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[FONT=Trebuchet MS][COLOR=Red]I think I would want the frog to become a teleporter. Since the frog would have it's own consciousness; it would probably make me kiss it alot to get it to send me where I wanted to go. I would kiss that frog more than once out of pure joy if it would send me to Adahn...even though I know he would get jealous.[/COLOR][/FONT]

[quote name='x kakashi x']luckily I'm not retarded enough to tell a girl shes only on this earth to practice humility lol, I appreciate the poem, however, someone could definitely take it the worng way, good intentions, bad result[/quote] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]The only way to take that letter the wrong way is to take things completely out of context and re-define the word humility. This whole poem/letter actually glorifies woman and the whole male/female relationship. If someone wants to form their own opinion of that or not; it's fine with me. I won't argue. ;) And back to your original question... I think that what women are looking for in a guy is balance. Every girl is different. I believe there are things seen and unseen that attract us to people. I think it's the unseen things that screw up relationships. For example: the girl that has low self esteem being attracted to the guy that will abuse her or the other way around. Love can't be a one sided thing, and if it's a lopsided thing, it probably won't last. If a girl and guy both have good self esteem, I think their relationship has a much better chance of survival. So to like yourself first; that's the main thing. Girls that like themselves will be attracted to you. If it turns romantic...great! If not... you'll have a new friend who feels your equal.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]LOL.... I didn't write that, and it probably is one of those internet email poems that a zillion people forward to a zillion more people. I thought it was kind of cool and did have truth to it... that is if you don't change the meaning of the words. Anyone can interpret something another way if they change the true meaning of a word. It's not narrow minded to interpret something according to the true meaning of the authors words. To interpret something by changing the meaning of words is like handing yourself a lie...or twisting the authors meaning to fit your interpretation. You'd be better off reading nothing, than understand what an author is truly trying to say. You should read it as it is meant to be read. You can form your own opinion about the content of it after.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]Humbleness is not humiliation. It is to [B]not[/B] put your importance 'above' or 'below' anothers. True humility is an equalizer in a relationship. Without equality...someones going to pay or get paid. Without equality there is no love. If it's not free...then it's not love. It takes true humility to give or receive anything freely...especially love. If you think about it; in the consummation of love between a man and a woman; the womans pretty much on the receiving end. Without a receiver for his love a man has nothing to give. With a receiver...he has everything to give. I don't think the word 'support' in this letter means having a burden. In true humility; encouragement, help and approval are equal between a man and a woman also. True love creates a balance...not something that spins out of control. God is Love.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]LETTER FROM GOD TO WOMEN, When I created the heavens and the earth, I spoke them into being. When I created man, I formed him and breathed life into his nostrils. But you, woman, I fashioned after I breathed the breath of life into man because your nostrils are too delicate. I allowed a deep sleep to come over him so I could patiently and perfectly fashion you. Man was put to sleep so that he could not interfere with the creativity. From one bone, I fashioned you. I chose the bone that protects man's life. I chose the rib, which protects his heart and lungs and supports him, as you are meant to do. Around this one bone, I shaped you.......I modeled you. I created you perfectly and beautifully. Your characteristics are as the rib, strong yet delicate and fragile. You provide protection for the most delicate organ in man, his heart. His heart is the center of his being; his lungs hold the breath of life. The ribcage will allow itself to be broken before it will allow damage to the heart. Support man as the rib cage supports the body. You were not taken from his feet, to be under him, nor were you taken from his head, to be above him. You were taken from his side, to stand beside him and be held close to his side. You are my perfect angel.....You are my beautiful little girl. You have grown to be a splendid woman of excellence, and my eyes fill when I see the virtues in your heart. Your eyes......don't change them. Your lips - how lovely when they part in prayer. Your nose, so perfect in form. Your hands so gentle to touch. I've caressed your face in your deepest sleep. I've held your heart close to mine. Of all that lives and breathes, you are most like me. Adam walked with me in the cool of the day, yet he was lonely. He could not see me or touch me. He could only feel me. So everything I wanted Adam to share and experience with me, I fashioned in you; my holiness, my strength, my purity, my love, my protection and support. You are special because you are an extension of me. Man represents my image, woman my emotions. Together, you represent the totality of God. So man......treat women well. Love her, respect her, for she is fragile. In hurting her, you hurt me. What you do to her, you do to me. In crushing her, you only damage your own heart, the heart of your Father, and the heart of her Father. Woman, support man. In humility, show him the power of emotion I have given you. In gentle quietness, show your strength. In love, show him that you are the rib that protects his inner self. Love GOD.