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Ah.... For the last two weekends we've just been taking it easy around here. It doesn't make for super exciting blog posts, but it sure is nice to relax sometimes instead of constantly being on the go, go, go. We hung out at home, watched movies, played with kiddos, and didn't cook - which is probably my favorite part of every weekend. :) We also spent a lot of time lying around while laughing our tooshies off at the most random things possible. Including, but not limited to: ideas to prank our neighbors and Eric's favorite: the speedo burrito. Don't ask!
We did venture out on Saturday evening, though. Eric cleaned up and slapped on a tie to host the annual Lincoln Day Dinner for our county, and the girls and I enjoyed celebrating my big little brother's 21st birthday. Boohoo! Twenty-one??
When we arrived at my parent's house we found that the birthday boy was in the backyard assembling the family's new trampoline. You may not remember this, but we laid the old trampoline to rest last Fall after it took one too many trips over the fence during our crazy Midwest storms. That old friend lasted for years and years, but it's poor mangled body just couldn't stand any longer.
But could the Feldt family last for long without a bouncy insurance catastrophe waiting to happen? No siree. My family walks on the wild side. Jolly Old St. Nicholas made sure to bring a brand spankin' new one for a whole new generation of kiddos to spend hours on. This new-fangled model has a NET, which I probably would not have been a fan of myself as a kid, but now that I HAVE kids of my own, it sounds like a pretty good idea to me. :)
Especially since my dare-devil child Grace the Face McGee probably loves that darn trampoline more than anyone. She cracks me up!
We had a yummy taco dinner with lots of home made goodies. My mama is totally going "crunchy" and eating as naturally and as healthy as possible. So she made her own refried beans and taco seasoning and guacamole....and it was yummy. No preservatives for these peeps! (I'm sure she would be very pleased if I insert here that if you know anyone who might be suffering with Alzheimer's they NEED to be taking coconut oil in some way, shape, or form. Does wonders, I hear.) Spreading the coconut oil gospel, mom! Oh, and don't bake with aluminum foil, either. Because that can cause Alzheimer's. Now you can't say you didn't know. ;)
And as per tradition, my mom also makes each of her children birthday cakes each year in their flavor of choice. Since my brother is a bit strange (kidding!) he chose carrot cake to ring in his 21st year. (And it was really, really, good. I want some cake. Now.)
It was a fun evening, I must say. Oh, and I have to throw this picture in here, because it makes me smile:
Gracie was GLUED to my brother, which I thought was hilarious, because after a while he didn't know what to do with her, hehe. When we were eating cake a little later Grace wouldn't take a bite from me, but she crawled right up on Roger's lap and wanted lots of cake from him. :)
Eric was still hosting at the dinner when we were ready to go home, so I knew the girls and I would be heading to a dark and empty house when we left. But we were in for a bit of a creepy surprise when we pulled up in the driveway, and I almost didn't get out of the car with my babies! More on that tomorrow.
Right now I have to save my children from themselves. They are performing amazing feats on their Mickey airplane toy, and I'm pretty sure my oldest is about to break her neck. :) Haha. I hope you had a great weekend! And I hope we are able to get out a little this week and enjoy weather that doesn't require bundling children up to look like little puffy marshmallows. I long for the days we can just up and go without coats or SOCKS. What a pain in the rear when you have squirmy kiddos!
Okay, now I really have to go. The End.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Weekend Living
Posted by Adrien at 10:55 AM
4 comments:
- Eric Robert said...
Can I just point out how awesome that low light picture of Roger with his birthday cake is? I mean, that's some serious low light photography awesomeness right there.
- March 12, 2012 at 12:37 PM
- Adrien said...
Baha, be more impressed with the last picture. That room was like pitch dark, because they were watching a movie.
- March 12, 2012 at 12:43 PM
- Heather said...
Loving the comments :) You guys are too cute.
- March 12, 2012 at 12:50 PM
- The Pettijohn's said...
Looks like a fun time. I am hoping at our next house we have one of those trampolines. Those things are fun.
- March 12, 2012 at 10:03 PM
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Parents of Sussex Elementary School students, particularly a vocal minority among them, should calm down. After routine asbestos tests at the Essex school registered 40 times more asbestos material in the air than expected, school officials reacted admirably. Administrators closed the school and found five other sites to send the students.
Yet it is understandable that parents would be deeply concerned about the health of their children. Asbestos, an insulation material much used until 10 to 20 years ago, can cause cancer if an individual receives high exposure to the material over a long period of time.
With Sussex Elementary closed barely a month, no one knows yet how long people at the school were exposed or at what levels. A professor from the University of Maryland Medical School told an assembly of parents recently that with six months of exposure at the highest contamination levels measured at the school, 10 in a million children might contract cancer. Those are good odds, but alarmed parents took no comfort.

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So CharmDay is one of my favorites, and that was today, November 15th!
BoxyCharm this month contained the following:
So far, I've tried a few of the items such as:
The eyeshadow from winkylux, which although the colors look great, didn't seem to blend too well. The colors were not as vibrant as I'd like them to be, and just all around meh.
The Luxiebrushes didn't disappoint, which I'm not surprised, they are probably my favorite brush people.
The Laqa&co lipstick color is great. Reminds me of mulberries in the summer, so it's a great shade to sport during the dark, cold months. Doesn't have the stay power of others but, is also not shiny or glossy, which is a plus. It also doesn't dry your lips, but as previously stated, I'd keep it handy for touch-ups.
I had been dying to try the Cover Fx setting spray, and I have to say it doesn't disappoint. It is now 1:04 pm and I applied my make up roughly 6 hours ago and it remains dewy and intact.
All in all not a bad month for boxy goodies. Would I pay the $31 for the palette? No. But everything else seems worth the price.
I'm already excited for next month, I hear some great things (such as mascara!!!) are coming.


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2011: Horrible year, just horrible. Spent on the east coast in an arguing volatile relationship, a dying aunt who passed away just after a short three weeks' visit, ended up in a brawl with one sister and an almost-brawl with another sister, then had to endure more time with arguing volatile relationship and finally came back home and sank into a deep, dark depression for the rest of the year.
January 2012: I was prescribed Levothyroxine for thyroid disease. I never knew I had this disease or that being tired, exhausted, cranky, slow, lethargic, etc was not the norm. I felt sad at the prospect that this would be a life medication I could never take away, but in just two weeks' time I already felt more energetic and normal.
June 2012: I went in to see my doctor and get my thyroid levels checked as normal but I was prescribed 50mg of Zoloft per day. Here is an excerpt from my blog entry at the time:
Thyroid levels? AWESOME. Problem? My doctor and I are very close. She's a really great woman who has taken the time to get to know me since I started visiting her. She probably knows me better than most other people, which is weird maybe. Regardless, she saw how tired and worn down I looked and started asking me about stuff. I told her I'd gone probably 30 hours with no sleep, and I told her about how down I've been feeling.
And this is the part that's hard to write....after discussing it she suggested putting me on a really low-dose antidepressant. She was really worried about me--early this year I was having panic attacks and anxiety problems, rather manic, and now I seem to be slipping too far in the other direction. Depression. And let me tell you, I know the difference between depression and regular old sad. I've been chronically depressed before. Suicidal. I hate talking about it because anyone can throw out 'I feel depressed'.
July 2012: Holy shit!!! What a month. Is this how normal people feel??? I was dizzy for a good week after starting the medicine. It wasn't unpleasant, but it did impede my driving ability. And I started feeling H A P P Y. I cannot properly stress how insane it is to feel happy after being so sad, tired, burnt out, depressed, for so long. It was amazing. I truly felt like a different person.
