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Hate to be a party crasher guys, but don't forget to use spoiler tags when quoting large amounts of text and images! It'll keep things a little more organized.
Also, I think I'll rejoin the arena next week (after my trip to London).

I had a feeling you would mention him, and I couldn't agree more. He definitely deserves a spot in my favourites as well. His grim and obscure style don't merely illustrate a manga, it actually contributes to the overall tone.

I usually moved manga threads from Lit to A&M is the manga has an anime counterpart, and kept it in Lit when it didn't. That being said, manga threads created in A&M were kept there regardless of whether they have an anime counterpart.
I wasn't planning on changing it before I got any feedback [laziness] but I understand that this is confusing and chaotic. I'll see to it that manga threads are only kept in A&M from now on.

On a side note, I was thinking about suggesting a subsection for webcomics, since quite a few threads in Lit deal with them nowadays. Then again, Lit is such a small section that splitting it up even further won't have much effect. I want to hear people's opinions on it anyway though.

EDIT: Leafed through the first two pages of Lit and there weren't many manga threads that hadn't already been moved. Nevertheless, I'll keep an eye out for future ones.

This must be the most idiotic thing I've read all month.

Many wars in this world have been started with the benefit of the nation or even the world in mind. The war on terrorism is a striking example of this. Its ultimate goal is to vanquish acts of terrorism and the people who commit them where they appear, but how is this any less a war?
Dito for murder. Not everyone kills for selfish reasons. Some murderers are deluded into thinking they're helping humanity by picking off a black sheep. Heck, they might not always be deluded. Who's to say?

And hunger? Hunger is largely dependent on natural resources. "Caring" isn't enough to solve the hunger problem. People need the will and the means to tackle such an issue.

Favourite would be Ergo Proxy or Lain, with some other close seconds. Least favourite would be TOKKO and Air Gear. I sincerely regret watching those two till the end.

Matter resolved, I suppose.
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Alice Cooper --- House Of Fire

Your question can go in several directions at once but I'll pick a major one to discuss. See this thread for any points I may have missed.

Alright, here's what will happen. If anyone cared a little bit more about planet Earth's sorry state then we'd stretch humanity's life span for a while longer before falling into the inevitable decay anyway. The idea of "caring more" sounds very pink and fluffy but the gist is that it accomplishes little to nothing. Doesn't sound like what you want to hear? Too bad. It gets several times worse.

Sooner or later, humanity's stay on this earth will come to an end. We have little choice about how it will happen. Even if we try to weigh down less on the planet things have come too far for us not to deteriorate due to shortages of this and that in the end. In other words, we won't be at the peak of our welfare when doomsday approaches. We'll be long past it, and due to our slow awareness, we'll have been grinding through several generations of deterioration before the curtain falls. We can somewhat choose how soon this will take place, to a certain extent. And here's the catch: it doesn't matter.

We're all trying our very best to decrease our ecological footprint at the cost of our own pleasure and satisfaction in order to give more people the chance to live lives not worth mentioning. But whether there will be 500 or 5000 generations after ours won't affect the outcome in any way.
The unborn can't blame us if we stop living with the brakes on.
Therefore, your sympathy doesn't hold a candle to good old apathy. Not in this case.

You may find it disgusting. I find it better than wasting time.

Back. Will restart modding tomorrow.
It was of course unforgettably awesome.
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Yeah that is a piss-off. But warnings against that very kind of men are flying all over the net. If you still choose not to heed any of them then...

I'd like to do a Custom duel this time, if that's okay.

The thing is your one-liners hardly ever contribute to the discussion. Discussion isn't just throwing a sentence out there for others to break...

The Sword Of Shannara by Terry Brooks (part of the Shannara trilogy).
So far it reads okay, but I'm saving most to read on the airplane.

Me deleting your posts was supposed to give you a hint, but because that doesn't seem to cut I'll make this crystal clear... You've made a fair...

That is only the explanation if you choose to believe in convenience.
Sorry, but the "God works in mysterious ways" argument isn't gonna give you pole position in this debate, or any debate for that matter.

Or the vertebrate retina.
Or the blind spot.
Or the human vas deferens.

Evolution is logically bound by constraints, limitations in time and space, where a deity is not. These inefficiencies may not be the biggest of problems but they can be avoided nonetheless. Evolution can explain them. The intervention of God cannot. Zing!

Sounds very plausible, more so combined with the process of stabilizing selection. Stabilizing selection is a selection model where extreme phenotypes are "selected out" in favor of intermediate phenotypes, in this case extremely strong and extremely weak hearts in favor of regularly strong hearts.

Well I replied to every aspect of your post, both to how you feel about Patsy Stone's behaviour and to your take on creationism and evolution. The...