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I'll have to see it sometime. Any movie making fun of NASCAR fans is good with me.

Trust me man, you'll wish you had first aid once you hit 60. ;) If you run out of mana, it's a life saver. You should be over-flowing with silk. My druid, from 30 to 45-ish, probably sold 100g worth of silk. It was insane. That's around 100 (2000 silk)stacks on my server. The rest I used to maximize First Aid. Man, I want to play again, I miss playing that game, it's a quality game. :(

Yeah, that's what I meant, I just got carried away in my state of annoyedness :x I do believe Israel has the basic right of defense, but I don't support the way they've been going about it >.> And I've been looking forward to this trip for ages, I'm not going to cancel it now :D Bring a hard hat. :ohnoes: :thumbsup:

Don't go to Israel, silly. That's asking for trouble. :P I believe Israel's attack was warrented, but too extreme, and now they're just being over-zealous. If there are Hezbollah in civilian areas, you go in on foot. You don't drop bombs on the area... :uhh:

Sorry, uhh, that whole quote you had in your post...Somehow I missed that. I don't know if my browser lagged and I skipped over that area conveniently or WHAT, but I didn't see it. :lol: Some of the science there sounds pretty iffy, some sounds about right. That's really all I can say about it. I will say this: Paying taxes for stem cell research of some sort is just like paying taxes for anything else - It may never effect you, but it effects millions of others, so you do it...So I don't feel the "Wow, they're making us pay for it! Lame!" arguement in that text really meant anything. :P The rest of it was okay though...I'm curious why they even need embryotic stem cell research if adult stem cells will work just as good...I haven't read that much into it, but if they're the same damn thing, then we really don't even need to step on any moral lines. I still think Dubya vetoing it because of his religious convictions is wrong as a whole, though maybe that's just because he's an out-spoken Christian...If he had never said he was religious, maybe I wouldn't have a problem with it. It just seems wrong as-is now, though.

I'm curious what the hell a Jim Carrey movie has to do with this. :lol: I've seen it, I own it, actually. I'm guessing you're saying it has some strong message...But so do a lot of things. Pianofreak - I'm curious about the people BEFORE Jesus and the people currently who know nothing of him. Certainly they don't know Jesus, so they cannot be saved? It just all doesn't make sense to me. At all. Seems very selective and situational. If you're a Christian, you'll get rewarded, but if you follow your own, different beliefs, screw you. I believe there could be a God. But I also believe in evolution. Evolution obviously has some truth to it. But my believing there could be a God is on my OWN terms. Not 2 billion other people's. I feel I'm forced by society to believe or I will die before I know it and never have the chance to even question it. I feel like, if God wanted me to follow him, he'd make it be my choice and give me all the time I need to contemplate it. I want to believe there is a God, but being rushed into it just makes it fake. It's for the same reason Jehova's Witnesses don't get baptised RIGHT away - They need to feel that devotion to God and to feel like, yes, they do believe, and they love God with all of their heart. I can't say that at the moment (that I believe) so I'm not going to kid him by just saying I do. If anything, that's the Jehova's Witness's best teaching. I know they have a bad rep for knocking on doors and stuff, but it's no different than invading my TV trying to make me buy $100 bible's and say I'll go to hell if I don't follow Jesus (Christians are known for this one...Evangelics in aprticular...). I'm curious about something, Pianofreak - What do you feel about those Baptist church people? You know, the ones on the news lately who will not shut their giant, hate-filled traps? Do you feel that the Christian community (yourself included) disagree's with them, or agree's and just doesn't say it? I'm just curious, I'm not assuming anything here. Just a thought, I just saw the lady on tv...AGAIN.