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]My heart goes out to Terri Schiavo's parents. To them, Terri is their baby and always will be. She has been in an infantile like state for 15 years. They have cared for her and have had her cared for like an infant. Terri wasn't an infant when she met and married Michael Schiavo. His carrying out what he believes to be her fully adult wishes to not ever want to be kept alive on 'artificial life support' should not make him a villain. It doesn't violate her religious or legal rights. There was only a legal mistake made in Terri not having a living will or her story would have been over long ago.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [QUOTE=ChibiHorsewoman][color=darkviolet]i'm too lazy to go and read thru 3 pages, not to mention i don't have that much time. but i really think that terri's parents are being selfish and thoughtless about their daughter's life and wishes. no parent in their right mind would want to see their child in a vegatative state for 15 years and not wish for her to be in a better place than on a feeding tube in a hospital bed unable to move. i believe that the schivo's are just looking for some publicity for supporting their child's vegatative state for so long. it's cruel to let someone exist like that for so long. ok, flame me![/color][/QUOTE] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]Not all parents are in their right minds. I may be sick for even thinking this, but what if they enjoy their daughter in the state that she's in? There are people who are control freaks who love controlling their children. This would be the ideal situation. What if Terri was tired of trying to control her own life past her parents control? An eating disorder caused her heart attack and condition. Eating disorders are a control issue. What if somehow, spiritually...she just gave up? What if something all clicked subconciously in that family that 'created' this situation? There is so much more to life than we know.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [QUOTE=Drix D'Zanth] Besides, doesn't Mr. Shiavo have a couple million from the malpractice suit??[/QUOTE] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED](According to the St. Petersburg Times this morning): In 1992 Terri and Michael Schiavo were awarded $2 million dollars in a malpractice suit. Terri's share: $1,389,600. $53,854.47 Terri has paid in legal costs. $516,880 Terri has paid in Attorney's fees. $173,510.84 Terri has paid to doctors and health care providers. $640,354.69 is what Terri's guardianship received. Out of that: $358,434 in fees were paid to attorney George Felos. $80,309 in fees were paid to attorney Deborah Bushnell $90,000 has been used for other nonmedical payments, including other attorneys involved in the case. The total in Terri's account in recent weeks? About $70,000. Michael Schiavo's share: $610,400. What Michael Schiavo's total award may have been assuming he paid the same percentage of his award to attorney fees as did his wife: $360,000. However this figure cannot be verified. Considering attorney fees, among other things in his fight to carry out what he believes to be Terri's wishes, how much of that $360,000 do you think Michael Schiavo has left?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=1][COLOR=RED]First of all; I'm suprised at the misinformation that almost everyone here has with the Terri Shiavo story. I live in the same area as Terri Shiavo and have been hearing and reading about her as long as I can remember. She was an anorexic. She got the way she is by starving herself. Her potasium level dropped so low that she had a heart attack. Her husband actually went back to school to become a registered nurse so he could care for her properly. He was unpopular with the hospitals from the start, in demanding that she received the right care. It was not a swift decision on his part to remove the feeding tube. He does not get any money if she dies. In fact, he was offered 1 million dollars recently to drop the fight to remove her feeding tube. He refused it. He or Terri's parents are not paying for Terri's medical expenses. Mostly the taxpayers are. I don't think anyone should be making the decision for Terri except her husband. He is the one that will have to live with that decision or die with it. There is no difference with the government declaring who should live...and who should die. Life should not be in the hands of our government which is extremely powerful and dangerous in size alone. With new advances in medical technology, who's to say people like Terri might live to be 150 or longer? How many people will be on artificial life support then? Who's going to pay for all this? How will people afford necessary medical treatment and insurance for themselves or their children? How many cannot afford it now? How many people are denied medical attention already because they can't afford it? If I was Terri, I wouldn't want to live. But then again, would I care? I would hope that, whoever was the one I had chosen to decide my fate, would honor my wishes. I shudder at the thought of lying there with a diaper on, or not being able to swallow a cold drop of water for any amount of time, let alone 15 years or longer. listening to the cries of my mother or father. That would be a living hell. Like being trapped in a horrid prison. I don't think that refusing 'artificial' life support should ever be questioned. If what happened to Terri, happened to someone I loved and I knew they didn't want to live in that condition...I would try to honor their wishes and hope for a miracle. If I knew for sure that they wanted to live like that...I would push nutrients into their stomach through a tube and take care of them the best that I could and hope for a miracle or cure. I wouldn't want anyone else involved unless they were helping me honor that persons wishes. This story is not about left or right political veiws. It's about artificial life support and personal choice. I think after Terri passes away it, this story will become even more political now that it's so widespread and controversial. Politicians will see the outcome of what peoples reactions are and try to use it to their advantage in the future. Not because they actually gave a crap about her.