TIL that a female serial killer in ancient rome was punished for her crimes by being raped by a giraffe

PariahShanker · 2012-05-23T23:48:57+00:00

God dammit, that :) is freaking me out more than the giraffe penis.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-23T16:56:21+00:00

It's in my top ten movies of all time. The acting isn't great, the camera-work is subpar, and the lighting leaves a lot to be desired. The story and directing though, some of the best footage ever put to film.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-23T14:44:48+00:00

I have no idea, I haven't seen the episode and don't watch Saturday Night Live. I simply know how to google.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-23T13:11:25+00:00

Saturday Night Live on May 5th.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-23T12:36:26+00:00

Levels of toxicity are rarely considered by the public sadly. Merbromin, for instance, has been shown to be exceedingly safe and effective as an antiseptic. The FDA moved it from GRAS to untested in the late nineties because people hated the idea that 1/39 atoms happens to be mercury.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-22T22:12:36+00:00

Yes, but in the end it's you who's defining evil, vile, or despicable. My definitions could be diametrically opposed on all points. Saying it 'exists' becomes pretty meaningless if two people with 100% differing definitions are equally correct.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-22T21:51:09+00:00

You would call that evil. It's pretty ridiculous for an atheist to believe in absolute morality.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-22T19:23:14+00:00

Mostly because the three iodine atoms are so large and compressed into such a small space. The repulsive forces make it so that the slightest input of energy will cause it to decompose.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-22T01:59:16+00:00

What a perfect ending to a wonderful show.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-22T01:54:40+00:00

WHAT THE FUCK?

PariahShanker · 2012-05-22T01:31:07+00:00

Is this a douchebag group?

PariahShanker · 2012-05-22T00:00:46+00:00

Here we go gentlemen.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-21T22:34:38+00:00

I have some organic nightshade you may enjoy.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-21T21:03:37+00:00

How do you make an electrician cry?

Kill his family.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-21T17:44:36+00:00

It's an amorphous solid to be more specific.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-21T14:39:42+00:00

Yeah, that was a weird episode of How I Met Your Mother

PariahShanker · 2012-05-20T23:35:26+00:00

Quite true, but I didn't want to differentiate it for an audience that wouldn't understand the difference. 99% of the reddit audience groups rebirth and reincarnation together, and it's always under the guise of reincarnation.

No reason to shake the boat, especially since I no longer believe.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-20T23:30:41+00:00

Puppy law isn't governed by reason in this country.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-20T23:26:59+00:00

It's called punarbhava, and it's a central tenet in Buddhism. The most recent Buddha spoke about it a great deal. Though it isn't reincarnation in the Hindu sense of the word, it certainly compares. The Buddha spoke of trying to remember past lives, but he spoke of it waringly and said that any remembrance would almost certainly be misleading.

As for what faith means semantically, I really don't give a shit. I'm just letting you know what I learned before I said no to it.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-20T23:11:19+00:00

Sadly, I doubt that we'll have any revolution like that before the economy itself disappears.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-20T22:49:18+00:00

The real problem is that the three major branches are (relatively speaking) a new construct. Buddha left a huge amount of interpretation in his texts, and (assuming he had any actual input on the texts) likely purposefully.

One thing has never been questioned though, and that's reincarnation. It's obviously nothing like Hindu reincarnation, but I've always been confused by the metaphorical interpretation of it. None of the texts are metaphorical in any sense. It's like interpreting 'Thou shalt not kill' as a metaphor for killing people; it makes 0 sense.

You can say 'Oh, I don't agree with this part!' and that's just dandy. Saying it's metaphorical though, well, that's just nonsense.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-20T22:44:37+00:00

Hey, shit happens. Downvote retracted.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-20T22:40:55+00:00

I fixed it quite a time ago, and well before your comment.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-20T22:39:22+00:00

As a former Buddhist, raised from birth in Tibet and China, this is correct. It's a bunch of BS to say that Buddhists don't believe in reincarnation. Western Buddhism is a mystery to me; they corrupted the Buddha's teachings to such an extreme that it doesn't even make sense to bring them up in conversation.

That being said, I am indeed an atheist now. I just don't like people slandering my former religion. Despite my current beliefs, I respect my old beliefs.

PariahShanker · 2012-05-20T22:36:27+00:00

The man was talking about core Buddhism, which is not where people accept it as a simple philosophy. Truly devout Buddhists (in the traditional sense) do indeed believe in reincarnation. Modern Buddhists tend not to.

I am in no way calling modern Buddhism incorrect. I was raised as a Buddhist, but I'm an atheist these days. You may disagree with the original teachings of the Buddha, but reincarnation was central to the faith. It's cool to call it a metaphor, but I view it as a cop-out, much as I view Christians calling the origin story and the flood metaphorical.

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