Deep Thoughts....

[Svengoolie 3]

Know what's a scary thought to me? If I'd died when I was fifteen, like I almost did, I might've ended up as one of some terrorist's seventy-two virgins.

So you could have bitten his dong off.   

[indianasmith]

That's based on the premise that terrorists have an accurate view of the hereafter.
I rather imagine most of them got an unpleasant surprise on the other side of the suicide bombing!

[Svengoolie 3]

Hey,  they have faith in their religion and they prove it.

[indianasmith]

They do believe 100%, no doubt.  Doesn't make them right, though. 

[Svengoolie 3]

That's how I feel about most religions...

[ER]

That's how I feel about most religions...

Put aside faith and look at evidence. Read The Case for Christ, if you're capable of open-mindedness.

[ER]

Know what's a scary thought to me? If I'd died when I was fifteen, like I almost did, I might've ended up as one of some terrorist's seventy-two virgins.

So you could have bitten his dong off.   

What I really wonder, though, is after the terrorists have their wicked way with the virgins, do the former virgins get to go off on their own or are they stuck with the terrorist for eternity?

Also, is it a one-shot deal, or are they miracled back to virgins again time after time? And how would that even happen? You could slap a hymen back up those gals and technically they still had had sex. But if so, if they are reset after each waist-dance, is this Hell for the virgins, their punishment for things like lying to their parents and skipping out of their bedrooms on school nights? Would that mean then that Hell and Heaven happened in the same place, just as different conditions within that reality?

Also, do the virgins have to consent to the sex with terrorists, or is it all like eternal #MeToo?

Are the virgins assigned to terrorists, or do they line all the virgins up and each terrorist gets to pick a virgin, round robin style, til everyone has seventy-two? Or maybe the virgins get to pick, looking over the terrorists and going, "Ummmm, I'll take Abdul."

And what happens if a terrorist gets there and there and enough virgins haven't died on earth that day? Does he get a few at a time, or would he have to wait til all seventy-two were lined up? What if a bus of really ugly Catholic schoolgirls crashed off a hilltop, and they went to the line and the terrorists thought they were hurl-worthy. Would they get to pass on them and wait for better virgins, or do they have to take what comes along? Let's face it, unless you're saving yourself for some higher ideal, if you're a female virgin past a certain shelf life, you're proooooobably not Grade-A, knowudimeen? What with men being what they are.

After a suicide bombing, would the terrorists even still be bodily cohesive enough to deflower the virgins? I imagine Mohammad Atta's penis was pretty smeared after flying into the Trade Center. If you think about it that was likely one of the first parts of him to hit the building. That thing must've looked like a Dole banana run over by a steamroller driven by Chris Farley.

And what about female martyrs? Do they get male virgins, or are they disappointed to find out in the Seventh Heaven it's all female all the time? Do they have to spend the first few months up there instructing these virginal boys about the little man in the boat? How boring. Maybe female martyrs get dead UCLA frat boys.

And what about those baby martyrs, the infants wrapped around a bomb and handed through a crowd? Do they have to wait til their balls drop, or is it like a molestation situation til they're thirteen or whatever?

A little annotation on the rules would've helped.

I mean these are things I lie awake at night thinking about.

[Alex]

Know what's a scary thought to me? If I'd died when I was fifteen, like I almost did, I might've ended up as one of some terrorist's seventy-two virgins.

So you could have bitten his dong off.  

What I really wonder, though, is after the terrorists have their wicked way with the virgins, do the former virgins get to go off on their own or are they stuck with the terrorist for eternity?

Also, is it a one-shot deal, or are they miracled back to virgins again time after time? And how would that even happen? You could slap a hymen back up those gals and technically they still had had sex. But if so, if they are reset after each waist-dance, is this Hell for the virgins, their punishment for things like lying to their parents and skipping out of their bedrooms on school nights? Would that mean then that Hell and Heaven happened in the same place, just as different conditions within that reality?

Also, do the virgins have to consent to the sex with terrorists, or is it all like eternal #MeToo?

Are the virgins assigned to terrorists, or do they line all the virgins up and each terrorist gets to pick a virgin, round robin style, til everyone has seventy-two? Or maybe the virgins get to pick, looking over the terrorists and going, "Ummmm, I'll take Abdul."

