Okara KAmi

Well here's what I did. I made a Naruto site a while back, based solely around the discussion of the recently released comics and the released Anime episodes. My goal was to create a healthy community in which my real life friends and I could discuss, debate, and have fun, with people around the world. With that in mind, me and 2 of my friends started. I needed members, of course, because there are tons of Naruto sites out there in the wide expanses of the interwebz, so I aimed for the core. Always aim for the core. What is your intended population? Naruto readers/watchers. What do I KNOW Naruto readers/watchers do? Well I KNOW that they read & watch Naruto. So I contacted a youtube user (back when youtube allowed manga to be posted up), and asked him to join the site. He was ready and willing to advertise my site with every manga that he released. In a week, I had about a thousand members on the forum that I ran, and about 3% of them went inactive, everyone else was booming and lively. The concept behind this is that when you aim for a certain group of people, stab your advertisements right at the core of all of their similarities. In my view, their Narutardness was what made them... Naruto followers, so I took the most active youtube provider of Naruto manga at the time, and made him my advertiser. This was all when I used invisionfree, without hosting or any real flashy material, simple stuff. Now in terms of content, like a user on the first page said, originality is key. You can't hope to give someone what they would already get on a more famous, efficient, and popular site. If you can give the users a reason to come to you, instead of to the other Narutards out there that have the candy hanging from their window, then you've got a win win situation.

That's weird because I read this other book, um what was it called... uh... Cinderella? Yea that, and it said that if I can just sing enough and dance with rodents, I'll meet a hansom prince one day and we will eventually get married and live happily ever after. Wait... what's that? Cinderella isn't true? You say it's just a book? Well... then why not the Bible?I'm just kidding, you are free to practice your religion. But, is there any proof of the existence of God, anywhere? Now I do hope one wouldn't list a confounding array of 'miracles' that one so conveniently attributes to 'God' because then one would be making quite the logical fallacy. Here's what I think. Now be warned, I am an Agnostic, leaning towards Atheism, so what I say may be pure idiocy and complete rubbish, as obviously I am not as aware of the truth as you are, but do humor by lunacy for the briefest moment:Live your life the way you want to. Do what comes natural to you, not what you do when in fear of judgment. Live as though no one will come to you and judge you, banishing you to hell based on his opinion. Live like there isn't a colossal entity staring down at you with a giant sniper rifle, waiting to shoot you to hell if you don't ask for forgiveness. Why? Because there was no God back in cavemen days. There was no Bible either. There was, indeed, a Bible later on. What does that mean? Well that means someone, a human person, or more likely a group of scholars, wrote the Bible. Now humans aren't to be trusted. After all, look at me, I'm the crazy lunatic trying to tell you that there is no God, right? So what makes this one book so important that you should curb your true self in fear of damnation?Here's what I feel. Religion, across the globe, was made as a way to unite a group of people. That one idea that unites a million people could be a man nailed to a cross, a great Joo Joo at the bottom of a river, or maybe ten thousand deities with multiple arms and magical weapons. But the point is, it's an idea, meant to better ourselves and tie us together. So sure, if you're going to use the idea of Jesus Christ in order to mimic his good will, then go for it. If you'll read the Mahabharata to learn from Krishna's teachings to Arjuna, go for it. Heck, if you want to learn how to get your 'game on' from the great Zeus, go for it. Just don't let religion put fear into you. I don't believe that was what it was made for. I apologize if this has offended anyone, it was not my intent to do so.

