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Very interesting discussions! Axel, I am puzzled about something as I have heard this before as well. What is your definition of "Atheism"? My dictionary says it's "disbelief in existance of God or deities". Now I got the feeling that you equate atheism and theophobia (dictionary says "hatred or excessive fear of God") at some levels ... So my confusion is, that I seem to fall in the "Atheist" category and certainly NOT in the theophobic category. Also, my own personal religion is certainly not one of "death and destruction". Therefore, I am confused with what you are trying to convey when you say "Atheism/theophobia is the religion of death and destruction". MJ, very interesting observation about man cannot be God if there is no God

Yah, I'd say 45 is my lower guess. Towards the top it gets steeper and some parts look more like 50-55. The good thing was that at the top the ground is much firmer than the bottom. The first half is all loose dirt so it's fun trying to build up enough speed to make it to the top ... but towards the top, the tires didn't have much trouble gripping, but the front of the blazer was jumping left and right since there was very little weight on it, and there are a bunch of small, deep tracks made by the motorcycles. It was am amazing sight how and what these motorcycle guys where doing. There were some guys that were doing wheelies all the way up!!! Right before we got there, a suzuki samurai broke his front axle going up on that thing. I didn't see it happen but my buddy was there. Also, a few hours later we saw a fire truck and an abulance rushing to that area so something bad must have happened (seeing what they were doing, it was a surprise that more bad things don't happen there). [ January 12, 2003, 10:03 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

This stuff is from today ... nothing too serious .. just messing around at a local offroad "recreation" area ... that hill is very very steep. All the bike guys where like WOW!!!! They haven't seen too many 4x4s doing that I guess around there ... most people that go to these parks with their cars just drive around on dirt roads. My buddies and I had some fun on the "bike" trails though! Those hills are INSANE http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/misc/sip_mud.jpg http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/misc/sip_hill1_tn.jpg http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/misc/sip_hill2_tn.jpg http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/misc/sip_hill3_tn.jpg http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/misc/sip_hill4_tn.jpg (click for bigger)

Have you read that guy's hate mail? Last time I was at his site, he had a section dedicated to his hate-mail! That is some of the funniest stuff I have ever read in my life. I have to say, this guy has some balls to put up a website like that! EDIT: Just noticed he has changed his site a bit ... but he still has datejesus.com EDIT #2: I FOUND IT! He has them HERE ... man, I never knew "Christians" can get so hateful [ January 11, 2003, 12:19 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Oh by the way, I heard somewhere that Benny claims God speaks to him ... is this true? What's really puzzeling is why God would choose a 1/2 Armenian to speak to ...

You've got to be kidding me!!!! Hinn's the second child in the family? Oh, and that 1/2 Armenian thing is also interesting

ahahahahahahahahha ahahahahah ahahah a!!! Harut, a Raiders fan ahahahahaha Raiders shall KICK BUTT this year!!!! I think on Sunday, they'll show those Jet's who's boss. Go Gannon.

quote:Originally posted by Arshak:http://img.hebus.com/celebrites_f_photos/a...arikova_038.jpg Isn't she so pretty? Just look at her beautiful hair. Oooooo ... now we're talking! Seeing her makes me thank the LORD for being alive --- Edit: You may have to copy-paste that link in a new browser window to be able to see the image. [ January 08, 2003, 09:17 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by THOTH:... "a s s e s and elbows" - why he objected when I gave him a real good look at mine I just can't figure to this day....(true story BTW...his boss hired me back however...) LMAO!!!! Wow, Thoth, you gave him 158% ???

