Six of Nine, there is a book or at least an article on exactly what you are talking about, it is called the Adonis Complex where bodybuilders percieve themselves as being scrawny even though they might be huge in exactly the same way that anorexics see themselves as fat no matter how skinny they are.
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My thoughts on men who Body Build
by kls inmy two son's are body builders and i am wonering if they think they can take on the world .
last year my son was in a bar fight and got sucker punched in the eye which required 5 stiches ,now my 21 year old comes home with a huge black eye, the biggest i have ever seen trying to break up a fight.. .
now both these people that got a good shot at my kids where men much smaller in stature and size and seemed to land good punches.
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My thoughts on men who Body Build
by kls inmy two son's are body builders and i am wonering if they think they can take on the world .
last year my son was in a bar fight and got sucker punched in the eye which required 5 stiches ,now my 21 year old comes home with a huge black eye, the biggest i have ever seen trying to break up a fight.. .
now both these people that got a good shot at my kids where men much smaller in stature and size and seemed to land good punches.
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Ritchie, I think KLS is saying that if 144001 is an undercover cop you might be in trouble. LOL.
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How much science we take on "faith"
by Big Dog inno real point here, just a funny thought popped in my head as i was reading yet another thread where people were being hammered with scientific facts and theories and i was nodding my head agreeing with the rational fact based explination when a thought occured to me: i take quite a bit of science on "faith".. what i mean is this, when i am reading the explination of particle physics, quantum mechanics, or molecular biology i have to take it on faith as i can't do the mathematical proofs and so on to verify what i am being told and i assume that is the case with most of us non-rocket scientists, and probably even many in the fields of science and technology.
i like science, i enjoy reading discovery magazine and trying to keep up on the latest techno advancements, but i realized how much of it i take on "faith" as i have no way to verify or disprove what i am being told by a scientist.
i recall einstein saying once that something like 6 people in the world truly understood the implications of his work.. so if you want to argue "faith", i'd say that many that believe in science have just as much faith as those that believe in religion.
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Tetra, I hear you, I watched my brother in law get ready to defend is dissertation in Polymer Science and it was not pretty. I totally get the scientific method and see its results, just that for most of us its sort of vodoo since we just can't understand it.
Its a sense of wonder, maybe that's a better way of saying it than faith, when we see anything we don't fully understand but realize that is real. I get much the same feeling when watching some incredible athletic feats, you just sit there and say, well, I saw the guy do it with my own eyes but I just can't believe the human body is capable of that, mine sure isn't.
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How much science we take on "faith"
by Big Dog inno real point here, just a funny thought popped in my head as i was reading yet another thread where people were being hammered with scientific facts and theories and i was nodding my head agreeing with the rational fact based explination when a thought occured to me: i take quite a bit of science on "faith".. what i mean is this, when i am reading the explination of particle physics, quantum mechanics, or molecular biology i have to take it on faith as i can't do the mathematical proofs and so on to verify what i am being told and i assume that is the case with most of us non-rocket scientists, and probably even many in the fields of science and technology.
i like science, i enjoy reading discovery magazine and trying to keep up on the latest techno advancements, but i realized how much of it i take on "faith" as i have no way to verify or disprove what i am being told by a scientist.
i recall einstein saying once that something like 6 people in the world truly understood the implications of his work.. so if you want to argue "faith", i'd say that many that believe in science have just as much faith as those that believe in religion.
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REM, I agree, that's why I'm no Luddite, I see the space shuttle and my pc and so forth and realize that yep, though I can't do the math to calculate the proper launch trajectory for a rocket its obvious someone can, and it works!
Faith was the best word that I could come up with to use though I realize I am using it loosely, but that's what I would call what I have in a surgeon that is about to cut me open, I have faith that he knows what the heck he is doing and so on.
