en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/683419 Comments by counter http://gazetteonline.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2009/10/18/irony-in-effort-to-make-bible-more-conservative#IDComment39264290 You have mis-spoken, "that" beauty is the beauty of reformers and protestants, most faiths have a root, one which is uncompromising, structured and absolute. Some feel such constraints, justifiable or not to be unbearable. Then they make their own ideas the basis of a new "belief", justifiable or not. Let these idiots write their own bible, let them name their own new faith. Hopefully they will proclaim proudly and openly the fact that they are what they indeed are. This way it should be easier for the rest of us to identify as an idiot a moron who doesn't happen to drool on themself. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:00:21 +0000 http://gazetteonline.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2009/10/18/irony-in-effort-to-make-bible-more-conservative#IDComment39264290 http://gazetteonline.com/local-news/public-safety/2009/10/16/three-assaulted-in-pair-of-iowa-city-incidents#IDComment39259070 Tolerance is a double edged razor. (Too much) One edge severs the roots of that which you wish to foster, (Too little) the other side would shear the fruit before it has the chance to ripen. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:38:19 +0000 http://gazetteonline.com/local-news/public-safety/2009/10/16/three-assaulted-in-pair-of-iowa-city-incidents#IDComment39259070 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment39256137 Do you suggest that having a doctorate qualifies one to think? Does thought actually eminate from your framed ego? Do you even have one (a doctorate, not an ego that much is obvious.)? Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:47:03 +0000 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment39256137 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment39255309 Psychology is conjecture, it cannot be disected or proven, it is as valid an arguement as whichever religion. Psychology has at least one advantage over any religion in that it has no laws, given one example contrary to its core beliefs, it is able to turn on it's own head. One who puts absolute faith in psychology, a "science" that has no consensus, nor definite truth on any point, is truly chasing rainbows. Such a person must be incapable of thinking independently, a person who can absorb and regurgitate theories, believing them to be "biblical" truths. It would appear that some would consider an education to be a substitute for thought. In many cases this may indeed be beneficial, as not everyone is capable of coherent thought. Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:33:35 +0000 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment39255309 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/16/ui-police-investigate-assault-in-dorm#IDComment39151301 If making yourself available to be victimised is wrong then watch out next time your in front of me at an ATM, it's not going to be my fault that I shoot you in the back of the head to steal the $20 you just withdrew, more likely you were dressed too well, and I thought you had withdrawn at least $200! Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:37:02 +0000 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/16/ui-police-investigate-assault-in-dorm#IDComment39151301 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/16/ui-police-investigate-assault-in-dorm#IDComment39150467 Simply a fact. I absolutely agree. Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:19:35 +0000 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/16/ui-police-investigate-assault-in-dorm#IDComment39150467 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment39149296 I hope this means I'm not so ignorant or cruel. Go on with your studies, tho I hope you shouldn't continue with such a precarious practice?! Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:56:27 +0000 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment39149296 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment39059661 I wouldn't dare suggest someone could commit such an act in the right state of mind. However I can't accept your perspective that the person who decided, and committed the act is blameless. Sick people could decide to harm others instead of theirselves are they still guiltless? More importantly isn't this an act we should discourage? I agree to disagree, I apologise if I have offended your sensibilities. I was afraid from the first to air an opinion on such a sensitive subject, and again I hope that the bereaved shouldn't suffer themselves with the guilt which they do not own. Sat, 17 Oct 2009 06:29:41 +0000 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment39059661 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment38313527 In my culture suicide is the most despicable act. I appreciate the fact that your primary sentiments are for those who must be most aggrieved. I hope my comment won't be interpreted as crude, my intent being to discourage such disdainful acts of passionate desperation. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:48:39 +0000 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment38313527 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment38312704 This is a case in which the only victims are the survivors. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 01:39:32 +0000 http://oldgo.gazlab.com.php5-15.dfw1-1.websitetestlink.com/local-news/2009/10/10/searchers-say-they-found-body-of-missing-student#IDComment38312704