If all your friends jumped off a cliff ...
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If you were in a small minority - what would you publicly stand up for?
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Originally posted by rue:
If you were in a small minority - what would you publicly stand up for?
Keeping in mind that there are no small issues, only small people here's my top 5 issues I support that most folk don't:
1. Hot lesbian rights. Can't say I generally support the gay agenda...but I do support the hot lesbian agenda.
2. State funded 2nd Amendment education. I see a world where a kid gets a diploma with one hand and a shotgun with the other.
3. Lemon use restrictions. Lemons should not be used for things like flavoring for tea, fish, or as pudding or in pie. We should have strict control over products and services lemons can be used for...like lemonade, nothing wrong with lemonade, but lemon wedges in water...thats so wrong.
4. Limited state-sanctioned slavery (or perhaps a draft of some kind) for certain actors, writers, directors. For example, Robert Jordan is way behind in finishing up the Wheel of Time series. I say he should be locked up with a computer and forced to finish it. Joss should be chained to a movie set to make Serenity sequels, made for TV Buffy movies, etc.
5. People who don't vote every year should lose that right. They can get it back, but they should have to earn it...
There, my agenda. Think I can be President?
Also, if all your friends jumped off a cliff you might be so distraught that you could conceivably follow them out of grief, not peer pressure.
H
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Originally posted by Hero:Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
If you were in a small minority - what would you publicly stand up for?
1. Hot lesbian rights. Can't say I generally support the gay agenda...but I do support the hot lesbian agenda.
Uh...
Honestly, I can't say that I'd like to see anyone suffering with severe fever. As such, I have to be against hot lesbians.
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Originally posted by Hero:
2. State funded 2nd Amendment education. I see a world where a kid gets a diploma with one hand and a shotgun with the other.
I'm seriously hoping you mean a college diploma/degree, as I would certainly not endorse distributing anything larger than moderate-calibre handguns to high school graduates. (Naturally, post grads would thus qualify for artillery, etc.)
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Originally posted by Hero:
3. Lemon use restrictions. Lemons should not be used for things like flavoring for tea, fish, or as pudding or in pie. We should have strict control over products and services lemons can be used for...like lemonade, nothing wrong with lemonade, but lemon wedges in water...thats so wrong.
Ahh. Good idea, but someone has already beaten you to it. While I'm not certain how strictly they may be enforced, several states (including mine) already have lemon laws on the books.
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Originally posted by Hero:
4. Limited state-sanctioned slavery (or perhaps a draft of some kind) for certain actors, writers, directors. For example, Robert Jordan is way behind in finishing up the Wheel of Time series. I say he should be locked up with a computer and forced to finish it. Joss should be chained to a movie set to make Serenity sequels, made for TV Buffy movies, etc.
I have to whole-heartedly disagree with this one.
Art cannot be forced.
While the "artistic" community does tend to draw individuals mainly of a -- (wince) -- liberal background (often fully overlooking persons with a conservative bent) it would be unfair to conscript individuals in an attempt to force their participation in such a manner. As should be painfully obvious, whenever one attempts to force art they get -- uh -- well, most of what we find on TV, in literature and the cinemas these days. As such, I have to continue to support a strictly voluntarily involvement in the arts.
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Originally posted by Hero:
5. People who don't vote every year should lose that right. They can get it back, but they should have to earn it...
"Earn it"??? Uh, do you mean by proving competency?
Again, I'm afraid I have to protest. If we demanded an educated citizenry to vote, well -- the Democrats would all lose their jobs, and we know how disasterous that would be.
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Originally posted by Hero:
There, my agenda. Think I can be President?
Probably not. The liberal media have no sense of humor, and would undoubtedly quote the above facetious passages as evidence of severe mental derangement.
Although, to be called "deranged" by a liberal should (at least in my book) be carried as a badge of honor. For the record, as related to the initial query by Rue, I'd first want to know what induced my friends to jump off a cliff. They might've had a good reason (like the people in the second Jurassic Park film -- where they were being chased by two Tyrannosaurus).
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Quote:I'm so sorry Rue, it looks like your thread has been defiled by two trolls.
Originally posted by rue:
If you were in a small minority - what would you publicly stand up for?
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
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It's wandering slightly off the point but... isn't there a Russian movie about a bunch of writers locked in a room until they finish writing a movie about how wonderful Russia is? If I remember correctly it was all pretty much written from the writers' personal experiences. In fact, I think they were locked in the room when they wrote it! And managed to turn it into a movie about how wonderful Russia is. Somehow.
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I know, this is meant to be a possibly serious discussion, but I have always wanted to answer that question, and I have had years to develop it, and now I have the chance to post them. Sorry.
