tvashtarkatena

If this is what dengue fever does to you, I'm staying the hell out of Thailand. See you this weekend, gheyboy.

The evolutionary clock just got set back several million years.

Last time I checked our roads weren't privately built and maintained.

Do I have to be the one to remind you that we're all sinners?

Oh, and BTW, Underworld, the Born Again crowd thinks you Catholics are as fucked as us atheists. Good times! So here's my question for the originator of this thread: If someone is an atheist who does good works, what do your beliefs tell you about what happens to them after they die? If they must stand in judgement, what chances do they have for salvation if they were ardent non-believers their whole life?

Um, I was raised Catholic. Eight years at St. Francis Solano Elementary, baby. Sorry to dissappoint. Catholics do seemed to be a bit toned down when it comes to competing religions. My parish was very liberal and did a lot of good works in the community; always a good thing. Unfortunately, 4 of my classmates were molested by priests from other parishes at CYO summer camp, so it wasn't "all good". The 'lics still have some weird ideas about sex they'd do well to get over.

I just hung two aluminum pipes wrapped in True Value grip tape on spectra from my regular pullup bar (Thanks cracker). I do the pullups for a lat workout, then pullups on the pipes (HARD), then lock off for as long as I can, then hang for as long as I can. ASS KICKING. After that I do a session with the VICEGRIPPER, which you can purchase on my website CHOKE YOUR TOOL for three easy payments of $129.95. Actually, 15-20 reps to failure on the VICEGRIPPER gives a nice final burn.

Bullshit. If you post anything in Spray, you get raped with a chain saw. Except Bong Hits for Jesus. That's just two great things that go great together. There are several fundamentally hypocritical aspects of the cult of Christianity which should be mentioned here: 1) Only Christians are saved; the rest of us are fucked. No matter how 'nice' a Christian is, that's the way they look at the rest of us. "Join us or burn, baby". There may be Christian sects that do not believe this...anyone know of any? 2) Their's is the one true god. Worship anything else, or nothing, and well, see 1) 3) It is for reason #1 that christians seek to legally impose their religion and values on the rest of us. Anyone who doesn't believe this hasn't been awake since the Reagan years (and prior, of course). Not all christian sects are politically involved, but enough are to provide cause for great worry. They do it out of 'love'. "I loved you so much I just had to rape you." I take individual as they come, but I'm one 'pre-christian' (a cute little term I pulled off a website for a church up in Everett for those of us who have gotten out of or bought into the cult) tend to find any supremicist group that considers itself 'chosen' unattractive. JH doesn't seem full of hate to me, just truth.

If you don't care why are you posting? You'd care a lot after the 'dark cyclist' you put in the hospital and his/her lawyer sucked your assets dry. BTW, for all you dark riders out there: By far the most visible (forward) lights I've seen have been two synchronized flashers on either end of the handlebars. Single flashing LEDs headlights, while much better than nothing, just get lost in all the light noise. Those who regularly play car roulette in winter time when drivers can barely see other cars might think about making a little life preservation investment.

We've all got so much in common...

I frequently shout out the Lord's name while climbing, particularly when the spirit, caught in the throes of His almighty power, sweeps my reluctant body away from the humble earth upon which it desperately clings.

Praise!

"Sometimes a Light Surprises"

These other old time spirituals also really lift me up: "The King Shall Rise When Morning Dawns", "Hiding in Thee", "Hold Fast Till I Come", and "Honey on the Rock".

One of my favorite hymns: "How Oft in Holy Converse"

I had the entire population infected with a sterilizing virus, then had every household on the planet with a PS2 or XBOX targeted with tactical nuclear weapons.

Every time I'm blessed with a solid coil I hum a bar of "O Lighter Day"

Temperature -30F. For three straight days and nights 30 mph winds have beat the tent like a frozen inferno; the excrutiating pressure behind my eyes builds with each snap. My tentmate lies comatose; he rises only to squirt what little diarrhea he can muster from his wasted form. And all the while, in the distance, the strum of a 12 string guitar coaxes forth yet another verse of "Kumbaya, My Lord, Kumbaya...."

With any luck the Promise Keepers will offer their Message to the Angels the day after the latter run out of meth and booze, and a whole lot of Euro bystanders will get a free short course on the Diversity of American Culture.

I've always looked up to Cheney as a kind of father figure.

the "Hell's Angels Mount McKinley" expedition has to have someone's ass to kick while they're up there.

Nice sweater.

Freedom of movement, a little weight savings (some knickers were cotton...the bottom leg of the pant would just get wet, heavy, and cold anyway, others were heavy wool: cutting off the calf saved significant weight), and heat dissipation, mostly. I 'knickerize' my pants a fair bit of the time. Note the thick wooly knee socks...I don't think anybody got too much colder back then for lack of long pants.

Microfibre dude. This shirt comes in white, too. You gotta love that the guy who's posted this pic about 15 times now is barely squeeking through the Intermediate Course. Every time he posts it it reminds me of how sweet the NE Butt of Goode was.

That's over six pounds of water to be lugging around!