Ambassadar

Heh, you sound like me deloria. Weapons have always interested me. Target shooting is fun as well. There are two swords, a throwing star, and six guns in my room... and yes I am from the US. :P

I'll be interested to hear your opinion. As to your second statement you lost me. When did I say time must be finite? Warrior, I have your linked pdf loaded, just haven't had the time yet to read it.

Night of the Living Dead man...

My roommates had a bow flex in college one year. The bow part that gives the resistance had weakened from repeated usage so it didn't resist like it originally did. Because of this we used the bench part of it to do dumbbell bench presses with I think 75 lb dumbbells. One day my roommate was doing them and the bench part of the bowflex just cracked in half. I wasn't very impressed with their bowflex and wouldn't buy one myself. If I was trying to bulk up I would get a gym membership. If you are just trying to get strong and stay strong then I will tell you what I would do for me if I was going the home gym route. I like my size so I am more just workout out now to be functionally strong, stay fit and healthy. I don't do many lifts but what I do I push myself really hard. I also constantly change my workouts around to keep my body from adjusting to them. If it was me I would get... (the weights of your barbells will vary from mine but maybe the proportion of weight I use for each lift might be comparable to what you might use... I dunno, thought it might help) 1. A pair of 20 lb dumbbells to do shoulder raises and lifts with. 2. A set of 40 lb dumbbells for curls and the occasional shoulder press. 3. Something to hang from to do pull ups. Pullups rock. 4. Something where I can do dips. Dips rock. 5. A weight belt to add resistence to my pullups and dips. 6. A mat to do pushups(lots of variations), situps, crunches, core holds, leg raises, insert random sadistic stomach excercise here, and stretches. 7. A flat bench and maybe some 75 or 80 lb barbells to work chest. The bench also doubles as something to put your feet up on to make pushups harder. 8. One of those big workout balls to do some sick stomach and shoulder/chest excercises. 9. A good pair of running shoes. Run 2 or 3x a week. One or two days of distance and one or two days of interval speed training. I would also use the varied weights in dumb bells I had to do variations of lunges and squats to work butt. For calves and building leg muscle I would run wind sprints up this big hill behind my house as well as calf raises with the above weights while standing on the edge of a step to get full extension. My gym membership actually expires this month and this is basically all the lifts I have been doing there anyways so it might be worthwhile if I bought this stuff myself. I've been giving it some thought this week which is why I posted this. I guarantee doing this will get your butt in shape without having to spend a ton on equipment.

Wouldn't a chainsaw splatter all their blood on you where it might possibly get in your mouth and eyes and infect you?

Everyone that has alleged they believe there is a God is merely answering the original question posed by this thread. That being the case I don't understand why you feel every person taking that position should be obligated to have to give you some kind of thesis, scientific proof or reference for what they believe when all they are doing is answering a simple question about what they believe.

Bluelancer, So earlier you jumped Sly for making a comment you don't agree with and basically told him you can't go around making a claim if you can't prove it. Then you make this comment. So I have a question. Can you 100% prove that there is absolutely no scientific evidence even hinting at the existence of supernatural elements? According to what you told Sly earlier if you can't then you need to take that comment back.

Can you prove the Big Bang happened? Can you prove God created the universe? Can you prove the universe is cyclical? Can you prove anything at all for any theory about the universe being created? Nope. I guess, subjectively, it never happened then...

Without more energy added to the system energy degrades to a lower state over time. So if all existing energy has been here for an infinite amount of time yet it hasn't degraded to it's lowest state yet then it seems there is a major unresolved issue here.

If what happened with Adam's original sin and it's consequences was the whole story I would completely agree with you. However, in a way we have the same choice as Adam. For Adam: He could either obey and follow God and remain sinless in God's eyes or he could disobey God and be sinful in God's eyes. For us: We can either obey and follow Jesus and in God's eyes be sinless since Jesus paid for our sins or we can turn our back on Jesus and be sinful in God's eyes since we wouldn't be accepting Jesus' payment for our sins.

