<p>…unless of course you mean to say that it is weirder, or more perverse, to pretend you are hunting deer with a joy-stick on a video screen than to actually hunt deer with the old fashioned implements as a hunter: thus the difference between the pleasures of internet porn and old fashioned love-making.</p>
<p>Times…and realities…change I guess. </p>
<p>Unless you are a vegan, of course.</p>
<p>But the question is…would Bill and Hillary recruit a conservative? ;)</p>
<p>I suppose you’d have to ask Dick Morris about that…depends, I would think, on how bad they wanted what they wanted–from interns to the presidency itself.</p>
<p>I think the requirement is OUTRAGEOUS, and an infringement on our Second Amendment rights.</p>
<p>Next thing you know, they’ll want us to put warning labels on our nukes!</p>
<p>My first year college roommate was on the pistol team and kept a loaded one under his pillow. I see no reason for locks. He only came close to killing me once.</p>
<p>Tarhunt, are you making that up??? Are you serious???</p>
<p>Dorothy, you should give up. This morning, on another thread, I tried a little sarcasm. Actually, I laid it on pretty thick. Didn’t make any difference, people took me literally.</p>
<p>Were they liberals, by any chance? :)</p>
<p>latetoschool:</p>
<p>Well, I’m embellishing a bit. He really was on the pistol team, really did keep a firearm under his pillow, but he didn’t ever come close to killing me. But I must say that I was VERY careful not to wake him up when coming in late at night.</p>
<p>Snake:</p>
<p>Your replies are entirely too logical.</p>
<p>Well, thank ye, pardner. I’m still waiting to find out what a “fundy” is.</p>
<p>fundamentalist. your weight is over.</p>
<p>In fact, “Fundie” is to a variety of Christians what ‘Gip’ is to Gypsies, “spic” is to Hispanic, “Nip” is to *Nippon<a href=“Japanese”>/i</a> etc. etc. </p>
<p>That is to say that these derogatory epithets are short hand for those of a mind to minimize the respect and status due to those they consider to be ‘different’ or ‘beneath’ themselves; or in the parlance of our time it is a pernicious way to marginalize “the other.” In their defense it should be said that most of those who use such rotten terms are simply ignorant, not, as it would appear, fascist. </p>
<p>Though I suppose that ‘Newfie’ could replace ‘Fundie’ with an equal, and hateful, aplomb in the Maritimes.</p>
<p>LOL! I just love “Dottie’s” observances on ignorance!</p>
<p>Please, provide us with more eloquence!</p>
<p>how bout,… Sarc! </p>
<p>as in “she’s such a sarc.” </p>
<p>one drawn to sarcastic dismissals when confronted with a truth.</p>
<p>“Her remarks were, like lemon wax on a round table, bitter but remarkably shiny as befitting the sarc she was.”</p>
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<p>Happy to–for you and the mouse in your pocket:</p>
<p>In these affairs one is limited only by one’s own specific ignorance, hatred and imagination. Still, from time to time it has been shown that one has to adjust to the architecture of the specific terms given. </p>
<p>For instance, the most notorious fascist of our time, the German Dictator, was creatively limited by the single syllable of the word “Jew.” This being the case, instead of abbreviating the word, as in the case of “Gip”, “Nip,” “spic” or “Fundie” (here, there is also a parallel with the “N” word), he extended the original word into an epithet, as in the case of “Jew+”, adding some derogatory descriptive intended to dehumanize a group he, in his hateful ignorance, found detestable. </p>
<p>Thankfully, those who now use such terms as mentioned above have neither the dictator’s power nor his “will to power” as Schopenhauer would have it. </p>
<p>This, however, may still be of interest to some:
<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Language-Symbolic-Power-Pierre-Bourdieu/dp/0674510410/ref=pd_sim_b_2/103-0803445-5321404[/url]”>http://www.amazon.com/Language-Symbolic-Power-Pierre-Bourdieu/dp/0674510410/ref=pd_sim_b_2/103-0803445-5321404</a></p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
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I must say that “sarc” is, to my mind, adorable, especially in its epistemological similarity to “snark” and “shark” and even “to bark”.
Love it! Well done, Robrosen.</p>
<p>There’s a very funny series of GEICO commercials right now, “so easy, even a caveman can do it.” In the ad, it turns out that there really are cavemen, they have feelings, and they’re offended. It’s funny because <em>we</em> know there really aren’t any cavemen. But there are devout Christians out there. They’re real flesh and blood people, with real feeling. Most people wouldn’t call Catholics “Cathies” or Muslims “Muzzies.” They sure wouldn’t call Jews “Jewies” and certainly not “Hymies,” unless they are prominent civil rights leaders. I think “fundy” is a word most people would not use in polite company.</p>
<p>“I am not at all clear on the perversion alluded to”</p>
<p>Bwuh?</p>
<p>I guess I didn’t explain myself clearly. In general, if a school encourages an activity in real life (like, say, acting in a performance of “Hamlet”), it will also permit students to imitate that activity on the computer (by, say, downloading a video of “Hamlet”).</p>
<p>It’s odd to say that you can really shoot deer, but you can’t pretend to shoot deer.</p>
<p>…and yet, how much odder to aim and shoot at a pretend deer–even as an “adult”… even in college:)</p>
<p>As to Hamlet, even in the mind of Shakespeare he was “pretend” in origin. Hunting deer I would suppose to be of a different order of reality than hunting the ever elusive Shakespearean genius: even some of our greatest actors have a hard time nailing this one.</p>
<p>For instance, if one were to hunt down a real Hamlet the adventure could only end in such disappointment or charade as to make one give up hunting altogether; not so with deer, as the hunt ends with roasted venison, cider and pleasant company (Pavlov would have something to say about this).</p>
<p>As here:
<a href=“http://www.premiersystems.com/venison/[/url]”>http://www.premiersystems.com/venison/</a></p>
<p>I don’t see what the big deal is. Firearms are not allowed in the residence halls and must be stored. Pistols must have trigger locks while in storage. Students want to hunt or target shoot while at school, so they’ll bring their firearms with them. C’mon folks, gun ownership is not a crime! Let’s try to have open minds, minds open to diversity. Not everyone thinks like you do or grew up in a household like yours. If you don’t like guns, don’t own one. Doesn’t that sound familiar?</p>
<p>This is a private school so they can make any rule they want for what’s not allowed in the dorms. If you don’t like them, don’t go there!</p>