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Ok lol. I just think that even though you can never be 100% certain, you have a choice - you can chose to make the effort, or not. And that choice is yours alone, no matter who you are.

But that's exactly my point...you shouldn't make a commitment until you are really ready for it. Problem with society today is that many many people do it when they aren't ready to. And of course you could give me many more, because the majority of people don't want to make the effort, they don't want to make sacrfices. They want what society tells us to want: Whatever makes us happy, usually stuff, and now, and without thought for anyone else. I guess people just don't beleive in responsibility the same way anymore. I don't see a marriage as having any solution but time and effort - a divorce is an easy way out rather than a genuine fix.

No images? Damn. I thought one. Still, I'm interested to see where you take this :)

Of course not every two people can be happy together, that's the purpose of dating. If you spend time, serious time, and seriously get to know someone, it should be possible to determine whether you could be happy together. I refuse to beleive that if you really make a consciencous choice, and make the effort, that any marriage is just "not meant to work". You don't know what that person will be like in 10 years. You don't know what person YOU will be like in 10 years. My point is that it shouldn't matter. and @ Qeltar - you assume it's a white lie because so many people get divorced.. I can assure you that there are people who actually mean it. And yes, of course there are some things which make it very difficult to hold a relationship together, but some people don't even make an effort. The reason you date is to try to get to know someone well enough that you will realize you have what it takes to make something work. What if it doesn't work? Should you just live up with the consequences, or realize that, as Qeltar said, life is too short to be spending it in failed marriage. You made a commitement, for the rest of your life...if that involves making sacrfices to keep your word, then yes it does. But I also refuse to beleive that effort cannot result in a happy relationship. As I've said before, I personally know a couple who were married for 25 years. They drifted apart to the point where she hated him and wouldn't talk to him except to scream at him. He decided to make changes, and after a year of working impossibly hard to try to win her back, he did, and today they are happily married once again.

Of course not every two people can be happy together, that's the purpose of dating. If you spend time, serious time, and seriously get to know someone, it should be possible to determine whether you could be happy together. I refuse to beleive that if you really make a consciencous choice, and make the effort, that any marriage is just "not meant to work". You don't know what that person will be like in 10 years. You don't know what person YOU will be like in 10 years. My point is that it shouldn't matter. and @ Qeltar - you assume it's a white lie because so many people get divorced.. I can assure you that there are people who actually mean it. And yes, of course there are some things which make it very difficult to hold a relationship together, but some people don't even make an effort. The reason you date is to try to get to know someone well enough that you will realize you have what it takes to make something work.

Of course not every two people can be happy together, that's the purpose of dating. If you spend time, serious time, and seriously get to know someone, it should be possible to determine whether you could be happy together. I refuse to beleive that if you really make a consciencous choice, and make the effort, that any marriage is just "not meant to work".

This is exactly a form of saying "I don't trust you". It's like saying: "I know we have some mushy infatuation and great sex at the moment, and I'm cool with staying with you as long as that keeps up, but some day you might turn into a huge [bleep] in which case I'll bail on you because I'm not having fun anymore, and so lets sign a prenup so you can't take all my money, because I definitely couldn't live without it". Not really, I've seen too many cases of a loving, trusting couple, becoming each other's nightmare after a few years. A prenup is an insurance in the sense that incase this "accident" happens, the insurance covers for it. Being unwilling to put in the effort to make a relationship isn't an "accident". You either are commited, or you aren't. I've seen people pull relationships from the depths of hell because they know it's the right thing to do, and I've seen people in good relationships give up because they aren't willing to put in the effort, and know they can get away with it. When you say "until death do us part" at the altar, you should mean what you say. That's the bottom line. Sometimes effort is not enough. Sometimes no matter how much you try, 2 people could not fit together under the same roof for too long. That's exactly where a prenup comes to the rescue. I'm sure the vast majority of married couples really do mean it when they say "I do", but sometimes meaning it is not enough. I don't beleive that. All the marriages I've seen fail (and I've seen many) have been because someone or both have stopped trying. There is actually a guy in my neighbourhood whose wife had alzheimers, so she forgot him. And every day he went and spent the day with her, just talking to her, reading to her, etc etc. He did this for ten years, until she died. And when she died, he wasn't relieved, he was heartbroken. That's the kind of commitement you need to have to make a marriage work, and the sad fact is that people jump into marriage thinking that their infatuation will be enough, but it won't. True love isn't a warm feeling in your stomach, it's the unconditional, complete gift of your entire person to another.

