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I want to die by being blown up by some alien guy in space fighters -- that would be the sh..

Life is rough. Part of living is developing a thicker skin - because there will always be bullies. If you can't stand up to them, physically or emotionally then life will continue to be hard until you get over your fears.

And I'm not being gender specific because attempting to gain dominance isn't gender specific. It's just something people do.

Gundam nation baby.... yeah, it's a Gundam.

I would be a spy in the house of love. No wait I'd be a wolf in sheeps clothing. No wait I'd be an angel who acted like a demon acting like an angel who wishes they were a demon who secretly dreams of being an angel who thinks he is a demon. Wait can I just be one of those 8-pronged spirit thingies from Adventure Kid? Yeah...you know the ones....

Why said homoerotic? That's a very immature attitude! Besides they were Greek, not Roman :P

This movie was a blast, and none of the nudity was unnecessary. It's been a while since we've seen a REAL R-rated film in America, with mature themes and content, the kind of thing you really wouldn't want to take your kid to. It's a movie for a mature audience, not one that is squeamish. If you don't like adult themes, don't watch R-rated films.

The visuals are stunning, it's got something for both the gentlemen and the ladies (i.e. the naked bodies and gory violence). I have no problem with that....but what was up with the dialogue? Did anyone else get the impression that the movie sort of echoed the scene in Washington these days? An obstinate corrupt sentate arguing about sending troops to fight off foreign invaders encroaching on freedom? Course....you also have to remember Xerxes was a foreign invader trying to take the land from the people, but still....

But either than that, see this movie - and for god's sake leave the kids at home until they're mature enough to handle it, eh?

I would say risk implies loss. To put it more generally every action, no matter how mundane or small, has a consequence. If the consequences were predicted before hand and expected, the risk would be considered the negative aspects of those consequences.

Progress is simply moving forward. Related to risk, you must attempt to progress before risk can become existant. Seeing as how we live on a constantly moving planet, the prerequisite for risk is already fulfilled. But in smaller terms you have attempt some kind of progress in order to generate risk, and once progress has been made, there has been some risk associated with it.

In essence, to have progress, you must risk by removing inertness.

If you're wondering if you're a geek, look at your post count. If it's more than one you have officially entered into the realm of posting opinion and knowledge on an online BBS. Don't matter how cool you are, you're at least part geek.

I didn't know friendship was supposed to be exciting. If you're bored with your friends then maybe you need to do a little "me time" and find out what's up with your life. Don't blame your friends because you're stagnating.

Here's some positive thinking: Why not encourage your friends to go along with you to a place you've never been, or to check out something you've never seen? There's a whole big world out there, and some of it is worth checking out

As subjects with lots of information I think they're really cool.

Physics is the attempt to describe the mechanisms of the universe. If it ever succeeds that's gonne be nuts.

Math gives us the tools to logically examine not only natural but also constructed phenomena, and possibly make predictions...it's basically limited only by the imaginations (and ability to understand) of the human mind.

Chemistry studies the interactions between atoms - kinda a subset of physics, but if you're a chemist don't get mad at me, I meant it in a good way :)

All interesting, but all very complex - and it definitely makes a huge difference if you have someone to explain it to you in a way that you can understand. I've known a lot of people that are perfectly capable of understanding even the hardest subjects as long as they were explained in the right way, and I've had instructors that literally could suck the life out of a subject - and that puts a lot of people off of studying these things.

But there's also other important things in life that don't adhere to anything in those 3 subjects....so yeah they're great, but they're not "the all".

I smoke.

I get coughed at a lot because I'm poisoning the air...then the people usually drive away by themselves in the gas guzzling H3's feeling that they have the moral high ground....

I understand that people want to live healthy lives. I'm for no smoking in the workplace - or any public building...so long as there is a concession made to people who do want to smoke. There should be mandatory smoking rooms fitted with air filters that could easily block any harmful chemicals...but why look out for smokers right?

