StormKnight

hmmm...naughty things to do in pools, ponds, warm rains...espeically with a female partner.

I will make sure that she is in good condition after we are done with our "coffee." It just make take a few days/weeks. (No kidding...)

Happy Birthday!

Could I get a Latte with a side of a red-headed female Scottish Doctor Who companion of 2010 season vintage?

Funny, I didn't see thorns popping out of your skin last time I saw you. And you were definitely sane. (I think only Spook would get that reference...)

I have actually seen CC prior to to them opening the doors (when filming the Run With the Wolves video.) It stunned most of the group there how clean it was...and it still smelled of pine-sol and cleaners as we finished (just before the doors opened) I believed one of the security people called it "City Club fresh smell."

I f*cking hate stress-induced insomnia.

Like Captain Jack Sparrow after a rough night of bad rum and beatings.

Happy Birthday! (Prick, perhaps you should tell her there is a thread out here about her.)

Just from general observation, quite a few of the vocal conservatives (not all,) are of the mindset Slogo described. Granted, there are liberals that are just as extreme. Example of a conservative tradition as protection for people (from both Kosher and Halal): the restriction of the eating of pork. Not hard to explain the reason. Pork has parasites which can survive most treatment processes of ancient times (smoking (you still cook bacon,) drying, turning to jerky, etc.,) and would be unsafe for ancient Middle East area consumption. For public safety, it was generally decided restrict pork for the health of all. This information was given to the holy men, as they were seen as leaders that could disseminate the information down to the people, through both sermon and in the holy books. Now, with the advent of farming techniques, screening meat, and requiring pork to be cooked thoroughly, the safety of eating pork has improved. Yet these rules are still there in the holy books, taken as gospel, to the point where people with the conservative point of view will starve themselves, taking the rule set thousands of years ago as a public health issue as prime facie, with no need for other supporting evidence to do so. Unfortunately, preserving the status quo can be detrimental. Classically, Socrates execution for asking the question of the conservative establishment "why?" (Which was radical/liberal at the time.) Galileo's radical (liberal,) thought of not putting the earth at the center of the universe led him to be persecuted by a conservative Church, only forgiven hundreds of years after his death. Galen, whose human anatomy texts were used from 200AD to the Renaissance, used dissections of animals instead of humans as the basis of internal anatomy drawings. These books were gospel, blindly followed by the conservative medical field at time and by the Church until Vesalius started basing his texts on human dissections. Does it mean traditional ideas should be tossed aside completely? No. However, they need to stand up to a rigorous questioning why they should be still followed. Whether it is for utilitarian reasons, or as a means to progress society as a whole, nothing should be left unquestioned. Perhaps a lot of my center-left-Existentialist leanings comes from the fact that I am in a career where I am the alpha and omega of responsibility of life and people. It is not just a license to cure, but a license that can kill as well, based on the best data that humans can extract from experiments and observations at the time of action. And that data gets added to and supplanted often, as research continues to progress. A constant moving target. If something goes bad, the question is not, "Why did God let this happen?" but, "Where did *I* make the mistake that caused this?" or "What did *I* miss to cause this to fail?" BISS (Because I Said So (usually a conservative/traditionalist view,)) and BGSS (Because God Said So,) don't sit well with me, as I usually have a hand in making things happen. If failings in my career could be assigned to God's will versus the human practitioner's own actions, malpractice need not exist. Society states otherwise, and in the end, it comes down to the practitioner's actions at the time based on the data available that makes it malpractice. Views either conservative or liberal, allow me to compare and contrast myself. "Why is that way seem right in my eyes?" "Who side seems right in this day and age?" "Am I too far in one side vs. the other? And Why?"

Like this surprises me: You Scored as Existentialism: Your life is guided by the concept of Existentialism: You choose the meaning and purpose of your life. “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” “It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”--Jean-Paul Sartre “It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.”--Blaise Pascal Existentialism: 95% Utilitarianism: 85% Justice (Fairness): 75% Hedonism: 50% Strong Egoism: 40% Kantianism: 40% Nihilism: 15% Divine Command: 5% Apathy: 0% At least I know to have fun (hedonism) half of the time...

For me, it actually seems supernarrow. It used to scale to the width of my screen. I will hold opinion until the boffins in software hack out things a bit more.

Happy Birthday!

Hello hello!

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtan (In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu lies dreaming.)

I believe St. Clair's Shores. Welcome.

Happy birthday, Fin. I should see you out tonight.

Hello and welcome to our corner of the web.

Contemplating the horror that is now before Eevee.

Well. at least this bout of insomnia is productive...

Hello hello!

Just finished watching the video. Just seeing him flit about the screen in pain and agony made me both cringe and giggle all at the same time. I knew there was something twisted I liked about you...lol More power to you for even wanting to try this.

Happy (belated) Birthday!

Like I regret the sun...