Methinks you guys doth protest too much.
Man culture is alive and well, thankyouverymuch. MMA combat as a form of entertainment is exploding in popularity, Chuck Norris is revered as a GOD on the internet, tattoos and extremely loud choppers used to be a fringe subculture but now everybody seems to sporting a half sleeve these days, Arnold fucking SHWARZENEGGER is the governor of California, the last US president was impeached for finger banging a fat chick with a cigar in the oval office and the current president started the biggest armed conflict since Vietnam so that hundreds of thousands of young American men could have the precious opportunity to shoot someone from a wide array of high-horsepower vehicles of death or up close and personal with an M4.
The fact that you guys are so hung up on smooth-chested pretty boys on TV seems to speak more of your own insecurities, if you get my drift. Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
marmot
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Is It Me Or Are The Males of Today More Feminine and/or Nerdy Than Ever B4?
by minimus inwhen i turn on the tv, i see so many fem men that i'm realizing that a 'manly" man seems to be a relic of the past.. metrosexuals rule the world now.supersensitive males who are in touch with their feminine side are the norm.. the john waynes & burt reynolds have been replaced with ryan seacrest lookalikes.. ladies, do you find these metrosexuals all that attractive?
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Date results
by B_Deserter ini posted this as a reply but i figured i'd just make a new thread as well.. .
the date went well, very well.
she even asked for a second date afterwards.
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Have you gone on a second date yet? Kissing?
I've been going out for about a month now and dating feels second nature, especially compared to how neurotic and self-conscious I felt before.
It's soooooo nice to be able to go out with someone and not be considered "practically engaged" as someone put it earlier. There's no warped premature emotional attachment, just a shared desire to have fun in the company of a person of the opposite sex. -
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Hello Atheists......need advice
by wings inhow do you deal with "no faith"?
what do you put faith in?
how was you transition from belief to non belief?
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I live, I don't "believe" and defer my life for something else.
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Cigars
by besty in...and so to the end of a great evening with new friends and a familiar lover.. my feet are up and the sounds of socal stillness punctuated by occasional dreams departing from lax.. is there more to life than friends, lovers, brandy and hand rolled cuban companions?.
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I agree that cuban quality control sucks. I bought a 5-pack of Jose Piedro Cremas and, granted, they are on the cheap end of the spectrum but you simply cannot get a consistent smoke from one to the next. The first one was so tight you could barely draw on it without looking like a complete fool trying to suck a golfball through a garden hose - to quote the great Sgt.(ret) Lee R. Ermey - but the next one puffed away merrily and provided quite an enjoyable smoke.
My problem is that there aren't many places around me that sell good cigars, or the places that do carry them don't store them properly in a humidor, and I don't have a humidor of my own to revive them. Before anyone mentions it, yes I've tried the plastic bag trick but I didn't like the results. I guess I just have to man up and finally get myself a humidor. :( -
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Retelling of Buddha's Tangerine Teaching -
by AK - Jeff in"when you children peel a tangerine, you can eat it with awareness or without awareness.
what does it mean to eat a tangerine in awareness?
children, that is eating a tangerine without awareness.
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It's funny, back when I was breaking free I thought I was onto something when I worked out my own mishmash philosophy similar to this only to discover that Buddha beat me to it. This led me to more research and when I did some reading on Epicurus I discovered that he had been completely and unfairly demonized by the Watchtower Society. For instance, take this quote from Wikipedia:
"For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by aponia, the absence of pain and fear, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and bad, that death is the end of the body and the soul and should therefore not be feared, that the gods do not reward or punish humans, that the universe is infinite and eternal, and that events in the world are ultimately based on the motions and interactions of atoms moving in empty space."
That's a far cry from the wanton immoral pleasure-seeker that the WTS would have you believe. They sling around the "eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you shall die" line ALL the time when looking down their noses in contempt at people in "the world", when in fact if we all focused on living for the moment and less on grievances from the past or excessive worry over the future, we'd all be a lot happier. -
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My uncle at Bethel goes camping with my aunt in the Adirondacks. They get scheduled holidays, if I recall correctly.
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Any Dave Matthews Band Fans ?? Your favorite CD's or Songs by Him ??
by flipper ini have enjoyed seeing this musician explode upon the music scene in the last 15 years or so.
his mix of blues, jazz, rock & roll with great musicians playing uncommon instruments seen in a rock band - make his music all the more interesting !
here are some of my favorite cd's and songs by him and his band .
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marmot
I used to be a huge DMB fan, I've seen them in concert 6 times, but for some reason my musical taste has drifted. I'll still pop in a CD once in a while, but that time in my life has passed.
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HOW ABOUT THIS FOR A CONSPIRACY THEORY!?
by Gill ini was surprised to find that charles taze russell, of the russell family line (of course) was reportedly part of the setting up of the skull and bones society.. i have read many refutes that ct was a 33 degree mason but, let's leave that as a possibility along with his 13 bloodlines of the illuminati link and consider this scenario as a possible and worrying possible conspiracy theory.. fritz springmeier and some others (again all holding suspension of our disbelief in control here for a few moments, please), commented on the setting up of internement style camps around the united states and some pictures and sites are to be found on the net.. now, there are various 'christian groups' all anticipating the 'time of the end'.
the jehovah's witnesses, for example are expecting to be persecuted and then 'saved' by god.
they anticipate 'the end' at any time.
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It'd make a cool novel or summer blockbuster, but has zero chance of ever happening.
Look at China - it tries to quell one lousy little upstart province and suddenly the whole world starts crapping all over its national policies. And that's with the full weight of the most populous nation on earth with a rigid one-party government where dissenters face "re-education".
Yet you expect the United (f*ck yeah, freedom!) States to successfully pull off something so massive without the world taking note?
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The First 30 Years of Jesus' Life...
by Nosferatu in...is a big blur.
he was obviously drunk for those 30 years.
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I always wondered if Jesus choked the chicken as a teenager and then swore it off ofter being baptized or if he was so perfect he could control his roving hands 24/7 all through puberty.
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For my Birthday = I will break 10 of Jehovahs Laws in one day! Ideas?
by Witness 007 inyes, i plan to break the 10 "witness commandments" on my birthday!
any idea's...did i miss any?
i can't think of ten!.
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Listen to some gangsta rap and/or death metal, watch a really violent horror movie, play some violent videogames, smoke some weed, get a tattoo or extra piercing, have oral sex with someone, donate blood, eat blood sausage, question the faithful and discreet slave(tm), form an independent bible study group, attend a lecture on evolution, buy a handgun, go hunting, buy a two-seater car, dye your hair green and get a mohawk, buy a ouija board, make friends with a gay person, sleep in on a saturday morning and watch cartoons, go out for drinks with your co-workers after work, join an amateur sports team, etc.