August 2012: First warning sign that something wasn't right. I actually don't know if I can blame the Zoloft for this, but I started getting anxious (anxiety is one of the side effects but who knows.) My doctor had prescribed me preventative xanex and unknowingly...literally you guys I had NO idea....but I took several over the course of a weekend, and I became EXTREMELY suicidal. It was the first time I ever called a suicide hotline, and as of yet, the only time. It was a horrible, scary moment. I realized the xanex were fucking with my mind and I stopped them immediately. Things calmed down.
It's a very lonely world, and I am lonelier than I have ever been. Even those nights I spent sleeping outside as a kid, thinking that there was no way out of it. Even in the first physical confrontation between my husband and I, when I lay there realizing that this marriage was going to end up like my parents'...violent and dangerous. Even when I spent years conditioning myself to be okay and accepting of the fact that life is ours alone, and everyone has to be alone for so many things to have any decent quality of life......I've gone through all that and never been as scared, or as close to death, as I was today.
You can read that full story here.
September-October 2012: I vacationed in Tennessee and though some really challenging things happened like seeing my dad, I had a good time. I was constantly with people so it was nice to be out of my own head so to speak. My dose hadn't changed and I was still faithfully taking the Zoloft. I was happy.
November 2012: I was still feeling pretty good about this time. I had finished up my EMT Certification and felt very, very proud. I learned that I would be spending Christmas in Sweden and was ecstatic. I even landed a cute job working for Santa during December at the mall. I was doing well despite the cold weather approaching and my normal wintertime sadness. Things seemed to be going fine mental health wise, anyway. I do recall some mood swings and anger, and usual emo whinyness about love but those are pretty normal with me.
December 2012: Things took a downhill turn even before I left for Sweden. I don't know again how much of this was brought on by Zoloft and how much of it was winter and holiday depression, which has always affected me. Around Christmas, I thought of suicide daily. I can't believe, in retrospect, that I was in my beloved Sweden with so much to look forward to and I just wanted to end it.
But, this was a turning point, because I was doing research on SSRI's at this point and remembered:
What followed was the strangest and most pathetic (debatable) ten minutes of my entire adulthood. The balcony was surrounded by thick glass doors with no way through except to open them, and I couldn't figure out how to open the damn things. I was standing out there pulling and pushing, looking at the snowy trees and looooong fall below me and crying so hard I gave myself a nosebleed while I tried to move the doors. Even in my traumatic state I didn't want to damage the glass.....logic. But it was a new apartment, after all, and I already felt so worthless I wanted to risk death or at least, a very broken body, so breaking the glass would've made me feel even worse in my last few alive minutes. I still don't know how to open those doors (and I never asked, actually....I feel better not knowing.) It was a pathetic and lonely display which ended with me collapsing against the glass and crying and bleeding, then defeatedly going back to the couch and crying until I fell asleep.
"When I was in the doctor's office being prescribed Zoloft, she told me this as well: Zoloft has the potential to increase suicidal thoughts with depressed patients. Jesus fucking Christ!!!! No WONDER I wanted to cast myself into oblivion every ten minutes. Once I read that statement on the website I sat there and facepalmed for the rest of the day. It makes sense now....while I still stand by the fact that Zoloft did give me a new life and the ability to wake up and feel halfway normal, it also really ended up negatively impacting my depression in the end. It's easy for a doctor or a website to say "oh and if you feel suicidal remember it's just the medicine! And call me!" Very easy to say. Not easy for someone who is convinced they need to end their life, to ....well...NOT do that. You could say depressed people get a little bit of tunnel vision."
January-May 2013: This is when things got weird and stupid. I was terrified of Zoloft, terrified of not taking Zoloft, had to be shipped back to America at one point...I mean, I was chemically a mess. I would take the pills intermittently and sometimes I felt great, other days I felt stressed and sad. I had no idea what was even happening so I just rode the tide. Except the tide got really depressing the farther along the year went. I went off the pills entirely, felt horrible, then went back on them, and felt anxious. I quit again when Madi visited in June, and that's when the anger happened.
June-July 2013: I had stopped the Zoloft in June out of frustration. I refused to go back on it. I went through some symptoms of withdrawl: dizziness, tiredness, whatever else have you, but those went away after a week and I wrongly thought that the drug was out of the system and whatever else left was "just me." Then I started having anger issues. And when I say anger I mean like, Hulk, raging, unnecessary anger rages. Constantly. I have no idea how anyone put up with me during that time. But, I did my research:
I did some good old internet research for people who were on Zoloft and their experiences with anger.
I saw a pattern, after reading intensively for hours. These weren't so much medical science articles as much as people pouring their hearts and stories out on forum posts. I won't post any here, but I read a lot and it seems like mine is not the only case of people turning into the Hulk. Especially stopping the medicine...this made other people fly into blinding rages as well. I realized then I probably should have weaned myself down. My dose was 50mg, which is still a pretty low dose, but even that needs cutting into 25 for a few weeks, then down to 12.5. It made sense to me and some of the stories I read were heartbreaking and served to warn me that medicine for the brain can be pretty disastrous. The pharma industry is by no means a perfect system...or even one I particularly like. (Of course I believe in modern medicine and consider healthcare workers the equivalent of miracle workers, but I'm saying the DRUG companies pushing these drugs are total douchebag assholes.)
Current: July-August 2013: So here we are, a year later and god knows what kind of emotional reactions were just me, and which ones were caused by this brain-changing drug. It was so hard for me to mentally block these emotions and think to myself that maybe they were caused by the SSRI and maybe they weren't real as they seemed. It's comforting to know that a lot of my mood swings and dark spots were caused from an outside source and not my own mind, but then again, a lot of the positive thoughts, the courage I've had...what if that wasn't me either? What if that was the Zoloft?
I told Henri that he was, for the first time, going to get to know the me without medicine. Ever since we have been friends I've been on Zoloft. I don't know what's going to happen without it. Maybe I'm afraid, but I'm also kind of excited. And if you're wondering, no I do not blame Zoloft for the bad parts. Not solely, anyway. I do caution anyone using an SSRI to have a good support group and to research more thoroughly than I did. I have no problem with anyone taking medications, but the problem is when you are the person feeling these feelings, you have no way of discerning when you are being totally irrational about the situation. And even if you can discern, most of the time you can't force yourself to feel something different, hence being on the medicine in the first place.
So, I'm about to turn 26 in a few weeks...let's see who I am reeeeeeeeally.


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Title: The Life Of John Smith
Rating: T+ (for now)
Pairing: River Song/ Eleventh Doctor (John Smith)
Genre: Angst/Romance
Summary: (AU) John Smith is not like normal people, he can see what won't happen, the infinite possibilities of a single event. It's a curse that drives him crazy, to the point where he decides he must die, only to meet the one woman whose life is a complete mystery to him.
The Life Of John Smith
My name is John Smith. Ordinary enough sounding name eh?
But I'm not ordinary, ordinary people see the present when they step out their front door, they see it as it is happening,
'Mr Hall is walking his dog, that kid over there is riding his scooter.'
Now, when a psychic steps out his front door, he sees the future, what will happen.
'the kid with the scooter will crash into Mr Hall'
I am neither.
I see what will never happen, the thousands of possibilities of that one event.
When I step out my door the kid avoids Mr Hall and scoots around off the pavement. In that same moment he's doing several other things as well, hitting a lamp post, running over the dog, getting hit by a car.
Now imagine having to live with that, every day of your life, only ever seeing what won't happen, and not just the bad, but the joys of life as well.
The marriages that are only ever going to be relationships, the relationships that will stay friendships. The friendships that will remain as just two strangers on a crowded street.
I see all of that. I always have.
Until the day I met her, River Song.
Winter Solstice, 2010
Snow falls gently on the ground outside, covering the bare earth of a quiet suburb.