No, it's not. The argument that Homosexuality is against he natural order of things, and is thus pushing us towards destruction, are either blissfully ignorant, or artfully evasive, of the various other aspects of our society that are far worse than the 'gay man.' Smoking kills our lungs, do we do it? Yes, we do. I don't mean you, the reader, in particular, but as a general presence, the human race does indeed indulge in smoking. Salt and sugar are white poisons, they kill our health, but have you ever looked at how much salt is used in a sirloin steak? Countries everywhere bathe in the white powder that kills us little by little each time we have a spoon in our food. My point is, that the argument that 'this isn't how nature intended it,' means that we should all be hunting dear and wearing their skin for clothing. Nature has little to do with this. We, as a society, have moved FAR away from what Nature had ever intended. That doesn't mean that we are in the wrong, that doesn't mean salt and sugar are wrong, that smoking is the cause of our destruction, or that homosexuality is the apocalypse, it just means that we, as a race, have our own way of doing things. Nature had intended for a variety of things, but again, that's nature. Science can have only so much power over the human mind, especially when we are dealing with a billion human minds, because at that point, culture, religion, society, media, popularity, and everything gets added into the equation. Sure, Homosexuality isn't the biologically correct way to continue a generation, but so what? We aren't in a scarcity of humans such that each and every one of us should turn up the Elton John music and start popping out babies, right? It's ignorant of anyone to ignore the millions of other aspects that make us who we are, and cite only Nature, when judging the authenticity of homosexuality. Also, the above poster is quite wrong in their assumption. Statistically speaking, half the world could be homosexual, but that wouldn't lead us to any hint of extinction. But, to humor the few of us who like to scream 'we're all gonna die!!' at the turn of every corner, let's ASSUME that 100% of the world's population is homosexual. Oh no, no one is having sex with the opposite kind, whatever shall we do... Oh wait... there's already a solution to that. IF something like that ever happened, we would see it coming from a decade away, prepare the right system of artificial insemination, and the human race's apocalypse goes poof. It's simple really, I don't know why any one would say homosexuality is wrong. That's like me saying "Red is wrong, because 75% of the earth was blue when it was made!!! Blue is the way nature intended it dammit!!!" No offense to any one who sternly opposes homosexuality, I just wish we would have better reasons to narrow our own minds.

Does a sword make us weaker? The caveman who wrestled and pushed a deer down a cliff just to earn his living, was probably a lot stronger than a Samurai. Does a gun make us weaker? The Samurai, who's strength relies in swift and powerful strikes, is probably a lot stronger than a Sniper sitting up in a building, holding his breath and waiting to pull the trigger. But the weapons aren't to blame. A weapon is a tool. A tool is something that makes the general procedure of any given aspect more efficient, hopefully. How this greater efficiency affects the people/things involved in the process, can not be blamed on the tool itself. In this case, the internet gives us a generously easier way to communicate with an infinite amount of people. Sure, the presence of something like this makes the average Joe Bloggs want to stay at home and chat/game, where he could otherwise be outdoors Trick-Or-Treating. That isn't the inter-net's fault of course, it's Joe Bloggs who is unable to find the right balance between outdoors and indoors life, that is to blame. Same thing with most technology, they are made to benefit us, but when we grow slothful in the presence of these tools, we are to blame for being too darned lazy!

Everyone has them. Here are examples: 1) I was at college, and on the bus, there was a lady in front of me. She was in her 50's, and when she saw my Japanese Book, she started a conversation about it. We ended up talking about linguistics for the better half of the bus ride until she made the taboo move. We were talking about how kids don't "put in enough effort," and she said "i wish they would just put it in and get it over with." "That's what she said," I blurted, instinctively. The lady didn't talk much after that, and I felt like a fool. Darn it! 2) We were getting partnered up in our Calculus class. I was partnered up with a girl named Shyla. We were working on a pretty basic Curve-Area problem when BAM! She sneezed. Now sure, sneezes are fine and dandy, but not when you have snot hanging from you nose! She sat right in front of me! Obviously she didn't notice it, and I didn't really have a way of saying "hey look there's a booger bungy jumping from your nose, mind taking care of him?" so I didn't, and for the entirety of the class, I had to distract my wandering eyes with the not-so-interesting chalkboard. Darn it! See? They're just these horrible things that the big man up top gave us, so that he could watch and laugh. Why do they have to exist? Have ya'll had any bad ones recently?

Dude, if you want to lose weight while having a lot of fun in martial arts, you should definitely consider Capoeira. It's mostly a brazillian dance art which is translated into fighting. There is constant musical movement and it is largely based off of music and beats. You've got to admit, that sounds fun doesn't it? XD What I like most about it is the fact that it's not so cut throat and competitive, it's a lot more relaxed. If you aren't the most physically fit, I can almost guarantee you that the constant rhythmical movement will cut you thin in months. It's a strenuous practice, but the music and the beat help, a lot.

I find that religion is the brush, and your spirituality is the paint. With a religion, you can weave it into whatever masterpiece you want, taking from a pool of good will, kindness, and belief, that we call spirituality. But I think it might be more complicated than my little analogy can encompass, because that does not explain atheists, agnosts, In all honesty, I have felt that a religion is a mold for ones spirituality, and yes, some times a religion can help bring a communal sentiment together, intertwining with culture and inter-personal behavior, but there are also instances where religion can be harmful. Some times, I feel, religion has a way of narrowing our scope of things, and disallowing us from certain thoughts that might fall under the delightfully vague term of 'heresy.' If, without religion, we had some way to bring out the spiritual goodness in each other, and avoid the forced beliefs and controvertible assertions, I think we would be a lot better off.

