Ah, see, somewhere along the line, I came to a realization that almost any human action could be construed to be done for selfish reasons. After that, I never prayed for myself any more, thinking it is selfish to ask god for things, when I should be responsible for fixing, y own problems, and only prayed for others. BUT, I also understood that praying for others is something that happens between you and god. If I tell others, unless it was to let them know that I care in order to make them felt better, telling them and everyone else around me that I am praying for them felt as if I was being condescending, and ESPECIALLY felt as if I was being selfish or disingenuous, saying "Hey, look at me, I'm praying for that other person, so  now god and everyone else should think that I'm a good person and reward me with praises and heaven and such, or at least reward me with thinking well about me." Ulterior motives and such do not make good prayers or people.

I've never denied that I'm perverted. Just that being perverted, if you're not harming others, is wrong just by itself (or just because some guy interpreted some words on some book, and decided that it is). No, I don't think others sin more than me. Rather, I know some do by their actions, and i do try to be a nice, caring, upstanding citizen (a gentleman with a vocabulary of a sailor even), but generally don't care what others do, sin or not. I do stand by my claim that some of the anti-perverts have more perverted minds than the perverts though.

As to the rest of you, come on guys, Pinkie, a 17 year old girl who by chance ended up too close to a same-sex relationship/experience, is already psychologically damaged enough by her abusive parents and religion. It's not really her fault, and breaking out of this thought patern is quite difficult, possibly involving some trauma (I know from experience). Don't make it worse by bullying her.

*cough*somehow i doubt it's anal, and my guess based on her pony likes is shiny, pink, pretty, frilly things... on other girls*cough-cough-cough*

My hubby's collection of porn. I'm somewhat not very sexual. But, trust me, he's still just fine (I have absolutely no problems with a spouse who is addicted to cock).
I'm not a fan of children, but at the risk (expectation?) of opening up yet another can of worms, I think our overprotection of children from sex is at least misguided and at most harmfull. You're an excelent example of that.


See, now you're just praying to get on god's good side, and to show everyone how great you are. Not very honest or humble of you. A bit selfish, even. I'll continue to pray for your freedom from mental and sexual repression, despite knowing that I will not get any reward for doing so.

(was never molested) Sure I do. I'm sure there are plenty of people who are perfectly fine with plain vanila missionary. They are also likely unhealthily obsessed with other things (like other peopoe's "immoral" sexual kinks). Nice statistic from my human sexuality psych class - 50%+ of marriages end in divorce. Of those, 70%+ are due to sexual problems (not getting enough at home, etc).
Do I think most, or even half, the people out there are OK with just that? Hell no. Not from what I've seen.
D I think that FAtlas, a suspected SA goon is OK with just that? Very much hell no!! Those guys are often more perverted than even those in the furry or anime fandoms.
Just remembered another weird thing. The homophobes I've dealt with, the REALLY anti-gay ones, are sickeningly more perverted than the gays. They obsess about how gay people are morally and sexually corrupt, and come up with examples of sex acts gays supposedly engage in. Almost all the things they think up of are so horrid and disgusting, no one I know would even think about those things, let alone consider them. But these prudes spend so much time thinking about it, that they do come up with them, making their minds and thoughts be even more perverted than the people they are so concerned about.

The feeling of "God's love." One caused by activation of specific parts of your brain and release specific chemicals, which can also be attained by drugs, meditation, or a really good trance track.

I'm not actually attracted to animals, and find bestiality to be rather gross (I'm a clean freak). My interest in this type of art is just one step beyond people's interest in anime cat girls and cat boys (humans with cat ears and tails, rather prevalent in Japanese art/anime). Porn is actually a tiny part of my life. My big interest in this art is non-porn related (though the porn is still great). Sex isn't actually a big part of my life, either. This is something I am not worried or concerned about, and thus is not something that interferes with my life. Interestingly, I've found homophobic and prudish people who are so concerned about sexual immorality, that they end up wasting most of their time worrying about it, while those they are worried about just continue on with their lives. Ironic, really, that those who are against it end up the ones who's lives are taken over by it, instead of those being actually involved in it.
I think my point is somewhat shown by you thinking that this is something that is restricting me in any way, or interfering with my life, and spending your time worrying about this stuff and my life. From my point of view, I am completely free to think anything, to logically reason through my decisions, and to personally decide what is important to me and what isn't, while you are the one in a prison where your belief is causing you to waste your time being concerned about rather nonconsequential things that have nothing to do with you, without being able to even ask the question of why exactly things are good, bad, or the way they are.
I will continue to pray for you to start asking simple questions, follow through to more complex questions, and break free of your misguided beliefs (even if you continue to believe), and of your unhealthy sexual repressions. It all starts with not being afraid to ask the right questions.

US has military bases all over the world, and actually gets paid by countries to keep them safe. Places like Japan and many European countries are able to afford things like "free" healthcare and such because they are not paying to support their own military; we provide that to them (for a fee). As long as the US requires those countries to pay for our military and hardware with USD, the currency will have backing (though, granted, not as much as from oil backing).

