Ambassadar

Sounds like you have a grandfather to be proud of. Cherish his memory. Live a life that would make him proud and make sure to take the time to mourn. If you bottle it up it will just follow you around and eventually come out even if it is years from now. If you need to just go somewhere by yourself where you won't be disturbed and just let it all out. There is no shame at all in mourning a loved one. My mom died a couple of years ago and I was much the same way you are. At first I felt numb. Then I played it off and it didn't seem real. Then I went through trying to hold it back and put on the smiling face for everyone. Eventually you can't hold it back any longer and it will come out. It is better to just go on and let it out at the time. Mourning is something that needs to be done and not pushed away.

It isn't a literal force shield or anything hohto. It would be a series of radar stations to monitor nuclear launches and track the missiles. Then there would be anti missile batteries made up of missiles designed to shoot down ICBM's or lasers that could scramble the electronics of an ICBM or eventually burn holes in it to destroy it that would render the ICBM's useless. The ICBM wouldn't explode. A nuclear reaction isn't that easy to start. It takes some precise engineering to detonate a nuke. I think the saying you are looking for is the best defense is a good offense.

I'll have to ask him about it again because it has been several years and I don't really remember all the specifics. If he still has the info I can either private message you or start a thread about it. Whatever you prefer.

Hey Rebdragon, If you want truth Bowling for Columbine is the wrong video to be watching. It is a piece of propaganda trash. I watched it and I had a friend that researched up on it and it is loaded with lies. It was incredibly well done but don't let it influence you too much.

People can always change. If someone does something horribly wrong I always try to make sure I hate the action a person does instead of hating the person. Usually I am successful at this but like us all I am merely human so I can slip up on things.

Know what would be terrible? If you had just married a young beautiful sexy wife with a perfect personality that was in shape and absolutely unbelievably good looking. Then you had an accident and went into a coma. In the 20 years you were in a coma she became a smoker and an alcoholic and got that nasty smoker voice, got fat from the booze,her teeth were really yellow from the smoke, her personality had completely changed, and she basically became a hag. Now that would be a bummer.

The article says she died HOURS after it was disconnected... Was she home alone and completely crippled so she couldn't use her phone? If she wasn't completely incapacitated and home alone and it did indeed take her hours to die after the power was turned off then either she wanted to die, she was completely stupid, or her family wanted her dead so they didn't give her the help she needed. I need more facts before I can decide what I think about this situation. There are just too many unanswered questions to decide anything from the information in that article.

This logic just cracks me up. I don't think society has done much to make guys think of sex when they see a naked girl. Don't ya think that just might be sorta hardwired in us? :P

I already know the history pretty well of what would happen so I wouldn't want a history book. A few tanks wouldn't make much difference in tank battles that had thousands of tanks without the mechanics to repair them and make components for them when things broke down. I couldn't influence the holocaust since it was already in full swing. That leaves two ways to get influence/power/money to be able to make a difference. 1. Scientifically 2. Financially I would either take back in time some cutting edge scientific books and start my own corporation to invent things like the jet, computers, how to make certain pharmaceutical drugs, etc etc. The other option I would do is take back in time a book of stock market information. Then I would buy options on the stocks and make insane amounts of cash. Having access to this type information would enable someone to make Bill Gates and Warren Buffet look like Paupers in probably only five years or less starting out with a small initial investment amount. Then once I had the cash I would have the power to make some meaningful and hopefully positive impacts on the world as well as have the money to do things I have always wanted to do like tour the world.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles completely. I used to wake up in elementary school 45 minutes before I had to just to watch the Turtles. That is the only time in my life I have consistently woken up earlier than I had to if that shows you anything about turtle power.

Why do liberal people rant so much about fundamentalists? :P A problem I have is in many liberal type Churches it appears to me that a lot of times social agendas and such become more important than God. Man elevates what he feels is best and right at the time over what God said. In my opinion this rips the soul out of Christianity because to me being a Christian is all about submitting yourself to Christ and following him as your Lord. When agendas become more important than God then that is a problem I feel needs to be addressed which is why I personally will speak up. It probably varies with each person. If the Bible is God's word then it needs to be followed as such. If it is just "an outdated book with some nice moral guidelines" then it belongs in the trash in my opinion. As to the people talking about creation let's take a look at what it actually says. Is this first part included in the first day? I honestly can't tell when I read the Bible. If it was not included in the first day then the period between this and the first day could be any amount of years. I honestly don't know on this first part. Notice how after God creates the stars it defines each day and a morning and an evening. That implies one rotation of the Earth which would be a 24 hour day.

I love the pursuit of truth. I think it is great to have the discussions on here as long as personally attacks aren't involved. You know... stuff like this... Where all I said is anyone that advocated forced conversion at the point of a sword in Christianity wasn't a Christian. That's all I said and now this guy is bringing it up laughing at me calling me a hippy. It is only instances like that where I think the debates can go too far when people start calling names or acting like they hate someone else. The only other thing that is tiresome is when you have four people attacking your position and if you don't address everything they say they act like they won. It goes from being an interesting fun debate to just a lot of work. That is one reason I haven't gotten around to replying to your evolution thread because there were about three or four massive responses to my last post on there and it is a pain to take a few hours to respond to everything and make sure all my facts are right. As to you though I think you are doing great and keep it up warrior. :-)

There is a difference between vigilantism and defending yourself. A vigilante is not a member of law enforcement yet he actively seeks out criminals to capture or punish them. The article is not advocating this position. Defending yourself is when a criminal actively seeks you out to cause you harm and you protect yourself.

