Stop. You're making minimus jealous.
SixofNine
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GRRRRRRRR
by Tameria2001 ini am in a very rotten mood and i am very pissed off today.
i just want to smack a certain someone right now.. now let me back up and explain why.
my husband was laid off from his job, but that is not why im angry.
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SixofNine
The lady was being kind and making a light-hearted joke.
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Do you know where you gun is?
by purplesofa into gunowners:.
is your gun in a place where a child, unstable person, mentally ill person, suicidal person, or stranger cannot get to it?
do you ..right now, know an unstable person that owns a gun?
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SixofNine
I have to admit that I sometimes see my shotgun deep in my closet and get a "WTholyF!!" jolt because I've basically forgotten that I had it.
Not best-practices material, I know; but I don't ever have kids around and it's not loaded anyway.
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Why Isn't the USA the Safest Country in the World With All the Guns
by RubaDub inwe have 9 guns for every 10 people in this country.
since more guns = better protection, i keep asking myself why there is so much gun violence here ???.
i don't see such violence in canada, australia, europe, japan and other so-called "advanced" countries.. what is wrong with us here.
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SixofNine
Man, Mexico is kicking our ass in the homicides-per-gun ratio.
We'll get 'em next year!
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Why Isn't the USA the Safest Country in the World With All the Guns
by RubaDub inwe have 9 guns for every 10 people in this country.
since more guns = better protection, i keep asking myself why there is so much gun violence here ???.
i don't see such violence in canada, australia, europe, japan and other so-called "advanced" countries.. what is wrong with us here.
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SixofNine
Automatic assault rifles have been heavily regulated in America, and for most people, illegal to possess for almost 80 years.
And as a result, they are almost never used in these types of massacres.
What is used, are semi-auto weapons with large magazines. It's more than clear that large magazines should be regulated in much the same manner as full-auto-weapons. Especially so since it's the amount-of-bullets-available-before-reload that is the more dangerous part of full-auto weapons, not the "full-auto" part (which is almost inconsequential as compared to a semi-auto - and in fact may be less lethal than semi-auto).
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For photographers - Canon shooters
by SadElder ini'm a nature photographer and like most always seeking better, longer glass.. i'm most attracted to the 600mm f4 is canon lens though some have suggested dropping down to a 500mm due to the weight issue.
both these lenses are heavy and i can't see myself lugging either one long distances without my modified baby stroller.. any experiences with either lens?
what tripod head are you using?.
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SixofNine
How hungry are the bears? ;)
Are you shooting a full frame or APS-C sensor? I think in some situations shooting the smaller sensor to get more length out of your lens is a good trade-off.
I recently rented a 300 2.8 and used a motion picture fluid head to balance it - that worked very nice. I also have a serious ball head (it can hold 4X5 cameras) that works well with big lenses. But if I was shooting it a lot, I'd seriously look into even a relatively cheap fluid head (it doesn't really have to be as perfectly smooth as you'd want for video- just balanced well and carrying the weight so you can adjust quickly). But then again, that's a lot to lug into the wild.
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Jonathan Holt's wife, Amanda Holt
by blondie inhttp://www.koinlocal6.com/news/local/story/court-wife-of-jonathan-holt-files-for-divorce/_yrllehsfuau05kwm4bobw.cspx.
http://www.kgw.com/home/jonathan-holts-wife-files-for-divorce-176341531.html.
http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/divorce-filing-wife-of-man-charged-in-ore-death-3991648.php.
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SixofNine
whoa there, is this scriptural? Does she have 2 witnesses?
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Who knew "Jehovah" got so much play with Mormons?
by SixofNine inthis is a fascinating look inside some of the mormon rituals.
my quick take-away?
pastor russell wishes he'd thought of this stuff.. .
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Crackpots and Evolved Traditions
Though all religions with supernatural doctrines believe some things that science finds to be false, not all religions are "crackpot."
The crackpot is first and foremost an individual and a crackpot religion will bears the personal idiosyncrasies of its author.
The Book of Genesis has no author at all. (Despite tradition, Moses did not write it.) It has been edited thousands of times before reaching the now-standard version. It is some of the earliest things human beings thought about that we have any sort of written record of.
The four gospels were written in the context of a developing tradition. Nothing in the gospels was written by anyone who had ever met Jesus. (That is not controversial. Jerry Falwell would have concurred.) Many people were involved in the process leading to them.
So they do not have the marks of crackpotism... of individual, insular, paranoid creation. That doesn't advance their likelihood of being true, but it does offer the smoothing a communal work gets.
Now, Joseph Smith, in the 19th century, decided that in the bible, Jehovah (Yahweh) means Jesus and God the Father is the biblical god Elohim. This was not a divine revelation, it was an error.
There is no biblical god Elohim. It is a nuanced Hebrew word meaning God or Gods. In the King James Bible the word is translated as God and is often used to refer to Jehovah (Yahweh), who there is considerable delicacy about overtly naming too much.
To say that the Earth was created by the joint efforts of Jehovah and Elohim is like saying that Ares, the Greek god of war, had two sisters—Aphrodite and Venus.
In a tradition somebody along the way says, "Venus is the Roman word for Aphrodite... it's only one sister." But an individual crackpot writing in isolation is limited to the precise specifics of his experiences and learning, and his points of simple personal ignorance become doctrine.
Most crackpots are crackpot scientists, and have the same problem. Some guys toil alone in the attic for years writing an earth0shaking new grand unified theory of Organic Chemistry, and it turns out they had the wrong atomic weight for Carbon, repeated endlessly throughout their work and making every calculation hopelessly wrong.
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Who knew "Jehovah" got so much play with Mormons?
by SixofNine inthis is a fascinating look inside some of the mormon rituals.
my quick take-away?
pastor russell wishes he'd thought of this stuff.. .
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SixofNine
Not me. This is a fascinating look inside some of the Mormon rituals. My quick take-away? Pastor Russell wishes he'd thought of this stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6udew9axmdM#!
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I would love for you to know my Oompa.... (from one of his closest friends)
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SixofNine
That was a beautiful tribute, Wes and Stacey.
I knew from his first post on this board that this man was going to get on my last tit. I just did.not.like the guy. I mean, I figured there was mental illness involved but in this medium, "discussion board", I was 100% irritated with him 100% of the time.
When hemplover called and told me he'd killed himself, I was not as shocked as you'd want to be. I was sad, but I still felt a little cold towards him, a little mad because he just wouldn't (couldn't) help himself. I didn't like that about me but oh well.
Then I went to his facebook page and poked around and tears filled my eyes. I knew just from a few pictures and a video and a little biographical info that I like that guy. Hell I love that guy. We probably wouldn't have become best friends, but I can sure understand why he was yours.