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9:23 am
July 28, 2011
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SciVille
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"What about that cheeseburger becomes immoral when it is in the hands of a teenager?" -Alex Koroknay-Palicz, here
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10:53 pm
July 28, 2011
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Pashupati
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"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." — Benjamin Franklin
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"Inside every large oppressed minority, there's a smaller oppressed minority struggling to get out." – J-D
"Want to tear down the walls of society? Learn engineering, build a trebuchet." – Jim North
On some other forum.
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9:20 am
July 29, 2011
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Sophie;423705 wrote: Okay, this is awesome. I walk into the (totally hippie) tea shop I frequent, get my chai, sit down and–
"–part of it is, it's also the idea that we own our kids, right? They're their own person. I mean, we need to stop trying to control our kids so damn much. Let them make their own decisions. They're going to learn from their mistakes. Yeah, your kids are probably going to drink a bit of alcohol, smoke a joint, ditch class, tell you they're going for a sleepover…sleep under a bridge, whatever!"
– random guy with red pants, tattoos and piercings
(Then the conversation turned to journalism, politics, internet censorship, the military, environmentalism…then school:
"They've pacified everybody into thinking they can't create change. Starting in school! They say you've got to study – why? Because you'll never do anything. And then even if there is a group that's doing something, you can't be a part of it…"
then movies, Summerfest, police, PTSD, separation of state and religion (why does money have "In God We Trust" on it), pollution, and the fascinating idea of having libraries for stuff so you don't keep buying things; they get reused.
God, I wish I didn't have so much social anxiety; we could have had so much fun if only I could have said something. But instead I'm a total creepy eavesdropper.
Definitely should have said something! Tell them about NYRA, they could have been a new member! Maybe help you with a chapter!
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Chip – Alex is a tool, a screwdriver we must use to screw the ageists
There are 5 bullet points about writing letters to the editor, the longest one is about being concise. – Eric talking about a new draft of the chapter handbook.
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1:15 pm
August 9, 2011
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" No person who demonstrates that he has successfully completed the sixth primary grade in a public school in, or a private school accredited by, any State or territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in which the predominant classroom language was other than English, shall be denied the right to vote in any Federal, State, or local election because of his inability to read, write, understand, or interpret any matter in the English language, except that, in States in which State law provides that a different level of education is presumptive of literacy, he shall demonstrate that he has successfully completed an equivalent level of education in a public school in, or a private school accredited by, any State or territory, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in which the predominant classroom language was other than English."
Voting rights act of 1965.
So a fifth grader is illiterate?
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Defending your rights is patriotic and American until the youth congress is founded, at which point it becomes sedition, and must be investigated by the House Special Investigations Committee.
"Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him."
Proverbs 22:15
"Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn"
Deuteronomy 25:4
Do whatever you want with my children, but oh, If you even touch my cows…
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1:45 pm
August 9, 2011
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Think outside the box, then rape the box, shit in the box and light it on fire, then rape it again.
-Anonymous
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The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it.
–Albert Einstein
If maturity is knowing when you were an idiot than, wisdom is knowing that you will be an idiot and conman seance is know that you are an idiot – Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content adapted by me
NYRA needs to modarte and appeal to the political mainstereem vote Gibson Katz for BOD
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11:35 pm
August 17, 2011
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SciVille
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"The changes I urge will certainly not come about all at once. If they take place, it will be as a process, a series of steps taken over a number of years. Thus, we have recently lowered the minimum voting age from twenty-one to eighteen. We should lower it still further, to sixteen or fifteen, and then later to fourteen or twelve, and so on, until this barrier, and all others that deny to young people the possibility of serious, independent, responsible participation in the life of the world around them, are done away with altogether. But this will take time. Perhaps it is best that it should."
-John Holt
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11:57 pm
August 17, 2011
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SciVille said:
"What about that cheeseburger becomes immoral when it is in the hands of a teenager?" -Alex Koroknay-Palicz, here
Sounds like a smart guy. 
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4:37 pm
August 18, 2011
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SciVille
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"There is a clear and unmistakable link between casual anti-teenage bigotry and the abuse of these young adults in their homes, schools, and behavior modification facilities. By othering them casually we create a culture in which they are seen as deserving of degradation."
