krimsa Forum Posts (1,345)

RE: Dating & Alcohol

If the person had been dry for 10-20 years or more, than I would consider them an alcoholic in recovery and fair game for a relationship provided they did not pick up the bottle again. They deserve that shot at happiness. Absolutely.

Aside from that, I refuse to get involved romantically with an alcoholic. Been there done that and its too emotionally draining. I won’t put myself through that again.

RE: "SERIOUS" relationships

I would consider a serious relationship one with a mutually agreed upon level of commitment. This would mean that there is some kind of implied monogamy. I’m not seeing anyone else and they aren’t seeing anyone else. I actually feel that relationships of this nature are usually more rewarding because they do necessitate a certain level of trust and sacrifice.

RE: Hey New Hampshire

Hi all. Im a transplant here from the west coast. I live in Middleton which is the southern part of the state.

RE: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Yet we share 96% DNA similarity with them.

RE: Emotional Road Rage

RE: Emotional Road Rage

I once started an argument over my boyfriend's breathing. It was too loud. It was annoying the crap out of me while I wanted to read a book. I was just in a bad mood at the time. That happens sometimes. The breathing thing was driving me insane. I had to find something ridiculous to harp on. .

RE: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Thats not what I was saying exactly. Think of it as a tree with branches extending outward. On many of these branches would be in between links that would go extinct. On one branch the separate species would eventually become chimpanzee on the other branch would evolve into homo sapien. There was a point of divergence about 6 million years ago or so. That was also where the fossil evidence record begins to show the evidence of bipedalism.

RE: Global warming....Fact or fiction

Can I ask you what tags you use to make the link active in the post like that? Im used to doing

link but that didnt seem to work. How did you do that? What are the tags?

RE: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi8FfMBYCkk

RE: Global warming....Fact or fiction

Hrmmm suspicious of that.

RE: Global warming....Fact or fiction

Agreed. There is enough evidence to support the fact that the polar ice caps are melting as well as many other significant ecological changes taking place yet I dont totally understand the root causes. I know part of it is greenhouse gas concentrations. With the population slowly swelling to 7 bil, that might be part of it right there.

RE: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Yes, I believe that was what I just explained? We diverged from a common ancestor about 6 million years ago. The common misconception is that we "evolved from chimp".

RE: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

We didn’t "evolve from apes." If that were the case, where would the chimpanzee be today? We Diverged from them about 6 million years ago continued to evolve into our own distinct species as did they. There were many "branches" in between that would go extinct. The great apes are the members of the biological family Hominidae which includes humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans.

RE: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

This is pretty amazing.

Enki and Ninhursag’ is perhaps one of the most difficult Mesopotamian myth for Judeo-Christian Westerners to understand, because it stands as the opposite of the myth of Adam and Eve in Paradise found in the Old Testament Bible. Indeed, ‘ the literature created by the Sumerians left its deep imprint on the Hebrews, and one of the thrilling aspects of reconstructing and translating Sumerian belles-lettres consists in tracing resemblances and parallels between Sumerian and Biblical motifs.


To be sure, Sumerians could not have influenced the Hebrews directly, for they had ceased to exist long before the Hebrew people came into existence. But there is little doubt that the Sumerians deeply influenced the Canaanites, who preceded the Hebrews in the land later known as Palestine’ Some comparisons with the Bible paradise story:


1) the idea of a divine paradise, the garden of gods, is of Sumerian origin, and it was Dilmun, the land of immortals situated in southwestern Persia. It is the same Dilmun that, later, the Babylonians, the Semitic people who conquered the Sumerians, located their home of the immortals. There is a good indication that the Biblical paradise, which is described as a garden planted eastward in Eden, from whose waters flow the four world rivers including the Tigris and the Euphrates, may have been originally identical with Dilmun;

2) the watering of Dilmun by Enki and the Sun god Utu with fresh water brought up from the earth is suggestive of the Biblical ‘ But there went up a mist from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground’ (Genesis 2:6);

3) the birth of goddesses without pain or travail illuminates the background of the curse against Eve that it shall be her lot to conceive and bear children in sorrow;

4) Enki’s greed to eat the eight sacred plants which gave birth to the Vegetal World resonates the eating of the Forbidden Fruit by Adam and Eve, and

5) most remarkably, this myth provides an explanation for one of the most puzzling motifs in the Biblical paradise story - the famous passage describing the fashioning of Eve, the mother of all living, from the rib of Adam. Why a rib instead of another organ to fashion the woman whose name Eve means according to the Bible, ‘she who makes live’? If we look at the Sumerian myth, we see that when Enki gets ill, cursed by Ninhursag, one of his body parts that start dying is the rib. The Sumerian word for rib is ‘ti’ . To heal each o Enki’s dying body parts, Ninhursag gives birth to eight goddesses. The goddess created for the healing of Enki’s rib is called ‘Nin-ti’, ‘the lady of the rib’. But the Sumerian word ‘ti’ also means ‘to make live’. The name ‘Nin-ti’ may therefore mean ‘the lady who makes live’ as well as ‘the lady of the rib’. Thus, a very ancient literary pun was carried over and perpetuated in the Bible, but without its original meaning, because the Hebrew word for ‘rib’ and that for ‘who makes live’ have nothing in common. Moreover, it is Ninhursag who gives her life essence to heal Enki, who is then reborn from her.

RE: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

I have to say thats not very convincing at all.

The Sumerian city states rose to power during the prehistorical Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumerian history reaches back to the 26th century BC and before.

Ubaid period: 5300 – 4100 BC
Uruk period: 4100 – 2900 BC

Genesis alone has two anachronisms that couldn't have been known till around 550-500 BC. Theoretically the Pentateuch was written somewhere about 1400-1500 BC.

Hrmmmm.

RE: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

Right. And for those that argue how did the Hebrews get a hold of these stories, it was the Akkadians who would eventually sack the Sumerians and they were a Semitic people in origin. Hrmmm. The term "Sumerian" was the name given to the ancient inhabitants of southern Mesopotamia by their successors, the Semitic Akkadians. The Sumerians called themselves sag-giga, literally meaning "the black-headed people" It would appear that the Sumerians definitely might have a case for copyright infringement.

RE: Women, or lack there-of

It can be difficult to meet someone you like that is close enough to make a practical go of it. It seems like some sort of planetary alignment has to take place. I generally find with these kind of sites that I find some really cool and interesting people and even some guys I would want to meet in person but they are just too far away. No matter, you can still chat, send emails, and talk on the forums. It’s still some kind of social interaction taking place. You sound as if you might benefit from a pay dating service that will hook you up with local women for certain that you can go out with.

RE: DIVINE CREATOR or Darwin's Theory ?

RE: Why do you men view profiles without saying a word?

Your sweet but I manage and you live too far away. I actually have a local teen that I hire to help with stuff that is too labor intensive for me.

RE: Why do you men view profiles without saying a word?

People (male and female) will glance at profiles just to learn a little more about you. Other sites have a "stealth mode" which this one should really have also. That makes it so you can use all the features of the site yet you dont show up as online to other users and they wont know if you looked at their profile.

Hi all

Thank you. Im about ready for winter to end. We did have a few days where it got up into the 50-60 and that was nice. Lot of the ice melted.

Hi all

Pictures of pictures? Not sure I follow? A couple I had to scan. Anyway, I hope its not a problem.

Hi all

Good to hear. Thanks.

RE: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

I've heard that also. I've also heard that Moses is based on the Sumerian King Sargon. It’s not just limited to the flood story either but also the "Tree of Knowledge" tale which is arguably the most important in the bible.

Hi all

Hello. Just signed up. How is everyone?