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I lol'd. OT: Everybody on Facebook. My news feed is full of sappy song lyrics and crap I don't care about.

I'm about halfway through 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I actually find it a bit wordy, especially when it comes to descriptions of scientific wonders. The plot itself is enjoyable, and I'm interested in seeing how Nemo will develop, but at times it seems Verne just opened a dictionary of scientific words and copied the interesting ones into the novel. I have about four days to read Mountains Beyond Mountains and A Walk in the Woods for school. I expect them both to be boring and full of messages about the godliness of charity.

-From the Wikipedia link above.

This popped up on Pandora. I like it for the piano intro.

I checked my dream book, I think that means you're gay. Was there lightning? Confession: I don't have dreams. And also I don't often remember my dreams. o sht And to your confession, how much do you sleep? I'm pretty sure if you don't sleep like 6 hours or more, then you won't have any dreams? I only studied dreaming for a week last year, so I think to say I'm informed is an exaggeration. I've heard the same thing. My problem is I sleep during the day, so it's normally interrupted multiple times by my family. The first sentence was more of a pun on my lack of motivation. But yes, during the school year when I get minimal sleep it seems I don't get to that dream state. Anyone else keep a dream journal? I started about a week ago (I think because of something I read on TIF) and I've written down a couple wierd things. Nothing too wierd yet though.

I find this relevant. http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-already-knows-everything-he-needs-to-know-abou,17990/ That is all.

I checked my dream book, I think that means you're gay. Was there lightning? Confession: I don't have dreams. And also I don't often remember my dreams.

I actually don't like Thai food that much. It seems I always get a headache when I eat any sort of Asian food. But Pad Thai is pretty tasty.

Crickets. The basement of my house is not completely closed off to the outside, and the only TV is down there. Whenever I try to watch TV at night there is at least one cricket chirping away. Those things are loud when they're nearby. The repetitive, high-pitched noise while I'm trying to focus on being a couch potato just drives me insane.

Regret: Two s'mores at 2:30 am.

Normal, sure. Understandable, fine. Rational, no. Reasonable basis for a sound logical argument, absolutely not. Ok. I made that "HEY HEY HEY" comment since, if I'm an idiot,I may as well talk like one. 2) Let's go back to this story. You're in your house. Mexicans* come in. a [cabbage] load of them. They kill your family, enslave you and all your friends, in their pinto bean* cleaning tequila* making slave factory. (Since according to Magekillr I'm a racist, I may as well make racial stereotypes.) After 15 years of hell, you escape. And you're saying you would still trust Mexicans? I call bull [cabbage]. It's survival of the fittest, and you, would not last. Would you be a good person? Yep. You would be a good person. And inevitably you would be dead, because you'd run across the Mexican slave owner. Bam. *Insert any race, and any two racial stereotypes above. Are we talking about an extreme case? of course. Does this happen to everyday people/and or can this be used as an excuse for everyday people? Absolutely not. *Side note I'm deciding to put in here: I said we were going off topic because I'm not discussing 9\11, I'm really just discussing Bigotry in general.* Now to insert 9\11. These things don't happen every day. 9\11 was a horrid event, and many many people there are scarred. I would personally know.* So should they judge Muslims? I cannot answer that, since I have not been through it. I personally don't think I would, but I can't know that. * A few places I answer for at my job, are mental clinics in NYC. And a lot of the patients (no bs, I can't disclose the exact effects due to HIPPA laws) have a lot of mental disorders due to it. And I'll say again, that still doesn't make it logical or rational. It's a misdirected emotional reaction to a memory of a tenuously associated event. It's not even anything close to approaching a reasonable basis for a sound logical argument. But it does make it both logical AND rational. However, it doesn't make it RIGHT. They are two different actions, being right and being logical. You are confusing natural with rational and understandable with logical. In addition, the extremists in the actual situation are a minority. Yes, if most Mexicans wanted me dead I'd be afraid of Mexicans, but most Muslims are not terrorists.

It's funny you should say that, because the other day I started writing a novel... I forget what it was about.

Maulmachine, Andvari was being sarcastic. There were a few more than three.

The Muslims involved in this project have done so. And I suppose they'll be refusing overseas funding from known reactionaries? Sure, whatever. *shrug* Exactly - they won't. You don't know they won't. Instead of giving [cabbage] reasons why not to do it like they might accept funds from some source, give us a real reason. I might walk outside tomorrow, fly to where you live, kill your girlfriend, your dog, and your family, 18 random strangers, and throw you off a cliff. Have any proof that I won't do it? Nevermind. Next time just say "post count" ;) Does Fox News refuse funding from "known radicals"? Perhaps we should shut them down -- who knows what sort of weapons they could be hiding in all that filming equipment.

