing with what you're saying and what you're saying is wrong.
The "with-Christ-or-against-Christ"... [more]
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at 12:14 PM on July 8, 2008
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L’shloshet yamin: “In three days you will know that evil will be defeated by justice”
So, if this article is valid at all, what it is heavily pushing is that one scholar has come to the belief that he can read what others cannot and that these phrases somehow allow give him the opportunity to say, without a doubt that, "What happens in the New Testament was adopted by Jesus and his followers based on an earlier messiah story." I don't by this one bit.
To show this, one would have to point to events where the separate traditions of the gospels... [more]
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at 10:41 AM on July 6, 2008
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Short and Scrappy
Those are costumes that you can buy at the store for Halloween. They look ridiculous because they ARE ridiculous.
But, hey, the same superheroes were recently used for a photoshoot with Lindsay Lohan.
The fact that these immigrants can send back 500 dollars a week while living in one of the most expensive cities in the nation is a pretty heroic task. They gave up their families, their homes, and their way of life to try and do "more".... [more]
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at 9:51 AM on July 3, 2008
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title
Huh. What a cool idea for a website.
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at 7:33 PM on July 2, 2008
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World's Biggest and Most Expensive Ship
I don't care how big of a ship this is; I'm still going to end having to tan sitting next to the gruesome twosome and a guy who will spend six hours trying to impress the underage girls that holding his football shaped mug full of alcohol ontop of his belly makes him very very sexy.
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno
at 1:41 PM on June 24, 2008
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Religious Groups' Official Positions on Same-Sex Marriage
I'm A-OK with any and all organizations promoting sane opinions. Here is a sane opinion: "People are equal." Here is an insane opinion: "God told me to tell you people are equal." The fact that they these two opinions have some overlap is a happy accident.
Actually your assumption that one is sane and one is insane is pretty ridiculous and destroys any sort of validity in what is or is not "sane".... [more]
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at 9:18 AM on June 24, 2008
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What's the problem with Yale?
So an egotistical self-centered ignorant prick decides to write an article blaming his EDUCATION for the reasons why he is unable to be anything but a self-centered ignorant prick. My guess is that maybe, just maybe, his education really isn't the problem here.
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at 11:03 AM on June 18, 2008
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Phony airline ads and website almost too close to reality
tzikeh, scroll up.
If they're seeing cost savings like this simply by washing the planes, discouraging overweight people from flying might actually significantly improve their profit margins. According to Northwest, every 25 pounds they remove from the planes translates to a $440000 cost savings. Even a 5% reduction in the average weight of passengers is probably worth a few million dollars to their bottom line... If airlines are talking about changing their... [more]
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at 7:36 AM on June 12, 2008
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The Amazing Race
But can the cyclist do it while reading the most recent copy of Glamour?
That's the real challenge.
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at 11:28 AM on June 3, 2008
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Tights Are Not Pants
I support this campaign. I have never seen a person wear tights in a non-ballet environment actually pull of wearing just pants.
And don't get me started on women who wear leggings as pants and then include some 1920 retro blue shoe in the mix.
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at 11:45 AM on May 31, 2008
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Too much TMI?
What a small person. Her triumphs aren't high and her sins aren't low. If she wasn't physically attractive no one would care at all.
Actually, no. No one cares about her highs and lows. No one cares about what actually motivates her life. No one really care about her average looks. If people did, people could ignore her more.
Emily Gould is gossiped about because internet dorks and nerds who feel they're above celebrity gossip still want... [more]
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at 12:54 PM on May 22, 2008
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HM The Queen v Associated Forces of Xenu
Again, the vast majority of Christians worldwide believe those are allegory and symbol.
DNAB, you're making assumptions that aren't correct. The vast majority of christians, by shear numbers, do believe in the Virgin Birth and the resurrection of Christ since the vast majority (in terms of numbers) of Christians do adhere (or claim to adhere) to the early Church councils of Nicea and the like. Origen was condemned for his extreme use of allegory and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno
at 12:00 PM on May 21, 2008
*shrug* okay, if you say so. I'll tell that to the priests I know.
some of your best friends are christians, amirite?
