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The Maddening P4X Riddle in Gaming JoeUser Forums

P4X: The Riddle I discovered the P4X riddle about two weeks ago, and breezed through the first 15 rooms before hitting my first snag. After 20, each room began to work me over, pretty thoroughly, too - like the puzzle was picking me up by my lapels and tossing me around my apartment. I'm currently working on Room 36. And, all spoken, there are 150 rooms to solve. Basically, the riddle functions like a maze across the www, and p

Reply to What's Your Problem, White-Liberal-Jewish-Galician-American Boy? in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote] CharlesCS on Jun 09, 2008 If asked, I am American. When filing out an application I am forced to put Hispanic since there is no American on it. Since I was born in the US bot am of Puerto Rican parents I believe it suits me well so I call my self an Ame-Rican.[/quote] <

Reply to What's Your Problem, White-Liberal-Jewish-Galician-American Boy? in Current Events Stardock Forums

[quote] foreverserenity on Jun 08, 2008 LOL! Great article and some interesting points! A white person don't have to lobby to be black or Hispanic, they are already many in the equation, it just depends on what they identify themselve as. But there we go again, w

Reply to What's Your Problem, White-Liberal-Jewish-Galician-American Boy? in Current Events Stardock Forums

sorry i haven't responded - for some reason, i couldn't access joeuser yesterday. [quote] cactoblasta on Jun 06, 2008 Interesting, but I reckon people overthink identity politics. It's clear that everyone is many different things at once, but usually only one label is dominant on a

Reply to What's Your Problem, White-Liberal-Jewish-Galician-American Boy? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Can a white person lobby to be black? Hispanic?[/quote] well, they can lobby, anyway. also, i've seen some white kids who dress as if they are trying to identify as a black person. maybe that makes them black . . . taboo

What's Your Problem, White-Liberal-Jewish-Galician-American Boy? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

There was a tangent from Little-Whip's post, "Would You Join This Church?" that I'd like to rescue: the process of identification. Little-Whip wrote, [quote]As much as many hate to admit it, there's a huge difference between the attitudes (and I'm speaking in general terms here, the rule proves the exceptions) of American born blacks and others who share their skin tone. England had slaves too

Reply to I Support Genocide in Current Events JoeUser Forums

lastly: larry, i really liked your article. sorry for ranting all over the place. taboo

Reply to I Support Genocide in Current Events JoeUser Forums

oh, lord. [quote]I am a bit sick already of your "within the framework" bit. Some things are objectively true.[/quote] well, it's your own argument, isn't it? you slapped whatsisname around for believing da hype. there is a reason you were right in your argument, but you are subject to the same rules as everyone else, aren't you? so, you're sick of the framework bit. it ain't going away. there may be "an objective truth" but it doesn't matter because our own perspective ar

Reply to I Support Genocide in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Do you know that Wikipedia supports the "Wikipedians for Palestine" group, but has banned members that take exception to the promotion of this ideaology? This absolutely contradicts Wikipedia's self-proclaimed NPOV (Neutral Point of View) stance. The result is that when someone like yourself searches for "facts" you are given a very slanted point of view. There is a war being fought in the media and on the internet for the hearts and minds of people such as yourself. Did you watc

Reply to I Support Genocide in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]"Suddenly" is perhaps not the right word to attack to a process that took decades.[/quote] if you were a colonized nation and the imperial power that owned you was thinking about shipping in a new population and handing over the reigns to them, how long of a process would you prefer? [quote]But you probably know just as well as I do that the founding of Israel did not make anybody homeless. It was the war against Israel that made people homeless. Israel claimed to want t

Reply to Do Blacks really hate all Whites? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[B]rice[/B] was brought up "in a middle-class, black community called Titusville, where education was a high priority for children who were expected to succeed regardless of any prejudices or boundaries." [B]thomas:[/B] "In 1964, the year the Civil Rights Act was enacted, Thomas' grandfather withdrew him from the all-black parochial high school he was attending and sent him to an all-white Catholic boarding school in Savannah, St. John Vianny Minor Seminary. Despite being confronte

Reply to I Support Genocide in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]You don't know for sure. You "know" only what the "distorted" reports tell you. But oddly enough they told you about THAT. Perhaps you are just assuming that the reports are distorted and that hence Israel must have committed worse crimes than the media report? You probably don't even consider it anti-Semitic to think like that. But oddly enough, the reports you read are wrong. "Palestinian" villages are not bulldozed down to make room for Jewish "settlements". It's a li

Reply to Do Blacks really hate all Whites? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

