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At least they aren't blowing themselves up! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I give him 6/10 for style. He was attempting a full 180 but only did a 90. What...do i look like one of the French judges! What a moron! God looks out for drunks and morons. Why who knows! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

It's funny, a few months back I was reading an article about how on paper Japanese women have the lowest sex drive on the planet and are perfectly happy with having sex once a year with their husbands. Preferring to shop and be with friends to having an intimate encounter with their partner. The article also went on to say that based on a 30 year study, only in Japan can you have a 30 year study!, on average the average man in the study who was 25 years old had 1/2 less testosterone then his grandfather. And they were discussing how it was a form of evolution brought on by commercialism where by one gender could satisfy their biology via consumption of goods while the other tried to figure out what to do. Thus these new "guys" were more prone to forgoing their sex drive and setting up "social clubs" where they knitted and baked rather than chase girls. It was really strange. I'll have to see if I book marked the article. But Japan is a peaceful country but when you look at Arabia and all the political mess there and you add to the pot a good deal of frustration.....it becomes nutty. Maybe middle east peace can be brought about via sending mass amounts of porn into the region? Or some sort of huge bomb carrying birth control pills? Anything to bring about social change in terms of equality of the sexes. But then again.....how many women would forgo shopping to a night with their husbands or boyfriends? I know women here in the US who would prefer to shop till they dropped rather than an evening at home. Makes you wonder doesn't it? What will happen when some super frustrated well to do Saudi oil sultan invests a few million at some silicon valley start up to develop the first female android? (I'm showing my age here, think Cherry 2000). Then what? Sure the world would be at peace but we would go extinct in a few decades. Which....might not be a bad thing? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

You could make the same argument for Catholic priests being forced to embrace celibacy. Now the Vatican has to deal with all the molestation firestorms. Immagien if they had guns, money and a target! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Orthodox Jews also make up a small population of the Jewish community. Who knows....but holding back biology in the name of god? Not a good idea. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

