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as a teacher, i can honestly say, good for you! but, to kinda burst yer bubble, most liberal teachers don't give a shit what you think, and are stoked just to see you ACTUALLY THINKING

epicurean "death as annihilation" is like, the easiest chapter in a philosopy book n' shit

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november's not a great season for newbs, but the n side in particuliar is a siren for those w/ just enough experience to get their balls slammed in the drawer then! look for very cold/clear weather following a few cycles of wet/warm weather and you can find extremely cool icy conditions...

as billcoe will be quick to remind you, using wire brushes on basalt will ruin the rock, so nylon or something soft for those rocks that are quick to get glassy

basically everythign you'd use in your yard, just w/ loops/keeper slings taped/sewn on - clippers large and small, soft-whisk brushes/brooms, rakes, shovels (bill uses a roofing shovel of some sort w/ a sweet chopping blade), etc.

you really should read at least the review then of the book jay mentions - he goes through a ton of examples of where differences crop up between various versions of the bible and shows exactly how they were intentionally changed by scribes intent on solving specific theologic arguments going on at the time of the translation - interestingly, the changes required in order to push forward the argument were extremly minimal, oftentimes only a single word. try 'Book of J', a translation of portions of the pentateuch by Rosenberg with an excellent intro by Bloom. demonstrates well the disparate sources used to construct the various narratives, and delves into the differing motives of both writers and redactors. thanks for the tip - i'm not all that interested in bibilical stuff, truth be told, as , for me at least, it's akin to the genesis of the weekly world news - i'm a history teacher though, so i try to be broadly familiar w/ as much stuff as possible (well, that, and when i read that book i was trapped in hellacious virginia for a week w/ absolutely nothing else to read or do!)

just in time for the next set of fall storms to blow everything out, eh?

you really should read at least the review then of the book jay mentions - he goes through a ton of examples of where differences crop up between various versions of the bible and shows exactly how they were intentionally changed by scribes intent on solving specific theologic arguments going on at the time of the translation - interestingly, the changes required in order to push forward the argument were extremly minimal, oftentimes only a single word.

finally! a book i read b4 jayb! that book's a bit dry in places, but the overall message is cool - i like that the author was a life-long and super-intense born-again type who dedicated his life to learning all of the various dead-languages the oldest biblical sources use, and through his studies came to conclude that it's uber-retarded to try to live by the literal word of the big book, given that, when you get down to it, there's no way to know what in the hell the original words even were.

why does this pic make me want to hurl so bad? i guess it's harder to get the bike approach to work in winter when the mountain's actually in fun shape...

i'm not certain i should waste this valuable 4848th post explaining how much i suck that i can't even place in the top 30 in the local circle jerk comp

hey - its the desert and it's 1000 degrees out - you can have it!

page 2 - i am soooo suck

animal! gross!

some photoshop skillz oughta be able to fix that right up!

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can't have much of an opinion on a climb i've never done while i solo a lot, i try to remind myself not to compare what i solo to others, or even what i'm soloign today to what i've soloed in the past - the shit scares me, so i try to keep it fun and non-competitive i couldn't begin to imagine even freeing, let alone soloing, 5.12 - i'd no more compare myself to this guy than to lance armstrong or any other athletic mutant

just as a casual observer, satan, should she exist, appears to have hordes of followers on both sides of the isle

one gets cups of kool-aid, the other gets quesadillas w/ the image of mary burned into them

great comparision josh - by contrast, the north side of hood (if you want a volcano) is a great destination, and you might just be able to get up the sunshine route

Then why did your original message say, " America Deserved What It Got" from 7:51 pm until 12:45 am? what does it matter? america is not a person. pink, do you think the individuals who died on 9/11 deserved it?

hey! getting guatanomo was the least them boys could give us for routing them vicious spaniards!

"i'm just gonna go find a cash machine"