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07-04-2007, 02:34 PM
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The pride one was also quite clever. I like the 'cut off your nose to spite your face' allusion.
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07-04-2007, 10:00 PM
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The ending was brilliant. The good guys never had any controll no matter how much they thought they did. As Spacey told Pitt "You're only alive because I let you live." Everything transpired as he planned and, in the end, he won.
No, I'm not a psycho. We all have a sick fascination with the bad guy winning sometimes.
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07-04-2007, 10:15 PM
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Sometimes? Almost always when I watch a tv show or a movie, and the bad guy gets so close to winning but the good guys pull it out in the end, I get so dissapointed. Probably because the good guy almost ALWAYS wins. And you get tired of it.
Except transformers. Optimus Prime is the ****.
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08-28-2007, 02:00 PM
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Well for me it's like this:
Pride- Yes, I AM better than everyone else.
Sloth- I don't think I'm all that lazy, I seldom ever play video games and pretty much everything I do is for my personal benefit, like I play poker for money, I play tennis for exercise, and for money, and I work for money and, yeah I really never do something that has no benefit to me, so no that's a sin I'm completely innocent of.
Envy- No, my pride kind of erases any envy I may have since I do believe I'm better than most everyone.
Gluttony- Technically no, since I don't let anything go to waste, I do eat quite a bit without gaining a pound, but I eat everything without leaving any food lying around, and I don't overdrink or oversmoke or overdo anything, well maybe I watch a bit too many movies, but does that count? I think not.
Greed- Yes, I am a selfish bastard, but I'm not cheap when it comes to women, sooooooo, I don't know.
Wrath- Yes, if somebody steals $5 from me I'll steal $10 from them.
Lust- Godamnit yes, what man isn't guilty of this?? | |
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08-28-2007, 09:14 PM
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When you really look at it, the seven deadly sins seem to be designed to repress our primal survival instincts. Of course we're guilty of them, it's our nature.
Just curious maximus, I'm into symbols and wonder what your symbol in your AV signifies.
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08-28-2007, 10:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Maximus  Well for me it's like this:
Pride- Yes, I AM better than everyone else.
Sloth- I don't think I'm all that lazy, I seldom ever play video games and pretty much everything I do is for my personal benefit, like I play poker for money, I play tennis for exercise, and for money, and I work for money and, yeah I really never do something that has no benefit to me, so no that's a sin I'm completely innocent of.
Envy- No, my pride kind of erases any envy I may have since I do believe I'm better than most everyone.
Gluttony- Technically no, since I don't let anything go to waste, I do eat quite a bit without gaining a pound, but I eat everything without leaving any food lying around, and I don't overdrink or oversmoke or overdo anything, well maybe I watch a bit too many movies, but does that count? I think not.
Greed- Yes, I am a selfish bastard, but I'm not cheap when it comes to women, sooooooo, I don't know.
Wrath- Yes, if somebody steals $5 from me I'll steal $10 from them.
Lust- Godamnit yes, what man isn't guilty of this?? | please tell me that this is sarcasm or tongue in cheek .... other wise I may purge!
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08-28-2007, 11:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Aaron I'm into symbols and wonder what your symbol in your AV signifies. | Well I am a fascist and the symbol is suppose to represent fascism in russia.
However in recent times it's been used more as a russian supremacy ( similair to white supremacy ) symbol.
I can't find a better symbol for fascism in modern times and certainly there are few that are russian so I have to settle for the one that's my current AV.
I suppose I could just use the official fascist symbol of Mussolini but like I said I wanted something modern and I don't have many choices. | |
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08-28-2007, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by debdodd please tell me that this is sarcasm or tongue in cheek .... other wise I may purge! | ......I'm not being sarcastic, why what did I say? | |
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08-29-2007, 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Maximus Well for me it's like this:
Pride- Yes, I AM better than everyone else.
What is it about you that makes you better than everyone else?
Sloth- I don't think I'm all that lazy, I seldom ever play video games and pretty much everything I do is for my personal benefit, like I play poker for money, I play tennis for exercise, and for money, and I work for money and, yeah I really never do something that has no benefit to me, so no that's a sin I'm completely innocent of.
So it's all about you .... you have no responsibility to make the world, even a small portion of it better?
Envy- No, my pride kind of erases any envy I may have since I do believe I'm better than most everyone.
Once again ... what makes you better than everyone else?
Gluttony- Technically no, since I don't let anything go to waste, I do eat quite a bit without gaining a pound, but I eat everything without leaving any food lying around, and I don't overdrink or oversmoke or overdo anything, well maybe I watch a bit too many movies, but does that count? I think not.
Gluttony just doesn't include food ...
Greed- Yes, I am a selfish bastard, but I'm not cheap when it comes to women, sooooooo, I don't know.
Big deal .... you're not cheap when it comes to women .. I'm sure all the women of the world are happy that you are a selfish bastard instead of a cheap bastard. I know they swoon when you walk into the room .....
Wrath- Yes, if somebody steals $5 from me I'll steal $10 from them.
Yeah that's right don't get even ... get beyond even!!
If a man steals a loaf of bread from you to feed his children, take the bread back from him and chop his hands off, kill his kids so he doesn't have to worry about feeding them any longer!!!
Lust- Godamnit yes, what man isn't guilty of this?? | This one is just insulting to the good men I know ......
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08-29-2007, 09:13 PM
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I didn't know facism was a concept still embraced by anyone. However, I gotta say, if you're looking for a dictator, I'm your man. (sarchasm)
I will say you have some realistic views as to how things are, but dump the facism.
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