It's the early hours of the morning, the cosy moments when a wife would press her body against her husband in an effort to keep warm, when a dog would clamber into the safety of a little boys bed, when a teenager finally puts away their phone and drifts off to sleep.
For John Smith, today is none of that.
This is his last day on Earth.
He showers at half past five that morning, as per normal, slipping into his freshly pressed black trousers and buttoning up his shirt. John throws on his favourite long green coat to banish the cold away as he winds his colourful scarf around his neck.
He doesn't stop to have breakfast; he always stops around the corner for coffee instead.
John reaches for his car keys, lying abandoned on the kitchen table and then decides against it.
He looks up, taking in the sight of his house instead.
It has everything a normal person has, sofa, coffee table, rug, two bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen, a laundry and a living room.
Only one thing is notably absent...mirrors.
When he was five, he remembers his mother forcing him in front of one in order to brush his hair.
The curse, it turned out, worked on reflections as well.
He couldn't bear to see all of that. He couldn't bear to see it now. He'd thought at the time that he was seeing the future, but what really happened was much worse anyway.
With a final glance at his house, John strides to the front door and opens it, taking a deep breathe, his lungs getting a blast of frigid air that he so badly needed right then.
John slams the door behind him. The house groans back in reply, already mourning the loss of it's owner.
note: next chapter will be longer I promose! :)
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|14 Nov 2016
Super odd issues after imaged restore, Not sure how to clean this mess
Hello all,
I have been trying to solve a problem for quite a while and still have not even figured out what the problem is.
7 year old Asus custom build with Intel i7 Extreme 3.3Ghz 24GB RAM, Samsung SSD, ATI Fire Pro Workstation GFX. No overclocking or additional customization.
W7 Pro 64bit. A whole bunch of commercial software that is no longer supported or out of maintenance contracts. Re-installing is either impossible or very difficult or VERY expensive.
This machine is in a critical role and ran without issue for many years. A few months ago the system disk (1 drive in a 4 drive RAID5) failed. No big deal, I put a spare in the system and it rebuilt the RAID. Without surprise - about a week later another drive failed. This time the RAID failed during rebuild and the system disk is now totally dead and un-recoverable.
Fortunately (or so I thought), I was using Acronis to keep local and cloud images. I restored the images to a new SSD drive, but it failed to boot. I spent the next 2 days chasing down a myriad of issues to try to get it back up. The final act that made it happen was restoring the backup registry. While that allowed the system to finally boot - clearly it was a last resort. There were all kinds of strange issues following this. A number of applications had to be reinstalled and many others at least lost their settings. None of these were fatal - just super annoying.
Fast forward to about 3 days ago when I got a warning that the system disk was full (0 bytes available). I was expecting about 180GB of free space. After some digging, I found that the Windows Temp folder was being filled up with cab_xxxx files of exactly the same size - 107MB each until the disk was full. I chased that down after a few hours but learned this was the tip of the iceberg.
At that time I noticed the system would not boot in safe mode, I could not start System Restore, SFC /scannow fails, DISM scans do not work, 'Turn on/off Windows Components' is blank, I cannot rename folders without an error message, some websites do not work while others are fine in Firefox and Chrome, Thunderbird email no longer connects to anything although other applications network resources are perfectly normal. It all seems random.
Attempting Safe mode, is just an endless re-boot cycle. I have tried to DVD boot the machine for repair and that yields nothing. I also ran the usual command line suspects - BOOTREC , SFC, and DISM with no help or just an error.
BOOTREC appeared the be successful.
SFC /scannow: returns 'Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service'
DSIM /online [anything at all]: returns error 87 Option Unknown
CHKDSK returns clean
MEMTEST returns clean
PSU tests are all clean (I design power supplies so uniquely qualified and configured to test that part)
Virus/Malware full scans from 3 different vendors come back clean
Everytime I boot, it takes a while and repeats the same update messages. Maybe windows update has issues?
My guess is this is a combination of corrupt system files on top of getting an old registry. Not sure how I can scan/repair any of the system files without the usual MS utilities working. Totally unsure how to find what may be a huge pile of registry problems either. Maybe it is virus/malware that is not detected? First time I have dealt with a workstation that boots in normal mode, but fails in any form of safe mode.
Hoping (on my knees begging) for any wisdom.
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|14 Nov 2016
win 8 32 bit
Welcome to the forum. You dont say if this has service packs on it. First clean the pc with UnCleaner - Josh Cell Softwares Take another image now so you can role back. Restoring the reg may have been a big mistake.
I would reinstall the latest service pack this will overwrite all system files so they are all correct
|My System Specs
|14 Nov 2016
Thank you for the reply. I did backup the original REG (twice) and still have the image from just before the original system crash, but it will not boot with that registry restored. Only the backup allows it to boot up, but of course with significant issues.
What does UnCleaner accomplish? I don't have the machine booted right now (making another clone before I do anything permanent). I plan to experiment with the cloned disk.
Clone complete and system booted up. Service Pack 1 confirmed. I feel more at ease sorting this out on a cloned HDD.
|My System Specs
|15 Nov 2016
Working with a cloned HDD - I have tried a few things with no luck yet.
re-install SP1 - fails.
disabled as many services and removed any rarely used applications as possible.
Turning on automatic updates to my surprise seems to have allowed the download and installation of updates - although it did not seem to change anything.
Tried a repair install just before I went to sleep and when I woke up - the computer was off. Not sure what to think of that. Last I saw it was preparing for installation.
I reverted back to the SFC utility to attempt repairs on the existing install. It finds errors but is unable to repair. This is with the windows DVD command line. The real problem is that it is not appending the results CBS.log. This makes it impossible to know what files needs to be manually replaced.
Does anyone know how to redirect the log output of the SFC utility to a location that is valid? I am guessing it is trying to write to the DVD since that is what it booted from. If I can get the logs, I have a chance of replacing the corrupt files.
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|18 Nov 2016
Still struggling on this exciting project......
I figured out how to get SFC /scannow to work and was able to review the logs. Nothing really was changed though. I did push a little harder to purge the registry both manually and with CCleaner. I turned on log on/off verbosity to ID some crusty and unneeded drivers that were slowing things down. Those were all issues that needed attention but still did not address the deeper issues.
- Backup and Restore will not start - no error or other activity.
- No restore points can be created or restored. There is no apparent way to turn it on/off or check the status in the GUI. I tried using command line options but that did not work either.
- 'SFC /scannow' runs and reports un-fixable errors but the only error in the log is corrupt ehshell.dll which does not seem related.
- Updates fail (presumably because a restore point cannot be created)
- Corel Draw X5 (yes, the old version) would not start so I tried to re-install but it fails on re-install.
- Cannot boot in Safe Mode - it just restarts over and over. Right as I am typing in my password in safemode - it re-boots. Have no idea why. Normal boot is totally fine, no errors or delays.
- There are other strange behaviors, as well but less worrisome
Again - I am trying to protect very expensive legacy professional software that is no longer supported and cannot be re-installed because of licensing issues that require support contracts that do not exist. Fresh install is not an option, but I am at the end of my troubleshooting ability.
Don't even know what type of professional I could call to help stabilize this system.
|My System Specs
|18 Nov 2016
Are you still with the RAID 5 array? Did you check the BIOS settings?
I would try a repair install again and stay close to follow up. Is your installation disk SP1?
After the re installation, run SFC /scannow.
For the updates:MS releases SP2 for Windows 7
|My System Specs
|18 Nov 2016
No, the RAID5 system disk is gone and the BIOS was reset for a single disk. That part seems to be ok - chkdsk came back with no errors. It boots in normal mode rather quick and with no errors.