-Kathleen O'Neal
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8:54 am
November 16, 2011
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Griffith will probably never lose his place in the pantheon, but there will always be the blot of the later scenes of “Birth of a Nation.” It is a stark history lesson to realize that this film, for many years the most popular ever made, expressed widely-held and generally acceptable white views. Miss Gish reveals more than she realizes when she quotes Griffith's paternalistic reply to accusations that he was anti-Negro: "To say that is like saying I am against children, as they were our children, whom we loved and cared for all of our lives."
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com…..00301/1023
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7:21 pm
January 2, 2012
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"Constance Hately" by Edgar Lee Masters
You praise my self-sacrifice, Spoon River,
In rearing Irene and Mary,
Orphans of my older sister!
And you censure Irene and Mary
For their contempt of me!
But praise not my self-sacrifice,
And censure not their contempt;
I reared them, I cared for them, true enough!–
But I poisoned my benefactions
With constant reminders of their dependence.
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everything's better when hunting for treasure!
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11:18 pm
January 12, 2012
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SciVille
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"The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!" These people were given everything, everything was handed to them, and they took it all, sold it all; sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, and they stayed loaded for twenty years and had a free ride. But now they're staring down the barrel of middle-age burnout, and they don't like it. They don't like it, so they've become self-righteous, and they wanna make things hard for young people. They tell em abstain from sex, say no to drugs. As for rock 'n' roll, they sold that for television commercials a long time ago so they can buy pasta machines and StairMasters and soybean futures. You know something? They're cold, bloodless people. It's in their slogans, it's in their rhetoric: "No pain, no gain," "Just do it," "Life is short, play hard," "Shit happens, deal with it," "Get a life." These people went from "Do your own thing" to "Just say no!" They went from "Love is all you need" to "Whoever winds up with the most toys, wins", and they went from cocaine to Rogaine. And you know something? They're still counting grams, only now it's fat grams. And the worst of it is we have to watch the commercials on TV for Levi's loose-fitting jeans and fat-ass Docker pants because these degenerate, yuppie, Boomer cocksuckers couldn't keep their hands off the croissants and the Häägen-Dasz and their big fat asses have spread all over and they have to wear fat-ass Docker pants. Fuck these Boomers, fuck these yuppies… and fuck everyone, now that I think of it."
-George Carlin
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1:28 am
March 9, 2012
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Who the fuck has a dyslexic writer be proof read by an English learner who will then have the content checked by a disgarpich"
-Ned, the editer who was wondering who the fuck was put in charge of the school paper.
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The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it.
–Albert Einstein
If maturity is knowing when you were an idiot than, wisdom is knowing that you will be an idiot and conman seance is know that you are an idiot – Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content adapted by me
NYRA needs to modarte and appeal to the political mainstereem vote Gibson Katz for BOD
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6:56 pm
August 14, 2012
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SciVille
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"By now people have forgotten what history has proven: that 'raising' a child is tantamount to retarding his development. The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF."
-Shulamith Firestone
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2:06 am
April 13, 2013
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SciVille
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It's a bit like the legal distinction between an adult and a minor. For legal purposes, and for deciding whether a young person is old enough to vote or join the army, it is necessary to make an absolute distinction. In 1969 the legal voting age in Britain was lowered from twenty-one to eighteen (in 1971 the same change was made in the USA). Now there's talk of lowering it to sixteen. But, whatever the legal voting age may be, nobody seriously thinks the stroke of midnight on the eighteenth (or twenty-first, or sixteenth) birthday actually turns you into a different kind of person. Nobody seriously believes there are two kinds of people, children and adults, with 'no intermediates'. Obviously we all understand that the whole period of growing up is one long exercise in intermediacy. Some of us, it might be said, have never really grown up. Similarly, human evolution, from something like Australopithecus afarensis to Homo sapiens, consisted of an unbroken series of parents giving birth to children who would certainly have been placed, by a contemporary taxonomist, in the same species as their parents. With hindsight, and for reasons that are not far from legalistic, modern taxonomists insist on tying a label around each fossil, which must say something like Australopithecus or Homo. Museum labels are positively not allowed to say 'halfway between Australopithecus africanus and Homo habilis'. History-deniers seize upon this naming convention as though it were evidence of a lack of intermediates in the real world. You might as well say there is no such thing as an adolescent because every single person you look at turns out to be either a voting adult (eighteen or over) or a non-voting child (under eighteen). It's tantamount to saying that the legal necessity for a voting age threshold proves that adolescents don't exist.
-Richard Dawkins, "The Greatest Show on Earth"
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