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Monday, November 9th, 2009
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kageroumanga
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( THREE MORE PAGES FOR THE BLOOD GOD )
Thank you, thank you, thank you to this week's donors! Your random pocket change has made the difference between having comfy two-ply toilet paper in my bathroom cabinet and devising a very unconventional method of recycling steel wool scrubbies.
My nethers are forever in your debt, generous readers.
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ontd_spnparty
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Okay, not really. We just wanted to give you a heads up that we'll be implementing a new SPOILER rule this week!
FOR POSTERS:
For the sake of people that can't watch the show at first airing, from now on details, images, and gifs from a newly aired episode should remain behind a cut for 2.5 days (60 hours) after the episode originally airs in the U.S. (so, 9am EST on Sunday. if you need to check for the hour in your time zone, look for your country here.)
This gives everyone a full weekend day to catch up on watching.
FOR EVERYONE:
Please keep in mind that this does not mean there won't be discussion of the episode within comments in posts made after original airing. We will try to keep specifics off of the main page, but if you enter a post without having seen the episode, you should expect to read something you probably don't want to know!
Also, take this time to refresh yourself on our SPOILER POLICY. The majority of our posts seem to be spoiler-friendly, so please keep the rest spoiler-free for your fellow members. PARTY POSTS ARE ALWAYS SPOILER FREE. And remember that gifs made from promos or sneak peek webclips are spoilers too. Please do not post those in spoiler-free posts, party posts, or in front of cuts on any post until 60 hours after the episode has aired.
This rule goes into effect starting with this Thursday's episode, so please keep this in mind when choosing graphics and lead-ins for your posts.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment here. (If you want to leave a private comment, please leave it at the spoiler rules post where it will be screened.)
And as a side note: Thanks to everyone for helping make up such an awesome group of people here! Seriously, guys:
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missmonkeh
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| Subject: | Dilemma |
| Time: | 9:58 pm. |
| Mood: |  confused. | | Music: | Luv Your Life - Silverchair. |
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Job 1:
PROS:
- I know what to expect and can do it easily
- I have fun
- I like the people I work with
- Possibility of career progression
- Nice location
CONS
- A long way to travel
- Travel is expensive
- Godawful pay with little prospect of a rise
- Treated like a dogsbody
- No sick pay
Job 2
PROS:
- Pays significantly more
- Potential to branch out of office work
- I get to work near Rob
- Much closer to home, less travel time and expense
- Subsidised private healthcare
CONS
- I don't know much about the job yet
- I don't know the people I'll be working with
- Shift work, including some weekends and late nights
- Deep seated fear of change
This is mostly hypothetical as they haven't offered me the job yet, but I'm finding this a tough decision.
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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ontd_spnparty
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It's so boring tonight, so I declare we party!
Post about whatever you like. :)
SPN Related (Non spoilery) & Non-SPN related
...AND GO!
NO PORN, NO SPOILERS FOR FUTURE EPISODES, 3 GIFS PER COMMENT ♥
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
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missmonkeh
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So watching House has presented an interesting conundrum.
Chase went to confession (and as a former catholic I can tell him that was a bad idea...you'll never get absolution unless you kiss the priest's arse. Or maybe that's just Irish priests) and confessed that he had killed a man. This man was an evil dictator in the Robert Mugabe mould. Chase, coming from a utilitarian perspective, says he feels he did the right thing - if he had not killed "Mugabe", "Mugabe" would have gone on to kill thousands. The priest tells him he was wrong and only god can decide to take a life. So far, so black and white, right?
Except here's what bugs me. Although I agree that nobody has a right to kill another human being, I can't help but question this morality a little bit. For example: when the US army found Saddam Hussein, he was sentenced to death, and then murdered. Saddam Hussein was an awful man but what happened to him was murder. Why is this considered okay?
a) Because he was sent to trial, the trial decided he should be killed, therefore it was the right thing to do
b) Because he murdered hundreds and oppressed hundreds more
c) Because the law of war is different to the law of everyday life
None of the above reasons make sense in this context. If A is true, then are we suggesting that, by following an arbitrary set of rules, we are able to circumvent the ideology that taking a life is wrong (or, if you are religious, which the US broadly is, to circumvent the belief that only god may take a life) - if so, why? Who or what has given the judge and jury the right to make that decision? Why do we frown upon Sharia law, which works on the same basis - a trial decides your fate - and yet support a system almost identical, albeit based on Western ideologies?
If B is true, then by all rights Chase ought to be absolved immediately. If we are to support a system which recognises the removal of dictators, mass murderers, psychopaths on the basis that the greater good demands it, then the issue we see presented on House is a non-issue. But then we come back to the key question: who is right? Can we moralise over Saddam's murders when our own armies kill hundreds of civilians in the name of war? Can we take the moral high ground because we only kill one man, and he killed hundreds, and besides, he'd only kill more so best to nip it in the bud? If we're taking this from a religious point of view then once again, why is man determining when a human life will end suddenly considered okay? Why is it suddenly just and right to bypass god's divine judgement?
If C is true, then there is no hope for the world. If we decide that a different set of laws apply for war, then some of the most heinous atrocities can be perpetrated. And yet the 'laws of war' do not work - look at the My Lai massacre, heartbreaking and disgusting in equal measures. The perpetrators of this atrocity were made to pay for their crimes, and rightly so - but do we really believe that My Lai is not happening again in Afghanistan, on a smaller scale? Do we believe that our troops are not commiting awful crimes under the cover of war? Do we not believe that every civilian gunned down in the name of war is a victim, an innocent, someone who deserves justice? Did that soldier not disregard god's law? Hell, for the atheists among us, did that soldier not disregard human decency? Why do we consider this okay?
I'm not saying what Chase did was right, though I completely understand his motivations, and, given the utter hypocrisy of our legal system and the way we treat "baddies", I also understand his defiance in the face of people who tell him, black and white, that he was wrong. But the show is real food for thought when we consider the double standards presented by those in power - if you take a life, we'll take your life to prove that taking a life was wrong. God decides when you die, unless we sit around a table and decide that actually, god isn't acting quickly enough so we'll pre-empt him. I know I have no answers to this but it just made me think.
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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