Up to this point - I have not attempted a repair install for fear of damaging the licenses on the installed software. The focus has been on a less heavy handed repair so far. My mind started to shift when I ran DISM and looked at the logs - over 1300 errors for missing files. All the files had a reference to AMD64 and my machine in Intel. That is a lot of un-reparable errors and odd that they all reference a processor that is not in the machine. With all the time and only marginal successes - I finally decided to do the repair install.
I downloaded the ISO with Win 7 Pro SP1 since my original disk is too old. It is running right now and seems to be moving along. This is being done on a cloned system drive so the 'known bootable' SSD is physically disconnected. When/if it is successful, I will try out the critical software with no network attached - if it freaks out it cannot contact the registration servers. In theory, if it goes south, I have my cloned SSD that I can revert to and create another plan. Really hoping this clears it all up without messing with the emotionally delicate software.
BTW - This ALL started with Acronis being used to restore the system after a failure. I had local images and cloud images on top of having a RAID5 - I felt pretty safe. Acronis has failed miserably and they offered ZERO help when I contacted them. Super sad performance from them. Needless to say, I have moved on and will never go back and tell everyone I know in IT this story. I had a conversation with a friend/owner of an IT management company - told him the story. He was just about to deploy Acronis, but stopped and did more research. He studied my experience a little more and moved on to another solution as well. That was a project with around 500 PCs. Not a small amount of business.
|My System Specs
|19 Nov 2016
The repair install is not going well. I just typed a whole breakdown but the site had logged me off - deleted my post in the process of asking for the login. Not funny.
Anyway.....the process started off well enough. Rebooted once and was continuing the process. The second re-boot just goes to a black screen, locked keyboard, and no disk activity. Assuming it's dead. This is why I made a clone of the known bootable disk to try this. My expectations were low and they have been met.
I am guessing the next move is to restore this test HDD with the image I have from Paragon Disk Manager. each step takes an enormous amount of time - REALLY hoping some solution comes soon.
|My System Specs
|19 Nov 2016
RX, my computer is Intel but there are a lot of AMD64 files. This files are not for AMD but for Win 7 64. The name is because AMD was the first to provide 64 bits CPUs.
|My System Specs
|19 Nov 2016
Is your Win 7 installation disk SP1?
If not, it my be the reason why you cant have a Repair install.
You can get the Win 7 iso from M$ from here:
- Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool
- Download Windows 7 Disc Images
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Classic beer glass 'Connoisseur Collection'. Each specially designed piece in this beer glass set enhances the aroma and improves the taste of the beer style it was made for.
This is a lovely cocktail featuring gin and sherry. It was named after the Spanish town of Seville. If you can get juice from the sour oranges by the same name all the better.
Brewshop! Awesome store in NZ for home brewers ~ really fun design.
Boozy Shallot-Cassis Marmalade, a different way of using Creme de Cassis.
Cool off with something a little different: The Russian Caravan Cocktail.
Aperol, fresh plums and sparkling wine ~ sounds good to me! Plum Blossom cocktail from Chow
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Due to keeping lambs inside, although most out now, we've got a few cases of rattle belly. I've given Spectam (had at birth as well, a week ago), and injected with 1/2ml Alamycin LA. Reading other threads, gently squirting soapy water or medicinal liquid paraffin up the backside to give the lambs the squits to empty it, helps, but never done it.
Is it a good idea and if so how much do you squirt up the back passage? 10-20 ml? Do you repeat it or just a one-off? And if you use paraffin, do you dilute it? If you use soapy water, why soapy instead of just plain warm water?
I put them in a warm box if bad, but is there anything else that can be done? Not sure I've managed to save one yet, but the ones that have died have been weedy ones anyhow.


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Plugging in a Speaker
House politics continue to dominate. The WP leads with the de facto Speakerhood of Rep. Robert Livingston. The LAT goes with the fractious Republican caucus he will try to lead, which the WSJ also addresses in a front-pager. The NYT goes instead with yesterday's Judiciary hearings at which scholars said middle-ground outcomes like censuring the president had no constitutional basis. The hearings are also the off-lead at the WP and make the front at the LAT and USAT, which leads instead with the Supreme Court's allowing the continuance of Wisconsin's program of subsidizing poor children's attendance at private and religious schools. This voucher story makes the LAT and NYT fronts, but is played inside at the Post.
The WP, LAT and NYT each give the who's-up-who's-down on the House GOP wrangle but there is no clear sense communicated about what it all means. The LAT bothers to tell us that to hold together the House GOP caucus Livingston may have to, to coin a phrase, "resort to scotch tape and bailing wire," but doesn't tell us much about the ideological differences operating except to say that Livingston has been slammed by the WSJ editorial page and is also disliked by something called the Traditional Values Coalition. The coverage tells us that Livingston is apparently all about tone and management and (could this be the Jesse Ventura effect?) that he's a black belt in karate. But that's about it. For a topography of the House GOP, turn to the Journal account, which nicely articulates the three main branches of its conservatism: pragmatic, economic, and social.
As for the lesser offices in the hierarchy, the papers don't even communicate what they do. The reader has no idea what to make of learning that, for example, the vice chair of the House Republican Conference is challenging the Majority Leader. The one exception to this complaint is the Post's reporting on the job of Majority Whip, Tom DeLay. Delay, it seems, was able to vector support to Livingston because he possesses the only really up-to-date list of members' phone numbers and addresses.
The NYT observes that if the Republicans were looking for a way to gracefully abandon impeachment, this was not in evidence at the Judiciary hearings. The other papers see things the same way. Although it was Elbow Patch and Tweed Day at the committee, the NYT shows that often the academic witnesses were just foils for members' speechifying. All the experts testified that the standards for impeachment should be kept very high, but some of the Republican members of the committee made it clear they felt that lying about sex qualified.
It's a bit sobering to read that the WP's political dean, David Broder, refuses to bury Newt Gingrich's career in public life. His model for Gingrich in '98 is Nixon in '62--down but not out. If, writes Broder, the Democrats clobber the GOP in the 2000 presidential vote, Gingrich would be positioned for a comeback, this time as a presidential candidate.
As an apparent conflict with Iraq looms, USAT reports on a visit made last month to a Navy carrier now enroute to the Mediterranean. The paper reports that the ship is deployed with 250 fewer crew than it's supposed to have, with the result that flight operations cannot be sustained at the tempo commanders would like. The paper reports that although the Navy denies that the carrier's recent fatal flight deck collision had anything to do with shorthandedness, the service has experienced a rise in its flight accident rate. The story quotes one civilian defense expert's assessment: there's plenty of money, it's just being spent on the wrong things--glamour weapons instead of parts and manpower.
For those wondering how long Kenneth Starr's operation could stay in business, the WP runs a story inside about the independent counsel appointed to look into conflict of interest charges against Eli Segal, a one-time Clinton national service advisor. Nine months after getting the case, the IC recommended against prosecuting Segal, and no further action was taken against him. But more than a year after that, the office still exists, albeit down to one attorney working about half time. Why? Well, says, the Post, the office had to continue operating while those investigated or required to testify appealed for reimbursement of their legal expenses. And there's the cost in time and money of, as the law requires, turning over all paperwork to the National Archives. And best of all, since any IC office must be audited by the government every six months, someone must be retained to preside over the office while it's being audited. That's how the Segal IC is still managing to spend more than $250,000 a year.


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If we have a shy nature we must analyze what causes these traits to exist. Such traits may arise as a result of genetic or inherited traits by parents. Education is not so good, and others. But this should not be too worrying because it can be solved slowly if we want to try, one of them by consulting with a therapist you can find at ayahuascahealings.com/ayahuasca-retreats-peru-sacredvalley/. Apart from that, here are some ways to get rid of your shy feelings!