But when people look at me funny for smoking outside...that just pisses me right off. If you look at the studies (and I have, did you?) then you'll see that second-hand smoke was linked with an increased chance of cancer and/or other health defects - somewhere in the range of 35% I believe - but, and this is a big but, that only applies to LONG TERM exposure in a CLOSED AIR environment. Hear that? That means exposure to second hand smoke over YEARS for HOURS a day in a POORLY VENTILATED area has been shown to increase the likelihood of health defects. You see the people they looked at were mostly bar workers and wives/husbands of people who smoked AT LEAST a pack a day.

So when you walk through a plume of smoke, even if you inhale like crazy, you're not significantly increasing your chances of getting health defects due to smoking. As for the smell? Well I hate the smell of most colognes and perfumes - I guess I just have to learn to live with people who do things I don't agree with, like jump on this BS anti-outdoor smoking campaign that's just a red-herring for the real health problems in this country (US for those of you not from the US :) )

Speaking of inhaling poisons, how long did you sit in traffic today? Cause all of the cigarettes in all of the world for a year don't add up to the pollution of JUST the diesel trucks in the US for a month.

So the next time you anti-smoker activists want to get on a political high horse why not target something that would be useful, like improving educational standards? Let me have my right to smoke, and I'll let you have your right to preach. When you come with some evidence that a little whiff of smoke here and there actually causes some harm, I'll consider your position. For now though you've got no medical grounds to stand on. And that is the truth.

You know how much dirty stuff goes through people's (meaning mine) mind? I don't want to know all their nasty stuff, let them keep it.

They say that if you believe you're going to die tomorrow, you will do everything in your power to make that happen. It's like a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are lucky because you feel lucky. So why do you need something to make you feel lucky? You don't! You just need to side step that mental hurtle. That's why people who are sickeningly positive tend to do so well, because they're getting the benefits of the lucky charms without having to burden themselves with needless superstition.

Remakes....have been around since they made movies. Basically the point is to get people to watch the next big actor/actress being pushed by the studio in a familiar format. When people see this new person reprising a role they came to love because of some other's performance in it they feel more amicable towards seeing more movies with the new actor, and thus a star is born.

The addition of CG and updated plots is also nothing new. Shakespeare has been done and redone in hundreds of different settings that were never intended, but fit the story nonetheless. Old storys are often modernized to fit the particular social guidelines of the day...like when's the last time you saw a husband and wife with seperate beds in the same room in a movie?

As far as theft goes ("The Departed" is a good example) most of the big hits are either loosely based on some mythology (often Greek), or directly taken from mythology or the Bible. The sad truth is there is very little original that has ever come out of Hollywood, but there are a few shining examples.

So I say bring on the remakes, if only to fund the more creative individuals. Think of it as paying dues.

wait, so by your definition you're single when you're dating someone, as long as you're dating other people too? This relationship stuff if crap.

Taken...

There are several options available for users to contribute including ones suitable for the time poor.

Ah, yes I had thought of that but failed to mention. I am unfortunately as cash poor as I am time poor - well not quite. I can afford to eat :)

So you've got the time to dl the walls, but not the time to write a few lines explaining what you do/do not like about the walls?

And you can't spend a mere 5 minutes every other day making a couple of posts on the forum? Even the gen chat one which hasn't anythign to do with walling? But again, you've got the time to dl walls.

Contribution doesn't necessarily have anything to do with talent. People can contribute in several ways, as the guide explains, so why people keep making this assumption puzzles me. Maybe it's that word - "contribution" that throws them?

I see you're trying to make a point, but please allow me to rebut. Your first sentence is exactly correct, except use it as a statement rather than a question. Writing and forming opinions takes far more time than going with a gut reaction from my eye.