Now here's the thing, Paranormal Activity, the movie, was lame. I know it was made off of a low budget scheme, but the idea behind it was a poor regurgitation of the Blaire Witch Project, or even Cloverfield, where immediate Camera take is translated into scenes and is thus the entirety of a movie, creating the illusion of realism to it. Some things I didn't like about the movie were:1) The Ghost-ologist, the one who said that there was a demon in the house, and that he couldn't help them, he overacted. I don't mean emotionally, I mean professionally, his acting was poor for the role. It was cliche of him to hint at the fact that he shouldn't be there right now, and that he should leave, as the demonic presence was growing increasingly aware of his unwelcome existence. It just seemed like a cheap delineation of an old horror flick where the shaman gasps in fear, points at you, and says there is a great evil spirit haunting you, and that he must flee. It's been done before, and will be done again, unfortunately.2) The camera made me want to puke cows. Just when you thought it was possible, when you sip your Cola and giggle to yourself, certain that Okara KAmi can not puke out cows, he does it. The camera had way too much motion to it some times. Now, with the given type of video take, sure you want motion, to make it more realistic, and make it seem like "oh wow this is actually happening to them, cuz he's holding the camera, seeing it." But that only matters in paranormal scenes, where something spooky happens, and your camera is moving to remind the watchers that this is a bit more real than they are used to. But when the two protagonists are having a conversation, and the man holding the camera decides to teach the damned thing how to do the irish jig, I, the viewer, found myself defying biologists everywhere. I puked out a cow. Yes, his name is Woof. Don't ask why.3) Boom scares annoy me. A scary movie is scary when the plot to it just straight out haunts you. What annoy me are the movies where they use loud sounds and sudden movements to startle the audience, then claim that this was a scare. The entire movie moved super slow, even the night scenes where the demon is walking around, until finally one last bang occurs. The door slams, or the dude goes flying, or some loud noise happens, stuff like that, and the crowd gets startled. Not scared, but startled. And this, apparently, was what made the movie so scary. I admit, the last scene was well directed, the idea behind it was tasteful and not so horribly cliche, but in the end, the girl's acting made it awkward. Was it just me or did her evil face look like like your 2nd grade teacher's smile after you broke a crayon? Okay so I had a creepy childhood, leave me alone. All in all, Paranormal Activity failed to scare me or my friends much =( But back to the topic at hand!! I am a strict nonbeliever in the paranormal. Years ago when they could not explain thunder and lightning, they said it was Zeus, displaying his wrath down upon the human race. Now, we have a clear explanation for that. Similarly, now when we hear eerie foot steps walking around in the attack while none of the boxes move, we attribute it to a scary ghost that's trying to find the bathroom, where as reality might argue that it's just a leak in the roof that's causing the water to drop in some hollow pipe, causing the foot step noises. We don't know, and that's the catch, there's no way of proving one or the other, so I guess we might as well just go with whatever floats our boat. I'd rather not believe that there is a demon behind me, breathing down my neck, right now. But hey, that's just me.

I think a lot of the accusations posed towards America in terms of aggressive political monopolization over the 2nd tier members of our world, is an act of unintentional ignorance. If you look at the progressive committees in the United Nations, you will see that the United States has always promoted the greater representation of the third world. It spent millions of dollars sending the most amount of doctors (to ever take part in an overseas salvage mission) to places like Darfur. The United States has been the only country to organize and deploy an organized military campaign when credible threats to world peace surfaced in the form of Weapons of Mass Destruction. But again, these aforementioned facts serve only to promote my opinion. Here's the thing about anti-American propaganda. It revolves around the basis that America has wronged several countries, and asserts the statute of logic that the speaker, and his point of view, is affected by no bias other than the one forced upon him by American oppression. Here is what's innately wrong. America is a powerful presence in the First World, and almost every decision it makes is bound to be scrutinized and pulled apart. But does that mean that we, as a civil representation of balance, should so easily assume the first notion we receive. When huge tanks traveled across the Pacific, from the West Coast of America to the shores of Japan, their only purpose was to open trade routes and alliances with the said country. What seemed like eons of self sufficiency had kept Nihon (Japan) far from the world's rate of advancement in terms of science, technology, and communications. But, when the fishers off of the shore of Japan saw the American steam ships arrive, what was their first notion? Those ships were the black dragons. Enormous and horrifying, American attempts were immediately antagonized by the Japanese public. This is what is happening now, when much of the third world is given greater doses of American exposure. Of course, any incursion upon the skin of a calm surface will be seen as a hindrance, because a rock can not drop into water with a ripple, but that does not, however mean, that the rock will not ultimately benefit the well. In relevant, and not so horribly allegoric, terms, we have America's sphere expansion at hand. What it seems to be moving towards, is the globalization of democratic governments through out the world, so that decisions can be made quicker, and no one country is left out of the loop. When all fish swim the same way, we have a very fast school. Now I know many of America's approaches are wrong, and much of it's political assertions are brutal, but we have a lot worse going on in the world (not saying any names), so why stab the guy trying to set things straight? Concerning the American 'illusion' that was mentioned earlier. I think it is silly of us to stand about on the outside of a shell, and say that the inside knows less about itself than we do. Every country, regardless of it's name or location, practices 1984ism to some extent. That is the inevitable price you pay to lead an innumerable number of people. Democracy is like Communism, theoretically perfect, but practically unreachable. And due to that fact, everyone has a safeground in the middle, between deception and idealism, where they find their country balanced. Saying that the American people live a lie is a gross misinterpretation of millions of human lives that will beg to differ, and are probably more right than any one person can claim. I think what I'm trying to say is, don't blame America for being the one who asks the most questions in the classroom, he's not retarded, he just believes that he is helping.