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2. Stop Complaining Disadvantages
From now on you should start focusing on the ideals and abilities of the pans just focus on the lack of self. It will never be finished because we must be aware if we are only imperfect creatures. We must begin to fight fear within ourselves because that is the way to become a valued person. So it's better to focus on how to develop the capabilities you already have.
3. Never Comparing Yourself and Others
We must realize that every human being has been given the God of excess and also has different flaws. So do not ever think of forcing everyone the same. We must believe that the best of humans is the most useful, so be a useful self if you want to be a human being more valuable to God. So we need to know how to respond to the person who belittles us.


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Make lists of positive aspects
"So, when you feel angry or rotten or disappointed, the other cannot help but know it, because you're reaching right out and bringing it in. So, our encouragement would be to make lists of things you like about the other, to focus so strongly about all of the glorious things about this one that you like that, even in advance.
Let's say that you are not going to see this one until 8 o'clock tonight and at 8 o'clock in the morning you get up and on your list of how you want to feel and what you're wanting to have, you've identified this relationship: you're wanting to have a relationship of respect, one in which each one of you are having a good time, where you are allowing one another your freedom and your growth while you're coming together as co-creator on some subjects.
You see, that is what goes wrong with most relationships, you thread all over the toes of freedom because you forget that you are first individual creator and sometimes co-creator. And so if you could allow the other TO BE while on the subjects of your co-creating you could give your emphasis, then the other could not feel that they are not free, you see…
A young woman said to us: "Abraham, what is wrong with me? My mate who I really love asks things of me and I don't want to do them".
And we said: "Why don't you want to do them?"
And she said: "Because it takes away my feeling of freedom"
And we said "So then, what do you do?"
And she said: "So, I do them grudgingly and then I think of something for him to do so that we can get even"
All the time feeling rotten, nobody having a good time in it and all of that action being absolutely counterproductive to what they are really wanting, you see….
And so we said: "What do you think is missing?"
And she said: "My freedom"
We said: "Your freedom is never missing. You may perceive for a moment that you're not free but if you will stop and acknowledge that you are absolutely free under any and all conditions. Why? Because it is what you think that is creating your experience, not what you're doing for another. How much freer can you be?" we said.
And she said:"You're right. So all of that feeling, all of that resisting has nothing to do with whether I am really free or not, for I am absolutely free…"
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Mouth-honor means merely superficial respect.
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QUOTATION: I gin to be aweary of the sun,
Gin means begin; th estate o the world means the condition or fixed order of the universe.
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On hearing of the death of Lady Macbeth.
QUOTATION: Thou canst not say I did it; never shake
On seeing the ghost of the murdered Banquo.
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QUOTATION: I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
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Night that seels or covers up (like stitching the eyelids of a hawk in order to tame it) is bloody because it provides concealment for murder; the bond is the obligation of love to all, as in Matthew 5:43-4, do good to them which hate you.
QUOTATION: What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
Referring to the line of Banquos descendants; crack of doom means the peal of thunder on judgment day.
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Duncan has wielded power so mildly (meek), and been blameless (clear) as king, hence the deep damnation of killing him.
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To the doctor who cannot cure his wifes disease of the mind.
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QUOTATION: This even-handed justice
Part of Macbeths soliloquy on his forthcoming murder of Duncan and its consequences.
QUOTATION: Present fears
Macbeth muses on the Witches prophesy that he will be king, Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature.
QUOTATION: Pity, like a naked, new-born babe
In Psalm 18:10 (Book of Common Prayer), God rode upon the cherubins and did fly; he came flying upon the wings of the wind; sightless means invisible.
QUOTATION: Light thickens, and the crow
Invoking the powers of darkness before murdering Banquo.
QUOTATION: Had I but died an hour before this chance,
Chance means mischance, meaning the killing of Duncan; life (mortality) from henceforth is trivial (toys); the vault is the sky covering the earth.
QUOTATION: I am in blood
Implying that he might as well continue to kill; no more means no further.
QUOTATION: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Speaking to the Doctor of Physic.
QUOTATION: Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood
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Greensburg, Kansas
This past weekend we attended a wedding in Garden City, KS, and on the way back we decided to drive through Greensburg. This is the town that was completely destroyed by an EF-5 tornado May 4, 2007, and instead of closing its doors became the "greenest" city in the world. They have rebuilt using the LEED (Leadership in Energy Efficient Design) program set by the USGBC (United States Green Building Council) as the foundation for any new building. So far Main Street has been developed with retail shops, a bank, the school, City Hall, and the Kiowa Community Center.
One of the best stories behind a building in the town is the Arts Center that was named in honor of the day that changed the town forever 5.4.7 Arts Center. This building was designed and built by students at the University of Kansas through the Studio 804 program. Overall it was a very positive experience to drive through the town that has come up from the ashes, and see new building happening all around keeps the growing town looking ahead instead of behind. This year the former Twilight theater will be rebuilt and re-open showing first run movies, and the "Big Well" is just about finished, and it will re-open the deepest hand-dug well in the world on May 26th.
Nelson Atkins Art Museum (Bloch Building)
With fall color right around the corner, I have been searching out spots that may have the best 'fall' potential. One place that quickly came to mind was the Nelson-Atkins art museum. Unfortunately the trees in the front lawn do not show signs of the transitioning season. Although I was a bit disappointed I decided to focus more on the Bloch Building designed by Steven Holl. It turned out to be a beautiful night to be outside shooting.
The Scout
Just outside of the downtown area, perched atop Penn Valley Park, sits "The Scout" statue. He keeps watch to the west for any impending trouble for the downtown area. This area is one of the most picturesque places to view the Kansas City skyline, but it seems far less traveled than the nearby Liberty Memorial. I have wanted to explore this shot for a while, and after shooting it once, I am sure I will be back in the future. On my way back home I made a brief stop at a new installation art piece by John Salvest. It sits on the west lawn of the Federal Reserve in Kansas City. Look carefully because there is a hidden message buried in these foreign shipping containers.
Mountains and Lakes
This post is a compilation of scenes all throughout Rocky Mountain National Park. There are so many places to hike, and there are so many beautiful scenes in the park that it is hard to pick any one favorite place. The dramatic views and serenity of the mountains sort of overwhelms the senses, and it's affect causes you to want to sit and drink in all that it has to offer. Time does not seem to exist here. This place is one of the most majestic places I have ever seen, and the words I write, or the pictures I take, will never be able to fully express the experience contained within. Please see this and understand I am trying to portray the pieces of a puzzle that cannot be seen in its entirety unless you, yourself have experienced similar moments. Enjoy.
Sunsets, Trains, and Urban Decay
This is one of my favorite times of the year, and I suppose it is fitting considering my photography tends to focus on the fleeting transition between two larger, more defined elements. I was inspired by the weather this weekend to get out and express visually what we are feeling environmentally happen. I chose one of my favorite locations, but I pushed myself to wander outside of the typical boundaries I stick to. This particular scene is on the edge of the West Bottoms, and is almost to the bottom of Kansas City, Kansas. The sky set a wonderful canvas for the light to paint upon, and I was lucky enough to capture the colors it chose on Saturday night.
Such a simple concept. Water vapor is condensed and a cold air mass is trapped below a warm air mass. The science of it is clear cut and absolute, yet there is a mysterious character that lurks within these condensed water particles. Places that we have come to know so well become surreal, shrouded by a deafening quiet that blankets all surroundings. Some see mystery as a dark and ominous force from which you may contrive fear, but it can also create a very poweful euphoric sensation. It's the thought that not all mystery has to have a dark side, but some have a way of moving you to explore, and leave no stone unturned. I feel like that was driving me this particular morning to find every nook and cranny that could have something to show of itself in the new light. I hope these images help to tie back to this story as I feel they spoke to me.


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The Fix Up
Book 1, First Impressions
Tawna Fenske
This book can be downloaded and read in iBooks on your Mac or iOS device.
