FIve things that you believe never should have been invented.

[shwnbob]

1. 3D movies "Hey this movie didn't do so well 20 years ago. Lets bring it back but in 3D! Now people are going to love it."
2. 3D televisions. "Everybody loves wearing 3D glasses while they watch t.v right?"
3. 3DS Thats just a stupid idea.
4. Xbox 360 Kinect "Hey kids love the Wii right? What if, and I know this is just a shot in the dark but, WHAT IF we use motion controllers on the 360 too? *gasp* ingenious!
5. Pretty much every song played on the radio this past year.

 

[LaBambaMan]

After having read this thread I shall contribute.

1) Reality TV - Seriously? How is scripted bullshit reality?
2) Twilight - Way to ruin an entire popular monster Steph.
3) The Auto-Tuner - If you can't fucking sing then don't become a fucking singer, simple as that.
4) The comments section of Yahoo news stories - Full of nothing but trolls, retards and bigots.
5) This thread - No witty comment, just take it the fuck down already.

 

[Ham_authority95]

1. Male enhancement.

2. Sensitivity to gore, porn, etc

3. Political labels

4. "Bros before hoes"

5. Lists of things that should never have been invented.

 

[Ham_authority95]

1.4chan.
No 4chan=No more Ruined Childhoods.

*jersey accent* Fugettuboutit!

Who needs childhood anyway? XD

 

[tsb247]

1. Guns and bombs. Seriously, they are designed for killing other humans, how messed up is that? Even swords can be used for play-fighting (blunt weapons, padded armour and good spirited fun, get these three things and a parnter and away you go).

Uhhhh... So one cannot, "Play-fight," and have, "Good-spirited fun," with gun-like objects? I beg to differ, and so do thousands of paintballers, airsofters, and firearms enthusiasts.

I find it funny though considering swords serve the same purpose as a gun or a bomb, and you find them acceptable. That is a bit of a double-standard no?

Spoiler: Good- spirited fun (fake) guns

I could post videos of fun activities to be performed with real ones too!

 

[Ampersand]

Religion: Yeah.

Hurp

1. Religion - Pretty basic thing here. I suppose it wasn't necessarily an "invention" depending on how you look at it, but... Whatever.

Durp

Despite religion creating strict social structure and morals, paving the way for current values and civilisations, a small minority sometimes knock on my door really early in the morning so they shouldn't exist.

Religion is not necessary for social structures or morality but rather is detrimental to them ................. I think we could do without it.

 

[Valkyrie101]

3. Cars (motorbikes are fine). They are multi-tonne pieces of metal travelling in excess of 60km/h, controlled by a bunch of impatient drivers through the use of three pedals and a wheel. I mean seriously, half the people I've met don't even care that they are in control of something that can kill dozens of people with nothing more than a brief lapse of concentration.

Do you have a better method of transportation?

 

[Fetzenfisch]

1 Electricity. Steam power FTW
2 Any traveling device thats not a Zeppelin
3 Rap
4 Weaponless Motorsports
5 Monotheism

 

[Korimyr the Rat]

I only need two:

1) The DNA paternity test.
2) The atomic bomb.

 

[Safaia]

There isn't anything wrong with religion in general I think. It sets a moral guideline for people and gives them purpose in life. I've always said I envy people with faith because that must be so comforting. Yes, religion is the cause for lots of pain, but it also helps to make people strive to better. Fanatics ruin everything and I don't think religion should be singled out for it.

I can't think of five things at the moment. I just wanted to throw my two cents in on the religion thing.

 

[Ampersand]

Gee bro thanks for quoting me from the front page without checking to see if, you know, that discussion already occurred. You may also have noticed that I later retracted that claim.

And as for the detrimental claim, prove it.

I'd be glad to. As for social structures religion is a dividing factor more than anything else, it arbitrarily labels people from the time they're born and incourages them to shun people who hold diffent view points then they do, creating rifts in communities. Hence detrimental to social structures.

