Therein lies the problem: most people HUGELY over-estimate their 'Acceptable risk level'.

- "This crumbling cliff edge above a 1,000 foot gorge is the PERFECT place for a selfie!" (one of the saddest deaths in WA was when one of the best skiers in the state decided to look over the edge of a cornice. It gave way and she fell almost a thousand feet to her death.)

- "100f and 0% humidity? What a perfect time to go for a 10 mile, uphill hike with only a can of Coke and some salty beef jerky!"

- "10 essentials? Beer, pot, lighter, cellphone, hat, earbuds, that little map they give you at the visitor center, more beer and is that 10?"

- "I can read a map just fine! This off-trail hike through a rugged part of the park will be breeze!"

- "I can get signal anywhere in this enormous national forest!"

- "Aww! What a cute little baby bear!"

- "Can we get an Uber at the bottom of this ravine?"

- "Let's go swimming! This raging river of snow melt will be the perfect place to cool off!"

etc etc etc

That's a Gorges dam.

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Ornery lil' bugga.

Oh, and...
"Lionfish are not native to the Atlantic Ocean. The venomous, fast reproducing fish are aggressive eaters and will consume anything and everything, gorging so much they are actually getting liver disease. With no known predators -- except human beings -- they can wipe out 90% of a reef." -http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/18/tech/innovation/lionfish-infestation-atlantic-linendoll/

Saints in hell pace the fucking gorge of everlasting fire for the hope surely wasted of one taste again of the nectar of the Russian god, Smetana...Beef Stroganovs' one 'o th' all-time fav-o-rite shinizzles!!!

And thats the rub - news was never meant to entertain. We have gorged ourselves on entertainment for so long that anything other than something that IS entertaining...is just seen as a waste of time (even though its beneficial!!).

This is where the Daily Show and Colbert Report format comes in handy. They have balanced analaysis of important issues, and its entertaining.

If CNN and MSNBC tried to mirror that (and somehow didnt fail miserably....), then we would all be better for it.

Don't call it a comeback, I'll have hair for years.

I'm scared. I'm scared that my abilities are gone. I'm scared that I'm going to fuck this up, and I'm scared of you.

I don't wanna' start, but I will.

This is an invocation for anyone who hasn't begun, whose stuck in a terrible place between 0 and 1.

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Let me realize that my past failures that follow through are no indication of my future performance, their just healthy little fires that are gonna' warm up my ass.

If my FILDI* is strong let me keep him in a velvet box until I really really need him.
If my FILDI* is weak let me feed him oranges and not let him gorge himself on ego and arrogance.

Let me not hit up my Facebook like it's a crack-pipe, keep the browser closed.

If I catch myself wearing a tutu (too), too fat too late too old, let me shake it off like a donkey would shake off something it doesn't like.

When I get that feeling in my stomach, you know that feeling when all the sudden you get a ball of energy and it shoots down into your legs and up into your arms and tells you to stand up and goto the refrigerator and get a cheese sandwich - that's my cheese monster talking. And my cheese monster will never be satisfied with cheddar, only the cheese of accomplishment.

Let me think about the people that I care about the most. And how when they fail or disappoint me I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them - let me extend that generosity to myself.

Let me find and use metaphors to help me understand the world around me, and give me the strength to get rid of them when it's apparent that they no longer work.

Let me thank the parts of me that I don't understand or are outside of my control, like my creativity and my courage.
Let me remember that my courage is a wild dog, it won't just come when I call it. I have to chase it down and hold on as tight as I can.

Let me not be so vain to think that I am the sole author of my victories, and a victim of my defeats.

Let me remember that the unintended meaning that people project on what I do is neither my fault, nor something that I can take credit for.

Perfectionism may look good in his shiny shoes, but he's a little bit of an asshole and nobody invites him to their pool parties.

Let me remember that the impact of criticism is often not the intent of the critic, but when the intent is evil that's what the block button is for.

And when I eat my critique, let me be able to separate out the good advice from the bitter herbs.

*Can't understand the over-dub'd speech*

Let me not think of my work only as a stepping stone to something else, and if it is let me become fascinated by the shape of the stone.

Let me take the idea that has gotten me this far, and put it to bed. What I'm about to do will not be that. But it will be something.

There's no need to sharpen my pencils anymore, my pencils are sharp enough - even the dull ones will make a mark. Warts and all.



Let's start this shit up.

And god let me enjoy this, life isn't just a sequence of waiting for things to be done.


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* FILDI = Fuck it let's do it.

130 years ago, the assumption in the Western world (where all the science was getting done) was the the Bible was correct. There was no geological scientific evidence either way. Then geological evidence started coming out that the biblical number was way, way wrong. That evidence was challenged and yet survived, so the accepted value of the age of the Earth changed. That's how science works; you change your mind in the face of evidence. That's how intelligence works, in fact.

