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  1. No disrespect intended. I'll just STFU now that I've been schooled.
  2. Alright fair enough That's my opinion too. However it's a tangent to what I inquired about. Maybe my question was badly formed and stupid - I do that all the time. I ain't arguing with you here. I'm in complete agreement with what's been said in this thread and you've articulated my own opinion pretty well. I'm also aware I'm seriously backtracking in an attempt to clear up some conceptions people could get from interpreting the question in a way it was not intended but I got myself to blame for that one. It was a light hearted question of visual prefence wrt clothing, nothing else. You understand what I mean I'm sure. I didn't intend to imply a shitload of things. Heh, now I'm on the defensive for putting up a rather silly badly worded poll about style which is pretty ironic considering I have none .
  3. It's not about rush for me. It's about the social life at the DZ and getting better at something that's both extremely light hearted and extremely serious at the same time. It's hard to learn too which adds an extra challenge. I've had 'rushes' while skydiving. First Birdman jump I was just thrilled when I got down. When two students who'd "tracked to get home" suddenly passed me in freefall while I was under canopy, maybe 10 yards from me - I got a somewhat apprehensive then and the adrenaline came without me asking for it. It just isn't why I do it. Anyone who doesn't get an adrenaline rush when getting a big scare ain't getting a big scare. It's a natural response to a potentially dangerous situation. I'd say there are some of those in skydiving but I don't know many skydivers who actively seeks them out.
  4. I think I'm somehow misrepresenting myself here. Should have used other words. My question was basically the same as: 'you think a ball gown is better looking than a pair of tight jeans', but it's drifted towards 'trying to be cool will kill ya' which I in no way disagree with. In other words, I'm talking about static clothing, not acts as such. I agre with both Bytch, aggiedave, mospary in what they've said. It just wasn't what I was commenting about. Anyway, never mind. I should learn to be more precise. Just forget it
  5. I dunno. Sort of a trivia thing. In the end it's pointless to care about anything. We go eons without existing, we're alive and then forever without being. Between the two eternities we find small things of arbitrary value that entertains us in some way. This may be one of 'em.
  6. Dude, I don't mean this as being about trying to BE COOL or show off or anything. You're reading me wrong I think. You are what you are and nothing changes it except possibly maybe there is a chance you yourself can change yourself. F'cked up that sentence didn't I? It's about what *you* find more visually appealing. If you ever saw me in my gear you sure as hell wouldn't call me cool because of it, IF you were the type to judge such things by gear. I got some old but dependable stuff that's a bit dirty and far from color coordinated. I'm known for my lack of class and bad temper, heheh. Again, don't read more into this than "what is more visually appealing". Thank you
  7. Obviously this is up to individual tastes . Take a dude in this tight fitting black FS suit with all the cool nice grips and booties and eveything. Compare to a freeflier in as suit a la Da Kine. Which looks better? As a complete newbie I though the FS dudes were the shit. They had the cool helmet and the snazzy suit. The freefliers looked like bums that had camera attached to their skulls. Now that I've chosen what discipline to focus on I kinda think the FS people look like something that's on the way to a fetish party . Kinda style jumpers light edition heheh. The freefliers still look like bums with camera-craniums but that fit my personality perfectly, so now they're the better looking. What's is more visually appealing to you?
  8. Agreed but in free flying you're not focusing on making 20 points on your belly. The focus is different. Same thing with freestyle - different focus than both FS and FF. I'm a freeflier but I'll do a belly jump if my FS buddies want to. I'm not as good at it as they are but I can do it. It's something we both can enjoy. Most of them are sub 1000 jump jumpers though who're FS bums so when I've taken them freeflying the result has been hilarious - arms everywhere, running man going on. Much sitting-on-the-ass. I hear a lot about how FF should be able to be decent at FS to be 'real' FFers but nothing the other way around. I believe some of the FF moves could be pretty useful to a FSer. I know for sure of one AFF instructor who was happy he'd done some freeflying. He was jumping with this really big AFF student and the only way he could keep up was in a head down
  9. If she knew and didn't tell she should be hung, drawn and quartered. In use at least until Tudor times in the UK. The victim is first hung by the neck but taken from the scaffold while still alive. The entrails and genitals are then removed and the torso hacked into four quarters. Was pretty commonly done to traitors. It's only fair.
