Futurama Philosopher

awesome thank you for your help

ive recently gotten some crap on facebook for posting an article against circumcision... anyway its sparked my motivation to find that episode in the last year where Stefan had a conversation with a young man who had been secretly suffering from depression because when he was born the doctors f**ked up his penis... Does anybody else remember that episode number?? Thank you for your time

According my understanding of UPB and Real Time Relationships, he already doesn't have a relationship, All he has is his own act of betrayal and the person he's now manipulating. aka his victim. If he wanted any chance of not living with a fantasy, he would have to confess and let the chips fall where they may. The next ethical questions are.... How long or how far would you let this girl be exposed to her own victimization? If you don't say anything, are you an accomplice in the betrayal?

ribuck, yes I deliberately wrote Anarchist. I thought it would be interesting to think about occasions that people in an Atheist Anarko-Capitalist would mass together to celebrate lol

Oh, If atheists invented holidays, how complete the world would feel. I'd mark the calendar in many ways, there's so much time to steal. Oh, If atheists invented holidays, what creative minds we'd see. Festivals with artistic blaze, oh such a world would be. We'd praise our friends, and count the stars. We'd morn their ends with rock guitars. Oh, If atheists invented holidays, in a world full of virtues. May anarchist have their ways, so all of us may choose.

According to biology, the entire purpose of my father's sausage, was to make another sausage. lol

For a couple of weeks now, I've really enjoyed Stephan's reviews of movies. After listening to him talk about the "The Godfather", It struck me that I am 25 years old and had not seen all three parts of "The Godfather" trilogy. So in do fashion I set about finally watching all three but had the nagging thought that there is similarity between the fictional characters of Vito Corleone (Marlin Brando) and his son Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) and the real life politicians Ron Paul and Rand Paul. In the first film, we see the patriarch (Brando) of a crime family getting older and having problems transferring the families "business" to his son's due to other crime families starting a gang war. Ultimately, the business is taken over by his youngest son (Pacino) who promises his wife he'll be out of the "business" in around five years. In my mind, I found this story similar to seeing the elder congressman from Texas, making his last days in office and running for president and eventually retiring as his son in Kentucky enters the political world as a senator, who's term with last about five years. (yes, I know senators have 6 year terms, but humor me hahaha) The second film, we see flash backs of younger Vito Corleone (Robert DeNiro) struggling in to make an honest living in the streets of New York, until he turns to a life of crime, overthrows the neighborhood thug and begins to reap the financial rewards in his new life of corruption. I compare this to Ron Paul's struggling political career running for office as a Libertarian, but he then decides to that if he was going to benefit the rewards of winning elections he would have to join corruption and run as a Republican and there he stayed. In the third film, we see an aged Michael Corleone on the verge of finally turning the Corleone family into a legal business. A meeting is called of the major crime families, when it is learned that Michael his leaving the life of crime with one last dirty deal with a Swiss banker for the Vatican, but the rest of the crime families are angered that they won't be getting a cut in Michaels last cash cow of dirty deals. And like the fabled crabs in bucket, the other families start another gang war that pulls the Corleone family back into the fray. This last part I see has a possible outcome for the young senator from Kentucky. After he succeeds in joining a life of corruption (politics) he'll inevitably be pulled back into the bucket of crabs. Especially, if he's able to get his own cash cows of dirty deals a.k.a. elections. I'd like to read your opinions of political life parodying motion picture art.

I came home after work today, and my cat's kitten had died for unknown reasons. I let out a breath of regret and unceremoniously buried the poor thing in the backyard. I was struck by the conundrum I would have been in if I had children. Would I tell the child that the kitten was going to a better place and run the risk of causing the damage possible for a belief in religion? Or would I tell my child the possibly harsh truth that nothing happens when we die? What appropriate ethical actions can you guys envision for a possible way of dealing with this point of ambiguity?

"Who cares about the mutterings of Sunbaked Bedouins from four thousand years ago"