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I have come to realize that many misunderstandings are based largely on linguistic imprecision. We say what comes closest to what we think, and then associate those words with that meaning and therefore, our views. Having not lived the lives of those who receive our words, we can not anticipate the ...

And who decides to become an executioner anyway? "How was your day honey?" "Oh great. I killed three today." "Where do you see yourself in five years?" "Oh, I hope to be a JE with a good start on becoming a Senior Executioner, but I don't know if I'll be able to p...

1. Who gets to decide that someone is worthy of death? Me. Us. Anyone who happens to have it within their power. I would never be able to do it. I just realized I was not very clear in this as I could have been. I have been in a similar discussion with a man who was adamantly opposed to war, in eve...

A Link , even if just for me, cuz' I forget too easily what it is we are talking about My re-re-rant (mostly because I agree that that this is an interesting topic and I also enjoy picking at arguments) 1. Who gets to decide that someone is worthy of death? Me. Us. Anyone who happens to have it with...

Can I just say how flattering it is to see that I was able to have a hand in the majority of these posts...

and how unsettling it is that right now the one carrying the lead is about me in the shower....

What an odd feeling.

Asking anything about the following topics is not legal... * Age * Race, ethnicity, or color * Gender or sex * Country of national origin or birth place * Religion * Disability * Marital or family status or pregnancy via http://humanresources.about.com/od/interviewing/a/interview_quest.htm and http...

If you're not dating the kinda guy you want to marry... You'll never marry that kinda guy... (or girl...) Yes and no. I believe that there are those who intentionally (at some level) become infatuated with those they consider non-marriageable. Perhaps as a defense against marriage. It is my opinion...

Young marriages can work out fine, but getting engaged young and not having it work out must be quite the challenge. A young couple I knew were engaged their freshman year in high school, remained so for four years, and then broke up a few months after graduation, weeks before the wedding date. I wo...

One downside of being a redhead is that you can't really get away with anything. My mother relates a time when she was young and stole a watermelon from a nearby garden with a group of her friends. Every single one of her friends got away clean, but being the only one with hair so red ended any of h...

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Wow... I come and see four people on, so I expect a couple new posts. Nope. Not even one.

I was lurking, as usual. Then I realized I was reading about yall's NaNoWriMo and I had no idea what exactly that entailed.

Very interesting.

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:I repeat, on Sam's behalf: IAWTC?

I Agree With This Comment.

I have read both those books, and saw very few similarities. Just so you know. :) I can be more than forgiving of the Redwall series, I would find it difficult to write a fantasy series without some correlations to LotR. The Lost Years of Merlin was a good read, though I was sure I had read it befo...

Would anyone hold me it against me if I write a program that grabs words from various sources, along with names, to form random sentences until it has passed the 50,000 word mark and run it through Word's spell and grammar check and see what hilarity and randomness pops out? Heck; bump it up from w...

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Mine is like 4 pages long. I'm proud of my being a quitter. : )

Aye, I know the feeling. I had an essay that I gave up on somewhere around half way through. Still I was somewhat proud of the twenty-some-odd pages I had written.

IQ tests are timed. ;D But it told me that timing wouldn't affect my scores. Also, another one told me that if I applied for MENSA I would probably get in. The last I was aware, Mensa required an IQ with a z score above 2, so a Wechsler 130 or Stanford-Binet 132. If I remember my statistics, that's...

Yay, I cause despair and destroy dreams... Yo,ure teh internet? O,o I believe LJ was quoting a larger passage of scripture: "For behold, in the last days a great abomination shall arise and cover the land, crying: Behold I come not to connect, but to sever. Yea, I cause despair and destroy dre...

How is your agency taken away if God sees time as one eternal now? I think it comes down to the thought that if God can see tomorrow, then tomorrow already exists. If tomorrow already exists, then what impact does my will exert upon today? If he can see my wedding day, do I really get to chose if a...

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:No. It was just a hunch.

Hunches run in your family?

Then who is to say that neurons are required for thought? Can you prove that? ;D I highly reccommend the book "One Tattered Angel" by Blaine Yorgason. While not proving anything, it is interesting to read of the life of his daughter, born with naught but a brain stem. From a gospel standp...

[quote=Katya]So you think that bowling balls, dropped from a second storey window, choose to crash to the ground?[/quote]

Oy vey; enter Skousen... that might be quite the tangential discussion in and of itself.