rushrock

Dragonfruit is a real fruit, not made up. It looks quite pretty, but it doesn't taste particularly nice. Pretty...

24 isn't really my cup of tea.

Kids at my school are ready to kill for snow, I live in connecticut, where we usually get alot of snow. Me too...:cry: Nothing but cold rain for Connecticut...

Lucky...:(

Bah, I hate rain... God damnit give me snow!!! Why must you be so lucky, deloria?!

You changed your sig, thank you! Ditto, thanks. Your old sig was disturbing. Is it better now? I wub your sig! (I wonder why they made you changed it. I didn't think it was innapropriate, just scary...:shock:) Wewt! Another sax player! We are not alone! : My friend rocks at sudoku puzzles! :wink:

HOMG! My dad makes that...I love it! I want to learn to cook! I've cooked recipes before, and I want to expand my knowledge. I don't think I want to turn it into a profession, though...

People are get so obsessed trying to look like the modern day teenager that they've completely forgotten what true friends are. It makes me sad...:(

You take the definition of conforming too serious. Nadril just proved it has a very lax definition. I suppose the definition does have many grey areas. But i think the way it was explained in the original post was clear. Like doing something against your will or assimilating just for the sake of being the same. And I argued that it can't possibly be easier to do something against your will than not to. The example you just gave, deloriagod, shows something (i'm assuming) you did against your will (i.e. removing the earring), but in this case, its for the sake of being different. Why didn't you just keep it? So what if you were like them, it's what you wanted. (correct me if i'm wrong) This reminds me about the time when my friend and I lstarted saying the word "owned" all the time. We kept on saying it, and another "popular" kid in my school started saying it all the time. We were called "posers", but hell, that didn't stop us. We still say it to this day. 8-)

/thinks rushrock should learn a bit more about Conforming. This is going to sound really stupid, but...huh? Could you please explain? :-k Aside from viktors blatent obviousness ( :P ) you pretty much have to conform to some things. Hell, your "conforming" technicly because you wear cloths. Wearing clothing is the normal thing to do! But other than the stupid example I can almost bet you that you conform to something here or there. For example, I can almost bet you (again) that you dress a lot like your friends, am I right? And don't tell me that it just happened out of coincidence ;p. Also, don't tell me "but I like to dress like that". Well, those people wearing expensive clothing like to dress like whatever they dress like too. Your still generaly sticking to something though if you like it or not. Eh, sorry if I rambled on a bit.. hopefully you get the idea :/. You can't just blatently say that conformity is bad because, quite frankly, some people need to conform. Well, of course. I'm not talking about every little detail. Sure, everybody conforms in their daily lives to an extent. I'm just saying that you can't overdo it. (You all know what I mean.) Friends should like you for who you are.

/thinks rushrock should learn a bit more about Conforming. This is going to sound really stupid, but...huh? Could you please explain? :-k

Conforming = Making yourself unhappy Not conforming and doing what you want = Making yourself happy :wink:

They exist. And they work because they can store the power. Yeah, I know. It just sounds funny.

A solar powered flashlight! :thumbsup:

same Same. God, I love those Pok̮̩̉̉mon games...

Personally, I love watching movies late at night. My perfect movie scenario is: 1. Late at night 2. Very dark in the theater 3. Barely any people, none is best 4. With my friends and girlfriend I believe in ghosts. There have been some pretty frightening moments in my life which I think had to do with ghosts, and yours, misplacedme, seems a lot like a ghost to me. If I were you, I'd keep going to the theater and try to contact the ghost in any way. If something calls your name, answer it. Try to summon the ghost. See what happens. 8-)

I agree... (Despite the werewolf hand.)

Well, will you post a picture of Callie?

:lol: He is quite the hairy manly man. Your cat reminds me of a cat that I used to have. ^_^ Is that a good thing? Was this old cat of yours a nice, pretty cat, or the devil in cat form? This cat was a very very very nice cat. ^_^ He lived to be very old and died a few years ago. :( He'd been around since I was born and it was sad when he passed away. Wait... Is Merlin the kitty dead? Or is it another cat that you had? (Merlin's cute, BTW.) Thank you! ^_^ I'm sorry if I made my post confusing. No Merlin is still alive. I had a cat before him though that died a couple of years ago. He was the very old nice cat. ^_^ Well, is Merlin nice? (One more thing. Were all of those pictures Merlin? If so, do you have any of the old, dead kitty?) (What's the old, dead kitty's name?)

:lol: He is quite the hairy manly man. Your cat reminds me of a cat that I used to have. ^_^ Is that a good thing? Was this old cat of yours a nice, pretty cat, or the devil in cat form? This cat was a very very very nice cat. ^_^ He lived to be very old and died a few years ago. :( He'd been around since I was born and it was sad when he passed away. Wait... Is Merlin the kitty dead? Or is it another cat that you had? (Merlin's cute, BTW.)

Once, I put brown sugar, sugar, chocolate chips, and cocoa powder into a dish and cooked it in the microwave. It was quite tasty. =P~

I wish I had snow...

This thread is dedicated to the honor and remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Please post all your thoughts and remembrance about Dr. King. As most of you already know, Dr. King made great strides in Civil Rights for African Americans using nonviolent tactics such as speeches and demonstrations. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and is recognized as one of the most important men of the Civil Rights Movement. He was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968, but his words of peace and freedom still live on today. This was one of his most famous speeches. It is commonly known as his "I have a dream" speech. Dr. Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech. "I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But 100 years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check that has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children. It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end but a beginning. Those who hoped that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "for whites only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no we are not satisfied and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream. I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today my friends - so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together. This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. This will be the day, this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring!" And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California. But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi - from every mountainside. Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring - when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children - black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics - will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

LOL.

I also agree. If someone arranged my marriage, I'd have to kill myself or something similar. :uhh: