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You're an angry SOB, aren'tcha?

I thought the next level was N00b! I'm so disappointed. (Ha, there's 25; yee haw)

Dude, go suck yourself.

I don't think agnosticism is noncommittal. How can you commit to something as unknowable and unidentifiable as the persona of God? I guess I could say, yeah, since I can't concretely identify it, it doesn't exist, but it's so unknowable I can't say it doesn't, either (that's why I'm not atheist). The idea of God is like what happens after death--we all have ideas, but no one knows for sure. No one has come back from being good and dead (I don't count Jesus or Lazurus or NDEs), and said, hey, this is what's it's like...! Live your life accordingly. Who the hell knows? Some people latch onto an idea that gives them peace, power, motivation, anger, etc. Doesn't make it any more real. Or less real. It is what it is, just like the true characteristics or existence of a suprahuman deity. Don't how you all get any work done. Got to get back to it. Fire away, dudes (and don't you know it's not nice to hit girls?). Me, I'm just trying to get in enough posts to get out of stranger status.

The greater question is, does God/goddess/the gods exist? And would he/she/they give a flying fuck that earthlings are bashing each other? It's people's belief of who God is, and their "relationship" to God that causes the trouble. We'd all be better off being agnostics, like me. You don't see me going around blowing up buses. Although I occasionally feel like punching someone in the face.

Yeah, but so are they. That means: to the death. Geez, I wonder how God feels about all this? It probably pisses her off.

Rebuff reproving rascals

Dude, don't you know it. So, I say,... oh wait, can we use the F word here? hee hee, hee hee hee ha

I know. I'm was just being a wuss and backing down from all you baddies.

Not saying this is an easy solution. I think we need to get the hell out of Iraq and address the poverty, sickness, corporate b'shit, erosions of liberty, and everything else here in our own home. But hey, whatev. Nobody asked me, eh.

Now, I heard it was a new heuristic for the Travelling Terrorist Problem. Hm, wonder which it was...

None. We get the hell back to our own country, our own continent, our own hemisphere, and work on our own problems. We start producing and using biodiesel, and let the people who live in the Middle East work out their own problsm. IsolationistsRUs.

Holy cramoly! What are you guys smoking?

Saw the topic and thought it was a rant about legislation regulating the belaying of climbers.

Yeah, that's what I'm worried about. Oh wait, do you mean my boob, or the gear sling? Oops, wandering into spray territory. I'll shut up now and go pack for climbing tomorrow. And rethink that triaxially loaded gear sling.

Of course, my gear sling is a boob masher. I hate that.

Hm, it doesn't mash my nuts. Oh wait, I don't have any...another good reason to be a girl.

How 'bout frogs? (How many posts until I'm no longer a "stranger"?)

I just bought a BD Alpine Bod harness, three weeks ago, and it does not have a belay loop. You have to thread your pearabiner between the crotch loop and waist belt. It's really hard to keep the belay device from cross-loading the carabiner opening because you have to belay straight up on the top of the biner, when the tendency is for it to slip down, facing out. Turning the pearabiner around means the lock is rubbin up against your shirt, not good either. Not sure I'm going to stick with it. I love the snap leg loops, though. That's why I bought it.

I'm looking for someone to climb with weekly at the Redmond VW (I know it's not the best gym, but it's just down the hill from work, and crossing the bridge and getting down to Ballard on a weekday evening sucks). I'm a 5'6-5'8ish climber, and want to get better. I've been crag climbing once or twice a week, and want to add a day of gym climbing (little though I like gym climbing). I'll be happy to swap belaying on routes at our respective climbing levels--means moving around the gym more, but wth. Looking at Mondays, Tuesdays, or Thursdays. Will probably buy a 10-visit pass and see if I'm getting enough outdoor climbing at that point to be closer to where I want to be. PM me if interested. I'll even buy the occasional beer, eh.

Hey, thanks!

Well, we're bringing one rope, because we'll be crossing the glacier (although I've heard it's basically a snowfield this time of year). I'll recommend against taking along a second rope--why should 3 people be carrying 2 ropes? I don't think it will be necessary. Thanks all.