I understand because of religious conviction's that you're glad he did, that's fine. Problem is, Dubya's religious conviction's have no part in his decision-making...Well, they SHOULDN'T, but they did. I submit this: Emryo's are killed daily via abortions. The fetus's are discarded, thus making their "death" in vain. Wouldn't you rather a "death" helped others out? Let us not forget that he vetoed the use of a single cell aswell, which isn't human life no matter how much you say it is. Saying that is human life is like saying all females are murderer's for going through their menstrual cycle (in which an egg - potential human life, dies). Abortion is legal, and probably will be for a long time to come, however, ya'll would rather worry about a "might-be" than an "already-is"? For some reason, Christian's fear that babies will be made, killed and picked as if they were simple fields of grain. That's not the case. I don't think any scientist intended to go around making babies to kill them - They're already being killed. That confuses me. Why you would not be more worried about what is already happening instead of what you fear happening seems a bit...Well, funny.

Hell is a fairy tale. Assuming God even exsists. He's never helped me, so I wouldn't know. If he exsisted and loved us all, he'd help us each individually if he could. Instead, we get the "That'd prove his exsistance and thus make faith worthless!" crap. But lets not get into God exsisting. I'm talking about Hell not exsisting, period. Assume God loves us all, which they say he does, I cannot see you "burning eternally" for inane things. Murder? I could see that. Suicide? Yea, perhaps. But come on, I'm expected to believe that if I use God's name in vain, I'm going to Hell? If I stole a peice of candy when I was 4, I'm going to Hell? If I'm committing "vanity" by thinking I am teh sexiness, I'm going to Hell? Please...God putting any single one of us in eternal fire for that crap is like lighting your kid on fire for back-talking. Every child does it. Except my future children, of course...Back-talking is rewarded with Bakc-handing. I kid, I kid. I once read something about "hell" being a bible misinterpritation or something, and that hell actually meant hole in the ground, or something. Dying forever is a pretty good, uhh...reward for being an [wagon], I would think. Good people are rewarded by living forever (I wouldn't mind that actually, but I somehow think it'd be boring...), bad people just poof out of exsistance as an athiest knows death. THAT seems fitting. Burning forever does not, and if God would do such a thing, I would rather burn eternally than follow him. Would you not be against your parent killing your siblings? Thought so. Living forever kinda' sounds boring anyways. I wouldn't mind it if it was like it is now, going forward with technology and the like, because technology is teh hawtness, but I somehow invision it a world with boring, over-happy people where we all just sit around singing songs. SNORE. If I'm going to be good my entire life, I want some goddamn fun. Lord knows I won't be having any in my life-time.

I'll trade you a toothbrush, thus negating both our trades and making us idiots! :D

I'm trusting the next administration to do a lot of things. Luckily, the Republican and Democratic hopefuls right now (Dean and Clinton, I think?) both seem to have their heads on and firmly on their shoulders, as opposed to in someone's anus. I'm looking forward to them passing the stem cell bill Dubya vetoed, too.

I'll just address this since I only have a minute or two: We didn't know what Saddam had, that is correct. He bluffed. Again, correct. However, we know EXACTLY what Iran and N. Korea have and we're not even THINKING of touching them. If you're going to label a war with a "spread domacracy" propoganda label, you should probably stomp in some other countries faces that need to be "crusaded". I honestly wish they'd just do it already. For some reason, I disagree with the war as it is now completely, but that's because we invaded a country that wasn't threatening. We helped civilians out I suppose (and killed a ton too, but hey, they were in the way?) but if we would actually invade threatening countries, I think I'd approve of it more. Iran is developing nukes, as is N. Korea. Not cool. N. Korea's leader is also starving his people. They need our help aswell, but again, we're doing nothing. Seems a bit convenient. Makes me just think the entire war is a BS oil-grabber. I'm not a band-wagon hopping conspiracy theorist, but it seems convenient we'll only attack a country that will benefit us, then say it's benefitting them.

Japan just better remember: We may owe them money, but we have nuked them before. :-w I keed, I keed.