While he may look like the love child of a movie starlet and an NFL linebacker, Ben Langley has the people skills of a half-drowned porcupine. Why socialize when there are chemistry labs and bad sci-fi flicks? If he has any hope of taking the helm as CEO of the family business, Ben needs an image makeover. Pronto.
Enter Holly Colvin, owner of First Impressions public relations and branding firm, and the woman who just saved Ben from the clutches of an over-attentive sales clerk. Holly's rebranded hundreds of companies in her career, but she's never rebranded a person. The guy clearly needs help, though, and she's just the woman for the job.
With the clock ticking for them both, Holly and Ben face off over wardrobe malfunctions and business jargon that sounds a lot sexier than it should. But can Holly make Ben into the man he thinks he should be without losing the man she's starting to love?
Each book in the First Impressions series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order.
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Fix me please
Ben and Holly meet in a furniture store. Then they kiss. The attraction is strong, fast, and electric. What's a guy to do with a chance to see her again? Yep, he calls her.
Ben needs help getting ready to make an important presentation. He needs to prove to himself and his father that he can take the reigns of the company and be the best new CEO. He does not want his dad to regret giving him this position. Not that he is all that sure he wants it.
Holly has already had a strong man try to ruin he career and take away her company. This is just attraction and simple desire, right? Then why does her body light on fire whenever she is near him? Ben is the only man who makes her feel this way. Now if only she can keep her hands and mouth to herself.
They find themselves becoming friends. Holly helps Ben prepare and get ready to be CEO. She gives him a new reason to be the alpha male she knows he can be. I found this to be an amazing start to the First Impressions series!! There is so much laughter, passion, and even geek references to make any reader glad they picked this book up. I loved it!!
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Holly needs the money, can she fight her attraction to Ben in order to help him bring out his stronger, less socially awkward side?
This was a great read. Ben is fantastic is his geeky awkwardness. Ben's dad is a class A jerk. Making the story move along great with an interesting plot. The steam factor is pretty hot too!
I'd love to see a book each for mariem and Parker.
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- Published: Dec 14, 2015
- Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
- Seller: Macmillan
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The Instigator
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The Contender
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The belief in the existence of a deity is logically valid.
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As Pro, it will be your duty to establish the truth of the proposition by providing evidences and/or logical arguments for the existence of a deity.
As Con, it will be my duty to refute the evidences and/or arguments presented. I will not be providing any evidences or arguments myself (as such things would be impossible), but only responding to my opponent's.
I also urge my opponent to define the deity in which he/she feels it is logically valid to believe in, in order to avoid any future confusion (since the term "deity" carries a very large spectrum of meanings).
Structure of the debate:
1. CON: Instigation
1. PRO: Acceptance; providing his/her definition of "deity" (what properties does this deity have that are salient to this debate); providing first evidences and/or arguments
2. CON: Refutations of definition and/or evidences and/or arguments
2. PRO: Refutations of refutations
3. CON: Refutations of refutations' refutations
3. PRO: Refutations of refutations' refutations' refutations
4. CON: "..."'s refuations;
4. PRO: "..."'s refutations; closing statements
Please provide ALL of the evidences and/or arguments you wish to use in the first round and save the next two for rebuttals only. Otherwise, we may not have adequate time to discuss everything.
I thank my opponent in advance and the viewers for making this debate possible, and I look forward to an interesting and fruitful discourse.
Deity- for the purposes of this debate, a deity is the supernatural creator of the universe who oversees the entire universe.
Rational- Consistent with or based on reason; logical (1)
Logical- Of or according to the rules of logic (2)
Logic- Reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity (3)
Something logical is rational and something rational is logical.
1. Existence is only intelligible if it has an explanation.
2. The universes existence is therefore, one of two things:
a) unintelligible
b) has an explanation
3. A rational person cannot accept premise 2a by the definition of rationality.
4. A rational person must accept premise 2b, the universe has an explanation.
5. There are 3 types of explanations:
a) Scientific: physical conditions + laws = an event
b) Personal: Explanations citing desires, beliefs, powers and intentions of some personal agent.
c) Essential: The essence of the thing to be explained necessitates its existence or qualities (for example, if you ask why a triangle has 3 sides, I would respond that it is the essence and necessity for a triangle to have 3 sides by its definition.
6. The explanation for the Universes entire existence cannot be scientific as there are no independent laws and physical conditions independent of what is being explained. The Big Bang theory, for example, fails to explain the existence of the entire universe it fails to explain where the Big Bang singularity came from. The Universe as a total of all natural conditions and laws cannot be totally explained without an Archimidean reference point outside the system.
7. The Universes existence is not essential because the universe does not exist necessarily. This is because there is a possibility for the Universe to have not existed. (If the Big Bang, for example, had been slightly different large scale structure may not have existed). Therefore, the Universe is not essential.
8. A rational person therefore, must believe the Universe has a personal explanation.
9. No personal agent but, a deity could have created the entire universe.
C. A rational person must believe a deity exists.
1. Some things lack intelligence
2. Things that lack intelligence have a purpose
3. Something which lacks intelligence but, has a purpose must have something with intelligence guiding it
C. There must be an intelligent being who oversees the Universe directing all unintelligent things to their purpose.
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3. http://en.wikipedia.org...
Premise one, as my opponent states: "Existence is only intelligible if it has an explanation."
When we swap "intelligible" with its synonym "explainable", we see just how absurdly axiomatic this premise really is: "Existence is only explainable if it has an explanation."
I agree with this premise. However, please carefully note that this is a conditional contention. Only IF existence has an explanation can it be explainable.
Premise two: "The universes' existence is, therefore, one of two things:
a) unintelligible (not explainable)
b) has an explanation"
I agree with this premise, assuming you meant "impossible to ever be intelligible" in the first scenario.
Premise three: "A rational person cannot accept premise 2a by the definition of rationality."
This is where I find fault, and I remind you that the first premise was conditional. IF existence has an explanation, THEN we would be able to explain it (assuming we somehow knew the explanation). However, there is no reason to believe that the universe's existence necessarily has an explanation.
Premise four: "A rational person must accept premise 2b, the universe has an explanation."
By extension of my last remark, I also find this premise untrue.
Premise five: "There are 3 types of explanations:
a) Scientific: physical conditions laws = an event
b) Personal: Explanations citing desires, beliefs, powers and intentions of some personal agent.
c) Essential: The essence of the thing to be explained necessitates its existence or qualities (for example, if you ask why a triangle has 3 sides, I would respond that it is the essence and necessity for a triangle to have 3 sides by its definition."
No comment.
Premise six: "The explanation for the Universes entire existence cannot be scientific as there are no independent laws and physical conditions independent of what is being explained."
I find that there is absolutely no reason to believe this premise to be true either. For all my opponent or I know, there could be other physical universes outside of our own, citing M Theory as a basic example.
Premise seven: "The Universes existence is not essential because the universe does not exist necessarily."
I also find no reason to believe this is true. You cited a triangle as an example, saying that it must have three sides because that is the very definition of a triangle. Following the same logic, the universe, by definition, must exist. A universe that doesn't exist is not a universe at all.
Premise eight: "A rational person therefore, must believe the Universe has a personal explanation."
Premise nine: "No personal agent but, a deity could have created the entire universe."
Conclusion: "A rational person must believe a deity exists."
As extensions of previous objections, I find all three of the above statements to be false.
Premise one: "Some things lack intelligence"
Premise two: "Things that lack intelligence have a purpose"
I find this untrue, unless it reads "Things that lack intelligence are given purposes".
Premise three: "Something which lacks intelligence but, has a purpose must have something with intelligence guiding it"
By extension of my previous comment, I find this untrue unless it reads "Something which lacks intelligence, but has been given a purpose, must have been given it by something intelligent".