As for morals. You can't say that religion and morality are linked because it is literaly impossible for someone to be moral as a result of their religion.
Example: If someone does something good because they fear what punishment they will recive if the don't, then they are not making a moral decision.
On the other hand there has been an awful lot of totally immoral acts, both in the present day and throughout history, that have been done not only in the name of religion but justified using religion.
Hence detrimental to morality.

and I could go on.
Religion just can't be defended and trying to defend it on a social or moral ground is really not puting your best foot forward.

 

[LatinGeek]

-Religion
-Religion
-Religion
-Religion
-Religion

 

[kannibus]

Here we go

1. Justin Bieber (not only should he have been drowned at birth, his parents and possibly grandparents should have been as well)

2. Decaf Coffee

3. Republicans

4. Vampires that sparkle

5. DRM

That is all

 

[ALuckyChance]

Religion: Yeah.

Hurp

1. Religion - Pretty basic thing here. I suppose it wasn't necessarily an "invention" depending on how you look at it, but... Whatever.

Durp

Despite religion creating strict social structure and morals, paving the way for current values and civilisations, a small minority sometimes knock on my door really early in the morning so they shouldn't exist.

Religion is not necessary for social structures or morality but rather is detrimental to them ................. I think we could do without it.

It can be. Sure, religion caused the Crusades. They also hold charities worldwide. It might not be necessary for social structures, but it is a part of them nonetheless. Don't get me wrong, I'm an atheist myself. I just think your post sounds kind of dumb.

Anyway, some religions can be pretty tolerable, like a lot of the Asian ones. Christianity - as in, the Bible version of Christianity, where it can be batshit insane at points - is probably one of the most insane religions out there, not counting the very small minorities.

EDIT: Also, that horribad game Castles & Catapults.

 

[NeonAnderson]

1. Star Wars new trilogy (if only George Lucas died before he even started thinking of a new trilogy and worse yet new Indiana...)
2. Justin Bieber (doesn't need much explaining)
3. Kanye West (he keeps fking interrupting me! )
4. South Park (I'm addicted to it, such an awesome series)
5. Twilight saga movies... (self explanatory!)

 

[Ampersand]

Religion: Yeah.

Hurp

1. Religion - Pretty basic thing here. I suppose it wasn't necessarily an "invention" depending on how you look at it, but... Whatever.

Durp

Despite religion creating strict social structure and morals, paving the way for current values and civilisations, a small minority sometimes knock on my door really early in the morning so they shouldn't exist.

Religion is not necessary for social structures or morality but rather is detrimental to them ................. I think we could do without it.

It can be. Sure, religion caused the Crusades. They also hold charities worldwide. It might not be necessary for social structures, but it is a part of them nonetheless. Don't get me wrong, I'm an atheist myself. I just think your post sounds kind of dumb.

Anyway, some religions can be pretty tolerable, like a lot of the Asian ones. Christianity - as in, the Bible version of Christianity, where it can be batshit insane at points - is probably one of the most insane religions out there, not counting the very small minorities.

EDIT: Also, that horribad game Castles & Catapults.

Sure it's cool that religion scares people into behaving some of the time but that weighed against all the misery it has caused, it just isn't worth it.
As tolerable as some religions may seem they still manipulate their followers with fear and can on that virtue can be very dangerous.

 

[ALuckyChance]

Religion: Yeah.

Hurp

1. Religion - Pretty basic thing here. I suppose it wasn't necessarily an "invention" depending on how you look at it, but... Whatever.

Durp

Despite religion creating strict social structure and morals, paving the way for current values and civilisations, a small minority sometimes knock on my door really early in the morning so they shouldn't exist.

Religion is not necessary for social structures or morality but rather is detrimental to them ................. I think we could do without it.

It can be. Sure, religion caused the Crusades. They also hold charities worldwide. It might not be necessary for social structures, but it is a part of them nonetheless. Don't get me wrong, I'm an atheist myself. I just think your post sounds kind of dumb.