I'd take Alicia Silverstone any day. She only plays one in the movies! Ever seen that picture of her without make-up, stuffing her face full of food? Yea, I'd date her too. She cleans up nice, so that's a plus. :lol:

That is possibley the nerdiest story I have ever heard. Yet somehow, it is cute.. :-k

Ah crap, I forgot part of being emo is wearing tight clothes, too. I guess I can never be emo. :( Imagine a slightly muscular man in women's pants and a shirt 3 sizes too small...I think I'd bridge the gap between "Emo" and "Homo". :lol:

They're either intelligent, or they're pseudo-intellectuals. Don't be fooled. :P The only people I actively make fun of (in my head - making fun of people outloud is rude and it can effect people pretty deeply) is "Metal-heads". Not because of how they dress/look or what music they like, but because they bash everyone elses tastes in music, and dictate openly what is "metal" and what isn't. If it sounds metal, guess what? It is. There is no such thing as "Nu-metal" and "Punk goth shock-rock emetal" or any other dumb label they put on music to protect the sacred "metal" name. These type of people are the kind that get pissed off and start ripping their hair out when people say "You know, Slipknot is a pretty good metal band!"...You can almost hear them thinking (if they're smart enough to keep their mouth shut - most are not) "OMFG IDIOT THEY ARE NU-METAL PANSIES! GO LISTEN TO ." I hate them with a passion and would not be sad if they all got REAL peices of metal in their heads.

As long as you're a looker, they will! :lol: I believe I have seen your picture before...years ago, probably...I won't say anymore on that. :thumbsup: Then again, maybe it wasn't you... :ohnoes: Anyways, any guy who would rather have a clueless, blonde barbie is...a bit "odd" himself.

You should fight in war because: 1. Our forefathers fought for our current freedoms and we should fight to protect them. 2. It's your civic duty, whether or not you agree with it or not. 3. The Bible says we are to follow the government set over us unless it tells us to do something contrary to Scripture. The Bible is certainly not pacifistic. 4. The quickest route to domination by other countries is through pacifism. First off, if everyone were pacifists, they would keep "buying off" other countries until those countries got powerful enough to finally fight. When it reached that point, the pacifistic country is screwed. Then they get taken over because no one is willing to fight for something they believe in. 1. We aren't fighting for our freedom. If we were, noone would have any problem with a war. Infact, I'm sure people would be glad to ship out and kick some [wagon]. 2. Okay. 3. Pretty sure the Bible wouldn't agree with killing tens of thousands of innocent people, even if it isn't pacifistic, I'm 100% sure killing innocents is a damnable sin. 4. Okay. Oh, and #3 for the above poster: Our President...Hell, a majority of his party, are Christians.

I demand pictures, or it didn't happen.

Dares count? Crap. Add a couple more onto there. :lol:

Piano basically summed up a lot of what I was thinking. I doubt the majority of your life is miserable because of him. Even if he is making your life even a little bit worse, he's only human. I would love to see any of you "bush-bashers" do better under the circumstances he has been in. As for the attack on Bush's physical appearance, that was pretty lame. Otherwise, thank you for the rest of you constructive post. It helped fill me in on a few things, even though I don't agree with everything you said. Come on, he does kind of look monkey-esque. In all seriousness though, currently, he isn't making my life miserable, except the fact that everytime he veto's something helpful to the country, I want to rip my eyes out. He *will* be making ALL of our lives miserable, because who is paying for this war? Him? No, us. And the majority of us do not even support it and he labels us un-American. You want to see un-American? How about I stop paying my taxes, you ungrateful bigot. Oh, whats that? Then I'll go to prison for tax evasion? Seems you win again, Bush. Just wait several years, man. And even if it doesn't effect you in your life-time (experts say it WILL), it will surely effect your children. I'm to the point where I've decided not to have any, because it wouldn't be fair to them. Wait, I take that first statement back...It will effect you in your lifetime...Social Security is going to be drained completely by...whatever year it was. Look it up, I'm too lazy at the moment honestly. :P And to what Pianofreak said: Cutting out from the Iraw war is INDEED a terrible idea, because it only shows terrorist groups that we were too weak to defeat them. But the truth is, we indeed ARE too weak to beat them. Maybe not physically weak in power, but we jsut cannot do it militarily. It won't happen. These people are dedicated psycho-religionists who wish for nothing but death. Surely they should all just charge us and die gracefully, but they are death-wishing cowards, it seems. Being dedicated to their religions cause, they will NEVER give up. It's like thinking a Christian will all of a sudden say, "Whelp, I didn't see Jesus today...I think I'm not going to believe in him anymore." If Iraw goes into a civil war, it would be just like America is today. Well, it would be worse, I mean there is a group with rocket launchers instead of simple firearms like American criminals, but still. Iraq now has trained police forces and trained military personel. If they can't deal with it, then we've failed in all respects. What is the current statistics on money spent per day in Iraq/Afghanisan? I heard it was something like $1 billion per day. I have no source to prove that, and I'm too lazy to look, but if that is indeed true, and even if it's not, even if it's much lower, is it worth that to you? Is it worth it to spend so much massive amounts of money on something we will never see the fruits of our money's labor to? You must remember, Iraq has nothing to do with the attacks on 9/11. Not one thing. You seem to believe the propaganda that we are "fighting terrorism" in Iraq, when we are not. The whole "Terrorism" battle was supposed to be reserved for Afghanistan, and the "Disarm Saddam" was reserved for Iraq, of course. This line has now completely blurred since we realised Saddam had NO WEAPONS. That right there is propoganda, and you've seem to have bought into it. Don't feel different though, the Bush admisinstration has fooled 30% of America aswell...Maybe more, but 70% just do not approve of him nor his war. Supporters of Bush simply HAVE to have been tricked into believing this...If they didn't, they wouldn't support him...There is no reason to. Also, you say we're supposed to be protecting the innocent people, and you're completely correct. The best way to protect them is to protect them FROM US, it seems. Since the war started, what was it, 30 or 40,000 civilians have been killed? Were those people not "innocent" enough to be protected, or what? See, this is where it is obvious people have been fooled. They would agree with something even though it makes zero sense. George Bush cares nothing for protecting civilians, and he's proved that simply by refering to the deaths as "30,000, give or take.." and "the cost of democracy". If that's the cost of democracy, then I demand we, the American people, sacrifice 10,000 people per year on the alter of democracy. Not happening? Didn't think so. Hmph. :uhh: I can see your point on health care, because I'll be damned if I'm paying 70% of my money just to get healthcare I *might* need. I'm almost NEVER sick, so I barely ever use mine as it is. However, what pisses me off is that I'm expected to pay $900/month for health insurance. Why? Because my fathers business makes a ton of money....However, they fail to realise, none of that money is his. Thus, we cannot afford health care. All the money he makes goes to other people's hands for building materials and labor. He makes his 30 or 40 grand per year (only a guess, honestly...you think it'd be less the way we live sometimes - my mom can't work). I have a cavity in one of my teeth that I cannot get filled because there is a waiting list for the type of insurance we were awarded by the state for being too damn broke to get "normal" stuff. Don't ask me how that works...One second we're too rich, the next we're too poor? Whatever. We call up every dentist around and they simply say "Sorry, list is full for your insurance, call back in a month." and your chances of getting them to help are, like, zero. I dunno' when I'll get this thing fixed...I just hope it doesn't start to hurt, because I'll go insane knowing I could have been helped, but was not on a technicality. Basically, from what I'm seeing in personal experience, healthcare doesn't need more money necessarily, it needs a...review? Or something? I mean, does it make any sense that one second my entire family is so wealthy they're expected to pay $900/month for insurance, then the next, we're so poor we are awarded state-insurance stuff from Blue Cross? Keep in mind, nothing about our financial situation changed. Nothing at all. I just don't understand this bullcrap and it makes me really nervous about going out on my own. I'll probably NEVER have health insurance because I don't NEED it, I'm a healthy person, however, my girlfriend, who I plan on marrying, may need it...Her family has a history of cancer and her mom just had a histerectomy for some weird reason. Bah.

