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post #1 of 76
4/5/06 at 3:02pm
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Are we programmed to mix with our own? Or is that socail conditioning ?
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post #2 of 76
4/5/06 at 3:04pm
If by 'programmed' you mean genetics, then no. If by 'programmed' you mean 'socially conditioned', then yes. *Some* people are socially conditioned to accept only people who adhere to some common denominator, whether it be language, ethnicity, nationality, gender, religion, or any number of other determining factors.
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post #3 of 76
4/5/06 at 3:11pm
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Yeah by programmed i meant genetics
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post #4 of 76
4/5/06 at 3:12pm
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Originally Posted by Eve. L
Yeah by programmed i meant genetics
Then no.
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post #5 of 76
4/5/06 at 3:21pm
We're all the same race.
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post #6 of 76
4/5/06 at 3:24pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark
We're all the same race.
Uh oh, Bob, I feel a campfire sing-a-long coming on!
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post #7 of 76
4/5/06 at 3:27pm
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Dont say it....dont say it....

''We are all the same race...the human race''

You know thats crap right?
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post #8 of 76
4/5/06 at 3:31pm
My socail conditioning went on the fritz and it got to, like, 90 degrees in here.
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post #9 of 76
4/5/06 at 3:47pm
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Originally Posted by Eve. L
Dont say it....dont say it....

''We are all the same race...the human race''

You know thats crap right?
No, it's really not. Saying a black guy is a different race to a white guy is about as accurate as saying a blonde girl is a different race to a ginger-haired man.
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post #10 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:06pm
Seriously. Open a 7th grade science book.
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post #11 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:06pm
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Originally Posted by TheJuniorMint
No, it's really not. Saying a black guy is a different race to a white guy is about as accurate as saying a blonde girl is a different race to a ginger-haired man.
Sure, but what about The Gingerbread Man ?
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post #12 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:09pm
Pastry Americans are irrelevant to this discussion.
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post #13 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:14pm
He was talking about Kenneth Branagh.
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post #14 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:17pm
Or he could've meant the Gingerdead Man, which would imply Gary Busey.
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post #15 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:21pm
Personally, I don't like hangin' with the chimps. They might have opposable thumbs, but their tool-making abilities are laughable. Plus they sniff each other's butts.
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post #16 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:34pm
If there's a better way to truly know a person than ass-sniffing, I've yet to hear it.
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post #17 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:36pm
You could always spit in their asshole.
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post #18 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:36pm
An enema, maybe?
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post #19 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:39pm
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Originally Posted by TheJuniorMint
No, it's really not. Saying a black guy is a different race to a white guy is about as accurate as saying a blonde girl is a different race to a ginger-haired man.

SO it would be ok for a white person to declare themselves black? I mean we are of all the same race, right?

Fair enought, today I think I'll be Latino...
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post #20 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:42pm
Oooh, roleplaying. This thread just got SUPER SEXY.
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post #21 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:46pm
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Originally Posted by T_M
Or he could've meant the Gingerdead Man
Oh no. Crow had it.

Milette, coming from you, I would expect ULTRA SEXY, and nothing else.
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post #22 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:50pm
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Originally Posted by Eve. L
SO it would be ok for a white person to declare themselves black? I mean we are of all the same race, right?

Fair enought, today I think I'll be Latino...
Sorry, perhaps I should've clarified. To me, the idea of "race", the box-checking airport form version of it, is no less a purely cosmetic issue than hair colour or facial features. The idea that there is some genetic chasm between two human beings due to one being black and the other being white is just dumbass. You don't have a heart surgeon open up a black guy and break out his special African Manual because golly gosh, things are so much different with these types!
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post #23 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:50pm
We haven't reached that level yet.

Okay, I'll be Hitler, you be Eva Braun. Let's heat this thread UP!
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post #24 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:56pm
This thread conditionned my genes to think Eve L. is the moral equivalent of a dead possum and has the analytical and mental capacity of a jacked-up 386.
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post #25 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:56pm
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oh, its you.
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post #26 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:57pm
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Originally Posted by Eve. L
Dont say it....dont say it....

''We are all the same race...the human race''

You know thats crap right?

Why?
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post #27 of 76
4/5/06 at 4:57pm
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Originally Posted by Eve. L
SO it would be ok for a white person to declare themselves black? I mean we are of all the same race, right?

