Moontanman

Gives a whole new meaning to anal doesn't it? I don't understand why you think that is relevant... You are again assuming them to be real, videos can and have been faked, foot prints are often faked, sightings are open to interpretation. There in lies the rub, until you do have bones and bodies bigfoot is just a myth. Give some thought to the road kill idea, eventually all animals end up as road kill, even grizzly bears, why do we not see bigfoot road kills? They have been seen in populated areas, beside interstate highways, the forests are full of hunters every year yet no bigfoot has been shot.

There are people who masturbate and those who lie about it. The reason so many religious philosophies seem to say masturbation is harmful is due to their need to control everyone, they are the same dolts who say a mans semen is his essence and contains too much in the way of nutrients to be allowed to be wasted. This is demonstrably not true as the links i have already provided show. many people are uncomfortable with sex due to upbringing, religion, and i am sure there are other factors but you are approaching this from the wrong direction. If you want info on this remember that investigations do not start out trying to prove or disprove something. The correct attitude would be what are the effects of sex on the human body. Not how can I show that sex is bad for the human body, it shows you have an agenda and that agenda is not neutral but in fact fueled by your own sexual views, all you are doing is trying to justify your own views, this is not science or the way to proceed with studying something... old wives tales are not the way to investigate something... damn I'm gonna have to shave my palms again! and where are my glasses...

Where are some of these unknown habitats? Name a few of them, I can't think of one habitat that is big enough but unexplored to hold a dinosaur population. So hoaxes, and misidentification of other animals doesn't figure in? Where are the bodies of road kills? Even very rare animals show up in road kills, humans show up in road kills. Burying their dead doesn't mean we wouldn't find the bones, we found lots of neanderthal bones even though they buried their dead, we find humans too even though we bury our dead. The youngest skeletons we have found date back to about 30,000 years ago, after that time no more neanderthals are found. As I pointed out above burying their dead has no bearing on finding bones. This shows that you are ignorant of how evolution works, plesiosaurs are reptiles reptiles do not have gills by definition. They might evolve some sort of ability to breath underwater but like turtles who breath through their anus the method they use is only supplemental, I'm not sure how long it would take plesiosaurs to evolve the ability to breath underwater but I do know it couldn't happen in one population of plesiosaurs. That is not even good enough to be called speculation, no matter how smart they are a hunter would have killed one by now. We can find and trap even extremely rare animals natural populations of neanderthals would not be able to hide from people completely. maybe neanderthals wear costumes? Now you are just trolling... The point about the invisible unicorns has to do with proving a negative. Their might be neanderthals on another planet, does that mean that after we completely explore the entire earth we still have to say we don't know they are extinct? Neanderthals might be smart but they are gone, other than the few genes we share with them due to cross breading they are gone... No dinosaur fossils have been found past the K/T boundary, they did not survive (well other than birds) no living non avian dinosaurs exist...

The only thing I've noticed from abstaining from sex is that I think about sex more and more, in fact it becomes quite distracting...

Do you have any idea of how long the Plesiosaur has been extinct? A small population in a small lake is not supportable for many reasons not the least of which is that the lake hasn't existed for 65,000,000 years, yes, that's how long plesiosaurs have been extinct, no trace of them in the fossil record for 65,000,000 million years and suddenly they turn up in a lake in Scotland? . Giganthropithicus has little if any resemblance to big foot and no traces of them have been found for many millions of years. A population of giganthropithicus large enough to be self sustaning would not be able to hide. If nothing else we would see them as the occasional road kill. Neanderthals are shorter on average than regular humans so 8 foot tall hairy beast they cannot be. You can't prove I don't have an invisible unicorn in my basement either, do you think that you not being able to prove it is evidence I have one? ?

Again you are assuming that masturbation detracts from life in some way, I see no reason what so ever to assume anything of the kind. Just exactly how much time a day do you spend masturbating, for me it couldn't be more than 30 minutes or so. Again you need to show some reason why masturbation has those effects, so far you have not done so. I could masturbate several times a day with no significant time taken up. The fact that an ejaculation is a trivial event in it's cost to an organism would seem to show you are wrong and that your ideas are in fact based on your own problems with masturbation not any evidence it harms anyone. Quite the contrary I stand by what i said, you ignore anything that disagrees with you and only use meaningless drivel to support your stance. I am 57 years old, i have in my life spent much longer time periods not masturbating it had no effect on me other than my dreams became very overtly sexual. BTW, i have plenty of energy for life, how can you assume I am lacking in energy because I have sex regularly? You seem to want to make an ASS/U/Me, you keep making these sweeping claims that make no sense... I think you need to look deep inside your own mind and figure out why you seem to be obsessed with masturbation...

First of all the idea that in some distant place extinct animals still live is not viable. Most animals are quite localized in their distribution and can be said to be extinct simply because they are all dead, no living examples exist. yes it is true that animals once thought to be extinct have been found alive it is also true these are very rare events and most of the time the animal was known, just not to modern science. The coelacanth is an example of this, the people native to the area had long been familiar with the coelacanth. While some cryptozoologists do indeed look for unknown animals ( the word means study of hidden animals) the idea that a dinosaur is still running around is something some of the people in this field have been proposing and to do that tends to cut out respect. On the other hand some unknown animals have been found, they were unknown to modern science but not considered to be a long lost extinct species, since we didn't know about them. These animals were merely unknown to modern science, the gorilla was such an animal before it's "discovery" by modern science.