Uhhh, I think I was like 10...And the girl was 9 or 10. It was the last thing on my mind, but apparently the FIRST thing on hers...There was something wrong with that girl. She always wanted to kiss me and I was like hey...can we umm...play hide and seek? :lol: She wasn't my girlfriend though...Hell, she wasn't even my friend, she was my sister's...My first girlfriend I kissed when I was like 11...4th grade going into 5th, I think. Might have been 12, tops. Since then, I have NEVER kissed a single one of my 10+ girlfriends. I am 19 years old. It should be stated, however, that I've had the same girlfriend for the last 4 years. She just lives too far away now for me to actually kiss her! I'm going to see her next summer (was supposed to this summer but it didn't work out. :() though, so it'll happen then. :P

My opinion is this: Listen to whatever music you find "good". I listen to anything I find to be a "foot tapper", meaning I can listen to it without going "God, this is horrid.." basically. So I can listen to many types of rap, rock, metal, pop, whatever and still be myself. I've heard some "emo" bands and they have a few good songs, but most are just straight-up dumb. The same can be said for some bands in any genre, but they all have fans for some reason. However, when you listen to one type of music and start acting and dressing to fit the part, you become open season for people to make fun of you, because you are a trend-following idiot. I listen to all sorts of different music, and I wear plain white t-shirts and blue jeans. You can't stereotype me because I'm not a trend-following turd. If there was a trendy-band filled with people that dressed like me, I swear to god within a month Wal-Mart would sell out of their t-shirts and denim would be on short supply. Hey, at least the robots we have now (that all look the same...) have funky hair and clothes! That's special! \

Wow, you're soo coool :roll: Show some respect. That was really low of you. As for this topic, can anyone give me a shortened summary if this has been answered already: How is this going to directly, or I guess indirectly effect me? I'm turning 18 next year, so I'll have to start worrying a bit more about taxes and things like that, and to be honest, I'm too lazy to read through all of these posts to find my answer #-o . Sorry Show respect to whom? The man who's going to make the majority of my life miserable because I'll be too busy trying to play catch-up to do anything else? Yea, right. Screw George Bush right in his big, floppy monkey ears. How does it effect you? As you grow older, you're going to find yourself paying all your money to the government so they can WASTE IT ON NOTHING. Here's a good way to cut spending! 1. Pull out of Iraq. Admit defeat. We will *never* win there. Ever. We've trained police and military, now we leave. Also, we're spending a butt-load of money just to rebuild crap after we BLEW IT UP WITH A FEW $80,000 BOMBS, loaded up on a $5.2 MILLION DOLLAR JET. 2. Stop pampering government workers? They're workers just like the rest of us, yet for some reason, they do less - only for more money. Not only are they highly over-paid (and getting raises? WHY?), but they drive around in gas-guzzling, over-priced, government funded SUV's. Oh, and don't forget the Congressional Vacation I'm *SURE* we are paying for ourselves. I want a vacation if I'm going to be paying for it. The list goes on, but I think those examples will make the point. 3. Stop completely moronic spending in general. There are so many examples of this, I have no idea where to start. When an ordinary person see's spending like this, they think "What?! WHY?!", but when a government worker see's these things, they see them as necessary and would like more. They're spoiled little brats that have ZERO CONCEPT of money. They're like my 16 year old sister, really. I'm tired, so at the moment that's all that came to mind, but I have no doubt there are a billion other things we could do. #3 just generalized pretty much everything... But instead of cutting obviously wasted spending, we instead cut education, health care, etc...You know...Stuff that already sucks and we need MORE of. Lame.

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