Here is my understanding from what I have read. Adam and Eve were created without sin. They had no concept of sin. God would even directly converse with them. Since they didn't have any sin in their lives they weren't separated from God. He gave them one rule which was the only way they could possibly sin and they broke it. When they broke it they had sin in their life and it separated them from God. They also gained the ability to know the difference between good and evil. This broke the "deal" God had set up with man. God loves man but hates sin. There are many examples of this in the Bible. Somehow their sin broke that special bond between man and God and man lost the ability to not sin. This is personal opinion from what I have read but I think what was passed down from Adam and Eve's sin is that we are incapable of not sinning. All of us will sin. Some kind of "sin nature" is now in us. As to the whole is there some kind of residual sin passed down where before someone even sins on their own they are still condemned from Adam's failure? I don't know. I do know it doesn't say anything about that in Genesis when Adam and Eve sin. It basically just says they are kicked out of the Garden of Eden, that woman from then on will have to bear children in pain and man will have to slave away farming the earth for food. Paul sums up what I think of when I think of the results of the original sin Adam committed. It is him describing how we don't have the ability to not sin. " I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ã

Range... Why are you calling yourself a Christian and then proceeding to make statements that say opposite what Christ and the Bible say and then end saying you are agnostic? Just wondering since the equivalent of your post would be someone making a post saying they were a libertarian communist.

Actually I used to be in the same boat. For some reason it can be hard to learn how to turn the ball over without it popping out for some people. It used to drive me absolutely nuts in high school. I finally figured it out freshman year of college. I haven't tried to dunk in a while though so I don't know if I still can. I haven't been doing any explosive training and only been jogging for distance so my guess is I can't atm.

By method do you mean cause?

George Washington Carver He was the man and absolutely brilliant. http://www.nps.gov/archive/gwca/expanded/gwc.htm

I thought this was an interesting article that expanded on what you just said ktmcf121. Elegant criticism of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee by WSJ Sunday, October 14, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT In Olso Friday, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to the Burmese monks whose defiance against, and brutalization at the hands of, the country's military junta in recent weeks captured the attention of the Free World. The prize was also not awarded to Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders who were arrested and in some cases beaten by police earlier this year while protesting peacefully against dictator Robert Mugabe. Or to Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest in Vietnam arrested this year and sentenced to eight years in prison for helping the pro-democracy group Block 8406. Or to Wajeha al-Huwaider and Fawzia al-Uyyouni, co-founders of the League of Demanders of Women's Right to Drive Cars in Saudi Arabia, who are waging a modest struggle with grand ambitions to secure basic rights for women in that Muslim country. Or to Colombian President ÃÆÃââââ¬Å¡Ã¬lvaro Uribe, who has fought tirelessly to end the violence wrought by left-wing terrorists and drug lords in his country. Or to Garry Kasparov and the several hundred Russians who were arrested in April, and are continually harassed, for resisting President Vladimir Putin's slide toward authoritarian rule. Or to the people of Iraq, who bravely work to rebuild and reunite their country amid constant threats to themselves and their families from terrorists who deliberately target civilians. Or to Presidents Viktor Yushchenko and Mikheil Saakashvili who, despite the efforts of the Kremlin to undermine their young states, stayed true to the spirit of the peaceful "color" revolutions they led in Ukraine and Georgia and showed that democracy can put down deep roots in Russia's backyard. Or to Britain's Tony Blair, Ireland's Bertie Ahern and the voters of Northern Ireland, who in March were able to set aside decades of hatred to establish joint Catholic-Protestant rule in Northern Ireland. Or to thousands of Chinese bloggers who run the risk of arrest by trying to bring uncensored information to their countrymen. Or to scholar and activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, jailed presidential candidate Ayman Nour and other democracy campaigners in Egypt. Or, posthumously, to lawmakers Walid Eido, Pierre Gemayel, Antoine Ghanem, Rafik Hariri, George Hawi and Gibran Tueni; journalist Samir Kassir; and other Lebanese citizens who've been assassinated since 2005 for their efforts to free their country from Syrian control. Or to the Reverend Phillip Buck; Pastor Chun Ki Won and his organization, Durihana; Tim Peters and his Helping Hands Korea; and Liberty in North Korea, who help North Korean refugees escape to safety in free nations. These men and women put their own lives and livelihoods at risk by working to rid the world of violence and oppression. Let us hope they survive the coming year so that the Nobel Prize Committee might consider them for the 2008 award.

