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[///M5 2,833]

Minature red neck rally starts in a couple weeks. Think I'm gonna race 1/8th scale buggies this year . Put a new motor in the monster last night , and that bastage is ready to roll

What motor?

[///M5 2,833]

engineTOp

[ford302redneck 15]

Zoom Zoom.

[Godsmack 361]

Work Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

J

[ford302redneck 15]

I need to go to work.

Pose to rain today, so I guess I need to get started.

[Adrian_D 520]

Cutting 1inch mdf with the jigsaw went much better than expected

[MKader17 332]

Done with my last test for the week. Now if I can just hit cruise control and stay in class for the rest of the week I should be good

[Adrian_D 520]

I'm ashamed to say I've seen The Notebook, but never heard of Two Lane Blacktop.

see.it.now.

basically the story of a primer black '55 Chevy hauling ass across the country side

*Goes to search for it at Amazon.com*

I also suggest Vanishing Point, Bullitt, and Dazed and Confused

Vanishing point is very nice.

Time to start up utorrent

Just finished watching Vanishing point, the 1971 version

Far better than 1997.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

and that's jsut from my experience playing with them. phillip's H1 alpha is a friggin beast offroad!! if it had solid axles, rocks be damned!! of course, that's what his snyper is for. i think that's what it's called. the guy who invented rock buggies, his "brand" hell, it's too early, and i've got to get ready for work, lol.

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Good ole Snipers, purpose built fun buggies :drink40:

[topgun 262]

I do like how much room I have on my desk now. Working out quite well so far.

Pics for Tom later when I get it set up the way I want it.

[///M5 2,833]

Big desks are sweet.

[topgun 262]

My new one is basically 6'x3', the old one was a POS.

[///M5 2,833]

Mine is 8'x4' but only because some dumb business ran out of business and I bought it cheap. Not so pretty either, but big

[topgun 262]

I would love to have a bigger one, but this one rather dominates my room the way it is... Mine doesn't look to bad, it isn't the pretiest thing I've built though. Oak ply top, dark walnut stain with two coats of Deft on it, then 3/4" birch legs/frame, two coats of Deft on them too.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

"In an attempt to defy the newly approved state science standards, Florida Senator Rhonda Storms has proposed a bill that would allow teachers to contradict the teaching of evolution. Her bill states that 'Every public school teacher in the state's K-12 school system shall have the affirmative right and freedom to objectively present scientific information relevant to the full range of scientific views regarding biological and chemical evolution in connection with teaching any prescribed curriculum regarding chemical or biological origins.'"

gg FloriDUH

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

"In an attempt to defy the newly approved state science standards, Florida Senator Rhonda Storms has proposed a bill that would allow teachers to contradict the teaching of evolution. Her bill states that 'Every public school teacher in the state's K-12 school system shall have the affirmative right and freedom to objectively present scientific information relevant to the full range of scientific views regarding biological and chemical evolution in connection with teaching any prescribed curriculum regarding chemical or biological origins.'"

gg FloriDUH

That is a really bad attempt at trying to word-smith the bible back in to schools. Honestly, is there no more separation of church and state? When there ceases to be any, then we have become the religious fanatics we love to hate (ie attacking countries who feel that their "god" told them it is their duty to kill us).

[DevilDriver 28]

There is no separation of church and state now.

But recent research suggests that a larger % of the population is moving away from religion altogether in the US; a separation may be possible, if any church still exists at the time.

[DevilDriver 28]

Sounds like things are starting to catch up with Obama today. We'll see what the votes have to say at the end of the day.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

"And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the horn, and the mountain smoking." Thus the book of Exodus describes the impressive moment of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai.

The "perceiving of the voices" has been interpreted endlessly since these words were first written. When Professor Benny Shanon, professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reads the verse, he recalls a powerful hallucinatory experience he had when he visited the Amazon and drank a potion made from a plant called ayahuasca.

"One of the things that happens when you drink the potion is a visual experience created via sounds," he says.

Shanon presents a provocative theory in an article published this week in the philosophy journal Time and Mind. The religious ceremonies of the Israelites included the use of psychotropic materials that can found in the Negev and Sinai, he says. "I have no direct proof of this interpretation," and such proof cannot be expected, he says. However, "it seems logical that something was altered in people's consciousness. There are other stories in the Bible that mention the use of plants: for example, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden."

Shanon, former head of the Hebrew University psychology department, said his first experience with ayahuasca was in 1991 when he was invited to a religious ceremony in the northern Amazon in 1991 in Brazil. "I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations," he says. Since that time, he has used it hundreds of times, and has published a book about the plant.

"Hypotheses have been around for 20 years connecting the beginning of religions with psychoactive materials," Shanon says. He believes the Israelites used two plants in Sinai and the Negev: one of them is wild rue, a hallucinogen used by the Bedoin to this day. However this plant is not identified with any plant mentioned in the Bible.

The acacia tree also has psychedelic properties, Shanon says, which the Israelites could have used. The acacia is mentioned frequently in the Bible, and was the type of wood of which the Ark of the Covenant was made. According to Shanon, he drank a potion prepared from a species of acacia while he was in South America, which caused similar experiences to those produced by the ayahuasca.

Shanon also sees signs of a hallucinogenic vision in the story of the burning bush.

"Moses 'looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed,'" Shanon quotes from Exodus 3:2. Time passes differently when under the influence of the plant, he notes. "That's why Moses thought the bush was not consumed. It should have been burned in the time he thought had passed. And in that time, he heard God speaking to him."

"But not everyone who uses a plant like this brings the Torah," Shanon concedes. "For that, you have to be Moses."

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

There is no separation of church and state now.

But recent research suggests that a larger % of the population is moving away from religion altogether in the US; a separation may be possible, if any church still exists at the time.

Based on the blind followers who know very little about Obama, there is a very large number of young, weak minded sheep in in this country, so the research you mention is interesting.

[Penguin4x4 1,761]

There is no separation of church and state now.

But recent research suggests that a larger % of the population is moving away from religion altogether in the US; a separation may be possible, if any church still exists at the time.

Based on the blind followers who know very little about Obama, there is a very large number of young, weak minded sheep in in this country, so the research you mention is interesting.

Technically there has always been a very large number of young, weak minded sheep in this country

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

Not sure if anyone saw that Brett Favre said he is done.

[///M5 2,833]

Not sure if anyone saw that Brett Favre said he is done.

[Aaron Clinton 2,372]

One please >> 1000SX

[///M5 2,833]

Been all over the news here obviously, I am glad he went out having his best year in a really long time but for that reason alone it seems pretty stupid to hang them up. I bet if they had signed Moss he'd play.