If I say an American is too conservative, it means they're willing to take it up the butt with the Republican party and net neutrality. I assume there's similar insanity elsewhere in American politics, but I don't like to read political stuff very much.

From talking to people, I might be better with the Democratic party, but I'm happier with right-wing totalitarianism than liberal insanity, with happier being a relative term. As a comparison, I'd be happier to have my dick cut off with a butcher knife than my testicles.

I didn't even know they could have sex.

Rule 42 people, get on it.

I love that it's impossible to get Facebook results when searching Google, I don't want to deal with Facebook anyway.

BEST. ACCIDENTAL GIFT. EVER.

So, if I sypathize with Wall-E, what does that do to your whole argument.

Statistically, it'd be more likely she turned herself into a lesbian, but you'd have to ask her to know for sure.

And I'm not claiming to speak for her.

And if she corrects me, I'll concede to her, I assume she'd be more likely to know.

What's truly needed is a disembodied finger alongside the tap so that the beer doesn't overflow. Problem solved.

Except where to get the finger.

You only say that because you're not a Christian. The Bible isn't useful all on it's own, you need a "helper" to help you figure things out, that helper being the Holy Spirit. The Bible isn't 100% of the solution, it's a doorway towards that, but the Holy Spirit is the key that unlocks that door.

You might be thinking of the Jewish Old Testament Laws, I'm not sure. What I meant was that you can still be considered a Christian without doing any sort of tithing. Whether or not it's a sin to not tithe is not something I have an opinion on.

I never claimed the Bible discouraged taxation, I simply said that I believe that Jesus believed that it's immoral to tax a person's pay directly. There's still plenty of other stuff to tax. In the modern world, there's things like sales tax, gas tax, alcohol tax, etc.. I consider these to be okay, since they don't tax the person directly, just the property they're obtaining.

The Bible is intended to apply to all times even though it was written thousands of years ago. If it seems to contradict itself, that just means that we lack full understanding of the Bible's teachings. For instance, people claim that the Bible allows slavery, but ignore the fact that God might simply be accepting that slavery exists and make verses that will make a slave's life easier than it would've been without the verses. It's possible that a slave owner would simply ignore a verse that says slavery is immoral, but be accepting of rules that simply make them treat slaves better.

If you went to a church that said tithing was mandatory, you went to the wrong damn church, buddy.

Sorry, for the double post, but I just reread what you were responding to and I think you misunderstand me. I'm not saying people shouldn't pay their taxes, I'm saying directly laying taxes on a person's paycheck is immoral. You can still tax purchases and property in general. You just shouldn't be taxing money that the person hasn't even technically received yet.

Think of it this way. The basic idea is that only profits should be taxed. Even though it might not be literally true, the foregone conclusion is that the employer is going to pay as little as possible and that the employee is going to try to get paid as much as possible. Because of this, whatever pay they agree on is considered the precise value of the work. If you get paid 10 bucks an hour, the assumption is that an hour's worth of your time is worth ten bucks. It's an even trade, therefore no profit is made, therefore there should be no tax.

More, generally, he told people to follow the law. But that doesn't mean he thought any particular law was a good idea. Advising someone to follow a given law and endorsing that same law are two very different things.

What's the best RSS feed for tracking progress on this? I keep using Windows because I have this peculiar notion that I'm a "serious" gamer, but I believe if you're not a gamer, you're a moron for using Windows as your main OS.

And maybe even if you're a gamer, you're a moron for using Windows as your main OS. And, yes, I realize that means I called myself a moron. Pride cometh before a fall.

If we're going to be using the golden rule to decide things, how about applying it to the rules in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or what about some of those insane copyright violation rulings?

Lots of important precedents are going to be set if people start using the Golden Rule, but I'm pretty damn sure it's not going to happen.

That's nothing, in my universe the Roman Empire never fell and we had the Internet in 1000AD.

You jokers haven't even made it past the moon, while I'm looking at a sky full of stars so prevalent that we don't even need streetlights.

(yes, I'm being imaginative)

I don't drink, personally, because I'm on medication that sometimes has odd and, though rarely, deadly reactions to alcohol. But from what I've heard, it sounds like Europeans make beer that's fun to drink, while American beer manufacturers have simply created an alcohol delivery system and added marketing to it.

When I say the above, I'm simply regurgitating what my dad has said and what I've read online. Bcause, as i said before, I don't actually drink.