Fair enought, today I think I'll be Latino...
Are you that stupid?
Ethnicity has nothing to do with race. Race is a scientific classification. I mentioned that as a way of answering your question. Of course the idea of only mixing with "our own" (charming phrasing, btw) is learned.
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post #28 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:01pm
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Originally Posted by TheJuniorMint
Sorry, perhaps I should've clarified. To me, the idea of "race", the box-checking airport form version of it, is no less a purely cosmetic issue than hair colour or facial features. The idea that there is some genetic chasm between two human beings due to one being black and the other being white is just dumbass. You don't have a heart surgeon open up a black guy and break out his special African Manual because golly gosh, things are so much different with these types!
It's not often I agree with the Mint, but he's dead-eye accurate on this one. We've associated climatic, geographical, and inherited genetic traits and given them a larger scope, despite the fact that they are indeed, purely cosmetic. The fact that someone has blonde hair is somehow accorded a different level of interpertation as someone who has brown skin is purely sociological.
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post #29 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:04pm
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Originally Posted by Brad Millette
We haven't reached that level yet.

Okay, I'll be Hitler, you be Eva Braun. Let's heat this thread UP!
"Wow, the bunker sure is nice today, Dolphy!"
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post #30 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:04pm
With all due respect, Surge, it's not a matter of agreeing with Mint. It's not a question of opinion or perception. It's a biological fact that human beings all belong to the same race. The term race has also become slang for ethnicity.
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post #31 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:10pm
The General Christian interpretation of Collosians 3:11 implys that We are all one, if we all sincerly accept Christ as Lord and Savior.


For there is nether Jew nor Greek, curcumcised, or un circumcised, Barbarian, scynthian, slave or free. For We are all one In Christ Jesus.
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post #32 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:11pm
Oh, for fuck's sake.
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post #33 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:13pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike1983
The General Christian interpretation of Collosians 3:11 implys that We are all one, if we all sincerly accept Christ as Lord and Savior.


For there is nether Jew nor Greek, curcumcised, or un circumcised, Barbarian, scynthian, slave or free. For We are all one In Christ Jesus.
And if we DONT accept him? what then?
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post #34 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:13pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark
With all due respect, Surge, it's not a matter of agreeing with Mint. It's not a question of opinion or perception. It's a biological fact that human beings all belong to the same race. The term race has also become slang for ethnicity.
I was, against the ebb and flow of a Millette "Target Acquired" barrage, actually answering the original question. It's purely sociological to band together ethnically, or racially (damn, dirty, apes), not genetic.

Resuming amusing banter, already in progress.
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post #35 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:13pm
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Originally Posted by Eve. L
Are we programmed to mix with our own? Or is that socail conditioning ?
Probably both.
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post #36 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:15pm
And what the hell is Spike1983 AKA Anyname doing in here. Isn't he supposed to be seeing "Das Boat"
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post #37 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:15pm
And what the fuck is "socail conditioning"? Is it some kind of hair product?
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post #38 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:16pm
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Originally Posted by Spike1983
The General Christian interpretation of Collosians 3:11 implys that We are all one, if we all sincerly accept Christ as Lord and Savior.


For there is nether Jew nor Greek, curcumcised, or un circumcised, Barbarian, scynthian, slave or free. For We are all one In Christ Jesus.
And as a counter point, I quote the Godfather on negroes:
"They're anmals. They have no souls to lose."

So there.
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post #39 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:17pm
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SOCIAL....dont be such a nit picking pratt
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post #40 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:19pm
The word is "prat", actually.
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post #41 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:20pm
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I am slowly loosing my marbles on this site....
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post #42 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:24pm
It's spelt "losing".
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post #43 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:27pm
Spelled.
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post #44 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:29pm
Arse.
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post #45 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:32pm
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Originally Posted by Death Surge
It's not often I agree with the Mint, but he's dead-eye accurate on this one. We've associated climatic, geographical, and inherited genetic traits and given them a larger scope, despite the fact that they are indeed, purely cosmetic. .
Purely cosmetic thousands of years ago, yes. By today however there is so much history tied up in the equation that however nonsensical it may be differences run deep.
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post #46 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:34pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark
Spelled.
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Originally Posted by Oxford Dictionary
spell

verb (past and past part. spelled or chiefly Brit. spelt) 1 write or name the letters that form (a word) in correct sequence. 2 (of letters) make up or form (a word). 3 be a sign of; lead to: the plans would spell disaster. 4 (spell out) explain clearly and in detail.
Brits...
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post #47 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:37pm
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Originally Posted by Desslar
Purely cosmetic thousands of years ago, yes. By today however there is so much history tied up in the equation that however nonsensical it may be differences run deep.
Hence why it's sociological. Had Hitler's Germany been successful, Aryan Blonde Hair/Blue Eye combinations would be far more racially (ethnically) signifigant than today, where it is only relevant in conjunction with large breasts for men's magazines.
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post #48 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:38pm
I <3 this place.

...and Eve, haven't you caught on by now?
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post #49 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:40pm
Bob, are you going to tell me it's spelt "ass"?
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post #50 of 76
4/5/06 at 5:41pm
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''I <3 this place''

What does that mean?
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