Shadow Blade

[COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1] Heck, Yes! Is it just me or does the day seem brighter? I'm actually in my third block, which is cooking class- and I''m about the only guy in it, and the only person failing: What can I say, I suck at cooking, the only thing I probably cook without burning is eggs, toast, and grilled cheese. I wouldn't have to be in here if I signed up for Drafting earlier. At any rate the cooking class teacher isn't here, Ms. Macias. And let me tell you this, she is a real piece of work. Just add Grumpy (that little dude from that Walt Disney film) and the Grinch (that green dude) together and you have Ms. Macias. Right now all the girls are watching a weird film that I can't comprehend called "Tortilla Soup", even the substitute teacher is into it. I'm just not gifted in foods. I swear, teenage guys like me weren't exactly built to make flans, mustard, or a three decked chocolate cake from scratch.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] Final Fantasy VII: A. C. literally deserves a 5 star award. I have the movie on DVD, and like what of you guys are saying, it's in japanese with english subtitles. The visuals were utter perfection, and the battles, man, the battles were good. I would give more insight on it, but for those who haven't watched I don't want to spoil the moment. Once again if you haven't watch it, you better watch, because it's phenomental. A great piece of work.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[COLOR=SlateGray][SIZE=1] Hey I got another question. Superman or Batman? I'd choose superman, but there something I don't like about the red and blue tights. I'd also choose batman, but there's something about his bat mask that gets to me. No matter the choice is yours. Choose well. I know it's cheesy. [/SIZE][/COLOR]

[QUOTE=Hanabishi Recca] Also is that text from the book?[/QUOTE] [SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] Heck, I have no idea. According to Historic Perfection its what the scripture says from the book of Judas in mondern language, not New King James Version. But I agree, the Gospel of Judas is defiantly not bible material. I just thought it would be interesting if I showed to the Otakians. Oh yeah, Leon Fury you have a good point.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] A Walt Disney movie I really enjoyed was Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Most of the animated films are all damsels in distress themes, or the heroic types. Same-o, same-o. There's nothing new any more, except maybe the digtal ones like Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, or Chicken Little. However, there is one Disney movie I'm forward to this summer and it's Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest. Other than that I'm good. Please tell me I'm not the only guy who answered this thread because it would be very embarassing if I was. [/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] Hey, I don't know if you guys are aware that a so-called-new book to the bible has been found. Yep. The book of Judas Iscariot (The dude that betrayed Jesus). I was just wondering what you guys want to say on the topic. At any rate I got this info. from Historic Perfection. I thought it would be worth reading, before posting.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [QUOTE=www.historicperfection.com][size=2]Discovery of the Book of Judas Today archaeologists in Lebanon announced the discovery of a new biblical scroll, the Book of Judas. Biblical scholar Art Vandelay says ?These scrolls are unequivocally the most important find within the Christian community in the last 500 years. The Book of Judas will redefine the events that led to the crucifixion of Jesus.? As the public waits for a full release of the document, we here at Historic Perfection were able to obtain an advanced excerpt. "Last night I was at this dope *** club getting my buzz on, when two fine *** bitches walk right by me. A player has got to play so it was time to spin some game. I darted in and within minutes the ladies were totally digging my ****. Then, out of nowhere, comes Jesus. JC pulls his water into wine shtick, totally name drops that his dad is God, and the next thing I know the skanks are heading back to his crib. No lie, I am going to **** his **** up real soon." Judas 5:14[/QUOTE][/size] [SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray]Dang. That seems to be a bit exaggerated, huh? A lot of messed up language. Any way, here's another excerpt from News Week. A bit more reliable.