There is probably a good gym in your town if you are too weak to properly control your parachute. Student rigs don't have any loops so it's just hold on and pull up and hold. Easy to do but to hold for 5/10 min wooh what a work out. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeah we Persians are a different lot then Arabs. But yeah you got it....that's what it's for. Then again, you have morons like Ahmightneedajacket saying "There are not gays in Iran......but we will cover the sex change costs." Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Read the book "Fighter Pilot" about Robin Olds. In it he described at the end of WWII at his airfield in Germany, how literally hundreds of "new" P-51's (less than 5 hours on the airframe!) were scrapped. Very sad Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I had a very interesting discussion with one of my friends from Saudi regarding sex, war and life. A few months back I was put on a blind date by my cousin in an effort to cheer me up due to my pending divorce. My cousin grew up in Texas in a very Persian / middle eastern community and thus most of her friends are Persians and middle easterners. She knew I was down and set me up on a blind date with one of her friends that just happened to live 40 miles from me. We'll call her N. N is a beautiful girl. Simply gorgeous. She's the kind of girl who when you walk into a bar with her holding your hand the guys turn around and notice and the women start calling her names, more on this later. The girl could have been a model if she had not married so young and was living in the US. N is my age, 33. Married twice. First at 17 to her then boy friend which whom she had a son with and divorced and remarried a guy a good 25 years older than her when she was in her late 20's. The girl has had a rough life to say the least. But never the less she is a very nice person and very attractive to boot. So I was very happy with my cousin when I first saw N thinking...."OK maybe life doesn't have to suck so bad." but it was evident that after our first date that we were of different worlds but we decided to stay friends. I like having friends from various parts of the world gives me better perspective on life. So her and I have been friends for a while and we have gone out to the movies and dinner and what not and are rather comfy with each other and speak openly without issue. Last week I was having evening tea with my friend Amro from Saudi regarding the culture of Arabia and where this anger was coming from. He being pragmatic simply stated "We are Arab, we don't have sex we just drink tea and get pissed off at things and people." Now I'm not one to blame the worlds ills on women for that would be insane which I told him point blank. But his rebuttal was spot on. "Look Shah some of the most beautiful women in the world can be found in the Arab world, just look at Ms. America. But our culture prevents us from dating let alone talking to each other. All that builds up amazing frustrations on the part of us guys. And unlike girls we just can't shop away our sex drive. So we suppress it via doing dumb shit such as going off to Afghanistan and or just being angry or if we can afford it leaving the country and hitting up Amsterdam and Eastern Europe. It's not that women are the fault of this anger it's our society and it's the social rules we have to live by. Rules devised by a few guys afraid of the size of their dicks and thus placing a woman's chastity above all else thus imprisoning her in her own gender. But what they didn't account for was the rest of us guys having to live with such a ludicrous construct! Trying to balance our own desires brought on by biology and our culture." Very powerful words. But I still thought he was a bit over dramatic. I mean really! I've been around the world and no way any culture could really be that conservative about love and sex. Hell even those nutty Mormans know how to get down and dirty! So this past Friday I took N out for dinner since both of us were feeling very down due to life. First we hit the mall for I needed new shoes. So I decided to try out a little social experiment. Here I am with a woman who exudes sexuality from the shoes she is warring to the clothes she has on (no one dresses like that on a Friday afternoon unless they want the attention). I tell her I need to get a birthday card for a friend and duck into a Spencer's. The look on her face when she saw all the various sex toys near the dirty birthday cards was just amazing. A cross between shock and horror. I asked if she had ever owned one and the look said it all. But hey not everyone is kinky. But maybe Amro was on to something. Later during dinner I asked her point blank, "N, you are my age, you have traveled as much as I have, honestly how many guys have ever seen you naked?" Answer "Three". Three I said in shock! One was her first husband second was her son being she use to take him to the shower with her and last being her last husband. Here is a woman of amazing beauty, when I showed her photo to my female friends in my MBA class they all accused her of being various things proving that the girl is in fact very attractive, and who has not only no sex drive but has no sexual experience. Thank god I'm only her friend! But then it hit me, ok say there were many of her, all with the same level of chastity imposed on her by guys suffering from SPD (Small Wang Disease). How would I behave? And I suddenly saw where Amro was coming from. You would have this cognitive dissonance between biology and social norms. And at some point you will have issues. Be it becoming radical or violent. Maybe what the Arab world needs, other than a modern education system, is a sexual revolution. Much like the one we had here in the US. The empowerment of women so as to take charge of their sexuality and their lives so that maybe this disconnect would go away? That or start pumping estrogen into the water supply to calm these poor guys down. Just look at our society when women gained equality in bed with men. Have you noticed that things are a lot calmer than they use to be? What do you think? Not saying sex and sexuality is the end all and be all to world piece but perhaps sexual equality may be a step in the right direction. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

THANK YOU! I was simply amazed as to how slow I could fly with out "falling" out of the sky! I started to pull on the toggles slowly untill they were at about 75% of where they would be for full flair and well...it got quiet and very still. And then I thought...ok now I should start loosing lift and fall......but nope! I looked at my alti and it looked to be stuck at 3500ish....5 min later.....still at the same spot. What a nice thing to know! I wish they tought this in AFF. Because it really does give you a moment to sit back look around figure out where you are and how you will land. Thank you! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Simply amazes me how many of those amazing birds we just cut up for scrap instead of selling to civilians. Just sad really! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Regarding aerodynamics. I hate to say it but I would say very few really understand what keeps them up in the air and the concept of energy. A few have a very good "feel" but those guys and gals are the few. It's much like motorcycles. Very few have any idea what is between their legs all they know is that it looks good and goes fast. And then they bring the bike over to my place after owning it for two years and ask...how often should I do oil changes? But I have a very dumb one an I hope you guys can help me because it counters what I knwo of Aero. The other day when I was jumping there was significant traffic below me and I was using rear risers to flatten my flight. Which is fine...untill you have done it for about 5 min and are ready to land only to find out your arms are dead tired! After landing one of my good friends who is an amazing swooper and very good and very experienced said I should try 75% toggle inputs, to slow up and to maintian altitude. To which i asked....but won't I "fall" he said no. I don't get it? If my velocity is very low due to the heavy application of toggle inputs and I'm facing into the wind and i can tell by the sound of the wind that at most I'm doing 10mph....shouldn't I loose lift and slowly decend? So I gave it a shot, and wouldn't you know it, I held 3500 ft for well...as long as I wanted to. What is this all about? Thank you Shah Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeah but going comando i these things.....don't they get stinky? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

