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This is a very good site (and project, altough I didn't hear of it). It came quite good as I just ran out of music to listen to and did not know what to do.Of course it has some glitches (putting in Mike Oldfield gave me some techno tracks too), but it's a wonderful tool.Two thumbs up!

Learning an arabic language seems a nice idea too. Or Indian. Anyway, I plan to travel a lot, to countries with radically different culture than mine and would want to communicate with the people and learn about their vision. From this point of view Indian (as the language spoken in India - is that correct?) would be my choice. But I think I will stick to German

I don't know but it attracts me. Maybe because Hungarian has too much "rhythm" and Romanian is too "melodic". And English lacks the salt and pepper. The harshness of the German seems something nice for my ears.

hehe, how different are you Americans (I presume) from us Europeans :rolleyes:I would recommend that you spend a lot of time with the girl, mostly communicating. Take her to new places, teach her stuff, spend time, talk talk talk.If it works out, she will be convinced and most importantly - YOU will be convinced that this relationship is good and will survive.

Sorry, but if we put so much energy into deciding that Intelligent Design and/or Evolution is science and that is should be teached or not, we are letting ourselfs into accepting some serious presuppositions - what should be teached, what is science, was there ever an immanent God or can a biological creature (an "animal") make an ontological mutation so that it BECOMES another animal? If you ask me, I consider that evolution is part of the intelligent design. Given a set of elements (given in the sense of intelligent design), they are let to evolve in an expected way. "Let to evolve" and "expected way" may seem somewhat contradictory, but they aren't. It dependes on our vision of evolution and our vision of predestination. We have to accept that our actions are influented (even determined) by exterior factors - and still we are free (ar we?) to do what we want. Somewhat the same is the situation with the contradiction. Anyway, to answer the original question, either all the alternatives should be taught, or none.

I don't know from where did you come up with your "interpretations" but here I offer you a quote from Wikitionary.org: and Dictionary.com: Notice from KuBi: Copied from..well, you listed to links. Warning Issued. When you copy things from other sites make sure to use

Well my native language is Hungarian and my second is Romanian. Because I live in Romania but I am a Hungarian :)My third language, which I learned from the time I was 4 or 5 years old is English. I have a beginner's level in French and German (learned French 6 years in school and German 2 years with tutor).I am looking at the possibility of learning Russian or continuing my German, but don't really have the time the mood and the money.

Well I enjoy photographing. And that's why I'm an art student Other things may include going to the university, filming, talking to my gf, reading philosophy, creative writing, cooking, listening to music, watching good movies, going to strange places (and my city has quite some), going with my gf without destination around the city and finding cool places, going to the Central Universitary Library (very big & quiet & civilized), going to a beer with friends, writing in my blog, working in the darkroom, dreaming, listening what others dreamed of, going into restricted areas (and then RUN!), participating to debates, moderating debates aaaand that's what I can think of now.I try to enjoy life

Hehe, first casette bought was a Best Of from Eagles. Yes I am such a classic I liked it because it had a red-and black cover and a big american highway on it. I listened to it a few times but didn't like it. It was my ABBA period But then I really started to like Eagles. Heck, I even got the tape HERE, right beside me.

I can't beleive what I am reading here! What do they teach you in school?1. The fleet attacked in pearl harbour was a military fleet. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki the victims were civilians.2. The USA guilty for war crimes for which it didn't pay.History is to be written by the victors. Amen.

(sorry I don't have edit button )The F55 isn't cheap because it's "bad". Or well - it depends how do you understand "bad". It has the same metering sistem as the F80 or F100. The same exposure programs. The same mount. The same electronics. But you won't get a pentaprism - which means small and dark viewfinder. You won't get a dampened mirror. You won't get DOF preview. And the whole thing is in a flimsy case which I recommend you don't drop.

Nikon E55 doesn't exist. Maybe F55 :)What you want will cost you. And cost you big. And it isn't such a small decision. First - I would like to ask - why would you want a SLR?Second - you got to choose not between a machine or another but between systems. Nikon Canon Minolta Pentax et caetera.If you want to do some art photography, I even recommend buying an Asahi Pentax Spotmatic II (with working lightmeter - or better a separate lightmeter for 100$ more). The Pentax wouldn't cost more than 150$ and the rest you can put away for film and processing or buy another lens.

lables are a commodity. people have the urge to structure the world around them. what they see on surface - that they use to memorize a particular person. beleive me, it would be REALLY tireing if you had to consider everybody as an unique and complete individual. so to say, "one girlfriend/boyfriend is enough". and as you can't go deep inside everyone, only on certain aspects, for the rest you leave the label. don't get me wrong - of somebody sees you as a cutter and then changes the opinion - he changes the label.labels are "shortcuts to attitudes".they are psychologically normal.

