Nice to meet you. :)

Looks good to me. Those are good pics of you. You misspelled "volleyball". yours in Chaos, Scarlett

If your objective is to find dates, your profile seems kinda slim on info. The pictures are good and interesting.

I know it's kinda hard to come up with a lot of material to put in a social site profile sometimes, but that's where a list can be handy. Make a list of things that you like in word processing and once you have it all figured out, then copy/paste it into your profile instead of sitting and trying to figure out what to type, and type it all into a text box.

An example would be a couple of headings: Favorite foods, favorite music. Then take awhile to come up with some things under those headings, type them out, spell check them if you don't trust your writing skills, and then c/p it into your profile. TA DAAAAHHH!

Nice to meet ya. :)

Hello and welcome. :)

No problem. It's good that you don't take it personally, a lot of the time people think I'm attacking them when I'm just pointing out little inconsistencies. I sound sort of sarcastic a lot of the time; it's a defense mechanism.

I hope you find the answers you're looking for. xoxoxo

Hello there! :)

You lost all your work...? Are you sure...? if your system crashes and you're working on something, there is usually somewhere a backup copy of what you were working on.

In Microsoft word or other MS application, go under Tools --> Options --> File locations, then look at what it says under "autorecover". That is the directory you want to look in for your autosave files. Most of these applications are automatically set to auto-save every few minutes.

And if you were working in Word or Power Point, if you just open the program after rebooting, and you were working on something before the crash, it will ask you if you want to look at your auto-recover files.

I don't know what version of these apps you were using but that is a very old feature that has been around for a long time, since at least the early 1990s--unless you manually delete a file, it will stay on your computer. It's on there somewhere.

If you did manually delete these files then look in the trash can for them. Deleted files stay in the "recycle bin" and can be restored in one click, until you empty the recycle bin.

Good luck! xoxo

That's like the guy on another forum telling me that I could not live without belief. I told him in a lighthearted manner that "belief doesn't need a champion" and he blew up at me, then started trying to have me kicked off the forum. Though he claims to be an atheist, his beliefs are in fact very important to him, and therefore he assumes that everyone must be like him, and wastes vast amounts of energy trying to prove it.

You're over-intellectualizing. If you didn't need belief to be born and live into adulthood, you are in error by supposing that you need it now, or that anyone else does.

(If you actually READ what I wrote, then you wouldn't have to ask me these things.)

Yes, lots of people, nearly everyone, has belief of some sort. Almost everyone alive has a can opener, too. Can openers are handy, but obviously we can get along without them in a pinch.

I'll repeat the main premise behind my words, which does not involve my belief, or a foundation of any kind, but only an observation of fact in so-called "reality"--

A person who supposes that belief is necessary for things to exist is what we typically call "mentally ill".

If I was to die right now, these words that I'm typing would continue to exist until someone came and turned off the computer. This has nothing to do with "belief" and everything to do with "reality".

A person who is sick in the head in a certain way thinks that if he were to die right now, you, me, the computer, his home, and basically the entire universe will all disappear. (Don't suppose I'm accusing you of this! I'm illustrating a point about belief only.)

Reality is not a belief, and does not depend on belief--or rather, if it does, it is not dependent on my own personal belief.

If belief DOES sustain reality, then I would have to opine (not BELIEVE, lol) that some higher or more advanced kind of belief is what sustains it.

But then on the other hand I would not have to care, which pretty much sums up my foundations in this regard. There may be something higher than me, or there may not; either way, I don't care and am not really interested. That is not a foundation of anything except uncaringness as far as belief is concerned.

Do the above statements involve "belief"...? No; they don't. I can think of these words and type them out, not because I BELIEVE that I can, but because at some point I learned the knack of it. If belief was involved, it was at the outset, when I believed that I would like to learn how to string words together and then type them, but even if I didn't believe that I could, if someone beat me every day until I learned how to write and type, I would still learn. (Thank goodness that wasn't the case, ya know?)



There is no foundation of truth by which I live. I live because I live, and I don't want to die. I avoid death not because of belief, but because it's natural for a living organism to do so.

Belief arises after the human mind attributes meaning to natural occurrences, and then attempts to validate the supposed meaning of those occurrences by repetition and verification from other humans.

Whether I believe that the sun will rise tomorrow or not, or whether I live to see it rise or not, it will surely rise. If you say that the sun rises because I believe it will, I think you are assigning rather more responsibility to me and importance to my whims than I want or deserve. xoxoxo

Hurrah! :)

Hm... I don't watch a lot of movies but I do have my favorite scenes I guess...

One scene that I really liked that I saw recently is the scene in "I Am Legend" when his dog starts to turn into a vampire dog, so he kills her. That makes my heart hurt!

The scene in "The Outlaw Josey Wales" where Wales is telling the motley bunch that end up on the ranch that even if it looks hopeless "you have to fight like a mad dog and never give up".

The scene in "Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny" where RJ Dio says in this really sincere voice: "But... Satan's not in a guitar pick. He's here... in our hearts..."

The scene in "Casino Royale" where they've got Bond tied to a chair and he's being ball-whipped, and he's screaming, and then when the guy stops he starts laughing and says, "A little to the left!"

The scene in "Tropic Thunder" where Tugg Speedman holds up Cockburn's head and talks about how "fake" it is.

I have a lot of favorite scenes from older movies, like "North By Northwest" and "Bullitt"... a good chase scene in an otherwise crappy movie makes it worth the price of admission to me. yours in Chaos, Scarlett

Before the age of 6? Well... I don't know you personally, but you were probably just a little heathen, like most kids.

Kids tend to accept what's happening around them without needing to validate events or attribute meaning to them. That's why you see, for example, that in some sort of disaster kids will be relatively calm even if the adults around them are freaking out.

