How I Feel About Modesty Threads

[PhuturePriest]

I missed that post the first time around. Thanks for quoting it, since my daily dose of creepy was lacking.

 

Glad I could help, handsome. ;)

[Nihil Obstat]

If you are engaged, why are you doing this?  Why are you wasting your time on me?  I'm flattered, but openly insignificant.

Because I'm studying, but I don't want to. :sad2:

[Anastasia13]

Petty humans...

[theculturewarrior]

it's about time you learned.

 

 

My learning curve is steep, but I have a good heart.

[ardillacid]

Just wrapping up the 1st season of X-files. Is there a point where Scully becomes a believable character? To date, she has seen poltergeist, a man with a gecko hand, alien abduction in progress, a wolfman, alien-mind-control worms, a man who starts fires with his mind, psychic possession by a dead man, a psychic, a superiour neanderthal-type human who somehow has gone undetected for the last 10000 years, people who can seduce with a touch, and a man who can 'thin' himself, yet at the beginning of every episode she acts like she has never seen anything out of the ordinary. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkzRNyygfk

You would post the ninny version. 

[Winchester]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lML2N4xB9GU[/media]

[Nihil Obstat]

Just wrapping up the 1st season of X-files. Is there a point where Scully becomes a believable character? To date, she has seen poltergeist, a man with a gecko hand, alien abduction in progress, a wolfman, alien-mind-control worms, a man who starts fires with his mind, psychic possession by a dead man, a psychic, a superiour neanderthal-type human who somehow has gone undetected for the last 10000 years, people who can seduce with a touch, and a man who can 'thin' himself, yet at the beginning of every episode she acts like she has never seen anything out of the ordinary. 

Yes and no. Obviously her character, her whole raison d'etre, is to be Mulder's foil, so (at least as far as the end of season 5) she never actually becomes as naively credulous as Mulder. But she doesn't stay as the obnoxious naysayer either. In the context of the show you might say that she goes from a conspiracy atheist to a conspiracy agnostic. There's a lot of stuff that goes on, even stuff directly involving her, that she's not able to debunk anymore, so she starts reacting more along the lines of "well ok, it might be something that weird, but first we should find out of it's actually [x y z]." Her conclusions are often "we just don't know what happened."

Interestingly, they reverse roles in one or two episodes where religion takes a front seat. :hehe: Scully is sort of culturally Catholic, and Mulder is, ironically, more of an atheist, and they butt heads over that as well.

 

I may be misremembering a bit here. It has been over a year since I've watched any episodes. Been meaning to watch more, but I always have other stuff to do.

[theculturewarrior]

Petty humans...

 

I'm just imagining what this is going to look like when their first prospective employer sees it.  Learn from my mistakes, boys.

[Winchester]

I'm just imagining what this is going to look like when their first prospective employer sees it.  Learn from my mistakes, boys.

 

Well, the stone tablets your first employer dug up on you must have been quite incriminating.

[theculturewarrior]

You were there.  You saw it all.  I could be unemployed for life.  I have a wife and a daughter now.  Winchester, I intended no disrespect.  The picture really bothered me.  The only reason I came back was to delete some old posts, and to not make the same mistake twice.

Edited December 18, 2012 by theculturewarrior

[Winchester]

You were there.  You saw it all.  I could be unemployed for life.  I have a wife and a daughter now.  Winchester, I intended no disrespect.  The picture really bothered me.  The only reason I came back was to delete some old posts, and to not make the same mistake twice.

 

I honestly don't remember whatever it was.

 

I didn't take it as disrespect, I took it as an overreaction. Which is totally human. I overreact. Intentionally, though, in order to make people feel better about themselves. I think the picture is awesome. That kid is rocking out.

[Tony]

This thread has similar logic to the "Inappropriate threads". I dont need to have been in the hangout to know that ;)

[LittleWaySoul]

 

Topic: Active and Passive Euthanasia (Killing versus Letting Die) as Discussed by Rachels and Steinbock [...]

 

I *love* the distinction JPII makes in Veritatis Splendor about the parts of an action. I learned about them this semester in my Christian Moral Principles class and also my Ethics class. Absolutely awesome.

 

I noticed that in your paper you seemed to consider the "circumstances" part of the action to be merely useful in diminishing the moral evil of an act or increasing the moral good of an act. However, Dr. Asci, my CMP professor, gave a pretty funny example of the circumstances doing the opposite that I shall always remember:

 

Object: Sexual union with one's wife

 

Intent: Consummating one's marriage

 

...seems morally appropriate so far, right? The circumstances, however, change that.

 

Circumstances: The location is a crowded hotel lobby

 

I'm sure you already knew that circumstances could alter an action in such a way, but I couldn't resist sharing the scenario Dr. Asci came up with for us. :hehe:

 

Anyway, thanks for sharing your paper! It was very interesting to read :)

[Nihil Obstat]

Lol! An excellent point. Circumstance is probably the most nebulous of the criteria.

[Nihil Obstat]

Hehe. I forgot that I wrote that. I assumed (having not looked at it) that I had been quoting a paper I bookmarked in Communio a few years back.

I should re-read V.S. and that issue of Communio sometime. The fonts of morality always seem to crop up. As they would.