[/COLOR][/SIZE] [QUOTE=News Week][size=2]Sealed With a Kiss A long-lost early Christian text says Jesus asked Judas to betray him. By David Gates Newsweek April 17, 2006 issue - Even Jesus recognized that there was something paradoxical about his betrayal by Judas Iscariot?in three of the four canonical Gospels, with a kiss. "And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined," he says in Luke 22, "but woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!" In other words, Judas is damned for helping bring about the salvation of humankind. This is doctrinally explicable: in the working out of God's plan, some people get damned. But in human terms, it's as puzzling as that kiss?which either is gratuitously cruel (he could have just pointed) or suggests that the self-divided Judas is already having the seller's remorse that leads, in Matthew, to suicide. And Jesus knows all along who will sell him out. In John's account of the Last Supper, he tells Judas: "That thou doest, do quickly"?and Judas "went immediately out." In shame and terror, we assume. But it sounds almost as if he were obeying an order that both of them understood. We've always known that there was a Gospel of Judas, which might clear some of this up. In the year 180, Irenaeus, a church father in Lyon who specialized in rooting out heresy, denounced it as "fictional." The Gospel was in vogue for a few hundred years, then disappeared from history?until last week. The National Geographic Society has just published a translation of the long-lost work, with a companion volume explaining its provenance and exploring its meaning. Actually, it's a translation of a translation: the scribe wrote in Coptic, circa 300, from a Greek original, surely lost forever. This Gospel tells us that Judas was Jesus' only true disciple, to whom he imparted secret mystic knowledge, and whom he asked to turn him in to the Romans, in order to free his spirit from its fleshly prison. The story of the manuscript resembles an Indiana Jones movie?or, more to the point, a Dan Brown novel. (An unseen hand must have arranged for the Gospel of Judas to be published while the "Da Vinci Code" craze still had life in it.) The crumbling papyrus?13 sheets, in more than 1,000 fragments, written on both sides?was found in a cave in the Egyptian desert in the 1970s, passed from one antiquities dealer to another, and ended up in a safe-deposit box in Hicksville, N.Y. In 1983, scholar James M. Robinson, who created the team that restored the Nag Hammadi manuscripts?source of the similarly contrarian Gnostic Gospels?was told that the Gospel of Judas was up for sale in Geneva. He couldn't come up with the $3 million. In 2000, it was offered to Yale, which begged off; an Ohio dealer briefly stored it in a freezer. At last, its price reportedly down to $1 million, the manuscript ended up with the Maecenas Foundation for Ancient Art, which started restoration, translation and authentication. Don't be expecting this fragmented manuscript to read like the King James. Small sample: " '[Truly] I say to you, [ ... ] angel [ ... ] power will be able to see that [ ... ] these to whom [ ... ] holy generations [ ... ]' After Jesus said this, he departed." And not a minute too soon. The secret wisdom Jesus confides?when he's not laying out a hierarchy of angels, gods and more gods that makes Hinduism sound minimalist?is a lot like that of the Gnostic Gospels, which posit a strict enmity between flesh and spirit. Judas' betrayal of Jesus has sparked considerable anti-Semitism over the centuries, and the new Gospel may help Christians see beyond ancient?and historically unfounded?stereotypes. Or it may simply add to our sense of how inchoate and multifarious early Christianity was, before such church fathers as Irenaeus codified it. Robinson, who tried to acquire the manuscript again in 1993, says the Gospel is a sensation?but only to scholars, not the public. His own book, "The Secrets of Judas," hardly oversells the translation. "It tells us nothing about the historical Jesus, nothing about the historical Judas," he told NEWSWEEK. "It only tells what, 100 years later, Gnostics were doing with the story they found in the canonical Gospels. I think purchasers are going to throw the book down in disgust." But right now, people are loving the idea that Jesus and Judas were dear friends who were in it together?it's such a downer to think the guy sinned and felt bad?and the hoopla machine is grinding away. The book. The book about the book. The National Geographic TV show about the book and the book about the book. The audiobook. (Can't wait to hear the passage above.) Last week, the public unveiling of the manuscript. Next year, the illustrated critical edition. Can the lipstick tie-in be far behind?[/QUOTE][/size] [SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] In this thread you can dicuss about what you think about this "New" Book. Whether or not you think the Gospel of Judas is just a gimmick or if you think it's true and why.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray]Hey, Retroborg first of all welcome to the OB. Second, I don't mean to be ignorant but what is Valkyrie? If you gave a general idea of what a Valkyrie is, then ignorant folks like me (or I think I'm the only ignorant one here) will try to help you. Even though I don't have a clue what a Valkyrie is, I'll try and help. Did you try Ebay? It's the only site I know that sells nearly everything, and maybe a valkyrie will perphaps be there. I know. I'm not much of a help, but I try.