master_bacarra

okay that wasn't funny at all. ranting about your teacher being satan's lovechild is one thing and talking about her weight is another. if you meant those two to be connected with each other, you're in serious trouble kid. watch what you say. doing assignments is something students are told do so they would understand lessons more. it's not something used to punish kids. if you think doing assignments is hard enough, wait 'til you get to highschool or college. things will get a LOT complicated, that i'm sure of. if you can't handle simple stuff, what more when you encounter life-changing decisions where you need a lot more thinking than just doing some simple math equations. teachers are there to make things easier, not to make things a lot complicated. of course that would only happen if it's a two-way. teachers help students understand the topic, and students help teachers to understand them more (or simply put it, teachers say to students, "help me to help you"). the problem is that you always see the bad in your teacher, not the good one. if you get to know her a little bit more, you'll be surprised that what you think about most people are not what it's always is. about your friend who told your teacher about your behavior, and you and your friends getting detention, like what i've said, going to school is also about abiding by the rules. this is to make students become more responsible people when they step out to the real world. the reason why detention exists is for students to think of what they've done and reflect about it, just like how convicts spend their time on jail to straighten their acts out. if you think all of it is just a nuisance, you have to think twice. better yet, act a little more mature, with your decisions and what you say.

it seems that you have a love for shooting. i've even seen you in the shoutbox telling some member about going to the shooting range. anyway, personally i don't have the luxury of time and money to go to a shooting range (if there exists one in the area). boxing might help although i don't know if i could find one in our subdivision. that's nuts. you're basically telling me to tell my parents to be glad that i'd be graduating (which isn't confirmed yet) as if it was a privilege that they're getting. that's a total disrespect to someone who's providing all the financial support for my schooling. well appreciation isn't really much of a problem, i'm not really seeking for some self-gratification for the code that i've done. all i want is for them to at least do their share in the coding, and ask me if there are things that they don't understand. the problem is it's not me who's worrying, it's my parents. and if they incessantly ask me about things related to graduation or work, i end up worrying about it. i try my best for it not to trouble me, sometimes i take it as just a joke or some statement, but sometimes, too much is just so much i can handle. that's what i'm always trying to say... or at least to imply. the progress slows down if i'm the only person who coding and testing. it gets so awkward when my prof asks me if i were the only person who does all the coding, i couldn't say "yes" for he will give my thesis-mates a failing grade. i do want all of us to graduate, but i do want them to work on it as well. sometimes it gets too negative of a trait. "paying it backward" instead of "paying it forward". tradition has placed kids to be expected to help their families once they graduate and get a job. it's totally fine, but sometimes, parents get involved with it too much that they try to instill guilt in their kids. in our language it is "utang na loob" or translated as "debt of prime obligation". simply states that one is obliged to pay back all the efforts their parents have given them, usually in the form of financial support. thanks for the appreciation. i just try my best to help in one way or another, that's all. apparently, my dad is one of those types who got so influenced by society that says "men shouldn't show any emotions". that i quite don't get. sometimes it gets so annoying but most of the time i end up not appreciating him because the "connection" isn't there. my mom sometimes becomes arrogant at times and compares all her accomplishments to what we've done. i know very well that she's been an accelerated student when she was young and was always at the top of her class. she tells me to use that as inspiration, yet i'm not inspired. why? because she always compares us to her. the motivation doesn't sink in because she's putting us down in the first place. the problem with me being the leader is that i have severe issues with it. i tend to "abuse" the control (i don't like to use the term because it's so negative, but whatever). i tend to give out orders and sometimes become too perfectionist with the results. and besides, i really suck at leading people. i'd rather be the workforce than someone who leads the workforce. that would be a bit possible if i have enough time. the problem is i'm no supergeek when it comes to coding. i'm not really great with programming languages and not expert at most of them. that's why at least i need their help. thanks everyone for the advices. i really appreciate it.

lol. i think i saw this. i was online when this conversation happened.

