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[quote name='daredevilsdad]hi im daredevilsdad what chapter are you talking about is it 220 when [spoiler]ichigo gets stabed by the ichigo in white clothes(evil ichigo) and his sword changes into his own if that makes any sense anyway i dont get who Shirosaki is and the (evil ichigo) says he is zangetsu(his sword) but what happened to the other guy the who trained ichigo and made him get bankai [/spoiler']. can someone plz explain this to me[/quote] [color=dimgray] [spoiler]Well, basically Ichigo and hollow!Ichigo are fighting for dominance over their physical body (Shirosaki is hollow!Ichigo). It doesn't really have anything to do with Urahara or Yoruichi. [/spoiler] In regards to chapters 221-223:[spoiler] The fight between Ichigo and hollow!Ichigo was surprisingly short. I was sort of let down by it, but I guess things picked up when Hitsugaya and Matsumoto learned more about what Aizen was going to do. I'm guessing that's it's spring in the Bleach manga right now, so they'll be training until winter for the big fight. Hopefully Ichigo was start training with the vizards.[/spoiler][/color]

[color=dimgray]Chapter 303:[spoiler] Cheesy reconnection of Sai and 'bonds'. >_> Hurry up and get to the Sasuke confrontation already! I wasn't very surprised when we found out that the white-haired guy in Sai's notebook wasn't his real brother or anyone we already knew. Unless it is and Sai's just being a snarky bastard about it. Sort of a filler-like chapter in my opinion, although we found out about Sai's notebook and such. [/spoiler][/color]

[color=dimgray] I love House. He is hilarious. :D The show isn't utterly amazing or anything, but it's fun to watch. Unfortunatley I don't keep up with it most of the time, and I've only seen about 10 episodes altogether. Also I love it when he has snarky arguments with Dr. Wilson. Did anyone here see the episode where [spoiler]this guy made up a fake story about loving cows?[/spoiler] Oh god. I was watching it with my friend, and we nearly peed our pants. [/color]

[QUOTE=Manic Webb]On one hand, I want to say "people against interracial couples still exist?!" But I'm a black guy who went to a predominantly Asian-American high school, so I know that the most racist groups of people you'll ever meet are black women and Asian parents. Especially black women. If I ever brought a white girl to the family reunion, the women of my family would all have to be hospitalized for blowing a collective gasket-- except for my half-white step-mom, of course. :p Seriously, I'm all for interracial couples. I don't know how, and I don't know why, but mixed-race people almost always absorb the best facial features of both parents. Even if both parents are pug-fugly, that child is going to be comparitively less ugly than either one. It's like God wants us to intermix. So remember, it's God's will that we all mate with someone of a different race. Atheist? Then stop stiffling evolution, and hook up with the nearest person of another race. ;)[/QUOTE] [color=dimgray] So, so true. A lot of Asian parents are incredibly snotty over the racial purity thing. I once told this guy that goes to my Korean school (I have it on Saturdays) that I liked a white guy and he nearly [i]exploded[/i]. Too bad none of the Asian girls in my area actually want to go out with Asian guys. Hehe. :] And yes, the children of mixed-race people are smokin. Jessica Alba, anyone? It is a sign. [/color] [quote name='The13thMan']Hah, like Steven Colbert. Has anybody ever seen that picture of him with the black guy? That's hilarious, i crack up every time i see it. The dude looks so miserable and steven is just living it up, oh man that's funny. [/quote] [color=dimgray] I die of laughter every time he shows that on his show. XD[/color]

[color=dimgray] I totally cheat at card games. >:] On the lover issue... I would guess cheating on someone would not be the greatest thing. It destroys a person's faith and trust in you, which is a horrible thing to lose in a person close to you. Personally, I think cheaters are people who are simply unfaithful to their partner, or they're having a hard time with their parner and they're too cowardly/angry to openly talk about it. As for academic cheating, it's pretty commonplace. But obviously, cheating on tests/projects/quizzes/homework/etc. just shows that you're too lazy and dumb to do the work yourself. I know a guy who I've never seen or heard about him cheating, and he's just incredibly smart and ambitious enough to do all of his work and not let anyone cheat off of him. People arrogant enough to think it's ok for them to cheat because they think they'd understand the material down pat if they'd studied just piss me off. [/color]

