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All my funds are currently tied up in some Nigerian bank. But I should be receiving a 2 million dollar check shortly.

As the famous saying goes, "Dear God, please save me from Your followers." Now does anyone have anything more to say about Buddah?

Sounds great. I'll have to try it.

Hot wine? Never heard of that one before. It's a nice 14F (-10C) outside right now but it feels like 8F (-13C) with the slight 8 MPH NW breeze ... it's definitely an improvement from a few days ago when it was -16C with the -20C Windchill.

You see God very differently than Sasun. Sasun does not dismiss the notion of multi-theism for one. He also does not claim Christianity is the one and only Truth. But before I drag myself too much into this comparison, I'll shut up now and stop talking for Sasun since I admittedly don't understand much of what he claims either. But even though I don't really understand what he says since apparently I don't have the necessary spiritual eye and insights he has, I am sure what you keep saying is wrong and has no real basis other than just dogma.

I appologize for the length of this post but I think it must be done to put my point in perspective. Sasun, this post defines exactly the context of my posts. I am not talking about the general concept of God and spirituality and religion. My posts are confined to this context: Sasun, once again, I am addressing sSebB's version of God. I am well aware that your notions of God and religion are very different. As a summary, here are a few things he has said just in this thrad alone: Sasun, you still think I am the arrogant one here? God put us on this earth "to spread the good news and stop evil". And this makes more sense than Big Bang? I'd say even this makes more sense than that. I know we have had a number of discussions before as well on the "stupidity" in this ineherent assumption that anyone who doesn't believe in God is necessarily evil. God made us in HIS image and told us to go rule over every living creature? Am I the arrogant one here? Me? Really? A couple of more "evidences" why I call this particular God a sadistic, evil God who likes to sit back and watch suffering and then has the audacity to pass judgement.

Yes I understand him well. He is talking about what he calls "selectivity". It's not a very trivial subject to grasp and his English skills make it complicated so I'll try to help. Forget about what we have talked about in this thread. Consider the chances that life would somehow appear (let's assume God didn't do it ) ... the chances that soooooo many things would line up properly for life to start, is very very very very low. Basically impossible. But the fact that we have life here on earth would tend to counter that since it has obviously happened. So the "selectivity" paradim, in this case, makes that very very very low probability of life actually having started by some random events irrelevant because we are already here and living ... out of potentially many many many universes and multiverses that may or may not exist --- that part is Fadixian (his name before was Domino, Domino etc so that's why I call it Fadixian) so you'll have to ask him to explain. Now how this pretains to dreams and premonitions that come true. He says that if we look at the large picture, there may not be a correlation between dreams and premonitions and them becoming reality later. However, if we look at specific cases where it has happened (it's a very low chance but it certainly might) then the discussion takes a different shape and form. So in other words, I am saying in general I don't think premonitions have anything significant to contribute to us. He says in the select cases where in fact a certain premonition has become true for a certain person, their views and understanding of the phenomena might be different than mine. And after all, if we have billions of people having millions of thoughts and dreams throught their lives, even some VERY low probability things will happen (like a random premonition coming true by sheer chance alone). Now Quebecker, please correct me if I misunderstoond.

Sasun, for the record, I am belittleing the idiotic God put forth by SsebB. The same God that can't spread his own words and we have to do it for him. The same God that is going to judge us for things he can't (limited) or won't (sadistic) keep us from doing. The same LIMITED, yes that right, I said LIMITED, helpless God that created an imperfect world with imperfect people in his own imperfect image. Do I really sound arrogant here or is there really something fishy about that particular God? I am absolutely convinced it's the latter and if that makes me sound arrogant, so be it. Dear Sasun, some notions are just downright stupid and this one is one of them. Just because it is disguised under the label of "God", does not make it any more valid. I have not made any assumptions about this particular God. I am just going by what I am being told about Him. So I think your gripe is with those assumptions and not mine. And if you are only going to tell me there is puprose behind all this madness that I couldn't possibly understand this particular God, then I say that's just a very weak and convenient argument, isn't it?

Well, it really depends on what it was. As an example, if you had a premonition that you will have a bad cavity and it does happen, especially if you haven't been to the dentist for a checkup for 3 years, then I can easily imagine that premonition having had some valid basis. Also, having a premonition about yourself or someone you know being in a bad accident if you or that person are/is a careless driver and it happens to be a rainy and stormy that day, then again, I can see some basis for that type of a premonition if the accident does happen. But at the same time, I don't think having a dream or some thought about some more random event (as in something inherently unpredictable through other more scientific and deductive means) deserves much attention

I think those of you that know me around here already know that I do NOT believe in any sort of hocus pocus, super-natural things, magic, God, reincarnation, spirits, ghosts, ESP, etc. However, I do think we have certain abilities to predict the future. As an example, if I run in the middle of a busy freeway, I can predict with high probability that I will be severely dead in a matter of seconds. Some people are better at this than others just like some people can lift more weight or do math faster than others. I also think (some others have mentioned this in other threads as well) that dreams are VERY powerful at times what they are telling us. It is one way we communicate with ourselves ... sometimes by thinking deeply about our dreams, we can understand things about ourselves, our experiences, and what is happening around us in ways that we hadn't realized before (not conciously at times). But at the same time, I do NOT believe dreams, premonitions, guesses, etc can predict random events in the future. By random I mean events that have NO scientific basis in being predictable. In other words, I would not waste time trying to analyze a premonition or a dream that seemed to predict some event that it had no business predicting As an example, I got a fortune cookie a few days ago that said I will get good news very soon. I walked back to the office and found out I had received a small grant from some company to do research for them. I can imagine some over-active mind jumping to all sorts of conclusions but to me, those two were entirely unconnected events, other than just their sheer temporal occurence order with respect to my self, which really doesn't mean much.