But I'll make the font bigger so no one thinks I am some reactionist who wants to go back to the stone age, lol. Just saying because most of us can't do it, we have to take it on "faith" (someone pick a better word and we'll go with that). -
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How much science we take on "faith"
by Big Dog inno real point here, just a funny thought popped in my head as i was reading yet another thread where people were being hammered with scientific facts and theories and i was nodding my head agreeing with the rational fact based explination when a thought occured to me: i take quite a bit of science on "faith".. what i mean is this, when i am reading the explination of particle physics, quantum mechanics, or molecular biology i have to take it on faith as i can't do the mathematical proofs and so on to verify what i am being told and i assume that is the case with most of us non-rocket scientists, and probably even many in the fields of science and technology.
i like science, i enjoy reading discovery magazine and trying to keep up on the latest techno advancements, but i realized how much of it i take on "faith" as i have no way to verify or disprove what i am being told by a scientist.
i recall einstein saying once that something like 6 people in the world truly understood the implications of his work.. so if you want to argue "faith", i'd say that many that believe in science have just as much faith as those that believe in religion.
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Oh I agree, I don't mean to say that the equations are wrong or the theories are wrong etc. I just mean to say that for 99% of the population it still amounts to faith because only the 1% monster intellects truly understand the stuff and the rest of us have to take it on "faith" so to speak.
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How much science we take on "faith"
by Big Dog inno real point here, just a funny thought popped in my head as i was reading yet another thread where people were being hammered with scientific facts and theories and i was nodding my head agreeing with the rational fact based explination when a thought occured to me: i take quite a bit of science on "faith".. what i mean is this, when i am reading the explination of particle physics, quantum mechanics, or molecular biology i have to take it on faith as i can't do the mathematical proofs and so on to verify what i am being told and i assume that is the case with most of us non-rocket scientists, and probably even many in the fields of science and technology.
i like science, i enjoy reading discovery magazine and trying to keep up on the latest techno advancements, but i realized how much of it i take on "faith" as i have no way to verify or disprove what i am being told by a scientist.
i recall einstein saying once that something like 6 people in the world truly understood the implications of his work.. so if you want to argue "faith", i'd say that many that believe in science have just as much faith as those that believe in religion.
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No real point here, just a funny thought popped in my head as I was reading yet another thread where people were being hammered with scientific facts and theories and I was nodding my head agreeing with the rational fact based explination when a thought occured to me: I take quite a bit of science on "faith".
What I mean is this, when I am reading the explination of particle physics, quantum mechanics, or molecular biology I have to take it on faith as I can't do the mathematical proofs and so on to verify what I am being told and I assume that is the case with most of us non-rocket scientists, and probably even many in the fields of science and technology. I like science, I enjoy reading Discovery magazine and trying to keep up on the latest techno advancements, but I realized how much of it I take on "faith" as I have no way to verify or disprove what I am being told by a scientist. I recall Einstein saying once that something like 6 people in the world truly understood the implications of his work.
So if you want to argue "faith", I'd say that many that believe in science have just as much faith as those that believe in religion.
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Judge Rutherford, True Believer or Con Man?
by VM44 indid "judge" rutherford really believe the doctrines he wrote and spoke about?
or was he a con man that bluffed his way through life?
as he once remarked to an associate.. if he was a true believer, how could he justify the land and house beth sarim, both of which were specifically bought for and built for his use?.
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How about he was delusional?
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What Happened?
by hibiscusfire inyou know everyday something goes on around you - at home, at work, when you are travelling, on holidays.. .
are people concerned about you today?
is there a way when things happen and you are not sure what to do that others who have been in a similar situation be able to help you?
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Thanks for that dose of sur-reality Mrs. J.
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What Happened?
by hibiscusfire inyou know everyday something goes on around you - at home, at work, when you are travelling, on holidays.. .
are people concerned about you today?
is there a way when things happen and you are not sure what to do that others who have been in a similar situation be able to help you?
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Okay, when does Rod Serling step out of the shadows and tell us what's really going on here?
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What's your favorite music group that I probably haven't heard of?
by joelbear in.
i'll start.. guster.
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