6000 year old kiss. Hasanlu, Iran.
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Women or Men: Who's is online more, and where? -
Pretty surprising!
New hair cut, greasy face, unpacked clothesstuffs on the bed, wall half decorated, deodorant-lackin.’ Love being home.
kevin corrado.
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Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is -
Dudes. Imagine life here in the US — or indeed, pretty much anywhere in the Western world — is a massive role playing game, like World of Warcraft except appallingly mundane, where most quests involve the acquisition of money, cell phones and donuts, although not always at the same time. Let’s call it The Real World. You have installed The Real World on your computer and are about to start playing, but first you go to the settings tab to bind your keys, fiddle with your defaults, and choose the difficulty setting for the game. Got it?
Okay: In the role playing game known as The Real World, “Straight White Male” is the lowest difficulty setting there is.
This means that the default behaviors for almost all the non-player characters in the game are easier on you than they would be otherwise. The default barriers for completions of quests are lower. Your leveling-up thresholds come more quickly. You automatically gain entry to some parts of the map that others have to work for. The game is easier to play, automatically, and when you need help, by default it’s easier to get.
Now, once you’ve selected the “Straight White Male” difficulty setting, you still have to create a character, and how many points you get to start — and how they are apportioned — will make a difference. Initially the computer will tell you how many points you get and how they are divided up. If you start with 25 points, and your dump stat is wealth, well, then you may be kind of screwed. If you start with 250 points and your dump stat is charisma, well, then you’re probably fine. Be aware the computer makes it difficult to start with more than 30 points; people on higher difficulty settings generally start with even fewer than that.
As the game progresses, your goal is to gain points, apportion them wisely, and level up. If you start with fewer points and fewer of them in critical stat categories, or choose poorly regarding the skills you decide to level up on, then the game will still be difficult for you. But because you’re playing on the “Straight White Male” setting, gaining points and leveling up will still by default be easier, all other things being equal, than for another player using a higher difficulty setting.
Likewise, it’s certainly possible someone playing at a higher difficulty setting is progressing more quickly than you are, because they had more points initially given to them by the computer and/or their highest stats are wealth, intelligence and constitution and/or simply because they play the game better than you do. It doesn’t change the fact you are still playing on the lowest difficulty setting.
excuses. If the player sucks, no amount of “advantages” will help you
Fun fact: the difficulty setting control the strength of gravity too! Easier setting, less gravity— softer, slower fall.
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This stupid paper won’t finish itself! To apply critical theory onto your life as if you were a narrative, it’s more fun to write the damn quotes than anything else! GODMAMMIT
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So I woke up from my bed to find this dude all over my blankets. Nasty. Someone call the
Claims like this make me want to rush to the side of Judeochristians. It’s unfair for their holy text to be thrown back onto their face. Warning: No credibility to be found here!
“Use all the bible or none of it, hypocrite.” What a horrible demand. Though I’m not religious myself, one has to realize that the Bible, in the pious Christian’s eyes, is a holy text written by prophets and holy men alike. They’re holy words compiled in one large text. Sure there have been revisions throughout the ages, but as far as I know, these revisions change the phraseology and not the content, right? Holy text, holy context. When I was a Catholic I referred to THE BIBLE, as if it was one object. I respected ONE object. It’s not an anthology- that’s so septic. Nasty.
Think of it like a Harry Potter series. If you have a all 7 books and really are a Harry Potter fan, then you’ll do well to acknowledge that all 7 books are necessary to make up the HARRY POTTER series. Similarly, all portions of the bible are necessary to make up the word of God, no? However, if I may equate preference to interpretation: Like Goblet of Fire? A good fan would memorize the 4th book and quote it like hell and live by it’s messages, but not burn the rest of the series because of this internal-preferencing. Granted that the messages within each portion of the Bible are different and whatnot, but that’s the problem with this equivocating anyway. It’s just a bad idea to do so.
Any who, please don’t throw words like these. Acknowledge that they’re antiquited, but this horrible phrase disrespects so much of the Bible it makes me cringe.
Also, this isn’t even a sound argument. A good way of looking at the antique nature of the Bible’s anti-homosexy stance is asking “Why are religious institutions still interpreting these parts of the Bible? What causes changes in interpretations? What social forces bring up change within an institution without seeking to invalidate it completely?”
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