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]What is good or right; what is bad or wrong [b]are[/b] spiritual things or truths. Love and hate are spiritual. What else can they be? Everything that we do has a spiritual consequence. If we say sex is not a spiritual union we are only trivializing sex. Then we can lie to ourselves and say "cheating is normal for some people and I don't have to take responsibility for the physical and emotional damaging consequences of my actions." We can lie about our sexual pasts to unsuspecting others and spread STD's all over the place. If we can lie to ourselves, lying to others is easy. Only the customs or traditions of men can interfere and mess with spiritual truth.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[quote name='Drix D'Zanth']Marriage is the spiritual union of a man and a woman becoming ?one? in the eyes of God..[/quote] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]I believe that God is in me. His eyes are my eyes. There is no separation.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] Originally posted by me:[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]Does having a sexual relationship with someone automatically created a spiritual marriage relationship? I think so.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [quote name='Drix D'Zanth']Nope. I do not agree with this at all. I think a love and dedication, or marriage, to that union must be established before sex. Sex is the consummation of that relationship. Basically, it?s the icing if Cake?s the marriage.[/quote] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]I believe that everyone is spiritual whether they realize it or not. Some people just don't recognize the spiritual. [B]Not[/B] everything spiritual is good. I think there can be [B]good[/B] spiritual marriages and [B]bad[/B] spiritual marriages.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]I've always lived in the same house with my family. I've never been out of the state where I live. I've never been away from my family more that one night, so I've never been 'homesick'. I don't think feeling at home has much to do with where you live, but has more to do with the people you love and those who love you. I think I could feel at home anywhere as long as I was surrounded by love. If I wasn't...I would try to surround everyone else with love so I might get surrounded back. :animesmil That might be what you call 'making' someplace your home. I think that your real home is inside your heart.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[QUOTE=Chabichou][COLOR=#004a6f]Personally, I feel that a proper marriage should be both spiritual and legal. You should not engage in sexual acts with someone if you're not legally married to them. If you love them, then well, MARRY THEM! Then sexual acts would be both legitimate and have no harmful effects. [/COLOR][/QUOTE] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]There are circumstances where legal marriage is not possible. Does this make a spiritual marriage less real? In what way does not having a piece of paper that says you are legally married make your love wrong? Which legal are you talking about? Religious, state or both? And what would a piece of paper have to do with harmful sexual effects?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [quote name='Chabichou][COLOR=#004a6f']If you're "legally" married to someone, but don't love them, don't cheat on them. Divorce them, simple as that.[/COLOR][/quote] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]I agree with this. Even if you're not legally married ...there should be a knowing and permanent separation first by both people. If you're not sure about being permanently separated or married to a person, then I think you should abstain from sex altogether until you get your head straight.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=1][COLOR=RED]Does having a sexual relationship with someone automatically created a spiritual marriage relationship? I think so. I think that people not ready to deal with the responsibilities of a sexual relationship and what may come of it, shouldn't have a sexual relationship in the first place. Young or old. I don't think people should have a sexual relationship with someone they don't want to be spiritually bonded with in the first place. Young or old. People shouldn't legally marry someone that they they don't want to be spiritually bonded with. I think that once they have a sexual relationship...they are spiritually married. If either of those spiritually bonded persons commits adultery...in my opinion they have already divorced the person they were spiritually bonded with before. It's a spiritual contract. If they continue the sexual relationship with the first person they were bonded with after that...they turn that person into "one" of "their" adulterous spouses. Even though that spouse is innocent...you have laid your guilt upon them. Marriage is a contract of unity. Divorce is the breaking of that contract. Spiritually or legally. I believe that two people become one in a sexual relationship. If you sleep with prostitutes...you become a prostitute. If you sleep with your *now divorced wife* after that...you make her "your" prostitute. She is innocent. You are the guilty one. If she gets a disease from you... you're to blame. I also think there are other things beside adultery that can break a spiritual marriage, but I don't have time for that now.