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This post may be very long, but probably has very good information. Okay...I started getting acne when I was 15, which sucks for me because everyone else in my family has always had perfectly smooth, beautiful skin, and I did too until that time...After having it for years now, I do have a couple scars, but I'm thankful that they're not the deep/deforming scars, just normal "scars", and they're so small you can't see them unless you're an inch from my face. Thankfully. I've researched acne a lot over the years, and I've only found a few things that have helped. 1.) Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5) - I took this for 2 months and it cleared up all the pimples I had on my back/chest, but did NOTHING for my face...However that works. :lol: Once I stopped taking it, they came back. It's really not worth trying, because you have to take about 10g per day, which usually is about 20 pills. Like I said, not worth it. 2.) Straight-up Accutane - This was my last restort last year, and it completely cured me for several months. After I stopped taking it, I was completely and utterly pimple-free (no black-heads either, pretty amazing) for about 4 months, then I started getting little ones again. I'll never regret taking this drug, because since I took it, I've never gotten a pimple on my body ever again, only little ones on my face. And I USED to get bigger ones, so that's a really good improvement. I went on it a second time to try to nuke it for good, but it was winter (couple months ago :P) and my skin as getting too dry. The first time I took it, my skin wasn't dry at all, and my lips were barely chapped. I really had no side effect at all. :shock: But you should be aware that some people DO. Most of it is not serious, don't let people (especially your doctor if they're a nut-job) scare you into not taking it. 3.) Flaxseed Oil, more specifically, Linoleic Acid - This goes by many names, Flaxseed Oil, Rosehip Oil, CLA500, Conjugulated Linoleic Acid, etc, but it's primary ingredient that does the magic is the Linoleic Acid itself. It's said to level-out hormone levels. Many women take it to regulate their period's and stuff, I hear. I started taking it a few months ago and wasn't getting any pimples at ALL, then I ran out and they started coming back...Just got back on it a couple weeks ago, and it's all gone again, so it obviously works well. 4.) Glycolic Acid - Right now, I'm using a 10% glycolic acid lotion and leaving it on all day. It seems to help too, and it should. Glycolic Acid makes it near-impossible for your dead skin cells and your Sebum oil from your Sebacious Glands to stick together and clog your pores. THIS is the primary cause of acne - not bacteria as most people seem to think. Bacteria is certainly a cause for a few people, but that's just it - It's VERY few people. Anti-biotics don't work for...uhhh...Pretty much everyone who takes them. I tried them at one point too, it did jack. :P a 10% concentration is enough, though. They also have up to 70%, but that's for stripping off layers of skin, so you don't want that. They use it for facials and scar revision. 5.) Benzoyl Peroxide - Will probably work the FIRST time you use it, for a couple months, then you'll basically be immune to it's effects. It works by oxidizing your skin, and P. acne bacteria (the ones that contribute to acne) can't survive in oxygenated enviroments. That's why they have to live in your pores and eat your Sebacious oil. :P I used this and it cleared me up entirely for a few months, then stopped working and has NEVER worked for me again. Then tell you to only use a little, but there is a guy who runs http://www.acne.org who swears by using a TON of it (as if it were more like a lotion or something) and that it works way better. Many people agree with him entirely. I personally wouldn't advocate BP for anyone, because even if it DOES work, it will probably stop eventually. It also promotes hyperpigmentation of the skin (the red spots left after a pimple, a temporary scar) which is really, really not good. I had some red spots for a YEAR after using BP, which is a friggin' long time. :P 6.) Have to say it, and many will disagree, but; Masturbation/Sex - Yes, people may think I am insane and superstitious, but hear me out. I've researched this myself and it makes perfect sense. Now, it won't CAUSE acne, but if you have it, it may help keep it around if you do it entirely too much. When you, umm...Do the business, your body releases Androgens. Androgens are male hormones that directly help conduct the production of Sebum Oil from your Sebacious Glands in your skin. Not indirectly, even, they DIRECTLY conduct this funtion. The more androgens you get runnin' in you, the more oily your skin is. Doctors have been making this connection and putting women on anti-androgens for acne treatment and it clears 'em right up. I don't think they put men on them, probably for hormonal reasons, but I'm really not sure about that. I was surely never prescribed them. :P That's all I can really think of. Feel free to ask any questions - I'm vey educated in the subject. :P When you've had acne for the last 5 years (15 to 20), you learn a bit. Thankfully, mine has mostly gone and whatever I get now is barely noticeable. You probably should stay away from soda too, like someone else said. I stopped drinking it a few years back and it seemed to clear my skin quite a bit. :-k Edit: OH! Don't pop pimples, EVER. Doing that makes them hyperpigment and your chance of having a permanent scar, or at the very least, an enlarged pore, is significantly higher. If you have one that really needs to be popped, take a needle, sterilized it, poke it VERY gently (don't poke all the way into it, just break that little bit of skin covering it) and then all you have to do is push very lightly instead of harshly. This is how doctors do it usually and it won't scar you.

