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Refrain from personal attacks? Lmao. I see none. Rather, I see your post as disrespectful, seeing as your teapot analogy was said in the same way someone would use the 'flying spaghetti monster' analogy. Your first post didn't sound like you respected theism at all. If you would have posted the above thoughts first, I wouldn't have sprang on you. Also, the defense for theism 'God exists because you can't prove he doesn't' isn't even considered a proof by the Catholic Church. Once again, you may get a better understanding of theism if you looked more into the Church's explanations. EDIT: If you're talking about me claiming you know nothing about Church doctrine on the existence of God, I was perfectly alright making that assumption, since you assumed that I was using the absolute worst explanation for God's existence, one that, again, isn't eve acknowledged by the Catholic Church.

Yanni's Dare to Dream album. Most of my friends make so much fun of me for liking him, but I grew up with him. I listened to this album whenever I had the flu or a cold or when I was going through this weird phase where I threw up everyday for 2 months straight (no exaggeration, I [bleep]ed up my stomach). I honestly feel like I'm running through a European city whenever I listen to it. It might be some good Assassin's Creed music, haha. He was big in my mom's day, which is why I have his albums on my computer.

:lol: I highly dislike all the other physics majors at my college (all 7 of them). And it may be part of the reason I switch majors (along with me beginning to hate the subject).

Your inability to understand is obviously what makes you an atheist. And frankly, it's nothing like a china teapot flying between Mars and Earth. And once again, it annoys the hell out of me when people rag on Catholicism (or theism in general) without knowing anything about what the Church says about those subjects. If any of you actually had read some Church doctrine on the existence of God, it'd be much clearer why people actually believe in it and that it isn't just 'out of the blue' thinking. I'm sick and tired of people acting like other people's belief systems are crap (yes, there's no other reason why you posted that stupid china teapot analogy than for this reason). If you feel that way, keep it to yourself, because none of us want to hear it. I don't care if you disagree or agree, I still respect you if you disagree; but i begin losing respect when you imply that someone's belief system has absolutely no foundation (specifically in this case, theism). That's just disrespectful.

Not at the moment - it broke due to too much yelling. Right now I use the dreaded text message system and input every single letter manually. That's how dedicated I am at this job. Yelling? Or did you throw it around a bit? :P You can have mine. I don't have any teams I play with, so talking does me no good. Plus, I have no idea what the call outs on the maps are.

Her hair is getting longer. :3

Lordy, now that's a beard! I think of a good Samaritan when I see these pictures.

Zierro, I thought you didn't use a headset, though?

Jodi - The Dodos Got into them from a sweet longboarding video by Loaded. Now I have three of their albums, and love them. Their drums are real prevalent in a lot of their music, and they kinda have an older sound to them. Plus, they make for good longboarding music.

3rd place out of 16 teams. Really close matches in the final four. Lost the first of the Final Four games by two (47-49) and then won to get 3rd place, 50-33. It was fun. I think I might start playing Halo seriously again.

Did someone move this from the Library on accident? I don't read for fun during the school year... The Republic by Plato.

I'd rather have ad hominem arguments made at me, and then kick their asses. :P But you're good enough where you can taunt them and kick their ass, too.

Secret: I was walking from the food commons with two friends, and we were just looking around as we walked, and we caught sight of a topless girl in her dorm room (she wasn't facing the window). And I stared for a bit. Don't tell anyone, seriously. It's been pretty tough for me since then.

Why should that be more of a priority than their actual qualifications? Because it shows that their overall knowledge is poor. This. Not at all. You're basing someone's 'overall knowledge' on whether they know the states or not? That'd be one stupid employer. Anyway, we focus learning a specific subject (i.e. majoring in something) because we want a job that needs that knowledge, and not knowledge of other subjects. You think NASA is going to care if someone doesn't know where all 50 states are when they know all about dense non-aqueous phase liquids? I mean, really.

Not having medical insurance. :\

Going to watch a friend run in a cross country meet. Then, we're gonna get back and play in a Halo Reach tournament. The rest of the day after that will be spent on homework, I'm guessing.

I find it hard to believe that a employment office will ask you to label a map of the United States so that they can make their decision. I'm at no disadvantage if I spend my time better understanding physics concepts than memorizing the states. And not wanting to memorize the states doesn't show a lack of curiosity. I could be plenty more curious about something else.

Oh, I meant Reach. I guess they mostly play Arena, though.

I hate the beginning weeks of college cause you have a bunch of freshman idiots being all social and trying to get to know everyone. That's why I take a textbook, doesn't matter which one, and open it while I eat and look at it so it looks like I'm busy. But, like you said, some people just don't get it. I've no problem if you don't want to be bothered, but my response was to when you said you hate freshmans trying to socialize. I mean if they're bothering you when you're busy, then ya I'd get annoyed too, but if people getting together drives you crazy then idk... You took the sentence out of context, though. I was replying to Dizzle's post about people of the like bothering him. I hate the beginning weeks because everyone is going around introducing themselves and I get caught up in that mix, whether I take steps to prevent it or not. You have to admit that the beginning weeks are more filled with this socializing than the rest of the year; this is why I hate them, because there's more of a chance of me being on the receiving end of this socializing.

Is it still pathetic and lazy if you're spending brain power on other things (that actually help you get a degree given you're not getting a degree in United States geography or something like that)? Yes. And life is not entirely about getting a degree or even necessarily going to college. It may not be, but it certainly is not about knowing the states. :P

Is it still pathetic and lazy if you're spending brain power on other things (that actually help you get a degree given you're not getting a degree in United States geography or something like that)?

I hate the beginning weeks of college cause you have a bunch of freshman idiots being all social and trying to get to know everyone. That's why I take a textbook, doesn't matter which one, and open it while I eat and look at it so it looks like I'm busy. But, like you said, some people just don't get it. I'm sorry if some people want to meet others when they get out of the hell hole known as high school. I mean, don't be so cold. Yeah I mean they're just trying to meet other people.. What's wrong with that? My point is, they should go bug people who look like they want to be talked to. I don't care how much you want to make friends, there's dozens of other boisterous people sitting all around me; I'm the one looking at the textbook/listening to my iPod, I don't want to be bothered, it should be obvious.

There is very little evidence speculating one way or the other to be honest. So there is no reason to believe any current theory of how the universe came into existence either. Don't tell me otherwise unless you have SOLID 100% proof that you can show to me. If you are going to tell me that the universe just exploded, show me the damn video recording of it. Whilst it may be hard to prove either way, we can show that the most widely accepted conjectures (Judaism and Islam) aren't even possible. No matter how much you say that, you can't. Anyway, that conversation was done a page ago.

As long as I know relative distance, which I do (i.e. near, far, very far), I'm fine. I'm not going to spend time, even if it's easy, memorizing their places on a map. :P

Strictly speaking of knowledge of where states are in the United States off the top of your head, I find it pretty useless. Aside from trivia games (which aren't super popular at this age, I'd think), I'd never need to know something like that. If I'm planning a trip, I'd need a more detailed map that will display states to me; I won't need to have them memorized. As for making connections and ideas much better, I don't need to know where the states are to do so. And I don't get in many conversations where I have to know exactly how many states away they're traveling to get the point that they're going far away.