Posts made by raphjd

Is there a gay element in the Sopranos?

YES, Pirates of the Caribbean violate the blockbuster rule.

Also, many version of it have some embedded WMV code which tells you to go to a certain website to get a special player for the movie.  Don't believe it!  They are trying to trick you into installing some malware which will make your computer unbootable until you clean your drive by making it a slave to a clean drive and scanning it for malware.

NEVER, EVER install special software just to watch a movie.  If mainstream players won't play it, then ask on a trusted site (such as here) to see if it is valid.

Tom made some changes, so hopefully it's working now.

How much do you want to bet the church officials will be found not guilty.

I deleted 2 episodes of "Young Soldiers" the day after the 2nd episode aired in the UK.

I haven't seen any Reports about any more being uploaded.

YES, the plan is to have everything working as it did before.

I bought that DVD because it was purported to have gay content
I felt cheated

That's why you are angry.

If the staff here were just consistent on this point, it wouldn't cause so much discontent.

I'm sorry, but no matter what we do, people will always bitch at us.

No, it's not possible.

I wonder how she figures that there's no such thing as gay people, just the gay lifestyle.

I added a Staff Note to the description.

I think it relates to "Filipino Ladyboys".

As the "unwashed immoral loser" it's not my job to help the needy, even though I do.  I'd be willing to bet that IF your side were honest and opened their books, we'd see that I give a larger portion of my income to help the needy than churches do.

Religious people need to learn that we are all atheists, just that some of us believe in less gods than others.

Religious people need to understand that there are others on the planet as well, but they tend to forget that or worse.

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Ok, so you and your philosophy teacher think that instead of trying to help people, the Vatican should just hoard the wealth.

We'll never know exactly how much the RCC et al has, because it's broken up into mini sub corporations and they aren't exactly open and honest about such things. However, we do know just a tiny fraction of the money they have because we know at least some of the money the church's Philippines branch has from the line I posted earlier.

The difference between Bill Gates and Warren Buffet is that they aren't trying to claim the moral high ground.  However, both Warren Buffet and Bill Gates give away huge chunks of cash every year.

Warren Buffet and Bill Gates doesn't hate you, but your church does.

Churches should pay taxes as they use the nation's infrastructure. It's another example of them using and giving nothing back.

"Unwashed immoral losers" is in reference to non believers, not people that disagree with you.

Churches haven't lost control to government by taking taxpayer money.  In fact, the government, due to being full of believers, is pandering to churches and allowing them to use taxpayer money to fund their hate.

Your side (believers) are doing everything in their power to destroy the separation between church and state.  The first clue is GWB creating the so called "faith based initiatives" giving churches money to fund their hate.  I'm sure you can find countless examples of believers doing everything in their power to destroy the separation of church and state.

You will need a few things;

1. An up to date computer.  If you are running a 5 year old piece of crap, then you will get crap video output.

2. A compatible dvd player (and blu-ray player).  Any dvd player made in the last 5 years should be able to play dual layer (aka DVD9) discs.

3. A program that counter acts the decryption and region coding of the dvd.   :cens: (or better yet,  :cens:) will do this for you, as will  :cens:. You will need to keep updating these as the encryption on dvds and blu-rays keep changing.

4. There are several programs that will RIP a dvd and/or blu-ray.  I'MToo Dvd Ripper is a good one.

When blacks and women were allowed in the military, they screamed social engineering.  Now no one questions it.

According to Wikipedia;

The first public discussion of sexual abuse of minors by priests took place at a meeting sponsored by the National Association for Pastoral Renewal held on the campus of Notre Dame University in 1967, to which all U.S. Catholic bishops were invited.

That leads me to believe that the Pope knew since then and most likely before.

Are you saying Iran's government (religious) is on the same level as the US's government (secular)?  I would venture to say that the US government is far superior to Iran's.

A catholic school teacher defending the catholic church hoarding wealth rather than helping people is blatantly bias.  It's sad that you are buying into the "we can't help everyone, so why bother, we'll just hoard the wealth" as being a good thing.  As I've already said, this applies to all churches, not just the catholic church, though they are the most guilty.

While I wasn't saying that the Vatican Library was secret, but that it's contents are secret, they do not advertise it and only let in selective people that support their world view.  So they aren't for the greater good, but for the good of a select few.  The little bit we do know about it is mainly because of Dan Brown's books and the Vatican reacting to that.

The Vatican threatened to excommunicate politicians over a variety of issues, including abortion and gay rights. As a gay man you should know what your church has been doing on the topic. There is a huge difference between getting kicked out of a club and being sentenced by your religion to burn in hell for eternity.  It was nice of you to compare the catholic church to the KKK.

