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it's heartening to see so many open-minded people here :) a lot less calling creationism/intelligent design bullshit than i thought. the basic point of this thread is not whether you think one idea is better than another, but whether or not religion and science should be amalgamated. i guess...

man... i actually do try to read the backs of shampoo, moisturisers and makeup to identify the IUPAC compounds, esters, various pigments and "lakes" in my blush and lipstick. um. and at a party i began rattling on about ethanol as a fuel (mind u, i had a fair bit of ethanol in me at the...

12C bonds. not really THAT big, but big enough that some tops are tight around the chest but nowhere else (that irks me).

the oysters were ridiculous. i got 60g of oysters all up, assumed that each oyster was 10g and went for C. that said, it wasn't entirely bad...there were a few questions i sort-of knew (the most annoying, since it just won't come but it's tantalisingly on the edge of your memory) but managed...

i think it's silly to mix science with religion. they're 2 different things. science deals with the how, religion with the why - it's possible to believe both but it's beyond me as to why they'd teach religion as an integral part of science. it makes so much more sense to teach the theory as it...

just a few i can think of... HP books >>>>>>>>>>>>> HP movies (screw you, kloves!!!!!..plus the spirit of the books are lost) LotR? hmm. i like both, actually, and i really think jackson did the best job possible. so i'm going to go greater than or equal to LotR films. some movie...

i hate kloves!!!! sooo much!!! by funny i mean he cracks jokes, makes the trio laugh and have fun in the BOOK. which he does on many occasions (some gutter humour like "uranus", admittedly, but other one-liners that just make them crack up and see the funny side). harry doesn't have much fun...

atm i rate harry potter as 1 and LotR as 2... but i suppose deep down i know LotR is the greater achievement and grudgingly would accept that it is the "best". i just enjoy harry potter heaps more. hitchhiker's guide must also have a mention :) man i love douglas adams humour!! edited...

nooo!!!! ginny's not a slut. seriously, think about it - she dates a grand total of three guys (michael corner, dean and harry) within almost three years. for a fifteen year old girl (who is popular, lively, good at sports and so pretty that even slytherins and a death eater in combat say so)...

haha...fortunately i never see rupert grint as ron. but when i visualise harry potter scenes, daniel radcliffe is always harry. the movies do a fairly good job, but they just don't have the life and humour that the books do (and i do not count ron-comic-relief as humour...i love ron very much...

*hides* lol yes. studied him briefly in studies of religion. errr yeah, personally i don't agree with a lot of what he says - but (please correct me if i'm wrong) i'm under the impression he doesn't have a lot of political power. i think there are only 2 CDP members in the legislative council...

hehehe. only if the ethics "syllabus" is from our state govt, tho. wouldn't get it from the federal.

i didn't say majority of the population. i meant majority of the electorate in which that guy was running. and as ntb said, perhaps the majority got their 2nd preference. so although it's not quite as direct as it could otherwise be, it's still democratic enough. not quite...

If Family First/etc are voted in by various people, the logical conclusion is that a majority of that particular electorate wanted them there. Therefore their behaviour/policies shouldn't be seen as "threatening" to everyone's way of life. Especially because they're not even the majority in...

lol. pity they got rid of rep. thanks ntb :)

Why? Apart from the whole fuckers being spelt with no apostrophe, there's something pretty wrong with that. Do the Christian Right ppl in Australia threaten your way of life personally? Do they wish to kill you? They might live in a way that you disagree with and have varying ideas on social...

i know it's a big read, but if u know it like the back of your hand... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - seriously, so much political stuff! especially with the power of the media, belittling the opposition and so on...and then u can talk about the characterisation of Fudge and...

i thought clumsy and whatever the other word was...because the son thought that his mum hated grandma saying stuff like that. but i was really confused. oh and i said dallas wanted to distance herself from her mum. anyone else think that was a pretty funny stab at dallas gibson? and did...

ditto. it was heaps harder than the medentry stuff (especially the patterns!!). it was also pretty weird, because i usually finish s1 in half the time - so this time i spent a while thinking about each one and ran out of time!! awful. s2 was confusing, as always...and i started off s3...

my personal favourite is "after the end" by sugarquill headmistresses. it is the fanfic of all harry potter fanfics, i think... in fact a lot of sugarquill stuff is good. test of time, Hermione queen of witches (her diary...pretty funny stuff) and so on. don't really like speculative fic...