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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on March 20, 2011 at 5:44am

I think it Dexter would be funnier if he were Catholic.

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Permalink Reply by Keith Pinster on March 20, 2011 at 11:18am

I'm not sure Dexter is a good "atheist role-model" LOL 

 

Actually, if you look at it deep enough, he kind of is.  He's an atheistic sociopath with a conscience.  Something that xians claim is not possible, since their morals come from god.  Although, you would have to spend all day explain it to them.  LMAO

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Permalink Reply by Mo Trauen on March 20, 2011 at 11:57am

I haven't watched Dexter in a while, but after watching some of the episodes I came to the conclusion that he wasn't a true psychopath.  He is clearly somewhere on the anti-social personality disorder spectrum, but his love for his adopted sister, his affection for his co-workers, his rudimentary moral code, etc., indicate that he has the basic building blocks of morality.  The blocks were never stacked in the normal manner, however.  They were scattered by the trauma of witnessing his mother's murder.  I have known people who went through less than that yet seemed more psychopathic.

 

The episode where he killed his older brother was instructive.  He couldn't kill his adoptive sister when his older brother urged him to because of his fondness for her.  He felt he had to kill his older brother because the event they witnessed had turned him into a more monstrous and dangerous personality.  In other words, Dexter didn't do it because of his compulsion but for moral reasons, and he cried uncontrollably when he did it because he understood the personal and moral tragedy he was playing out.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on March 20, 2011 at 12:42pm

I stand in awe of your character analysis! :)

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Permalink Reply by Dan on February 14, 2011 at 12:57am

I am rapidly discovering N.C. is not much better, I shudder when i think work might move me to S.C.

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on February 14, 2011 at 1:07am

You need to move north, my friend.

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Permalink Reply by Reggie on February 14, 2011 at 9:04am

Ha!

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Permalink Reply by scLovely on February 14, 2011 at 11:35am

LOVE IT! I have been marking out "in god we trust" with a sharpie on my dollaz for about 2 years now :p I don''t think I've ever gotten one back, so it has to be annoying for the bank to have to pull these if that is where they are all going.

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Permalink Reply by Heather Spoonheim on February 14, 2011 at 12:19pm

A few years ago I realized that the dead politician on our 5 dollar bills (I'm in Canada) looked exactly like Leonard Nimoy.  On boring afternoons in my restaurant I would draw some pointed ears on him and then sort of scribble Spock hair, typically on a few bills.  Maybe it was just because it was a small town, but I started seeing these bills everywhere in town and got them in my change a few times.

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Permalink Reply by Kairan Nierde on May 5, 2011 at 9:16pm

Awe, man.  That's beautiful.

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Permalink Reply by Mario Rodgers on February 16, 2011 at 8:13pm

I WISH I could move to Sweden.  But those Scandanavian countries supposedly have very strict immigration policies.

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Permalink Reply by Arcus on March 20, 2011 at 5:34am

Actually, simply put all you need is a job offer which requires some skillset you have. As long as the employer says you are the best qualified candidate for the job, you can get a work permit (if you are from a Western country). In a gym I went to in Oslo 8 out of 14 personal trainers were Americans.

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