[color=dimgray] [spoiler]I have a pirated Photoshop CS and I don't even use it. Do you know why I have it? I was bored on the weekends and wanted to see if it was really that easy. It was.[/spoiler] Obviously, most of the young artists you'll see on places like DeviantART have pirated versions of the program. Or they're lucky and have a friend/relative who works at whatever graphic arts place. The thing is, Photoshop is hands down the best program to use when it comes with photo-editing and pure graphic art. On the other hand, people who make digitally colored art go for programs like Painter, which is superior in creating digital art. OpenCanvas has gathered a small cult, although it's sort of like the indy version of Painter. *shrug* But basically, if respectable program that is put in the hands of someone talented, great stuff will be produced.[/color]

[color=dimgray] For those of you who don't know, members of the Duke Lacrosse team have been accussed of rape by a stripper hired by three of the lacrosse team's captains. I've inserted a recent Newsweek article to inform everyone:[/color] [i][b]Justice: Off Message[/b] As the probe of a rape claim unfolds, a vile e-mail roils Duke. by Susannah Meadows and Evan Thomas Newsweek April 17, 2006 issue - The e-mail was sent at 1:58 a.m. on March 14, about two hours after the alleged crime. A stripper would later tell police that she had been raped, sodomized and strangled by three men at a house rented by Duke lacrosse players near the university campus. The message, rife with misspellings and typos, is shockingly crude, even by the low standards of college boys immersed in a debased popular culture: "tommrow night, after tonights show, ive decided to have some strippers over to edens 2c. All are welcome.. However there will be no nudity. I plan on killing the b----es as soon as the[y] walk in and proceding to cut their skin off while [ejaculating] in my duke issue spandex.." The e-mail was signed "41," the jersey number of Ryan McFadyen, a sophomore on the Duke team. Released by authorities last week, the e-mail was the last straw for Duke University president Richard Brodhead. He canceled the lacrosse team's season, accepted the resignation of the coach, suspended McFadyen and appointed five different committees to look into undergraduate social life, the culture of the Duke lacrosse team and the university's handling of the incident. Brodhead said he found the e-mail "sickening." Lawyers for members of the team portray it as exculpatory. "When people do something bad, they wouldn't be writing e-mails about it," said Joseph Cheshire, a lawyer for one of the team captains. The players maintain that there was no sex, forced or consensual, that night with the stripper?whom they had hired, along with another "exotic dancer," to perform at a house rented by three of the team's captains. Two sources close to the team, who asked for anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said that the e-mail was a reference to a movie called "American Psycho." In the movie, which the sources described as a cult favorite that had been viewed by a number of players on the team, a Wall Street banker goes crazy and kills several women, though possibly only in his dreams. After seeing the e-mail, sent on McFadyen's e-mail account, one of the team members remarked, "I'll bring the Phil Collins music," the sources said. In "American Psycho," the killer delivers a tribute to the music of pop singer Collins as he cavorts with intended victims. The sources suggested that the e-mail was intended as an ironic joke. If so, that may say something about the humor of Duke lacrosse players. College students, and not just athletes, can be astonishingly raunchy and degraded in their recreational behavior. Interestingly, McFadyen was seen at a Take Back the Night rally held by Duke students protesting sexual violence and the alleged rape itself two weeks after the incident. As early as this week, authorities will get back the results of DNA tests admin-istered to 46 of 47 players (the one black player was not tested because the accuser told police her assailants were white). The accuser has a criminal record (examined by NEWSWEEK, which does not identify alleged rape victims). In 2002, she was accused of stealing a taxicab and trying to run over a police officer (but pleaded guilty to lesser charges). Two weeks ago she called her former lawyer, Woody Vann, for advice. "She was calm but wanting to get some help. She was feeling overwhelmed," Vann told NEWSWEEK. Vann says he told her not to talk to reporters. "She never gave me any reason not to think of her as a credible person," says Vann, who describes his former client as a mother of two. The woman's father told Vann that she is recovering physically, though she is "still beaten up emotionally." As the case drags on, the players' camp has an obvious interest in courting public opinion. The latest example: an individual on the defense team, who requests anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, claims to have photographic evidence he believes will help the team's case?by showing that the woman was already cut and bruised when she arrived at the party. District Attorney Mike Nifong did not return phone calls seeking comment.[/i] [url]http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12225699/site/newsweek/from/RL.1/[/url] [color=dimgray]Very very recently (like, 15 minutes ago) the DNA results were [URL=http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/14304522.htm]confirmed[/URL]. However, they currently aren't being released to the public. I've been pretty disappointed by the whole thing ever since it started. I'm a fan of Duke, and I've been there three times already during the summer partaking in one of their academic camps, and this whole thing is sort of lame for them. So far, I think everything is 'he says, she says', which doesn't help the matter. In another article by Newsweek presented in their previous issue, some students were afraid that this would stain Duke's reputation, especially after they just sent their acceptance letters out. Comments? Edit: [URL=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/more/04/10/duke.lacrosse.ap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories]DNA results[/URL] [/color]

