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My thoughts on men who Body Build

by kls in

my two son's are body builders and i am wonering if they think they can take on the world .

last year my son was in a bar fight and got sucker punched in the eye which required 5 stiches ,now my 21 year old comes home with a huge black eye, the biggest i have ever seen trying to break up a fight.. .

now both these people that got a good shot at my kids where men much smaller in stature and size and seemed to land good punches.

doogie

Abs :

I've not been to a gym in ages before this week and one pleasent change I noticed was that the free-weights hadn't been nabbed by a group of guys who glare at you if you look interested in using them. I've run into the 'Gymier than thou' crap before.

i hear ya. you're always going to get some of those guys. i'd say something ("i pay just as much as you!"), but i'm a wuss and they look pretty aggressive... in all seriousness, i've found that some of the biggest guys are the nicest and helpful in the place. they worship at the altar of free weights continually and love to see new converts. however, there are some pretty specific rules of gym etiquette that are taken extremely seriously by some (it's like golf. except more neck veins).

the worst are the nuts who run over to spot you as soon as you start struggling on the bench or something. somehow, they always find a way to get their crotch as close to your face as possible (you know, maybe i need a new gym...).

good luck with your riding (you should get back into it). my dad was a bike nut and he kind of got us kids hooked on it.

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The Skeptic's Worst Nightmare (S)

by Shining One in

check some of this out and you may see why there are two sides to the issues that are portrayed as so one sided here.

you will immediately smell the b.s.

emanating from the skeptic's book of bible stories!

doogie

Theories are routinely modified and discarded.

routinely, huh? please name a couple that have been discarded (don't say newtonian physics ). or was this just empty rhetoric?

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The Skeptic's Worst Nightmare (S)

by Shining One in

check some of this out and you may see why there are two sides to the issues that are portrayed as so one sided here.

you will immediately smell the b.s.

emanating from the skeptic's book of bible stories!

doogie

My belief is not blind faith, though neither is a naturalist's. My faith is based on the person of Jesus Christ, historical and personal.

then let's see a complete skeleton...you know to shut up us laypeople. shoot, how 'bout just a skull cap?

i do however agree that the naturalist's is not a blind belief (i didn't want to say 'faith', since faith by definition is belief without evidence).

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Evolution of Bird, Mammals, Whales and Ants - with pictures

by hawkaw in

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4f), allin (1975, p. 3, fig.

procynosuchus modified from allin & hopson (1992, fig.

1); allin (1975, p. 3, fig.

doogie

classy:

I just don't like Darwinism. EVERYTHING takes millions of years. Then people take this Darwinist approach to everything else including geology: some structures are formed over millions of years, while others can form quite rapidly, not everything changing slowly over millions of years. Likewise, this can be applied to evolution. While some evolutionary processes take thousands of years, others probably happen rapidly (which is where we get the gaps in the evolutionary ladder).

gotcha. i was just curious what exactly you disagreed with. thanks for clearing that up for me. so it's not anything specifically in the post, just darwinism in general? the reason i brought it up at all is because it chaps my ~~balls~~ ...umm...lips when someone criticizes a theory/concept/idea without actually having a specific reason for their disagreement (i.e. someone criticising evolution in general, not because of any flaw in the theory, but just because the repercussions of it's truth would be unsavory to their belief structure).

Of course, it's hard to say by what mechanism those jumps are done by.

i agree. (un)fortunately, until someone comes up with a better theory (than darwinism), we haven't got much else to work with.

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Evolution of Bird, Mammals, Whales and Ants - with pictures

by hawkaw in

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4f), allin (1975, p. 3, fig.

procynosuchus modified from allin & hopson (1992, fig.

1); allin (1975, p. 3, fig.

doogie

Similar structures do not necessitate one to believe that one evolved into another: that is simply illogical

huh? why would it be illogical to conclude that they did? because different cultures used pyramids? (now that seems to be bit of a jump of logic, no?) i agree that in general similar structures don't *necessarily* come from a common origin, but i see it as extremely logical to believe that they did in this case.

are you just trying to be difficult, classy? (a bit of a contrarian? ) so, you do or don't disagree with hawk's post? if you do take exception to the post, why not share what specifically you disagree with rather than this talk of pyramids?

hawk:

thanks for posting this. it's going straight to Word.

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My thoughts on men who Body Build

by kls in

my two son's are body builders and i am wonering if they think they can take on the world .

last year my son was in a bar fight and got sucker punched in the eye which required 5 stiches ,now my 21 year old comes home with a huge black eye, the biggest i have ever seen trying to break up a fight.. .

now both these people that got a good shot at my kids where men much smaller in stature and size and seemed to land good punches.

doogie

Is it true that the more men/women body build the penis/breasts gets smaller?

no, of course not. a weiner may appear smaller in comparison with a dude's gargantuan thighs but if measurements were taken, it would be the same size (in fact, the loss of midsection fat would tend to INCREASE measurements because you're measuring from closer to the pelvic bone with all that fat no longer in the way.)

for ladies, incline benches are very good because they work the upper pecs and this would in essence build a little stage for them to sit and play upon. the boobies would appear larger.