The one thing that strikes me about aliens is how perfect the earth is...just reading the wikipedia article tons of things jump out at me. Such as "30 km away, it would be too hot" "only known planet to have this composition, out of thousands studied", stuff like that. The Earth really is a miracle in many ways, which makes me think it's unlikely there is any other life out there. But on the other hand, I'm a beleiver in God, and I beleive he wouldn't waste time. Why make so many planets if there was really no purpose for them? In terms of an alien invasion, I think we can assume that knowing what we do about the universe they would have to be advanced to make it here in the first place. There's no solid proof an "invasion" is incoming, and even if there was their technology would be more than enough to eliminate us, so why worry about it?

This is exactly a form of saying "I don't trust you". It's like saying: "I know we have some mushy infatuation and great sex at the moment, and I'm cool with staying with you as long as that keeps up, but some day you might turn into a huge [bleep] in which case I'll bail on you because I'm not having fun anymore, and so lets sign a prenup so you can't take all my money, because I definitely couldn't live without it". Not really, I've seen too many cases of a loving, trusting couple, becoming each other's nightmare after a few years. A prenup is an insurance in the sense that incase this "accident" happens, the insurance covers for it. Being unwilling to put in the effort to make a relationship isn't an "accident". You either are commited, or you aren't. I've seen people pull relationships from the depths of hell because they know it's the right thing to do, and I've seen people in good relationships give up because they aren't willing to put in the effort, and know they can get away with it. When you say "until death do us part" at the altar, you should mean what you say. That's the bottom line.

This is such a difficult issue, thank god I live in Canada. Maybe the US could devote more effort to helping improve the quality of life in Mexico, that would definitely help. But as for the law....I don't think its unconstitutional in and of itself, rather it allows for unconstitutional actions without reprimand. Bottom line, illegal immigrants are people too.. and misfortune by birth (aka being born in Mexico rather than the States) shouldn't have to screw you over for life. I like the idea of streamlining the immigration process, obviously people will freeload but the benefits would far outweight the disadvantages.

Some would say that prenups make sense - the "insurance" comparison amused me. The bottom line is that people don't realize what they are getting into, and don't want to trust the other person. "you don't know what the other person will be like in 20 years". No, you don't....but when you say "I do" what it means is that it doesn't matter. You are commiting to someone for life, no matter what happens. People these days just take marriage too lightly, one more thing you can just forget about if it isn't working for you. This is exactly a form of saying "I don't trust you". It's like saying: "I know we have some mushy infatuation and great sex at the moment, and I'm cool with staying with you as long as that keeps up, but some day you might turn into a huge [bleep] in which case I'll bail on you because I'm not having fun anymore, and so lets sign a prenup so you can't take all my money, because I definitely couldn't live without it".

Meh I'd prefer to go beyond first quarter, but even the guild runs often don't make it past putricide.

Rule #1 of raiding: Don't do it unless you have a guild. I have a guild, and we did two ICC10 runs this week, problem is I missed both of them. Thing is I'm on a pvp server, and so close to the resets I guess most people are locked out.

I must say, I think he's ridiculous, but still, hopefully he gets better. And I was just watching Hot Tub Time Machine the other night, he was in it, kind of weird that I hear about this now. And by "he was in it", he wasn't actually...just his character was.

Good luck man! Milk+sugar ruin tea for me. I just like it plain :)

Should condense things a little, sounds good to me :)

Wow, its proving freaking impossible to find an ICC 10 group today :(

It's probably based on the advertising revenue per user base etc etc...although that figure does seem high. Not to mention in order to profit from that you would have to sell the site, and no one would buy it for that lol.

Same here. <_< Same. Same. And it's really starting to suck since I'm starting college classes in the Fall. Same.... I'll join the procrastination club later on, I've got something else to do first. I procrastinate a lot too. Sorry let me do that again. I procrastinate a lot too. Oh and wretched you don't deserve to be in the club. The procrastination club meeting has been postponed till Monday.....maybe.

Try leaving your money at home, that way you have nothing to drink but water. And 40lbs is not a "slight weight increase". Really the only way to do this is just suck it up, water never will taste as good as some other beverages. Every time you want to drink coke, think of ulcers in your stomach...that helped me.

I also didn't leave RS because I hate it - I left because I got bored of it. I still frequent this fansite because of the community we have here, not because I have any interest in the game. And I reserve any posts similar to the example for major updates only, I think dungeoneering was the only think I'd ever posted something like that on.

Justin Beiber. [/troll] But seriously, for music made by gay artists, you can't beat Queen. And yeah, only FM was gay, but he was the face, the persona, the sound of Queen - I think that's good enough.

Oh wow, that is WAAAYYYY better :D

Says who? Canada/US are built on Native American soil but no one cares (just an example). Invading isn't a right, but it can be a necessity. I care, actually. Natives are treated like absolute crap here and the government does absolutely nothing about it. It's something that would be a vote-changer for me were anyone to actually propose a solution.

Agility only improves armour and crit chance. At least I think that's the case...