I think this is a culture issue rather than a race issue. The races or countries that are perceived to be more intelligent usually have cultures that are very fertile grounds for people to develop their raw intelligence. Japan is perceived as one of the smartest countries. If you took thousands of babies from an undeveloped section of Africa and raised them in Japan by Japanese parents their scores would probably be the same as any other Japanese child because they would have the Japanese culture. The geneticist guy is being an idiot on this topic because he is ignoring culture in his hypothesis. To even attempt to legitimize that claim he would need to show that his so called "less intelligent races" remained less intelligent when raised in different cultures. I think if he tried this experiment he would find he was sorely mistaken with his hypothesis. A random fact to add on is one of the smartest guys I know is from Nigeria.

Mine came from the early days of Everquest in the first few months after it was released. There was a place called Crushbone near the Wood and High elf starting cities that was the first good dungeon they could go to. The boss was a dark elf sent to the orcs named Ambassador D'Vinn. He would beat the everlasting crud out of newbie groups. Whenever he would get loose in the Crushbone zone people would start yelling and everyone would take off for the zone before they got slaughtered. My best friend and I played on the hardcore PVP server where you could attack anyone within 4 levels of yourself. We made two identical looking to Ambassador D'Vinn dark elf characters and went to Crushbone. Since we were DE's the orcs wouldn't attack us and we would sit in the tower and ambush groups coming in. People would freak out when 3 dark elves charged them. You can create some serious havok in a dungeon when all the creatures are friendly to you and come to your aid when you attack a group. Muhahaha :twisted: I was Ambassadar Decay and he was Ambassadeur Death. Just kinda stuck with the name for games since it is never taken when I register.

The formula you are talking about is F=(1/2)M*V^2 It's just the integral of F=MA As to traveling the speed of light my understanding was light would slow down but you wouldn't slow down. The only thing that would slow down is your perception of time. It is the same thing as if you see a bird fly past at 40 miles an hour. When you are standing on the ground it moves really fast away from you. If you get in a car and go 40 mph right beside the bird it will stay at the same spot in relation to you which would mean in effect in terms of you the bird isn't moving. With light instead of a bird it would be a moment in time. The light would leave it's source and it would basically be an image of that source. Since we are standing still in relation to the light it moves away so fast we can't see it at all. But if we speed up as fast as the light that image from that moment would quit moving in relation to us just like the bird and so we could see that image unchanging as long as we went the same speed as it. If we sped up faster then we would start catching up with images that left before that one which would make us see images that happened earlier which is the "seeing back in time" effect." Does that clarify things a little bit I hope? If I explained things a little off or if someone would like to add on to that feel free to expound.

I was a Castle Lego's man myself. Star Wars and GI Joe toys rocked but my mom wouldn't let me have any because she said I would just break them(I got an x-wing fighter at a yard sale and broke it pretty fast so I guess she was right). I also managed to kill a GI Joe action figure by twisting it in circles until it popped in half. Oh yeah... and TRANSFORMERS!!!

I know what you mean. I played defensive end as well. I have a 3 or 4 inch scar under where my shoulder pads were from some tight end with really long fingernails that was holding me all game and sliced me pretty good one play. When guys would hold really bad I would punch them in the stomachs. The main thing is to use your arms to smack their arms or torso and make sure to only attack one half of the tight end or offensive tackle's body. What also helped me is don't hit them square on because it is a lot easier for them to use their weight as well as hold when you do that. Then again I was little for a DE at 200 lbs so I had to rely on speed because some of those tackles would outweigh me by 100 lbs. Does your defense just assign you a gap to cover or do you read off blocks? Staying low and getting under their pads never hurts either. Refs usually won't call it as long as they don't get their arms too wide while holding or don't grab you from behind.