OTOH, steroids have been shown to reduce weiner/testicle size (the increase in testosterone from the steroids causes the body to up the estrogen and shrink the johnson) and boobies (more testosterone does not equal bigger boobs. makes sense).

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My thoughts on men who Body Build

by kls in

my two son's are body builders and i am wonering if they think they can take on the world .

last year my son was in a bar fight and got sucker punched in the eye which required 5 stiches ,now my 21 year old comes home with a huge black eye, the biggest i have ever seen trying to break up a fight.. .

now both these people that got a good shot at my kids where men much smaller in stature and size and seemed to land good punches.

doogie

ok, ok...i think we get it...some body builders go a bit overboard (yeah, just "a bit", right?) and may have some sort of deep seated psychological issues that they need to work through...

but the stereotype that hib just posted is like saying that everyone that watches what they eat and doesn't gorge themselves on fried chicken is anorexic. BB is a broad spectrum ranging from very healthy to extemely unhealthy (both physically and mentally). i'm sure you'll find that *most* within that spectrum fall somewhere in the middle rather than at the extemes.

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My thoughts on men who Body Build

by kls in

my two son's are body builders and i am wonering if they think they can take on the world .

last year my son was in a bar fight and got sucker punched in the eye which required 5 stiches ,now my 21 year old comes home with a huge black eye, the biggest i have ever seen trying to break up a fight.. .

now both these people that got a good shot at my kids where men much smaller in stature and size and seemed to land good punches.

doogie

Body Building yes sure but not to look hard like a rock. It's ugly. They will be too heavy.

i'm with ya hib. (to an extent...more than usual, at least )

the thing is, usually (of course, there are exceptions) your frame can only carry so much muscle and then it stops building. of course, steroids or HGH can bypass this, but your body basically maintains a symmetry of sorts (i.e. some BBs neglect working the lower body and as a result any upper body growth is stunted). my girlfriend weight trains with me and her friends say that they would lift with her but they don't want to get big. i tell them: "you won't." your frame only carries what your frame can carry.

like i said, i've been lifting continuously for years and you wouldn't call me a meat head (i'm a little guy, 5'6", 145lbs. i bench 225 and curl almost my body weight but i don't think you'd call me anything other than *fit*). i guess my point is that body building does not necessarily result in a massive hard body. BB can also just be an excellent way to maintain your weight and live a healthy, active lifestyle. (jeez...i sound like a commercial)

(edited for clarity)

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My thoughts on men who Body Build

by kls in

my two son's are body builders and i am wonering if they think they can take on the world .

last year my son was in a bar fight and got sucker punched in the eye which required 5 stiches ,now my 21 year old comes home with a huge black eye, the biggest i have ever seen trying to break up a fight.. .

now both these people that got a good shot at my kids where men much smaller in stature and size and seemed to land good punches.

doogie

abaddon said:

Meeting nasty, aggresive body builders. You know, like I said. And I have an instense displike for aggresive assholes (and a surprising number of those of met have been BB'ers), the hobby itself just seems a bit pointless and self-obsessive.

thank god a surprising number of those assholes were body-builders and not, say...teachers, right? methinks you have a problem with agressive assholes (and rightly so) and not *necessarily* body builders.

ive been lifting since my mid-teens religiously, never taken steroids, never gotten in a fight (bought drinks for would-be instigators instead of hitting them), read continually and all in all am a pretty nice, passive guy. i do have aggression in the gym, but i leave it at the door. it's funny, because most of the time, it's the agression that i've accumulated outside of the gym which i purge within...not the other way around. i would not *define* myself as a body builder, however, a hobby of mine is body building. i'm sorry that you've encountered so many muscle-headed jerks. i strongly suggest you get a membership to a gym in your area. i think you'll be pleasantly surprised at the number of sane, rational, lovely gym rats (freaks though some may be) you will meet.

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Who are you now?

by tsunami_rid3r in

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all of us have been tit-sucking jehovahs witnesses at one point in our lives, and we have been deceptively forced to give up our very own individuality to become one group united under, supposedly, god's only earthly organization.

just maybe, maybe throughout your much hated dull life, as a brainless witness, you weren't allowed to experience the necessities of life, such as satan's blaring rock and roll that you oh so always wanted to listen to, dressing up in those flaming hot name brand clothes lines, being part of a sports team, knowing what true bonding friendship and competition really meant, or chosing those friends you know would never turn you in for having that nightly drink at the club.

now that we know the real truth, and the damage has been done, what have you done to repair it?

doogie

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