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Yes, but the whole "multiple sides" argument was before we had reliable DNA evidence. And yes, I had heard of those convicts recently found innocent through faulty DNA, but that evidence had been gathered and processed in the 80's or something, with less reliable techniques. IMO, the death penalty would only apply to those of the most heinous criminals who have been convicted so soundly there is no doubt in any part of the proceedings, no confusion, no assumptions made, and all the evidence is incontrovertible. Ideally.

Also, all prison will do to these people (the hard-core serial killers, etc) will give them an opportunity to hone their techniques against other inmates. Most of the people in the prison system are not being reformed at all. They're just being locked up with a bunch of other bloodthirsty criminals.

In addition, putting someone in prison costs a lot more, in most cases (when they don't act all good and get a parole, which, IMO, should not happen as often as it does), than killing them. The costs of keeping all these criminals locked up 25 to life is extremely high, plus any court costs for appeals and such. If they have been convicted the way I suggested earlier in my post, they would have no parole, and death relatively quickly.

I feel it's more liberating, not having to worry about some omnipotent voyeur watching you do everything while he simultaneously watches everyone else in the universe. If there's no set plan, it just means we can make our own. Besides, it is classic human arrogance that if we don't exist, or if the race kills itself off, it's some kind of massive blow to the universe. This universe has existed for 13 billion years without us, and can easily survive 20+ billion more without us. We are just one small race, in one small galaxy, in a sea of billions of galaxies, each of which (I believe) contains at least one intelligent species. We would be no great loss. (Wow, I kinda got sidetracked there, huh?)

Anyways, if you think about it, not killing people is even more important in a Godless universe. If this is all we have, who are we to end someone else's existence? There are laws placed into effect to protect others, simply because no one person has the right to end someone else's life without due process (capital punishment is another debate).

Almost what happened to me. I was reading directions home from work (like my first month driving, or something), and didn't see the light turn red in front of me. The big truck in front of me, however, did. I guess it's actually a good thing that I rear-ended that truck, because I caused no damage to it (tiny, 10 year old cars don't have a lot of oomph behind them), and it stopped me from running a red light and possibly getting broadsided (and maybe killed).

Don't think there's been one like this recently...

Anyways, there are several parallel universe theories.
1) There is a multitude of universes, each slightly different from another, and the choices every living thing makes shunts their perception into a new universe, where that choice happened (the old show Sliders did this, in a way, with parallel universes being similar, but not the same (Nazis winning WW2, red means go, etc etc).

2) Theoretically, it might be possible to shift to another universe through a wormhole or a black hole, if you can survive the event horizon. This universe might not, however, be parallel, but instead follow it's own laws, and it may be that nothing from our universe can survive or even exist there (if the laws of physics are different, or in a pure energy universe).
a) there may also be millions of these universes.

I don't remember the rest off the top of my head. I'll update this if I can think of more.

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3) My personal favorite has to do with the dawn of the universe. Theoretically, this universe could have been spawned from a universe existing before us, when it collapsed into a "big crunch" (when the dark matter equivalent in that universe was weak enough that the universe collapsed under it's own gravity). This could, hypothetically, be just the latest in an uncountable eons-long chain of expanding, living, and collapsing universes. Ours, however, looks like it may end in a "big freeze", where the dark matter is strong enough to push our universe far enough apart that its gravity is not strong enough to collapse it, thus ending our nice, hypothetical chain. The sci-fi show Eureka made a reference to this theory, with the Artifact, a remnant from this previous universe.

Well, without an external power source, the batteries have to die sometime...

Repliku - marriages also, in various points and cultures in history, have been used to cement family or clan ties, and make political alliances. Not that that matters to the discussion at hand, though...

If your plane goes down relatively horizontally (crash-landing), the odds of survival are good. If it nosedives... well, then yea, you're pretty much dead. Most plane accidents I've heard of, though, tend to end in crash landings, though, or early landing because of (for example) engine fires, or air loss (rarely serious). Airplanes are safety tested more severely than any craft besides spacecraft. The pilots are psychologically tested, and most have a personality that discourages panic, and trained almost like military. The ground crews (I think) go over every plane after every flight.

Statistically speaking, flying is the absolute safest way to travel.

Agnostic is the correct term, I believe. IIRC, it means that you know or believe in some kind of divine power, but it may not fit into a religion, or something like that.

My mom has told me multiple times that, after a certain age, "I'm sorry" no longer cuts it. After all, they're only words. Unless you have the actions to back them up, they mean nothing. I could murder someone, apologize for it, and (hypothetically) get off the hook, then go murder someone else.

Now, if the person is not willing to give you another chance action-wise either, that's their own fault, not yours.

Indeed. It's not that common, but it still happens.

Most of the men and women in the military. Sure, a few of them may abuse their power, but that's been happening since the dawn of militaries. Most of them deserve a LOT more respect and admiration than they get. They certainly do not deserve to get boo'd when they finally come home after risking their lives for the booers' freedoms.

All dreams are is the subconscious mind trying to work out the issues of the previous day. There are no signs in them except what we choose to see.

For instance, I once had a dream (off and on for several years, actually), where I and several of my elementary school friends were being chased by a dark, shadowy figure through some kind of rusty industrial complex, and always, at a specific point in the dream, I would slow down, unable to walk at more than a strolling pace, and I would find that my voice wouldn't work right. Now, nothing remotely like his ever happened, and if any dream I've ever had would be a sign, it's that one. Nothing ever threatened me in my entire life in any way remotely similar to that dream.

Also, several times, as is probably natural for teens, I have dreamt of sex in some way or another, with someone or another, and yet I've never, to this day, been in any kind of relationship and never had any kind of romantic feelings for anyone.

Trust me, dreams are, at most, entertainment for the sleeping brain.

I admit I am misunderstood. But I have a valid medical reason for it. I have ADD/Asperger's Syndrome, making my mind work in a very different fashion than others. I have been told by numerous people that they cannot understand the way my mind works. I have met only one person who has ever understood it, and he was abused as a child and is now in foster care. So, yea, I'm misunderstood, but not in the emo way. In the medical way.

That said, I don't want to be understood. To be understood is to be... *shudder* normal. No thanks. I like being weird.

Truth. But, even if it were something a guy might buy - a Rolex, for instance, I would rather have a fake than a real one, just for price. The only thing I would rather have expensive is a computer, and then I go for quality, not name.

We can speak our views, also, and my view is, even if it's a joke, it's pretty effing tasteless.

The first and only place I had ever heard of it was on Disney channel, so, predictably, the emphasized the Disney elements, and completely downplayed the Final Fantasy elements (I never heard them mentioned in any of their commercials). Therefore, it was almost 2 years between hearing about KH1 and seeing KH2 being played by a friend. I was like "Ohhh, that's Kingdom Hearts...". I found it interesting. About that time, my friend showed me a few KH AMVs, and I liked them as well. The rest is pretty much history.

It's usually the older people (40+) who do that. Sometimes, doctors will even prescribe it.

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