  10. Yeah, my points wasn't about posts on this forum but rather general behavior. People act according to their beliefs and those are expressed here. What I'm saying is that you can tell a Catholic girl it's wrong to have an abortion, pretty much without passing judgement on her but rather just stating a fact since you have the same or close to the same religious values. You interpret an action according to the same rule book so to speak. But if you take your rules, your faith and start applying it to people who just don't believe, then you're passing judgement. You're in essence saying that your beliefs trumph those of the other person. They're more right. Would you have a problem with your values somehow being enforced on the whole population? Again, my comments weren't about this forum. It was about the issue at hand. HH is Da King here - he's puttting up a free service we may use at his discretion and he should be commended for it. I'm just saying that if you push your beliefs on me (or more generically, if the Catholic values are pushed on non Catholics) you're in for a fight. I'm not gonna stand back and let sugared up version of the Inquisition/Sharia/whatever gonna happen. Dude, we simply have spent too much blood trying to ensure diversity is possible to just have it removed. *** As for judgement, I agree with you completely. I have never passed judgement on anyone and do firmly believe that I will stand alone before God and account for my actions and omissions. Just because I oppose abortion does not mean I am condeming anyone who doesn't to hell. Passing judgement on others is considered to be a very serious sin in the Catholic faith. Yet we do it every day. Making judgements is what we humans need to do on a daily basis and that includes judgements on other people. Is that person reliable? Looks like an axe murderer, acts like one too. Is his moral values compatible to mine? Can he be trusted? I dunno if there is such as a degree of sin as in small/big ones. I dunno if there's right and wrong in anything but a relativistic sense. I dunno if that's important or not either. I know that all these judgements are done because of pragmatical ethical or moral values. Or a host of other reasons but we make those calls cause we gotta. I don't see how you can go about life without judging people. Some would call it 'assessment' but they're synonymous and that is sorta a semantic question.
  11. It'spretty arrogant to force feed your own personal beliefs down the throats of other sentient beings, too. I mean fine. You're Catholic. You and your brethren don't do the abortion thing. All is cool with me. But when you start messing around with nonbelievers, heretics and heathens that's when the coolness stops. We don't piss in your house, you don't piss in ours, that's kinda the peace deal we have. You do your thing and let us do our thing and everything is fine. Don't let your personal faith invade the privacy of other sentient beings. That your faith is organized and wide spread adds nothing in terms of validity in the eyes of heathens. Your faith is just that, your own. Only you will stand accountable for your actions. You are the one who will be judged. You aren't the judge. Let others do their thing; they too will be judged, in this life or the hereafter.
  12. Ours is about 25% freefliers, 25% RW dudes, 25% swoopers and 25% fun-jumpers. By fun jumpers I'm talking sub 100 jumps a year come-when-the-weather is fine people.
  13. Heh yep, I am not saying it's right. This is just the general perception. Well kept rats are good pets. Never met anyone with a baby seal as a pet, so can't say anything about that.
  14. But the US doesn't have an official language (23 states do though), so which are they to learn? Arabic? Chinese? One could argue that the majority should decide; but then if it was that easy, English would have been the official language already. Other than that, I agree with you 100%. Assuming it was a communication problem that caused the shooting, I still don't get the two extra shots after the man backed off. I dunno much about US laws, but aren't you supposed to be in immediate danger to use deadly force?
  15. You gotta admit you'd be pretty pissed off in the French snatched your mother/freefly buddy, beat 'im up for five month and then dumped him in Bulgaria, right? I guess the question to be asked is this: would you think it was fair if it happened to you or a loved one? I dunno why there's a distinction based on race/religion/nationality/ethnicity. People are people. Same hopes and dreams, most of 'em. You dudes fought like hell to get the nazis outta Europe. Dontcha think it's sort of wrong to use their methods? I mean I can see the need for good intel in the fight against terror, but to use any and all means? Slippery slope, that is. Ain't too much of a step going from torturing foreign nationals to using persuasive methods on Americans. I might be wrong though dude. This just doesn't sound like the way to fly to me. [edit] last lines for mark, not you trent :)] Oh yeah; about Europe: if you *really* want to be good at extracting info from terrorists, talk to the French or the Brits. They've had terrorism for decades and are pretty good at doing the dirty job. I've got friends in Iraq wearing nice camo fatigues right now. Your words are pretty strong considering a good deal of us (Euros) actually supported and support the overthrowing on Hussein and the overall war on terrorism.Our guys are dying over there too.