LW, [quote]I was merely stating that both are, at their core, racist organizations, not trying to claim they were equal in any other way. I was also pointing out that the co-called 'good' that they do is not all that good if it's used to disseminate and spread a message of hatred[/quote] well, i agree with you. but there isn't a real "melting pot" experience in the USA anymore - if there ever was one. within larger communities, smaller communities will form around a sense of

Reply to Do Blacks really hate all Whites? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]Blacks, some blacks, wouldn't feel the entitlement, and wouldn't be so dependent on the very system that made their grandmothers that way, and while some might have the gumption to crawl out of it, so many don't have that stamina or goal, and so they sit and they wallow, and they grow resentful[/quote] the word "entitlement" is a loaded term . . . [quote]We do need to wake up and get over ourselves, all of us, and not be so damn kittish and pc about what we talk about in

Reply to Do Blacks really hate all Whites? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

[quote]I agree, but the outpouring of hate I saw makes me believe the blacks will never forgive what happened to them hundreds of years ago. None of them alive today, neither the slaves nor the owners of the slaves.[/quote] first of all, it seems a bit over the top to assume that all blacks refuse to forgive. i live in boston, and you should see how disgusting these white guys get over their sports teams - and yet, true-heart that i am, and white, i am still a die-hard packers fan. do

The Conservative Blog Bump in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I was perusing the papers this morning while riding the T to the Commons . . . Reverend Wright . . . the Pentagon Message Machine . . . Bush 1.2 requesting another what-is-it-this-time $200 billion for let's-see-if-this-works Iraq strategery . . . Suddenly I was overwhelmed by nostalgia. I don't know where the wistful longing came from, but I missed the conservative Joe User blog-bumpers I used to read with dismay in years past. Squashed into my subway seat b

Reply to Joe User is "Joke User" in Virtual Communities JoeUser Forums

hey peeps, i've spent 47 (and counting) minutes on joeuser over the course of the last andre the giant- sized handful of months. 44 of those minutes went into reading this thread--and each one of those minutes was time (relatively) well spent. i personally enjoyed the entire thread: the dramatic dips in action, the tightening noose of suspense, and the comic, surprising relief earned from a few well-placed moderator curses.

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Reply to Religion of peace? Yeah, right. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

you forget that it wasn't just the germans who were silent, it was everyone, the whole world was silent. and the whole world is still silent. yes, the extremists are terrorists. that is all. are you accountable for every--christian, jewish, fill in the blank with your faith, skin color, etc.--perversion that takes place under the umbrella of your own label? perhaps. in fact, i would probably make exactly that argument within a dif

Reply to Religion of peace? Yeah, right. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

so what? so nothing. it's a response to comments like these: "Islam seems to be a faith built on hatred, vindictiveness and intolerance, no matter what the apologists on the left have to say . . . The vast majority, the "good" Muslims, the "peaceful" Muslims, sit in seemingly approving silence as these mutant, "fringe" Islamic fundamentalists do what they do. This indicts the whole faith, in my mind. " and then the comment it generated: "'This indicts the whole faith,

Reply to Religion of peace? Yeah, right. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

well, for the most part i agree with both of your last comments. there's also something great about this line: "if a couple hundred heavily armed fanatical Islamists were marching down the main road towards YOUR home, would you hesitate for a second to band forces with those people you currently 'do battle' with on ideological, religious, racial, or political issues? HELL NO. LoL, as a matter of fact, it would be one time I'd be glad that I live in the part of town that I do, these nigg

Reply to The Book of Dwindling Rules in Misc JoeUser Forums

thank you, xtine. taboo

Reply to Religion of peace? Yeah, right. in Current Events JoeUser Forums

us and them, always. right. the silent cowardly muslim masses, refusing to speak or act are the reason why the violent minority now represents the entire religious population. ha-ha. but "they" have spoken. and "they" are dead or dying--power ceded endlessly through their own deaths to stronger, more violent powers, both muslim and other. those with the capacity for violence have already utilized or are utilizing violence. they are using it against each other to survive, they are

Reply to The Book of Dwindling Rules in Misc JoeUser Forums

funny: nice to hear from you, carbuncle. ever seen this? not sure it will show up, but so it goes. i wonder: if hope is the opiate of the masses these days, then maybe hope needs a facelift. these days, maybe hope means "self-reliance" or "self-sufficiency" or maybe just Self. if you can't help your brother, why bother trying? there's hope

The Book of Dwindling Rules in Misc JoeUser Forums

Sometimes you get to a place in your life where all those assumptions--what is right, what is wrong--must be called into question. You leave your parents. You leave your home town. You learn something about a loved one that you didn't want to hear. The foundations of your life move farther and farther away, and now YOU must make your way forward, or not.