let me clarify that, chimps aren't our ancestors, but their ancestors are the same ancestors as humans, meaning they came from the same brach of species. that would make them our distant relative. first you want me to give you something science has proven, then when i present you one, you deny it like "some crazy guy said it". you want me to give out some examples then you shun me out and say "talk to the hand". it's like talking to a brick wall. what kind of reasoning is that? it's either you didn't understand what i said or you purposely ignored the entire thing. if you read it properly, i corrected what i said before and added something new. uh i never said that i was having difficulty. why would doing something be difficult for me, if i don't do it in the first place? i was referring to the prayer and every sense of it being a ritual. you devote yourself and your entire being to it so you could "contact" god. you know you sound so judgmental on that statement. it's as if you're mocking someone who "is having a difficulty praying" because you happen to be so devoted compared to others that it's just simple to you to do such stuff. as in any other ritual, praying requires deep concentration since you're focusing on "sending out" your message to god. you are using your soul to get that "connection". that is why i referred to it as "difficult". if by all means you think it's easy, then fine with me. i was just merely stating the sense of the ritual itself, and not it's connection to your devotedness to god. of course i read everything you said. i don't want to miss every detail of it. you make an example that is so out of this world and expect me to believe it? you state it that it was your way of determining your path. other people won't get easily swayed by such stories. i could say that it's sheer luck, but since you used 1000 cards, you're trying to prove that "something even greater than luck" is behind all of it. in reality, yes you can have 1000 cards, that's why i said "if you have the luxury of time and money to do such stuff". shuffling a deck would probably take a few seconds with a pro, and shuffling 20 decks would take them a few minutes. shuffling them altogether, however would take more time. i'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you honestly didn't know which names are written on which cards, so as you can try to prove what you are saying. but based on the stuff you have been saying even before, i basically have not trusted you yet, or should i say i don't trust you at all (for the sake of being frank), so why are you giving out examples that make me doubt you even more? you're supposed to develop some kind of connection to the one you're talking to (or at least to the one you're trying to prove your statements to), but you already destroyed that connection even before building one. [1]of course i don't have that feeling. you're saying only people who have experienced such stuff would understand, but since your example was so amazingly complicated and out of this world, i don't know if people would understand that feeling at all... [2]so you didn't answer my question. would you have felt the same thing if the card you got was, let's say, atheism or paganism? [3]this is a serious talk and whether it was meant to take light of the situation, it doesn't help at all. it's as if you're trying to mock me by presenting something that doesn't prove the existence. [4]they are so out of this world, that i don't know if you're telling the truth or not. i asked you because i thought you can present some better proofs out there, but i guess i only ended up disappointing myself for doing that. you have to know that there are people out there (or in this forum) that have various ideologies, and frankly speaking they have in their right minds know what is fact and what is not. you just don't blurt out something like a slip of the tongue, and expect people to believe it without explaining it properly. [5]so you're turning the tables now? i didn't even say that your just posting things for fun or for credits. you were the one who accused me of that, remember? [6]present a more realistic example backed up with references or verses from the bible that explains it further. i think truefusion was able to do that. like what i said, you just don't throw stuff like you're some trigger-happy fellow. [7]i am not just replying for the sake of replying or making fun of you whatsoever. i am replying to defend what i've said and what i think of the topic. moreover, i want clarifications that's why i post my reply.