[QUOTE=AzureWolf][COLOR=maroon] A lack of a father figure doesn't seem to affect children much. Hell, it seems like there is no effect on children whatsoever (in regards to sexual orientation, of course). If you want an explanation, no one knows for sure, but Freud posits it as the fact that the child will project the father figure onto the closest male figure in the child's life, and so you have the whole Oedipus Complex and Castration Anxiety happening anyway, and on to a normal, heterosexual male. Freud attributed sexual orientation to events much earlier in life (yes, he believed it was environmental, not biological), and so the type of trauma we're talking about wouldn't affect the child's sexual orientation (once again, according to Freud, not me). [...] O_o Lunox, you talk about the hardest effin' stuff... *scratches head* There's a lot of ways to address this I guess. I'll just toss a bunch of stuff out there and hopefully something will stick and address your comment. XD Bisexuality... that's a toughie. Physiologically, there's support for this orientation arising in gay people (and ONLY gay people) affected by society. There's a pair of nuclei in the hypothalamus, referred to in psychology and neuroscience as "the sexually dimorphic nuclei," which is simply a fancy way of saying "nuclei that have two possible forms based on your sexual orientation." Straight women have one form, straight men have the other. Homosexual men - that's right - have the same form as straight women. Bisexual men? Currently [B]without exception[/B], have the form of straight women (i.e., they are physiologically gay men). Bisexual women? I don't know. However, if it's the same as straight women, that would raise a whole slew of questions and ideas about sexuality and sexual orientation. If it is the same as straight women's, then that could mean the form females have is simply more ambivalent. [i]Just on the aside, as you can see, nothing on this matter is solid at all. Expect more fluff and philosophical BS than any definitive, hard science, because that's really all either side has at the moment.[/i] I think it was Freud who said that bisexuals are sexually active people - straight or gay - who just have an excess of libido and so it "overflows" onto the other gender. They are 100% straight or gay, but they have so much sexual energy that they think they are attracted to the other sex. Bisexuals usually do prefer one gender, so there's that to consider. *shrugs* But the point of me telling you about Freud is that there are many prevailing theories, and no one has the right theory pegged. Some people see sexual orientation as a spectrum, a gradient, where everyone is somewhere in the middle, never in the extremes; while others see it as distinct, one or the other, not both (like my man Freud). Was I anywhere in the ballpark with what you were talking about? [...] O_o ... ... Bloody hell. See, it's times like these that make me regret not caring about any of my history classes, haha. This is PURE, unadulterated speculation, but aside from what Dagger talked about in regards to the difference between love of another man and love of a woman during Greek times (which were considered different levels and for different reasons - not even the same kind of love), wouldn't it be safe to say that European cultures and possibly other cultures around the world shunned homosexuality? I mean, I know old societies where homosexuality was allowed, praised, or simply tolerated have been put on the spotlight since this issue has been getting bigger, but I'm rather confident in believing that more cultures did not accept homosexuality than what the media would have you believe. But again, I have no clue. [B]My take-home message to anyone who doesn't want to rummage through all my bantering: no one knows anything for sure. Anyone who says "it's biological" is blindly accepting something that hasn't even been proven. Anyone who says "it's choice" is also going on faith. Whether it's right or wrong, that's worth discussing, but be careful not to fall for fake "scientific" data![/b][/COLOR][/QUOTE] [color=dimgray] Oh Freud. *pats his gravestone* I found this on wikipedia, so I don't know how accurate it is, but I'll just post it: [/color] [i]Freud believed that all human teenagers are predominantly homosexual and transition to heterosexuality in adulthood; those who remain homosexual as adults he believed had experienced some traumatic event that arrested their sexual development; however, he did believe all adults, even those who had healthy sexual development still retained latent homosexuality to varying degrees. [/i]* [color=dimgray][strike]Then again, it is Freud.[/strike] All things aside, I'm inclined to agree with you on the fact that there is no real science behind anything we're writing here. I like to believe that there is a possibility in each part of the biological vs. life experiences vs. choice thing, although I learn towards biological and life experiences. I think what you wrote about bisexual/homosexual men's nuclei in the hypothalamus was pretty interesting. Is that something that is really proven? I wasn't sure after you wrote that italicized paragraph right after it. Anyways, if it is, I'm wondering if homosexuality/bisexuality could be a biological defect. Now I really want to know about bisexual women's nuclei. >_> (Is it sad that this topic is the one that has created the most interest in science I've ever experienced? Now I feel like signing up for AP bio or something.) As for the history part, it [i]is[/i] pure unadultered speculation. I have no knowledge of whether or not there were societies that shunned homosexuality in the times of Ancient Greece/Rome and other such cultures. We don't really discuss these topics in my history class, lol. I'm merely drawing from my own knowledge and quick searches on Google. I guess it's possible, but I really just don't know. I was mostly just trying to link the emergence of homophobia in western Europe with monotheism vs. polytheism. P.S. I have no idea if Freud's gravestone exists and where the hell it is if it does. :] *[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality[/url][/color]