quote:Originally posted by Arshak:It actually worked for me the other day when I was programing. I believed that Jesus is going to help me to program and I have to say that it did workout, which gives me the impression as if I don't direct my destny, because in the 7th deepest spirit, it is I anyway. WOW! You too? I can't tell you how many times I have contacted my 7th spirit to help me debug my C program!!! This is so cool ... This one time, I forgot to initialize my variable, and Jesus showed up and told me that on line 47, I had to have "int c=4;" as opposed to "int c;". Hallllleluia! Arshak, do you really think God and Jesus care about your programs, football games, poisons in cups, our daily pains, or my headache? quote:Originally posted by Arshak:And this ALSO prooves that Benny Hinn can heal! And the other story that I heard on TBN was that .... W H A T also proves? I read your posts 4 times and I still have no idea what proves Benny Hinn can heal. What was "this"? I even tried to contact my 4-th 5-th and 6th spirits to help the 7th one, prayed to Jesus and really believed that you had really proved something but I still came up empty. Oh, and for the rest of that statement, are you telling us that just because they show something on TBN, it's a proof and that it actually happened? Does your 7-th spirit agree with you here? cause that's a bit Dear Arshak, I really don't mean to disrespect but I really laughed out loud when I read your post. I hope your thinking and spirits and jesus bring you much joy in life and that you don't go bankrupt giving money to those B O Z Os on TV. But the only reason I said anything, is because statements like what you make really trivialize and make a mockery out of christianity and religeon ... and money-driven, two-faced, selfish, sharlatans like the ones on TBN are the reason I stopped being "spiritual" in the first place (may years ago). Shame on them for making me lose such an important part of my humanity.

... you guys can buy me any of those ... but DON'T GET me this one. http://zr2.cs.ucla.edu/Sip/zr2/barf.gif.

quote:Originally posted by Stormy:Hey, Sip! I looked at the off-roading pics on your site! Will you take me with you on one of those trips someday? My mommy told me not to trust strangers I meet on the net. Talking of offroading, a few buddies of mine went down to Baja (mexico) for New Years... I had a choice to go with them but instead went skiing in the cold. Here are a couple of pictures that they took WOW! Pic 1 Pic 2 I am definitely going to go there with them next time ... screw skiing.

The challenge in life is knowing what, when, and how to do things. The doing itself is the easy part ... at least for me anyway.

quote:Originally posted by HOVSEP KASHISHIAN:... I would not live my life like him not knowing what race I belong to. For some, it's not that easy For some, the words "belong to" and "race" don't go well together. For some, it's more of a matter of "classified under". For others, it's more of a matter of "races" ... and many, don't even realize they belong to the "some" I mentioned above!!! Edit: As far as Ara, I personally am in NO position to make any judgements on him. I feel he has a right to say whatever he wants to say, as do others to disagree with him. So there! I have personally found some of his statements to be quite witty, deep, and interesting. Some of his statements have been too simplistic (although poetic) and a few I have not agreed with. But I don't think just saying what he says makes him a traitor to the race, nor an Einstein. ... and interestingly enough, some of the most hurtful things that I personally have heard in life have been the truths. [ January 04, 2003, 04:43 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

quote:Originally posted by Stormy: quote:Originally posted by Sip:I'm sure you already know that 50% of the women graduating from top Universities in the US, were ranked in the bottom half of their graduating class (among females). That's so disturbing but it's a fact of life That doesn't really mean much.Hmmmm ... I'm hurt... out of all those statistics up there, you had to rain down on mine? What's so different about my statistic than the rest? Loreley, I hope you realize I am not making light of the situation. I am only trying to say that statistics are often misused ... they can be manipulated to say anything, and often are used to support incorrect conclusions (some of which Azat has alluded to). If you are trying to make a case that women have it bad in the US and are being systematically discriminated against, etc, I personally think you have a poor case. On the other hand, I believe you can make a VERY strong case for other countries, especially in the not-so-western parts of the world, but in the US, I really think the playing field is very level ... much more level than it has EVER been in history anywhere in the world (as far as I know). To give you an example, our COMPUTER SCIENCE research group here at UCLA is 50/50 males and females!!! Can you believe it? I went through my entire undergraduate life at UCLA, seeing 98% males in my classes and 2% "undetermined" (I don't think they were really females but didn't really check) ... but now, after all these years, things are so different. And these females are the ones that will be going into leading research programs and high-level positions in corporations, right along-side those "elite" white men you are referring to. Most of those "feministic" cries and complaints don't apply in the US anymore ... at least not to the "systems" which are in place. Sure biases still exist. But all those will move out and be replaced by the fresh views and forces coming in. Yes, once again, I am an OPTIMIST

I'm sure you already know that 50% of the women graduating from top Universities in the US, were ranked in the bottom half of their graduating class (among females). That's so disturbing but it's a fact of life [ January 02, 2003, 04:48 PM: Message edited by: Sip ]

