pault

It's really just a ridiculous marketing stunt, with not much (yet) to relate it with the show. Which of course is awesome. The suspects gave an interview with Fox news. The media is still reporting it in such an alarmist way. Seriously, shows how uptight people are.

No, but as soon as you know you have the disease, you can go out in a truly awesome way, of your choosing.

Well, it's too bad he has no power and he is just a puppet for the clerics who actually run the country, because that kind of makes your post pointless.

There are quite a few good reason to smoke. ~Improves your mood ~Increases your alterness and reaction time ~Warms you up in the winter ~Let's you get out of lot's of sticky situations by taking a "Smoking break" ~Gives you a "Sexier" voice over time The negative effects of cancer, death, emphysema, etc.. aren't actually that bad, if you consider that your going to die anyway, and that your chances of getting cancer even if you don't smoke are pretty good. Who wants to live past age 60 anyway? For the last few decades of your life do you really want to be perpetual burden on your friends and family, while losing your memory, your dignity, and your bladder control? Better to live life to the fullest while you can.

Not only are there many terrible social (and politcal) injustices still going on in the United States, while activists clamor for US military intervention across the globe, there are worse problems in Africa than the Sudan Genocide, that can actually be solved by intervention, such as the AIDs and Malaria epidemics. Furthermore, the US history of military intervention in Africa has hardly been a positive one that has yielded good results.

Everyone knows that peer pressure to start smoking is bad. I think smoking is a good thing, however. I smoke tobacco out of a bong primarily (filters tar and many other carcinogens out of the smoke), and when I do smoke cigarettes I enjoy organic additive-free American Spirit tobacco. Smoking helps calm my anxiety and is good for my mental health. It is likely that some point down the road I will experience negative physical effects, quite possibly even death, but it's a price I'm more than willing to pay. In fact, living past 50 or 60 doesn't sound to appealing to me anyway. I believe the personal right, of any individual who wishes it, to inhale the burning leaves of a plant, for whatever purpose, is a good thing.

Well, they were there for two weeks before anybody noticed them. Personally I think it's BS that two of the "Perpatrators" are in jail at the moment. It's the governments fault for getting all panicky. I mean, nobody is worred about all the space invaders all over the world.

You should give up your friends, because if their friendship depends on you doing something to "Fit in" then they aren't very good friends. On the other hand, you should probably try smoking at a young age. It's alot more fun than breathing.

My argument is essentially that there is a difference between reality, and the model of reality that we create in our minds and interact with. Because of this important gap (wherein things like societal pressures, faith, drugs, etc... which define our reality, come in) there is no single universal reality. We all live in vastly different worlds, defined by an infinite multitude of factors. The existence of god depends on only one thing, faith. And because some people believe and some don't, god exists, and he doesn't exist.

Pault, I have a question in response to your question. If a person is tripping on drugs, walks out in the street in front of a bus but all they see is a giant gentle furry pink elephant coming to hug them instead of a bus and then that bus runs them over splattering their brains all over the windshield. What is the reality of their situation? Were they correct that a giant gentle furry pink elephant came to hug them or was it really just a bus about to make them road kill the entire time? Perception: I am about to get a wonderful hug Reality: A bus is about to kill you Lesson: Don't do drugs. :P Noticed how I said permanent, and not temporary. I was not referring to the actual inebriation that takes place during the use of the drug, but to the profound and life long effects of responsibly using powerful psychadelics such as lsd, salvia, magic mushrooms, etc... to open the mind and soothe the soul.

School has a rather negative effect on most peoples mental and physical health. I recommend everyone who reaches highschool and finds themselves stressed out about all the BS they must deal with to get an education drop out and get their GED and go straight to college and get a real education.

