Escaping my life. Not that my life is bad (especially right now, it's really good), but it's just so boring most of the time. So I play games, read books, etc, to transport me to somewhere outside my life. I also, over the past 5-10 years, have thought up a pretty intricate storyline of my own, to mess with in my spare time.
I have, once or twice, back when I was new :D Does it even have a purpose?
Heh, no problem. Happens to all of us.
The big deal is the unconventionality of the way he did it. I personally wish they could have captured one of the Taliban soldiers who saw him, so they could get his reaction to this guy.
I would say that it would be better, especially in the economy of today (temporary though it may be), to not make the guy pay all of it, especially if it's expensive. Now, if the guy wants to pay, let him. Or, if the girl wants to pay (I know, shocking, right?), let her.
I can't honestly tell if you're post-whoring or just new, but in the Discussion sections, longer answers are generally preferred. You know, answers with content, not just a statement of opinion. For instance, why, in your opinion, are boys better?
That... is awesome! That guy deserves a medal for bravery or something! I mean, to rush out there, with no thought for his own safety, in minimal armor! Amazing! And still pretty frikking funny. I know if I were a Taliban soldier, I would be bowled over laughing upon seeing that.
Yes, that would be much more balanced. An arrow also takes a lot of discipline to learn how to use, but not nearly as much. I still choose sword, for it's sheer grace (if used right) and the discipline you acquire while learning to use it.
Actually, statistically, the younger you get romantically involved with someone, the shorter that involvement usually is, due to things like hormones and shifting from high school to college and other similar things. So yes, I personally would be surprised to see these 2 together 3 years from now also.
On the contrary. Your teenage years are a time of massive hormonal floods, making you think things about people (especially physically attractive people) that may not be true, and making you sugarcoat any flaws said person has. Once your hormones die down, you may see a vastly different person than you see now. So yes, from a biological standpoint, age does matter. A lot.
Ships. They had a great navy, and legend around the world, I believe, must have made it seem invincible. I have a feeling that some areas may have capitulated without even fighting. Also, they colonized less developed areas (America, Australia, Africa, India), and utilized their resources. Through their navy.
Yes, but you mentioned that they were entirely different alphabets. While that is true, it is also true for Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Greek: http://www.personalizedmementos.com/catalog/images/GreekLetters.jpg Latin: http://www.lingvozone.com/languages/Language Information28_files/image001.gif Hebrew: Emphasizing Hebrew since it's so different from the other two.
Like Old Hebrew and Latin, perhaps? Or Latin and Greek? Or even Hebrew and English. I know, but it was a pretty darn good example nonetheless. I mean, how many of the monks translating the Bible and copying it by hand (a process fraught with error in and of itself) had an absolutely intimate, absolutely perfect knowledge of both languages, either? Learned this in my World Civs class a few years ago. I don't know if it's online yet. My professor knew about it because one of his friends made the discovery. I've looked, and apparently, the debate about this rages on. I guess we'll just have to agree to be on opposite sides of this debate. Just do a Google search for "exodus "red sea" "reed sea" translation", and you'll find more than you ever wanted to know. I couldn't think of any incidents off the top of my head. But ok, here's one: In the Victorian era, during the original excavation of Pompeii, several of the excavators plastered over the more erotic frescoes in order to avoid offending anyone.
umm, I hope I'm reading this wrong, but this new species is not in the Homo genus... in fact, it's far before anything on this planet had higher intelligence (probably). This new species is the branching point for all simians. I.e. the line of Mammals diverged off here, at this species, into the simians (all monkeys, lemurs, apes, and humans), as opposed to other species (bovines, felines, ursines, canines, etc.).
The only fossil that has been found is in Germany. Who knows? There could be more in Africa that we just don't know about. Or maybe they lived in an area that didn't lend itself to preservation very well, and there are very few specimens left at all. I mean, we can barely find any human (well, early human) evidence even 6 million years back, because they didn't live in a very preserving environment.
