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I just clicked on a random page and had a good laugh at someone trying to convince everyone that a human construction (marriage) with no consequence in nature is impermeable to change by humans. Restricting gay marriage up until now is just another item on a huge check list of human repression, and now this fight between people speaking against it and those in favor of it just goes to show how tragically comical social constructs are in our society. They're the kind of thing that leads to genocide, if you want to take it to the extreme side

Humans are animals. We are superior animals. Get it right. Without the earthworm, we would not be able to live. Without the ant, we would not survive. Without the bee, life would not exist. Better start fixing that attitude because it's the attitude that humans are somehow above nature that is currently destroying the world.

Humans are animals. get it right.

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Well I haven't done any speed work in them yet since I'm still getting into them and i'm in base phase atm, but I don't see why not (if you have a decent track). They're very similar to racing flats except more goofy looking and emulates the foot a lot more also, a picture on their website, they show a guy sprinting all out in them lol

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fingers and my right ankle. I can get some head-turning cracks from my ankle while in class lol

Whoa I want some. Did you have to order them online? are they expensive and can i use them in a meet? They sell them in retail stores (check the vibram five finger website for a store locator), but it's cheaper to get them online. They cost $80, give or take depending on the kind you go with (get the KSO's; I'll also be buying the "Flow" for the winter as those have thermal type material). As for wearing them in a meet, I don't see why not really (unless this is a track meet, and the track is like concrete). However, i can't overemphasize the fact that they take a long time to get into because you need to give your muscles time to adapt and your bones time to get stronger (thus, nutrition is, as always, very important here). I spent a week just walking around in them before I ever attempted to run. Even the muscles inbetween your toes are going to hurt since they are being separated for the first time in your life lol. Another thing is that you need a really good fit or you might end up dealing with blisters (this is why I recommend buying them in a store if there's one near you) Today I did a 4 mile tempo on a golf course though and averaged 5:18s and my stride felt so efficient and easy. I can't wait to start hitting the trails with the team to get some real quality miles in this summer If you're concerned about the cost, realize that these don't rely on cushioning that makes up for the way the shoe changes your biomechanics so you would be able to run in them until they literally fall apart. You just can't jump into them right away

my 2 cents - as if anyone is paying attention 200 pages in lol All religions are essentially the same when you get down to their core message - treat your neighbors like yourself. Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity, and all the spin off religions like Sikhism, and any other ones I can't think of right now. Even the myths share very similar themes and settings. As for the specific beliefs, they all usually have a "logic" behind them that reinforces the ethical system. The ethical system is what is most important in a Religion, because that's what matter to us as humans. Was God divine when he was on Earth? Who gives a ****? If he was divine, it simply means that humans couldn't possibly adapt his ethical system. If he was purely human, then we can certainly emulate what he did (i.e. not imposing violence on others; not remaining indifferent to social problems; and not being self-absorbed, self-centered, and the like). I think that any matters of faith are simply that; they help people orient themselves. It's the ethical system that matters. You can't be religious if you don't follow the ethical system set out by your religion. P.S. I'm sure an evolution debate seeped into this thread somewhere along the lines. Evolution is essentially irrefutable save for some philosophical semantics about how nothing can be "proven" in science. Just because you don't understand or haven't taking the vast amount of time to learn about it at a scientific level does NOT make it a false theory (hint; learn the definition of theory too)

Check out the shoes I just bought and am now transitioning to: Vibram Five fingers I'm an XC/distance track runner at a "small" D1 college myself, but i hadn't really progressed anywhere from last summer to now even though I was never injured. So I was looking around, and did a lot of reading on "minimalism," or running as close to barefoot as possible to utilize the proper mechanics of the foot. The first time I ran in them, I just went a mile. My form was vastly different (if you don't quickly change your form, it hurts), and I noticed it. I came through that mile in ~5:40, and it felt like a 6:30 jog. I jogged 4 miles in them the next day, and now my calves hurt like hell since all these new muscles are adjusting lol. They're also supposed to lessen the risk of injury, shockingly enough lol. The cushioning in normal shoes (which is actually a relatively new innovation) causes a runner to heelstrike, which places undo stress on your shins, knees, lower back, etc. And when the cushioning wears off (it's hard to tell when this occurs), striking on your heel causes shin splints, stress fractures, and the like. These shoes force you to run the way to foot was supposed to run - landing on your midfoot and having your heel come up to your butt yea, so i highly recommend them if you can toughen yourself through the transition phase (take it slowly)

Genocide is the logical conclusion of the fear of a stranger. Here's a mirror; take a look in it because your indifference and attitude is what perpetuates the systems that result in genocide. Dolt.

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The greatest cause of human misery is human's attempt to conquer nature (note that humans are a part of nature) Read Survival in Auschwitz and We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families for more info and read Adorno's On Dying Today and Simone Weil's The Iliad or poem of force People create systems of destruction and then perpetuate them through their indifference. The result is human misery