I'm malayali, a close cousin to the tamils, originating in the same time and region. Contrary to what one might believe this post is about, I think our number system is inefficient. My argument is based off of the original use of numbers. Numbers, like words, ideas, movements, and kisses, are used to convey a message. There are 3 pigeons on a tree. The number 3 is used to convey the amount of pigeons that i refer to. But what happens when numbers grow smaller or larger? What if I wanted to say that micro-organism is 0.00000000000000044 times the size of a human hair? Now my use of that number 0.0000000000000044, becomes somewhat obsolete. Why? Because those many zero's inhibit my capacity to judge that number. Want proof? Look up at the two times I posted that small number. Did you notice that the second instance of that '44' number is 10x as large as the first? Yea, I took out a 0, but how likely is it for someone to pick that up? Not very. To solve that problem, we have scientific notation. So the first number would be 4.4 x 10^-16, while the second number would be 4.4 x 10^-15. Now you can easily tell that those numbers are different. Problem solved. How does that apply to Tamil's form of numeric classification? Well look at how they have gone about labeling their numbers. 10000000000000000000000 = Mahayugam. Where, in the God's blue earth, will I refer to this number as Mahayugam? How much easier would it be if I just said 1.0 x 10^22? Language, all languages, are made to express culture, while communication sentiments. "A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols," says WordNetWeb, defining the word as an entity that revolves around the transfer of information. When I tell you that "ende mollil oru mahayaguthande athire kodhugu ondu." (translation: there's like ten sextillion mosquitos on me x_x ahh) Like scientific notation, adding prefixes to numbers decreases the amount of nomenclature risks we take. Wha if English was set up like this: 10: ten 100: hundred 1000: thousand 10,000: quagmire 100,000: giggidy giggidy 1,000,000: million 10,000,000: fofillion 100,000,000: pikachu ...and so on... it would be a lot harder to communicate numbers. It's easier to understand 10 million, than it is to comprehend 'pikachu' means, right? I'm not saying Tamil Nadu was wrong in the language they created, but I think for the world today, where progress and prosperity is defined selfishly upon science and economics, (and not at all on culture ;_, that number system has become long out dated.

wowza o_o That's... bad. Lol okay so I've never been attacked by dog hair, nope =) And yes, the shoes now a days are indeed kinda' ugly, well most of them. I still think every once in a while, I'll buy a Jordans just for its looks =3 ~Kami

Haha I like that idea, except I think a zombie twist of that'd be awesome. Have the protagonist be a rebel scientist who was booted from a government run organization for protesting the development of a man-killer drug. Now he's a family man, with two kids and a loving wife, who he is unable to support after getting fired from the only job around that'd hire him. This causes his wife to leave him, as she takes the kids with her and leaves him alone. A day later there is news that the train that his family was traveling on got into a major wreck and there were only a handful of survivors. The main character grows into a miserable man by the time that there is a leak in the 'man-killer' drug that was before mentioned. It starts to kill off citizens in the area until the infected flee, infect others, and cause a pandemic. The growing havoc is the perfect situation for our main character to extract his revenge. He starts giving everyone a fake cure that puts them into a partial comma, so that they only obey his comma. With this, once the patient dies of the disease, he is revived again as a zombie that does whatever the old man says. The movie continues as the disease is taken under control by the United Nations but the old man still has an increasing arsenal of zombies. Killing off those responsible for his firing all those years back, the government finally catches on and begins to hunt down the man. Taking down all of the zombies, the government finally takes the old man down. He is sentenced to death, but before he dies, his ex-boss, now a highranking official, offers him the same vaccine he offered to the others. ``` Okay so I got carried away with the zombie stuff >w> But still! I think it'd be a cool movie :3 ~Kami

