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japanese waterfall wallpaper

japanese waterfall wallpaper 1600×1200. i didn’t realize how popular this post and picture would become. seeing how many different monitor sizes there are now both regular and widescreen i thought i’d add a version big enough so that just about everyone should be able to resize or crop to fit their monitor.

They labeled this Best Joke of the Night,

Ellen DeGeneres opened this year’s Academy Awards ceremony by celebrating its newfound diversity, and she pointed to the bigoted rants of Michael Richards, Mel Gibson and Tim Hardaway: “If there weren’t blacks, Jews and gays, there would be no Oscars … or anyone named Oscar, when you think about it.”

I’d say it was a tie with Jerry Seinfeld,

When Jerry Seinfeld presented best documentary — referring to the five “incredibly depressing” nominees — he instantly made you wish he was hanging around a little longer

The documentaries are important, but they are like spinach most of the time we watch them because we they’re good for us not because we enjoy them.

Religion, Drugs Similarily Affect Brain

Some squirm at the notion that drug experiences are on the same level of “true” religious experiences. If manifestations of religious or spiritual experiences are simply the result of firing synapses in the brain, it would severely undercut the idea of an objective existence of “God.” Dr. Andrew Newberg, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has pioneered neuroimaging techniques of both believers and non-believers alike.

He found certain areas in the temporal lobe were excited during prayer or meditation, this is where the brain rates the significance of events which are then strongly internalized.

I’m not fond of Frederick Niche, but it appears that there is some literal truth in his statement that religion is the “opiate of the masses”.