Me being a minister? www.themonastery.org/?destination=ordination (Yes, I am fully ordinated as a minister now) EDIT-I just want to say, although the topic seems in fun I really am curious about the toughts you guys have about this. I'm not quite sure if it has any legal backing yet but I'm trying t...

Not to offend you either Prebe,but as an atheist(as you proclaim to be) you're basically saying that your life and experiences are nothing,you live for nothing except yourself and when Death does strike you,it's over.I cannot accept that for myself.Maybe it works for you,It won't for me.I've had a ...

I'm really not sure about braces. I feel like they're a waste of money, and I usually feel like the people who get them don't have terrible teeth, though there are certainly times they're needed. I personally found it hard to eat for a day or two after I got them in. A few days after that it reduced...

Wells is regarded as the father of sci-fi. Certainly, he is my favourite author besides Jane Austen. What do other watchers think of his work? War of the Worlds is a classic, but I think The First Men in the Moon stands as a champion of imaginative sci-fi in terms of a believable alien race. I have...

During the Carter Democrat period, (24) communism was on a rampage worldwide. In an unrestrained country-capturing spree, communists took over...( 33) Nicaragua. I don't know much about the governments before Communists taking over, but Nicaragua was a plus compared to how the country was beforehan...

I think Lyr did a good job of clarifying it. It's been about a year since I read it, and I could have this wrong, but I believe that he believes the oversoul is the sort of perfect aspect of man which we all have, even if it gets "fogged over" by other things. And if I remember further he ...

Clearly Thanksgiving in Canada has some similarities to American Thanksgiving (pumpkin pie and all that), but do you guys eat turkey on Thanksgiving?

I'm just curious. Happy Thanksgiving either way.

I would be the ultimate weilder of the power of procrastination. Imagine if you will a wedge of 100 score ur-Viles about to inflict total ruin upon a nearby Woodhelvin. I could focus my power upon the ur-Vile loremaster and they wouldn't do anything for weeks, or maybe years depending on my mood. T...

*shrug* Because it sells. Fast-food has never pretended (other than recently) to have anything at all to do with health-consciousness. If people were health-conscious, they wouldn't be buy it. :lol: --A Well, that's not entirely true, they do their part trying to fit into the health thing with &quo...

I would have to say the book "Doom's Break", which concludes the "Ancient Enemy" series by Christopher Rowley. I've never really been able to rationalize why I like the Bazil Broktail books, but I'm a fan of Rowley nonetheless. My lack of decisiveness is probably because I read R...

Well, it's worth saying that's not the entirety of the "Grand Inquisitor" excerpt of The Brothers. The short book I have also includes chapter 3, and the "Zossima Chapters" (which I gather are based around the monk whom Alyosha refers to in chpt 3). The importance of Chapter 3 is...

It's clear to me that no punishment is enough to deter maniacs and perverts from their obsessions. I really think we need to say that no punishment has a reasonable enough success rate to be relied on, because this implies (to me) that no one can ever control their obsessions. It's a thin layer of ...

I don't remember Bush getting the Pope's blessing. I remember Bush pissing off a ton of Catholics by speaking at Bob Jones University. Bush did that to win SC from McCain, or so I've been persuaded to believe. And he sure smoothed things over fast. The Pope sure gave Bush a dressing-down when Bush ...

You had me scratching my head there for a minute. I've never heard the expression "taking the piss." I thought maybe I was getting A Modest Proposal mixed up with another Swift essay. My fault - It's a term used in the UK and the former colonies for making fun. And the great thing is that...

If your looking for recommendations I say, as always: Neverness by David Zindell. It meets all your critieria--memorable and important passages. Uh, except it's not short. ;) Neuromancer was published in th 70's IIRC. No...I don't have any recommendations...Canticle is awesome. :D --A Right? In ter...

Meh, doesn't make a lick of sense to me. Although there's little logic behind the term, it's used to label conservatives. Ugh. Honestly.....it's just...I actually felt a little bile come up into my throat when I read this. I find it extremely easy to forgive a dead person, as I do the murderer in q...

I haven't read The Brothers Karamazov but I suppose I will someday. I got this shorter book for a class in school, and I was curious about the thoughts others have about it. Instead of actually putting forth my thoughts about the book, which would take too long (I have to mow my lawn, and get more w...

I'm currently working on the final stages of a Science-Fiction independent study with one of my high school english teachers. The precise topic is Science Fiction as Great Literature . In addition to a bunch of the 'classics' of SF which I've missed over (Fahr 451, which I'll compare to 1984 and BNW...

I couldn't believe how great the witing was with FE7, it didn't suffer at all in translation the way you get used to with Japanese games. I was looking for a nice TBS to fill the gap between Advance Wars 1 and 2, and found what is in my opinion one of the best game franchises ever. The first six ga...

Soldier was definitely easiest for me, when I played. I had a NT scientist, a soldier, and a zombie. The soldier had learned 2 skills by the time the scientist and zombie had 1, and he had several by the time the scientist had 2 (the zombie did well though). But after a while I got kinda bored and s...