Well, I'm an anti-war Obama supporter, and I'm rooting for Ron Paul...

Glad this thread is still entertaining I was honestly worried that it was getting boring or too autobiographical (my life is really not that interesting... or maybe all this interest shows that it is?).

FAtlas, what was the forum where those pics came from?

PinkiePie, still hoping you'll let me know what you hope your prayers will achieve, or if you're OK with my counter prayers for you.

Sadly, you can still have the bank take your account into negative balance, and then even charge you overdraft fees. Using a non-chargebackable system (cash, wire transfer) are pretty much the only ways to do this, outside of establishing trust between investor and exchange (as with my pre-paid VISA idea above)

The 3% fee makes sure that the 3% of fraudulent transactions that happen out there get covered. If fraud was more prevalent, the fee would be higher. If businesses worried about Bitcoin fraud, they could figure out how often fraud happens, and could charge a fee based on that as well. So far none do. Hopefully none will start to either, though it does put a limit on the number of ways you can buy Bitcoin.

Ugh. Just had time to step out during class break and take a closer look at those pics. Yeah, very much don't like either. All my hubby's kinks, and fine with him having those, but not my interest. I'm almost exclusively into thin femmy boy types. Also, omg those are old. I think those were taken 6 to 8 years ago before we remodeled the house and moved all the rooms around. I think most of those were sold, too (I believe some of the pics you found were for posting these on an auction site). Point is, the quality of artists and art in the fandom has improved exponentially over the years. Still porn though. I guess FAtlas is claiming that the only type of stuff he's into is plain old vanila photos and vids? Either "boring..." or "I don't buy it."

You mean "as my hubby'" based on those pics, but, um, yes?


My normal human "interaction" is just fine, thank you   Also, you have NO IDEA how bad it is out there, and just how normal/mundane I am compared to the real freaks (SA goods, 4channers, loli types, etc). You want to see deeply confused, check out the otaku culture of Japan >.<


Um, thanks? What do you expect to happen? Also, mind if I pray for you to break out of your self-imposed religious prison and prudishness? We'll see if either of our prayers has an effect.

Wow, heh, good job finding my hubby's stuff that's in his computer room. He,s more into horses and large things. I'm very much not. I don't think any of mine is online, and only two I own is that Chester, and a pic of an arctic fox slave boy hanging in the living room, which caught my attention due to the detail of the gold and pearl jewelry, and the eyes (I often love well drawn expressive eyes more than anything else).That fox pic we don't even cover when parents visit, since he's in the style of old Greek or roman paintings.
Where did you find those btw? Also, I'm wondering, are you trying to put me into a position where you can make fun of me or make me embarased? Because I'm really not bothered/ashamed by this.

This is the reason banks and VISAs of the world charge 3% fees for most transactions. If Bitcoi n businesses charged 3% as well, chargebacks wouldn't be an issue, but then Bitcoin wouldn't have much of an advantage either.

Because my USD transfer just cleared today, and, as always, the Bitcoin market nevere lets me buy low (missed the $4 prices, as expected). The series of coincidences are getting freaky (Adam Smith invisible hand bitchslap!)

It's not "hanging," but yes.
Why such interest in my coffee table btw?

Emails, committees, and boards can all be faked. I'm actually more interested in how possible it would be to set up a legitimately working "corp" anonymously, using GPG keys, proof of funds ownership (easy with Bitcoin), customer feedback, and publically verified but anonymously published income statements and accounting documents (again, possible with Bitcoin if their internal transactions are also done via public block chain client). In short, a company that's possible to trust, that exists on the web outside of country borders, and without relying on personaly identifiable information to function (since even that isn't guaranteed protection against scammers).

Agreed. Just means that the barrier to entry for a competitor is very small right now, if (when) someone else decides to step up and make their own show .


I thought that was hilarious. They couldn't figure out how to disable the camera heads-up display, the face finding feature kept locking in and trying to follow Manny's face, and the live chat kept making jet-fighter lock on and missle firing noises XD It's fun watching an amateur show struggle with stupid/silly issues like that (well, for me, anyway).

That's already somewhat evident from their OnlyOneTV network's other shows, peddling it seems everything from gold to holistic medicine/methods (disclaimer: have not watched other shows besides Android Invasion, so making an ass-u-mption based on show titles). Pet Rocks would simply get their own show.


On a forum (and interwebs) full of self-taught self-professed "experts" who's sole job seems to be to tell everyone else "you're wrong, this is how it is," (which I am at times guilty of as well) I actually find it somewhat refreshing to have someone willingly admit that they don't know the details, and defer the question to the experts (and take the time to actually find the experts and bring them to a forum). Though Bruce does interrupt and plug in his own opinions/comments at times.
This is kinda why I still support his show. Con man or not, people with such charm, drive, and gift of gab are extremely rare. I'm very certain that an almost daily Bitcoin show by THE expert Gavin Andersen would put everyone to sleep after the first 3 minutes, and only last 5 minutes, with Gavin running out of things to say (no offense intended btw).