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Pushing is an effort with this biting cold weather I'm experiencing. Getting wheel bite now that I changed how tight my trucks are. Wheel bite usually indicates trucks that are too loose (actually, I do have a pintail, which is a huge factor). But I can't turn on a dime like I could before I changed the wheels and bushings. I think it's because my bushings are harder and less broken-in than my old bushings, which makes it so that my trucks aren't as flexible even though the screw is rather loose. Later this week I'm going to look to get a free riding board. I want my trucks really loose without having to deal with wheel bite.

So someone said "Happy twenty dozen!" to me on New Years, and I was like :unsure: . How is 240 related to 2012 at all? And then I got it. :shades:

Or people who text you, you response and then hear nothing back at all. I'm always confused at what the point was at starting a conversation if you're going to end it immediately. Them: Hey there! How's it going? Me: -long text about how I'm doing, since we haven't talked in a long while - How about you? *end of conversation* It's like, did you even care about how I was doing? Or did you just text me to so that you'll feel better knowing that you at least made an effort to show you still exist in my book.

[hide]My friend hated his voice. Didn't hesitate killing him. Personally, I had sympathy for him and bugged my friend about killing him.[/hide]

Shaolin. 5/5. Interesting plot, really cool fight scenes. And Jackie Chan made me laugh. Always a plus.

Noah and the Whale's Last Night on Earth album.

Lool. For the sake of being on topic, eye boogers in the morning are annoying.

Free trade is back? :blink:

Get it, bro! =D>

Are there even Abyss PK'ers anymore? I thought revenants took over. Or are those gone now? Abyss crafting was so easy with revs. Yes, this is RS in everyone's OT.

I've always found it weird that you spell great g-r-e-a-t but grateful g-r-a-t-e-f-u-l. Why not greatful? :s

'Decline' is one of those really weird words to say after you say it a bunch of times.

^Same. So when I'm reading in the morning, I'm yawning a lot, and for some reason that causes me to tear a lot. Really annoying when trying to read.

When you don't get enough sleep and your eyes are a bit red from your contacts. I bet at least a few people thought I was doing drugs at mass today. :thumbdown:

4:18 am. Tired. Sober. Drove a shit ton of people home. :\ Waking up in four hours for morning mass. This'll be fun!

I don't floss a lot but I brush my teeth twice (or more) times a day every single day. For some reason I've never made flossing a habit. I should probably start that as a resolution. Anyway, the jist of this post is that flossing annoys me. I wish brushing your teeth did the flossing part, too.

My older brother is a huge board game fan. And not the silly classic ones like Sorry, Monopoly, etc. He brought over a dozen board games that I've never heard of. We've slowly been playing them all every time he comes over. They've turned out to be pretty fun (kinda long at some times). Too bad he left Killer Bunnies (card game) at home. That's a blast.

Why not just call home and have a parent get you guys? That's what I usually do on NYE since no one wants to be the DD. Also I may be lucky since I'm 24 and my parents don't mind me calling in the middle of the night to get me, since they support the fact that I never drink and drive. Also there are no cabs in my town. My parents mind, though (both that I drink and if I called them up in the middle of the night). :\

It was always filing the FAFSA on New Years for us. I hope my mom did that. So, haven't heard anything about a party for NYE tonight. My oldest brother and his girlfriend and her son came up yesterday. So if I'm not going anywhere, I'll be able to hang out with them, which is fun. I wouldn't mind staying home to hang with them. Last night, we played Settlers of Catan (Seafarer's Expansion) and it was pretty darn fun.

Being the first one to show up at a gathering. :thumbdown:

I'm proud to be part of one that doesn't, then. :^_^:

Stopped by a store and bought myself some deodorant (the stuff I have doesn't smell all that great to me, but they didn't have the kind I like up at school). Also bought a charcoal long sleeve shirt and a nice red sweater.

"James characterizes theism as offering "a world of promise, while materialism's sun sets in a sea of disappointment."29 That is to say that in its affirmation of an eternal moral order, theism promises a world of promise, or hope, while in its denial of an eternal moral order, materialism promises the opposite. Settling this question pragmatically consists in deciding which promise one wishes to accept." There. That provides his take on it. And that's all I wanted to share. (materialism in this case is basically the denial of God) EDIT: Feel free to tear apart his ideas. They aren't mine. I just thought they were interesting. :thumbup:

James = William James "One metaphysical problem that James endeavors to pragmatically consider is that of "materialism or theism?". James inquires as to the practical differences that come with holding that "the facts of experience up to date are purposeless configurations of blind atoms moving according to eternal laws, or that on the other hand they are due to the providence of God."23 James asserts that retrospectively, no practical difference obtains; "those facts are in, are bagged, are captured; and the good that's in them is gained, be the atoms or be the God their cause."24 But, James stipulates, prospectively, there is a difference. When considering future facts of experience, we ask, as James puts it, "'what does the world promise?'"25 In other words, what sort of experience will be brought into effect if materialism and theism make good on their solemn pronouncements? James believes that materialism and theism offer strikingly different answers to this question. Materialism has it that the stuff of the world is transient and that eventually, all will decay with nothing remaining to represent that which was. "This utter final wreck and tragedy," states James, "is of the essence of scientific materialism as at present understood."26 The energies of our systems will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Matter will know itself no longer. ‘Imperishable monuments’ and ‘immortal deeds,’ death itself, and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. Nor will anything that is, be better or be worse for all that labour, genius, devotion and suffering of man have striven through countless generations to effect. (from Balfour’s The Foundations of Belief) Theism, on the other hand, has it that "tragedy is only provisional and partial, and shipwreck and dissolution not the absolutely final things."27 According to James, this is because although the perishing of objects of the world is acknowledged by theism, theism makes an assurance that materialism never could, namely, that of an eternal preservation of moral order. Because he regards the "need of an eternal moral order" as "one of the deepest needs of our breast,"28 James characterizes theism as offering "a world of promise, while materialism's sun sets in a sea of disappointment."29 That is to say that in its affirmation of an eternal moral order, theism promises a world of promise, or hope, while in its denial of an eternal moral order, materialism promises the opposite. Settling this question pragmatically consists in deciding which promise one wishes to accept." Source Thought it was an interesting take on the issue when I learned it in philosophy class this semester and that I would share it for fun (not saying I agree completely). :grin:

Drove around with my younger sister to give people their orders of candy from the fundraiser her basketball team held. Was fun.