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] I don't know if this post could pertain to this. But hey, this thread is basically about how apperances can be so decieving, right? Well, I have one about how my older sister and I look like twins. If you're a guy it totally sucks. Unfortunatly for me, it does suck. I'm native american and not a twin. My older sister is shorter than me, and she also looks younger than she is. To give you an idea she's 20, on our last summer vacation to Walt Disney Land in California, the ticket salesman sold her a child's ticket. For some reason people think I'm 2 years younger than I look. I hate it. At any rate, People think my sister and I are twins. So, uh, yeah. It feels good to get that off my back.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] In the beginning when I was a newbie, I was here nearly everyday. Now that Senior year is here, not that often. Come to think of it, I need to update a new thread. [/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] I perfer Manga, to be quite honest. Simply because the manga is the real deal, the authentic original. The art is utter perfection. If you try to draw action on a sheet of paper, it's hard. You have to draw panel after panel of action that is going on in your head on paper! It's not an easy feat to achieve, I'll give you that much. Which is why I respect manga artists.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[QUOTE=Dodeca][SIZE=1] Would you rather; [I](a) Have many friends on a basic level, with no real space to develop beyond that or to truly get to know them, but on relatively good terms with most/all of them. (b) Have one good friend who you can trust and share your thoughts and feelings with completely, and another former 'friend' intent on dragging you down and making your day-to-day life as miserable as possible.[/I][/SIZE][/QUOTE] [SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] I guess I'm going to have to go with answer B. Having one good pal for life doesn't sound too bad. As for the former bro, I already have one of those, but I can handle it. Would you: 1.) Would you rather see your mother or father in a skin tight bikini? OR 2.) Would you rather see your boss in a french bikini?[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[quote name='LoadedPistol][COLOR=YellowGreen']I'm not completely stupid. I got what you're trying to say. I was kidding with my previous statement. If you get to know me, you'll find that almost everything I say is laced with sarcasm. ^_^[/COLOR][/quote] [SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] That's understanderable. And no, I wasn't inferring that you were a completely stupid person. Sorry about giving you the bad vibes.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray]Jealous? No. I'm not jealous of my friends, were all in the same boat, why would I be jealous of them when we're always in the same pickle? I don't think you should be jealous of your friends, because sooner or later jealous turns to anger. If your jealous of you're friend then your [B]Friendship[/B] is in vain or it probably doesn't exist. I don't know. I guess I have a weird philosophy.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[quote name='LoadedPistol][COLOR=YellowGreen']It says that you don't know there are other colors for duct tape? :P[/COLOR][/quote] [SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] Actually I'm quite aware of the other colors for duct tape. However, the color silver is the most common one. Perphaps if you read the saying right, instead of jumping to conclusions you'll understand what the meaning is.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] What my signiture says about me is, uh, shoot! It's obvious, isn't it?[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[center][size=6]Boom![/size][/center] [size=1][color=slategray] LoadedPistol wish granted! You are now one hell of a good manga-ka. You live life happily and rake in money in the millions. Unfortunately one day your parent asks you to cut the onions, you cut them but somehow in the process you managed you cut off three of your best fingers. Now your fans are pissed off at you because you can't finish your new manga tiltled, "Loaded Pistol", so one devoted fan kills you at the Manga Convintion held at Japan. The money goes to the gonverment because you haven't wrote your will. Kinda cheesy, huh? What can I say. I have a wild imagination [shrugs]. I wish I had a new truck. [/color][/size]