And what happens if a terrorist gets there and there and enough virgins haven't died on earth that day? Does he get a few at a time, or would he have to wait til all seventy-two were lined up? What if a bus of really ugly Catholic schoolgirls crashed off a hilltop, and they went to the line and the terrorists thought they were hurl-worthy. Would they get to pass on them and wait for better virgins, or do they have to take what comes along? Let's face it, unless you're saving yourself for some higher ideal, if you're a female virgin past a certain shelf life, you're proooooobably not Grade-A, knowudimeen? What with men being what they are.

After a suicide bombing, would the terrorists even still be bodily cohesive enough to deflower the virgins? I imagine Mohammad Atta's penis was pretty smeared after flying into the Trade Center. If you think about it that was likely one of the first parts of him to hit the building. That thing must've looked like a Dole banana run over by a steamroller driven by Chris Farley.

And what about female martyrs? Do they get male virgins, or are they disappointed to find out in the Seventh Heaven it's all female all the time? Do they have to spend the first few months up there instructing these virginal boys about the little man in the boat? How boring. Maybe female martyrs get dead UCLA frat boys.

And what about those baby martyrs, the infants wrapped around a bomb and handed through a crowd? Do they have to wait til their balls drop, or is it like a molestation situation til they're thirteen or whatever?

A little annotation on the rules would've helped.

I mean these are things I lie awake at night thinking about.

Their virginity is eternally renewed. Me, I'd be happier with just one woman who knew what she was doing.

[ER]

Yeah, tennis is a lot more fun when you're playing someone who knows how to serve. Of course my one and only experience with a virgin did seem sweet. He said, "There's no place in the world I'd rather be right now." Awwwww! Things like that make up for the fact it was a fast minute.

(I've had too much caffeine today.)

[Alex]

What if life is really a computer game, and when you experience Deja Vu, you have died and went back to the last save point?

[Svengoolie 3]

Know what's a scary thought to me? If I'd died when I was fifteen, like I almost did, I might've ended up as one of some terrorist's seventy-two virgins.

So you could have bitten his dong off.   

What I really wonder, though, is after the terrorists have their wicked way with the virgins, do the former virgins get to go off on their own or are they stuck with the terrorist for eternity?

Also, is it a one-shot deal, or are they miracled back to virgins again time after time? And how would that even happen? You could slap a hymen back up those gals and technically they still had had sex. But if so, if they are reset after each waist-dance, is this Hell for the virgins, their punishment for things like lying to their parents and skipping out of their bedrooms on school nights? Would that mean then that Hell and Heaven happened in the same place, just as different conditions within that reality?

Also, do the virgins have to consent to the sex with terrorists, or is it all like eternal #MeToo?

Are the virgins assigned to terrorists, or do they line all the virgins up and each terrorist gets to pick a virgin, round robin style, til everyone has seventy-two? Or maybe the virgins get to pick, looking over the terrorists and going, "Ummmm, I'll take Abdul."

And what happens if a terrorist gets there and there and enough virgins haven't died on earth that day? Does he get a few at a time, or would he have to wait til all seventy-two were lined up? What if a bus of really ugly Catholic schoolgirls crashed off a hilltop, and they went to the line and the terrorists thought they were hurl-worthy. Would they get to pass on them and wait for better virgins, or do they have to take what comes along? Let's face it, unless you're saving yourself for some higher ideal, if you're a female virgin past a certain shelf life, you're proooooobably not Grade-A, knowudimeen? What with men being what they are.

After a suicide bombing, would the terrorists even still be bodily cohesive enough to deflower the virgins? I imagine Mohammad Atta's penis was pretty smeared after flying into the Trade Center. If you think about it that was likely one of the first parts of him to hit the building. That thing must've looked like a Dole banana run over by a steamroller driven by Chris Farley.

And what about female martyrs? Do they get male virgins, or are they disappointed to find out in the Seventh Heaven it's all female all the time? Do they have to spend the first few months up there instructing these virginal boys about the little man in the boat? How boring. Maybe female martyrs get dead UCLA frat boys.

And what about those baby martyrs, the infants wrapped around a bomb and handed through a crowd? Do they have to wait til their balls drop, or is it like a molestation situation til they're thirteen or whatever?

A little annotation on the rules would've helped.

