Recent content by toh6wy

Wow. That's... amazing. I never would have guessed something so simultaneously funny and sobering could be so simply derived from Garfield. I love it.

Really good lyrics are nice, but far from necessary for me. This is because I generally use the lyrics (and whatever other background sort of information I know about the music, e.g. the title, or perhaps the concept if the song is part of a concept album) as a general idea that guides my...

The point is, that I ought to move to Antarctica (e.g.), just because I don't have a significant amount of loyalty for any nation-state, seems stupid to me. If I'm a good, law-abiding citizen who likes, respects, and appreciates (but doesn't love) his country, shouldn't that be enough? Or...

I've never once recited the pledge. In fact, I can't remember a single time I saw/heard *anyone* recite the pledge in school, or make any reference to reciting the pledge. It was just entirely absent from my education, and virtually so from my life. And I prefer it that way. While I certainly...

Most likely Unitarian Universalism, although Buddhism and Taoism would also be possibilities.

This. Or this. Both pretty excellent.

Similar thing has happened with me. I looked at my 2.5 year old post on the subject and was like, "Wha?" I have no idea why I was so resolutely against it, or why it would have made a difference whether "I" (my consciousness) was divided between her and me...

...Well, I suppose as long it was absolutely only people who agreed to it (like organ donors) and weren't explicitly killed for this purpose, and it was as humane and sanitary as possible, I'd be okay with it. Still, I very much doubt that I would ever want to eat or otherwise use (for pet food...

Really? Why?

I will definitely be voting for Obama, but I wouldn't mind if McCain won.

Really? Why? And does a hypothetical son of yours fall into the "everyone else" category?

Well, you can of course discuss that if you want to as well. I was just assuming that commercial use of human meat and the like wouldn't be a controversial issue because practically no one would be for it... I guess I'm wrong, though?

My non-age benchmark of choice is not marriage, but level of maturity, physical and emotional. Unfortunately, this is different for every individual, and a case-by-case basis method isn't at all practical for this sort of thing. And unfortunately, since emotional maturity (at least) isn't...

Hm, OT is more open-minded than I expected. Cool. I was thinking about it some more myself, and realized that for now it'd probably be a bad idea, though... it would be very hard to do right, in the sense of not making people seem/feel like animals or taking advantage of them. I don't see...

Recently, I've been thinking... I've never heard of human milk, or any other human-derived products, being sold at any point in our history, which I find kind of strange. So I wondered if maybe most people would have something against it... Basically, what would your thoughts be on drinking...