[QUOTE=AzureWolf][COLOR=maroon] In fact, research and other studies have been pushing towards the opposite. I'm not sure if Lunox is talking about the same statistical study, but when there was a big traumatic incident (was it the nuclear bomb? flood? earthquake? I can't remember), the frequency of gay people increased notably. That is to say, most women who were pregnant and had this strong emotional shock gave birth to homosexuals. Remember, we're talking about sexual orientation, not gender identity - people tend to confuse the two and believe that if there's support for one being nature/nurture, it supports the other as nature/nurture. NO. A big NO. ^^; While there isn't anything proven, it's just been shown time and time again that there's a greater likelihood of a person being gay if their mother had some trauma while pregnant. Person-to-person interviews asking mothers of gay people more than not give light to emotionally unstable shocks, such as abusive husband, husband leaving, robbery at gunpoint, etc. [/COLOR][/QUOTE] [color=dimgray] I have no idea why a physical trauma such as a nuclear bomb or flood or earthquake would make people gay, but when I was talking about homosexuality rising from traumatic experiences, I was leaning more towards like... guys who didn't have a strong father figure or something. Also, there have been some sort of study that claimed that approximately 60% of the population was bisexual to a certain degree, but most people are 'straight' due to societal ideas and standards. I guess this can tie back to Ancient Greece's ideas of beauty in both genders, although it would be a loose tie to point out. I actually don't know what to think of this, other than the fact that I can find plenty members of both genders to be beautiful, but I label myself as straight. And I was thinking back to why homophobia started mostly when Christianity spread all throughout western Europe. Was it simply because the monotheistic leaders wanted to eradicate all practices exclusive to polythesitic views? Since gay sex in ancient history is often linked to religious practices in polytheistic religions, I guess the theory could work... *shrug* This would also tie into how homophobia in cultures that accepted gay sex grew only after encounters with Europeans and western society. [/color]

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[color=dimgray] Actually, my high school recently went through a very [URL=http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=77412]gossip-prone event[/URL] dealing with Myspace. A guy in my grade (sophomore) had written a 'hit list' on myspace, saying he'd bring a gun to school on April 20th and shoot these people. A lot of people sort of ignored it, but one of my friends was on the list (as well as people I knew), and obviously many were concerned. The police were notified and he was arrested not long after. Our high school is on wikipedia now, [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_High_School_(Roswell,_Georgia)]for God's sake[/URL]. I find it slightly funny, despite the situation. As for the 'horrors'... I think that happens with all large websites. Myspace just happens to be the biggest, so there are more frequent occurences. [/color]

[QUOTE=Dagger]First off: I adore your new banner & avatar. :love: I'm guessing that you have ancient Greece in mind when you refer to "past cultures"--but even if you don't, it's an interesting example to bring up, so I'm going to pounce on it anyway. It would be misleading for someone to state that ancient Greece (as well as samurai culture, as a previous poster mentioned) had sex between men as the norm, as that oversimplifies the issue. Physical relationships between older, experienced men and younger men were encouraged as being intellectually beneficial, but this was in large part because it was believed that women were so inferior that one couldn't possibly cultivate one's mind through a relationship with a female. However, it would be a little strange for a pair of lovers to stay together even after the younger one aged; marriage and procreation were as important there as anywhere else. So the true norm was bisexuality; they didn't have the same concepts of gayness and straightness as we do. That doesn't mean there weren't people who were 100% gay or lesbian, attracted solely to members of the same sex, but on the whole, the ancient Greeks had a much more fluid mindset in regards to sexuality. ~Dagger~[/QUOTE] [color=dimgray] :] I love L. Ancient Greece was one of the cultures I was thinking of when I wrote about the gay sex thing, and yeah, what I said was a big oversimplication. My history teacher once described the homosexuality of Ancient Greek culture as an "exalted form of friendship and idea of women being inferior". Although I also think that another part of it was because the Ancient Greeks had a love for physical beauty. And so I thought off onto another tangent. >_> Why does homo/bisexuality exist? If indeed it is a biological/genetic thing, why did it ever occur? Homosexuality has been traced back to ancient times, at which I don't think overpopulation could have been a huge issue. Taking this into consideration, I also know that most reports of homosexuality in history are between men, and that the first roots of it were found in religion, such as paganism and other polytheistic religions. The idea of homosexuality/bisexuality being altogether wrong and a sin was started after the fall of the Roman civilization and when Catholicism/Christianity began to sweep western Europe. Right now I don't know how to connect the two things I've brought up, other than maybe it had to do with polytheism vs. monotheism. And I can never throw away the idea that homosexuality is something gained from (traumatic?) life experiences. Examples including Father-Son relationships and nature vs. nurture, or any other sort of experience. [/color]

