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Emmmmmmmmm ... yah ... good luck getting me to share my small portions.

This whole thing is so stupid. Next thing you know, they'll make you kill yourself and visit hell for wearing a devil costume or go clean a toilet for wearing a janitor outfit. ... now that I think about it, if I were Harry, I would go as Hugh Heffner next year!!!!

I would first try Spybot. After instaling spybot, update it to the latest version using the built in feature and then let it run and do it's thing.

It's on my list!!!! No, not that list.

vava

I have no argument with how you feel and I do respect it, even though I don't share it. My posts regarding such topics usually revolve around what is known, what is not known, what can be known, and what can't be known. Feelings and faith is not something I would even pretend to understand, let alone try to argue against or for!

Sireli Azat Jan, Sip, Mosjan, Harut my love, master of darkness, NunushiK

My point in trivializing was to mock the ultra-poetic and fancy way these things try to find complicated explanations for things we cannot explain. Is it a cool sounding piece of writing, sure. But NO one can know if it is true or not for sure and therefore, there is no basis in believing in any of it. "We are all the same" ... "we need to remember as opposed to learn" ... etc .. these are far more trivializing and degrading than anything I have said. All we really know is that each individual human and or animal is born, lives, then dies. These fancy stories about links between individual beings and ever lasting souls and wondering spirits are all "possible" but have absolutely no basis in reality other than using that, as you put it, special eye we have between our real eyes ... ... and let's not for a second forget the true power of that special "eye" ... imagination, creation, and making up stuff. Sasun, one thing you have said at some point that I am starting to agre with. If I remember correctly, it was something like "God is within all of us". Except I would rephrase it as "the creator" is within all of us. Our brains are the real creators here.

No I don't think I am missing the point. It's like saying everyone knows how to make 3 point shots but they need to remember it. This is because at the beginning, we and the 3 point shot in basketball were the same thing There was no us and a 3 point shot. But then it all started and what we have to do now is to just remember. Thus, all a basketball player really does in his life is to recall how he was the 3 point shot.

Ok let's get rid of the concept of "learn" and replace it with the concept of "remember". Did we really accomplish anything worthwhile? In the end, we now have to spend our time "remembering" things as opposed to "learning" things. The point is, whether you call it "learn" or "remember", seems to me it doesn't really make a difference because in the end you end up having to do exactly the same things in either case. Here, "remember" would just be a fancier way of saying "learn". And I don't like fancy too much (especially if it's just for the sake of being fancy). Keep it simple.

I thought about it and every breath seems more to be an evidence of a physical body needing oxygen to sustain itself due to all the chemical reactions and what not that go on in the lungs and the blood than the care of any God. Plus, why would God care about his creations? Wouldn't we be mere posessions and toys to an all mightly being? What possible interest could an almighty creature have in rediculous beings such as ourselves? ... unless God needs some sort of entertainment in which case he isn't so perfect anymore now is he?

Edward, be careful what you offer on public sites!

That is where we disagree. I just can't see any evidence of that. Where is a child's soul before it is born? Why isn't it as aware of its "self" as when it is older? Where does the soul go after death? What medium transfers it in space? If it is beyond our regular time and space, what evidence is there to support this? Why am I supposed to believe this other than simply because someone says so?

That is the main problem here. Just because it is written, and just because independent authors have arrived at similar conclusions, doesn't make it real. Many cultures for example arrived at "theistic" models to explain things around them independently. That doesn't make their views valid because humans can use the same type of baseless and faulty logic to arrive at similar conclusions. There must be a real way to validate any claim. And by simply requiring one to build a special vision and special understanding in order to understand this special thing tells me that the special thing is more a figment of our "specially created and tuned visions" than any reality.

Not with Azat and Sasun around ... the ratio just ain't right.

I feel a group hug coming on!

Of course there are right and wrong answers here! What possible reason other than our wild imagination do we have to believe there is this "soul"? No one has any evidence on what this soul is, where this soul may come from and where it may go ... therefore the only reasonable conclusion is that whatever it is, assuming even such a thing exists, is it starts, develops, and ends with every individual life. But then again, for every reasonable conclusion, there are countless unreasonable conclusions with some being much wilder, poetic, philosophically pleasing, etc than the others. Edit: By the way, Nefertiti, I agree with you on "soul", I think. So just thought to clarify that as I wasn't arguing against what you said about soul.

Sasun, I'll tell you what the problem is with your spirituality business. It is not testable. You say one will see if one opens his or her spiritual eye and start to see ... well, that is not how science works. Science can predict things and it is testable. The spiritual model does not predict anything and is not testable and therefore is useless. And that is what I believe Azat means by "show me". He doesn't mean show me as in explain something that has already occured, but "show me" as in predict the outcome of something non trivial using spirituality. I highly doubt you or anyone else can do with spirituality what one can do with science. Call it "physical" if you wish but I would say the opposite of physical in this sense is "imaginary".

Azat, did you hear what Aneta just said? She basically implied that when you call yourself "bonehead", you are being modest Let's not forget Azat got to be Mister Hyeforum, the #1 flirt, and the funniest. So I say let the jokes rip. He deserves it

Kuzem sireli "qyotak tvoghnerin" hishetsnem vor Andzrevnere vavai galov sksvan Bayts yete indz Kotayk dak, yes shat aveli kuraxanam

Loved that one! "You want me to put it in first?"

People tend to call things they don't understand or can't explain as "supernatural". But if in fact something exists, then it must by definition be natural. Supernatural things just can't exist by the definition of the word itself

Did I miss this? did you change it? Feel free to use it (or any other of my pics) in any way you want! I'd be honored! Edit: Holy CRAP! I just saw it. I didn't even notice it there the last few times I checked your site. Very cool

For some reason I was waiting for something to jump screaming out of that ... thankfully, I was disappointed.

I was never really satisfied with the small, med, large options photoshop would give in the gallery maker. Once you are happy with a certain size and quality in Image Ready, you can make a droplet which then you can use to automatically process a bunch of files. It's a bit complicated to explain so if you are interested, just look up droplet in the Image Ready (or photoshop) help to get you started. So I would use the album generator to make all the html files, but then I would use my own droplet with my own JPG settings to generate all the JPG files for the thumbnails and the main images.