Instead of trying to understand, just accepts his offers of eternity and limitless reality. It's better for the long run

The God you describe sounds like the most idiotic, helpless, useless, and worthless God ever. He can create time, the whole universe and man and woman and all that, but can't keep people from doing evil? Oh paaaaaaaaaalease ... that kind of a God is insult to all Gods. Because either God can't prevent people from doing bad things, OR God likes to sit back and watch people do either good things or bad things. In the first case, he is useless. In the second case, he is just downright MEAN and sadistic. Either way, I can't see why anyone would pride themselves in believing in such a thing.

It was in the beinning (mid 90's) ... but now every one of them has some sort of additional "attachment" The good thing is though since they started showing up, the air quality in the cabin has gotten MUUUUUUUUCH better. Before, sometimes your eyes would water from the really low air:fart ratio.

Then you probably shouldn't even think about buying an electric car

Haha ... I was actually just thinking about driving to big bear for x-mas (we always rent a cabin there with some friends) and then come down to LA ... I was planning to drive back after our x-mas on the 6th. But I will probably take the jeep so I can't tow anything Edit: hmmmm ... but if you also find the tow vehicle for it, I might be able to drive it out for you if you want. I'll just then fly back.

Obviously he didn't pray hard enough Edit: By the way, I have a black cat now. She is just THE best! The most playful and most fun cat I have ever seen. I have these round nerf disks and a gun that shoots them ... I'll shoot them and she'll go chase them down, and bring them back!

Wow those are nice. Thanks!

That site is great. I actualy followed the writeup they had on there on relocating the charcoal canister a bit (it's behind the passenger side quarter panel)... on mine, I just had to put a couple of washers behind the bolts to move it about 1/4" ... and the LED cleared just fine. That's the other good thing about jeeps ... there is sooooo much information on the web for doing stuff like this!

I bought a couple of small 55W fog lights from Walmart for $14.99. I am going to mount those on the tire carrier and wire up to the reverse light wire with a relay. THe reason I haven't done it yet is because I need to pull a power wire from the battery because the lights draw a lot more juice than the stock wires can handle (they'll melt). So those will be done this weekend I think I'll actually just ziptie those lights to the spare carrier ... they are really small and light. I dont' care if they are stolen since they are so cheap ... I also don't want to mess with drilling into the bumper. I was tryin to find lights that fit behind the "W" cut into the corners of the bumper ... but I couldn't find anything good. Maybe later I will put some marker lights in there ... I am also thinking about putting a couple of smaller LED lights on the sides of the quarter panels ... I may also have to think about lighting the license plate but I doubt the cops will hastle me for that. Edit: By the way, the round LED's I have in there now are "3" state ... they are off, dim (normal driving with lights), or bright for blinking/braking. All I had to do was to short a pin on the flasher to keep it from flashing fast (it was thinking the bulb is "burnt") but overall, it was a VERY easy install. The only thing I had to do was cut a 4.5" hole with a hole saw and they fit perfectly Jeeps are sooooo easy to work on!

By the way, I know tires plus does it around here in Madison and there is also discount tire (also known as American tire co) that does it but not sure in Canada.

Wow no kidding Ed? NICE!!! Vava, this website would probably do a better job in explaining than me. Basically they just cut a whole bunch of tiny slits in your tires which makes them perform much better in icy and wet conditions. I haven't done it myself but have been told by a couple of experts (in the tire business) that it is suposedly worth doing... so far, my tires have been just fine especially since I can always throw the blazer or the jeep into 4x4

Thanks! Replied to you over there as well. But yah, those tires on the jeep are not the greatest on snow or in mud. But they do GREAT on rocks (Goodyear MT/R).

I am running Goodyear MT/Rs on the jeep and BFG LTs on the blazer. I have also run BFG MTs and seen my brothers BFG AT/KO's in action. The BFG LT and AT/KOs are great on snow. The MTs and MT/Rs are excellent offroad but not that good on snow and ice. I like the Goodyear MT/Rs because they stick to rocks like nothing else ... they have a really strong sidewall and are quite soft which makes them ideal for the kind of offroading I do. As far as passenger car winter tires, I don't know much about them. But if I were to get a set of winter tires for all around good snow/ice performance as well as regular driving for a truck/SUV/jeep, I would definitely go with BFG AT/KOs. You can also "sip" the tires (no pun intended) for much better snow/ice/wet traction but I've never done it myself (yet).

HOLY CRAP! $100 buffet? We went to Home Town Buffet thanksgiving dinner for $10 and they had EVERYTHING and it was sooooooooo good