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chrissy
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How many more years do you think you have left to live?
by JH in.
since i'm relatively healthy, don't smoke, hardly drink (2 beers a day), and if i base myself on my grandparents and parents age, i think that i should live up to anywhere between 85 and 95. which means i should have another 40 to 50 years of posting here.
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chrissy
i give ebon, whoever he may be, a lot of credit. he is one humble dude.
"Compared to the great vastness of the cosmos…my individual existence is a blip…an arrangement that…thinks, laughs, appreciates beauty, dreams, and loves - but a mere arrangement nonetheless, a transient state, an ephemeral gathering.
But the molecules that once were me will still exist… they will rejoin the rest of the planet, taking new shapes, finding new arrangements, becoming part of other life. I will become merged with everything."
...and that is all really beautiful. imagining my molecules transforming down into a little starfish in some tide pool. it makes me feel warm and fuzzy on some level. but only for a brief moment. then i start to feel all selfish and i want them back. i guess i lack the humility of ebon as laid out in his "musings" because i don't want to part with my life giving molecules. i want them all for myself.
this is just the sort of thing that keeps me feeling safe as an agnostic vs. a full fledged atheist. i feel this innate desire within me to WANT to live and continue to think, laugh, appreciate beauty, dream, love, etc. and it keeps me open to the possibility that these are, gulp, instilled qualities of a higher power.
but by and large, to me human history rules out most possibilities of this because i do not see the bible as enough of a reliable source (ok, it's shit) to counter findings, in any way, that lead to our former lives as fishes, apes, whatever.
are there such things as atheists that go around sort of wishing there were a god to save them from death? or is that just pathetic?
like wishing in the tooth fairy as one might say.
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shallow men
by Ellie in.
please tell me that not all men are only interested in the size of a girls chest.. come on you men, restore my faith in males.
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chrissy
as a rule, i don't find younger women more attractive than older women. assuming they take care of themselves equally. confidence and smile lines are sexy.
plus, 30 is the new 20...dont ya know? -
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****FlyingHighNow** **Birthday** **Celebration*******
by horrible life inhappy birthday flyinghighnow !!!!!!!!
i hope you have a wonderful day.
keep flying!!
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chrissy
happy birthday FHN !!! if i still lived there i would drive over to scialo's bakery in federal hill (little italy) and buy you a giant cupcake..the best buttery sugary creamy concoction on earth!! have a good one.
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How many more years do you think you have left to live?
by JH in.
since i'm relatively healthy, don't smoke, hardly drink (2 beers a day), and if i base myself on my grandparents and parents age, i think that i should live up to anywhere between 85 and 95. which means i should have another 40 to 50 years of posting here.
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chrissy
i dont want to die. ever. i grew up magically thinking i never would but now that i realize i will i can't stand to think about it.
death sucks. ;o(........ -
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The Ultimate Hypocrisy by WTS
by TopHat inwts being the anointed class and the great crowd being another class.
what were they thinking when this article was written?.
http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/1/1/article_02.htm
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chrissy
well would you look at that... the watchtower practically endorsing communism. because that is what life will be like in the new system. one giant, joyful class-free society.
actually communism isnt such a bad idea, i'm not knocking it or the towers aspirations towards it, but it seems as though much of the problems in communism come from the parties in place. ie. north korea or cuba. so that would make jehovah and jesus leaders of the new order communist party. sounds kinda scary if you ask me. but i lol at how they are quoting H.G. Wells, who somehow envisioned that this life of "egalitarian societies" would only be possible under the tower's prescribed formula. i can just see them adding wells to their list of heros. -
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Is it normal for a high school senior girl not to want a boyfriend?
by lv4fer inmy daughter is 17 and she has had a few boyfriends in the past short term.
my family keeps asking her why she doesn't have a boyfriend.
i don't have a problem with that.
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chrissy
...i think she sounds like a very smart young lady who's priorities lay elsewhere at this time and would like for her to understand that her relatives are not to be paid attention to in regards to the abnormal implications. (ignore them. or tell them sure they may want grandkids, nieces, nephews someday, but you plan to go to college and you've got no desire to become their dysfunctionally premature baby making machine anytime soon!!)
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its time to say.....BYE BYE
by zev inno long...... "see you later's"....just bye bye.. .
my time has come to leave this place.
thanks for the memories, good times, and useful information.. .
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chrissy
don't do it zev! stay.
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So whats the longest road trip youve been on? or farthest you've driven?
by doodle-v inwe just got back from spending two weeks in denver, co. call us crazy (yeah i dont know what the hell we were thinking) but we decided to drive.
from seattle to denver and back is over 3,000 miles.
we had both kids and a crap load of stuff.
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chrissy
one coast to the other: from Providence, RI to Seattle WA. 3100 miles. it took two weeks because we had to stop in Bozeman, MT. to spend a week w. my husband's parents. believe me when i say, it was the longest. trip. of. my. life. yes, i would rather chew glass than relive that experience.
i drove alone from PA to KS when i was about 20 with one of those little mini u-hauls...took a wrong turn somewhere in rural Illinois, got stuck in some mud and had to walk about a mile to the nearest tiny town where i found a family in which the husband was a volunteer fireman or something and ended up having to pull my vehicle out of the mud. (it was either that, or i was to become a permanent resident) he had to try several different trucks and when it was all said and done i think it was a small fire truck that was used and the entire town seemed to get involved. whenever i take a roadtrip....disaster tends to ensue. -
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Are humans more animal like then we admit?
by free2beme inas an experiment, i dare anyone to go out on to the street and make eye contact with someone.
not just for a few seconds, i mean, look at their eyes and don't stop as they walk closer and pass by.
i would bet, that a large percentage of the men would ask you what your problem is, and ask you if you have a problem with them.
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chrissy
I once had to conduct a similar experiment for an interpersonal communications class. in this instance we had to pair up in twos and record the results of a instance in which we could somehow get strangers to approach us and communicate something. so this girl and i went to a high traffic shopping area and attached a long piece of toilet paper to one of our shoes and walked around with our heads up in the air and smiles on our faces pretending we were just shopping and business as usual...while the other person secretly hovered around behind clothing racks and displays, observing strangers reactions and recording the results. In most instances it was older men that said, "excuse me miss," and then they would just point down at our shoe. then we would act all embarrassed and say "wow! thank you so much!!!" wait a few minutes, and reattach the decoy. omg, it was the funniest thing ever.
anyway, your experiment reminds me of something i read in a book about hysterical living in which it suggests, just for kicks, that you walk around on any given day, gazing into the eyes of strangers as if they may be the one true love of your life, destined for you and you alone, and whether you might be passing them by forever...acting in consequence. hehehe. but you would have to look at everyone this way, not just the people you are physically attracted to.