erm...o_ouh...Ooh I've had a day where my sneakers were just horrible, they were these Converses that had the ugliest curve on their toes and I swear every step I took reminded me of how terrible those sneakers were. And then, by the end of school someone goes right ahead and blurts out something like, "those shoes are lame," something like that, jokingly of course. And here I am, suffering like a frog with its tongue in spinach soup, wanting to liberate that guy's head from his body, y'know, to give him some wiggle room >_>But that's probably the worst I've had, in terms of clothing. Oh wait! And then there was this NBA Street V2 shirt, where this dude named 'Stretch' was in the cover and everyone kept calling him Jimmy Hendrix >_<Yea.

When you open your eyes wider, does the world grow larger or does your perception of what has always been available, increase? The answer is the latter, nothing really changes other than how you read the given material at hand. In this case, time is existent and parallel to our presence in the universe. What that entails is that time is a thread of continuity that goes on without ever being affected by our actions. (Various theories about the cycling of this thread and so on have been formed, but let's not get into that.) Now what happens here is that when the man is dropped, his sense overwork themselves, as was previously stated under the classification of adrenaline. This man is not altering anything in terms of the flow of time, and his power over the lapsing of events is minimal, but what he sees, analyzes, and understands, become wider. Again, the widening of the eyes. The human body is designed to live in a world of danger, geared to relinquish many other functions when in need of one. In this case, when falling, the body finds the most use in perception, some way to escape the unfavorable situation. When this effect kicks in, the mind absorbs more. Relating back to the video, I think the dropped man wasn't experiencing a slower flow of time, but a higher rate of comprehension, and due to the lack of a set reference point, some may faultily jump to conclusions. That's my two cents about the situation, not really sure if the analogical reference to the eye opening made much sense, but it did when I was typing. ~Kami

Ah I see your dilemma Galexcd. But global warming aside, this thought of yours essentially spans into a lot of other conservative movements we ensue. Fact of the matter is that most of the things that we humans do is to set a grounds for justice. Law, government and all other shapes and forms in the hierarchy of truth is made to decree justice. Why? To stabilize the world for our kind. So right about then you ask... why care so much for our kind? Well I've asked myself that many of times while laying on the bed after an unsatisfactory hour of Zelda playing >_> The answer is, we shouldn't care at all. In a world where I had enough power to deem my words the law, I would end all humanity just so that we wouldn't waste so much time for the fight of survival. Now yes that could come out as rather inhumane, but if you think about it...We as humans spend so many of this planet's natural resources to keep ourselves alive. Our demands increase and we indulge in this chaos that we optimistically call life, but in the end, it's just a bunch of insignificant organisms doing insignificant things for an insignificant amount of time... producing an insignificant result. We were never important, we were products of a chain of random mutations (Darwin) and we will only serve to further progress the scientific line of evolution. Life in itself has had no ever lasting impact on the universe, on a macroscopic sale (one which I tend to peer through at times like this) all forms of life are just inhabitants, and nothing else. Every colossal change in our realm, like the big bang, or a supernova, anything of relative importance to an astroscopic (<--made up) view had nothing to do with life.Yet here we are, fighting for animal rights, fighting for civil rights.... but why? Say if in a horribly contorted delineation of this reality, where I am of magnanimous power, I decided to end it all. Wouldn't that make everything simple? If I found a way to end all life on earth, and something similar happened to every other location in the universe where there is life... would there even be a change? No. So here's my conclusion, life? The time space continuum is better off without it. Now you asked before, how would we do this? How would we stop life in our planet? Simple. Genocide. With the nuclear fire power in our arsenal we can destroy the world several times over. Someone's just gotta push the big red button and boom =) Now if only people around the universe would think like me, we could make things so much simpler XD~just my opinion~sry if I sounded like a maniac