[size=1][color=slategray] Name: Terrell. Age: 16 Description: Black hair, dark brown eyes, 10 fingers, one nose, 2 arms, 11 toe- wait a minute, where did that extra toe come from? Favorite color: Gray, Black, Dark blue, Brown, and white once in a while. Location: America Personality: Quite in public. I do a lot of dumb things w/ friends. Some consider me a nerd. Some an artist. Others class clown. And still yet, "The guy w/ the spikey hair". Above all I guess I'm okay in the "Nice Department". Hobbies: Reading books, drawing, listening to punk rock, eating, sleeping, watching t.v., getting on people's nerves for the hell it, basically being an idiot, but a good idiot, and being weird. Likes: Hambergers, Pizza, Anime, Manga, Rock Music and WWE Dislikes: Girls with snobby attitudes. Why because on dates they're only interested in using up all the cash in your wallets, plus no communication. [/color][/size] [QUOTE=Up4anime] Questin 1 What's your favorite season? 2O you watch samurai 7 or samurai champloo?[/QUOTE] [size=1][color=slategray] 1.) Favorite Season? Summer. Why? Four words: No school and Freedom. 2.) I watch Samurai 7. Haven't discovered Samurai Champloo yet. My question: 1.) What was your anime or manga? 2.) How did you get drawn to the Anime/Manga faze?[/size][/color]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=Slategray] The names I have are from buddies, siblings, and uh yeah you can't forget the grandparents. From the pals: [B]TNT[/B]= It's literally my intials except for the N, which stands for Nerd. [B]Black[/B] = I guess it had do with my natural hair color and black shirts. [shrugs] Most of my friends were blond haired and blue-eyed in junior high. [B]Scrawn[/B]= From my buddy Matthew. It's funny how I got this name, it goes back during grade school when we were learning new vocabulary. One of the words on the list as 'Scrawny', when Matthew learned its meaning he started calling me that because of my scrawny figure, back then. [B]T.B.[/B]= This one is embrassing. I got it from grade school, again by several bullies in the 2nd grade. It means Taco Bell. They rhymed my name with it. It went like this: "Terrell, Terrell, Taco Bell!" After that, to my dismay the name stuck. From the Family: [B]Corral[/B]= A title I got from my grandpa, he was experiencing the beginning of hearing lost when I was born. When my dad told him my name was going to be 'Terrell' he thought my dad said 'Corral' and it stuck since then with my gramps. [B]Relli[/B]= I hate that name! I accquired it through my older sister. It sounds like a girl's name. [B]Rusty[/B]= I have no idea how I got that name. [B]Yeii-stoh[/B]= means 'monster' in Navajo. A nickname I proudly won from terrorizing my younger sibling and younger cousins. As for the name [B]Shadow Blade[/B], it's not a nick name, just some title I came across. [/COLOR][/SIZE]

[center][size=6] Blam! [/size][/center] [size=1][color=slategray]Alright! Your Death wish for Chuck Norris has been fulfilled, Lord Dante. He was killed by some pschyco-path while shopping at Wal-Mart with a plastic butter knife that was on sale. However in the long run you marry, your wife gives birth to a male child that is the exact mini replica of Chuck Norris! Alright! Chuck Norris Jr has entered the world is now your son. Talk about Reincarnation. So what you do is try to drop Jr. off at the ophanage, but your wife finds out and murders you with a plastic butter knife that was on sale. Jr. and Lady Dante continue to live life happily. I now wish I had a can of Dr.Pepper to goes with the chips. Please.[/color][/size]

[center][Size=6] Poof![/size][/center] [size=1][color=slategray] You have now been granted three huge felines who can't eat meat. Unfortunately all three of them die and this is how. Cat #1: Eats a carrot, chokes on it, and dies 12 seconds later. Cat #2: Eats a salad, doesn't like it and dies from starvation. Cat #3: Gets mistaken as a cow and is sent to the Beef Factory, where it's made into neat little hamburger patties. And you are mad with grief, you stick to felines who can eat meat. I wish that I had a bag of chips to sooth the hunger pangs in my stomach. That or something similar...[/size][/color]

[Size=1][Color=SlateGray] Xliquidousx, I have to admit that I myself am getting ready for the ACT. I can't give you the best of advice, but like what Maneki Neko has stated, you should invest in an ACT Prep. books. If you don't know what books to get, I can help you with two titles. The first book (that's the one I have) is titled "The ACT for Dummies" by Suzee Vlk. This book is filled with good pointers and advice. It tells you what questions to look out for, and how to identify them. The ACT is based on psychology, literally. It's main purpose is to try and trick you. All you have to do is try and weed out what the answers you know are obviously wrong, and what answers are defiantly right. Between the right answers you pick out the one that is most right, meaning that these ACT tests are designed to freak you out and play on your nerves. My advice, remain calm and play it cool. Another book title is "ACT! 2006 for Dummies" by Karen S. Fredricks. I don't have this book, so I can't really share any insights. And um, that's all I have to say about that ( Wanted to use that quote from "Forrest Gump". I watched it last night. A great film.), and good luck on your ACT, Xliquidousx. I know not much of a good advice, but hey, I tried.[/Color][/Size]

