ChaosEngine said:

Well, I was raised Catholic and even though my parents weren't particularly devout, I absolutely believed in god up to my early teens. I even went to a Jesuit high school.

I won't pretend that I had some massively traumatic "coming out" as an atheist over the next few years, but it still had its challenges. Ireland in the 90s was still a very Catholic country.

So yeah, if she grew up in some super evangelist home, it would be very difficult. But some things are difficult and you still have to do them.

Right, and I agree that is how she comes across. I just think the Profs answer was textbook. If she was really just making a statement disguised as a question then you lose nothing by attacking the arguments as if they were asked in all sincerity. Well, apart from time, but I'm assuming this lecture was not for science students. If it was, then my god woman, go away and read the book, this is a lecture for people who have read at least some of the literature etc.

ps. I've not been to NZ no, but I'd love to visit one day just to see Minas Tirith and to ride a Giant Eagle (I've heard they can be pretty picky about where they will and won't take you though...).

ant said:

Last year, my doctor said I have very low vitamin D since I don't go outside under the sun so I have to take 4 NatureMade D3 1000 IU softgels.

bareboards2 said:

I was there! I saw this live!

You can't see it, but the one on the end really noshed down.

You also don't see that during the commercial break, Mr Colbert was obviously distressed by the hotness of the wings. He might have been laughing, but he drank a lot of water and was struggling.

What a night to see it live. Steven Carrell! And if I were a straight man or a gay woman into Femmes, it would have been total heaven!

Januari said:

Do i maybe know this guy from ERB o History?

artician said:

What's great that no one seems to have touched on in the media yet is that under most common day laws pretty much every cop could technically be convicted of being complicit in murder, an accessory to a hate crime, et al. Silence and solidarity didn't used to be tolerated from criminals.

newtboy said:

No, I didn't miss that part. It simply had no bearing on whether his 'spirit was strong' before he committed his crime. He barely touched on his crime, or his life before conviction, so we know little to nothing about WHY he tried to hurt/kill an officer. It seems you are making a pure assumption.
EDIT: It is most likely that he did not consider the implications of his actions when he attacked an officer for whatever reason he did it...and we have no idea if he was high, trying to escape arrest, just mad at cops, self defense, beating up his girlfriend/wife's boyfriend, trying to kill his daughter's rapist, etc. We know nothing about him before prison except he had a family, and nothing about his crime other than he was charged with attempted murder of a police officer. It might be as simple as he didn't stop fast enough when a cop jumped into the road to stop him, and he had a terrible lawyer...we just don't know.
Where and why did you pull the idea of 'indomitable will' from? No one ever said anything about that. You know there's no such thing, right?
I can barely follow your post, and it does not touch on the topic my post was about....which was....how do you know he didn't feel 'strong of spirit' before he went to prison?

lucky760 said:

In some cases it's definitely just an issue of bad spotting or overzealousness, which to me is neither here nor there, but in other cases it's a completely nonsensical misinterpretation of the equipment's intended functionality. Those are the ones that crack me up.

artician said:

I love Watsky. He had some pretty cool rhymes when I saw some of his on youtube years ago.

Song says nothing though. I'm particularly critical of hip-hop, and this just seems like more "I'm all that, getting bitches and money" kind of bs.