Recent content by Hamlet

Hiiii!!!

Long time no see. ;)

Tbh, I never really advanced beyond Civ 2 in terms of my appreciation of the series. I tried Civ 3, it was a letdown, all the rest of the series seem to me to be just tinkering with a concept which was essentially perfected in Civ 2, and I have yet to play them beyond Civ 3. Civ 2 is a great...

So you made a thread in order to feel superior to people who disagree with you? Basically? I'm sure you lead a rich, fulfilling existence. Oh, wait, how old are you? 19, based on your profile? Ah, that explains it. Never had sex either, I imagine? Congratulations on making my ignore list...

You were the one who posted a thread asking what people made of this man's character. If you don't like other people's opinions, then don't ask for them. You didn't, but you originally only presented an account of the means of his death. Many people have died heroic deaths and had frankly...

I don't find religious people particularly objectionable. But I do find fanatics not only objectionable, but dangerous. And this man seems to me to have been at the higher end of the register in terms of fanaticism. As an aside, opposition to an authoritarian government does not a flawless...

Now mabye you could consider that as diliberate hyperbole on his part in the pursuit of opposition to an authoritarian government, but combined with the rest of the details of the article it suggests to me a basic hysterical religious fanaticism about his character.

The manner of his death was relatively admirable, but in terms of his views he seems to have been a bit of a nutter based on the rest of the Wiki article.

All those are quite obviously not remotely comparable to mutually consensual sexual relations between adults, so I'm not sure why you're bringing this up. This semi-hysterical response implies to me a bakruptcy of your argument to me, (and incidentally goes someway to confirming my argument) but...

Why do you believe that the two are diametrically opposed? Do you honestly think that every single one of the thousands of students protesting in Tiannamen Square were heteosexual?

I don't see what the difference is. Discrimination based on skin colour is just as idiotic, irrational and bigoted as discrimination based on sexuality.

Pretty much, actually. As a random example, take a look at the areas of greatest counter-revolutionary support, and the areas of the greatest number of clerics declining to sign up the civil constitution of the clergy during the French revolution, and the areas of greatest support for the French...

That's true the world over, and has been since the year dot.

Morality does not stop when it reaches the border; I would have thought that an apparent Bush supporter would be more than willing to subscribe to that. With regards to the story itself, nobody should be in the least bit surprised. Russia has always been enamoured on authoritarianism and I...

People have always been obsessed with religion on this board. I can't account for it.