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It's a lot more random and scattershot here than in some places. Some people get away with doing shit that others get banned for. Some PBPs are let back but some aren't. It basically comes down to a popularity contest, who the mods like and who they don't.

It's all chemical. Testosterone as a hormone tends to influence a person towards violent and aggressive behavior, and of course men have a lot more of that than women. But there are certainly violent women out there, lots of them. And it's just a cosmic coincedence that human females are generally smaller, physically weaker, and less aggressive than men. There are many species of life in which the females are larger, stronger, and more violent than the males; just look at black widow spiders for an excellent example. And even if you're right and a matriarchal society would rule peacefully instead of using violence like all the male-dominated ones, for that to work then every culture on earth would have to be matriarchal. Otherwise you'd still have at least one opposing country in which ultraviolent dickswingers are still in control, and most likely they'd look at all those peace-n-love wimmenfolk as nothing more but easy prey.

Well yeah, that's great, but what about, y'know, reading the book before dismissing it?

What, you didn't see Bagwell vs. Booker five years ago on Raw?

Plus, Edge is a much better wrestler than Cena and would have by far a better match with Van Dam than Cena would. There's no way that they'd let Cena, as he's being booked right now, be a heel and lose the title on the ECW show.

Have you read the book? Have you seen the pages and pages of research he gathered to back up his points?

I agree with Rudo, Edge would be the best choice, he'd also probably have the best match with RVD out of the various people involved. I don't think they'd have a Cena/RVD match at ONS, because Vince is apparently in love with Cena's babyface character, and whoever RVD faces that night will be booed out of the fucking building. (Remember the "Fuck John Cena" chants last year, long before the Cena-hating trend started, when he wasn't even there that night?)

Not only could I, but yesterday and with my eyes closed. 161. Bannings. More specifically, their haphazard nature and all the arguing and DRAWMUH that always accompanies them.

Well, why not? Humans are violent and territorial by nature. Are you saying that the world would forever have remained a collection of separate peoples with no colonies or invasions, or that a benevolent utopian society would somehow take over the world in a nonviolent manner?

Just read the book and check on all his research before automatically dismissing it sight unseen.

Didn't he cheat on Chyna to get with Steph in the first place?

Dozens of websites reprint stuff from each and every issue, I doubt it'll be a problem.

I'm pretty sure it was a flapjack. The scary thing about Singh is that he's been wrestling for almost six years. To put in in perspective, he's been wrestling almost as long as guys like Orton. He's not just some random big musclehead that they brought in off the street. He's an experienced veteran, and he STILL sucks that bad.

Man, Raw sucks tonight. When the most entertaining thing on a show is a man committing 29392 acts of blasphemy in a row, that's not so good. Holy SHIT that chairshot was the nicest offense Carlito's ever thrown.

Just a quick trip back to the Africa argument: yes, the Europeans did a LOT of nasty, reprehensible things during the colonial era. But it was just a matter of time before someone did that, plain and simple. One part of the world or another was going to develop superior technology and then take over the rest of the world. Europe was just lucky enough to get there first. Otherwise, we might have black and white people both bitching about how the Chinese have kept us down for the last few hundred years. And in the case of places like Africa and Iraq, where we've spent billions of dollars and untold American lives, and yet the situation never improves. Well, simply, what should we do? If we try to aid them, things get worse. If we don't and just stay away, things get worse. The locals are so petty and factional in their disagreements, but they're willing to commit genocide over their beliefs. It seems like every possible plan of action has been tried, and they've all failed. What could possibly be done by the West that might actually end in lasting improvement?

Maybe both, unfortunately I never visited those boards (or their lovechild NMB) as much as I should've, my memory's hazy. But yeah, banning someone and then never publicly saying why just comes off like you've got something to hide.

Why lol?

I've been saying for years that the mods should officially announce when they ban someone and specify on the details about why they did it. It would cut way down on threads like this one where everyone has to play detective. Kinda like the old "N*gga you is BANNED" thing at WDI.

I don't think that minorities have a patent on that. Strom Thurmond comes to mind.

What do you expect? Conservatives have control over the White House, the supreme court, and Congress. Ergo they can do pretty much whatever they want. And conservatives have always in general thought that environmental concerns were overblown and that people having money was more important than animals having habitats. (And as a person myself, I can't completely disagree with that statement.) But the extent that the EPA has been castrated recently is pretty awful. If you truly believe in global warming, I mean old-school global warming caused by polluting humans that will soon kill us all, you need to read Michael Crichton's State of Fear. Read all the endless, exhaustive research that Crichton stacks up against the global warming theory. It destroyed any belief in GB that I had, and should be enough to make even the most fervent believer have a moment or two of doubt. The book's best point: the biggest problem with any scientific debate is that there's no such thing as statistics we can completely trust. Every statistic is subject to numerical inaccuracies, bias on the part of the compilers, or any of a thousand other variables that can throw off the accuracy of the information.

They denounce "false" gospels in order to keep their stranglehold on "the truth" as it were, and tell the version that they prefer. It's a neat bit of circular logic that helped the Vatican keep total religious control over the entire Christian world until the Protestant reformation: they say the Bible is the infallible word of God, but they chose which words go in and which stay out, plus their own scholars are the ones writing all the translations from the old scripts. People still use the word "heresy"? I've never been a fan of that word, mostly cuz the people who use it tend to want to kill those they find guilty of it.

There are a grand total of two matches I'd bother watching there (Styles/Kash and Hogan/Hennig), and they've been done elsewhere. No wonder this company folded so quick.

That's easy: either just ignore the sound or put the TV on mute, and watch the crowd instead. There's no way that even the WWE's magic editing machines can concoct a shot of all the people in the background standing up and cheering during a match. And judging by the massively positive response Rey got on the show tonight, I'd say this whole thread is a moot issue.

The GNAA sounds so cool that I'm considering turning ghey and getting a negroplasty just so I can join up. ...wait, NYF is a chick? That brings the number around here up to something like eight total. There are more trolls here than in all the mines of Moria. (Yep, really nerdy joke there.) As for the namesake of this thread, Czech, I always thought he was pretty cool. I don't know why recently he seems to have a tendency to follow me around a little and make fun of me and the Pit, but I've never had any problems with him.

I'd file this under "who really cares?". There are many, many unauthorized "gospels" that the Church has denounced over the years, this is just one more of 'em.