[1]whoa! that caught me off guard. i hope you're not cursing me or anything of some sort. [2]uh... that wasn't what you said before. i remember you saying that "he's trying to prove that humans can do good and bad things", now you're saying that he's proving that it's satan who is making humans do bad things. anyway, the point is why does he need to prove anything when he made humans in his image and likeness? if they're initially good, why the need to prove that they're bad? or rather, why the need to prove? [3]well there's the evolution of man. religion doesn't accept the idea that man's ancestors were the chimps, that as time passed by they eventually evolved to what humans are now. of course i want to mention the age-old debate of the creation of the universe, but the problem lies to it being a theory. the reason why i said that religion and science doesn't mix well is because of its contradicting beliefs. science didn't prove anything religion had said, science merely states that what religion has concluded or stated can be proven using concrete evidence and not just by stating "man was created from a molded piece of soil". my brain is perfectly fine, thank you very much. if you read my post well, which i assume you did, i was referring to the thread about the creation of the universe (god vs. big bang theory, you know... the religion vs. science thingy), that since the big bang theory isn't able to explain where that "something" came from before it exploded, that it was created by god himself. and since god made everything, i assumed that even evil was created by him. i believe i can correct myself of whatever stuff i say here and i believe that my assumption is wrong. your analogy amazes the heck out of me, but anyway, that's besides the point. he didn't create evil, evil manifested itself in the form of lucifer. so i was wrong to say he created evil, and you saying that he created evil indirectly. ouch. that really hurts. i am here doing my best to reply to your posts with all my power and here you are acusing me of such stuff... that hurts big time. well credits may matter, but i've been in this board for more than a year now, and the need for credits is just secondary in my list. i've noticed the trend among the newbies who are in great need of free hosting, that the fast way in getting them is either replying to threads and posting a new thread (without checking if there have been duplicates already), the latter being the more sensible reason. and you can see the "need" because they post in rapid succession then instantly get send a request for free hosting account. of course i don't deny this because when i started here, that's what i did... or at least part of it. when i log in to the board, the first thing i go to is the shoutbox. i check if there are people i can talk to and when i don't find some, i end up going to somewhere else over the net (wherever that is, that's none of anybody's business ). frankly speaking i rarely can't find interesting posts/threads to reply to these days (or posts/threads that get my attention), and if i did find one, it's either some this' and that's or i'm just posting for the sake of posting. that's why i'm thanking you for putting up a great reply, something that i am starting to get fond of you don't need to say sorry really. [1]dude, i never mentioned in any of the threads, this in particular, that i don't know anything about any religion. what makes you assume that? just because i am on a different side than yours or truefusion's, doesn't mean i don't know anything about it. sure, i could shun them all out, but that won't help me at all in finding which path i believe is the best. religion is part of whichever society we belong to, it shapes the people and thus shaping it's history. we study history in order to know how society was like in the past and how it could have an effect in the present date. [2]since you're a believer, i'm assuming that you believe in the creation of man as stated in the bible, and if you did, that statement of yours really doesn't match your beliefs. god created man in his image and likeness, yet he didn't want man to have knowledge (thus he told them not to eat the forbidden fruit), because he believed that with knowledge, man would turn against him. in that sense when knowledge is acquired, man is able to choose which path to take, a path that is different from what is presented by god. which would only say that what you have stated above supports what i've said about me finding a "better path/option" than what he(god) has presented. [3]actually, praying, which is part of a devout's rituals, is a difficult thing to do. yes it is simple in a sense that you're just reading a bunch of words out loud. it is difficult because you "put your soul" and basically every essence of you in the prayer. it signifies that you believe in the greater power that you are addressing the prayer to. remember the term called "faith"? [4]is that so? it's written in plain english. i wonder why you don't think it doesn't have any sense... unless you didn't understand what i said. this is one of the reasons why i enjoy writing a reply to your post. i mean, really... it's like enjoying a morning cup of hot drink while reading the paper, then suddenly i spurt out every drop of liquid in my mouth. you're such a jest. seriously, i have never heard of someone who used cards to choose whatever path they want in life. although i was just wondering, would you freeze like what had happened to you if, let's say, the card you picked was "atheism". certainly you wouldn't have reacted the same way. would you have switched sides if that were to happen? you only froze because you were initially on "god's side", that getting a card that has "god" on it reaffirms your choice, thus the reaction okay, i'm giving you the benefit of the doubt (although i seriously don't want to), and let's say it was god who "let you choose" that card. isn't that so not like him? i mean i believe there are statements like "god is just" and "god is impartial", so by saying that he "let" you choose that, he's already taking sides, and to whom, to a single person like you? i have never seen anyone who had the luxury of buying 20 decks and writing down every religion (or probably some unkown creature there is) on every single card. i would probably give up on just half a deck. i'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you were able to do all these stuff and have the luxury of time and money, for the sole purpose of allowing you to prove to me what you mean. moreover, by giving you the benefit of the doubt, i'm saving you from going to the depths of hell (as the cliche goes, liars go to hell), for any sane person would not believe such far-fetched story. i need not comment on it because it doesn't sound so true. it sounded so superficial. and the last statement you gave, the one that says got me offended, because it's as if you're trying to make a fool out of me for saying that. giving out a bunch of "proofs" then ending it with a proof that "didn't happen yet" and proudly assuring that "it will happen" just because the previous proofs had happened already. your proofs isn't convincing enough. all the proofs you've stated aren't believable, i'm starting to doubt you're even capable of providing me with a real proof. and one more thing, i am not doing this to sway you, or truefusion or any member for that matter, out of your beliefs and your religion. and you merely challenging me of providing proof so i could sway you to my side or to other religions' side sounded like an insult.