It's the same evidence. There isn't creationist evidence and secular scientist evidence. They're both looking at the same evidence and interpreting it different. And there is plenty of geologic evidence of the flood. Recently, scientists have started to embrace catastrophism over uniformitarian because the evidence of a worldwide disaster is undeniable.

The evidence that was initially advanced for long ages by Charles Lyell was based on either misinterpretation or outright fraud. He claimed that Niagra Falls was eroding at the rate of one foot per year. He then made the leap that since the gorge was 35,000 feet long it was 35,000 years old. Very scientific. It has been confirmed however that the gorge erodes at 4 to 5 feet per year which means it is most likely under 7 thousand years old.

The "evidence" is obtained by making assumptions about the past that can't be proven, and you can't date the rocks without these assumptions. If you change the assumptions then you come up with much different dates.

It's like quantum physics. Everybody just assumed that all matter was made of solid matter that has definite speed and location, but it turns out that all matter is made up of things with probabilities only. No matter how much Einstein wanted to believe that all matter was solid all the way down, he had to agree that the evidence for quantum physics was undeniably accurate and that matter is composed of chancy waveforms. Anyone who studies it will have to come to the same conclusion. Same goes for what we're talking about.

Everyone who studies it does not come to that conclusion. The hard evidence you have for quantum physics does not exist for deep time. You can test quantum physics; you can't test deep time. All there is a pile of circumstantial evidence all based on the same unprovable assumptions.

"Any evidence...discarded" is misleading. If there's a single outlier result once, it may get some attention or it may be ignored. If there's repeatable experimentation that yields the same contradictory results again and again (dual slit experiment), or a theory that fits all evidence better than current models (quantum physics), it will stir controversy and get a lot of attention. Again, that's how science works.

Every time they measure the age of the rocks they get a range of dates, and then they discard the ones that don't agree with their assumptions as "anomalous". I think I've said this before..bif the evidence were there I would believe it. I used to believe it, but when I found out the extremely flimsy and weaknature of the evidence and realized I would have to put more faith in the scientists than I would the bible, so I decided to believe the bible instead. The whole thing stinks to high heaven but this is a religious proposition to many people. To them, they are satisfied with its explanation of reality and use it as an excuse to deny God. Take note of the awe and reverence and love people pay to the Cosmos and "mother Earth" because it is a religious experience you are witnessing They are seeing Gods glory in creation but they make naturalism their religion instead of acknowledging Him, and worship the creature rather than the Creator.

Psalm 19:1-2


The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

I saw The Who perform at the Gorge in Washington on July 6, 2002. One of the first shows after his unfortunate demise.

So what if you recorded a video of your mouth gorging on a big meaty sausage...

All good things in moderation. Its a shame our primitive brains our wired to gorge ourselves on the good shit because it might not be there tomorrow.

Anyway, I think I am giving up internet porn for a while. Wish me luck

I'm not saying your full of shit here. This is just my own experience with weed. I smoked for something like 10 years non stop and two of those years I was smoking high-grade drow and nothing else(And I'm not talking 2 grams a day it was more like 15 mainly cause I was getting it free.). I eventually had to stop to get a job and when I did I had no visible signs of withdrawal period. Maybe I'm lucky but I know I'm not the only one as I know several friends and relatives who have had the exact same experience. Ya sure I might crave a joint every once and a while but it's exactly like craving a hamburger or a steak it doesn't cause me harm in anyway. I had no panic attacks, no problems with appetite except I didn't gorge junk food like I did sometimes when I was high. Again this is my own experience with it I'm not denying yours. Though like I said I know many people who have had the same experience as I did. I leave it to others to be the judge.


And in my experience people who do lose appetite and become depressed after stopping smoking usually had those symptoms beforehand and that's why they turned to weed in the first place, either that or they were particularly weak willed individuals and exhibit addictive personalities.(I don't mean that as an insult to anyone just stating the facts)
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No offense but I think I know my own body.
When I cut back on smoking pot alot of things changed, I have a hard time believing my lack of appetite and constant anxiety was "all in my head" I asked around, I talked to people, many of whom experienced the exact same symptoms.
You think I'm full of shit? Fine, frankly I really don't care. But when you're smoking all day everyday and find yourself needing more and more weed just to maintain that same level of high, there has to be drawbacks. I felt them, I experienced them, it was a very dark and depressing moment of my life.
Sorry to "chime in."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_withdrawal

Vomitorium = entrance way to parthenon type stadium, not an actual place where people gorge themselves on food until they vomit!

Silly Kaiser, using vomitorium in the wrong context