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Well, I would say you've already made the first mistake, and that is being "head over heels" for someone without actually doing something about it first. That is to say, you should have done something about it when you realized you liked her, not wait until you are "head over heels." That definitely makes things easier. You can actually make conversation that way rather than be completely worried about whether you will say something wrong. That being said, you're in the situation now. Just remember that you should talk. Ignore any tightening in your stomach when you want to say something but aren't sure you want to say it, and just say it. Most people are forgiving, the hard part is forgiving yourself. This does not mean just run up to her and burst out every feeling you've ever had about her, but communicate. Ask her to a dance or something casual, where nothing is really forced, that's what I did. I got lucky, and everything kind of just happened.(Though the girl I was head over heels for I figured out isn't right for me, and have now gone the way I recommended in the first paragraph with someone.)

Heck, I made it 19 years without a "girlfriend"(For full story, see last couple of pages.). Not saying serious relationships don't happen before college, but serious relationships don't happen until college/after high school. Believe it. Anything before that is not that likely to be worth it. Not directed at you, Da_Latios, I know you've got a head on you, but just in general.

Recently, I would say Why, by Rascal Flatts. I pretty much broke down and cried the first time I heard it. [yt]TNa1X5MH6l8[/yt]

I just kind of stayed away from Courage... I remember seeing an episode of Futurama, however, that really threw me for a loop. All I remember about it was that Bender was giving a speech about how there was no God and that really messed with my head as a young kid. Being young, I couldn't find a way to argue with him and I was like, wait, God isn't real? And at that time I was already struggling with faith and how the Bible could be some sort of evil conspiracy that portrayed God as the good guy when really the devil was good. But, I got over it. ;) So yeah... Go Nineties!!!

Here's a couple pics of me because I'm bored, in case anyone is curious.(Not that anyone would be :? ) Pretty average, in my opinion. Sorry bout bad quality, just taking pics from my laptop webcam in the semidarkness cause my roommate is sleeping. [hide=Because everyone likes smiles...][/hide]

how am i supposed to read that? For your entertainment pleasure: *Hem**hem* Topic Title: "the blades! end it!!" First post: "I was at the home menu[?] and whenever the commercial for x-men is there it comes down and rips the whole site to shreds[...indecipherable] with its claws! I have to wait until it ends just to play! and i really hate it!! please someone stop it!!" End first post. Second post: "use protect from melee" End second post In case you're curious, I copy and pasted it into word and enlarged it and proceeded to read the blurry text. I don't recommend it. ;)

This one girl might possibly maybe be the reason I attend Catholic mass on Sunday, eat vegetarian, gave up sweets for lent, and am taking a course in Philosophy of Human Rights... :? *shifty eyes* She's not the sole reason for those things, but she definitely had an influence. And I'm now in a relationship with another girl. But a lot of those things turned out quite well. Giving up sweets for Lent means I have an excuse to make cookies this afternoon with the girl I'm in a relationship with now, and I enjoy both Catholic mass and the Philosophy course. As for eating vegetarian, I think I'm going to finish out the semester vegetarian, and then start eating meat again in the summer. It has become nothing more than me challenging myself. We'll see if I continue it in fall semester.(It's just way too difficult to not eat meat around my family. Every meal they make has it as the main course.)

Wise words... I have been giving her less attention for a while now, so that's made it much easier. Also, somehow, in the past few days I have gotten over her much more than I would have expected, and certainly much faster. Anyway, other girl update. So today we went to the dance thing, and had a great time. It was amazing! Just one thing. The whole evening, we both avoiding talking about the elephant in the room, though it was obvious to both of us that it was there, and just kept getting larger as we started holding hands more and more. I kept giving her opportunities to talk about it, because I didn't want to push it, but she didn't quite take them. Anyway, after the dance we were walking back to the college and the elephant was finally talked about, first by admitting that we were both chickens and then by first her and then I saying that we liked each other. So yeah. I am now in my first real relationship.

Yea, I know. And I am trying. And it's working. Sort of. I only have feelings for her when I think about having feelings for her, if that makes sense. And I don't really intend to start a relationship at the moment with this other girl, at least not in a formal way, if you know what I mean. We are doing a bunch of stuff together as friends that some would definitely consider dating. Such as the fact that I asked her to go to a dance on Friday. And keep in mind, this is college, not high school, so a dance isn't this whole epitome of social life that means everything.

I'm curious, what happens to the prophesy tablet that says your Fremnik name if you change it with the ring of Charos? :-k I wonder how Jagex would talk themselves out of that one :lol: I guess most likely they'd just ignore it and change the tablet automatically to match your new name, but...

