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UNIX is our god and ASCII is its profit! Think high Tef

Hmm...now...who would play me, huh? There's only one that can imitate my peaks of maddness ... Gary Oldman Hehe Think high Tefkros

Yeah, I always believed in God, and I still pray on the ride to altitude.However,I am not the kind of person that gives God absolute attributes.Sometimes, I think that God is just another name for Thermodynamics or Entropy.I believe in evolution, I am doing my degree thesis in a molecular biology lab, so you'll never hear me say 'things are like this,because God made them this way'.I know a Religion student, and he's never been able to confront any of my arguments(scientific vs religious explanations). However, I still believe in God.I'm getting ready to go to the church actually. Even in the case God is just a mental image, God can exist just because our neurons believe so.Many people think we are atheists or something, just because we respect nature's perfection so much, that we won't simply accept the explanation 'God made it this way'.No, we spend countless hours in labs trying to discover all that perfection, we spend a few hours skydiving or enjoying nature, and just because we are not in church instead, 'believers' will condemn us. Jumping didn't change much in my beliefs...I still believe in God...whatever God might be. Anyway...it's good to know / believe that if you fail , and your CYPRES fails as well, you may still have a backup (this belief might give you enough milliseconds of 'enlightenment' to just pull your reserve). Don't know if I make sense... Oh... A quick question for Creationists : What were carnivorous animals eating when they where in Noah's Ark? I hope I didn't offend anyone... Blue skies and...keep the faith Tefkros

I've been in a commercial flight today, coming from Greece to Cyprus.Anyway, I met some army guys that I knew when I was in the army...they had been there for freefall training.The military system here begins with a LOT of jumps just falling, no turns or anything.So, being the 29 jump wonder that still owes AFF 7, I began telling them about turns, about the importance of tracking , tips to land better etc...But they were just too provocative!I mean, ok, they were trained for 3 weeks before they dropped them solo in freefall, but hey, at least they should admit that these 3 weeks didn't even teach them to track away from something !Anyway, the thing got a bit funny with them saying that I should shut up because I have 29 jumps and they have 50 (out of which 30 S/L with rounds).At the end I got angry because I was explaining to one (a rational one) a two stage flare, while the other all of a sudden just popped and said 'When are you jumping?'I said 'tomorrow'.And he says 'You will have a malfunction!'.I say 'OK, so I cutaway and pull the reserve'. 'Yeah, yeah, you'll pull the reserve...you'll have TOTAL malfunction...A STREAMER' And I say 'A streamer is not a total malfunction' Anyway, the babbling was going on and on, just because I was tryint to prove that 3 weeks of ground training didn't give them any more canopy skills...and I hate being talked at like this by people with a whopping of 30-something square canopy jumps. Anyway, the most irritating of the three (claimed to have 4 malfunctions in 30 jumps who after a bit questioning they were jusrt snivels...not cutaways) got EXTREMELY mad for me trying to equalise my AFF with their 3 week training...and he left!Unbelieveable, a 30 year old man behaving like a baby because a 23-year old prick(me) pissed him off! The other two tried to explain me I shouldn't be that 'passionate', but hey, all I was saying was with a sense of humour, I bet any of us would be laughing like crazy if we had the same conversation... So, I just boarded the plane angry...and I just told them 'bye' after passport check in Cyprus...two the two of them...the third didn't show up. Has any of you found such arrogant behavior in people with so little jumps?I mean they were saying I know shit, and I said 'I know that, but I guess you know a lot less(justifiably, that's how their training is, they are not into RW yet)... PLUS, the guys cursing about me having a malfunction made me nervous... Oh well... Just wanted to share...I guess the military skydivers in the US or UK are much more 'sport-oriented'... Think high Tefkros

Thanx guys and gals,really really appreciate all the replies! It's so good to be back in the forums. I feel much better anyway now, 12.5 hours of sleep can make miracles.Alcohol actually has a reverse effect on me, making me depressed instead of happy!Weird, huh:) It's great to have around people like you! Have to run to the lab now (not exactly charity work)and try to do some 'research'. And probably I'll jump again in something like 9 days, so just let depression have its final moments...hehehe Think high Tefkros

Oh well... I'm probably drunk, so feel free to ignore this... I'm fucking depressed again... So what if I skydive and love it...I'm still scared shitless of socializing...can't talk to anyone,and chicks are out of the question...so I just loose every girl of my life...it's just me and the sky forever...forever is a long time though... Damn... I'm so sick of me! Why can't I get that fear out of me?Having noone to care for really sux! Whatever I'm sorry Bluez Tefkros