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]I'm an artist and I appreciate artwork, whatever surface it's on. I've seen tattoo's that are awesome. I would never get a tattoo myself because I know that I would always see one later that would make me regret the one I have. I do use temporary tattoo's though, and I've drawn my own tattoo's on. They're fun and you can put them anywhere. You can use them like jewelry or as an accent to the clothes you wear. Tattooing is painful. I don't like pain. It's the only thing that makes me cry...besides pure joy. If I'm going to cry...I want it to be from sheer bliss. ;)[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[quote name='Lady Asphyxia][font=Verdana][size=1]So what do you think is the biggest difference between the male and female gender, and why do you think it's there? [/size'][/font][/quote] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]I guess it would be the reproductive organs and the hormones they create and how they affect the body and mind. The difference is necessary for reproduction...but evidently they don't affect everyone completely the same. ;) I was never a tom-boy or a girly-girl. I always knew I was a girl and never wished to be a boy. I'd like to be a guy for a day or so though; just to see what it's like. :D At this time in my life, I'm extremely glad I'm a girl; since I'm in love with a guy that I would like to procreate with someday. I think that people everywhere, through all of time, have always treated males and females differently. There are some things that a woman can do that no man could ever do, and things that a man can do that no woman could ever do....no matter how much they try to, or "wish" that they could.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]I had the weirdest dream ever the other night! Before going to bed I was reading on some site about the proper use of condoms and it said something about it being very important that you get the right size... Anyways...I fell asleep and dreamed that I was in some store looking at all the condom boxes. There were like hundreds of them and they were all different colors and they all had these weird like encoded sizes on them. I was freaking out because there was no way of knowing what the sizes were...so I just grabbed a random bunch of boxes and bought them. Then my boyfriend and I were opening them up in my bedroom and when we did...little live bunny rabbits came hopping out of the boxes. They were really tiny and fuzzy and so cute! It turned out that they were "contraceptive bunnies" and you had to pet them while you made love for them to work....LOL! While we were making love, all the bunnies started to hop away and they all got outside and we were frantically trying to catch them all. My little brother (whose 11) kept catching them and shaving them so they wouldn't work! It was horrible! Finally the whole neighborhood was outside catching them and taking them inside their houses because they were so soft and fuzzy and cute and I was so mad![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]Oh man! I would love to get stranded with Adahn... for as long as possible...only because he's just so damned sexy![/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=1][COLOR=RED]First of all, I would like to say that marijuana comes from a plant that I think is rather beautiful. I like plants and flowering things. I don't think any plant should be illegal. After all, did not God create them? [IMG]http://www.marijuana-seeds.net/maleinflowering.jpg[/IMG] Substance abuse is always going to be there for some people. To each his own. The whole debate seems to be from both extremes. I think it's the extreme judgments of people that cause substance abuse in the first place. You can abuse anything on earth. You can do, use, or consume anything to an extreme. I don't think making cigarettes illegal would stop people from smoking. I think it would turn even little old ladies into criminals, since nicotine is such an addictive drug. I don't think drugs should be illegal. I think if people want drugs...they will get them. I do think it should be illegal to advertise prescription drugs on TV and in magazines, or anywhere for that matter. The abuse and prescribing of legal drugs in this country is amazing. I've seen alot of studies done on marijuana. What about the effects of all the prescription drugs out there? Also the effects of combining them? I personally think it would be better to limit marijuana sales to prescription use. But I don't think it should be against the law to grow marijuana for personal use in the privacy of your own home. I don't think it's that big of a deal. I have never smoked marijuana or cigarettes or taken any illegal drugs and I don't plan on it. I've drank a glass of wine a couple times and I like it. I'm not going to judge those who use marijuana. What I am angered at is people who put other people lives in danger. I'm angered by people driving while talking on their cell phones. I'm angered by drivers lighting up cigarettes and those putting on make-up or doing other distracting things. I'm angered by people driving while intoxicated on any substance legal or illegal. There's been alot of talk here about the "smoking of marijuana," but I haven't heard anyone talk about the use of marijuana without smoking. I've heard of people eating marijuana in brownies and in rice crispy treats or making marijuana tea. That would take care of the smoke inhalation danger. I still think it's much safer than alot of prescription drugs and has less dangerous side effects.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]I finally have my first valentine and he's 1000 miles away. :( I won't get see Adahn that day; so... I think I'll make him a movie. If we were together, the day would be a good excuse to make mad passionate love for 24 hours. *tries to think of 364 more excuses* :love: [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]My favorite soda is Jamaican Gingerbeer. Especially with scoops of vanilla icecream and a squeeze of lime. It beats the rootbeer float anyday.