When people abuse other people's trust, especially in relationships. I heard about a situation where a friend cheated on his girlfriend and didn't even care that he'd hurt her. I had to restrain myself from hurting him, people like that are scum.
WOOHOO, REDUNDANCY!!!Ultra-Chronic Monstah said:Grammar is a blanket term, and it includes spelling. Saying grammar and spelling is a tad redundant.maxmanrules said:Grammar. And pronunciation. And spelling.
AAAARGH WHY CAN'T PEOPLE REALIZE IT'S so and so and I, not me and so and so!!!
I'll stop being a dick now D:
I would hope that the flaw in your analysis here is obvious. The nobles didn't decide to march thousands of peasants off to their death regardless of how well they thought it would go, which is made evident by the fact that they only started in 1096 and not hundreds of years earlier (which would logically follow if recapturing the Holy Land was truly their biggest priority). They started the Crusades primarily because they thought they would gain more than they lost - whether or not they were right is a different story, but it's not a case of "because of this one religious factor we will start a war that is extremely costly and will lead to a large loss of life" as much as "we can probably benefit from this war, let's use religion as the pretext"JacobShaftoe said:Yes and I'm sure many western European nobles felt like starving to death in large numbers while marching thousands of peasents off to their deaths so many miles from anywhere they knew of or gived a hoot about... Racism is a fine reason for war, as is competition for local resources, but all those wars were easy to find a lot closer to home. Next?Purple Shrimp said:lol, this is the one example that I ALWAYS get given but it's literally the easiest one to disprove. I actually did so in my post above, but I'll copy it for you in case you missed it (which is probably reasonable)JacobShaftoe said:The crusades? THE CRUSADES???Purple Shrimp said:feel free to give me an example of a number of genocides, wars, etc. at the hands of religion that wouldn't have occurred with a different pretext, that sum to the death of millions of people.
good luck
FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK THE CRUSADES???
What other pretext could there be for the fucking crusades?
Shit, even the pope apologised for the crusades.
Oh, and if it hasn't sunk in yet, how about the crusades?
Oh, and as a side note, I'd like to put foreward all forms of circumcision, religios fasting, strenuous rituals etc and see what you have to say to that?
(for example, the Crusades don't count, as I strongly doubt that the diametrically opposed European and Middle Eastern cultures who were both warlike, were largely founded upon racism and had different skin colours would have otherwise had a beautiful, friendly relationship even if the war wasn't justified through religion)
That's actually completely untrue. The studies that claimed that HPV and other such sexually transmitted diseases were associated with a lack of circumcision were disproved almost a decade ago. Just for the record, I'm circumcised.Tdc2182 said:Eww. Do you know why circumcision is recommended these days? Very nasty germs get under that excess skin and has very detrimental risks to your one eyed snake.
I agree with that, because of the pure sadness that can come from the tiniest lapse in attention or grip.Secret world leader (shhh) said:A small child losing a balloon makes me sad. I don't know why.