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let me just add that i am truly fascinated by religion. the truth is that i WANT to believe. i'm in some ways envious of those that do believe. it would be so nice to have that crutch when things suck. that's how i see religion, a tool for those less fortunate, as a coping mechanism when trama happens, as survival too for the day to day grind. unfortunately, no matter how hard i try, i just can't "believe", don't have "faith" in "god", haven't been able to find it real in any way. perhaps by my inability to buy into the story of some unseen deity/creator, i cheat myself out of those perks. i keep thinking that someone, somewhere will say something that helps me understand and believe in religion. instead, i'm plunged further into my atheism each time i encounter these discussions. i find myself more and more in the camp that doesn't believe that faith will help us through the bad times. i don't believe that there is a heaven when you die, nor a hell. i don't believe that religion will give me peace when things are difficult or help me find the answers. i don't believe some diety has predetermined my fate. i certainly think that saying that "god won't give you more than you can handle" is bunk. i believe that i have to figure out how to solve my own problems. that i can irrevocably screw things up and no amount of prayer is going to fix it. i believe that people get more than they can handle all the time and head right off into the deep end. i believe when things suck, they just suck and the only comfort to be had is getting through it. i believe dead is dead.

just curious, what exactly has jesus done in your life? i know he sends me spam from time to time but that's about it. being dead and all sort of limits what he can actually do. what has atheism done for yours? or Buddha, or whatever... please don't answer the question with a question. that's such a weak red herring. your response has a couple of serious flaws. a) the question was not directed at you and b) you didn't even bother to answer it. please try again, then perhaps I will answer yours. oops, my post had spelling flaws.

just curious, what exactly has jesus done in your life? i know he sends me spam from time to time but that's about it. being dead and all sort of limits what he can actually do.

BREAKING NEWS Zsa Zsa's husband: I might be baby's dad By NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press Writer 32 minutes ago LOS ANGELES - The husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor said Friday that he had a decade-long affair with Anna Nicole Smith and may be her infant daughter's father. The claim by Prince Frederick von Anhalt comes amid a paternity suit over Smith's 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn. The birth certificate lists Dannielynn's father as attorney Howard K. Stern, but former Smith boyfriend Larry Birkhead is waging a legal challenge, saying he is the father. "If you go back from September, she wasn't with one of those guys, she was with me," von Anhalt told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. He said he would file a lawsuit if Dannielynn is turned over to Stern or Birkhead. Von Anhalt, 59, and Gabor, 90, have been married for more than 20 years. Gabor, a onetime sex symbol and star of such 1950s films as "Moulin Rouge" and "Queen of Outer Space," has been in declining health in recent years and suffered a stroke in 2005. She was partially paralyzed in a car crash in 2002. Von Anhalt, who is Gabor's eighth husband, said he and Smith first met in the 1990s when Smith was still married to elderly oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II. He said Smith approached him and Gabor at the Plaza Hotel in New York. "She was a very big fan of Zsa Zsa and wanted to be like Zsa Zsa," he said. "She wanted to be a princess." He said the two started an affair soon after, meeting over the years in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. For much of that time, he said, Smith urged him to make her a princess like his wife. But short of divorcing the actress, he said the only solution would have been adopting Smith. Von Anhalt said he did consider that and even filled out adoption papers, but Gabor refused to sign them.

i should've posted a diagram!

i noticed ... and i didn't care. and.. so was i

So why can't they figure out how we work? Or do they know how and just feign confusion? we know, we just don't care. ooh. spicy! foraker-- men are non-verbal but they draw nice diagrams, chart data, and reference their sources so they're not very difficult to figure out. women learn everything they need to know about men in the 7th grade--the boys were always waiting to see what we had to make in home ec and taste test it. in health class they provided us with the schematics (ie. instruction manual) for operating the tool (ie. men) and in language arts class the boys always needed extra help. seemed pretty clear even back then -- there's an on/off switch, they can be motivated by food but talking will get you nowhere.

So why can't they figure out how we work? Or do they know how and just feign confusion? we know, we just don't care.

don't worry, starbucks will evolve and their coffee will be better than mcdonalds

Sweet, where DID you get that Rhino, Boner? It's so utilitarian, it, like, works with ALL of your "jokes". i think you mean "joke"

hmmm...i always thought arch put plenty of action into it.

did you say something?

you mean men? they're not really a curse, a bit of a hassle sometimes but not a curse

Believe it or not, we like it that way too. Hell, if we didn't, we wouldn't allow it. and arch steps in with the closing remarks on the topic. no truer words were ever typed (on this thread at least)

ahhh--our motivational speaker makes an appearance. Mr.K can be the token motivational speaker who will inspire us to take our spray to a new a level.

anytime you want.

well you are a shithead and that is not a theory

interesting--canabalism, a new aspect to this event. the committee will take it under advisement

well as long as it's just the jello he's eating--we're not running a XXX sprayfest. that would be NSFW and then we couldn't post the pics. that and we'd have to make sure that arch didn't think he was proposing when he presents her with a plate of jello.

it is a spray event...i suppose that a maser would be fitting.

would you like to be a pannelist in during that portin of our event? or just cooridinator of the pre-symposium festivities? We'll have to talk to arch about making a guest appearance in the jello wrestling pit.

damn--i'm clearly not going to be editor of the peer reviewed journal "Annals of Spray" until i improve my typing and spelling.

hmmm...good question. i'm open to suggestions. steven seagal should be able to keep order

hilary and bill clinton?

of course, you will be maser of ceremony. we need somebody to oversee the spray. of course this could only occur in the sprayverse. should archie and kevbone ever be in the same enclosed space, there might be a fracture in the universe and seahawk might evolve