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gnome19  ·  4500 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rachmaninoff 1st Piano Sonata Op28 Mov.3 Valentina Lisitsa
I have introduced a number of my colleagues at work to her since this. Thanks again.
gnome19  ·  4500 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child
No offense taken. at all.
gnome19  ·  4603 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Guess What's the Fastest-Adopted Gadget of the Last 50 Years
Yeah, I think you're right. Cusack wouldn't look right holding up an iPod dock, would he?!
gnome19  ·  4603 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rachmaninoff 1st Piano Sonata Op28 Mov.3 Valentina Lisitsa
Thank you for these. They are wonderful!
gnome19  ·  4603 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child
I was reminded of this conversation as I read this article on Mitt Romney and the his faith: http://go.bloomberg.com/political-economy/2012-04-19/romney-...

I think religion is going to play a major role in the upcoming US Presidential election. I wish it wouldn't.

gnome19  ·  4629 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Guess What's the Fastest-Adopted Gadget of the Last 50 Years
You'd have to use this one http://i.imgur.com/1XheN.jpg it was pretty big.
gnome19  ·  4629 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Rachmaninoff 1st Piano Sonata Op28 Mov.3 Valentina Lisitsa
I've never heard her play before. Thank you for introducing me, it's unbelievable.
gnome19  ·  4629 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child
Thank you for the response, I appreciate you taking the time to write this. Let me send you my condolences for having endured such an attack. You hope that "society remains clever enough to understand the distinction", is a noble hope.

It's an unusual thing to grasp that the french people want to keep religion something that is separated from the state completely. Does this include christians too? The reason I say it's unusual to grasp is that in the US the people that want to unify church and state tend to be the christians. And we have many of them here. They want religion included in schools but when asked about including other faiths: Muslim, Hindu etc they are opposed.

Personally, I've had it up to my ears with religion. I'm tired of it and wish it would either go away or stay "at home" as you put it.

gnome19  ·  4630 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Happens When A 35-Year-Old Man Retakes The SAT?
I never took the ACT, just the SAT and that was plenty enough for me.
gnome19  ·  4630 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child
I am aware of French Colonialism in the Muslim world, just as I am aware of American Imperialism there. My question was in response to this statement regarding french law ...."protecting individuals and groups from being defamed or insulted because they belong or do not belong, in fact or in fancy, to an ethnicity, a nation, a race, a religion,". I posed the question in light of the recent terrorist attack in france: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/24/us-france-shooting...

I'm not sure what you were referring to as what I "think is happening"? I'm aware of the history. I'm also aware that in response to such terrorist attacks western nations tend to abandon their tolerance of the associated religions, regardless of how loose the association may be.

gnome19  ·  4630 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Movie Barcodes
These are beautiful. Very clever.
gnome19  ·  4630 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dutchman flies like a bird with homemade wings
bummer. it had me fooled.
gnome19  ·  4630 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis
I'm not sure how you could read the creation story and not see it as a metaphor? People that see it as being literal are the ones yelling "Drill, Baby, Drill".
gnome19  ·  4631 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child
Do you think the french people are going to remain tolerant of religious freedom in the face of radical muslim extremists terrorizing them?
gnome19  ·  4631 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 100 Real Tweets from Homophobes Who Would Murder Their Gay Child
I wish I hand't read these. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. I don't want to know these horrible people exist.