Senior year we were under threat of expulsion if caught doing a senior prank because the senior class three years earlier had gone waaay overboard with their prank. They had let rats loose and set off smoke bombs and all kinds of crazy stuff. There hadn't been much of a senior prank for a couple of years at our school so our grade decided to do one. One of the guys on the football team snuck a key and made a copy of it for access. The raid group consisted of about 10 of us from the football team and 5 from the student government... and about 450 rolls of toilet paper. A few of the guys did a preliminary test run a few months earlier and tripped a motion sensor by accident and barely got out of there as the cops came. I figured out how to neutralize that problem in a non destructive manner by making a fake front to the motion detector that looked identical to it from a distance but didn't allow any kind of signal to penetrate through it. We just taped it over the front of the sensor the day before the prank. Our school had a long central corridor that was almost 100 m long and about 30m wide where all the lockers were. We had one minivan that everyone crammed into piled in the floor on top of each other. One scout was dropped off with a walky talky in the woods near the front entrance of the school to watch out for police patrols. The rest of us were dropped off one street from the high school and we went through the woods behind the school and across the fields into a back entrance. Another group had already finished their raid before we got there so there was already a 8 foot tree in the middle of our target zone. They had hauled in bags and bags of dirt to plant it in the middle of the hall. First we took out our fishing line and proceeded to make the entire 100m long corridor a giant cobweb of fishing line that went from the floor almost to the ceiling. Walking around was next to impossible without some agility. After everything was pretty impassible we took out the toilet paper and proceeded to roll the place as fast as we could for the next 2-3 hours. By this time it was around 4 am and we are down to our last 50 or so toilet rolls and someone up front yells COPS!! I guess our scout had fallen asleep or something. We already had escape plans figured out before the raid so everyone took off as fast as we could out the back. As we were running out the back door the cop was coming in the front door but there was so much toilet paper up you couldn't hardly see 5-10 meters. It was a solid wall of white. We take off sprinting out the back of the school across the fields and up a forested hill about 100 m from the back entrance. As we conceal ourselves in the woods from our overlook we see an unmarked police car come flying around the back entrance to the school trying to seal the perimeter. We all quietly chuckled but had that rush of fear and adrenaline going at the same time. After the police concluded we weren't at the scene anymore they eventually left and we waited a while and then got the guy responsible for our ride to come pick us up. I didn't get in bed until probably 5 am that night with school at 8 am the next morning. Of course I had to go and act chipper so I wouldn't be a suspect. I was pretty excited to see everyone's reactions as well. I get to school, walk in the door, and everything is exactly normal!!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!! Apparently the Principals had called each other up and gotten a group of teachers/principals together to completely clean everything before school started. It was like their counter prank on us. I couldn't believe it. It stunk also because if we talked about it we were worried they would come after us so there were only vague rumors going around about what had happened. We had a tight group of guys that wouldn't talk on the raid. Even though we didn't get the desired results it made for a good memory. They didn't come after us at all because we made sure not to do anything that would permanently damage anything and we didn't talk about it. Some of the older teachers told us was back in the 1970's they had some awesome pranks there. One year they rented a crane and took old tires and put them over the flag pole all the way to the top. Another year they put a VW Beetle on the roof of the school. I think a cow ended up on the roof one year as well which is funny because it is a suburban school.

My business ethics professor who didn't ever talk about ethics and spent half his time trying to disprove religion and the idea of a God. My British Literature II professor who spent an entire class session trying to disprove God and ram evolution down our throats. My anthropology professor... My girlfriend has a biomedical sciences degree and is in school for a doctorate right now has had multiple professors make fun of or go after non atheists. Bill Maher accused people that believed in a God of being insane and in need of treatment when being interviewed on CNBC I think. It's probably on youtube if anyone wants to look at it to see what he said word for word in case I misquoted. I could type more but you get the idea.

Let's see, in college I was worth about hmm... very rough estimates... -10k a year in tuition -3.5k a year in housing -3kish in utilities, insurance, etc -4kish in food So I was about 21k a year in the bucket. 57 dollars a day in the bucket $2.40 an hour 4 cents a minute So my worth in college per minute was negative ~.07 cents a second.