I think you mean define:joke in google. Because if I look up the words 'define:joke' I wouldn't find it in the dictionary I'm just kidding. Also even if that photo was taken via tripod, you should have at least given me credit for photoshopping it and cutting out the background and pasting it on an outer space picture with clearly what looks like bad rendering XD Think about what you said about gravity. Let's just say that were true for a second, that the earth is traveling up at that speed... that would mean after all this time, ever since the beginning of space and time, if the earth had been increasing at that speed... we would be going at trans-light speed upwards. Meaning we wouldn't just have been shot into the earth far before now, but we would all be converted to plasma as matter can't sustain the same properties under such speeds. Also if we were to reach such speeds our momentum would be enough to break the Sun's gravitational pull and we would dart at ever-increasing speeds towards different galaxies... *define:joke in google* ...wait so that whole Earth thing was a joke...? Oooh. *ninja poofs away*

lol make people start thinking. Silly Galexcd, thinking is for people who can get past mirror-lines XD *points at Multiple Universe thread*Well if I ever had an idea of a social experiment, which I too often find myself in the abundance of, I would completely efface someone's memory, and put them in a bubble. Soon after, I would observe how they develop. Without memory, how would we exist? We grow up because our parents teach us, raise us or at least something does. This nourishes our memory with fuel to survive. Without that fuel, how would we exist? Coming to my point. Without memory, would we exist? We need our senses to record memory, like a book without pages, we use different pens to ink down facts, feelings and opinions. If we had no memory of anything, and if we were isolated in a realm with nothing in it to affect us and give us a memory to tap into... we wouldn't be. Like a spec of insignificance stranded in the void we would be... pointless? That then means that memory gives us existence. So altering it, would mean altering who we are. :)Yay more notes on how to become a better dictator.

What i meant by the deck theory is we mix the deck. I pick mine up and bring it to Kami's (Kami is my mirror). We push until some of teh cards cave in and slip between the others. This way we have one deck that's mixed randomly with cards, then we pull apart and take any cards we can get with our fingers, and shuffle them. Basically I was hoping that mixing and shuffling can help break continuum. But that is also flawed. Why?Because when we push to mix the decks, we move and shift the same way, with the same force. Meaning no matter what our cards will be exactly aligned, neither side sliding in any way as they are faced with their counterpart in symmetry. So what is the only other solution? We use computers :)We make two computers, one of mine and one of Kami's face each other in Tic Tac Toe. The computers would go on until there was a winner. But a problem with that is that the computers would have no way of deciding who goes first. This brings me to something interesting. Say if there were two mirror universes, this means that there's a line between them that defines the others boundaries. That line is the half way mark, because at that line, if I reach over, the other side will meet me and we will be at a stale mate. This way, we would never be able to get past that line. I will go back to thinking of a way to get past that mirror-line as I now call it XD

Well Galexcd you have to consider the fact that if we were to meet. Say for example you were to meet with your exact clone. Then you would think the same, do the exact same thing down to atomic movement. This means that of course having a conversation would only be two voices saying the same thing at the same time. So how to do you solve the problem? You take two decks, mix them with the other, then you split in half. Then you shuffle the two decks and draw, whoever gets the higher number, talks first. Why go through all the trouble? Because starting a conversation with someone who does the EXACT same thing as you is impossible without the use of chance. So using two decks will let someone go first. Having a conversation, you can confirm that where they came from is exactly the same as yours. Then... you turn around and go home. Why?Well what's the point in exploring a universe that is exactly the same? Plus I'd like to meet me. I'd finally find someone who I can COMPLETELY relate to XD 'Suppose we meet our own selves from a parallel universe, that would sort of crumble the very basis of our existence wouldn't it?'Elessar why do you say that?I mean sure the sense of individuality would forever be effaced XD But how bad can that be? I don't think knowing that there is an exact copy of your reality somewhere else would deter me. It would encourage me more because I know that someone else out there is doing the exact same thing I am... wouldn't want to let them down now would I? Though... that would make private moments a little less... private. And secrets would be mutual to every me out there. But those speculations always share one feature. No matter what, they wouldn't affect us, and if we did some how interact, then it would be totally awesome. Why?Well firstly, we would have the mirror problem. The first of us to meet would have to find a way to get past the fact that the other does and thinks the same things. Once the mirror barrier would be defied (through smart usage of luck/chance) then the mirror universe would no longer be mirror. Because the slightest incongruity would mean they they no longer imitate each other, and when we get back to our respective universes, we would say different things. Basically we defy the mirror and then we are set from there.The next part is mixing. Having a double world could drastically increase productivity :)Though I can see how it can be horribly negative (criminals etc.) but I'm sure we can find a way to handle such situations. As long as we avoid war, we should be able to work at double if not higher efficiency.