The way I look at it, just by putting that symbol, he IS referencing Armenians ... so I really don't see the problem here... and I guess a lot of Armenians would just buy the product based on that fact alone ... that the symbol is on there. Oh, and they got good yoghurt By the way, MJ, how can you possibly sue for copyright infringement? Who owns the copyright for sansuntsi davit? It's so old that I guess that law doesn't apply to it ... does it? [ January 02, 2003, 11:32 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

ahahahahahaha ... just realized "B O Z" is another bad word!!! Good, my sadness is gone ... can't say B0Z0

quote:Originally posted by Arshak:I wasn't expecting you to reply. This was interesting actually. I just want to say to that one guy that the lady with the long blond hair is a good person. Don't say those kind of things about her, because she is trying to help people that lack spiritual amnity. Come on... she is trying to help and shouldn't we be thankful for a person like that? Plus they don't waste the money on none-sense things. Well, she certainly seems to be wasting a LOT of the money on the makeup. I think her makeup budget alone could probably feed an entire village in Affrica. Sorry I don't mean to sound like a prick but I think those TV evangelists or whatever the heck they are, are the LOWEST life forms in the Universe. They sell something which isn't theirs to sell. I have tremendous amount of respect for real social workers and those who go around helping people in need. I have absolutely NO respect for those who profit and build fortunes using GOD as their "message". It just saddens me to see there are sooo many people in the world with such empty lives that they would turn to such empty sweet-talking ***os to find meaning in their lives ... just sad ... very sad

hmmmm ... it's only 12:51 here and I'm about to attack the cheese cake!!!!

quote:Originally posted by vava: quote:Originally posted by Sip:Yah but compare 300K versus 3MB !!!! That's an order of magnitude difference ... you gotta pay some price to have the state of the art I guess. I think I used DivX 5.02 ... it's after 5.0 for sure. You're absolutely right - but maybe the codec should be distribute WITH media player, non? We shouldn't have to wait for 3rd party players/codecs!Well, MPEG4, and DivX which is basically the most popular MPEG4 implementation, is an evolving standard. It'll take some time for it to reach a maturing stage like JPG, MPEG2 (DVD) and MP3 have. But it's definitely superior enought that it will muscle it's way in and kick out mpeg2 ... it's just a matter of how and when ... and what companies are going to start backing it up in what forms. As far as I understand, the technology is there ... now it's just up to the marketing, politics, and the investors I guess. [ January 01, 2003, 02:04 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]

Actually, movses beat me to it ... but he posted something bad about you in the moderator section so I can't say it in public ... but it was pretty hillarious

Yah but compare 300K versus 3MB !!!! That's an order of magnitude difference ... you gotta pay some price to have the state of the art I guess. I think I used DivX 5.02 ... it's after 5.0 for sure.

quote:Originally posted by Stormy:Sip getting ready to attack the cheesecake... Yes! Just exactly that, but with a much bigger cheese cake, a MUCH larger mouse, no helmet and no moust trap Jug, I had like one drink today and it was this blue colored mix that my uncle made ... I immediately knew that if I had more than one of those, I'd end up like you so I stuck with Pepsi ONE (not sure if you guys have that there but it's great!!!!).

Here's something to hopefully put a smile on your face this new years day This is me, coming down the ski slope like the dumb ass that I am ... except the ending didn't go the way I had planned!!!! Sorry for modem users but the video may be a bit too big ... the DIVX version is definitely the right size but you have to have DIVX to view it (available from www.divx.com ) Sip skiing DIVX avi (~318K) Sip skiing Quicktime movie (~3.1 MB) Sip skiing standard avi (~3.6 MB) If there are problems seeing the video, let me know. I am just learning how to process digital video files and all the formats ... not sure which one is good .... but in my opinion, it's definitely worth to have the DIVX codec. If anyone has any suggestions or hints about video formats suitable for online usage, please let me know! --- EDIT: Once you install DIVX, you can view the video in the standard windows media player. For MAC users, the quicktime version may be better although it is much bigger. [ January 01, 2003, 01:15 AM: Message edited by: Sip ]