indeed i have said that i am not limited to what other religion offers, but it doesn't mean i know lots of alternatives, better alternatives. i said it myself that i am in constant search. because saying "cause god says so" doesn't sound like an answer to me at all. it's like i'm forced to accept things as they are. to me it's not good enough. it's like in the end i'm still hanging with my questions unanswered. maybe so. yes it is too personal. i don't even disclose it to my family, let alone to friends, or strangers. like what i've said above, i don't think the answers aren't good enough. it's not something i should just brush off my shoulder and forget about it like nothing happened. that's why my tone always have this "is that the best answer you've got?" vibe to it.

that is the question. for i can go beyond what catholicism or christianity says, that i am not bounded and limited. ah yes. the infamous "for a reason". so anything labeled ugly i can avoid, yet there is a limitation to that. it's like the cliche "judging the book by its cover". you actually didn't read the part where the phrase was taken. the CREEPY and UGLY was the beings Hadi was referring to the creatures that go to you at your grave... or at least that's what he's trying to say. sure no problem. if you say so. i believe it's not a gift from god because, as i've said we ourselves acquire the knowledge to allow us to understand what these dreams mean. it doesn't just happen in a snap. a ball symbolizes completeness or wholeness of a person. if we follow the events using the analogy of the ball, the outside forces damages the "wholeness" of the ball and in the end the light shines on it and restores its "wholeness". the outside forces can be represented by challenges in life. the light could represent clarity of mind, or acquiring greater understanding of things. the dreams simply states the analogy of life, of a person's life and struggles. of course the light in the end will be interpreted like you as "god healed the ball", but to me, it's like acquiring better understanding of what life is, that through hardships i would understand things better. it's not god who did it, but i myself found the answer to the question. you don't even know the suffering yet you already compare it to someone else's. you use the "other people around the world could be suffering worse than what you've experienced" technique. you are quick to judge yet you have not know the real cause. it's as if you're saying "whatever it is, it's not as bad as this guys problem or that guy's problem". again we come back to the idea that "god has all the answers". it all boils down to having the "best" option to everything else.