Mike, I am having trouble understanding what you are talking about. If this doesn't help then we need to further discuss this for sure. Calcium was part of the solar nebula, a very small part to be sure but once the dust and gasses condensed into our planet calcium was present in the crust as various compounds, Calcium Chloride and Calcium Oxide was probably a large part of it, it's doubtful that pure calcium was present, calcium is a reactive element and would seldom if ever occur as a pure element, these compounds would have been combined into various rocks. Weathering by rain and exposure to CO2 caused huge amounts to dissolve in the oceans ending up as calcium carbonate. Organisms and other natural processes pulled this Calcium carbonate out of the water to be deposited as rock. Is this helpful or did I get your question wrong?

Since we are obviously just dealing with opinions here, I think that sex enhances your life, mental concentration, ups your self esteem and has no harmful side effects. The links I provided would seem to indicate that ejaculation is a trivial event as far as cost to the organism, unless you can show that ejaculation contains some significant amounts of something the body has only in very short supply I see no way your assertion can be shown to true. You have no understanding of science or what evidence means, claims made by people who's philosophy centers around the glorification of seminal fluid as some sort of essence of a man and is in short supply is silly. Most of this idea that ejaculation is somehow bad thing also comes from religious people who have a problem with any sex that doesn't result in a baby. Intuition is meaningless in the absence of evidence... If you want to abstain from sex I say go for it but you have not given us any reason what so ever to think that ejaculation is anything but a trivial event that matters very little if any in the long term health of an individual.

I've looked for some internet info on this idea that semen is some sort of drain on the human body, so far the info is thin but what there is seems to indicate semen is not exactly a huge drain on the testes... http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/nutritional-value-serving-semen This looks a little better... http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_nutritional_content_of_human_semen This content would seem to be a negligible loss. More below... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen This seems to cover it... http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_the_loss_of_semen_due_to_masturbation_drain_away_vital_energy_causing_weakness_in_the_body_and_penis There is no argument here, you are asserting that masturbation is bad and making unsupported claims about the essence of a man and how semen is somehow a huge drain on the body when in fact the content of semen is negligible. you make an insinuation of somehow any one who masturbates is somehow inferior to those who do not then make a thinly veiled attempt to show that somehow people are promoting masturbation, as though that was something horrible. you say as though that is common knowledge... how about showing us some of them? and I'll stop being a bore...

Really? Masturbation defenders? Are you saying there is a group of miscreants who defend masturbation?

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I've been on both sides of the unionization coin, not an easy choice when dealing with dishonest people on both sides...

and yet I had prostrate cancer... hard to imagine how I could have ejaculated any more often... anecdotal i know... I hope this is relevant, if not it is funny...

And your point would be?

yes and they tend to want to push their horse feathers on everyone else as though it had some meaning in the real world... not cool...

you using the word "food" rather loosely aren't you?

benefits of sexual abstinence... let's see... ummm err ahhh, Hmmm wait i am sure there is one... drawbacks to sexual abstinence.... easy peasy... no sex.... yeah! it's sex for the win! yeah...

Try this book, it is fiction but written by a scientist... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Egg

I'll take a Rubin on pumpernickel please... There are no absolute answers, absolute answers imply the end of investigation, always a bad thing, it stifles progress... What if we had accepted the absolute answer of what lightning is? Divine intervention? Then we can't even conceive of preventing a stroke of lightning much less design devices to protect us from it... That oak tree must have really done something bad for god to have blasted it with that stroke of lightning...

No one is asking for absolute evidence, empirical evidence is what is asked for and you have none... you make outrageous claims, easily refuted btw, as though they mean more than the reality around us. Science has lot of evidence, evidence is what science is based on, theism however has nothing but the claims of charlatans, snake oil, horse feathers, bull butter but no evidence at all. Science does have evidence but lets get real, we are not really talking about science, evidence or even reality, we are talking about hopes, dreams, feelings, and fear of death. We are talking about the methods used by primitive humans to control each other, tribesmen in a one up man ship game of I am better than you because my god is better but no wait my god is better, no mine are, "neener neener neener" childish drivel taken to the nth degree... used so many times to justify the dehumanizing of the other people and you dare to suggest that science is doing the same thing by providing real answers to questions that were long answered by "my god did it" Science isn't not absolute but it is based in a real world we can measure, touch, and see... not a fairy tale for adults... I beg your pardon? Please clarify how my language is indecent? I can give you few indecent remarks if you like that would be even more accurate in describing your position... as far as restraint.... we have been past that point for some time now don't you think?

I don't feel bad for him at all, he wants to devote his life to a fairy tale made up by primitive humans in the absolute absence of any evidence and thinks this fairy tale is more important than reality he deserves what he gets for his efforts... NADA

I am more than a bit insulted by that, I worship stone because i don't agree with your opinion? I do not worship anything, I think the very concept of worship is degrading, I do not believe in the supernatural, I see no evidence to support your stance, you have given none what so ever.