Well I think the memory in itself is not something we can possibly understand. Because as you said 'Acratings' that we have a lot of untapped memories. The car accident one interested me the most as it seems he was able to somehow reach into underlying knowledge of the language he had gained from reading and all, and it came to use for the few moments that his mind was in limbo. This juts goes to prove that the power of our mind is far greater than anything we can possibly fathom. Galexcd I recommend not thinking that way. Why? Because this type of thinking is too much for small people like us to handle XD I know what you're saying, as if what is happening now, me typing this post is a chain of events that are recycled. My memory of the past is fabricated and any hope for the future is narrowed down to a restart of the few moments that I have now. Life could even be 1 second, where everything before it was just a memory, made up and the 1 second of life was reused over and over. But the way I see it, who cares? If it is, then so be it. If I am stuck in a loop, as long as I don't know about it, I'm fine. If I do find out my life is but the cycling of events and usage of a made up past, then I might think of a way to break the cycle. Then again what if:You were replaced by a clone with the exact same memories and features and everything as you.You were killed and that clone took your place in life. And the person who is reading my post right now is the clone and not the real you. The memories of this clone tell it that it is real but the real you may be lost forever. Wouldn't that be a bummer? XDMemories is what assures us. Memories give us aspirations, memories give us hope, memories teach us lessons. Without memories we would be vegetables, void of anything above instinct. Without them I doubt we could call ourselves human =) In loss of memory I don't mean amnesia, because even in that state, you remember how to speak, basic functions and fundamental life.---Want to know a scary possibility. A government, with the given resources, could change the memories of its population to produce a result. For example, maybe 9-11 never happened, maybe the memory of it was just fake and the monument in its place was built there from the start, rather than over the ruins of a fallen building. Maybe the motivation it gave us to fight the war against terrorism was purely surreal, created to draw out support. Of course though it may be a far fetched possibility, I'm just saying that it could be one example of how memory defines us.

Awe I'm not a girl, so you can skip my post here if you want u_u *facepalms*But if I were to go on adventures with an anime character, then I'd pick someone ultra cool like um...Well it's a tie between Itachi and Link. Itachi is this guy from Naruto, part of a secret organization of rogue ninjas that are ultra pwnsome. Without spoiling Manga occurrences, I'll just say he has sweet eye techniques that include illusion and hot black flames O_OLink is the guy from Legend of Zelda... enough said.I think I'd go with Link. I liked Ocarina of Time (game) so much that I would totally want to go through what he went through. I don't know if this is the game-addict or anime-fan side of me that is speaking but I'd say going around with Link would be cool. And in the Zelda world, everything is innocent, so no one would judge me based on the fact that I'm traveling with a guy in a skirt o_OInuyasha would be cool, but I don't know, he's seem boring compared to others in Anime's I've seen. I mean if why not someone like Yugi from Yugioh? I mean think about the world he lives in. They base their economy and business on children card games XDDD That would totally rock, if wallstreet was juts a bunch of people with yugioh cards, going around dueling eachother for honor. Erm... back to the point.I would so totally go around with Link, especially to Gerudo Valley eheheheh =3Ok I'll leave now. =)

XD true rpgsearcher. Well why speculate over nonsense that obviously isn't true? Of course the world is round or else Gravity wouldn't work the way it does now. You need a sphere for the graviational pull at 0 level to be the same everywhere. If the Earth was any other shape, certain regions would have different gravitational pulls even at 0 level. By 0 level I mean sea level :DAlso, the planes flying underground and stuff. then how would they crash? How did 9-11 take place if planes went underground? Oh and Galexcd you're such a noob. Way to not mention me in your picture. I was the one who took the photo But it's fine, travel to the end of the world and refuse to mention the photographer... It's cool! *cries in a corner*Though I respect your opinion as one that you have every right to... I find the urge to state it's absurd! I'm just kidding. Well bring up solid proof and then maybe I'll even begin to think about thinking about it. Until then I shall sit here, somewhere off amidst the realm of the unspecified, sipping my cold tea (overdosed with sugar).