As per your second question it isn't that I couldn't do that, more that if I'm going to say something I would rather it had a point of some kind, especially if I go to the trouble of coming here to write it down. I don't think of myself as particularly intelligent, however I think anything that's going to be put up for many people to read in any context should have at least some kind of thought put into its execution (though I know I am by far in the minority). And once again, downloading a pic takes me about 2-10 seconds, possibly a minute depending on how picky I am, so yes, I have the time to download walls.

As per your third theory of more than one way to contribute. You are very politic in your phrasing, but I believe you are talking about scans, walls, posting on the boards, writing opinions on walls (which you'd need to be able to view them fully to do), and of course directly paying money to the kind purveyors of this web-site. I said I am not talented, but some things can be learned, and if I am to contribute in some meaningful way (which I must insist upon) then I would choose to do so by means of either scans or walls, which I believe to be the focus (or at least the draw) of this site. The BBS for me is just a cute toy (that is of course my personal opinion).

indignant? Righteously?

Some people choose to express their particular individuality through appearance...does this somehow make them more "individual" from the group than some other "non-conformist"?
In truth it's not possible for anyone not to be an individual - including the followers or so-called sheep, or those people that tend to opperate under a mob-mentality. True it certainly is nice to see people dressing differently, as the same-old gets dull after a while, but I'm not sure that you can really say that your individuality can be completely manifested in clothing. You see, clothing is manufactured (unless it's not, which is somewhat rare in large populus areas). This means that a company or corporation laid down a design thought up by some artist. If you wear the end product this could mean (or be understood as) you supporting either the artist or their message, and thus you, through your quest to be an individual, have managed to fall into a support roll.

Don't get me wrong, I like seeing way-out looks....but I certainly try very hard not to judge people based solely on the clothes they wear, and I would hope and individualist would see easily past the facade of what you choose to cover yourself with and instead try to see the more meaningful aspects of personality that put the ensemble together.

Is the miracle what really happened, or how it was percieved? Kinda reminds me of the hitmen in Pulp Fiction. One says he felt nothing more than luck, so to him it was luck, the other felt the hand of God, so to him it was an act of God. It seems that miracles can eventually be explained, but does that really detract from their meaning? Further, is it possible to accept the existence of a miraculous event without accepting belief in a "higher power"?

This post looked pretty interesting. I don't have much to add, just to say that I've been reading the Kama Sutra (the one without the pictures :P ) and the author, Vatsyayana has an interesting viewpoint as to finding happiness in the world. He says there are 3 aims to life: Spirituality, Sensuality, and Prosperity.

In spirituallity we pave the way into whatever lies beyond, however in his mind there is no question that there is something that lies beyond.

In sensuality we find pleasures of the flesh, and it is a key component to life. To have the other two without love will leave someone unfulfilled, and one cannot say they've achieved success without experiencing this deep connection.

Prosperity in worldly goods makes living easier, as well as freeing one's self to explore the other pursuits of life, which are closely tied to the other two.

Though I've completely mangled it here, it's an interesting look at what life is really all about, and considering he wrote that many hundreds of years ago and it's still very relavent is also of interest (at least to me). I'm not sure that it's possible to live without feeling sad at some point, or angry, or happy, or joyful. I think it's when to get "stuck" on one of those emotions and we begin to deconstruct our psyche's from a limited point of view that we start attaching too much importance to one feeling and close ourselves off from experiencing others that our thoughts tend to grow darker....

I understand the stigma (as I also have it) against online dating, but really it's no different than personal ad's or being set-up on the "blind" date by friends. There are plenty of people in history that knew each other only through correspondence, and through that the desire to actually meet that person came through. The only real problem I've ever had is that a lot of unsavory types will use the annonimity to their advantage and try to take advantage of someone who is geniunely lonely and looking for a meaningful connection. For many people it's very hard to form meaningful connections through meeting people at night-clubs or bars, as they're not interested in the sort of people who frequent these places. The fact that they want to meet only a certain kind of person isn't exactly anti-social, just means their picky....but of course it's always best to be cautious.