Naming a child a strange name like that just puts a strike against them when they grow up. They can accept the name and start acting as strange as it is or they can get an attitude (like Ja-a sounds like from your description)...

http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/07/poll-finds-one-third-of-american-scientists-believe-in-god/
This is just for American scientists but it will give you an idea. There is also more studies (which I can not find right now, they were from when I took Psychology) of the drop in religious belief through the education levels. As I recall High School graduates had the highest religious beliefs percentage and the higher the degrees the less of the beliefs percentage. It also was low for the people who did not graduate High School. But to defend religion on these studies there are very few people who get educated past a Bachelors anyways, and the people who did not graduate high school probably do not believe in much of anything, not even themselves...

The marriage part could be fixed with a simple "Separated" which I think would covered married not living together.

The Children part though I had thought about it before but I figured I was just over analyzing things. I will have to clarify in the profile the "want kids" part as "want more kids not already born" maybe...lol.

Sex is not needed, but it is like a shortcut to get to happiness. That is provided you are doing it right, then your brain will give off the chemicals to make you happy... but then there are people who do not do it right and then they feel cheap and used, not happy at all.

Here is something to ponder on, Herod was the King at the time Jesus was suppose to have been born. The kings at that time wanted everything documented right down to when and what they ate, everything that was said and all they talked to...even the secret stuff since only they had access to these writings at the time. The problem is in these writings of the kings daily activities there is no mention of searching for the king of the jews like the bible claims, there is no mention of the massacre of the innocent (killing all the young boys about the age Jesus would be). If all this really did happen then why is there no other record of this stuff except for in the big story book called the bible? Because that is all it is, a collection of stories from different people about the same character...

Deactivating the account is up to you, the only thing I would suggest is to change your profile to show that you are in a relationship right now so no one gets the wrong idea. You might get some people who think you are single or your boyfriend runs across this and wonders about your relationship since you look like you are still on here looking for a relationship. Good Luck either way

If you do not think that parking spaces is important enough, how about the starving children around the world? If even one person prayed for all the starving children in the world to be fed do you think god would feed them? The bible claims that all children are innocent so they should not have to suffer the pain of starving to death but they do every day. So can god not help them or is the god really sadistic and like to watch suffering? There is also another theory, suggesting that there ever was a god who says god is still around? He may have gave up on this universe a long time ago and has moved on to a new ant farm to play with...

You know that you have to come to chat and check the threads, right? This site does not send out messages when someone posts.

So do you have a new tatt or is it the pac man one?

If you were not so far away I would dust off some of the video games here...lol I never got into the online video games, they are harder to distract the other players when I am losing too bad...lol Join in on some of these conversations instead and maybe someone will spark your interest. Good Luck

When you have a hypothesis you are only testing for one thing at a time, if you say faith is a gift from god then you would have to define what type of faith that you are talking about (faith in yourself or in god or what). To say it is a gift means that you can reject taking it as it is not forced upon you, so there will be other people without faith that you can use as the control subjects. Then you can test what you consider faith. In your statement though you say the gift is from god, where is the proof of that? Was there a tag on the gift box that had the faith in it?...lol How do you prove where this "gift" came from?

Also, since I was a kid I was told never to accept gifts from strangers... since I never met this god then that makes him a stranger...lol (Sorry, had to say it...lol)

That is religious thinking, he can either make it or he can't. If he can lift it the next day even then he has not made a boulder that he could not lift...

Cheeks (on the face)
Eyes
Tattoos

People should not be that uptight that they think everyone is putting them down. You said that he was fun to joke with so he should have taken this as a joke. Maybe he was just having a bad day.

A guy I use to work with always use to say:
"Joke them if they can't take a F#@k"

People should not be that uptight that they think everyone is putting them down. You said that he was fun to joke with so he should have taken this as a joke. Maybe he was just having a bad day.

A guy I use to work with always use to say:
"Joke them if they can't take a F#@k"

Looks like Marc Ryan is just a comedian, I was hoping no one would be that dumb even when drunk...lol.

I know it is not Christmas time but I ran across an old song that I liked when I was a kid, we had the vinyl record of it: "Santa's A Hippie"

I thought I would share it here as it is funny, as are the other hippies ones like it...
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/12/santas-a-hippie.html

If you all are going down the definition of "God" then most would say one of the characteristics would be omnipotent (can do what ever). This can be stumped with the simple boulder theory: "Can God make a boulder so big that he can not lift?" If he can lift it then he can not make it, if he can make it then he can not lift it... Either way the idea of a god fails.

I guess it would all depends on how she took the differences. I am open to new ideas, but she has to accept that we are not going to see eye to eye on some things.

If she is religious and I am not, she can worship what ever she wants to make her feel whole inside...but don't expect me to do the same.

Things like abortion I consider a case by case thing, same with assisted suicide though.

Politics are going to not agree, the same parties do not agree with each other so why should a couple? It is good to get into healthy arguments. Some times it is fun just to pick the opposite side just to argue, if you do debate you learn that you are better at convincing if you choose the side that you do not agree with so you have to find enough to make you agree before you can make someone else agree.

About the only differences I see being a deal breaker would be smoking and/or telling lies. I do not smoke so I do not feel well around someone who does if we are that close. Then there also has to be trust in a relationship...

There is no way I would pull over for that, it looks like some college kid messing around...lol