Conclusion: "There must be an intelligent being who oversees the Universe directing all unintelligent things to their purposes."
Even if the first three premises are true (as I rewrote them), this conclusion does not logically follow.
I look forward to my opponent's responses.
1. Existence is only intelligible...
My opponent makes the mistake of replacing a word with an easily recognizable definition with a synonym (replacing a word with a "close friend" so to speak). This new premise they have concocted is ridiculous and obscures the meaning of the said premise. The meaning of intelligible is, "capable of being understood" (1). As such this premise is now reworded with its definition, not its synonym. "Existence is only capable of being understood if it has an explanation". In other words, you cannot understand something's existence if there is no explanation of the said objects existence. My opponent has accepted this premise.
2. Two choices (unintelligible or has an explanation)
My opponent has agreed. The meaning of unintelligible is incapable of being understood or impossible to be intelligible. You cannot explain something unintelligible.
3. Cannot accept premise 2a by definition of rationality
Let us argue that premise 2a is a completely rational choice. Then, here is what is implied: the Universe has no explanation for being in existence. Now let us say this is completely correct, there is no explanation for the Universes' existence. If there is no initial explanation as to why the Universe exists, how can the universe exist without an initial explanation? Rationally, a person cannot accept there being no cause to the universe as without a cause there is no effect. Without an initial cause to the Universe, there is no universe. As we can see, there is a universe. Therefore, 2a must be inherently false only leaving 2b, the Universe has an explanation.
4. A rational person must accept 2b
Extend argument 3.
5. 3 types of explanations
6. Universe cannot be explained scientifically
"M-theory is an extension of string theory in which 11 dimensions are identified" (2). M-Theory does not state there are other UNIVERSES it explains there are 11 dimensions. These 11 dimensions still exist within one universe. As a dimension is "informally defined as the minimum number of coordinates needed to specify any point within it" (3). M-theory does not explain there are other universes, neither does main-stream string theory. Furthermore, even if there happens to be other universes those universes will not affect our universe. The premise holds true.
7. "The Universes existence is not essential because the universe does not exist necessarily."
My opponent makes my point, what makes it essential for, citing the most prominent theory, the Big Bang to occur? Why is the Universe essential? The simple answer is: it is not. There was no reason for the Big Bang singularity to even exist. A triangle with 4 sides is not a triangle. Furthermore, our Universe is defined as having large scale structures (planets, stars, galaxy's, etc.) If the Big Bang had occurred in a slightly different way these large scale structures would not exist. Therefore, our Universe would not exist.
8. "A rational person therefore, must believe the Universe has a personal explanation."
9. "No personal agent but, a deity could have created the entire universe."
Conclusion: "A rational person must believe a deity exists."
Extending my previous arguments, I hold the conclusion to be true.
1. "Some things lack intelligence"
2. "Things that lack intelligence have a purpose"
My opponent provides no basis for their objection. Their personal belief has not been substantiated. I will provide an empirical example. Magma, it flows beneath the earth. I hope my opponent and I can agree magma has no intelligence as it is melted rock (and rocks do not have intelligence). Magma allows for tectonic shifts of the earths plates and all volcanic activity. Things without intelligence have a purpose.
3. "Something which lacks intelligence but, has a purpose must have something with intelligence guiding it"
My opponent provided no reason to rewrite this premise. Simply stating something is false does not mean it is.
Conclusion: "There must be an intelligent being who oversees the Universe directing all unintelligent things to their purposes."
Therefore, it logically follows; if something is unintelligent it must have something intelligent which designed it to have a purpose and directs it. Something without intelligence cannot have a purpose unless something with intelligence guides it. Something with intelligence guides all without intelligence. Now let's see what happens if we take my opponents rewritten premises to be true:
Opponent's rewriting:
1. "Some things lack intelligence"
2. "Things that lack intelligence are given purposes".
3. "Something which lacks intelligence, but has been given a purpose, must have been given it by something intelligent".
C. "There must be an intelligent being who oversees the Universe GIVING all unintelligent things to their purposes."
You rewrote the argument. I'll rewrite the conclusion. As you can see logically the conclusion is upheld by the new premises. My opponent has upheld the resolution.
Logically, a deity must exist. The resolution holds true.
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My opponent objects to my word "explainable", saying it should instead read "capable of being understood". When something is capable of being explained, it is certainly capable of being understood, and vise versa. Therefore, I hold firmly that there was nothing wrong with my word swap.
My opponent has this to say in regards to my objection of "rationally having to accept premise 2a" (premise 3): "If there is no initial explanation as to why the Universe exists, how can the universe exist without an initial explanation? [...] Without an initial cause to the Universe, there is no universe."
This statement from my opponent is very telling, and by defending his premises with it, he has violated at least one logical fallacy: begging the question, special pleading, and/or argument from ignorance.
My opponent wishes to say (as is clear from his last statement, without a cause how is there a universe?) "Everything which exists has a cause", but knows he can't. This is because, as was pointed out in the first Cosmological argument constructed nearly 1,000 years ago, this creates the problem of "What caused God"? If you say "Nothing caused God", then you have violated Special Pleading, the logical fallacy of excluding something from the truth of one of your premises.
Or, perhaps, he doesn't want us to rationally choose premise 2a because he already knows the universe's explanation if a personal one (ie, a deity). He uses the supposed truth of the conclusion to justify an otherwise unjustified premise. How does he know the conclusion and premise are valid if they only serve to justify each other (they are either true together or false together; how does he know they are true)? That is begging the question (circular reasoning).
Furthermore, he asks us "How can the universe exist without an explanation?" This is as if to appeal to our intuition (another logical fallacy) instead of evidence. There is no evidence suggesting the universe had or needed to have an explanation. And there is no evidence for an explanation; however, my opponent here is appealing to this lack of knowledge of the origins of the universe to thread his own fictive one: an argument from ignorance.
Premise two: "Things that lack intelligence have a purpose."
I suspected my opponent of this logical fallacy, but waited to call him out on it until he plainly revealed himself. The fallacy my opponent violates now, ladies and gentlemen, is equivocation: using an ambiguous word (one with at least two meanings) in an argument without specifying the definition. In this case, that word is "purpose".
My opponent says that magma has a "purpose", to allow tectonic shifts and volcanic activity. However, this only holds true if the definition of "purpose" is "the action in which a thing does by its very nature". Purposes such as these, as we know, are not necessarily given by intelligent beings.
The "purpose" I was using (and the reason for my rewriting of his premises) was "the reason in which a thing was created or utilized". We cannot say for certain that magma was created specifically to allow tectonic shifting or that the Earth was created to suit life or that the universe was created for any purpose at all. Therefore, it cannot be said for certain that a deity exists.
1."Explainable" vs "capable to be understood"
My opponents argument for this point goes something like this. Something explainable has the capability to be understood therefore, explainable == capable to be understood. To explain means to make an idea clear to somebody by description. Explainable thus means the capability to make the said idea clearer. Understanding means to perceive the intent of this explanation. In context, this phrase thus means the ability to percieve the intent of the said explanation. By the obvious definitions of these, words explainable =/= capable to be understood.
