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Tenure, you don't need to worry about becoming an Olympian bodybuilder by weight lifting because having huge muscles takes a long time, a huge diet and a meticulous training regime. If you adopted a better diet and did a standard weight lifting program then I believe you would see some very satisfactory results (I'm assuming you've never trained with weights before) without being too muscular. You don't have to spend hours in the gym either, it only takes roughly 3 hours a week because training is only the stimulus for growth- make sure you get plenty of rest and have a decent diet though. Failing that you could try taking up a martial art which will offer you a better body, a means of self-defense (there's no right to bear arms in the UK after all!) as well as greater concentration and focus and many other benefits!

The battles are much improved to the previous Total War games but I prefer Medieval: Total War for the strategy. Does anyone have M:TW2? I'm planning on buying it as soon as I get a new graphics card.

You are obviously able to interact well with these people so perhaps you only need to find a girl who shares your interests? I think you should do as Jennifer suggests and find an objective opinion from a mature person you trust. Also, if you do have bad social habits it's probably only because you are over-analyzing and worrying about it too much.

And yet this man somehow manages to maintain a romantic relationship with a girl... Of course, I've yet to see any hard evidence of this girl who evidently loves verbose innuendos.

John is indeed right, this blatantly pro-liver propaganda is against true superdupernaturalism, it is proof that we make God and ultramega-God in our own image. This heresy cannot be permitted, I call on the faithful to split from this false liver-worship and spleen-idolatry and embrace neo-superdupernaturalism which holds that the true source of all goodness, the fountain of all knowledge and the father of Santa Claus is... the adenoids.

Well done Tenure! It looks like we have an Oist intellectual in the making!

I have personal experience of welfare in action. A few years ago a friend of mine left home and didn't have anywhere to go so he was put in a state-run accomodation. At the time he had just left school so did not have a job yet and was told that because of this he would have his rent and his bills paid for him, however when he got a job he was told that he would have to pay for all this himself because he was no longer in need. However the job didn't pay well and as a result he only earned about £1 a week! So naturally he quit his job and took the welfare support. Don't even get me started on universal healthcare, on the NHS I would have had to wait 2 years for an operation I needed, instead I worked for six months and paid for it privately.

I agree that the more damaging your previous philosophy was the harder you will find Objectivism to follow. This is a very big problem for me at the moment because I still have a rather apathetic mindset and problems with motivation and discipline as my upbringing actively caused me to form a philosophy totally contrary to Objectivism. As well as reading books on Objectivist philosophy and cognitive psychology I'm considering joining one of the armed forces in the hope that it will instill a sense of discipline in my admittedly sloppy mind!

Is there a difference between visiting a sleazy lapdancing club and visiting a place where they have skilled erotic dancers? Lots of forms of dancing evoke emotions, and I don't see anything wrong with a beautiful woman showing her body. It seems very Victorian to say that looking at another persons naked body is wrong when all parties are willing. EDIT: Didn't see your post before I added my own Russ

I think I'll try increasing military spending as it might lower my crime rates, I've already had to do this once as my country was in a state of anarchy.

Yes, I'm your new neighbour. I've joined the UN because it makes the game a bit more interesting and their resolutions have been ethical so far.

I just joined, I'm located in the South Pacific at the moment.

Hey and welcome! Same here, working through all the problems my earlier bad philosophy gave me it's only now that I feel that I'm starting to integrate Objectivism. I can relate to your position because I'm in a similar one. I left college about two years ago but I'll be returning in september to resume my education, I'm not really looking forward to facing the tutors I feel I left down but I am looking forward to doing something constructive again. Anyway, happy posting and play safe.

I think all communist states had a similar effect to horrible parenting- life in the USSR at the best of times was like being at school, but the only country I can think of which may be despicable enough to have the same effect is totalitarian North Korea.

I came across this article today which I think is relevant to this subject. I don't have time to critique the author's conclusions, I'll just say that what he labels neo-objectivism can exist within the framework of Objectivism. http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/000574.html

I wouldn't have thought so... do you like Lenin at all?

Agreed. I recently saw a TV programme where a team of experts recreated the plane of a man called Percy Pilcher, who, had he not died in a freak accident could well have built the first plane four years before the Wright brothers. I would have put Hannibal near the top of any such list if he had conquered Rome which he could have easily done thus causing mediterranean civilisation to spread through Africa instead of Europe. Instead perhaps Scipio Africanus should replace him.

Toilet humor has no place here, what do you think this is, Taggart Incontinental? Sorry...

These damn expensive solar power plants are stifling my planets growth, where's a nice productive, efficient nuclear power plant when you need one?

I sent an application yesterday but was refused because I had no points but now that I have a resounding TWO points I'll try again. My username is Judaa Marr and my planet is called Angmar Prime.

Surely you could say the same about communists, Muslims and any number of other groups throughout the world? If they commit a crime against a democratic government then action should be taken but stating an opinion isn't a crime- and in any free country preventing someone from stating their opinion should be.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13...2050069,00.html I couldn't believe my eyes when I watched this case on the news last night. David Irving, a far right historian has been jailed for three years in Austria for the crime of "denying the holocaust". And it's not as if it's a recent occurance either, he made the two speeches in 1989, further more, he changed his mind to conform with the Austrian court but was still imprisoned. Obviously to any rational person the point isn't the validity of his ridiculous beliefs but the abuse of the right to freedom of speech. Ironically almost no one seemed to see this point in their righteous indignation except... Isn't it a slight contradiction to punish fascists by acting like fascists?

[Patriotic Rant]How dare you! We Brits didn't spend the last few centuries running around the world killing people (particularly the French) just to be dismissed like that! Our military is one of the best in the world, Argentina still trembles in their boots after our glorious victory in the Falklands! (not Malvinas).[/Patriotic Rant]

Nah, he's already the equivalent of the Pope in his own religion.

That's 64p of my (parents) hard earned money they're taking to fund Charles' eco-ranting! If they dislike their job they could always choose to abdicate. Myself, I'd prefer to vote for my head of state rather than hoping the latest monarch spawns a reasonably capable successor - but hey, at least they've stopped the policy of inbreeding! It's called Countdown and she's called Carol Vorderman. Incidentally, she lives in the same apartment building as the Archbishop of Canterbury.