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Wow to this whole topic. Just wow.

So hopefully no one will fall on your pretty head. :(

i'm happy for you, bun. i hope to have my own business one day too.

Ah. This topic exploded with replies!

Anyhow, cat 5e has mega shielding on it to protect from all the interference we'll be running. We're wiring a 20,000 foot complex with wireless access. Open access. I dont think theyll fully understand dynamic WEP... restricted MAC's... So the interference. We're running alongside wireless signals, power, phone, and old cat5 from the trunk... which.. we forgot to check. But we have a solid amount of cable to start with so we should be good. (Thatll bite me in the ass if we fall a thousand feet short. :/ )

Anyhow, we're thinking of putting esteem access points around the major junctions... cell phones dont function in the least in this place, so wireless is going to be... uch, just as bad without major signal penetration.


Anyhow. What I said 5 years back.. Some still flies. Some does not. I generally try NOT to make an ass of myself. Thinking before I speak, yes. Knowing the future? Hah. I'm no prophet, I just know its not going to get easy and everybody goes thru the same path thru life. No shortcuts past hardship. Realism isnt pessimism.

Maturing a bit and getting over my angst, oh yes. Why be mad at the world when I can get a company car? Or an actual LIFE. Between high school, not getting laid, having little money and zero influence over my surroundings or job... what WAS there to like about our teenage years? We still talk to each other, and that is awesome. You guys have been around for half a decade, now.

Getting closer to being 24 and moving past my lack of a childhood is okay. Yeah, I'm not funny. I'm not online as much. I dont have an xbox 360 or know whats coming out next month... (granted I do wanna get Battle for Middle Earth 2!!!) But hey, I've got other stuff to worry about. I dunno. And I'm okay with that.

Speaking of... anybody near Indiana that can program, lay cable, do a forensic test to see whats conflicting/not working.. hey, gimma an email/Texty.


Edit:As of this moment, I vow to use an image for EVERY POST!

is it just me, or does this sound like 1999 all over again?

You guys check out that Sega Dreamcast?

Thus my wowing.

But congrats, dude.

Has it really been that long? 1999? Naw... couldnt be.

... Please.

There's nothing wrong with maturing out of stupid thoughts. There's also the possibility that as you grow older, you read more intelligent things that would have bored you as a kid. I used to be a liberal pseudo-atheist... now I'm a conservative bordering on fundamentalist Christian. I shouldn't even say that I'm bordering on being a fundamentalist Christian ... because my beliefs are completely Fundamentalist Christian (well, in so far as Catholicism can be fundamentalist Christian), but I just don't put them into practice as I should.

y'know, Mike... I just don't know... I... yeah...
I mean, I understand the conservatism, as I've grown to appreciate its truths, I respected the nondenominational christianity, i thought it was a nice compliment to your theological interests/passions, but like... i don't know, man...
well you're something, anyway...

Right, but intellectual maturity is just as subject as proclaiming something amateur/sophomoric intelligence.

I'm fairly positive Bunny knew I was teasing him.

I'm still nondenominational because I lead too sinful of a life to consider myself Catholic. Rather than poison the well, like a number of other so-called Catholics do with their liberal Catholicism, I keep my nondenominationalism ... but ... I've become ardently fundamentalist in my beliefs lately. I mean, I wouldn't hold it against somebody for being out of step with the truth, and I'm still treat people roughly the same way and believe in letting them live their own lives, I just accept as truth that they're going to burn.

I was dragged kicking and screaming into it, but .... It just makes too much sense.

Torre is bunny? Man I don't keep up with these things.

That's something to wow about.

Well, I can't see myself doing anything else, either... if that gives you any solace.

My general belief is that those who accept Christ as Savior will get rewarded with purgatory. Those who reject him... well, they've dug their own grave. Those who have neither rejected nor accepted, I'm unsure... and need to think about that for a while.

I know what you believe. It's that I believe, just as fervently and with just as much conviction (though probably with a bit more doubt, as I refer to myself as agnostic with atheisitic tendencies) that there is a better posibility for there not being a God, and that religion and its findings are antiquated beliefs having evolved since the human quest for "origins." Science is the new religion, and to me, even with all of its flaws falls on a more honest path of "reality" than religion.

But I openly admit my inability to know the ultimate answers, be them through religion or science. God is, for me, as neural an experience as love or grief or listening to music. But there's no way I know that the systems of neuroscience weren't developed for such an experience by God.

Pardon my ineloquence: it's spring break and I've had too much wine.

As St. Thomas says, though not in these specific words, there's really no way to convice an Atheist (or the modern evolution of agnostics) that there is God, because at the base of a belief in God is first a step of faith. While I am the persuasion that believing in anything outside of your mind is a leap of faith, and therefore, it is not unreasonable to take a leap to believe in God, it's reasonable to guess that most people don't consider that believing in anything else other than your mind is a faith-based assumption. It is also reasonable to believe that not everybody is prepared for faith and that they'll only come to a greater faith through their own experience, not through the force of anybody else.

i think that faith in heaven, hell, and purgatory, is qualitatively an enormously different step than faith in god, or whatever it is you believe jesus is.

Whatever makes you happy.