I actually guessed you as roughly my own age, but then I just defualt to assuming anyone who can carry on point for point with my ramblings as 'my age', which might be a bit unfair because I think of Tom as noticeably older, and he's about the only one besides you I think of as not thinking they're frickin foriegn policy experts because they can find Djibouti on a map. Though that's not really fair, I have excellent conversations with many people, but really I don't feel genuinely challeneged much beyond you, Tom, Joel, Cannoli, and Greg, and frankly I think Cannoli views me with contempt as a semi-neocon and Greg doesn't seem to reply, I probably insulted him. More's the pity, he's a rude SOB, but never presents cookie-cutter ideas. I actually have no idea how old they are, heck, they could be teenagers for all I know, but I usually think 'older than me'.
Tom's about your age or a bit older, Greg's a little younger, I think Joel and Cannoli are both in their low to mid-thirties, although Cannoli is one of those people who could pass for fifty at age 18, I'm sure, at least online.
As for me, I'm 22 if you must know.
But I've had discussions with people at this site since I was 14... wow, that's a long time ago.
Anyway, you know, one learns. Interesting list, though... not entirely the names I'd have expected.
I guess I'm not surprised by the ages, I had actually thought you my slight junior, but I'd have guessed maybe 26 or so, it's rare but not unheard of to find someone who gets global politics under 30, I might guess you were the Neatherland equivalent to a C-span junkie.
But the list, no, I think that one is fairly solid, I could name some others, but not really. Greg is one of the few remaining liberals, real liberals ala John Locke, cannoli can be abrasive but always puts forth solid arguments. Joel is a gentleman and scholar, as is Tom. Greg and Canolli are clearly scholars, but I'd hesitate to call either a gentleman, unless 'tongue like a whipcord' now qualifies. They don't just repeat the party line, and I respect that. There are others, surely, who parallel, but rarely on so many points and issues. I've no need for party rhetoric, I get emailed both regularly. No, I like posting to them and you because I don't have to spend half my time worried I might accidently offend or fail to get through the conditioning. I've probably just insulted everyone else who reads this, but it is what it is.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
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- Albert Einstein
King of Cairhien 20-7-2
Chancellor of the Landsraad, Archduke of Is'Mod
Egyptian Lawmakers want to ban fake hymen
- 11/10/2009 01:51:02 PM
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Egypt has some interesting ways of cheating its own dogma.
- 11/10/2009 03:28:27 PM
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In Egypt? Really?
- 11/10/2009 03:29:55 PM
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Same here.
- 11/10/2009 04:43:52 PM
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They're probably refering to Misyar not Muta
- 11/10/2009 10:21:01 PM
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Are both the man and the woman wealthier, or is it just the man in most cases? *NM*
- 11/10/2009 10:27:14 PM
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Some people also do anal as a "work-around the problem" approach *NM*
- 11/10/2009 10:24:56 PM
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i thought the abramic faiths looked down on anal just as much? *NM*
- 11/10/2009 11:55:52 PM
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Point is that it supposedly leaves the woman a virgin, so in that sense it's allowed. *NM*
- 12/10/2009 10:47:14 AM
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I live near the largest population of Arabs outside the middle-east as well as the second largest
- 12/10/2009 12:55:10 AM
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You live near Dearborn MI? *NM*
- 12/10/2009 05:51:29 PM
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I used to live in Dearborn at one point and mostly around SE Michigan. *NM*
- 13/10/2009 02:54:21 AM
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i've always thought that "no blood=not virign" thing was silly anyways.
- 11/10/2009 09:39:14 PM
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Oh, but not all hymens are created the same!
- 11/10/2009 09:51:16 PM
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uhm..that would be a huge biological problem if the hymen totally sealed off the vagina.
- 11/10/2009 11:53:57 PM
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Yes, 16-year-old girl who had yet to have her menarche went to a doctor about that, and some...
- 12/10/2009 12:19:57 AM
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i'm a little disturbed you did so much research on the subject. *NM*
- 12/10/2009 12:39:31 AM
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I knew I shouldn't have clicked on that link!
- 12/10/2009 12:58:29 AM
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- 12/10/2009 12:58:29 AM
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Just wait till you see one for real!
- 12/10/2009 04:49:19 AM
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Depends on how important it is
- 11/10/2009 11:34:12 PM
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uhm...how does that make the entire idea less silly? *NM*
- 11/10/2009 11:55:19 PM
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Just that your choice of descriptors doesn't really fit the situation
- 12/10/2009 12:19:10 AM
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and i think perhaps you took my use of the word "silly" a bit to seriously *NM*
- 12/10/2009 12:40:42 AM
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Can't a woman break her hymen from her period too? Or is that from inserting the tampon? *NM*
- 12/10/2009 12:56:37 AM
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Strenuous exercise can break it as well.
- 12/10/2009 09:34:23 PM
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Absoultely, among other things.
- 13/10/2009 05:31:58 AM
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In this case, that is something of a myth
- 13/10/2009 07:59:41 AM
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TMI to follow.
- 13/10/2009 05:27:08 PM
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Not really TMI
- 13/10/2009 06:12:56 PM
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You're only 29?! *NM*
- 13/10/2009 07:07:11 PM
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Yeah thanks for rubbing that in
- 13/10/2009 07:51:54 PM
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Oh, I'm nowhere near that yet, sorry.
- 13/10/2009 08:13:22 PM
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- 13/10/2009 08:13:22 PM
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I guess that's a compliment?
- 13/10/2009 08:41:13 PM
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It's hard to guess ages, true.
- 13/10/2009 08:46:56 PM
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Really?
- 13/10/2009 09:25:03 PM
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Re: Really?
- 13/10/2009 10:17:54 PM
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The check is in the mail.
- 14/10/2009 07:33:16 PM
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I, for one, am horribly distraught.
- 14/10/2009 01:17:17 AM
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- 14/10/2009 01:17:17 AM
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See, now I feel bad
- 14/10/2009 04:01:55 AM
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- 14/10/2009 04:01:55 AM
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I think I've mostly learned not to argue things I don't know much about.
- 14/10/2009 05:39:14 AM
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