Security and Liberty April 23, 2007 The senseless and horrific killings last week on the campus of Virginia Tech University reinforced an uneasy feeling many Americans experienced after September 11th: namely, that government cannot protect us. No matter how many laws we pass, no matter how many police or federal agents we put on the streets, a determined individual or group still can cause great harm. Perhaps the only good that can come from these terrible killings is a reinforced understanding that we as individuals are responsible for our safety and the safety of our families. Although Virginia does allow individuals to carry concealed weapons if they first obtain a permit, college campuses within the state are specifically exempted. Virginia Tech, like all Virginia colleges, is therefore a gun-free zone, at least for private individuals. And as we witnessed, it didnÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t matter how many guns the police had. Only private individuals on the scene could have prevented or lessened this tragedy. Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more. The Virginia Tech tragedy may not lead directly to more gun control, but I fear it will lead to more people control. Thanks to our media and many government officials, Americans have become conditioned to view the state as our protector and the solution to every problem. Whenever something terrible happens, especially when it becomes a national news story, people reflexively demand that government do something. This impulse almost always leads to bad laws and the loss of liberty. It is completely at odds with the best American traditions of self-reliance and rugged individualism. Do we really want to live in a world of police checkpoints, surveillance cameras, and metal detectors? Do we really believe government can provide total security? Do we want to involuntarily commit every disaffected, disturbed, or alienated person who fantasizes about violence? Or can we accept that liberty is more important than the illusion of state-provided security? I fear that Congress will use this terrible event to push for more government mandated mental health programs. The therapeutic nanny state only encourages individuals to view themselves as victims, and reject personal responsibility for their actions. Certainly there are legitimate organic mental illnesses, but it is the role of doctors and families, not the government, to diagnose and treat such illnesses. Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizensÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons. ~Ron Paul

[quote name="Ambassadar"}I didn't know Osama Bin Laden was leading a imperialistic country...

I didn't know Osama Bin Laden was leading a imperialistic country...

lol, Chuck is the man

I would have to say Jesus had the high score. Even if you aren't a Christian he is the person that motivated people like Mother Teresa and thousands upon thousands of others like her throughout history to help people in his name. To me what gives the highest score is what kind of impact you made on this Earth when you were here and how you helped and affected people's lives for the better. Under that definition of gaining the highest score I would think Jesus has impacted the most people for the better whether it be directly or indirectly.

Numbness = pinched nerve or nerve damage usually

My first thought was gravity but I think I will change it to sub atomic forces after reading the above posters reply.

I second that the first Dune book was good. It has been ages since I read it but it left a favorible impression. It is more sci fi than medieval though. I tried one of the later books in the series but couldn't really get into it.

For this person that had read the Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow series. Did you find that the Ender line of books got kinda weird after Ender's Game? They just completely lost my interest the further into it I got. I loved the Ender's Shadow series though.

This sounds like the VT guy finally gave this guy the nerve and example to do what he had been pondering for a long time. This was kind of a low statement to make. It would be the same as if I came in and said "If this doesn't tell America that everyone needs to start carrying a gun for protection, nothing will. I don't want to start a debate and if you disagree and want to respond to me you have to go to another thread." That would irritate you if I said that just as your comment was kind of irritating to people that don't agree with it. If you want to make comments like that just post it on the thread you linked to in the first place. Why would you be ashamed about something some person on the other side of the world did? You didn't do it. Why should you bear guilt?

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by RPG but some medieval setting books that are Americanized are the Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan and A Song of Fire and Ice series by George RR Martin. Sorry if you already knew about these and this wasn't what you meant by your request. Wheel of Time is about a boy that finds out he has the "Dragon Reborn" and must unite the world and develop his power to fulfill the prophecies that he will fight the Dark Lord and his hordes in the final battle. Great plot, great buildup, great settings but it can get a bit wordy and drag at some points because it is about a 12 book series. I think he is in the process of writing the last book in the series. The Song of Fire and Ice is a grittier rougher in your face series about a family called the Winterfells that are one of the 4 or 5 most powerful families in a kingdom. A war for the succession of the throne breaks out and alliances made and broken and all heck breaks loose. While all this is happening the northern border of the kingdom is neglected for the most part and attacks have been happening against the wall that separates the kingdom from the dangerous unknown to the north.

Your perception of the situation is by a bit and you didn't read the article. If you read the article you will see that Tanzania was what was once called Rhodesia. It is where a large number of the Boer(Dutch) settlers lived and had their farms. When the British Empire granted its independence it was a prosperous nation with a bright future that was known as the breadbasket of Africa. It was not some place with "rocks and javelins and a bad economic situation." Just read the article. It is merely one example of how a prosperous thriving country can turn into a poor oppressive dictatorship when the people don't stand up for themselves. That is why the US has the 2nd amendment.