Then why worry about it? If it bothers you then obviously there is some level of personal doubt. Overcome that or your faith will fail.

If you keep everyone separated, us skeptics will eventually reason everything out agree it is all pointless anyway; basically just sit around twiddling our thumbs and have no need for any conversation. You believers will keep coming up with wild, wacky, and wonderous explanations for everything that we have no evidence to examine. There won't be anyone too keep you grounded, or appreciate the colorful nature of your beliefs.

Pretty spot on TLW... there are a lot of so called atheists that are really more anti-[religion]. A genuine atheist would not care so much and might even have a deep and scholarly understanding of the book.

But there is also the need to push back against popular sentiment. Atheists (and to a lesser degree us Agnostics) are a distinct minority. So when arguments over whether constitutional or legal imperatives should be altered so that religious concepts can be instituted in a public forum it puts us on a defensive edge.

We have a very vocal religious-right, a president that pays lip service too his born-again back ground, and a number of recent challenges to insert creationism into the science classroom.

If that does not go unanswered then it will be more likely to happen. We also don't like when we are associated with Satanists or evil.

THANK YOU!!! Lighten up people.... a few weeks together isn't forever. Just have fun, make clear what you like, and don't sweat the end game.

I've got a hammer and chisel... we can even it out if you want.

Not exactly. It is simply an matter of course. Your passions rule you, the uncontrollable desires and urges you feel that cause you to act. You can struggle to control them and always act against them, but that is counter-productive and causes bad karma of its own.

Imagine a world where nothing was done, natural events simply occurred and we all suffered from the outcome... that is like the life of a mere animal, but somehow even less. An animal reacts solely on their passions.

The passions are traditionally considered base (not bad or evil as in the western religions) and close too the animal part of our nature. They interact with our intents, desires, and goals (one of which is Dharma or duty/moral imperatives) to produce our behavior and the interaction we have with the world. This interaction is the Karma, and neither good, nor bad, but relative to your needs.

Too not act produces just as much Karma as to take action. Only in a dead universe does no Karma exist.

Your understanding of Karma as a system of fairness is a bit off base, because it assumes an inherently righteous or malevolent motive behind all events, which is simply not the case, nor within the scope of the concept.

As too the OP, it has more to do with the fact that after two dates there really is no responsibility too commitment yet.

Just because I date someone once or twice does not mean I want too eventually get married, burden my life with children, a mortgage, and then eventually alimony and child support payments because of an ill-considered promise made in order to get laid.

But even without going to that extreme, I can't think of one emotionally healthy person that would want to be serious after dating just a couple of times.

As for sex, well, women often want the emotional passion, and aren't usually prepared to put their feelings at risk. Men OTOH, are simply looking for a nice warm moist place to make a deposit... It's got nothing to do with lack of respect, or caring, it's just fun.

What guys don't respect is a girl who puts all her self worth and meaning into that one act like it is something precious... it just isn't. If you are actually fun to be around and have good personal qualities we will be back and eventually settle down.

That's an apt analogy yep...

Well that's a changing archetype too, but it is less out of place for a guy to come off all tough and macho.

It used to be 5 different arm/shoulder exercises on day 1, rest a day, 5 different chest/back/ab exercises on day 2, rest a day, 5 different leg/ab exercises on day 3 rest a day, back to arms... so the arms had at least 3 days too recover

That was doing a traditional 3x10 rep set for each technique

Now we start with either bench or squats... start with a light weight like 35 or 45 pounds, do 5-8 reps, and add 5 or 10 pounds, do another 5-8 reps, and add 10 to 15 pounds, and either do 3x5 rep sets, or 2x5 rep sets, and then add another 5 lbs and do 5- muscle fail. So we really only end up around 65-70 lbs, but have slowly and steadly increased each set. We also try to add at least 5 lbs to the upper limit every week or two. It gives the muscles time to ramp up to the increased demand.

We do the same thing with pull-downs, so in effectively the arms, chest, and back have all been worked.

The squats work the upper legs, and so we add calf raises, and then do regular ab and neck stuff.

I'll sneak in a few arm or leg specific techniques if I am still good to go.

It usually takes about an hour and a half to go through this routine.

Probably tell them that shortly after breaking up with them I rolled my car and had a 15 mile walk home in the middle of the night, so not only did I not have a car to give them a ride with, but didn't feel particularly sorry for them either.

I agree that not all women are the same, but it is far easier to tell when a woman is doing it, because it isn't the norm. A woman who hides her esteem issues ALWAYS has a tell when something hits close too home, and the ones that man up come off as a bit gruff until they truly over-come whatever it is.

You can't MAKE anyone recover their self esteem... its like the victim vs survivor perspective. Either you are in charge of yourself, or you let the world run you over.

Men are more likely to hide a weakness, or to "man-up" and face their problem... it's just normal social behavior. No one likes a man who is a wuss, so we either have to fake it, get over it, or accept being total losers.

For some reason women are far less likely to try and hide what they consider to be their personal failings and weaknesses.

:shrugs:

I'd love to find a gal that could actually make me blush - tall order there... more dirty than naughty, but able to be classy and well behaved as necessary.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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Spiritual cause and effect... intent doesn't matter, that's the realm of Dharma.

You discipline a child harshly to teach them an important message. Your Dharma's in the right place, but the Karma effect is that you may have hurt the child and damaged your relationship with them until they value the lesson.

She was enough of a smart ass to be a challenge and had two perfect handfuls of ass

Actually dropped back from a 3 - 4 day a week program, and am seeing better results... very strange. Was on the old program for several months with limited results. New program gives me better results after 2 months.

Used to push one muscle group past fail, wait a day, push a different group past fail, wait a day push a third group past fail, wait a day and go back to the first.

Now I workout and do a comprehensive program that varies just a little each time doing mass-progression (start light but add a bit of weight each rep-set for five sets).

Super glue can fix it... superglue fixes everything!

Was it a front tooth, or something more subtle... a bi-cuspid or molar?

Yep. Lucky you.

At least you aren't likely to match with a rainbow anime dolphin....

On a 2day a week build program - no juicing. Strangely it seems to work well. I want to go more often, but find that I'm still in recovery period if I go too early.