2.Premise 3
a)"Everything which exists has a cause"
As with all Fallacies, the Special Pleading Fallacy has an exception. If I can "provid[e] adequate justification for the exemption" that this deity must be exempt from the truth of one my premises I can do so without fallacy. (1) So now, because my opponent asked, I will do so. I will explain in two ways:
a) Everything which exists has a cause
b) Anything caused is caused by something else
a. Something cannot cause itself as it would have to exist before itself which is impossible
c) There cannot be an infinite series of causes
a. This is because there would be no first cause to the Universe thus, no second or third therefore, nothing would exist which is evidently false.
d) There must be a first cause which in itself is not caused by anything else (a deity)
Now for the second:
a) Everything that exists is either a dependant being or a self-existent being
b) Not everything can be a dependant being
c) Therefore, there is a self-existing being
I have not violated the fallacy of Special-Pleading.
b) Circular reasoning
I justified premise 3 in Round 2 and further expanded upon it in Round 3.
c) Argument from ignorance
My opponent is quoting me out of context. I answer my own question in the next sentences, "Rationally, a person cannot accept there being no cause to the universe as without a cause there is no effect. Without an initial cause to the Universe, there is no universe. As we can see, there is a universe."
a) Premise 2 "Things that lack intelligence have a purpose"
I was also utilizing the definition my opponent provided: "the reason in which a thing was created". The reason Magma was created was to allow tectonic shifts, volcanoes etc. That is it's reason for existence to allow for these shifts and allow for volcanoes to exist. We can say this is certain because what other purpose does magma have?
Earth was created to suit life, the position Earth holds in proximity to the sun allows for the creation of life. The atmosphere earth has allows for the creation of life. The stability of Earth's surface (at least compared with many other planets) allows for the creation of life. Earth was created with the ability to suit life.
The Universe has a reason for its existence…to support other existence.
A deity must exist.
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I. Understandable = Explainable?
My opponent continues his objection of the definition of "explainable", stating that his original word (intelligible) does not mean "able to be explained" but "able to be understood". However, I can only repeat what I've already said: if it is possible for a phenomena to be understood, then it is possible that phenomena to be explained (and vise versa). I will continue to hold that my word swap was justified and leave it to the audience to decide whether I am right in doing so. Why my opponent has dragged this objection on for so long, however, is beyond me; the only reason I swapped those words was to show the audience why the truth of his premise was undeniable.
II. New Premise: "Everything which exists has a cause."
It is unfortunate for my opponent's argument that it must include this premise to be valid, because this is the one premise that an argument for God cannot possibly be valid with. Do not let my opponent trick you: there can be NO exception to Special Pleading. A premise is either true or false, and if a premise (such as "Everything which exists has a cause") has an exception, then that premise is false.
The first premise in his new argument is, of course, this: "Everything which exists has a cause"
And the conclusion is this: "There must be a first cause which in itself is not caused by anything else (a deity)"
It makes not one iota of difference what other premises lie between these two statements, for they clearly contradict each other. My opponent has revealed that his cosmological argument cannot be valid without the premise "Everything which exists has a cause", but that premise cannot be true considering the conclusion asserts an uncaused deity (unless this uncaused deity, in fact, does not exist).
Therefore, I hold that my opponent's cosmological argument is invalid, as it must simultaneously include and exclude this crucial premise.
I. Equivocation
My opponent claims that the only definition of the word "purpose" he is using is "the reason for which a thing was created". He also claims that magma was specifically created by an intelligent being to allow volcanic activity, and he knows this "because what other purpose does magma have?". How this logically follows is beyond me, however. He has still provided no justification for why it should be believed that magma was created for this purpose or if it is simply a byproduct of its natural properties.
II. Argument from Final Consequences
My opponent made the mistake of assuming the Earth was created to sustain life because of how convenient all of its properties are. For instance, he says the distance between the Earth and sun allows for the creation of life. This is true, of course, but says nothing in support his argument for a deity.
1. The path the Earth takes around the sun is elliptical, not perfectly circular. So during certain times of the year, it is closer than during other times. The Earth would have to be either about 25,800,600 miles closer or about 185,900,800 miles farther away in order for life to not be possible. Not exactly conclusive proof that the distance was carefully fine-tuned to support life.
2. This violates the logical fallacy Argument from Final Consequences, which, put simply, is a perversion of cause and effect. My opponent states that because the Earth and its life work so well together that the Earth must have been created with the life in mind. However, in actuality, there is no evidence for this and it could have very well been the other way around: life adjusted to suit its environment.
Therefore, I hold that my opponent's teleological argument is invalid, as the premises are completely unsupported, ergo the conclusion is completely unsupported.
Thank you, THEBOMB, for providing such interesting arguments and refutations in this debate. I urge the audience to objectively discern which of us provided the most rational arguments and to vote accordingly.
Once again I refer back to the source provided. "Special Pleading is a fallacy in which a person applies standards, principles, rules, etc. to others while taking herself (or those she has a special interest in) to be exempt, WITHOUT PROVIDING ADEQUATE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE EXEMPTION" (1). I have provided this justification in Round 3. My opponent has not refuted it. If one source is not good enough I'll provide another. "Special pleading is a form of spurious argumentation where a position in a dispute introduces favorable details or excludes unfavorable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations themselves. Essentially, this involves someone attempting to cite something as an exemption to a generally accepted rule, principle, etc. WITHOUT JUSTIFYING THE EXEMPTION." (2) I could not have made that more clear in Round 3. I have justified the exemption to the rule. The cosmological argument holds logically true. I have provided an exemption, I have justified the exemption, my opponent did not touch the justification.
I. Equivocation
Some things lack intelligence.
Magma serves no other purpose than tectonic activity. That is the reason for it's creation. Magma was created with these natural properties to allow for tectonic activity. Magma was created with these "natural properties" to fulfill its purpose. It could not have endowed in itself its own properties.
II. Final Consequences
My opponent is basically arguing here the creation of such objects are spontaneous and yet no scientific field agrees this creation is spontaneous and happened by complete chance. The chance of Earth being able to sustain life without outside assistance is so low, its magnitude of happening by complete chance is higher than the number of particles in the UNIVERSE. This leads to the conclusion there must have been an outside designer.
1. The Earth's orbit is not all that elliptical as you may believe. A circle is an ideal limit (Limit e --> 0) of an ellipse. There is no such thing as a perfect circle or orbit. And in Earth's case "e" is 0.017. A tiny number showing it is almost a perfect circle but, the gravitational pulls of outside objects in the Universe have pulled it slightly off.
2. Science has shown Earth's environment adjusted to suit life. Life sprang up on Earth when it's environment stabilized. (3)
I thank my opponent for a good debate on this matter.
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its a TEMPORARY theory.. .. it could change tommow.. maybe it is a never ending cycle..
Posted by DakotaKrafick 6 years ago
I don't know and neither do you. To claim, therefore, it must be God is an argument from ignorance.
Posted by THEBOMB 6 years ago
Where did the Big Bang singularity come from?
Bomb you sound like you know lots of rules, but your applicability is awfull. a set of unknown condition is a set of unknown condition, calling it god, does explan anything. We could call it anything. And explanation must tell us how it works. A label doesnt do that. The big bang is better, because we could change upon new knowledge.. So it can still evolve later.. God does not evolve. it just stop us from trying to figure it out thus promoting ignorance as a solution to problems.
Posted by MikeyMike 6 years ago
The Teological argument however was a stalemate, and could not be properly defended by neither party, because there is no actual evidence for both sides.
I also pick Pro because Con tended to twist Pro's words around and quote him out of context.
Posted by THEBOMB 6 years ago
Posted by Maikuru 6 years ago
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Reasons for voting decision: This is just nonsense "Universe exists, how can the universe exist without an initial explanation" no knowing has no barring on existence. There are false explanations!!! To say that god was always there is no better then saying the universe was always there(this is just a label). Just all well as you can say intellegence is always there. What is your criteria for intelligence? Are you senses 100%? how do you know your not dreaming? Logic has to be certain not probable?
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Reasons for voting decision: The teleological argument didn't go anywhere with me. Both sides seemed to struggle in their position. Regarding the cosmological argument, Con engaged in the fallacy of redefinition to refute it and didn't do anything else. Pro took this one by a small margin.
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