I mean these are things I lie awake at night thinking about.

Sadly in most abrahamic religions women are nothing but protperry to be owned by and servile to men.

If you want a religion that treated women like peolle try Sikhism, and no i'm not  a Sikh but I respect their views more than most religions.

[ER]

Know what's a scary thought to me? If I'd died when I was fifteen, like I almost did, I might've ended up as one of some terrorist's seventy-two virgins.

So you could have bitten his dong off.  

What I really wonder, though, is after the terrorists have their wicked way with the virgins, do the former virgins get to go off on their own or are they stuck with the terrorist for eternity?

Also, is it a one-shot deal, or are they miracled back to virgins again time after time? And how would that even happen? You could slap a hymen back up those gals and technically they still had had sex. But if so, if they are reset after each waist-dance, is this Hell for the virgins, their punishment for things like lying to their parents and skipping out of their bedrooms on school nights? Would that mean then that Hell and Heaven happened in the same place, just as different conditions within that reality?

Also, do the virgins have to consent to the sex with terrorists, or is it all like eternal #MeToo?

Are the virgins assigned to terrorists, or do they line all the virgins up and each terrorist gets to pick a virgin, round robin style, til everyone has seventy-two? Or maybe the virgins get to pick, looking over the terrorists and going, "Ummmm, I'll take Abdul."

And what happens if a terrorist gets there and there and enough virgins haven't died on earth that day? Does he get a few at a time, or would he have to wait til all seventy-two were lined up? What if a bus of really ugly Catholic schoolgirls crashed off a hilltop, and they went to the line and the terrorists thought they were hurl-worthy. Would they get to pass on them and wait for better virgins, or do they have to take what comes along? Let's face it, unless you're saving yourself for some higher ideal, if you're a female virgin past a certain shelf life, you're proooooobably not Grade-A, knowudimeen? What with men being what they are.

After a suicide bombing, would the terrorists even still be bodily cohesive enough to deflower the virgins? I imagine Mohammad Atta's penis was pretty smeared after flying into the Trade Center. If you think about it that was likely one of the first parts of him to hit the building. That thing must've looked like a Dole banana run over by a steamroller driven by Chris Farley.

And what about female martyrs? Do they get male virgins, or are they disappointed to find out in the Seventh Heaven it's all female all the time? Do they have to spend the first few months up there instructing these virginal boys about the little man in the boat? How boring. Maybe female martyrs get dead UCLA frat boys.

And what about those baby martyrs, the infants wrapped around a bomb and handed through a crowd? Do they have to wait til their balls drop, or is it like a molestation situation til they're thirteen or whatever?

A little annotation on the rules would've helped.

I mean these are things I lie awake at night thinking about.

Sadly in most abrahamic religions women are nothing but protperry to be owned by and servile to men.

If you want a religion that treated women like peolle try Sikhism, and no i'm not  a Sikh but I respect their views more than most religions.

Definitely much good in Sikhism. Plus it's elevated carrying a dagger to holiness. Gotta love that.

[ER]

What if life is really a computer game, and when you experience Deja Vu, you have died and went back to the last save point?

I'm half convinced that may be true. Or at that we relive our lives on a(n infinite?) loop.

[ER]

Survival is deeply hardwired into all life forms, and one trick mammals use, whether we know it or not, is our ability to quick-read those around us and process what we perceive. Without this mammals would have died out long ago.

Animals focus on eyes, as do we humans, though less blatantly. We zero-in on eyes more than we know we do, so that just by changing the expression in your eyes you can change how others perceive you, not only at a conscious level but, more importantly, unconsciously.

Learning to project through your eyes is one of the most fundamental tools in manipulating others into taking up with the image you are hoping to craft. Usually by concentrating your thoughts on a trait or stereotype or emotion you will to some degree mirror that in your eyes and broadcast your reaction to that outwardly through your expression and eyes, so that with practice a person can become very good at this action, and actors, top salespeople, public speakers, those working undercover who need to become someone else, can often be quite good at the technique since there is nothing like mastering eye-changes to push a frame of reference at another person.

Think about yourself. Do you make eye contact readily, or do you gaze on and look away, gaze back and look away? When you meet another person's eyes, do you hold the contact? Do your eyes mirror what you're feeling at any given moment or are your eyes frozen from habit?