Well I think destiny doesn't exist. Why? Because for destiny to exist, the knowledge of the future has to exist, and that can not possible be in any archive, in any divine mind or plan as each of our actions are what determine the future. I believe that destiny was an idea that pacifies the soul. To think that there is a future that we can not avoid can often make us feel better in a tense situation. For example, if you were to have made a bad business decision and looked back on what you had done, it would be easier to face your failure by consoling yourself with the idea that your destiny had already been determined. This eases some of the weight of your choice off of your shoulders and onto that of the general plan of the world.Ravimal, as you said, Buddhism says things happen for a reason. People usually look at this sentence, smile and nod, and believe. But I tend to look at the reason behind this statement. Why would someone say things happen for a reason? Simple, to make the general population less stressed. If you were walking home and a bird pooped on your favorite shirt, it's easy to smile and say, "Oh well I'm sure it happened for a reason." But when you think about it, the whole 'reason' ideology was made to make people feel better about life. So that people can live without fearing every incident or mistake, Buddha's ideas preach a greater scheme of life. Ravimal, your example of the Sri Lankan fortune tellers is very hard to believe. This in no way discredits those who you appraise but as an atheist who sees no base in profound seeings of a man. I find it is impossible and only after seeing it or obtaining credited footage can I begin to formulate an opinion on such a thing. One thing about fortune telling is that through ambiguity they often gain the trust of their client. For example if I was a fortune teller and someone offered me cash to tell them the future I'd say something like:"You are nervous on the inside but show a strong exterior. You are not satisfied with what you have but soon, in about a month you will begin to find happiness."If some Tom, *BLEEP* or Harry hears that they would smile and nod, then pay the cash and leave. It's the use of such a general prediction that we often begin to trust in the supernatural. I think destiny is not real and it was made so that we weren't so scared by the weight of every choice that we make. This is probably because I am a very down to earth person who doesn't often waiver into the realms of the occult, or I just haven't seen enough to believe. -Just my opinion.

For me I think that my favorite things to do are quite varied. It's not something I easily noticed but when I tried spending one day bed ridden, I felt there were a few things that I didn't feel comfortable not doing XD 1. Sports. It can be Badminton, Basketball or Volleyball. Without at least one of those in my normal day I feel rather stagnant and tired. I have to find a way to spend my energy and sports are my favorite means to do that.2. Music. Now I'm not sure which one I like more, to listen to music or to make it, but without dose of musical coloring in my gray day I begin to feel bored. There has to be some way to keep my ears occupied >_>3. Friends. I have to talk to friends, they're always fun to talk to I guess. Some times that means chatting online or talking to them on the phone or personally. Without company my day feels lonely =_=But I think I listed the things in my life that I can't live without. But I don't think those are my FAVORITE things, just the things that I'm used to doing. Maybe, if I were to not look at what I now consider to be necessities, then I'd think my favorite thing to do is draw. I can live without drawing, but when I do, the world opens up to so many possibilities that I can put down on the piece of paper before me. It's complicated but that feeling just rocks.

Hell Ride Ok this idea is completely whack. Like you'll read this and want to chase me down and slaughter me before my children (don't have any but you get the point). But bare with me here if directed properly this could be a totally awesome film. Well i think so, and the ending is my favorite ok so there is this bus going down the road at an alarming speed right. With I don't know, a bunch of people. Then a conversation soon starts about how long the ride will be and we find out that this is no normal bus ride. We find out through layers of allusions that this is some demonic ride to a place that is more of an idea than a destination. Then we hear two people talking, one of them is crying and the other tells them its ok, hell will be fine. This is where we really find out that this is a bus ride to hell, and that every sinner who died today is going to hell on this ride. Then conversation breaks, maybe a fight between two and the driver tells them all to sit down and shut up. From here we draw into a conversation that is good enough to interest most if not all of them to listen and join. They are going around the bust asking each one to share their stories, well about what they did to get to hell. Each story is a haunting display of one of man's 7 sins, the others are just skipped, only the 7 main characters have stories relating to sins. Then we have an 8th person, who unlike teh rest of the bus refuses to tell anything about his doings. Everyone pesters him to speak but he doesn't. Then a crash and the bus is found to have run over the edge and slides a little off the road. The people get out as they wait for their tire to be repaired when night falls. The one guy who didn't tell anyone his story disappears and everyone goes to look for him because if he isn't taken to hell be becomes a lost soul. Soon everyone starts to die (well dieing here means you wander earth without a mind or purpose, same as getting lost). But no cause, they all seemed to have died of shock. After a long segment we find that the 8th guy, who is now found and detained after some weird behavior, was actually prying into people's worst nightmares and using them until the victim died of shock. There are now only the important 7 remaining and the 8th one is summarily killed by one of the 7. When they head back the bus driver has finished repairing the flattened wheel and believes the bus can work. They wait till morning to get back on the bus and as they ride they all get bored. Someone asks the bus driver what he did to get such a crappy job as driving people back and forth to and from hell. And that's where he turns around and says something spooky like: Oh I used to be a bus driver, but then I started murdering everyone who rode my bus. Then the movie ends with like the scream of those in the bus as they are about to die O_O eerie...