Anyway, some religions can be pretty tolerable, like a lot of the Asian ones. Christianity - as in, the Bible version of Christianity, where it can be batshit insane at points - is probably one of the most insane religions out there, not counting the very small minorities.

EDIT: Also, that horribad game Castles & Catapults.

Sure it's cool that religion scares people into behaving some of the time but that weighed against all the misery it has caused, it just isn't worth it.
As tolerable as some religions may seem they still manipulate their followers with fear and can on that virtue can be very dangerous.

Do you know much about any religion other than Christianity? Hinduism, for example, is incredibly sensible - basically, it says not to be immoral - with the whole karma thing - and you can hardly say that's bad. What you're doing is generalizing many, many different religious ideals, categorizing all of them squarely into the 'fearmongering' category. I could understand you hating on Christianity, or Judaism, or Islam, any of the Abrahamic religions. Hating on ALL of them, however, is a bit much.

You also seem to forget how religion is a huge fixture on our culture. The entire reason Europe - nay, the whole world - is what it is today is because of religion.

EDIT: Actually, let's weigh the bad and good things religion has done:

Bad: Inquisition, Crusades, Massacres of Jews and Muslims, wars, etc.
Good: Charities, provided knowledge (in the Middle Ages, and that's only counting Christianity), taught the concepts of humility, chastity, and the follies of sin, etc.

Finally, one more thing to make clear - Religion isn't the thing that did all the bad things, it's the people that followed it, the people that twisted the holy scriptures to suit their greedy and deceitful ambitions. Hell, religion didn't even cause all that; the inherent weakness of the human mind did.

 

[Ampersand]

Religion: Yeah.

Hurp

1. Religion - Pretty basic thing here. I suppose it wasn't necessarily an "invention" depending on how you look at it, but... Whatever.

Durp

Despite religion creating strict social structure and morals, paving the way for current values and civilisations, a small minority sometimes knock on my door really early in the morning so they shouldn't exist.

Religion is not necessary for social structures or morality but rather is detrimental to them ................. I think we could do without it.

It can be. Sure, religion caused the Crusades. They also hold charities worldwide. It might not be necessary for social structures, but it is a part of them nonetheless. Don't get me wrong, I'm an atheist myself. I just think your post sounds kind of dumb.

Anyway, some religions can be pretty tolerable, like a lot of the Asian ones. Christianity - as in, the Bible version of Christianity, where it can be batshit insane at points - is probably one of the most insane religions out there, not counting the very small minorities.

EDIT: Also, that horribad game Castles & Catapults.

Sure it's cool that religion scares people into behaving some of the time but that weighed against all the misery it has caused, it just isn't worth it.
As tolerable as some religions may seem they still manipulate their followers with fear and can on that virtue can be very dangerous.

Do you know much about any religion other than Christianity? Hinduism, for example, is incredibly sensible - basically, it says not to be immoral - with the whole karma thing - and you can hardly say that's bad. What you're doing is generalizing many, many different religious ideals, categorizing all of them squarely into the 'fearmongering' category. I could understand you hating on Christianity, or Judaism, or Islam, any of the Abrahamic religions. Hating on ALL of them, however, is a bit much.

You also seem to forget how religion is a huge fixture on our culture. The entire reason Europe - nay, the whole world - is what it is today is because of religion.

I've spocken to a number of hindu and to be honest i've got no beef with them. As you say they are inoffensive although i don't know enough about them to say that with certainty. I'd still rather if people did good things out of kindness or genuine compasion rather then what they think they can gain from it.

I haven't forgotten that religion has helped shaped the world (and i like the world) but wars and plagues have helped shape the world as well and I certainly don't think we need those today either.

 

[Loud Noise]

Aerosol Hair-Sprays
Corn Syrup (just because it's cheap doesn't mean it needs to be put in all food.)
Mass-Produced Meat
Mao Tse-tung "More Of Us" Population Theorum
Genetic-Recombinant Diseases
iPhone (because it made "number eight" on a top 100 list of all time.)


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