[1]that is the point of ASKING these questions. i happen to be one of the persons who doesn't accept things the way they are, so if i don't get the answers for the questions, i find them myself. [2]like what i've said, people like me BELIEVE that there are better options. do i have to repeat myself over and over? MY POINT IS we do have free will, but by god saying that his option is better, he "pushes" his creatures to choose his way. i'm not saying that taking his path is bad, i just believe that there are better options to it. ugh. [1]you know the answer "FOR A REASON" or "FOR THE BEST" is not good enough explanation. it's an answer most devouts would give me. that things are happening for a reason. for someone who's trying to find answers, that reply would make everything even more blurry than it was before. [2]what?! he made humans to his own image and likeness, meaning they're initially good, and now he's trying to prove that they're bad? and he's trying to prove that to whom? to the devil/satan? [3]i thought science doesn't go well with religion? i thought scientific stuff doesn't match those of written in the bible? oh so by mentioning that, you're trying to disprove anything science has proven by saying that whatever science cannot explain, the religion can. that goes back to what i've mentioned way before. [4]hm... i though he created evil? and since many of you say that everything came from god or was created by god, it means even evil was created by him. [5]um actually, lucifer, the fallen angel is not the same as satan. most people believe that they are the same, but it was just a reference. [6]what i've said was in plain english. you don't need to interpret it like to the deepest level in order to get my point. [7]see what i mean? you're actually trying to point out that only his "path" is the best path, that by choosing other paths or options, you're already doomed for eternity (okay maybe that's a bit of exaggeration, but the point is there). by saying that, you're already agreeing that your god is a manipulative god, that whatever he says you'd follow without any hesitation. [8]look, how many times do i have to say that this is not about trivial stuff? sure i can eat meat or fish or chicken, heck i can even eat oatmeal for breakfast. yes choosing what you eat for today might affect your overall appearance or health in the long run, but it's not connected to what we're talking about. that's not the point. what i'm trying to say here is that the decisions you make in life is the point of the argument, not the trivial stuff. [9]the basis of "bad", "worse" and "worst" is also deeply rooted to what the religion tells us...or you. it's as if you're saying "by believing in my god, i'm in the right path, and you're not, so you're doomed". you believe what your religions says to you so by following it, you believe you're doing it the "right" way. what i'm trying to say is that i do not believe that his (your god) is the best option there is, that there are other good paths (or even better). [10]no, you don't tell someone to have their dictionaries readjusted to whatever you say. who knows, one word to you might mean another to someone else. you don't tell them that what you believe is the right one. this one of the reasons why there are a lot of misunderstandings because some people do not respect other people's beliefs. they just stick to what they believe in and shun everything else out. [1&3]did you actually read the earlier conversation? i was wondering how were you able to conclude that it's a "creepy and ugly" creature that comes to you when you're dead? do you have any proof that it is CREEPY and UGLY? that's what i was trying to ask if it has a direct correlation between our conversation about god. i was also telling you that evil doesn't always show itself up as ugly, and that in order to attract its prey, it has to cloak itself to a beautiful creature. i think it's in the bible, the part where jesus was in the desert and suddenly satan transformed itself to a beautiful woman and tempted him (or something along those lines). i was just merely stating an example. you, in the other hand is trying to throw the question back to me. [2]of course, did i say it was correct? i never mentioned it was correct. [1]in their graves? i thought it was either hell or heaven? only wandering souls have unfinished business, but i guess that equates to having a "purgatory". fyi, purgatory is where souls are checked for their sins and whether they are worthy to escalate to heaven or descend to earth. [2]again it's one of those stuff that "whatever science can't explain, religion can" thingy. but do you know that you can make your own dream? anyway, i'm just taking things on a lighter note, since i've been talking too serious for the past, oh i don't know, paragraphs maybe. what the... are you trying to make a fool out of me? i am starting to get offended here. i'm on a serious talk and the best you can say is "that didn't happened yet, but i'm definitely sure that it will happen"? i can't believe this... who is this someone? first you talk that god is within us, then you say that there is this certain someone that may or may not exist. what the... no one can help me, so what happened to god? are you trying to say that in the end i'm left all alone? your argument doesn't make any sense at all. [1]actually we can. we can even make our own story for our dream. [2]everyone has the ability to interpret their own dreams. it's not god-given, it's what we have learned through our daily adventures in life, like studying. it so happens that you say it was given to you by god because that's what you believe in. [3]really? so how do you become the lucky guy huh? so you instantly get shunned by him if you don't believe in him. okay, fair enough. [4]are you sure? you know, i have suffered pain, emotional pain, more than any people can imagine. i constantly seek for answers of why do i keep on suffering the same pain over and over. that's something your god can't even answer. devouts always say "god doesn't give you anything that you can't hadle", but that answer doesn't lead to anything at all.

well what happened between you and her bestfriend is part of the past. but i do believe you have to patch things up with that person before you make a move on this girl. past is past, but you'll have problems if this bestfriend of hers if you didn't have any closure. and to make things a bit more challenging is that this is her bestfriend. you won't be able to impress her if you had a bad image with her friend(s). so you have to impress her friends first before you make your move.

oh i thought you were referring to windows update. if that's what you're talking about, i think you could turn it off in the control panel (start > control panel > windows update).the last time i had that same problem, i found out that it was a virus that attacked my pc. you might want to give your system a full scan just in case. sometimes the virus mask itself as a normal winodws program and install itself in the system so when the computer starts, it would run or if you connect to the internet it would "download" stuff that would harm your system.

good for you!it's really surprising that there are long distance relationships that do end up, as the cliche goes, "happily ever after" (that is before the marriage, not after--you know, like how telenovelas usually end up and no, i'm not a telenovela freak ). usually when people say "long distance relationship", it is usually "doomed long before it has even started". the physical distance disconnects the emotions attached between the lovers. thank goodness for technology which helps us to get reconnected with our loved ones that has been separated for some time. not so long ago, people have to wait for a long time before they're able to get their reply via snail mail. telephones give the "presence" factor, but at the expense of your pocket money. when email was discovered, it became a huge milestone for communication. in just a click of a button, you'll be able to send your mail and expect a reply within minutes.your story says it all: constant communication helps a relationship bloom despite the geographical separation. as most people say "to keep the love burning". personally i don't know how that feels, but this isn't about me, so whatever, right?congratulations to you and your other half.