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so, i was partaking sort of in this debate between an athiest and a NT christian, a third guy came and said that if christians are right, we have nothing to lose, so dont bother arguing, if we're wrong, when we die there isnt anybody to say 'told you so' so there's no point in arguing. that preceded this quote... "That's my biggest qualm about being an atheist. In the end, I can't rub it in your faces." i thought that was funny. maybe you do too. really, im just posting in here. yu-up. Dan, don't forget. tell Allen. you can DO this thing and it will be really awesome. Dan - I remember something like that at the first (and my last) debate club in Oakridge. I think Drew called it the "Euclid's Gamble"...nope, it's called Pascal's wager, which is essentially what the third guy said. But then isn't it not very good to call it wager?

So this is way, way in advance. Sue me, it really does need to be planned out this far ahead for good prices. First of all, who's interested? I am, Adam is for sure. Peter, I remember you weren't too thrilled. Dave/Allen/Dan all seemed interested. Second, dates. To work it out with all of your collective schooling, it looks like sometimes on Christmas break would be easiest to pull off. Third, hotel preference. I was thinking: Monte Carlo, MGM, the Hilton (off the strip, but the monorail fixes that), or Tropicana if we're cash strapped. The first three are 75-80 a night currently, but admittedly this is 3 years in advance, so prices will change, exchange rate, etc. Tropicana is older, and not as nice, but is cheaper. Fourth, how long would we want to stay? Fifth, what would we be trying to see? Sixth, flight. Current example is about $500, sometimes direct, sometimes with stops, return fare for each person, not including flight taxes/fees/international customs stuff. What s...

and Dan was last to post. kudos! yea, ill be getting those pictures from that trip... soon. aaand the battery in my mp3 player just died. just now. and i have a chem lab soon. titrations. standardizing the titrant and determining the w/v % content of hypochlorite in commercial bleach yay. thats gonna be fun. since... only Adam? has facebook here, aside from myself, so ill put here what i put there... my linear algebra class is soo cool. i love it. it blows my mind every mwf. thats monday wednesday friday. every lecture is pretty stinkin cool. so, chem lab i 12 minutes. im ready. i hope. so thats that, school rocks my socks, and my... docks and my... rhinocerous and its children. thats right. my socks, my docks, my rhino and its children. if i had rocks, it would rock them too. today, i ate lunch by a bunch of Asaian people. i think they were Korean. fairly sure. maybe im just biased because of Dan but it sounded sort of like Korean. im also like 98.6% sure that i heard one of them say...

dang. i gotta say, those mountains are gorgeous. that was one sweet backpacking trip up in K(ananaskis) country. we hit the Highwood pass and camped out by the Hill of Flowers, right close to the Lake of the Horns, just in case you are familiar with that territory... It was fun though. this morning was -14 degrees. a nice frost covered ground, ice-pebbled tents and all that. shivering campers too. it was grand. when i get the pics from the guys who had cameras, ill find a cool place to put them. one of the guys brought these poi. they are balls of kevlar on the end of wire. you spin them around your body and do cool stuff. then, you coat the kevlar in fuel and light them. we have some sweeet time lapse photos of balls of fire orbiting the guy. it was funny when he hit himself and set his stomach hair on fire. he's such a pyro. and now i have a chem lab due on wednesday that needs to get done. welcome back to the real world eh? when you are hiking up a massive hill (the puts Boler ...

now all we need is to hear from allen, dan and dave. i have hear very little from dave since oakridge. how the heck is he doing? does anybody know? anyway, i had 2 exams today, philosophy and linear algebra. both fairly easy, but didnt take too long. school is all fairly easy, though a bit stressful with the online assignments, as adam knows. but oh well. im still doing good. we'll see what happens when i get those midterms back. adam, that story is whacked. 10 days and she was walking? dang. sometimes you just hear what the human body can do, and you are dumbfounded. its crazy. i wish i could grow half a brain back, but im too old for that now. reminds me of that guy that grew himself a new lower jaw.... underneath his arm. (it didnt naturally occur, it was put there for vascularization while the stem cells differentiated and hardened, but stil..) tomorrow morning i leave for the weekend. a sweet backpacking excursion in the mountains. im excited and i hope it doesnt suck. later.

Fine. Not only did I post an actual entry in mine, I'll even post here. I'm good. LDB is pretty nice place. Wish my transfer would go through faster so I had an income.

I just had a lecture which was pretty much normal along the lines of regular psych. Talking about brain and its properties, areas, hemispheres, lobes, et cetera. We got onto the subject of the two halves of the brain and what functions we think they control. In terms of physical movement, the right brain handling the left side of the body's functions and vice versa, right? Well we were then shown a clip of this five, six year old girl? Something like that. She'd had this epileptic condition where she'd recieve seizures ALL the time, and frequently the entire left half of her body would become immobile. It wasn't cureable by any more convenient means, like medication or therepy-type treatment. So what did they do? They did surgery and CUT THE RIGHT HALF OF HER BRAIN RIGHT THE FUCK OFF . Took the entire half out. She was left, literally, with half a brain. Thanks to research into the brain's ability to repair and compensate, we knew that this wouldn't be a catastr...