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If somone believes in God they are Christian

TL;DR. Hope you've been educated about the complete ignorance of that statement by now.

turtlespeed

***Hi BIGUN,

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Leadership FAIL

Did G W Bush attend the funeral(s) of any service member while he was in office?

I do not know. However, I do think it should be part of this type of discussion.

JerryBaumchen

He did.

Fail. Just admit it.

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My deepest and heartfelt condolences to our departed brother's family. I mean it. But goddam it--I am getting really really tired of reading these kind of incident reports. If you don't give a damn about your own ass--or if you're so colossally arrogant as to think that everybody else fucks up but never you--then think about your family, your friends, your brothers and sisters in the sport. AADs and RSLs aren't perfect--but you sure as hell aren't either.

I agree personally, but there are *a lot* of people who don't jump who could easily say the same thing to their family or loved ones just because they chose to jump. It's an added risk that a lot of people don't agree with or understand.

I'm not ready to make such harsh judgement calls about what safety gear another jumper chooses to use. It's all relative.

Yes, our tax dollars at work. We *need* people to build and improve on non-carbon based transportation. We reward early adopters with $7500 tax breaks to encourage people to buy electric cars because they are expensive relative to baseline transportation.

If no one buys the cars and puts them through the paces, the design flaws and common issues would never be fixed...

It's how we invest in our future. With our tax dollars.

You needed Facebook to figure out that your GF was out of town when she conceived a child? You couldn't just figure that out on your own?

Seriously?

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I would put it in the hackey with a Velcro closing.

having a piece of Velcro on your hackey just screams "another way to have a premature opening"

I didn't get the impression that he was ordering custom, but rather than he wants to buy a rig and he isn't quite sure what container size he needs.

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Class 5 rapid??

Yeah... class five rapids.... right there next to that parking lot where the tandems land. Remember?

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for those who havent been there, you are landing on 80 yard by 40 yard (approximately) parking lot next to a Class 5 river rapid

Have you been there?

I agree with the others. Without knowing the age of the gear and the options it's impossible to know if the deal is a good. A relatively new Vector with magnetic riser covers, a Skyhook, spacer foam, a hook knife, an articulated harness, etc might be a good deal at 2100. A brand new Wings with similar options costs about the same.

I don't know who has more, I'd guess Jay. When I started jumping in 2002 Sherry had about 4000. Since every time I've been to the DZ (and that's just about every weekend it's open until last year) I've seen her on practically every load that flies, so I'd guess she's probably got around 7000-8000 minimum by now.

She's an active AFF-I and I/E, she's an active Coach and Coach I/E. When she's not doing on of those jobs, she's filming a tandem or getting in a fun jump.

Care to explain how that's not being a "real" skydiver?

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From what I've been told, this isn't the first time Sherry has tried to protect one of her buddy/BOD members. She recently tried to squash a problem with an RD, but Jay heard about it and got things done right.

Who told you? Share your sources, share the details. If you don't, then this comment is complete hot air. Give us some facts.

If you don't have any *facts* to share, then you're just as knee deep in the bullshit as everyone else here.

I don't see your complaint. He explained why he posted it, said that he hadn't really processed it yet but found it interesting.

What's the problem?

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I would think that maybe they just didn't make them jump in the course during WWII because lack of aircraft or resources.

That could be but... wow. I sure hope not.

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He's never been, in his mind, entitled to wear the jump wings, either the American or Canadian ones.

Didn't he have to make training jumps to get the wings?

Hugs backatchya, Hannah. Thanks for sharing your wonderful life and story with us )

I get cold sweats and feel absolutely miserable when I have to put a pillow into a pillow case.

Not kidding

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You are deciding for the populace that they all want to live forever?

No Turtle, I was making a secular analogy of the popular christian belief that they're going to live in an eternal afterlife.

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The desire to find God is a powerful documented drive in the historical collective consciousness of our species.

The desire to find "a god" is pretty well documented. Evidence that there actually is "a god" remains at absolute zero in spite of all those thousands of years of well documented looking.

Collective human desire for a thing does not make the thing real. If it did, every kitchen sink would be a fountain of youth.

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When someone can provide proof of financial responsibility for long term medial care for the rest of their life, is when I'll agree it's their choice to wear or not to wear a helmet.

Do you think that no one should be able to skydive without "proof of financial responsibility for long term medial care for the rest of their life" too?

What paperwork will we need to present to manifest?

"a 15 member, non-federal, independent group" is actually Obama? Where did you get that?

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A PA, on a Mod? Wow.. You have balls, buddy ;-)

I'm like one of those Newton's perpetual ball machines in my mind. I'll be fine

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What's wrong with chopping at 3k? I'm sure you've heard the phrase "altitude is your friend"!

Nothing AT ALL wrong with cutting away at 3K

I was just commenting on the suggestion that cutting away at 3K was *too low* Do you see the difference?

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Looks like the inside of Stone Brewing.

Good call. Stone Arrogant Bastard.

I don't get what Jesus has to do with this...

This seems more like a Moses vs Satan cage fight.