What do you mean MY logical deduction? I have not done any work on cosmology, as I have only an undergraduate degree in physics. The big bang is, of course, the leading theory of what happened at the beginning of the universe. Is that what you are asking? You keep stumbling up against my point. Where did you get this "leading theory"? You certainly didn't deduce it for yourself. You are trusting the theoreticians and scientists the same way theists trust their priests. When a new piece of solid evidence is unearthed, the theists will say "oh God was speaking metaphorically" and you will say "I never said my ideas were the only possible solution". You are both wrong and you both refuse to admit that what you are saying could be complete bullcrap.

:thumbup: Overall appearance, really. You can't just take one feature and say "anyone with this will be good-looking".

And where, may I ask, did your "Big Bang" come from? Niether philosophy can explain the origins of the universe, and that is the bottom line. Sure, someday we'll know more about the Big Bang, but who's to say we won't have a visitation from Heaven? Besides, of course, us logical atheists and our bulletproof faith. Your atheism is just as much of a leap of faith as Saruman's strange non-homosexual-hating Christianity.

[spoiler=TLDR] I wasn't saying I dont care, I was saying that I did not understand your writing. I didnt know what I was supposedly caring or not caring about How is athiesm a religion? Actually by definition it is a lack of religion. I do not believe in anything. I observe facts and make logical deductions about the nature of reality. My views about the world are not fixed and I hold no "beliefs" or "faiths". Right now, I have concluded that evolution was the process that brought humans into existance, but if new evidence emerged then my views would change. Religion is a belief in one thing, a belief based on faith and not on evidence. It is irrational, and illogical. Atheism is not a religion, it is not a belief, and it is not a faith in anything. You don't understand logic, and that's the one thing that sticks out. Also, it's irrational to try and rationalize an irrational world. Second, Atheism is a religion, however Atheists won't admit it, because let's face it. Religoin is for illogical ppls@! I actually agree with Saruman for once here. Proof for religion lies in the fact that one trusts one's parents/priests/other religious influence. One cannot prove all the stuff in the Bible happened. One believes it based on what one is told. Proof for evolution lies in the fact that one trusts a bunch of theoreticians and scientists. You did not unearth any fossils. Your proof lies in the fact that you trust the reasoning of other people. Atheism is a result of believing in evolution. Given the facts that we have, atheism seems more logical. However, we cannot prove the accuracy of these facts. The truth is that we are blindly defending a developing theory, which could easily be different in 100 years. Religion is the older of two fallacies. Ah! But to make an irrational decision based on said irrationality would be doubly irrational.

His ended in 28. It's decided. Adrenal will henceforth be known as omgiwannadoit!11.

Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?

Clearly, your supermarket sucks. Nah but I hate it when appear to randomly shelve some items in random locations, makes it real hard to find stuff. That's on purpose. They think you'll buy more random junk if you have to wander around the store to find the stuff you need.

What? I'm pretty sure they're with candy whenever I buy them. Speaking of marshmallows, my family brought a bunch of s'mores stuff on vacation which we didn't finish all of so we brought it home. I went to try to figure out how to make one in the microwave and somebody had eaten all the chocolate. GAH. Who does that? How dare they eat the chocolate plain and leave the crackers and marshmallows, leading me to believe I might enjoy a tasty treat?

150? That's nothing. Go read the Old Testament.

Well that explains a lot. I thought he was reading my mind.

Well I only took three years of foreign languages and I do not feel that it negatively affected me. Honestly I'm sure it depends on what college(s) you are interested in and how you meet their requirements in other areas. When I applied for colleges, I honestly can't remember actually finding a college that REQUIRED four years of foreign language. If there are any, I'm sure they're like top of the line schools and given the little information that you stated, you probably wouldn't get into those schools anyway (with a GPA that "isn't great"). I wouldn't worry about it. As for whether or not it's a guideline or a requirement, it should be stated on the college's website. As I said, none of the colleges that I looked at required four years of foreign language. But if you're really concerned, I would recommend speaking to an academic advisor or a college counselor if you have either available to you. My GPA is 3.27ish if I remember correctly. Last year I basically passed in half of the essays because I could stay in the C range, but it fell through when I started having family problems and problems with tardiness, so I ended with a couple Ds. I'm in advanced classes, but no AP. I guess this leads to the question: How easy is it to raise a GPA? As I said, I don't know much about colleges, but I know I want to go to a liberal arts school and one that's pretty well-known. I was looking at Amherst because my uncles went there, but it's changed a bit since they went and it seems a little prestigious. For college it wouldn't really matter, nor in real life. Ever heard someone say "oh yea "insert spanish complicated phrase" man, I learned that in highschool and stil remember, 2 years later!" Nope. So few people remember their foreign languages past a year after they stop taking them. And colleges don't tend to care, just make sure to do well in the ones you take in college. In the past I have kept in mind how little High School matters in the rest of my life, but it's put me in a bad situation as far as college goes. Not that I care too much, but it's a bit worrying when I go online for college stuff and see people saying "keep your GPA above 4.0 if you want to get into a competitive school". Thank you both for the responses.