Us unwashed immoral losers shouldn't be held to the same standard as your godlike side, so stop saying "you guys do it so why shouldn't we".  You guys are doing everything in the name of your god, so you should be held to a very high standard.

So you are admitting that there is no such thing as a truly secular government, because religion will always weasel it's way in.  Secular governments are tainted by religion, so they should get some credit added to counter the negative created by the taint.  If it weren't for catholics in the UK government, gays would have more equality and the catholic church wouldn't get special rights to discriminate against gays for an extra 7 years, while using taxpayer money.  Now that the 7 years are up, they've closed shop rather than not discriminate against gays.

I'm fully aware of the supposed separation of church and state, but your side is against that.  This is why judges have the 10 commandments in the court rooms, churches get taxpayer money and the list goes on and on and on…........  Your side has done, and keeps doing, everything in it's power to destroy that separation.

Not everyone who qualifies for welfare is registered to get it.  Also, not all medical cover requires welfare.  In Texas you can get free health care even if you don't qualify for welfare. Cuba is a vile evil godless heathen society and they have a lot better medical system than many other counties in the west.  Now compare that to Iran, Saudi, etc, etc, etc who are religious governments.

If religion is so great, then why hasn't it stamped out greed and all the other societal ills?  After all, religion has pretty much controlled society since the beginning.

I also have a hard time understanding how you can so rabidly defend a church that hates you.  Yeah, I know you say you disagree with their stance on homosexuality, but then you are disagreeing with a core belief of the religion.

That's not the one I'm thinking of.

The Boys of St Vincent is about an orphanage.

The one I'm thinking of is about a small farm community.

**EDIT: ** According to Wikipedia, The Boys of St Vincent is based on real events at Mount Cashel Orphanage (part 1) and the trial (part 2).

Couldn't the same be said for another other minority rights?  People always feared that there would be a backlash.

The only compromise is to make all relationships "civil unions" under the law and make "marriage" mean nothing except as a church thing.

Society is moving forward, as young people are a lot more accepting of gays.  Sadly it takes 10,000 years before politics catches up.

BTW, do a bit of googling, gays have been getting married throughout history.  It's only in the last few centuries that people have gone mental over it.

There is a movie about the very first legal case over the child molestation thing.

The incident took place in the mid/late 1960s in Canada.

It was amazing how evil the church was to the victims.  Sadly, it seems like this is a pattern with the church.  The victims are victimized twice, once by the priest and then by the church itself.

The guilty priest got convicted, but released into the churches hands for rehab.  (Special rights for the church, as no other group would have a child molester turned over to them, the molester would be sent to prison)

Most child molesting priests would be secretly moved to another parish and the people there never told he was a child molester.

But you did say that in order for secular governments to be preferable over religious governments, they have to be A LOT BETTER.

Nice excuse for the church (all churches) to amass obscene wealth. Am I assuming correctly that your philosophy teacher was at a catholic school?

Just because there are other ills in the world, doesn't mean that religion gets a pass.

The Vatican library could be done just like the Library of Congress, which is open to most and you can see anything you want.  You may not get to see the exact original but you get to see an exact copy of the original.  That is not the case with the Vatican library.

I never said it was secret, but they are extremely selective on who can see it and what is allowed to be seen.

That is the problem though, secular governments are riddled with religious nutters.  So a lot of the problems in secular governments go back to religion.  The Vatican threatened to excommunicate politician if they voted certain ways on issues.  It happened in Canada, the UK, the US, Spain, France and I would guess every other country on the planet.

Churches are getting taxpayer money to run their charities and they are using that money to discriminate. It's another example of religious nutters in secular government pandering to their religion.  SO again, secular governments are never truly secular.

Tony Blair gave the catholic church special rights to continue discriminating against gays for 7 years after everyone else had to stop doing it. Tony Blair was a closet catholic and he loaded his cabinet with catholics, like the Opus Dei member Ruth Kelly.  So the catholic church gets special rights over the countries own state church, because the country was run by catholics.  Ruth Kelly was a well known homophobe when Tony Blair made her the Minister for Equality.

Millions of Americans don't have health insurance, but I'm willing to bet that many of them would qualify for medical benefits under the welfare system.

I could have gone to the emergency room, but read up on that, people can wait days in there before being seen.  On the next working day they would have just told me to go see my GP.

BTW, I'm a dual national (US/UK, American by birth) so I am well aware of what goes on in the US.  I am forced to live in exile so I can be with my British partner.