But neither does our Bible advocate voilence. Ha. Haha. Hahahaha. The Bible is one of the most violent books ever written by man, so...And not only is it violent in general, it advocates violence against several groups of people on many different occasions. Every religion based off of the Jewish-Christian God is the most intolerant religion(s) around today. You can't practice how you wish, you're forced to be a clone. I think the Crusade's have served as a good little example of that.

I ponder why it's "nothing to worry about" to you? If a country shoots a missile and downs a satellite, it obviously isn't to solve world hunger.

Passing out is pretty normal if you haven't eaten or are dehydrated, sooo.. I donated plasma a while back and got light-headed for a minute, but didn't pass out. Was no big deal really. I've donated blood a couple times and went to donate plasma just for the money :P, it was dreadfully boring, however, and left a scar on my arm, so I said screw that. =;

I can tell by the way that is written that it was obviously a joke. And someone...didn't...get it.

He would have to, but I wan't to see it make the news. Seriously, anyone with that much money should try and help the world. The best philanthopists are rich. And as for bill gates, well instead of amassing a rediculous fortune, he could have given most of it away without much or any lifestyle change at all. :roll: He does give to charity, a lot actually. I'm not doubting that at all, and he's a great man for it, but he could obviously give more. I believe I've read that he's worth 56 billion dollars, and he's given away around the same amount. Plus, he's giving everything except a few billion to that whole Africa fund....Whatever they're doing. Wasting it on people with AIDS for medicine or something. Yes, lovely. Keep the people with AIDS alive and doin' it. Good plan. I don't mean to sound harsh (yes, I do) but he could have, like...Fed them. Or....Something. Something more useful. If I'm not mistaken, most of his fortune "amassed" is in Microsoft stock, so he doesn't just let it sit in the bank. He owns a large portion of Microsoft stock...Thus the wealth. Microsoft's stock jumps up double-digit-percentiles every quarter, so he's only getting more wealthy, lol.

Wasn't this from uhh...A week ago?

Nobel Prize. Most other awards are just fancy-pants "for show" crap that mean nothing. Oscar's? Ha. That helped a whole one person. Nobel Prizes on the other hand, are given out for doing something that does or will help tons of people.

The chances of alien life out there somewhere is astronomically (no pun intended) huge. The chances of them visiting us regularily are small, but still feasible if you can comprehend a reason WHY they'd wish to do such a thing. There are tons of video's out there of undeniable proof of SOMETHING flying around in our skies and in space that is not known to us. It could very well be government crafts being tested, but they give such stupid excuses it's just hard to believe they're not hiding something. Honestly, I saw one video of a craft hovering above an area for THREE HOURS straight and then zooming off incredibley fast. Government said it was "Swamp Gas". Are you kidding me? Swamp Gas is the BEST they can come up with? The planet Venus is also regularily blamed even when it cannot be seen. If you see something in the sky half the size of the moon, guess what? It isn't Venus. Venus doesn't get it's jollies off by zooming up and having a date with our moon. Just doesn't happen. I've also seen a video of 7 crafts in the sky, hovering for hours. Again, the government had a stupid excuse...Flare's. Air Force fighter jet flares. In the sky. Hovering. For hours. Apparently they were magic flares, because they defied gravity and several other laws of physics. There were fighter jets flying around in the sky that night and the government said that due to these flares, they couldn't land. Besides the fact that it's impossible that they were flares...Why can a fighter jet not land because of a flare? Oh, I forgot...It was a MAGIC flare. My bad. Not to mention the several space-station feeds that were hijacked and made public. Like the one where they said there were objects "in the foreground", but they clearly go BEHIND a tether that had broken off and floated like 7 miles away. The government declined to comment on that one. They commented another time, however, when a feed of a missle being shot, from space, towards a craft, and the craft dodging the missle was hijacked and made public. They said that the flash of the missle was the light from the thruster (entirely possible, but it stops there) and that the two moving objects (one moving faster than the other, and both in different directions) were just dust particles thrown around by the thruster. My favourite, besides that last one, is the video of a glowing orange disk striking the ground, bouncing up, and then striking the ground again and exploding on impact. The government said that was a weather balloon, despite the fact that it's impossible (not improbable, impossible, no matter the technology) that a balloon of any sort could move that way, that fast, and then explode. *Shrug* Personally, I think the government knows everything that's going on. Is it aliens? Might not be. Could just be government crafts. But why the hell don't they just say "Top secret." instead of giving STUPID excuses? I think a more important question is - If they are aliens, why in the hell are we shooting at them? That's the dumbest thing I can think of doing. You don't fire upon someone who out-tech's you, you'll get smoked. :P I'm under the understanding, though, that the government shoots them down to collect technology. Things like microwaves, fiberoptics, microchips and a load of other stuff came directly from alien space ships that were shot down by the government. Oh well.

