If you wish to stand out from the crowd, flaunt your difference, and do it with a winning smile, because you are confident and know yourself and what you are worth.
Who really gives a damn about skin tone? Only people answering surveys. You're above their opinions. If someone doesn't find you appealing because you are too light or too tan, gosh, what a loss for them. They probably wouldn't have been much fun in bed anyway. Too uptight.
I heard that word before the shutdown. Now I know what really means. WE THE CONGRESS...I THOUGHT IT WAS, WE THE PEOPLE.[/quote}
Fascinating. You sure the word you heard wasn't "camaraderie"? Seems more likely. But it's nice to know we've a well-informed electorate, getting all steamed up about stuff they can't even spell.
Ali, my friend, your sunglasses are cool, but you must not use them as blinders. The link between scientific exploration and systems of faith goes much much farther back. Astronomy has been studied in a systematic way since about 3000 BCE by ancient Egyptians and Bablylonians, as well as ancient Chinese. Meanwhile, classical-era luminaries such as Galen provided works that later Islamic scholars could build upon.
While I would not discount the work of Islamic scholars, it would be idiocy to suggest that wisdom began with them. Clearly many men and women of much learning lived and worked and recorded their efforts many many long centuries before.
Beg your pardon, Chris, but what statistics do you refer to? From what source? It'd be easier to answer your question if you said.
Barring that, a couple centuries of anthropological, psychological, and cultural studies indicate that (in brief) yes, more learning decreases reliance on religion. Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough paved the way, of course. Sigmund Freud's work demonstrated that all personal experience was, in fact, personal. Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ernest Hemingway (among others) showed us a life that operated without any fantasmocosmic interference.
Despite all that, not all faiths are diametrically opposed to learning experiential truth. Buddhism stands out as a belief system that welcomes truth-by-learning in any fashion that may arise.
Omigod, if it was caught on film, it must have actually happened! That's so much more important than other things that did happen but weren't caught on film. Good lord, we'd have to actually READ about those things. What a nuisance that is!
Compared to what else? The League of Nations? You'd have to say yes, since the League of Nations did nothing. The United Nations would win by default, if only because of the UNICEF penny jars.
Your concern seems rather too specialized, Rohaan. I don't doubt you could find avenues, probably locally, to aid gay men with social adjustment. From there, you might seek to specialize. Doing it the other way around, though, sounds like trying to frame a picture before knowing what size it is.
Surely you won't be ignorant enough to quibble about spelling, when you are the thread author who wrote "Cosat Rica." No, surely you would not be pedantic and stupid and self-emabarassing as that.
Rules schmules. I tip them if they do something extra or helpful. On one recent visit, a housekeeper provided multiple extra pouches of decaf coffee for the coffeemaker. She also requested we "hide" them, so her boss wouldn't see that we had them. That housekeeper got a $10 tip that had naught to do with daily service. Her boss got nothing.
On June 12, 2013, Jiroeman Kimura, the last verified person born in the 19th century (April 19 1897) died in hospital at his hometown of Kyototango, Kyoto, Japan. He took to work in the postal service at age 17 - that would have been, on the eve of WWI - and retired in 1962, at age 65, to become a farmer.
Born Kinjiro Myake, upon his marriage in 1927, he assumed his wife's last name...because her family had no other male heirs. Kimura was not only the oldest verified person, but also the only one to surpass 116 years. Think of that: when your parents were born, he already had grandchildren. Before his death he had 14 great-great-grandchildren - that's five generations, in his own lifetime.
Kimura may not have led an exciting and notable life. But he sure did lead one, surviving both World Wars and several others, numerous earthquakes, and everything else both history and nature had to fling at him.
Five of Kimura's six siblings survived to at least age 90, and at least one brother also reached 100. Nonetheless, when asked, Kimura attributed his longevity to taking small portions at meals.
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RE: breathless for only you
Only because most every gent would gasp at your charms, Ccincy.