Rebdragon

I've always been a fan of this quote from Mark Twain, 'The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.' I think idealism is childish. It's simply the nature of my political stance, or actually of who I am; it's nothing more than my opinion. It's probably really arrogant from the socialist side. Ah well, I'm not going to act like I don't think that. More than enough that want to, yes. But that goes back to the matter of qualifications- if any average Joe could become a doctor, well, let's just say that I don't think I'd be alone in being a little wary about going to hospitals. It's a fair point, if we had more spots it would be nice, but you have to be wary about expanding the system too much. Doctors are the best and the brightest; there's a massive trade-off in expanding the system, in that the bigger it becomes inevitably the less trust it will receive. How big would you expand it, and how would you go about doing that? Supply and demand, which, yes, has already been debated. It's essentially an inconceivable orders of magnitude more difficult to become a doctor than a bagger. The amount of effort it takes to become a doctor rather than a bagger... the amount of time put in, the stress, the work... Hell, just quantifying it by only one factor, time, the order of magnitude is about 4,000 (if one is to consider the training for a bagger to be one day). That's 4,000 times harder, without thinking about the stress and the work that has to be completed, let alone the intellectual qualifications it takes to even be able to become a doctor. No, of course you can't justify their wages mate. Not what I said, nor what I support. But whatever. Then how far do you want to drop the average doctor's pay? That's a job that has lower intellectual/etc qualifications, is less stressful, and takes still years less prepwork than a doctor. Fair point in that they put a good deal of time into becoming one (six years or so, but only two-three of it is nursing school) As for your second point, do you know how much a doctor makes starting out? Me neither, but I remember that in some scene in Scrubs that JD noted his salary was around thirty grand. Let's not talk starting salaries. It's very misleading mate; the average salary for a nurse practitioner (in the USA) is over $80,000, according to salary.com. You know, like double the number you just told everyone :| . How does my post not have anything to do with funds? The entire point I was making was that people who aren't as well off as those who can easily afford the funds are almost always allotted compensation to make it possible for them to go to uni if they so choose (generally indirectly from those who can afford it). If you have some magic way to make uni cheaper in such a way that the taxpayers would permit it, then please, tell me it. Otherwise you're just asking for something that can't be given. On your points about ability/wanting to, university really isn't for everyone, and I'd personally say that too many people nowadays go to uni. Yes, some people are less gifted/well driven academically/whatever when it comes to school. That's just the way it is- if there weren't people who were less smart than the average person there would be complete equality in this world, which there obviously isn't. That's a utopia, not the real world :| .

Shinjula, if you're referring to China when you talk about communist countries "receiving the same boom", read up on capitalism and China's friendship :D . Ginger, how old are you...? You're quite the little idealist so I don't want to bet on too old, but you understand the matter well enough to be around 18... hm... You need to stop looking at things in black and white, especially with this little doctor debate. When a person decides they want to go through a solid decade+ of workaholic hell, only to land a job that is workaholic and stress hell in and of itself, is it really so evil as you portray it that they wouldn't mind a little incentive beyond "I like helping people"? Obviously for someone to become a doctor there must exist a natural instinct to help people, to want to understand the human body, to further mankind; without it they wouldn't be able to stand being a doctor, let alone make it through all the training. But as can be seen by how "in demand" doctors are, even with the extra incentive of the amazing salaries that doctors get, there still aren't nearly enough of them to drop their demand to levels similiar to the average job. Knowing this you honestly think that dropping their pay to that of the average household won't matter, that there are enough people in the world willing to sacrifice their 20's and their mental health for the sake of merely helping people, even when there are thousands of other jobs where one can help people without having to go through nearly as much prep work as it takes to become a doctor? Haha. Wow. Seriously? Jesus Christ Ginger, have you ever even heard of scholarships and financial aid? Financial aid (and scholarships, from the school or outside) is basically the biggest socialist system in existence, and for some reason you're griping on it more than anything else. Here's how this gigantic financial trickle down system works, by true example. A friend of mine currently attends an Ivy League institution, and because she is in a upper class family she has to pay the full $50,000 tuition. Another friend of mine who isn't as well off goes to the same university, but because she isn't that rich guess how much she pays a year, compared to the full tuition of fifty grand? $9,000. Not because she's some genius that the university has to have, but because she's in a lower class. Working a part-time job throughout the year and in the summer, and with a little help from her parents, she's easily paying for her entire tuition at said Ivy league institution. She's not a rare case either- many of my [too smart] buddehs at Ivy league schools are getting ten, twenty, even thirty grand a year in financial aid and scholarships. Nearly all of them receive some form of financial aid or scholarship. Oh ya mate, dreadfully evil the college system is, isn't it? I still do not get, and most likely will never get, how in the hell that makes any logical sense whatsoever. It sounds like one of those ideas that looks, I dunno, good on paper but not great in reality?