How much time have you spent examining other people's gaze? It's telling. What's also telling is how strongly we ID those we know based on a certain outlook in their eyes. Think about that for a moment and you'll probably see it's true, the light or darkness or smirk or shakiness of the eyes is something we associate with those we know well. I can instantly think of my grandma's eyes and the light that came from them, and I think of her in part from that, though she's been gone for almost a quarter-century.

Out in the world, whether you realize it or not, your mind is always working, checking out eyes and sending you back reports: "That person's mad. That person's formidable. That person's  crazy. That person is weak."

The eyes can tell all that and more, whether it's true or, with practice, a self-serving lie.

A century ago Sydney Reilly told his boss Reginald Fothergill that when he wanted to become another person out in the field, he didn't bother with heavy disguises, he changed the internal architecture of his gaze.

Reilly, by the way, (born Sigmund Georgievich Rosenblum) was the greatest spy of his era----the greatest spy of all time is by nature someone we never heard of----and he was right, the first step in any disguise is to get your gaze right. Everyone has a default gaze, that, sure, changes depending on your mood, but look at a number of pictures of yourself sometime, preferably those where you're not smiling, and you'll see, it's like a fingerprint, your eyes' expression. Practice changing that and you transform who you are. It's really very simple, and very profound, and some people practice it as a way of life.

The eyes, after all, are the mirrors of the soul, and we all know mirrors can lie.

[Allhallowsday]

Survival is deeply hardwired into all life forms, and one trick mammals use, whether we know it or not, is our ability to quick-read those around us and process what we perceive. Without this mammals would have died out long ago.

Animals focus on eyes, as do we humans, though less blatantly. We zero-in on eyes more than we know we do, so that just by changing the expression in your eyes you can change how others perceive you, not only at a conscious level but, more importantly, unconsciously.

Learning to project through your eyes is one of the most fundamental tools in manipulating others into taking up with the image you are hoping to craft. Usually by concentrating your thoughts on a trait or stereotype or emotion you will to some degree mirror that in your eyes and broadcast your reaction to that outwardly through your expression and eyes, so that with practice a person can become very good at this action, and actors, top salespeople, public speakers, those working undercover who need to become someone else, can often be quite good at the technique since there is nothing like mastering eye-changes to push a frame of reference at another person.

Think about yourself. Do you make eye contact readily, or do you gaze on and look away, gaze back and look away? When you meet another person's eyes, do you hold the contact? Do your eyes mirror what you're feeling at any given moment or are your eyes frozen from habit?

How much time have you spent examining other people's gaze? It's telling. What's also telling is how strongly we ID those we know based on a certain outlook in their eyes. Think about that for a moment and you'll probably see it's true, the light or darkness or smirk or shakiness of the eyes is something we associate with those we know well. I can instantly think of my grandma's eyes and the light that came from them, and I think of her in part from that, though she's been gone for almost a quarter-century.

Out in the world, whether you realize it or not, your mind is always working, checking out eyes and sending you back reports: "That person's mad. That person's formidable. That person's  crazy. That person is weak."

The eyes can tell all that and more, whether it's true or, with practice, a self-serving lie.

A century ago Sydney Reilly told his boss Reginald Fothergill that when he wanted to become another person out in the field, he didn't bother with heavy disguises, he changed the internal architecture of his gaze.

Reilly, by the way, (born Sigmund Georgievich Rosenblum) was the greatest spy of his era----the greatest spy of all time is by nature someone we never heard of----and he was right, the first step in any disguise is to get your gaze right. Everyone has a default gaze, that, sure, changes depending on your mood, but look at a number of pictures of yourself sometime, preferably those where you're not smiling, and you'll see, it's like a fingerprint, your eyes' expression. Practice changing that and you transform who you are. It's really very simple, and very profound, and some people practice it as a way of life.

The eyes, after all, are the mirrors of the soul, and we all know mirrors can lie.

Interesting... I do not agree that the eyes are the mirror of the soul; I expect many fiends walk among us undetected.  I don't see as well as I once did, but always felt eyes can be misunderstood.  More and more I rely "on my gut" to determine something I might not otherwise.  I agree that the smarter the mammal, the warier.  However, it seems human beings have a monopoly on paranoia.