BTW I love your avatar...best "doppelganger"-type on here, Senor Quixote!!

Guess that makes you a rather nice person. After commenting, I've given it a bit more thought (I know it should be the other way round :D). I don't tend to insult people when I'm really angry, but that doesn't mean that I don't react at all. It's ranging from simply ignoring people to looking down on them (and acting accordingly) and I wonder if that isn't actually worse... I guess it depends on how much meaning you assign to certain words, e.g. I was surprised that most of the examples given on the thread are insults based on looks (btw: such a 'happy' topic, I should stop thinking about it.)

The said "speculation" was one of the reasons why I abandoned Christianity.

I don't want to go arguing about the credibility of the Bible as reading it and embracing what is written, is a matter of subjectivity.

Re plane: It added some meaning to life if we believe and hold into something. And faith is what it is. Esp if we are talking about salvation, redemption and glorification.

No ... I don't want to make myself rely on that thing. Of course, it's another thing like resize, cropping, change colour tone, etc.

Hmm I never used aperture that small. I'm still getting used to the aperture priority mode and haven't got to the manual mode yet ... The smallest aperture I've ever used is around f6.5. This could be the source of my problem ...
But I always take photos of flowers, small stuff, this and that. Could be why I constantly used large aperture to get the desired depth.
Hmm interesting. It's cloudy for a week and I need to wait for a sunny day to test your rule. Thanks.

I struggled between those EVIL and DSLR before I bought one. Then I am really satisfied by the fast response of DSLR. So albeit being a little bulky (600D is pretty light though), I decided to buy DSLR instead of EVIL.

I have to get used to the viewfinder though. I have to guess the degree of exposure ...

You know, on topic like these, unless everyone is willing to consider everything from every perspective - and culturally it's sometimes impossible + obviously no one even the INTJiest is willing, or able, to 100% do that - then you go: "yeah, what's the point in even discussing this"...Like anything political...pointless. Which is somehow sad. But it's ok too. It's not like giving out an opinion online is gonna change anything. Real life is the true shit.

I've just started. I have bought Canon EOS 600D. Such a joy.

You're right - I responded there as such. It's a big topic, and too serious for my taste though.

Since I see your post in Photography, I think you don't mind if I ask you here about photography? Is that taken by you?

I share the same view, but to openly say so will risk making ad hominem and is not conducive to discussion as well ...
:sigh: PM for more that I cannot say here openly ...

This is bad. When it was the time people like you and hubcap were active and Monte's not being cold to the never-reading atheists, I learned a lot from the R&M subforum. But I understand what you were saying there — I feel it myself.

Greetings 'Angel of Light' - Just dropped by to say hello and to chat. BTW, your avatar is very unique, a cross between Salvador Dali and Don Quixote. That's what it reminds me of, hahaha.

I don't believe INTJs have "low expectation" in their books. lol
Well although we can always trying to lower temporarily... You know the ultimate goal is never ordinary nor "low" for us.

Thank you for the recommendation. I'll do that.

You mean Alicia Stallings? I like her poem Fear of Happiness. Particularly...

But it isn’t the unfathomable fall
That makes me giddy, makes my stomach lurch,
It’s that the ledge itself invents the leap.

It's not unfortunate to be a formalist or a traditionalist. I proudly wear both labels. It's just that when it comes to the traditionalism I am for celebrating tradition without being against formal variations and innovations. I love Petrarch's sonnets, for example, but also love the variations introduced by Shakespeare, Pushkin, Yeats, Auden, and Merrill. And of course with online games I'm all for having a little fun.

Not a problem! Some of the entries start, in effect, with imaginary ellipses, as if they were parts of thoughts caught in midstream.

Yes. I had to conjure up an imaginary neither underneath the text (a netherneither?) to feel right about it.

Was just teasin'
...*pinch*