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at 12:04 PM on May 21, 2008
And, for the record, you don't know your Church history so well. It wasn't until around 400AD that the Church got the power to become truly nasty. In 300AD it was still a proscribed religion in Rome, though in 301 it did become legal and the persecution of Christians officially ended.
sotonohito, this isn't right. Your dates are off and there were several persecutions of Christians even after Constantine began to give it special priviledges as several... [more]
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at 7:25 AM on May 22, 2008
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Goin' to the chapel and we're / Gonna get ma-ha-harried!
Republicans, talk show hosts and 'news' outlets everywhere celebrate as Cali gives them a double edged wedge issue of gays and activist judges to go into the November presidential elections with.
6 republicans sit on the California State Supreme Court and only 1 democrat.
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno
at 11:46 AM on May 15, 2008
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Abortion as Art
Right. And that unsureness about the reason why is the focal point of this as artwork. If this bothers you (it bothers me), why? The self-examination it takes to answer that question is likely to surface beliefs about pregnancy, the rights of women, abortion, etc., that have been previously unexplored.
This kind of thinking leads to the justification of all sorts of behaviors and also helps to generalize the definition of "art" to the point... [more]
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at 10:18 AM on April 17, 2008
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The end of childhood
I'd rather a mother indoctrine their daughter with the concept of bikini waxes than rabid homophobia. In the scheme of things, I'm not sure why I should be outraged by this.
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno
at 9:43 AM on April 4, 2008
Stynxno, go get a bikini wax yourself and then report back if you think it's a good idea for children.
If the point of the article was to discuss how horrifying bikini waxes are then I might agree with you. But they're not. Instead this is just an article that illuminates that there are moms out there with the pagent girl syndrome and how teach a small subset of young girls to act and practices adult behaviors for ridiculous reasons. It's no... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno
at 9:58 AM on April 4, 2008
Well, the article gives some decent reasons for, if not being outraged, at least thinking it's a bad idea and a sign of horrifically bad parenting. skim through a page or two, see what you think of it.
No, it really doesn't. There is nothing in the article is all that interesting or enlightening. Sex and the City did an episode about this 5 years ago where all the women were happy that they had a "real childhood". When I first saw that, I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno
at 1:47 PM on April 4, 2008
I think one of the best things a parent can do is let their child become accustomed to looking average.
Oh good God no.
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno
at 1:52 PM on April 4, 2008
do you think it's bad parenting? do you think the article makes it seem like bad parenting? do you have a problem with people in this thread talking about how they think it's bad parenting? what on earth are you trying to say?
Oh, it's bad parenting. But bad parenting, in this way, is going to make me rage. I was responding, in general, to that idea (and trying to stay away from the idiots who wanted to talk waxing pubes in general). It's a matter of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Stynxno
at 2:17 PM on April 4, 2008
is going to make me rage
ISN'T going to make me rage.
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at 2:22 PM on April 4, 2008
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Vegan Strippers??
proof that veganism leads to lax morals and the destruction of our children and society.
veganism must be criminalized
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at 2:28 PM on March 27, 2008
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Sandals, socks, and dudes
Wait. People are actually defending socks with sandals? And you actually can look yourself in the mirror when you say that?
Lets face it - if you practice bad fashion sense it's because you hate your fellow man and you wish for them to suffer in the utmost from having to see you walking down the street and noticing that you care not for the world or even yourself. Looking bad is not a defensible decision - it's a decision that should be mocked and ridiculed to be as... [more]
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at 8:04 AM on March 13, 2008
Conversely, you are displaying an amazing amount of goodwill towards your fellow man.
Nothing in my comment mentions my displaying goodwill towards my fellow man. Everything in my comment is combating people's defensive nature about how they look and what they wear. Clothes do not make a person who they are but they are, for some reason, a good way to show people how defensive and complacent with mediocraity they can be. Unless you're a hermit or a... [more]
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at 8:45 AM on March 13, 2008
