beowulf

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content

    5,102

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Feedback

    0%

Everything posted by beowulf

  1. beowulf
    That's pretty wild rationalization!
  2. beowulf
    I thought about putting 'anything', but I figured somewhere they had to get at least one fact right and don't have the time or the patience to read through everything on their website.
  3. beowulf
    It's amazing that people actually believe everything that the Answers in Genesis people put out.
  4. beowulf
    Ok, first off you are over thinking it. On your first jump they will go over most of if not all of your questions, especially how to handle a parachute in flight. The biggest reason just about anyone can take an AFF course and survive is due to the size of the parachute being used. It will be much bigger then what most of the licensed skydivers are using and will basically fly like a big truck, SLOW. So if you do screw up you have a better chance surviving. The majority of your questions really need to be addressed by the instructors you will be working with. I don't think this forum is a good place to learn for newbies. Too many self proclaimed experts with little to no experience.
  5. beowulf
    To really compound the issue, consider how difficult it is to keep a team together and organized. The more people involved the harder it is to keep together and organized. Now try and get all skydivers regardless of (personality/wingloading/wing type/discipline or lack of/skill level) to conform to very specific rules regarding how they fly their canopy. And there is no way to comunicate to them while they are under canopy to inform them that they are not following the rules. You can only address them after the fact and that is if someone notices them and is willing to make the confrontation.
  6. beowulf
    I don't really see any way to stack the landing order by wing loading on an average Otter load. Too many different groups with varying degrees of wing loading. Even on an 8 way belly jump you could have a huge difference in wingloading.
  7. beowulf
    What makes the whole issue even more complicated is the variance in canopy sizes and wing loading. Then throw in the occaisonal spiralling skydiver and sashaying on final. I rarely land in the main landing area any more.
  8. beowulf
    Sounds a lot like theft to me. She shouldn't have any trouble winning that lawsuit.
  9. beowulf
    It could be condolence card to your family that you leave behind. Do you like those too?
  10. beowulf
    This logic only works if you ignore all the evidence supporting evolution.
  11. beowulf
    Interesting, now I know the middle name of one of our local riggers! Cecil!
  12. beowulf
    The Answers in Genesis people are not nearly as smart as you give them credit for. GeorgiaDon did a great job of explaining why they are wrong.
  13. beowulf
    Penn Jillette always has straight forward and simple way of saying things. http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/16/jillette.atheist.libertarian/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
  14. beowulf
    It is comically obvious that the goal here on SC is not in inflict belief but to seek and destroy anything that is not understood. Those who fail to grasp the meaning of life will be damned if they sit idly by and let anyone else present evidence outside the holy grail of contemporary scientific thought to the contrary. They ignore the gaping holes the scientific method will never solve. But instead present their gospel of meaningless and futility as the answer to mans aspirations. So when anyone challenges your beliefs they are on "seek and destroy" mission and they just don't understand! The problem is that you have no actual evidence to support your beliefs in your deity. You claim your god exists yet can't provide any evidence other then anecdotal to back it up. With out evidence it's not reasonable to believe in any deity.
  15. beowulf
    Comprehension isn't the only thing he is having a problem with, his whole plantiff and defendant argument is seriously flawed.
  16. beowulf
    Everyone starts at the beginning. You have to prove that you can fly in the tunnel with out hurting yourself. Following the progression is worth it and will make you a better flyer overall.
  17. beowulf
    "Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Yes, yes it is. The absence of evidence that there is a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow is evidence that there is no pot of gold at the end of every rainbow.
  18. beowulf
    Very nice well thought out post.
  19. beowulf
    It would be very unlikely to result in a blood bath. The average legally armed citizen here in the US is not all that trigger happy. I am sure it wouldn't be that much different in the UK.
  20. beowulf
    Jaybird only knows how to copy and paste, mostly from the Answers in Genesis website. Critical thinking and logic are pretty much lost on him.
  21. beowulf
    The magnetic riser covers made me think V3. Which I currently have and love the magnetic riser covers.
  22. beowulf
    Pretty much all modern containers are freefly friendly. Sorry looked at it and thought V3. You will need to have it checked out by a rigger to get an answer.
  23. beowulf
    Dead-end argument. It's been said before....you make these grand claims. Yet can't produce any evidence that he doesn't exist. Any argument either for or against the existence of a physical God is futile. That is a silly argument.
  24. beowulf
    Where did matter/energy come from? No one knows what caused the Big Bang or what came before it. There is lots of objective evidence to support Evolution. Nothing to support creationism.
  25. beowulf
    Why? Your involvement or self imposed exile from God's Plan has been known from the beginning. God's Plan will be accomplished with or without you. Because you make these grand claims. Yet can't produce any evidence.