Fire Emblem Fun.. wow. Heh.. reminds me of the "Hentai reviews" at www.somethingawful.com . You ever check those out? FUNNEH.
Speaking of SA.. You guys see this past week's Photoshop Phriday at something awful? Pretty good job of coming up with "phake video games". Also got a reasonable chuckle out of the new comedy goldmine with the power rangers.
Interesting info on the rogaine and propecia.. always wondered if they really worked or were bullshit. Although, you raise an interesting question on the second part. What happens if you stop taking the stuff? Does it completely reverse the process? That's a toughie. I suppose a little internet searching would maybe generate some info on that.
Regarding medical questions, anyone know much about cord blood storage and/or stem cell stuff? I've been reading up on it with my impending baby on a few months and there seems to be a big split on whether or not it is worth doing.. especially at $300-400 a shot!
Aaron pretty much nailed my angle on religion as well. I'm not sure if spirituality/supreme-being-power-guy-thing is existent nor purely imaginary. There's some part of me that thinks that science, nature, and the rest of the universe could be considered such an "energy".. and that organized religion is more or less our search for understanding and knowing of the divine/unknown.
It has become rather aparent to me even through my limited study on the matter in the year or two that on the whole, modern Christianity and Islam were founded on false pretenses and were tainted by the greed and ambition of man which more or less created the manufactured religon we have today. As I alluded to previously, even the name of the original guy that everyone knows as "Jesus" today was changed. The Jewish angle on things is a little less "hand in the cookie jar" but has been equally over fertilized through the millenia. What began, likely, merely as a collection or oral traditions was eventually recorded in written common law and hygiene-related mandates. Throughout history, people have searched for answers to the universe we live in and consistently have applied supernatural/whimsical answers to the unexplained or mysterious. The sun is a god! The moon is made of cheese! The Earth is the center of the universe... so on and so forth. So, what better way to yoke the masses into towing the line and being good little workers than to drill into their heads from birth that there are supernatural reasons for everything in life that are beyond questioning. Be a good little worker bee and you'll get your kingdom in heaven.. make sure to pay your local church 10% on the way out. Thanks for coming.
Anyhow.. on to happier stuff. Less than two months to go until I'm a daddy. Very strange.. but very exciting all the same. Can't wait! The money issue is a bit scary, but you gotta do what you've gotta do.. we'll find a way to make it work one way or another.
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