That seems quite strange. The Microsoft Office shell should allow you to load, reload, and change your spell-check preferences and have those preferences be global (i.e., extend to all the MS applications without you having to do anything else).

Did you try opening Word, then clicking on Tools --> Language --> Set language, and checking "English"...?

If you've already done this and it's still not working, try right clicking on the Windows taskbar, then click on "toolbars" and then "language bar". Using the language bar you SHOULD be able to set a default language.

Good luck! Let me know if it's not workin. yours in Chaos, Scarlett

The premise underlying all these statements and subsequent questioning is that people HAVE to believe in something.

No--they do not. It's just that humans have a tendency to attribute meaning to natural occurrences that take place around them.

Belief is something that occurs after the attribution of meaning to an event. It is a sequence of validation that occurs solely within the human mind; it is, in other words, completely abstract.

Some people live almost wholly in belief and will think, for example, that solid objects are only there because they believe in them. In general terms, this is mental illness.

As non-ill individuals who place a value on logic and rationality, we know that the tree is really there, that the chair is really there, and that there's really a car hurtling towards us so we'd better get the hell out of the way.

Therefore we have this objective evidence that the universe exists regardless of our personal beliefs pertaining to that existence, or the nature of that existence. There could be a reason--there could be a creator--there could be some underlying rationale for this universe of ours and everything in it, but at best each of us has only part of the whole story, and a very small part at that.

I try to get along without belief as much as possible. There are reasons for this that simply take too long to explain, and at any rate I don't actually suppose that you want to hear the story of my life or how I arrived at my present state of mind.

I hope this is helpful to you in some way. yours in Chaos, Scarlett

Hey there! :)

^^^ Someone... actually... used... the word "good"... in a sentence with... my name.....



AAAAARRRRGGHHH!! *head explodes*

There may be good reasons for all civilized people to have issues with execution of certain criminals, but to try to use a religious text that one only partially understands as the basis for an argument is only going to make your argument indefensible.

If there are good reasons to abolish the death penalty worldwide, doing a bit of research and finding those reasons, and presenting them without attacking a particular religious faith, is the optimal way to proceed. Accusing Christians of hypocrisy because they don't agree with your views is hardly an innovative approach.



That's someone who has definitely NOT read the bible saying that.

Now who's "interpreting" things? There is a lot of violence in the bible, and when we sit down and think about it: Life is a pretty violent deal. It was to address the violence that was rampant 4,000 or so years ago that the Levite priests first sat down and started coming up with laws, which were--if one reads the bible--given to them by God, to give to the people.

Mosaic law was in its day an establishment of justice and fairness, the likes of which the world had never seen before. People actually got to ARGUE their cases before a judge instead of waiting for their accuser and his family to come try to kill them. Under Mosaic law a rich man didn't automatically win every case, and widows and orphans were provided for.

And I certainly agree that Jesus was hardly a toothless pacifist. It would be nice if more people made an effort to understand his teaching, wouldn't it? xoxoxo

I sincerely doubt that you have read the bible, even though you claim to have done so.

If you have, then I beg your pardon--but if you have, then you should be able to give some evidence of what you're talking about, rather than putting the burden of proof on everyone else. Mosaic law as it concerns the punishment of criminals is cut-and-dried, and can be reviewed at length in the biblical books of Levi and Deuteronomy.

If you can't substantiate your claim, then your argument is of course invalid.

(I'm not a Christian--I just dislike weak, poorly-thought-out arguments.)

Jesus didn't have any type of huge problem with Mosaic law, again as noted by the other person who is replying to your post. xoxo

Look at it this way: You're not honoring the PERSON so much as your connection to that person.

You can be realistic about your parents and know that there's no way you can ever be around them. Maybe your parents are criminals, or they abused you, or they are drunks, or whatever. There's no reason you should forget that bad things happened to you because of them, or give them more opportunities to do bad things to you.

But you should at least make an effort not to hate them. Try to see them as screwed-up human beings that deserve compassion.

Honoring your parents means honoring the fact that they brought you into the world to have an opportunity at life. You don't have to be a pushover for them or let them abuse you, or let them get away with abusing anyone else.

Forgive your dad, if there's any way you can. Don't do it for him--do it for yourself. Whether your dad is a good person or a bad person, you will always during this life have a connection to him.

I know people my age who still carry around grudges against their parents, and I always pity them.

I hope this was helpful. yours in Chaos, Scarlett

There is either a mechanical short in the wire--which could be caused by mice gnawing or the stripping on the wires disintegrating over time--or some water has leaked into the roof over the fixture and caused a short.

If it was me, I would get a repair person to come fix the thing instead of trying to fix it myself. There may be a short somewhere besides in the light fixture, in which case you will need special equipment to find out where it is.

I hope this helps! Be safe. yours in Chaos, Scarlett

Five years...? That's not that much of a difference, lol.

Anyway: If you and a lover, regardless of age, are by your own assessment "sexually incompatible" then you need to look at yourself first. Don't blame him, it's not his problem. You've been together for less than a year, and I doubt if he's changed that much during that time. Whatever it was that you initially liked about him, therefore, is still present. (If you're just getting bored with him, why not admit it?)

If he was always after you at first and now doesn't want to have sex, then maybe you can blame him, but it's not going to solve your problem. You have to find out what has changed since you first got together, and if you want to keep him, then fix that thing, whatever it is. (My guess is that it's a lack of clear communication, but that's just a guess, and I really don't want to know.)

If you don't care enough to get to the heart of the matter and fix the problem, then stop stringing the poor guy along and find someone else who is more to your personal liking. yours in Chaos, Scarlett