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[quote name='elfpirate']While words fall short of the magnitude of love's abyss, I guess it would be safe to say that love is what you are alive within... and that what you love is what you would die to protect ( as was said earlier in the thread).[/quote] Definitions of: Abyss 1. chasm: a chasm or gorge so deep or vast that its extent is not visible 2. endless space: something that is immeasurably deep or infinite 3. terrible situation: a situation of apparently unending awfulness 4. hell: hell thought of as a bottomless pit [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=1][COLOR=Red]I'd rather think of love as a fountain bubbling over than as an abyss. I've been thinking alot about love lately. About how much my parents love me and how much I love them. I've always taken that love for granted...but lately I've been surprised by love. Realizing more and more that love is more than just a feeling. It's something forever and true. It's something beyond the emotions of mankind. Without it, there would be no reason to live. Did you ever have a friend or love that you knew in your heart would be your friend or love forever... even if you knew you would never see this person again? To lose this persons love would be a great loss, but to lose their physical person isn't. Did you ever have a friend or love that expected you to maintain their emotions. One that expected you to make sacrifices? To lose this person would be no great loss... because this person is a burden. Love shouldn't be a burden. Love is a surprise. Love is a miracle. Love isn't an emotion. Mankinds emotions play off of circumstance and sacrifice. Love should be free. If you can receive love freely, you'll be able to give love freely.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=Red]I don't think that shame is a good thing at all. Shame is hell. It's not a lack of shame that makes people bad...but a lack of love.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=Red]Wow...It's nice to hear some nice romance stories for a change. I'm also in a long distance romance. I'm only 16 and I wasn't looking for anyone to love me. I knew I would find love someday, but figured it would be years from now. I was 15 when I fell in love with him over the internet. Crazy in love! Only still unsure of how we would be if we were truly together. We did meet and he was more than I could hope for. I am sure he is the love of my life, and that I would never tire of his touch. When it came time for him to leave me at the airport, I felt so lost that I could hardly stand up. Neither one of us is perfect...but we are perfect together. I am also counting the days until I see him again. I didn't know it would be so hard to be separated once we were together. I try to think of the memories that we made and all the new things we experienced together. I talk to him every day. I dream of him everynight and they are good dreams. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[QUOTE=Godelsensei][COLOR=Gray][FONT=Courier New][i]Oh please.[/i] Boys don't talk to their mothers as though they were "girls", and girls don't talk to their fathers as though they were "boys". They're Mom and Dad. You learn to communicate with the opposite gender from your peers before you even come to think of your parents as husband and wife as oppose to Mum and Dad. [/FONT][/COLOR][/QUOTE] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=Red]Oh please! LOL! I've always known that my dad is a man and that my mom is a woman. I talk to them each differently. Very differently! I always have. Your family life is so much different than life with your peers. It's where you learn to live. Peers are only temporary.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[QUOTE=maladjusted][color=darkslateblue] Actually, in a scientic study, children who grow up in families of gay parents are no more likely to become gay themselves or to have an odd lifestyle. They'll probably get teased a lot, but so does everyone. Perhaps it will teach them to love more unconditionally and to become more open-minded about things. [/color][/QUOTE] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=2][COLOR=RED]I'm sorry Maladjusted, but how could a child learn true communication with the opposite sex with two same sex parents? Men and women are so very different. No one can tell me that they are alike in thought or deed. My parents are so different emotionally and every other way. I do watch them communicate... fight... and love. The children that homosexuals raise may turn out to be heterosexual, but will they truly know how to deal with the problems that arise from a heterosexual union? The same with children that are raised with divorced parents. It's not a healthy atmosphere to be raised in. If there is no healthy communication between the opposite of sexes, how will they learn? Children learn by seeing. Not every child has to get teased about their parents sexual preferences. There is enough other teasing going on. I don't think it will make them stronger...I think it will cause permanent damage. [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[COLOR=Red]I don't really care if someone is asexual (yes there are non-sexuals), heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, transexual, or try-anything-sexual! I'm about as interested in someones sexual preference as I am in what kind of soup they prefer. If I know you well enough and I'm interested in what kind of soup you like, or your sexual preferences for some reason or another; I'll ask you. As for people that flaunt their sexuality as 'who they are' or those who seek out groups of those flaunters just to hang with them because they are cool people...I can't help but feel sorry for them. Do they really know who they are? The only people I want to see LABELED for their sexual preferences are those who commit sexual crimes. I want to see PEDOPHILE or RAPIST tattooed across their foreheads in extra bold print.[/COLOR]