How many people are confirmed for the Brawl tourney this weekend? How many people are confirmed for the Melee/SF4 tourney next weekend?
I am for brawl.
nolan- now you know how zman feels!
Uh, no. There is no way in hell you could pull that off 0.00000001% as well as WeeGee.
@What about everyone's views on the wars being waged overseas right now? Who all thinks Obama shouldn't be in office? Who's against abortion, and why? Who thinks gays shouldn't be allowed to marry?
Oh my god what happened to this thread?
.... It didn't dertoriate into a flame war!
On relegion:
I am an Atheist, and I have been for almost all of my life. I was brought up as a christian, by my grandparents, and I believe that was the most deciding infulence in my being an atheist. It might be because my grandfather is a lunatic, but his take on relegion was that you were nothing but a worthless subject to god, along with the rest of the world. Your job was to serve god, and everyone but yourself. I found helping other people to make sense, but I never "saw god". I never understood why you were supposed to give up your life to some undetirmined being in the sky. My mother and father are agnostic, and didn't try to raise me as anything. I really became an atheist after my grandfather told me my mom would burn in hell for having a female partner. She has always done the right thing, she has always been kind, even to strangers. She fit the treating other people with care and respect to the letter. But she would suffer eternally because she too a woman as her partner? And all the other good gay/lesbian people too? And all the people who don't follow how your religion percives how their
personal life should be? It was completley beyond my comprehension. I started to look into christianity, and I saw that the general message was that you should treat
everyone, regardless of who they were, with respect. So where was all this hate coming from? Why were there ever crusades to kill millions of people when the message was "
Love Thy Enemy"? As I looked into other religions, I saw that they all carried more-or-less the same positive message, yet they all also caused millions of people to suffer and die for their beliefs/actions that don't harm anyone. I came to feel that the basis of religion is inhernetly good, but people have come to use it as an excuse to persecute others for things that group of people dislike. I also came to believe that all the religious fighres were completley fake. If you are omnipotent, why do you let children be killed? Why do you let women be *****? Why do you allow people to kill each other in your name, when your command is to turn the other cheek? If god is all powerful, why doesn't god just make it stop? It's completley incomprehensible. If he created all of us, he created our emotions, in effect, he chose wether we would believe in him or not. This also fits into the belief that if god created you, he can take that life away, or do with it as god pleases. By that same belief, a father could molest his child, becuase he was responsible for bringing her into life. It would be ok to beat or kill your child, since you brought them into the world. That is so completley beyond all reason or comprehension that I can't even describe it. The need to label others evil is so prevalent in our culture, and it because of
what people have twisted religion into. Not religion itself, but the twitsing of it into an implement for your own devicies.
On the war: This also ties into religion. Lets take a look at radical islam. It so blatantly clear and obvious that the figureheads (bin laden, for example) of this religion are evil. They use their religious subjects to further their goals, by sacrificing theit lives. But, in contrast, the subjects, in general, are good but misguided. The definition of evil is self serving. To do every action to make your life better, even at the cost of anyone else. Look at this from a suicide bombers perspective. This bomber is going to die for his cause. It's not that he is likley to die, or that there is a chance. He will die, no questions asked. How can you be so completley evil if you are going to die for a cuase you belive in? In america, if you believe in your cause enough, you will jump on a grenade for your freinds. You get the medal of honor, but what did you do? You died for what you thought was right. You are a hero. By contrast, even if there is actually an evil, a good, or whatever, you are evil for taking the lives of those people, regardless of the fact that you would have to believe so completley, that you would not risk your life, but knowingly give it up, to blow up your target. Would an evil person give up thier life? The thing they value most? We judge these people evil, when they are really doing the same thing we are, they are fighting and dying for their cause. It the same thing all over again: we are trying to alter things because we don't understand or like them. Don't get me wrong, I comlpetley believe that islam needs to stop killing so many people. But so do all of the other religions. If we go to war with them, we give them what they want most: an outlet for spreading their reigion. We need to get out of religious wars, because they are the type of wars that can't be won. We can't control their beliefs, and as we have seen, they will keep killing themselves because they still believe. It's completley horrible, but we should leave them alone, because the alterintave is to give them more power and influence, as well as costing us lives and money. It's terrible, but it's the lesser of the two evils.
On abortion: This is a very mixed issue for me, because of many things. I Personally don't believe in abortion. I beleve that a child should be given to an adoption center. But my real beiief is that the mother of the child, and depending on the crucimstances, the father, should be the ones to make that choice. I don't kile abortion, but do I have the right to tell a woman who was ***** and beaten that she should have to keep the child? Should she have to go through the trauma of having to bear a child of that experience? I don't believe that you can judge unless you are in that scenario. Also, if you are against aboortion, please don't use the term pro life. It has no meaning anymore. The pro life peole are often the ones who kill abortion doctors (oxymoron much?)
On gay marriage: Stay the fuc
k out of peoples privacy. It's their right, and you or your religion don't have any buisness there. Does anyone here know that gays/lesbians have the 2nd highest suicide rate among people in america (2nd only to transgender people)? All becuase religion is used to persecute these people.
Tl:dr read it all, but the gist is that you shouldn't push your relegion on other people, and that people should have their own rights.
I could say a lot more, but I have class. Probably will later.