Phi for All

PainwithoutLove has been banned for vulgar and abusive posting. May have caught the crazy from STeve555.

Pending clarification from a REAL expert, check this out.

Excessive exercise can stop the cycle entirely. Many female athletes don't get a period at all. Some appreciate the lower estrogen levels because estrogen can cause some weight gain, but estrogen also helps women maintain bone density so there are some very bad consequences. I don't know if there are any drugs that postpone the cycle so women can compete, and I wonder if they'd be sanctioned by the authorities who govern those competitions. Like you, I think its not a good idea to disturb the body's cycles in most cases.

You gotta love internet Karma. Calling everybody else stupid and fumbling your grammar in the same sentence is poetic justice.

This works well to a point, but extreme exercising can cause the body to shut down non-priority processes to keep up with your energy needs. Reproduction isn't as important as survival, and exercise is viewed by the body as a fight or flight response. It sounds like you've discovered the optimal exercise schedule that keeps you fit and keeps your cycle consistent but short.

I, for one, found it difficult to believe that neither the UK Environment Agency nor the special Detection Identification and Monitoring unit of a London fire brigade could do no more than tell Cathy what chemical was causing the smell. Bureaucracy does have its advantages, and this is one of the things they usually don't let go of easily. Why couldn't they discover the source if they could detect toluene at all? Most of the chemical detectors I've seen can measure concentration so it should be stronger as you get closer to the source. It seems strange that the local authorities would simply tell people they have to leave their home without telling them what the source was. I suppose this might have been sort of a first response type reaction, "get out now while we figure out what caused it", but Cathy made it sound like they were still living there for a while (except for the pregnant daughter), and was interested in how she could remove the smell from the home. The EA should have been able to target the source, remove it and thus remove the smell. I love puzzles, but NOT when you don't have enough pieces to solve it.

Can you explain why you think this is so? As a working scientific theory, evolution is one of the most carefully studied and documented explanations for natural phenomena in the history of mankind. It is certainly NOT "egotistical"; the methodology used tries to remove as much bias from its conclusions as possible. And rather than contradict what you call "laws of nature", it is seen by many to be the very definition of natural law. And it's a body of work improved upon daily for over 150 years and critiqued by more people than almost any other theory. And please give us some examples of where evolution contradicts the laws of nature. And I ask the rest of the my fellow members to stick to meaningful replies to sincere questions.

If a religion can be not-theistic, then atheists could attend services in a "church" without contradiction. Personally, I think they make a mistake by using so many theistic references ("Latecomers go straight to HELL!"), but I think they're trying to start out with a familiar format and then diverge as the congregation sees fit. The concept is a good one, but I still think atheists should simply avoid using references from theistic religions. Make it a non-issue, in effect.

I think we call something "divine" or "sacred" when we don't want anyone to question it. God is just supposed to be accepted without questioning the person who is describing Him, or the way the person is describing Him. Whoever is telling you about God is absolutely correct about Him, always and forever, even if they change their mind or realize that something about their belief doesn't make sense. The best part about being divine is that any inconsistencies aren't really inconsistent, they're just incomprehensible to those who don't understand the Truth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inositol

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To maintain reserve buoyancy, don't submerge the pontoons beyond the halfway point, otherwise the boat can capsize more easily.

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I would think it must affect your vocal chords, much like not walking affects your leg muscles eventually. Disuse is probably better than abuse, though. You can probably recover from disuse by gradually strengthening the voice through speech, humming and singing. Here's some PubMed studies on voice disorders. Not all will be applicable, but it's a good place to start. I would suggest picking a few that sound good and read them aloud.

http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/37193-no-you-cant-make-sodium/

Don't they all still say, "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"? I "trust" that more than I have "faith" in anyone's god. Legal tender is recognized by the legal system to be a valid form of payment. That's why I can "trust" it, rather than "hope" it will be accepted, or have "faith" that it will (which is silly, since some places may not, like hotels and airlines). If I had "faith" that my currency would be accepted, I wouldn't bother to carry a debit card AND a credit card.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say it has something to do with an underwater glider of some sort.

Well, thanks for talking with us. I want you to know I've read every word you've written. I've also studied the Bible and read it cover to cover multiple times. I highly recommend a complete read-through, rather than relying on others to produce perfectly applicable verses cherry-picked from the writings of multiple authors, none of whom ever met Jesus in real life. Since you say you're not coming back, I'll leave you with this to ponder. Judaism protects their copies of the Tanakh (what you would call the Old Testament) by requiring strict supervision of their making and delivery to the temples so the word of God remains the same as the original. They even carry on an oral tradition that stresses the original pronunciation and cantillation as they're read aloud. In talking to you about the New Testament, I got the sense that this kind of accuracy is very important to you. You gave a very honest, rational reply when you said that accuracy compared to the original texts was what gave a translation merit for you. So I can't really believe it when you tell me it doesn't bother you that the Good News Bible is so far off the original texts. You and I both know it should bother you.

IMO, we should have taken the sympathy and well-wishes most of the world was openly offering after 9/11 and we should have used that to form a strong diplomatic mission to stop the active and passive funding of terrorists all over the world. Quietly strangling them is infinitely preferable to giving them a worldwide media stage for recruitment. I don't think you can ever fight terrorism with conventional methods since it obviously has the reverse effect most people wanted. It was a small percentage of already wealthy warmongers who profited from pursuing those wars. We are NOT safer because of them. We were fooled into thinking the military response was a strong and smart response, and it's proved to be neither. And while negotiations progressed with the world leaders, we should have gone after Osama bin Laden covertly and taken him out in EXACTLY the same way he was eventually removed. He died like the coward he was, with no martyr's fanfare and no grave to attract mourners.

They both have noise cancelling microphones under their shirts (the younger guy taps his at 0:49), so that supports the hypothesis that the older guy is in on it. It could be that he agreed to be miked but it shows it's not just a random guy the performer walked up to. There's also a suspicious jump cut at about 0:33. Definitely some editing there, and completely unnecessary if the guy could really do this within the time he seems to. The camera is obviously repositioned at that point.

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I wouldn't discount the power of advertising either. You don't see a lot of commercials for broccoli and sprouts. Anyone who thinks they're completely impervious to cheeseyburgery, sucrolicious, microwave fat pocket affective conditioning is just fooling themselves.

I'm not sure an intricate design like this will ever be seen as anything but a flowery pattern from a distance. I think a big part of the intrigue from a T-shirt will be seeing the detail become clearer as you get closer to the person wearing it. I think it's very appropriate that, like evolution, it's an interwoven concept that only breaks down into details when you study it closely.

Do I get to define "geological upheaval"?

Sexual cement does nothing to prolong the act like you'd think. Lubrication works so much better.