[color=dimgray] I don't think the supposed homosexuality trend is applicable to most parts of the world, but I'm sort of surprised that most people are rejecting the idea of it being a trend in high school. Like Kanariya stated before, there are a lot of people who just randomly 'come out' about being bisexual or gay, and then just as randomly become straight again. I've heard more than several cases of it at my high school. Obviously this cannot apply to people who are really homosexual, so it doesn't really directly connect to the original question, but it's definately a part of it. As for the original question (I hate to say 'real gay people', but I guess I have to), I agree with what everyone else has said so far. What I'm sort of interested in, though, is if the percentage of gay people really [i]has[/i] risen. James wrote in the previous post that no matter what size of population you have, about 10% will be homosexual. I'm wondering if this is applicable to the populations of the ancient world and past civilizations. All I know is that there are some past cultures that had sex between men as the norm, but has the 10% thing been constant?[/color]

[color=dimgray] I'm inclined to agree with indifference about the changing of the bible and probably all of the religious texts. The saying that the victors write the history can be applied to any historical text. The bible has probably been altered by people throuhgout the years in order to suit the government or seat of power or whatever. I can't say with 100% conviction as to whether or not I believe in any sort of god or spiritual power. The whole science vs. religion runs both ways. Science pushes religion to come up with new ideas, while religion pushes science to keep on discovering new 'breakthroughs' or anything else. I don't enjoy getting into heated debate over the faith vs. reason debates, but I suppose the 'rivalry' (for lack of a better word) pushes both scientific and religious advances. If you ever want to find a worldy truth or idea, your best bet is to find any consistent rule or ideology that runs through every culture in the world. [/color]

[color=darkslateblue]Naruto manga chapter 302:[spoiler] I was actually sort of shocked to see that the story is moving along quickly. Chapter 302 got us ahead a lot... I was expecting there to be much more dragging going on. As for why Sasuke is keeping his Sharingan on... I'm guessing he's just doing it because it heightens his eyesight. Obviously he has gained a lot of power to keep it going all the time, and we also see his power growth when he basically smacks Sai around with the huge genjutsu or whatever. And I'm guessing that Sasuke's regular eyesight sucks now.[/spoiler] Gaara kun:[spoiler] Nice theory! IMO I still think the black-haired boy in the picture book resembles Sai moreso than Itachi. It would be a cool twist to the storyline, though. (BTW, you must be uney_malfoy on the livejournal community Chuunin. I did remember this from somewhere, so I checked.) Anywho, if this were true, I'd have to wonder how Itachi missed Sai. Was he deliberately sent to Roots when he was little or was he taken? OR Sai is the illegitimate child of Sasuke's mother and Chuck Norris. [/spoiler][/color]

[color=darkslateblue]FMA OVAs: [spoiler]I actually sort of snickered when I saw Ed in the first OVA. It seems as if he looks exactly like Hoenheim. >:] At the same time it was sort of nostalgic, but it didn't do much for me. The constant laughing between the kids was sort of annoying... little kids don't do that. =_= Chibi OVA: ... what... happened... .... *cries* (one good thing: chibi!Al=ADORABLE!) Alchemists vs. Homunculi: I love Ed's drawings of the Homunculi. All in all... I wasn't amazed or anything by them. They were sort of fun, at most.[/spoiler][/color]