There is this thing called context. As in "What context does this take place?" To further digest the statement, note as to what countries are mostly Islamic and their economic and social development. I assure you while living in South America I saw and prevy to many stories regarding Christianity having gone wrong. Long story short, god did not kill people, people kill people. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

This is like some sort of strange fetish! If you wish to give it a shot you will need to buy these parts and that extra bit and dont forget the leather! Cool concept maybe Ill give it a shot. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I know this guy......better yet I KNEW THIS GUY...young guy. Started to work for the feds right out of school. Usual crap pay of $36k. Had a cute girlfriend who he met while at university. She wanted to tie the knot but the boy was scared due to the low pay, knew she was a catch but was worried he could not be the man he needed to be...as in pay the bills and all that jazz. Long story short she dumped him. Poor kid didn't even see it coming. That was three years ago. I saw him last month. His X that i remember was about a size 6 his new fiance is a size 16. I figure if she's three times the size of the X that's about 10 sizes? Girls got more chins than a Chinese phone book seeing her get in and out of her VW Bug makes you feel bad for the suspension and if the engineers accounted for such a mass to be on one side of a car while it was in motion. Long story short the kid was and is a good kid. Worked hard never stabbed any on in the back and did all kinds of charity stuff. And this is what the universe gave him? And yes "she is such a nice person....." which by coincidence were the same words he laid on me when i first met her. Poor kid.....he's a great guy, takes care of himself, dresses well, does charity runs and the like......and now he has this ball, accurately describes her shape, and chain around his neck. Maybe Karma isn't all that it's cracked up to be? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

So....let me ask the dumb ass question. Socks? What kind? And if so where do you buy those? Shah Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

This place would be filled with porn....lots and lots and lots of porn! Most of it low end strange dwarf porn but porn never the less. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

The Persian Vs. Greet battle should be looked in modern context of "Just because you have the numbers and the technology.....you sure as poop better know where and who you are fighting." Sadly the modern leaders of Iran didn't get it for the first few years of the Iran Iraq war and thus why a million died. But yes all of these "sport" be it this pole thing to belly dancing go back a long way. Sure we enjoy them now, but not too far back...this was some serious stuff! Who knows maybe one day guns will be just another funny thing people play with. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I'll just hang around the engineering building during graduation time..harpoon a nice chemical engineer or an electrical engineer.live the high life Oh i'm going to hell for that! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I don't know.....i don't like it. Maybe it's just odds? I hope so. Most likely it's all in my head. I do feel bad for the woman, as mean as she was...how can any one be mean in a Yoga class is beyond me.....she did not deserve to have her poor dogs, both of them, suddenly develop cancer. As for that other guy, he had it coming. A true punch up kick down kind of guy. But that's not for me to think about. Yet I do feel bad for his wife. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Doesn't this "sport" go back a ways? I'm sure there are historical reasons for it. We in the west just took them the wrong way I guess? Every culture has it's thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFf6jJBSaQ4 Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Can't really talk about this one.....but.....it was not the flare that got me. As for the constant I was talking about, it was gravity. That pesky thing that keeps our bones glued to the ground. As for me? I'll put my money on Karma. What's the worst that happens? A few people have a good day? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Look all I'm saying is don't piss into peoples open wounds. Not only is it rude but bad karma. Read it how you will. I pointed it out....are you pouring salt into some ones open wounds? Check? Is it right thing to do? Most likely not. Is it bad karma? Yeah i would think so. Would I do that to anyone? No. Why? Simple my mom raised me the right way. I would say, as was posted before, "sorry to hear about that life can suck hope things get better." As for why I skydive? The same reason I ride and practice Yoga. To clear my head. Even if it is for a min at a time. And it's gorgeous. And I do my best to fly clear. And the best way to do that? 1) don't pour salt into others open wounds. 2) Smile, life can suck but it can also be beautiful. 3) Hug your friends and family often. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Darling this is a thread about Karma, should you be pissing into the wind? I started to skydive to rid my soul of some major frustration to clear my head. In hind sight some therapy and couples counseling would have probably worked better and I would be a few grams lighter and with out the rod. so again, i ask this is a thread about karma, should you be pouring salt into open wounds when you are tempting a universal constant? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!