The Friend Zone is a lovely place to be, ain't it? I'm about 99% sure I'm in it for the second time in my life, this time with the girl I mentioned in a post quite a few pages back that nobody really paid attention to. I really like her, too. (Isn't that always the case? I guess, but this was different than a simple crush.) Anyway, I'm pretty sure she never even knew/knows I liked her. I guess I'm almost okay with that, and I will still be a great friend to her because I know she trusts me. It's just a little hard to move on. This may make me appear much more superficial than I am, but there is another girl that looks promising at the moment. I knew her as a friend through a student organization, but didn't really get to know her all that well. A couple weeks ago I was thinking to myself, hmm I would kind of like to get to know her better, she seems like a great person. Well, through a series of coincidences, the Monday after I was thinking that, we ended up getting together for tea and talking for like 2 hours. Then Thursday, she comes wandering up to my dorm to come chat for a bit, so we do. Then Friday we went to an event with a group of people and ended up having tea together only to end up talking for another 5 hours. Then we did another thing Saturday, and that (it was last week)ended up being one of the best weeks in a long time. This week is going well too. And just now as I was typing this, she came to my room again, this time bringing tea to me, as she knew I was working on writing a paper for tomorrow. Do you get the feeling she likes me? Because I certainly do. I should mention she is generally a very affectionate person, so she might just do this for all her friends, but that's probably not very likely, is it? And I have to say, this relationship is going to happen naturally, if it all. I still have feelings for the other girl, but I'm trying to get over them. And the second girl is so easy to love, I almost wish I did. I almost do, but I think my other feelings are holding me back.

Pwnt. I have the feeling this may be the first news post to be locked for spam... Anyway, the battlecards are...interesting. Or not. Yeah, let's go with that. They are just not at all important. I guess if you are crazy enough about RS to want to play it where you have no access to technology, go for it, I guess.

FINALLY, PROOF! I hate having to constantly argue with people about this point. Not that most people actually read the postbag, so the rumor is likely to continue, but at least I can point to something as proof now.

Deathdrow, the guy on the left in the picture of the band kinda looks like my RA, who strangely enough, does indeed play guitar.

I think there is an error in your math. When you move the 4/2n^2 to the outside of the sigma notation, you dropped the 2 in the denominator, using 4/n^2 rather than 2/n^2 .

aint that the truth -.- I actually find the opposite to be true. Since I can read people, I know who I can trust. There are lots of trustworthy people, and I tend to surround myself with them. I'm annoyed that I can't read people enough. Like I can't tell exactly why they have the emotion they do, but I'm great at picking up on false emotions and what emotion is hidden beneath them. It would really be helpful in figuring out if someone likes me if I could do the latter. I would know that they are smiling that way because they like me, or whether they they are just smiling because they are generally just very happy at the moment. Where did you get that from? Smarter people have an easier time overcoming obstacles than dumber ones. Yes, but we also tend to overthink things. So maybe harder to begin dating, but easier to proceed after getting started...

I give my vote to Steinbeck - East of Eden Though all of these are pretty great. It looks like a list straight from an AP Lit. class. What is it for? I don't claim to have read all of them, but to give you a bit of perspective on my opinion, I've read: Steinbeck, East of Eden; Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Twain, Huckleberry Finn; Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Dumas, The Three Musketeers; Knowles, A Separate Peace; Martel, Life of Pi; I've also heard reports from a number of people who've read many others on the list, and all of the books on this list are pretty high quality literature.

Nice try by the way. I had my try at a similar post oh so many pages ago. Anyway, I've really been liking the last few posts, they at least almost aren't arguing the same thing, and I found the satirical essay quite amusing.

I never said he knows the future, I said he knows the possibilities. The future is to me unknowable, simply by the fact that it does not exist until it takes place, at which point it is no longer the future. He may know how likely it is we will pick each individual possibility, but he cannot "know" which one we will pick because it is not decided until we pick it. (And again with the omnipotent. Omnipotent is all-powerful, not all-knowing. Look it up.) I also never said that anything would happen outside the realm of those possibilities. Just because the possibilities are limited, does not mean everything is predetermined.

Yeah, so do I. I plan on being a conscientious objector if the draft is ever put into practice. I actually wrote up a bill for my AP government class last year that would have obligated women to register. It passed by a vote of my peers, so that should be good enough for the government, right? ;) I don't believe we should have it, as I really don't consider myself to have any national attachment to any country. I'm a citizen of humanity, not of some arbitrarily defined government. But since we do have it, I think it should be equal.

Oh, okay. Still irrelevant for me, because I don't think we get our morals from the Bible or really even God for that matter. And still, all debateable as philosophy, excluding the "if we were created" part. That seems to just be tagged on there at the end to turn a philosophy debate into a religious debate.

Lots of problems with that. If freewill does exist, God can be omniscient(omnipotent is all-powerful) by seeing all possibilities because the future does not exist until it actually happens, and it is therefore not knowable. If we have not freewill, then it doesn't really matter either way, now does it? Besides that, why does a god have to be all-knowing(or all-powerful as the case may be)?

Serving isn't mandatory unless you are drafted, but it is mandatory to sign up for it when men turn 18. Whether or not another draft is implemented is irrelevant. It's annoying because you can be punished if you don't. Some insane fine and up to like 5 years in prison. This was almost a problem for me, as I didn't really hear about it until almost 4 months after my 18th birthday. I'm surprised I wasn't being hunted down, as I was outside their 3 month grace period.

That's a simple cause and effect chain, that has nothing to do with choice. Of course every action has a reaction, otherwise it wouldn't really be an action, but a thought is not necessarily an action. Again, this debate isn't the most relevant we've had, as most of this could be argued in a philosophy class outside of any connection to God. How much free will do we really have?

Biologically speaking, it's because younger girls will be fertile longer than older ones. Socially, it's for the same reason. Boys can't match the mental maturity of girls their own age. Plus younger girls are easier to manipulate, as can be shown from some of the stories of the last few pages.