What drugs are you smoking? I mis-spoke, there were no Al-Queda or Taliban groups in Iraq, and now there are, plus all the other little groups running around. But the point was, there were no dangerous groups running around launching rockets and threatening America. NOW there is. We attacked the wrong country, in other words. are you telling me that the only reason terrorist groups are attacking us troops is because they invaded Iraq, and if they went to another country, lets say Iran, they wouldn't do anything? You have to understand that they don't blow themselves up for fun, they reason they suicide bomb, is so they can fight off us troops, not just because there was an invasion and that somehow motivated them to launch rockets everywhere. Iran? No, it wouldn't happen there. Iran funds those groups. They wouldn't allow them to run-a-muck killing everyone in sight for the sport of it. What I'm trying to say is that Iraq had no connections to 9/11 AT ALL. And that is true. There were no Al-Queda/Taliban threats there (thus no reason to fight a "War of Terror" there). There are now because they supported Saddam, and we unseated him from power.

Backflip off a moving train into the sun roof of a car, driving away clean. That's what I do anyways.

Why does everyone believe life to be so precious and invaluable anyways? Billions of creatures are born and die every single day on this Earth. It's the cycle of things. If a hamster ate an eraser and is going to die...Then he's going to die. Paying $2100 to save a hamster is like playing a trillion dollars out of pocket to save myself. No thanks, I'd rather die. :P Our vet wanted us to pay almost a grand to operate on our dog's heart (it was failing) so the dog could live a few extra DAYS maximum. We were like, "Uhhh...No. Just put her down." And for good reason. It just isn't worth it. The dog was literally laying in her bed crapping all over herself. Would you want to be alive a few more days? :lol:

here's another hint: scientists don't research and use give thier knowledge away for free. who do you think pays them? thats right, they are being paid by people with political intrests. conservative parties pay scientists big money to invest all thier time and research into proving that global warming doesnt exist, and liberal parties pay different scientists to prove that the opposite is true. now the fact that global emissions exist is impossible to deny. but the theory that these "bad" emissions are the sole cause of the warming of the earth is just that, a theory. look at the history of the earth, even before mankind existed, the earth went through several temperature cycles, there have been several ice ages as well as several periods of warmth. i love how people think that just because al gore made a movie, he is an expert on anything. he's still just a lowlife politician. I've never seen Al Gore's movie and I don't really care about it. Tell me: What does someone have to gain by spreading the truth about Co2 out-put being bad for Earth? Oil companies can't sell oil anymore? And? Then what? It's not like Al Gore is a Hydrogen Technology tycoon paying off these scientists. It's pretty simple. If you know anything about science, you can make the connections and say our oil consumption is surely hurting the world. It's getting so much attention because all the ice-caps in the world are freakin' disappearing completely. We've never had this happen before in recorded history, and using simple logic, it's obviously our fault. Does Earth naturally go through this process? Yes, but we're also helping induce it very greatly. Like I said - simple logic. Co2 = heat trapped inside the Earth. When we pump a billion metric tons of Co2 into sky on a daily basis, we can't really just say "Isn't our fault!" now can we?

What drugs are you smoking? I mis-spoke, there were no Al-Queda or Taliban groups in Iraq, and now there are, plus all the other little groups running around. But the point was, there were no dangerous groups running around launching rockets and threatening America. NOW there is. We attacked the wrong country, in other words.

One could argue that would make the situation worse. Finally, a construction contribution for a rapper - But since when did rappers abolish Cholera? :-k Calling Jay-Z a rapper is like calling me a seven-figure-making attorney just because I like to argue with people sometimes. That meaning he could not rap his way out of a paper bag. He and Puff Daddy are paradox's to this Universe - No skill, no talent, sucking in general, yet still making bank somehow. I just don't understand! Tigra's so right... Gah, I'm so tired of rap-bashing. Go and [bleep] about how rubbish rap is in music and movies. It's the only thing anyone does in there. But yeah on-topic, I thought cholera was a commonplace illness. I vaguely remember learning about it in Geography. Shows how much I listened huh. Who's bashing rap? I remember saying that Jay-X and Puff Daddy couldn't rap at all. I personally enjoy rap myself, thus my statement.

