Thanks man I'm not even a huge Arnold fan or into lifting, Conan was the **** though when I was a sprout. I threw that up quick to motivate the OP just in case he was thinking about the pistol on top of dads dresser. The best advice I ever got in life actually happened in a bookstore. I was browsing, looking for something . I picked up a paperback that had an interesting title, can't even remember the name but it doesn't matter. The first page I flipped to towards the front of the book gave me all I needed to know, paraphrase of course because I'm buzzed up and it was awhile ago, "To achieve the most immediate change in ones life, he need only to change the people he spends his time with and the books he reads" You want to be really good at surfing? Hang out w/ good surfers, read surf articles and watch videos of pro's ripping. You want to be successful? Spend time with the most successful people you know, read about business and economics. Want to be really good at getting fu(k3d up and complaining about how sh!t is? Keep hanging out in garages and basements with the same people you used to tool around with when you were nobody. It changed everything...
Socco, how old were you when you stopped thinking? can you list these geniuses who suspended critical thinking so they could believe in a goatherders creation myth? Religion provides dogma in lieu of answers and creates a self reinforcing spiral of progressive accretion and concretion of thought and practice that eventually becomes so stifling that it snuffs itself out of existence, because the end game for all religions is that they steadily extract more and more sacrifices out of their faithful until the group forgets that religion should be helpful and instead see religion as a burden and come to expect the experience of religion to entail suffering and self denial as the only possible expression of piety. Religion is not a spiritual term but instead a term that refers to the psychology of human groups. Crazy ones. who believe in sky daddy. that they have never seen. or heard. or received any other sense data to indicate existence. and they still give money to maintain large buildings cause sky daddy needs them. but hey, I dont want to tell you what to believe but you bring that Santa Claus crap round me, I'm gonna think your 'tarded
I can't list them all, they are too many. like the grains of sand on the beach. Michelangelo,da vinci,Mozart,bach,Tolkien,cs lewis,just off the top of my head for a start, or Washington,ben franklin, Lincoln,or more modern people elvis,johnny cash,u2 and the people who started yale,Harvard,Princeton, the new York times, hospitals, a very long list of very stupid people like that who had faith in a God they cannot see or hear.
the new York times is not Christian it is a rag of lies. but it was founded by Christians and once set the standard.
do what makes you happy. dont get caught up in the drama. stress is the enemy. money doesn't make you happy. there's always another good wave around the corner.
well good luck with your opinion brada.......and if beachbreak didn't list enough geniuses for you here are a couple more: Galileo, Issac Newton, J.J. Thompson, George Washington Carver and if you still need more names well here ya go.......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_thinkers_in_science......theres at least a couple hundred more there
