the iraqi war will be in Iraq in two years

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If you do then we officially have nothing in common anymore.

Personally, I think that when you are under stress, giving up on your Religion is pointless and in a way is accepting defeat. It just seems backwards to me that when bad turns worse people give up religion. It's especially illogical because a strong faith should come with the knowledge that in order for good to exist, there must be bad.

Your situation sucks. There is no way around that.

Personally, I think your family has been fighting to keep the status quo even when it's causing them harm. Your moms needs to leave "Druggie". You should continue to fight for your cousin and support your uncle and generally come together as a unit to overcome these things.

I think that lamenting over losing television and internet is kind of petty in the circumstances and freeing up the 100+ bucks a month will go a great deal towards getting back on your feet.

Since I'm on a role of support, I'll add that the people are the ones to blame, not the drugs. Drugs didn't make your stepfather a lazy lieing stealing slob and your ex-(almost)aunt obviously has greater issues and probably is abusing because of the much deeper rooted problems that she has developed. Considering she is unwed and has an 11 year old and a four month old I would guess she has a great deal of emotional baggage. Perhaps strength from faith and religion would have helped her deal with the issue instead of numbing herself until she exploded.

Anyway, If your decision is based on something other than hardship then you have my best wishes. In the end we have to do what is right for us and if denouncing your god is going to make the world more clear and easier to live in, then by all means. I do ask that you don't make it a goal to press your nonbelief on every person that walks by. I ask the same thing of anyone regardless of their belief. Religion is personal. I don't dig your BVDs out of your pants and tell you how much more comfortable mine are...

Dracargen

Ouch. I thought I put too much effort into my responses. Dammit, Dracargen! :lol:

There are still some decent thoughts in there...

The comment on drugs and religious discussion being the two that I think are worth keeping around..

Anyway, I've known some pretty foul situations. I've dated some crazy girls in crazy situations (you probably wouldn't believe me as it's april first). So the story isn't too far fetched in comparison to some of the crap that really does go on. I'm glad to hear that all the stuf with his uncle is made up. I don't give a hoot about his truck, but child abuse gets to me.

I'm afraid the hardships I mentioned are real. I'm just not becoming an atheist because of them.:(

your becoming an athiest because you believe that there could not possibly be a God because of the awful things that are happening to your family and you. The bible actually adresses this problem that many people have when their life stinks. Read your bible.

Also keep in mind that evolution cannot be true because the earth cannot be millions of years old. Because scientists have found Carbon14 integrated into objects and fossils that athiests claim to be millions of years old. Carbon14 has a shelf life of 11,000 years.

And for those of you who say that the carbon 14 some how got in it than how can we trust any thing they have dated when these fossils are not millions of years old.

wth seriously wth i came on this thread knowing it was going to be a pitiful attempt at an april fools joke

so seriously post something of importance cause your not funny

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

never never never never no. I have to much fun being a guy. I will keep my Nads thank you very much

CEO's, most other positions can be at least justified by their economic worth, ex. athletes, doctors, actors, but save for a few, I fail to see why CEO's should be paid ridiculous amounts of money especially when their other employees are being paid ridiculously low.drowningfish999

mainly because they founded the company and most CEO's made the company work and they caused it to be succesful.

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There are no ridiculously overpaid professions. Maybe there's an employee every now and then that's overpaid because of favoritism, but I think you guys underestimate the business men and women handing out these checks. They aren't stupid. And they definitely are concerned about making a profit.

Great athletes aren't simply good at what they do. You can trace large amounts of incoming revenue to specific players. The a-list actors and actresses can oftentimes carry the movies that they are in, making a movie a hit simply because they are in it. Same thing with music producers or artists. Being a model is far more than just being born with photogenic looks, but even if that was all there was to it, they are still integral in the process for companies making a great deal of money.

This isn't to say that every other athlete on the team, every other gaffer, every other camera operator, or every other audio engineer isn't vital to the process of making these each of those avenues as lucrative as they are... However, their contributions are far less important to YOU. Yes, YOU, ME, and US are entirely responsible for everyone out there we think might be overpaid, because we or the vast majority of our peers give them money.

And, side-note, psychologists aren't supposed to fix your problems. They're only supposed to help you uncover and then face your problems on your own. If I had to listen to people talk about their lives for hours a day, I think I might feel like I earned that money.

_EXCON_

If people made money according to how important their work is, then garbagemen would be earning more money than teachers and neurosurgeons.

Fortunately, in the real world, people are paid what they are worth.

people dont make extra money for the IMPORTANCE of their career. They make extra high salaries when their career takes extra hard work to get to. Example a radiologist(dude who looks at your xrays and diagnoses you) makes 450k plus a year but he has to go to college and medical school and then radiology school(or whatever that type of school is called) basically 12 years of school after college.

Not only that it is etremely hard for people to get into medical school they have to work extra hard.

The same is true for actors musicians and so one they have to be really good at something to get paid alot. There are some salaries that are over paid but please do not use nuero surgeons, anethesiologists or any physcian for that matter because those people have to work very hard for what they get.

On the other hand being a garbage man or a mail man is a respectable job but anyone can do it so why should they be paid the same than the few who spend 12 years of extra school.

If this was the case like it was in communist russia we would have a horrible medical field and economy

definately sad but not depressing

mainly because depression is when you feel sad on a regular basis and you cant shake it off