And when was the last time they arranged a suicide bombing in, I don't know, Iraq maybe? Hizbollah is hardly a typical example of the various organizations and loose coalities who run around Iraq waging holy war on just about anyone - strictly speaking, are they involved in Iraq in any way? May have? What, bar organizations that we'd label as terrorists, places a car bomb at a market full of civilians? And you don't find dividing a nation of what, 20ish million people into two factions a bit simplistic, even if we were to ignore the various factions that are run from the outside? That aside; Who would you identify as possible people to negotiate from either of these "factions"? Political leaders? Religious leaders? How are you going to find enough people who are able to agree with eachother, and at the same time, have some actual authority? There are terrorist orginizations in Iraq NOW, before we got there, there was none. It's a fact that the Bush administration has rarely touched on.

Funny you put it that way... You know, about 76% (last time I heard, MONTHS ago) of the entire USA absolutely hates George Bush and thinks he is, literally, an idiot. You are in the minority if you do not. So why don't you leave? At this point, if you actually believe in a "War on Terrorism", it is completely safe and reasonable to call you a brain-washed, mindless sheep. I'd feel very confident doing so. How can anyone look at the facts and say "Yes, this needed to be done!", honestly? Noone can. George Bush himself cannot. I heard him say, in an interview, when asked "What did Iraq have to do with 9/11 [then]?" he responded, "Nothing." Nothing? Really? Oh. I thought you were basing the entire "War on Terror" around Iraq? Oh, and you STILL are to this day! But they have no connection? Makes perfect sense. Don't you find it odd that when we were attacked by Muslims extremists from Saudi Arabia, that we attacked Afghanistan and Iraq? Even if Saddam was loaded to the hilt with nukes, what does that have to do with 9/11? I find it amazing that noone asks these questions. Noone finds it the least bit convenient. There is a reason people think the government was behind 9/11 - partially because they attacked somewhere where they had something to gain, and it was the completely wrong place.

It's amazingly awesome how much you guys can talk about religion without "talking about religion". :P

Don't. Kill. Anyone.

Just saw the Presidential Address, aye? :lol:

Not true, most viloent breed of dogs depend on the breed. I was doing my paper round earlier, and when i pushed a paper through this door, the dog jumped up madly (i think it was a germa shepard) and bit the paper from out of the letter box. I think that if the door wasnt there, then i would have been seriously injured. Certain breeds have the potential to be meaner. Like, a Chihuahua isn't going to eat your face off, but a Pitbull would. But it still depends on how they're raised. You should have to have a permit to own ANY large-breed dog in my opinion, and the people giving out permits should heavily use stereotyping when issuing them. The people will the violent dogs are always the same...They look like hicks. Being buying Pitbull's aren't helping them. Most people are buying them for the "cool" factor knowing that they CAN rip someone's face off. They're not being trained to do so, though. My sister's boyfriend bought one because he thought they were cool, and the dog turned out to be a big, moronic moose. :P

Whoooooooooo cares at this point. Iraqi's don't want to cooperate, they don't want our help, so leave their [wagon] sit. We've wasted way too much money there.

I like how scientists say something, basing the claims on data, and people will think of anything to say it is false. Like they're somehow out to disprove scientists so they can feel special. Here's a hint, guys: Scientists are scientists for a reason. They're smarter than you. This alone makes anyone who ISN'T a scientist sound stupid when they claim something against what a scientist says. It would have to be a HUGE coincidence if the world getting warmer had NOTHING to do with our usage of oil. Considering that burnning oil directly increases Co2 levels in the atmosphere, and Co2 traps heat inside the Earth...I really have no idea how anyone can say "It's a MYTH!!!1". That is just beyond stupid. In defies logic to even say that. Logically, humans causing the Earth to get warmer via burning oil is an extremely simple concept to understand. It isn't a theory that Co2 is pushed into the air via burning oil, and it isn't a theory that Co2 traps heat inside the Earth, so why the hell is Global Warming considered a theory by some? Honestly now. Like I said - That defies logic and goes straight to stupid.

Thanks for the happy birthday's. I got a grand total of NOTHING. My parents even went to some party - minus myself, all day & night...Totally awesome! :lol:

One could argue that would make the situation worse. Finally, a construction contribution for a rapper - But since when did rappers abolish Cholera? :-k Calling Jay-Z a rapper is like calling me a seven-figure-making attorney just because I like to argue with people sometimes. That meaning he could not rap his way out of a paper bag. He and Puff Daddy are paradox's to this Universe - No skill, no talent, sucking in general, yet still making bank somehow. I just don't understand!