This is true, but people believed those things before the so-called Age of Science, or the Age of Reason, back when everything had a mystical explanation, and the Dark Ages were just beginning to recede. Now, we have proofs that they never had, and technologies that they wouldn't even begin to grasp, let alone condemn (Witchcraft, etc). Really? I would truly like to see this support. I really would. The Bible is not, to most scientists, a reliable source, due to the dozen or more translations it suffered through to get to it's present form, and the lack of original copies. I mean, just think of the modern games translated from Japanese that are sometimes ludicrous. I can think of one translation that changes the meaning of the Bible right off the top of my head. In Exodus, where it mentions the crossing of the Red Sea, someone had, somewhere along the line, mistranslated it from Reed Sea. The Red sea is huge, and hard to cross. The Reed sea, however, is a tiny little marshy, swampy piece of land that, coupled with a tsunami coming in from the explosion of Santorini (I think) at about that time, which would have emptied the Reed Sea, making it possible to walk across. Then, according to an Egyptian record, "the sea swallowed their footsteps". No mention of the loss of the Egyptian army, just a mention of the escape of the Jews. Again, the bible has been translated so many times, it's not even funny. Besides, that website, I'm sorry to say, defeats itself in almost every paragraph. It offers readings from the bible, and justifies their accuracy in the following way: L O Fricking L for circular reasoning. No arguments there. See: Catholic priests molesting boys and just getting sent to another parish (or whatever they're called) instead of thrown in jail (or at least excommunicated). Great enforcement of the bible's anti-homo laws there... Reference: The Crusades, where Christians wiped out, along with the Muslims (who had done nothing wrong to them), thousands of Jews and fellow Christians who lived in the Middle East, and sacked Constantinople, apparently ordered to do so by the Pope himself, in a fit of jealousy over the wealth and power of Constantinople. Reference: The Inquisition, where Christian torturers licensed by the church slaughtered whole families just for believing a slightly different version of Christianity and sticking to it. And may god have mercy on those who weren't Christian at all! Reference: The Christian missionaries, who, for hundreds of years now, go abroad and tear apart whole societies in an attempt to "save the savage heathens" (and yes, I have heard that phrase used, back when I went to church). Reference: The nominally Christian conquistadors, who ripped apart several ancient cultures for a few abnormal practices (Aztecs, Inca, Mayans, etc). Many of those cultures existed for longer than any European country in it's present form. Reference: The nominally Christian original settlers in America (including Columbus) who found it perfectly all right to enslave the native population and purposely spread plague among them (although, the natives did get their revenge - syphilis). Reference: The Christian justification for slavery (forget the verse), used for centuries to subjugate and humiliate some of the oldest cultures on Earth.
To all who say McDonald's - they don't give you nearly enough food to make it the most greasy. I mean, one Cookout burger (same price) is the size of 2 McD's burgers! And a normal KFC meal gives you like twice or 3 times what you get in a Value Meal (minus the drink - that's not food :D)!
Sausage. Definitely sausage. Bacon always makes me nauseous for some reason. Besides, sausage, egg, and cheese biscuits = heaven!
There is still a lot of debate about that as well, but more and more scientists are accepting the fact that this is a new species. Besides, humans (and apparently, our non-intelligent ancestors which gave rise to us) have always been wanderers in some sense.
Most badass was Grievous?? He wasn't even a Force-user! Any Jedi trained to ANY decent level could beat him! Anakin (before the suit) all the way. Anyways, yea, blaster that is blocked by most materials is clearly < lightsaber that cuts through anything except other lightsabers (in the hands of a Jedi, of course). Sword/gun-wise, though, swords have much more grace and skill required to use them, and swordmasters are usually more disciplined. Guns, while being more powerful, require much less discipline to use. I was hitting targets easily my first time. Therefore, guns are more dangerous than swords, in a general sense, but swords are better IMO, since the users have a sense of what they're about to inflict on someone.