The people I call friends are not given to lemming-like behavior. If they did all choose to jump off a cliff, there would be a comelling reason they did so. I would be forced to evaluate this reason and would probably end up following them.
Ok, so maybe it's not the best in the world....
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I am already in a small minority, publically standing up for things very few people support. In fact, I am so anti-lemming some people (ahem) have accused me of being pathologically antiestablishment or being a wacko conspiracy theorist or whatever. My list is long, but here are some that come to mind.
1. Libertarianism and individual sovereignty. End all income tax, all govt regulation, all foreign aid and interference, etc.
2. Vaccine choice and exemptions from mandatory vaccinations. Let people decide if they want to vaccinate their kids without negative consequences.
3. Homeschooling rights. End or minimize govt regulation on homeschooling.
4. Homebirthing rights. End legal persecution of homebirthing professionals and accord homebirths the same standard for "acts of God" as hospital births.
5. The real 9/11 story. Conduct a credible investigation on what happened around and on 9/11.
Really, it all comes down to this: I just want freedom. As much as I can get. That's all.
Can't Take My Gorram Sky 
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I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
--Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), quoted in Saturday Review, Aug. 25, 1962
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Originally posted by canttakesky:
2. Vaccine choice and exemptions from mandatory vaccinations. Let people decide if they want to vaccinate their kids without negative consequences.
The only issue with that is some people might consider the death of their kids to be a negative consequence. Ribbit.
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Originally posted by cartoon:
Honestly, I can't say that I'd like to see anyone suffering with severe fever. As such, I have to be against hot lesbians.
I also would like to be against hot lesbians. Very much so.
If all my friends jumped off a cliff... I was probably the one who told them there was an invisible bridge to the other side.
I'm pretty contrary anyway so people aren't that surprised when I say "You're wrong" about something.
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Originally posted by canttakesky:
I am already in a small minority, publically standing up for things very few people support. In fact, I am so anti-lemming some people (ahem) have accused me of being pathologically antiestablishment or being a wacko conspiracy theorist or whatever. My list is long, but here are some that come to mind.
1. Libertarianism and individual sovereignty. End all income tax, all govt regulation, all foreign aid and interference, etc.
2. Vaccine choice and exemptions from mandatory vaccinations. Let people decide if they want to vaccinate their kids without negative consequences.
3. Homeschooling rights. End or minimize govt regulation on homeschooling.
4. Homebirthing rights. End legal persecution of homebirthing professionals and accord homebirths the same standard for "acts of God" as hospital births.
5. The real 9/11 story. Conduct a credible investigation on what happened around and on 9/11.
Really, it all comes down to this: I just want freedom. As much as I can get. That's all.
Have you ever thought of buying you'rself a shack in the woods somewhere and never coming into contact with humans ever again? I think it has real possibliities for you.
I mean, you could make moonshine - saw some guy on a t.v show the other day doing that, pretty sure the tax men wern't that hot on his trail (though posssibly were after he made his t.v. apperence)he wasn't to clear, but very fond of possums as I recall..
I mean, if you manage to have kids out there, home birthing and home schooling are gonna be pretty much a given, seein as the nearest school would be an epic journey away, and i don't see any health professional responding to your call.
Not that you could make a call, cause you wouldn't have a phone.
And then not vaccinating your kids - that'd happen as well. Its not that they wouldn't care about your kids enough to stop them from dying in a wholly unescessary way, just that your kids would never get near enough to other kids to pass the disease on. Thats the point of mass vaccination see - stops easily preventable diseases becoming the killers of thousands that they used to be. But your kids'd be well out of the way, so they couldn't do much damage before they croaked.
You know, I actually agree with you on point five, an unbiased, agenda free investigation into the terrorist attacks of recent years would be a very good thing, but seeing as you'd be living in your shack doing your best to avoid society, stirring your moonshine and patting yourself on the back for avoiding anything that might possibly benefit the greater majority, watching your sickly, backward children crawl about the lawn, I can't see why on earth you'd actually give a s***.
As for jumping off cliffs - its the suckers option, if they really had to do it i'd be stood at the top giving them a resigned wave, just wishing it'd all been different somehow.
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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Quote:Vaccination moved away from being that which you described, and onto a money-making scheme for the medical industrial complex, like insurance for cars. Some vaccination has been critical for general public health, but why, for instance, vaccinate a baby for hepititus when there is none present in the parents? Babies don't generally share needles when shooting heroine.
Originally posted by seryn:
Thats the point of mass vaccination see - stops easily preventable diseases becoming the killers of thousands that they used to be. But your kids'd be well out of the way, so they couldn't do much damage before they croaked.
BTW, do you know HOW they prepare vaccines in general? Eeewwwwwww.
Just sayin' Chrisisall
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