We all live in the same reality. We simply build unique models of this reality in our minds, based not only on our perceptions of reality from our physical senses, but from other factors such as societal pressures or faith in a higher being or the use of mind altering drugs. Because we are each living in our own model of reality, yet still existing and interacting with actual reality, which has no definable substance (is there a world if there is no mind to apply logic to it? of course not, everything is just matter floating around, mass is frozen energy, etc...). Consider for a second that you spend a huge amount of your mental resources simply logically parsing what you see, hear, touch, smell, and feel at any given moment. You do not think about all the process your brain must go through to achieve this understanding of self. And yet, by meditating or using certain substances you can easily reveal the workings of this unseen mechanism, and train your minds eye upon it, showing you how to see music, or hear coors. There is no reality without a mind to apply logic to it, and therefore everyone creates their own reality. Yet, in the same token, we all live in the same ineffable "Real" space. Anyone can make god real, by believing. Therefore god exists, and he does not exists. He is a girl, and her name is eros.

Supporting Iran is one thing, the Ayatollah is another. He is singlehandedly the most dangerous man in the world. All he has to do is speak and millions of extremist Islamics will do whatever he asks. The gigantic US nuclear and chemical weapon arsenals (which are enough to destroy and infect the entire planet earth many hundreds of times over) and it's 500 billion dollar+ defense budget absolutely pale in comparisons of dangerousness to the rusty AK-47s and boxcutters of the muslim extremists. In all seriousness, I don't think Iran is a huge threat to the world. If it was, my spider sense would tingle. No tingle, no threat.

Colin Powell was part of the Bush administration, inarguably the most corrupt and evil government ever to rule the United States. His opinion is worth slightly less than say, Rosie O'Donnell's, to me. The genocide in Sudan is a tragedy, no doubt. However it is certainly not the biggest tragedy in the world today, and it is certainly not something new. Africa has been in turmoil for the past few thousand years, and to be blunt, the removal of colonial powers has caused a regress to constant fighting over national resources and foreign aid, made worse by insanely heavy corruption in the government. The US should do all it can to help stop hunger, disease, and thirst from killing people, but there is such a thing as not being able to help people, because they don't want to help themselves. Around 400,000 people have died so far in the genocide in Sudan. That's terrible. Realize that every 13 days about that many children starve to death, that around 3.5 million people are homeless in the US every year and 31 million people go hungry in the US every year. AlIDS and malaria actually are much more devastating than the genocide in Sudan, but at the moment do not have much momentum as far as activist issues, because they aren't the hip thing to discuss at this point in time. It just disgusts me how everyone can get all upset and teary eyed and caring about one issue, yet completely blow off any sense of social responsibility or activism in their own country, for example.

Me.

If you were really a masochist you could have your computer read it to you.

Personally I think we should blame the authorities for making such a big fuss before figuring out what was going on, especially after not noticing the 'Suspicious packages' for two weeks.

Given recent reports that billions will die from thirst in the next 80 years due to climate change, we should probably be recycling as much as possible. Also, recycling of any kind is good.

Time doesn't make much sense, though, so your actually heading in the right direction here. http://www.mathpages.com/rr/s3-07/3-07.htm If we think of time as time, it doesn't make sense. Time happens all at once. The future and the past both exist in the same space, and both are "Happening" right now, insofar as there is no way to sufficiently prove that we live in a single space of time (proven in paradox above).

Try having a pen and a pad of paper next to your bed. Write down your dreams directly after you experience them.

I said: Right, in a very simplified explanation of my thesis, god exists because reality exists only as a model of the world, in our minds, based upon our senses and other factors (social pressures, belief, drugs, natural chemical changes in the brain, etc.). Therefore having faith in god causes him to exist. Because gods existence depends on who is thinking about him and believing in him (or not), I can safely say that god exists and does not exist. All of my points have been in support of my position.

For what purpose?

Never underestimate the corruption of government.

Right, in a very simplified explanation of my thesis, god exists because reality exists only as a model of the world, in our minds, based upon our senses and other factors (social pressures, belief, drugs, natural chemical changes in the brain, etc.). Therefore having faith in god causes him to exist.