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***This is one of the most ridiculous things that I have ever heard. I have know Jeremy for years and he doesn't have a clandestine bone in his body. He is selfless and only cares about spreading the love of his passions with others. I mean did everyone just miss the amazing Patrick Swayze meme he just graced us with? Since everyone here is being unappreciative, I will go ahead and say "thank you Jeremy for you magnanimous gift of Swayze."
Seriously Jeremy is one of the most talented and knowledgeable jumpers I know. On top of that he humble and has absolutely no ego. In fact I was with Jeremy when the incident happened at Wes' DZ. He had nothing but great things to say about you.
My personal opinion is that if you think that you could do better than Jeremy then get off your tail and put your name on a ballot.

Josh-

First let me thank you on recognizing Patrick Swayze. That stuff is internet gold right there.

Secondly, lets not sugar coat it. I think I said something along the lines of what I stated above in a previous post. I like his vision just not his path and that I had no ill will towards him. I wouldn't wish that tragic event on anyone....

PS: TWIN TRIP SOON!

PPS: Martin, you gave me the worst mental picture imaginable...


Yes on Twin Falls
As for my comment I was laying blame on the incident. It's a tragic and I agree with Nat's statement. I don't Know Wes and the only time I've heard about him was on the opening day. My point being that when I asked you who he was, I only remember saying good things about him. It's how you are. Unlike me where I talk smack about someone I don't know to someone, who I also don't know, only to discover that they are friends. (Eloy)
I got to give it to you though, I can't think of anything more undesirable than serving in any position within USPA. Just my opinion, that said you'd be great at it.


"I'm Ron Burgandy?"

This is one of the most ridiculous things that I have ever heard. I have know Jeremy for years and he doesn't have a clandestine bone in his body. He is selfless and only cares about spreading the love of his passions with others. I mean did everyone just miss the amazing Patrick Swayze meme he just graced us with? Since everyone here is being unappreciative, I will go ahead and say "thank you Jeremy for you magnanimous gift of Swayze."
Seriously Jeremy is one of the most talented and knowledgeable jumpers I know. On top of that he humble and has absolutely no ego. In fact I was with Jeremy when the incident happened at Wes' DZ. He had nothing but great things to say about you.
My personal opinion is that if you think that you could do better than Jeremy then get off your tail and put your name on a ballot.

You were well loved by so many of us Skip. Always fun to jump with no matter how crappy it went. Your "at least we got some air" attitude will be missed. I still can't believe this happened.
Damn Damn Damn
Make sure you get to organizing some all KS zoo loads for us in heaven.
BS
~Ruby

I'll tell you right now that I know mcordell personally and it is pointless to try and argue with him. He is right no matter what you say. This attitude keeps me off of whatever load he is on. He was a cop once but as far as I know that isn't the case anymore. Even if he is still and officer of the law the last place he was at before getting "asked to leave" was in a small suburb of a small mid-west town.
El Josh AKA Ruby

I think that you need to revert to toggle monkey status.
That or you could man up and jump my canopy.
I keed I keed
~Ruby

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When I frist subscribed to NetFlix, I watched dozens of old classic movies including a lot of Hitchcock's work.

Since then I have found it very interesting how many scenes you run across in newer moves and TV shows that reference the old classics. e.g. There is an episode of "Scrubs" that did a parody of a famous scene from an old Hitchcock film, but if you hadn't seen the movie, you would never have realized what they were doing.

Some shows rely completely on this principle, Family Guy comes to mind.

Ordained and in.
Anyone nabbed DS#149 yet?

I get goose bumps when I pee.

No crap! The Joe Dirt girl is fine!

:3:3

First:
Trip to Skydive Dallas
Jump on a 9-cell canopy (Safire 149) I am in love
successful hybrid (sorry Buff hehe)

Only got to jump on Sunday and only made 3 but it was well worth the trip.

See I've thought about posting here but then why would I do that?
There are already pictures out there some where of me walking around one of the parties at Couch Freaks for about an hour.
If you really want to see me naked just come to freaks next this year.
Or you can just join me on a snow Winter's day.
http://www.dropzone.com/videos/Detailed/120.html

I've got what's called a Frenum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenum_piercing

Did it when I turned 18 just to be different. It's just what I did in those days.

That was 10 years ago and it's the only piercing that I have left.

As far as why would someone do that to themselves, it's not nearly as bad as you think. I had my nipples done and that fucking hurt. Bad! the frenum didn't hurt at all.

The hardest part about a Frenum is the no sex or masturbation for 2 weeks. That's like climbing mt Everest for an 18 year old.

It makes things a little pleasurable for me but I can't really say much from the ladies perspective. About half can say that they can tell I have it and the other say they couldn't feel the piercing.

Either way almost all of them show an interest in it once behind closed doors. That is most likely due to the taboo nature of it.