[color=darkslateblue] [spoiler]I read the translation for chapter 301... I still don't like Sasuke very much. I agree with r2vq, though. I'd like to see Sasuke fight with anybody, just to see how strong he's gotten. Unfortunately, I have a feeling he's going to be amazing. *irritated sigh* I also think that Sasuke holds at least some sort of regret over what he's done. Don't think he's completely evil yet. [/spoiler][/color]

[quote name='Gaara kun][COLOR=DarkRed]I can't wait for chapter 301!! Hmm what do you all think [spoiler]Sasuke[/spoiler'] will look like? [/COLOR][/quote] [spoiler]I think Sasuke pretty much looks the same. He has the same weird duck-butt hairstyle and I'm guessing his face is the same. Unless he has groteque scars all over him. *shifty eyes* *also crosses fingers for a small fight between Sasuke and Sai*[/spoiler]

[quote name='Avenged666fold']How many people like the american tv show compared too the manga? I really wanna know beacause if you have read m previous posts you know I hate this anime. What do you guys who watch the anime find reedemable about this anime? I can find nothng at all. Hell ill go as far and say one peice is a better anime than naruto. (ohhh yea I said it what what?)[/quote] [color=darkslateblue] I haven't watched the Naruto released on CN, but filler-Naruto is downright... bad. I just enjoy watching the main-story arcs of the Naruto anime because I like the manga a lot. The fillers are completely random and lame because Kishimoto has nothing to do with them. [/color]

[color=darkslateblue] [spoiler] No idea, really. I assumed it was something official because a bunch of people were calling hollow-Ichigo it... apparently it means 'all-white' or something.[/spoiler][/color]

[color=darkslateblue] Bleach manga chapter 220: [spoiler] *shifty eyes* I like Shirosaki. I said it. I'll go hide in a corner now. When I reached the last page, I made an audible sigh... for some reason Bleach chapters seem to be pretty short. I hope Ichigo gets beaten down a bit by Shirosaki, just because I don't want him becoming all-powerful or anything. I also hope that it's not a 'If Ichigo wins we never see hollow!Ichigo again' situation...although I doubt that, seeing as it's such a big thing. [/spoiler][/color]

[color=darkslateblue] Colleges don't look at weighted GPAs. They look at raw GPAs, but also consider that you took honor/AP classes. I'm sort of over that fact that they're taking away the extra points. The sad thing is (or the good thing) that I know a great handful of people who take all honor/AP classes and get the highest GPAs without the extra points. I know that you should take AP classes only if you're interested in the subject, but I personally think that's a piece of advice many students ignore. If I only took AP classes that I were really interested in, I'd have 2 AP credits throughout my whole high school. I'm not particularly ashamed of taking AP classes I don't enjoy. [/color]

[color=darkslateblue] I've never really watched anime that people have labeled as 'confusing'. I've watched NGE, but I didn't really find it that confusing. I just think the emotional and mental depth of the show can get tiring and over-used, if you are willing to call it a 'depth'. A lot of people dislike NGE because they think the philosophy in it is crap. I remember people calling Lain the most confusing anime ever, but I've never seen it. And on the subject of things getting too complicated, I hate it when anything starts to get hyped up in its self-proclaimed complexity and intellect. The best anime, or any series or movie, presents itself in a manner that clearly gets its themes across and has a great effect on people. [/color]

[color=darkslateblue] For those of you who don't know, many schools often give students in honors/AP classes an extra amount of points to their final grade in the classes. At our school, it's seven points. Basically they just add seven points to our finals semester grades on our report cards, but colleges [b]rarely[/b] consider them when going through applications. Anywho, there has been much debate in our area as to whether or not the seven points should be allowed. Our newspaper recently published a story stating that the seven points would be taken away from honors/AP classes. My opinion? At first, I was pretty angry. I had gotten used to the idea of getting seven bonus points because I was taking harder courses, and they should have just let everything alone. On the other hand, colleges don't ever really look at them, so why should I be worried? I'm still pretty split on the idea. I'm currently talking all honors/AP, and next year I'm taking four APs with one honor class and newspaper. I keep telling myself that the seven points don't matter in the end, but the fact that they changed the system is still bugging me a [i]lot[/i]. Comments?[/color]

[color=darkslateblue] The number three, which is supposedly a popular number for some reason. I have no idea [i]why[/i] I started liking it... I just always use it when we have to do those 'guess a number between 1 and 10' sort of things. I've heard it being called as an evil number, but I don't have a faintest clue what that's all about. :/ But what Deahtknight said about the number 7 interests me. It's pretty cool to see repeating elements throughout different cultures and such.[/color]