Sunbird she/her Posted July 27, 2016 Posted July 27, 2016 1 hour ago, Slowswift said: I had a reply written, but then teh internetz went kaput and I lost it all. So. Basically, even if you get a horizontal flag, if you're going to hang it vertically, you should flip it so the Union's at the top left. But, while the Flag Code is technically federal law, it's not legally binding thanks to the First Amendment. So, really, you can hang it any way you want, but there is a right way to do it. Huh. I didn't know that. Sunbird has gained +1 American flag knowledge! 1
Silverblade5 he/him Posted July 27, 2016 Posted July 27, 2016 9 minutes ago, Sunbird said: Huh. I didn't know that. Sunbird has gained +1 American flag knowledge! Our Sunbird has leveled up!
Orlion Blight he/him Posted July 27, 2016 Posted July 27, 2016 2 hours ago, Slowswift said: I had a reply written, but then teh internetz went kaput and I lost it all. So. Basically, even if you get a horizontal flag, if you're going to hang it vertically, you should flip it so the Union's at the top left. But, while the Flag Code is technically federal law, it's not legally binding thanks to the First Amendment. So, really, you can hang it any way you want, but there is a right way to do it. Ah, but it is on his left! 1
+Slowswift Posted July 27, 2016 Posted July 27, 2016 18 hours ago, Orlion Determined said: Ah, but it is on his left! Yeah, but it's on display facing outwards. Ergo, incorrect orientation.
Elenion he/him Posted July 28, 2016 Posted July 28, 2016 5 hours ago, Slowswift said: Yeah, but it's on display facing outwards. Ergo, incorrect orientation. Flag code: and you thought the tax code was complicated... 5
Sunbird she/her Posted July 28, 2016 Posted July 28, 2016 9 minutes ago, Elenion said: Flag code: and you thought the tax code was complicated... At least violating the flag code can't make you bankrupt or land you in prison...
Elenion he/him Posted July 28, 2016 Posted July 28, 2016 Just now, Sunbird said: At least violating the flag code can't make you bankrupt or land you in prison... Although violating the flag code can make you a target for patriotic vigilantes. #murica
Sunbird she/her Posted July 28, 2016 Posted July 28, 2016 2 minutes ago, Elenion said: Although violating the flag code can make you a target for patriotic vigilantes. #murica It would, if anyone in America these days were patriotic enough to want to become a vigilante for it.
Elenion he/him Posted July 28, 2016 Posted July 28, 2016 Just now, Sunbird said: It would, if anyone in America these days were patriotic enough to want to become a vigilante for it. I assume you don't live in hillbilly paradise, then.
Sunbird she/her Posted July 28, 2016 Posted July 28, 2016 3 minutes ago, Elenion said: I assume you don't live in hillbilly paradise, then. Nope. I live in Utah right now. The place closest to the description "hillbilly paradise" that I've ever lived would have to be the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. But based on what I see in the news, it seems like a large portion of Americans are ashamed to be American these days.
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted July 28, 2016 Posted July 28, 2016 Keyboard warriors. In particular, one keyboard warrior who has posted righteously angry replies to Amazon product reviews written by a younger, almost hilariously conservative me. Reviews that are stamped with dates from four, five, or six years ago, which I pointed out in my initial reply. I'll report this valiant knight of the interwebs if things escalate. But for now, I'll just settle for a vague sense of annoyance and wondering if they're actually going to answer my replies.
Sunbird she/her Posted July 29, 2016 Posted July 29, 2016 People who use "breath" as a verb. A person can breathe or take a breath but they cannot breath.
ThirdGen Posted July 29, 2016 Posted July 29, 2016 Using "less" as a verb instead of minus. "Four is five less one." Less doesn't sound like a verb to me, so it sounds like "Four is five less than one," which not even Picard could be made to say. 1
Ecthelion III he/him Posted July 29, 2016 Posted July 29, 2016 People counting down at sports events. They say the ones digit of the number when the decimal is still at .9 For example: Scoreboard: 4.9 Everyone: FOUR! Scoreboard: 3.9 Everyone: THREE! Scoreboard: 2.9 Everyone: TWO! Scoreboard: 1.9 Everyone: ONE! Scoreboard: 0.9 Everyone: ZERO! -awkward silence- Scoreboard: 0.0 Scoreboard: BZZZZZZZ 5
Elenion he/him Posted July 29, 2016 Posted July 29, 2016 3 hours ago, Ecthelion III said: People counting down at sports events. They say the ones digit of the number when the decimal is still at .9 For example: Scoreboard: 4.9 Everyone: FOUR! Scoreboard: 3.9 Everyone: THREE! Scoreboard: 2.9 Everyone: TWO! Scoreboard: 1.9 Everyone: ONE! Scoreboard: 0.9 Everyone: ZERO! -awkward silence- Scoreboard: 0.0 Scoreboard: BZZZZZZZ That scoreboard sound though.