The same principle applies when people find out your a skydiver. In my everyday wear I dress and look plain and conservative. Once someone finds out I skydive they are shocked and say "Man, and here I thought you were a smart guy?" or follow me around like a puppy because it's the coolest thing ever!

It's cultural taboo to jump out of a plane. It's cultural taboo to ram a foreign object into once genitals and just leave it there. Really just one and the same, people are either intrigued or disgusted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yavx9yxTrsw

If I slept with her, I'd cry or hang myself.

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Just to remove any vagueness or ambiguity, please specify which particular Bible that is. A clear, direct, unambiguous, unevasive answer would be appreciated.

The Holy Bible..... Just to clarify, as in NOT the Mormos 'other' testament of Jesus Christ....

The one translated by King James... and the other 'translations such as... NLV, NKJV, NIV etc.

Clicketh

FYI as a Mormon I also read the Holy Bible oh and it's the King James Translation. The Book of Mormon & The Doctrine and Covenant are seperate books.
What's your big hang up on Mormons anyways? Did you get turned down by one? I would offer you ice cream and hugs to ease the sting but then you would have to get close to *gasp* a Mormon!

:1:1/2

Playing with the Army all weekend so I couldn't make it out till late Sunday. Found some jumpers and talked em into a last min jump. Half a case for making my first jump in uniform. No way that's a full on first price.

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I'll help you out with defining what a cult is
I can also show you how JH and Mormons meet this criterea, so if I say something about a cult, I do not consider I am 'kicking other Chirstians in the nuts', as I do not consider them Christians.

Ot the sane time, I am aware of many Christian denomonations, with which I have no problem. To name a few, Baptist, Assembly of God, Church of God, Church of Christ, Pennecotal, Lutheran, Presbyteryen, Episcapalian, etc.

1. Extrabiblical Authority: All cults deny what God says in His Word as true. Cults have shifted their theological point of authority away from God's full and final written Word, the Bible, to their own unique, self-promoting opinions about the Bible; they generally will use parts of the Bible but will have their own unique scripture which is considered to be superior to the Bible. While some cult groups give token respect for the Bible and go through the motions of accepting the authority of Scripture, in reality, they honor the group's or leader's novel interpretation of Scripture as normative.

2. Works Salvation/Legalism: Cults teach that eternal life depends upon something other than the Atonement; i.e., faith in the atoning, finished work of Christ on the cross is deemed not to be sufficient (usually replaced with human works and human responsibility). Rather than relying on the grace of God alone for salvation, the salvation message of the cults always boils down to required obedience to, or abstention from, certain obligations and practices (some even including obedience to the Old Testament law).

3. No Assurance of Salvation: The issue of a cult member's salvation is never settled, but is constantly affected by the changing circumstances of life; in this way, cult leaders are able to produce continued obligation and spiritual bondage, rather than spiritual freedom.

4. Guru-Type Leader/Modern Prophet: The cult leader is looked to as the infallible interpreter of Scripture, specially appointed by God to be a special saint, guru, or contemporary messiah, and thereby, has divine authority that must not be violated. Cultists almost always quote their leader rather than the Bible. The cult's adherents often expound the virtues of the founders and seek to cover the founder's sins and wickedness.

5. Vacillating, Ambiguous Doctrines/Spiritual Deception: In order to gain favor with the public, and thereby aid in the recruitment of new members, cult "doctrine" tends to be characterized by many false or deceptive claims concerning the cult's true spiritual beliefs (e.g., Mormons are not quick to reveal their belief that God was a man, who has now become the God of planet Earth).

6. Exclusivity from/Denunciation of Other Groups: Each cult group, regardless of what other doctrines are taught, will all have this one common idea -- "The Only True Church Syndrome." The members of each specific organization have been taught that their church, organization, or community, is the only true group and that all other groups are false. The group's leaders will explain that it is impossible to serve God without being a member of the specific group. Moreover, when the cult leader announces himself as the true "Messiah," all others are declared to be dishonest, deceitful, and deluded, and must be put down; alternative views are denounced as being satanic and corrupt. Persecution is welcomed, and even glorified in, as "evidence" that they are being persecuted for righteousness sake. Thus, if a member decides to leave the group, they have been told that they are not simply leaving an organization, but rather they are leaving God and His only true organization. Hence, for a member of a cult who has been in a group for any length of time, the action of leaving the group is much more difficult than what most Christians understand. To leave the group is, in the minds of the cult member, tantamount to leaving God.

7. Claims of Special Discoveries/Additional Revelation: Acceptance of new, contemporary, continual revelations that either deny the Bible or are allowed to explain it. The fundamental characteristic of Christianity is that it is historical, not dependent upon private knowledge and secret, unconfirmable relationships, while the almost universal basis of cult religion is the claimed exclusive revelation that one person has supposedly received. Rather than conforming to Biblical rules of evidence (2 Cor. 13:1), cult leader revelations almost always emanate from hallucinations, visions, dreams, private discoveries, etc. These new revelations often become codified as official written "scripture" of the cults (e.g., The Book of Mormon), and are considered as valid as that of the apostles (and even more relevant because they are given in these end times).

