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I did this the last time I cut my hair (last year). I donated 12 inches to Locks of Love. I felt glad to do it. Luckily for me, I have great hair for this, It's got no grays, it's healthy, and I have only ever dyed my hair once in my life, and that was many many moons ago. Luckily for me, my hair is naturally black, which is the colour I prefer it to me. I should probably donate my hair again, it's getting really really long, but Unfortunately I don't think I would cut like 10 inches off this time, and that's about what they want. *shrugs* .. maybe

Oh crap, I think I accidentally deleted your post, and didn't delete the post I thought I was deleting.. damnit!!! I don't do mod things for a while, and I mess up at the one thing that I did do. I sincerely apologize, there was another person who double posted their intro post, and I just noticed it's STILL double posted (and yours ended up in the trash). I think I will just let that one fall by the wayside. Anyway, Seriously welcome to DGN, I will refrain from doing DGN duties till I can fix my glitchie computer. I suck.. It lagged on me while I was doing it.. I feel terrible :(

Oh wow, people think Obama is a Muslim? Really? wow. And this makes him the Antichrist? I didn't know.. can you see my sarcasm? Interesting article Phee, thanks. I needed a good laugh.

I guess the catch phrase we're all getting stuck on is our own definition of Anarchy (I know I have my own definition). I see anarchy as a system without laws, without rules, without government. What is government than a bunch of people we put into power that are placed there to supposedly protect the interests of the ones who can't protect themselves..the meek, the general public (trust me, I know everyone has their own agendas, and the "ideal" is lost) but give me something to work with here. The other problem I have is that you (LoTek), yourself in your second post even state "10 different anarchists will define anarchy differently" How do you have shared ideals when not even anarchists share the same ideals? To me, what you're describing, is more of a co-op. It works on a small level as you describe, but in the large picture, it really doesn't work so well. Socialism to me is like a giant co-op, unfortunately there's always some jackass that can't undo his own greed, and thus socialism doesn't work (not the way the idealists see it working). One of our basic human natures is greed, take the greed out of the human equation, then you can have your wonderful state of Anarchy. Unfortunately, I know very few people who do things solely to benefit others. Trust me, if your form of anarchy worked, you can count me into the ranks. Even in my own idealistic views, I don't see this working. On a small level, yes, I see it working. In fact, in some companies this ideal works (co-ops). It seems you want the world to go back to that "tribal" mentality, where like minded people associate together, with a common goal, survival. Unfortunately technology has taken the "basic human survival" practices out of the average man. I don't know if you're familiar with the writings of Daniel Quinn, (who is actually one of my favorite authors). He describes how we have so far lost the ideals of the past (when I mean past, I mean hunter/gatherer past), and we are so entrenched in our own lazy self destructive wasteful natures, that we can never ever go back to a time where we used to GIVE to the world, nurtured mother earth, and we started to TAKE from the world, thus paving the way for the end. We have lost our ways, and the way we're going, there will be no way to regain what it is we've lost. *sighs* umm.. yeah, well I think I'll just remove myself from this discussion, your idealistic ways are actually kinda refreshing, but even your ways aren't going to get us back to Eden.

Last year, I went to Theatre Bizarre for the first time, and all I have to say is, wow. I really loved the artistry and the general hard work that they put into every little detail. I know it's kinda expensive for a lot of people on here, but it is definitely to me, the best event of the year. Next weekend (Sept 11th) at "Dally in the Alley" they are selling very discounted tickets for $55 (this includes admission and all the micro-brew beer you can drink all night). If you don't get tickets, after that event the tickets will probably be $65 a piece. The face value for the ticket is going to be $100, but don't wait to buy them, they WILL BE SOLD OUT. It's a costumed event, and the costumes there are amazing!!! People take a lot of time and effort to pick out their outfits, most are made. If you go to no other event, save up for this one. Theatre Bizarre Website

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Awesome work Helena!!! I'm sad I was out of town for the People's Art Festival.. :(

Wow, you're thinking like a normal person, but isn't the military specifically set up for following orders, not to think for yourself? You're following the orders of your superiors, if the government set up the military to think for themselves, then none of you would be there. The basic purpose of the military (and the reason why they sign on the young) is because they have not lived life enough to see all sides of a situation, if they did, no one would fight. They do not train you to see that the people throwing bombs at you are people, sons of someone, who love, have their own lives, they have families, they have children, they are people. You see them as the ENEMY and you are to eliminate the ENEMY. They (the enemy) have also been broken down mentally to see you as the same. I'm not saying "all military guys don't think for themselves" I'm saying they break you down mentally and rebuild you. They want killing machines, and rightly so, look at the situations they have to put you in. They try to break you down so you can do the heinous things you need to do to do your job. War is not beautiful, it's despicable, I'm not saying that sometimes it's not needed and that I don't support the military.. I love that someone is out there fighting for my safe secure way of life, but you see the enemy, and it is all black and white.. If they told you to shoot on civilians, your job is to shoot civilians, they can turn anyone into the enemy. They can tell you anything "these people are terrorists" blah blah.. can you see that line of thought? I'm just trying to help set the scene. You say you would never shoot your own, but you're trained to follow orders. Some may decide not to go through with it, but they wouldn't have their job for long, and obviously their training was for naught. As for this whole situation, I can see what you're (LoTek)getting at, you're right there are a select group of people who really don't need a governing party to tell them what is right and what is wrong. There is some inherent logic and common sense that people are born with, but most people in society do not have this line of rationalization. Common sense is completely not common (at least that's what I see in most people). Rules and laws were formed out of fear, I have come to the realization that religion (sorry to offend anyone) is set due to fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of one's own mortality. Fear that if there isn't a rule stating "thou shall not kill" people would go killing other people, because they feel someone else is infringing on their own rights. We currently have laws set (which I consider most of them common sense) and people follow them because there's a monetary penalty, or physical penalty if we don't follow them. Again, fear rules us. In a state of anarchy, you don't believe that fear will rule us? Pandora's box has been opened, there is no going back... but it's a nice thought. I really have a lot to say on this topic, and this is a really good one.. but alas, I lack the time to go on.. Thanks

w00h00 I'm a top poster for today. AND I am in an ACTUAL coffee shop.. o0o0

Hello Bane Raziel.. welcome To DGN .. *drum roll*

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That's a really awesome offer, too bad I've never really had the urge to permanently change or alter my body purposefully. I love guys with tattoos, I just never thought to commit to a design for myself. I will definitely pass this information along, thanks for the extremely generous offer to DGNers.