About the Bible - I ask myself how many of you commenting on it have ever heard of the septuagint? "Mistakes" are not a matter of saying a word in place of another. Not even saying a whole paragraph in place of another. The mistakes and the lack of fundamental understanding of the Old Testament from the loss of the original old testament texts. They were written in the basic syntactical structures of the OLD hebrew language. One language - one undestanding of the world. Translation is NOT possible - and I tell you this as a quite qualified man in semiotics. But when the jews realized that they were forgetting the old hebrew, 72 wise men gathered and translated the bible to old greek. That was the septuagint. The main thing is to understand that it-is-not-the-same. It may contain the same words, but the DEEP meaning is lost. It still can be used as moral guidance, but the real meaning of the words of Adonai (the term Yahve meaning God was only used in the new testament), the so to speak metaphysical content was lost. (They are some who seek it, founding science of hermeneutics, but there is a long way. Too long.) So I wouldn't say we should make a debate on the old testament - manily that even the Catholic church uses it ONLY as moral guidance. About the new testament - there is something fishy going on ( - that was actually funny, the fish being the symbol of christians in the Roman era). Jesus Christ is an avatar of God. A profet, so to speak. But in other religions - in almost ALL the religions which have at least transcendent God - there is also an avatar, resembling Jesus very closely. Mohhamed for Allah for example. And if we are already here, we can see a lot of concordances between the greek mythology, the norse mythology and the old testament. One truth exists. Does it worth searching for? I cannot reply but with a quote from the Majjhimanikaya (I,426): Reply to Thorned Rose on the subject of meditation >> Yes, Mosques, Synagogues, Temples would be nice - if they were. Here I have only a Catholic cathedral (in which nobody goes...) and Orthodox basilicas. And I don't like to go there because you have no means to sit down. I mean I would sit on the ground, but because of the people going there on masses all stand on foot, the carpets are dirty and smell bad. Parks, Beaches, Libraries are not good, I prefer to be alone. And not even a walk in the forest doesn't suit me. But this is how I am Religion isn't a must, I agree - but don't you think that all manifestation of man with relation to God is "religion"? Religion doesn't have to be organised (and this is what I think you ment) and I totally agree with you. To be a good man or not? There are many directions one can follow. Ethics. My favourite branch of philosophy The Christian ethics are just one. It's kind of funny that the teachings in this direction differ between the old and new testament Personally - in a question of ethics I go with Nietzsche's opinion. (NO, he was not an atheist). (Animals have souls? )

Well breaking up sucks.When I broke up with my ex, I was down and lonely for a month or so. And it was a splendid summer! Damn I hate her for this The current situation is much more complicated than a simple breakup. First, she broke up with her boyfriend to be with me. He was a weak man - as in no will, no opinions (don't understand this as something negative, I consider my character, having "too much will" and too dominant a bigger flaw) - and that wasn't what the girl was NEEDING. She needed somebody like me and I needed somebody like her. We communicate like something out of this world and resolve every fight, every misunderstandint (and we had lots).But problems came. After he broke up with him - she freaked out and went back to him. And never wanted to see me again. And neither did I. But we had too strong bonds, even after TWO MONTHS (she was with her bf for 2 years and 1/2) of dating. So, after a week of she breaking up with me we started to talk and stuff and she again cheated on him. And the main thing was that this wasn't the sexual cheating. Sex was the cherry on top, when we both felt we love eachother. So she broke up with him again. And after two weeks she came to me and said she was ready for a relationship. I was surprised, wanting to give her the time she needed (learning from past mistake). Ok, so we were together again, enjoying life. But things gone bad - again. She left me and got drunk and sent him a message that she loves him and want to be with him. I really respect him cuz he didn't answer and didn't take it serious. I was going to leave her forever, not talk to her again in my life. And she wanted to be with him too... but destiny has a loooong hand and we got again to talking phase, working together phase, sex phase and so on.But she feels "plain". And doesn't want a relationship. And keeps contact with him, talking daily and hanging out like once in two weeks. I really don't know if this is right and if she continues this will she ever be ready for a new relationship.Well this is my experience. And I would like an opinion about this last thing concerning "is this right for the future?". I really love her.