8. Defective Christology: Cults always have a false view of the nature of the Person of Jesus Christ; a cult will usually deny the true deity of Christ, His true humanity, His true origin, or the true union of the two natures in one Person.

9. Defective "Nature of Man": Most cults do not see man as an immortal being; instead they see him either as an animal without a soul or as a being which is being perfected to the point of becoming a god. They usually do not see man as a spirit clothed in a body of flesh awaiting the redemption of body and soul.

10. Out-Of-Context Scripture Use as Proof-Texts/Segmented Biblical Attention: Cults tend to focus on one verse or passage of the Bible to the exclusion of others, and without regard for the context in which Scripture is given (e.g., 1 Cor. 15:29 used by Mormons to justify baptism for the dead). In addition, cults have made an art form out of using Christian terminology, all the while pouring out their own meanings into the words.

11. Erroneous Doctrines Concerning Life After Death and Retribution: Covering the gamut from soul sleep to annihilationism to purgatory to universalism to the progression to godhood, cults invariably deny the existence of a final judgment of, and a final "resting" place for, the unrighteous.

12. Entangling Organization Structure: The less truth a movement represents, the more highly it seems to have to organize itself; the absence of truth seems to make necessary the application of the bonds of fear. Cults often demand total commitment by their converts to an organizational involvement that entangles them in a complicated set of human restrictions, giving the impression of passionate and often irrational devotion to a cause.

13. Financial Exploitation: The cultic practitioner strongly implies that money contributed to the cause will earn the contributor numerous gifts, powers, and abilities, and in many cases, outright salvation.

14. Pseudomystical/Spiritistic/Occultic Influence: Occult influence is many times found in either the origin of the group and/or in its current practices.

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Blah blah blah! Good job of copy/paste. You still never answered my question on how the Mormon Church is a cult. Nothing in my almost 30 years in the RLDS Church fits into any of these categories. On top of that I could google and find an anthropological description of a cult as opposed to a biased one.

Ultimately I don't care what people think. I just don't believe in people hating on other religions. Shit my GF is atheist, do I care? Fuck no. That's her choice, she doesn't give a crap about my religion either.

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Who are Jolly Wallys? if you mean Jehova Witness, they they along with Mormonism, qualify as cults.

How so? Can you actually explain or are you going to spout some ignorant bs that you heard about. Do you even know what the Book of Moron is about.? (yes go ahead and wiki it now so that you can try and formulate a half ass response)
Cults… man know your own history, didn’t the Jews believe that Jesus and his crowd were considered a cult in their day?
I now see why you put a warning on your first post. You've fully dogged out several different Christian denominations as being false religions. So not only are you burning bridges with the atheists your kicking the other Christians in the nuts while your at it. I see the God you believe in must be a much more spiteful God then the one I know. But then again I'm just a cult follower...

Could someone please explain the numbers again? How can you have when you have 0 jumps?

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u tryin' to be funny or sumthin'!?

Nope not at all
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I was in a fraternity for my first year of college. Most parents I know would cringe at the idea of their son or daughter going Greek but honestly it was the only thing that kept my grades up. I only dropped it because I was moving to another state and I didn't like the house at the new school.
Just come up with a list of pro and cons for each and focus on what you would consider pros and cons at that age. Dorms are not nearly as safe as one might think and there is plenty of distraction all around even on the "nerd floors." My brother lost his full ride from K-State in chemical engineering because he was hooked on D&D as were most of the other guys on his floor.
~El Josh AKA Ruby

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finally got to check out our plane after the new engine and prop. That thing is like a rocket...well for a 182.

Worked on backflying and sitflying with hobie

Did my first XC. I was in for some crazy air time. Had I not finally popped my toggles I could have stayed up for another 20-30 mins. But like Buff said it was cold and I wasn't wearing all that much. My beer didn't help either.

My other first was getting slammed on opening. Wasn’t too bad but my neck and back are still sore. It was a ridiculous slam. Canopy was opened within 100ft and then collapsed into a snivel for the next 800.

Buff did I hear you say Gay Bar Fight for your 200th?

Talk to him but let him make the choice as he is an adult now.

ready to go to bed.

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Saying all cops are assholes is an unfair generalization. It's like saying all packers are nasty, unwashed social outcasts that wont get a real job...wait, that's a bad example.

What...their not?
lol

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just one question..who are the beads for, you or the ladies?

Ass to ass! Ass to ass! Ass to ass! Ass to ass! Ass to ass! Ass to ass!