[size=1][color=SlateGray]Dang. Haven't been here at the OB for quite a while. I've been spending too much time cramming last minute "Important Info. You Should Know Before Graduating Highschool." Man, what-a-pain. However that's not the topic of this thread. This thread is literally born out of boredom and curiosity. In this thread you could ask questions that are hard for you to answer, but you have to answer them anyway. Sort of like Truth or Dare. For example I will begin. 1.) Would you rather see you mother in a skin tight bikini, or your father in a french bikini? Why? I know it's stupid, but I'm curious about the questions that some Otakians would ask. The rules are simple: 1.Answer the question of the person before you. 2.State your own question. 3.Repeat. 4.Enjoy. [color=DarkGreen][size=2][font=Trebuchet MS]Shadow Blade, I've merged your thread with this existing current one because, by some freak chance, we've already been playing your game for a couple of weeks... [/font][/size][/color][/color][/size] [right][color=DarkGreen][size=2][font=Trebuchet MS]-Raiyuu[/font][/size][/color] [/right] [size=1][color=SlateGray] [/color][/size]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] Apparently, No I don't think bush is a good president. I don't really think highly of Kerry either. One's an Idiot and the other one is married to the Tomatoe Princess. But hey that's just my opinion. I would write more, but I can't the librarian is giving me the go-to-hell-look. Dang, I swear if looks could kill,I would be dead. [/COLOR][/SIZE]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] Anybody slammed into a door? I thought that was very common [scratches head]. While I did yesterday. To make a long story short I was walking down the school hallway minding my own business, until WHAM! The door labeled Janitor's Closet made an introduction with my face. Oh yeah, sure I was knocked off my feet, dropped my school bag, and made myself look like a total idiot, but somehow I managed to wonder how a senior citizen in his early ripe age somehow had the strength to open that door especially with the oncoming force I made. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [QUOTE=celestialcharm]It was a few days before graduation, and ued to like sewing, so one day I accidentally a needle on the floor... I was watching television, back when it still was good, so as I walked out of the room to go the bathroom, I walked into it! The sewing needle, got stuck into the carpet, so my foot stabbed itself.[/QUOTE] [SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] Dang. That has got to hurt. I encountered the same situation, but different object. At my grandparent's house there is always something that has to be done. Unfortunately thos particular day we had to tear down the left wall on the barn. We finished around noon and was picking up our tools to go back inside the house. We left the boards the way they were with the nails still in them. On the way toward the house I step on one. For some reason I felt a nip on my heel, but thought a it was a rock. When I lifted my leg up the board was connected to it. Then I felt it. I t was freckin painful! The damn nail got through the thin sole of sandal. Yeah there was blood, and later I went to the hospital. The doctor there gave me a shot on my foot, because there was something being said about the spreading of germs. The bad part about it was my foot got swollen and expanded their usually size. I then endured the torture my cousins gave me, they called me "chubby foot lefty" or "engorged footesy". The good news is that after my foot healed I had my revenge, but that's another story. [/SIZE][/COLOR]

[SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] Ah yes, a thread finally dedicated to the memory of our painful experiments. The most recent one to date, just happened last week. The situation was pretty stupid, but what-the-heck! I tend to do the bizarre things that little kids consider cool, highschool chicks consider brave, and adults consider immature. Being the dumb dare-devil that I am, and never backing away from a dare I climbed, more like shimmy up a short telephone pole. When I finally reached the top I only then did I realized that I couldn't get back down! I started cursing my buddies who were laughing their heads off, they told me just to jump. So I did. I know jumping off a pole and falling down 9 ft. isn't exactly what people would call heroic, but I knew that if I thought more about the situation and weighted the pros and cons of the problem, I would have chickened out. I know it's crazy just to do something that stupid but you have to admit it's effective, plus it only makes life more bearable. The result of the fall was a large bruise, an aching back, a pounding headache, and a long lecture from my aunt,"You stupid boy, you could have killed yourself!!". Imagine that being said, but the volume magnified to 10x's. [/SIZE][/COLOR] [quote name=' Chabicho'] 10. Ealier in January, my brother and I were hanging up Eid-Aladha decorations. I slipped and landed right on my ****** (I don't wanna say it, but you can guess) on the chair I was standing on (the part you lean your back on). I'm a girl, but the pain was excrutiating nontheless (I feel sorry for guys). It was closer to the leg, so I was really hurting my tendon.[/quote] [SIZE=1][COLOR=SlateGray] Ouch! That has gotta hurt. If that happened to me, I might as well kiss my manhood goodbye, or so to speak. [/SIZE][/COLOR]