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Miss Starseed · Post by **Miss Starseed** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:39 am

I don't really know what to say to that. People are entitled to their beliefs, but when it comes to stuff like "If you eat pork, even accidentally, you are going to be punished for the rest of eternity." I just... can't wrap my head around it. I'd probably try to explain to him it was an accident and he didn't do it with the intention to go against his beliefs, but that seems like I'm telling him his beliefs are silly to begin with because it's just pork and he shouldn't focus on it so much.

Decker · Post by **Decker** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:40 am

I didn't even know baked beans were meat

Post by **Superior Bacon** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:41 am

Baked beans are often cooked in meat fat.

Decker · Post by **Decker** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:42 am

Ohhh

I just got learned

Karilyn · Post by **Karilyn** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:42 am

Bacon wrote:Baked beans are often cooked in meat fat.

This. Specifically pork fat.

Miss StarSeed wrote:I'd probably try to explain to him it was an accident and he didn't do it with the intention to go against his beliefs, but that seems like I'm telling him his beliefs are silly to begin with because it's just pork and he shouldn't focus on it so much.

IIRC, Israelis coat their bullets in pigs blood, as a way to help keep the neighboring Muslim countries from waging a direct war on them.

"We won't just kill you. We'll send you to hell for all eternity!"

Miss Starseed · Post by **Miss Starseed** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:42 am

Decker wrote:I didn't even know baked beans were meat

Most kinds of baked beans include bits of meat, or sometimes even drippings in the sauce.

Always read your labels carefully if you follow a strict diet. I had to facepalm at my friend when she was SHOCKED, ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED when she read the label on her can of vegetable soup and found out the broth had beef in it. I felt bad after but still, never just assume things. I'm always careful about medication I take because I'm deathly allergic to pencillin, which... is kind of common in the medical practise.

Post by **Superior Bacon** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:43 am

Bacon, that's what I was thinking of. Baked beans are cooked with bacon a lot.

Phat Shaggy · Post by **Phat Shaggy** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:43 am

Tall-Hatted Yanimae wrote:
Miss StarSeed wrote: I bring this up because Bunyip mentioned how she dawws when she sees homosexual couples, and it reminded me. She's not noticing them because it upsets her or she wants to single them out, she supports them and wants to see their relationship develop. Yet the same definition applies.

Is there such a thing as a "positive racist", if we were looking at the first example, of the girl who thought different skin tones were beautiful and to be prized? Or is it still just as bad to single somebody out, even if you intend to do so in a positive way?
I always more so associated things like Racism and Homophobia as having a directing resentment, hatred or just disdain towards people like that.

I do the same thing though. I will notice a Black person or someone of different color from the crowd more then others.
But when in a crowd mostly made up of people of that different color, I notice White people first who stand out in it.
I think it just has to do with an eye noticing something out the average. We always do this with people with crazy outfits or makeup who just look different than the rest of the population you see or are used to seeing.

At least that's what I think.

I think my eyes must be broken then compared to you guys then... I tend to notice people more so by what they're doing then by what they look like...

Miss Starseed · Post by **Miss Starseed** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:44 am

SO DID YOU GUYS KNOWN APPARENTLY AVATAR IS REALLY PISSING OFF THE GBLT COMMUNITY, BECAUSE, IN THE FUTURE, WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE TRANSEXUALS OR ANDROGYNOUS, AND THIS MOVIE IS OBVIOUSLY BEING OFFENSIVE BY ASSUMING THAT ISN'T THE CASE?

Tall-Hatted Yanimae · Post by **Tall-Hatted Yanimae** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:45 am

Well, I was only giving a few examples. That still pertains to what I say. You see something out of the ordinary, and you will notice it. That includes a crazy act someone does in public.

Post by **Superior Bacon** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:45 am

Wait what. What happens in Avatar?

Decker · Post by **Decker** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:45 am

Miss StarSeed wrote:
Decker wrote:I didn't even know baked beans were meat
Most kinds of baked beans include bits of meat, or sometimes even drippings in the sauce.

Always read your labels carefully if you follow a strict diet. I had to facepalm at my friend when she was SHOCKED, ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED when she read the label on her can of vegetable soup and found out the broth had beef in it. I felt bad after but still, never just assume things.

Ah!

Well I'm not really on a diet, but I still never knew. It's always weird to learn something new about something you thought you already knew.

Post by **The Bouncer** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:45 am

Miss StarSeed wrote:SO DID YOU GUYS KNOWN APPARENTLY AVATAR IS REALLY PISSING OFF THE GBLT COMMUNITY, BECAUSE, IN THE FUTURE, WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE TRANSEXUALS OR ANDROGYNOUS, AND THIS MOVIE IS OBVIOUSLY BEING OFFENSIVE BY ASSUMING THAT ISN'T THE CASE?

Idiots. All of them.

Decker · Post by **Decker** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:46 am

Miss StarSeed wrote:SO DID YOU GUYS KNOWN APPARENTLY AVATAR IS REALLY PISSING OFF THE GBLT COMMUNITY, BECAUSE, IN THE FUTURE, WE'RE ALL GOING TO BE TRANSEXUALS OR ANDROGYNOUS, AND THIS MOVIE IS OBVIOUSLY BEING OFFENSIVE BY ASSUMING THAT ISN'T THE CASE?

AHAHAHAHA YEAH

I heard about that, holy shit these guys make me laugh.

They plan to "Buy lots and lots of tickets to movie theaters to make sure other people can't get in to see it"

Tall-Hatted Yanimae · Post by **Tall-Hatted Yanimae** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 5:46 am

OH MY GOODNESS HOW COULD THEY DARE TO IMPLY A DIFFERENT OPINION OR IDEA THAT WAS MEANT MOSTLY TO ADVANCE A PLOT IN A FICTIONAL STORY HOW TERRIBLE OF HOLLYWOOD WE SHOULD JUST SHUT IT ALL DOWN FOR INSULTING THIS POOR GROUP.