Zathoth Posted July 29, 2016 Posted July 29, 2016 10 hours ago, Ecthelion III said: Scoreboard: 0.0 Even the scoreboard finds the silence awkward XD 4
Sunbird she/her Posted July 31, 2016 Posted July 31, 2016 @Cognizantastic People like that rub me the wrong way too; they're the kind of jerks who give religion in general a bad name. I'm a religious person, but I know very well that good people can be found in and out of organized religion. Sorry you have to put up with that nonsense.
Oversleep Posted July 31, 2016 Posted July 31, 2016 37 minutes ago, Cognizantastic said: This was, of course, after she told me that nonreligious people can't have a valid intrinsic moral framework, that they only think they're good. According to her, goodness and salvation are impossible without belief in Christ. What the rusting what storm now? She must be part of a different version of christianity than I am.
Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her Posted July 31, 2016 Posted July 31, 2016 (edited) My biggest pet peeve is mean people. :/ Edited July 31, 2016 by Queen Elsa Steelheart
Delightful Posted July 31, 2016 Posted July 31, 2016 2 hours ago, Cognizantastic said: This was, of course, after she told me that nonreligious people can't have a valid intrinsic moral framework, that they only think they're good. According to her, goodness and salvation are impossible without belief in Christ. And religious non-Christians break her brain? So I really don't know how I feel about this. /what I think. On the one hand, nobody thinks they're a villain and it is literally possible to justify anything. I'm sure hitler thought he was improving the world. It follows that the only way to know something is objectively right or wrong is the word of god. But like I need G-D to tell me that volunteering at a hospital is good?! As if atheists are incapable of being decent people?! and then, Amalek. G-D commands genocide and I've heard it explained as a 'kill baby Hitler' logic. But G-D also follows the opposite logic and saved Ishmael, and here my logic is tripped up because I automatically refer back to religion anyway. And look at the amount of atrocities committed in the name of G-D. i believe in right and wrong but I'm not so sure how we tell which is which sometimes.
Orlion Blight he/him Posted July 31, 2016 Posted July 31, 2016 8 minutes ago, Delightful said: And religious non-Christians break her brain? So I really don't know how I feel about this. /what I think. On the one hand, nobody thinks they're a villain and it is literally possible to justify anything. I'm sure hitler thought he was improving the world. It follows that the only way to know something is objectively right or wrong is the word of god. But like I need G-D to tell me that volunteering at a hospital is good?! As if atheists are incapable of being decent people?! and then, Amalek. G-D commands genocide and I've heard it explained as a 'kill baby Hitler' logic. But G-D also follows the opposite logic and saved Ishmael, and here my logic is tripped up because I automatically refer back to religion anyway. And look at the amount of atrocities committed in the name of G-D. i believe in right and wrong but I'm not so sure how we tell which is which sometimes. As I've heard elsewhere, "God created Man in his own image. Man returned the favor." 2
Delightful Posted July 31, 2016 Posted July 31, 2016 2 minutes ago, Orlion Determined said: As I've heard elsewhere, "God created Man in his own image. Man returned the favor." Ooh I like.
TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her Posted July 31, 2016 Posted July 31, 2016 Ehh…..I'll go ahead and spoiler this, just in case and for the heck of it. Spoiler Great Noodly One, I was raised by those people—the ones who say, in all seriousness, that it's impossible to be a truly good person apart from God. And honestly? I can see a few reasons for why they adopt that theology. Pride is one of them, to be sure—believing you're better than someone who volunteers in a hospital because you went on a missions trip to Mexico is a pretty heady feeling—but it also comes down to fear, which comes down to a belief that good works aren't enough. That you can do and do and do and God won't care, because all he cares about is how many people you witnessed to that week. I think all of those different factors feed each other—you believe that God cares about souls and nothing else, so you fear displeasing God, so you wind up feeling better than others outside the church, but you fear that you're not doing enough to please God, so you tell them what you've been taught, and when they react badly, you get louder, but you also feel a little proud for being so bold. What am I trying to do here? I'm not entirely sure. I'm not trying to defend what this girl said, because it's an awful thing to say; but as someone who not only once believed it, but said similar things on occasion, is it wrong of me to think that she's probably suffering from that same pride-fear complex I used to have? That she sometimes goes to bed wondering if God is mad at her because she didn't mention him by name that day? Is it wrong of me to feel sorry for her, for the way she's driving away the people who could show her that goodness is a human trait and free her from that theological hamster wheel? I don't know. 1
Oversleep Posted August 1, 2016 Posted August 1, 2016 I was writing a long post relating to the whole thing but it started to stray into difficult topics as I took on the place of the religion in the society (y'know, why religious people perceive some things as morally unacceptable while people of a different mindset don't). So I just want to remind Jasnah words on good and bad people, both in and out of religion.
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