We got our money back from the student loan people. It was unceremoniously dumped back into our account on Tuesday. Cheers to that! (I'm a BIG fan of getting my money back.)
So, before I got married I was told that if I didn't have sex before I got married, I'd have a boring sex life when I got married. Needless to say, I didn't believe it. A few years later I heard the exact same thing from my manager at Top Craft. He was talking about sex and saying that if you don't have sex before you're married, you'll have a terrible and boring and unpleasant sex life when you are married. The third time I heard this was from one of Janelle's fellow students at the Mount. He said that, before Janelle was married, way back when he found out that she wasn't going to have sex until after the wedding, he'd been worried about her, that she would have a terrible sex life with some guy who was no good in bed. (Don't get me wrong, I do believe there are guys who are terrible in bed--it's those selfish ones who are only in it for themselves.) Where do these people get these ideas? They must all read the same magazines.
First of all, how do they know? Everyone who's said this to me has had sex before they were married, so how would they know? Secondly, it's pretty ignorant to think that having sex before you're married improves your sex life after you're married. Either way, you're going to have sex for the first time at one point or another, and you're not going to start out an old pro at it on your first shot! Just like anything else, sex is something you get better at with practice--no matter what the magazines say. I don't know why people unquestioningly believe whatever shows up in those snot rags.
Speaking of "Science by Press Release" ...
If you ask anyone what climate change and global warming is, they'll probably tell you that it's carbon dioxide emissions trapping heat in the atmosphere and causing global temperature increase. Catastrophic consequences of this are the melting of the ice caps and the recession of glaciers resulting in rising sea levels and global flooding. That's why Canada is proposing a carbon tax to encourage industries to reduce their carbon emissions. There are global initiatives, such as the UNFCCC to reduce levels of carbon emissions world-wide. However, there is no proof that carbon dioxide causes climate change.
I think that the whole idea of Global Warming as a catastrophe is based on the assumption that planet Earth has always been a certain way. The Theory of Evolution is based on this same assumption that the Earth is static. But the Earth is not static, it changes and fluctuates. Right this minute we are still in the process of emerging from an ice age. Scientists postulate that the Earth is naturally ice-free, even in the high latitudes--except during periods of glaciation (otherwise known as ice-ages) when ice sheets advance to cover larger areas of the world. There is evidence that the whole planet, include the far north, was at the same sub-tropical climate; for example, mammoths have been found frozen whole in sheets of ice with sub-tropical vegetation undigested in their stomachs--keep in mind that they would have had to have frozen straight through and very quickly and this happened before the invention of any kind of deep-freeze device. Ice core samples in Greenland show that much of the southern inner mainland of Greenland was suitable for farming, raising crops and herds around 800 to 1300 AD, during what is known as the medieval warming period. These are only two examples; there are many others . The glaciers in Alberta's Jasper National Park are receding. I have heard this often cited in the news media as evidence for the severity of global warming. There are also glaciers in the Andes Mountains in South America that are receding. A recent news cast reported the almost overnight disappearance of a large lake in the Andes mountains because of a melting glacier. This was also blamed on global warming. However, if the Earth is emerging from an ice age, it makes sense that glaciers and ice sheets would retreat.
(photo of the Athabasca Glacier, Jasper Nat'l Park)
While I do believe that carbon emissions reduction is beneficial to the environment I also think that the problem is not so much that carbon emissions are causing global warming but that we have built our cities too close to the water. Of course, this is unavoidable. But we've built them on the assumption that the world does not change, that change is bad. In reality, though, I believe the Earth will change and those who do not change with it will be destroyed.
So, before I got married I was told that if I didn't have sex before I got married, I'd have a boring sex life when I got married. Needless to say, I didn't believe it. A few years later I heard the exact same thing from my manager at Top Craft. He was talking about sex and saying that if you don't have sex before you're married, you'll have a terrible and boring and unpleasant sex life when you are married. The third time I heard this was from one of Janelle's fellow students at the Mount. He said that, before Janelle was married, way back when he found out that she wasn't going to have sex until after the wedding, he'd been worried about her, that she would have a terrible sex life with some guy who was no good in bed. (Don't get me wrong, I do believe there are guys who are terrible in bed--it's those selfish ones who are only in it for themselves.) Where do these people get these ideas? They must all read the same magazines.
First of all, how do they know? Everyone who's said this to me has had sex before they were married, so how would they know? Secondly, it's pretty ignorant to think that having sex before you're married improves your sex life after you're married. Either way, you're going to have sex for the first time at one point or another, and you're not going to start out an old pro at it on your first shot! Just like anything else, sex is something you get better at with practice--no matter what the magazines say. I don't know why people unquestioningly believe whatever shows up in those snot rags.
Speaking of "Science by Press Release" ...
If you ask anyone what climate change and global warming is, they'll probably tell you that it's carbon dioxide emissions trapping heat in the atmosphere and causing global temperature increase. Catastrophic consequences of this are the melting of the ice caps and the recession of glaciers resulting in rising sea levels and global flooding. That's why Canada is proposing a carbon tax to encourage industries to reduce their carbon emissions. There are global initiatives, such as the UNFCCC to reduce levels of carbon emissions world-wide. However, there is no proof that carbon dioxide causes climate change.
I think that the whole idea of Global Warming as a catastrophe is based on the assumption that planet Earth has always been a certain way. The Theory of Evolution is based on this same assumption that the Earth is static. But the Earth is not static, it changes and fluctuates. Right this minute we are still in the process of emerging from an ice age. Scientists postulate that the Earth is naturally ice-free, even in the high latitudes--except during periods of glaciation (otherwise known as ice-ages) when ice sheets advance to cover larger areas of the world. There is evidence that the whole planet, include the far north, was at the same sub-tropical climate; for example, mammoths have been found frozen whole in sheets of ice with sub-tropical vegetation undigested in their stomachs--keep in mind that they would have had to have frozen straight through and very quickly and this happened before the invention of any kind of deep-freeze device. Ice core samples in Greenland show that much of the southern inner mainland of Greenland was suitable for farming, raising crops and herds around 800 to 1300 AD, during what is known as the medieval warming period. These are only two examples; there are many others . The glaciers in Alberta's Jasper National Park are receding. I have heard this often cited in the news media as evidence for the severity of global warming. There are also glaciers in the Andes Mountains in South America that are receding. A recent news cast reported the almost overnight disappearance of a large lake in the Andes mountains because of a melting glacier. This was also blamed on global warming. However, if the Earth is emerging from an ice age, it makes sense that glaciers and ice sheets would retreat.
(photo of the Athabasca Glacier, Jasper Nat'l Park)
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