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Back in the day, it was 1600. Now it's 2400, that's how Sage beat everyone

Do you have something to tell us, Booster?

Pardon my ignorance, but he said that?!

My roommate just refers to her as "a singing pair of breasts."

I don't doubt it. Don'tcha just love it? Not sure if I'd say that "most people" end up this way. A large amount, certainly, but I know many believers that have had doubts and have re-examined their faith at one time or another.

Believe it or not (see what I did there? ) our human minds seemingly demand explanations for everything (especially our origins). Some people do that by throwing in a creator, who hit the first domino, so to speak. People like Chef, you, and I squelch this demand, and are satisfied with an "I don't know" when it comes to the beginning of the universe. However, when people make the leap of faith (thanks, Kierkegaard), I do not believe that they are "weak" or "stupid." To me, they are simply fulfilling another demand (although it may be comparatively minor) made by their brain. Perhaps this fulfilling of the demand is one of the reasons why religious people tend to be happier than non-religious people.

True as that may be, the people celebrating this as some sort of real political gesture are just

Hope all goes well, Mead.

Why don't people realize that these guys are comedians? I don't get it.

Let me reiterate something:

Not defending the guy, or his claims. Careful with the "12% are not believers" bit. Any rational person will tell you that there is "no way to know" and that they're "not sure." I'm still not sure what to make of the "higher power" types. Obviously that includes deism, but I suppose it could contain all sorts of people.

As to the italicized: http://b27.cc.trincoll.edu/weblogs/AmericanReligionSurvey-ARIS/reports/p1b_belief.html So, not quite 90%, I suppose, but close.

She transferred to LIU?

Calling customer service was your first mistake

You can use other programs to manage your iPod.

We should just start an existentialist community. We can discuss our life goals and where we get meaning. We just haven't had life goals and meaning handed to us like religious people believe they have. Everything else could be similar.

Stargate SG-1

Even if that was the case, this is not the thread for it.

Found a good guide to it. http://www.simplehelp.net/2006/08/14/how-to-convert-flac-files-to-mp3-using-windows/ There's a link in there to an OS X guide as well, which uses xACT.

At least he got away, Civ allows the easily addicted that after a while. I've heard of WOW players who don't leave their houses for months.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. </Calvin and Hobbes>

/familyguy

What OS do you use? On my PC (Windows XP), I decode .flac files using Winamp, then encode from .wav to .mp3 in iTunes. On my Mac (OS X 10.6), I decode .flac files using xACT, and encode from .wav to .mp3 in iTunes. Edit: I'll try to figure out where I found out how to do these things and post them here.

:lol: It's so awful. Sounds like a love poem I'd write at 10 years old.