I think fascism is a great idea. It's the best way to get a nation in line, and the only proper way to create a utopia (ie, unlike communism it can be more than a theory). It's free of the problems of the evil neo-libertarianism because it has the capacity to be fair to all through authoritarian means. It's only because of the oppression of fascism in the past that people don't realize that it could be a viable option if they let a country (say, the USA) try it nowadays. Anarchy, free-markets, anything that grants too much power to the people only renders it possible for some to advance to levels beyond others, even when they don't deserve it (like that stupid Hannah Montana and all her singing). That's unfair, and it can be solved with fascism. So why does everyone hate it?

Any person with any semblance of a trait known as modesty will agree with me here in saying that the moment that possibility should arise will be rare. Taking your shirt off without a pretty good reason (humorous or otherwise) at a party, especially when you have a pack, well, it's kind of like being a douche. And a jerk. Wrapped in one. It's like saying... "I didn't workout to get this great body for my own personal health, but rather to shove it in all your faces and laugh while I do it". And again, I can't stress this enough. If you think like the boy above you will never get a six pack. Evar.

Oh, wow, like the giant picture in the OP wasn't a hint at all. Really. Great way to start off the Xmas holiday. Really. You're a genius. Really.

There are times for procrastination. THIS IS NOT IT. Aren't you 14? That's what I was thinking.

What, the one with Leonardo Dicaprio? I thought that was pretty good, both the idea and the execution of it. This on the other hand..e

Haha, Defender, I remember him! Quite the douche he was, quite the douche.

You know writers are running out of ideas when...

I swear to God, at the rate my posts get deleted I'm going to have a post count of 27 before this year's out, if I'm lucky.

In the surveys I saw generally like 80% of people thought he was the primera. He seemed like the pretty obvious choice- anyone else would be kind of a curveball. If it was Hali you'd think it was some feminist movement and if it was Barragan you'd be surprised that the guy who was acting like the leader actually was the leader. So almost everyone else came to the conclusion that he was primera, and almost everyone was right. Kyroraku, by my guesses, is the most powerful captain, excluding Genryuusai. He and Ukitake were the first captains under him and Ukitake's sick, so Kyoraku may very well be the toughest of the bunch (I mean, he was captain next to Byakuya's grandpa, he's had plenty of time to get pretty strong). It should be one of the best fights, at least until the Vizard's show up and whip out their masks and bankai's. Interesting fetish you've got there. To lazy to get the pics and spoil tag it but if you know Stark's the primera you know what I mean mate :o.

So... have you had a job before? Most of my bosses I've gotten along with pretty well.

Great, one of these guys :| . And I quote, Ya, it just takes longer if you don't diversify. Doing them and nothing else isn't necessarily a good idea And I quote, Response is specific to the OP who, by his height to weight ratio, should be under 10% body fat. Ambiguity may be at fault here, but don't jump all over something rudely unnecessarily. Again, he is a teenage male, his metabolism is already high, and he weighs 145 at near 6'. Good general advice but the basic idea is that the way he currently is he could have a six pack if he worked out more. I've never heard that before (bold), and based on my body design I don't think I can agree with it. I can barely bench 135-140, but have a pack (not one for the magazines but a pack regardless). As for the body fat thing, again, 145, 6'. Which is straight back to the core muscles, which is just a reiteration of what's already been said. As for your isolation exercise nay-saying, I did hanging leg lifts+weighted sit ups+obliques for a year and, simply isolating my core, I made my central core muscles clearly visible without making other muscles all that big. Do you have a medical source for the statements to say that what happened to my body is a physiological anomaly? Although, as much as I disagree with you, again, working out everything is better than just focusing on one place, especially in the long run. Phelps eats like a pig, and so do I. As long as your metabolism is high (at young age), getting gung-[garden tool] about this isn't as much of a necessity as for adults. I mean, you're right obviously, but for a teenage male cutting carbs really shouldn't be something they should have to have on their mind, considering it's probably the only time in their entire life when they won't have to be thinking about 'em. Right now, focus on the workout, and stick to it. And ya, supplements don't hurt (don't use 'em meeself but am considering 'em).

