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Asmodean

Quote from: The Magic Pudding on February 21, 2012, 05:56:36 AM
I don't remember a torture thread, we need one.
Asmo will love it.
He will love it and even consider sharing some of His secret techniques.
Quote from: Ecurb Noselrub on July 25, 2013, 08:18:52 PM
In Asmo's grey lump,
wrath and dark clouds gather force.
Luxembourg trembles.

Tank

Quote from: corgilover on February 21, 2012, 04:53:26 AM
Got an B on the rough draft of a paper on Torture, with my professor being an expert on torture. Life is good.
Well done. But if he's an expert I would have expected all his class to get an 'A'. You should do a practical lesson with thumb screws on him until he agrees and ups every-bodies grades  ;D
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

Ali

There's an atheist in my office! (I mean, other than me.)  In our breakroom, we have a rack where employees can leave old magazines that they're done with so other employees have something to read.  I hardly ever look at the rack since I usually eat lunch with my coworkers and don't read, but something just happened to catch my eye today as I was walking by.  A magazine called "Humanist".  I peered closer, and sure enough, it said something about "Rational Inquiry".  Then I noticed a couple of other titles on the rack, if I remember correctly "The Skeptic Inquirer" and "Skeptic."  It made me insanely happy because last time I looked, that rack was stocked with back issues of "Watchtower" magazine.  I'm going to have to lurk around the magazine rack more often and see if I can figure out who my fellow heathen is.   ;D

En_Route

#768
Rolled up to see the Pandas.One was indisposed and the other one fast asleep (apparently they sleep 16 hours per day, fulfilling a dearly-held ambition of my own). It did stretch and shift briefly in its slumber which by Panda standards is giving value for money. Also discovered that cockroaches are impeccably clean creatures and our existence depends on their recycling activities which nurture plant life and thus the production of oxygen. There's a moral there somewhere.
Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them (Orwell).

Amicale

Quote from: Ali on February 21, 2012, 09:21:31 PM
There's an atheist in my office! (I mean, other than me.)  In our breakroom, we have a rack where employees can leave old magazines that they're done with so other employees have something to read.  I hardly ever look at the rack since I usually eat lunch with my coworkers and don't read, but something just happened to catch my eye today as I was walking by.  A magazine called "Humanist".  I peered closer, and sure enough, it said something about "Rational Inquiry".  Then I noticed a couple of other titles on the rack, if I remember correctly "The Skeptic Inquirer" and "Skeptic."  It made me insanely happy because last time I looked, that rack was stocked with back issues of "Watchtower" magazine.  I'm going to have to lurk around the magazine rack more often and see if I can figure out who my fellow heathen is.   ;D

Awesome, Ali! You could always leave a brief note in the magazine rack, tucked into the top of one of the Humanist or Skeptic magazines, thanking them for leaving those there. It would let them know that they weren't alone, either!


"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others. By every crime and act of kindness we birth our future." - Cloud Atlas

"To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to never die." -Carl Sagan

En_Route

Quote from: corgilover on February 21, 2012, 04:53:26 AM
Got an B on the rough draft of a paper on Torture, with my professor being an expert on torture. Life is good.


As professor I tended to find it was my students who specialised in torture.
Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them (Orwell).

corgilover

Quote from: Sweetdeath on February 21, 2012, 05:17:46 AM
Quote from: corgilover on February 21, 2012, 04:53:26 AM
Got an B on the rough draft of a paper on Torture, with my professor being an expert on torture. Life is good.
That's awesome. And scary  xD 
Did you use examples from the Inquisition?

Mainly how Water boarding and enhanced interrogation are violations of the Geneva Convention and Human Rights, but I did mention the Inquisition.

corgilover

Quote from: Tank on February 21, 2012, 08:58:40 AM
Quote from: corgilover on February 21, 2012, 04:53:26 AM
Got an B on the rough draft of a paper on Torture, with my professor being an expert on torture. Life is good.
Well done. But if he's an expert I would have expected all his class to get an 'A'. You should do a practical lesson with thumb screws on him until he agrees and ups every-bodies grades  ;D

Well, I doubt we could do that as she told us we could verbally eviscerate someone who managed to make it so we had a quiz. She's a published author on beheading as well, so I wouldn't want to get on her bad side :)

corgilover

Quote from: En_Route on February 22, 2012, 10:06:28 PM
Quote from: corgilover on February 21, 2012, 04:53:26 AM
Got an B on the rough draft of a paper on Torture, with my professor being an expert on torture. Life is good.


As professor I tended to find it was my students who specialised in torture.

How'd they torture you? Payback for long essays and papers?

En_Route

Quote from: corgilover on February 23, 2012, 08:37:41 PM
Quote from: En_Route on February 22, 2012, 10:06:28 PM
Quote from: corgilover on February 21, 2012, 04:53:26 AM
Got an B on the rough draft of a paper on Torture, with my professor being an expert on torture. Life is good.


As professor I tended to find it was my students who specialised in torture.

How'd they torture you? Payback for long essays and papers?

A mixture of native stupidity and indolence.
Some ideas are so stupid only an intellectual could believe them (Orwell).

Ali

Quote from: En_Route on February 23, 2012, 08:41:59 PM

A mixture of native stupidity and indolence.

That's what I named my fists.

Tank

ThinkAnarchy makes his 500th post
If religions were TV channels atheism is turning the TV off.
"Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt." ― Richard P. Feynman
'It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.' - Terry Pratchett
Remember, your inability to grasp science is not a valid argument against it.

DeterminedJuliet

"We've thought of life by analogy with a journey, with pilgrimage which had a serious purpose at the end, and the THING was to get to that end; success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you're dead. But, we missed the point the whole way along; It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing, or dance, while the music was being played.

corgilover

I have chocolate and will get free pizza in a few minutes.

Amicale

We just had awesome chicken wings and sweet potato fries for dinner! Delightfully tasty treat.  ;D


"Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others. By every crime and act of kindness we birth our future." - Cloud Atlas

"To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to never die." -Carl Sagan