Barely, but I wasn't saying that with the intention of speaking Japanese. So desu ka is like quid pro qui or gracias. It's a phrase English has borrowed from another language. Except 'mericun people say it faster, like "asodeska".

Im pretty sure that "you" is me Ah, so desu ka. So you're going to be that guy.

Let the circlejerk RECOMMENCE.

Lying is only alright when it is the lesser sin. It will never be okay to do it simply for the sake of doing it- few would argue that deception in and of itself is moral.

I would also like to note as the friendly narc that I was banned for a month in the past for making threats very similiar to this one.

And I suggested against that (based on my own body build), although it is personal preference so I can't really say that you're making a bad suggestion. If you really don't care about anything but your core, he is right; most ab exercises don't require any equipment at all. Just sayin', don't leave the rest of your body behind, or you will end up like me in a year.

http://www.supermemo.com/articles/polyp ... ightenment I like this site. It seems to for the most part support polyphasic sleep, but at the same time it is very unbiased. This is a much better read than those blogs you're offering. Ah, debates. I feel young again.

What, that people instantaneously jump into REM sleep in a twenty minute nap? No. That goes against anything and everything I've learned about sleep. You're talking about a revolution that would basically destroy everything that has to do with sleep research if this is anything beyond pseudoscience.

Rule 12a-i of muscle growth: If you only think about the rewards/results, you're not going to make it. That is a total motivation killer. You need to be focused on the workout itself, not something you're going to possibly get a year or two from that point. As for all the diet BS, as long as you get the minimum amount of protein muscle growth is pretty much all about the workout. Not going to failure is a much, much larger factor than how much bread you ate today. You're 5'11, weigh 145, and you're a teenager (I presume). For the love of God, technically speaking you're a twig (who, as the name suggests, should focus much more on the workout then the diet). Don't worry about all this diet BS, eat. Just make sure to eat enough and you'll be good. As a suggestion for making more time to lift, stay at school two hours late and spend it doing homework. You will work, at minimum, four times faster than you do at home. You'll be home at five/six and have the rest of the night for fun+workout later (this works for me 'cause I lift at night). kranked, I pray to god that I'm just misunderstanding the ambiguity of your words. A six pack comes after basic toning. Telling someone not to get a six pack if they aren't toned is like telling someone not to eat cheese before they try swiss. Well duh. It's physically impossible to do one before the other. Do you even know what a six pack is? MUSCLE. If you have a good six pack you have a good amount of muscle. Unless you're below two percent body fat, you aren't going to see someone's pack unless they've been workin' on it. It sounds like you're confusing a thin, flat stomach with a six pack. They're kind of different mate. If you aren't confusing them, then, well, I will hand you twenty dollars, in person, if you can find a female for me who says that a six pack is not "sexy" (which I don't want to stress though- again, do not workout for the goal, you won't make it). Telling someone not to lose weight just because they don't have huge muscles is a terrible idea. Don't try and gain muscle before you lose the weight- do both at the same time. So, my basic advice? Unless you're the kind of person who really sticks to their goals, thinking the word "six pack" a lot probably isn't a good idea (think about the number of people who really want a six pack and then think about the number that actually have one. Big ratio, ain't it?). Go to the gym and think about ways to make the exercise itself enjoyable and worthwhile. If you don't you might not stick to it long enough to see this through. You know, like over a year minimum if you're intense and devoted enough. Oh ya, and don't turn into me. I've got a six pack, but it's unbalanced with the rest of my body (I don't believe I've broken 150 benching yet). I'm toned overall, got about 8% body fat, but regardless I'm unbalanced. If you're going to workout, workout everything. You're going to regret it later if you don't, having to play catch-up, like those geniuses with them tiny legs and big biceps. Balance is the key :mrgreen: .

Have fun not having any muscle memory whatsoever.

I never claimed to be an expert at Buddhism. All I know is my Humanities teacher says that it is a philosophy rather than a religion. I think he's trying to say that Ma[racist term]a Buddhism, which claims over half of the world's Buddhist population, is a something of a contradiction to your statement. The kind of Buddhism usually portrayed is Theravada, the one with all the meditation and whatnot. But contrary to popular belief, Ma[racist term]a, the bigger one, practices worship of Buddha akin to the Christian worship of Jesus. I think that's the point he's making.

If you're really aware of the problem at least try and avoid it. Every time you make a post like that on this thread it looks like a call for help asking people to like you or think you're cool. For your own sake, really, stop it.