This is sort of a goofy thread but I don't think that God has a gender. You can't base his gender on the Bible because back when the Bible was composed by men it was their belief that only men could accomplish meaningful things. The only thing a woman was good for was to give birth. And if you look at it that way giving birth is closer to godlyness than anything a man has accomplished so far.
Anyways I think that God is both man and woman or something completely different.

I don't know what to say to this other than we don't always make a knowing choice as to who be love. We love that person for their good parts and their not so great parts but as long as you are really in love and there is more good than bad then I see why a woman will stay with someone. We have this totally wrong idea in our heads that if only we hang in there a little longer we can make a guy change. And that never works. I have learned that if you truly love someone it doesn't matter as long as they love you too. My whole heart is filled with love for my boyfriend and no one else and he loves me. He is a great guy but all couples fight over stupid things. As long as he doesn't cheat on me or hit me I want to spend the rest of my life with him.
My sister's husband used to hit her and I never understood why she stayed. Not only was she getting hurt but her kids were watching this happen. I guess she was just scared of being alone with 3 kids. She figured his abuse was better than being alone.
It all depends on the person I guess and the situation.

I have not had a ton of experience in this area but I would say that the most important thing is that I trust that person with anything. I can tell when I first meet someone whether I will be able to trust them or not. I don't trust many people, really only one person. We found each other and I am never letting go.

My best quality is my worst quality. I am a very very nice person and always care about what others think and feel. I am always trying to make them happy. As I am sure that you can see this gets me into a lot of trouble because I end up letting people walk all over me. I always feel taken advantage of but I still really like making others smile and be happy.

Another bad quality that I have is best discribed when thinking of Sakura's inner personality. I many times feel and think things that I never say out loud. I am always afraid I am going to lose it and blurt out everything I am really thinking.

We all go through different things as we mature and our emotions many times can be very confusing and difficult to deal with. I remember that as well especially when it came to boys. I grew up as a tom boy and never thought any more of boys then just friends. Then I hit middle school and high school and found myself caring more for boys then just friends. Plus with hormones kicking in I was an emotional basket case. The older that you get the easier it is again to regain control. I am sorry to say that unless you have certain medical conditions you will never be rid of your emotions. But they will be less intense and you will be able to rationalize them more. Right now you are just feeling everything in its original raw form. As you get older and gain more experience it will be easier. I still have days though where I could scream one minute and cry the next. I blame it on PMS.

The people that shouldn't be drinking are the ones that go out purposefully with the intent of getting completely wasted. Drinking with friends can be fun and having a slight buzz after a long day can be nice but you have to know your limits and respect them. Everyone at some point in time in their lives is going to be stupid and drink way to much. But that is where you have to learn from your mistake and know that next time you stop at 4 instead of 8. I have been there, I have been foolish, and been so sick I thought I was going to die. I almost did. The thing I hate the most about people drinking is when they drive because they are not only putting themselves at risk but innocent people as well. I saw a car accident the one time that was so horrible it still makes me sick thinking about it. And it was caused by a teenage girl driving drunk. The mother of three children, that were in the car with her, died.
I don't want to be preachy because then no one listens. It is not just young people that drink and drive. Full grown mature adults do it too. They think they can still drive even though they have drank too much. They don't realize that their reaction time has been drastically reduced.
Please be careful and use good judgement.

I think that it is important to be yourself and not try to act different because you are worried about what others will think. But if you are talking about individualism where actions are concerned I think that you need to think of others before yourself. Today's society is so wrapped up in self that families are falling apart and no one helps there neighbors anymore. We have this really elderly lady that lives next door to us and when it snows I am the only one out there helping her. Before I moved in she did it all by herself. This makes me so angry because everyone on our street but us have a snow blower. It would only take them a second to clear her walk but no they do their own and go inside. What is wrong with people? The elderly are the reason why we are here and have the things we do today and they deserve respect and appreciation.
Families fall apart because the husband and wife become selfish and just decide the can't handle it anymore. But do they even try to get along? What about marriage counciling? They don't even try anymore.
Sorry for the rant but come on people!

I couldn't believe it. I was sitting watching the Soup last night on E! and there was this bulletin going across the bottom saying Heath died and I thought it was a joke until I checked my computer. I am completely shocked! He was such an awesome actor and it is just so hard to believe he is gone. I feel so badly for his family and daughter. I can't imagine what they are all going through right now not knowing if it was on purpose or by accident. My prayers are with them. Heath will be missed by so many people. I was so excited about his role in the new Batman movie and now it is going to be so sad to watch.

I think that one of the main issues today is that people are getting married before even getting to truely know one another. Also it has become acceptable for people to just completely abandon their families and start a whole new one. It is becoming more and more common today to hear of men being the ones to take care of the children because the wife has run off to be with someone else or to explore what is out there. When I become a mother there is no way that anything is going to seperate me from my child. Marriage is something that is supposed to last forever and I think that today it isn't taken seriously enough. It is too easy and too socially accepted for people to get divorces.

PS: To the user above me XRW175P6MQ4, I hope you are joking cause if you aren't I pray for the person you marry.

I can find crowds intinmidating sometimes. I am legally blind and have a guide dog so I tend to attract a lot of unwanted attention because people are so surprised to see a dog walking through the mall or a store. I still have some vision so I can see them pointing and it used to bother me but now it just pisses me off. People will start talking to my dog and distract her from guiding me or they will try to pet her without asking. I am a fairly new guide dog user so I am not fully used to it but I wish people would give me the courtesy of not being rude and stareing. I am just trying to go shopping and enjoy myself and I can't do that with people pointing and yelling across the store at me "Oh how look at the pretty doggie!"
Sorry for ranting but if you see a guide dog user be nice and don't make them feel like a freak by making a fuss. Show interest in the person before you ask about their dog.
Thanks everyone!

I understand that many people are hardcore fans and refuse to watch anime in english but there are some of us who want to relax and just watch a show without having to read a book along with it. And is anime really that expensive? There are websites out there like deepdiscount.com that sell volumes for $15-$18. Plus all the anime sites are always having specials and now even Best Buy is selling anime pretty cheaply compared to more retail stores. And now that the distributors have started to make thin packs and box sets it isn't that expensive. I have over 50 different complete series and my collection is growing. I don't want to have to worry about my computer crashing and losing everything. I understand that for the younger generation who do not have jobs the price can be harsh but there are ways around that. When I was in high school and couldn't afford to buy all I wanted my friends and I had an anime club where every weekend we would get together and watch anime and we would all share our anime so that we all got to see a ton more than we would have solo.
Advertising is everything. But it would not be cost effective to just advertise anywhere. If you are an anime fan then the sites you go to for anime related reasons you will find lots of banners and ads.
Culturally I think that we should work on getting more people interested in anime. It is not something that you can just expect people to pick up. It is something that should be explained and show ther person examples. I used to think that anime was just weird until I had a friend have me watch Chobits and I was hooked. Get out there and encourage people to join in on the fun!

It is ok for a guy to be jealous. Everyone feels jealousy at some point in a relationship. The thing that bothers me about it is that if a guy is jealous he is just being protective but if a girl is jealous then she is a controling bitch. It shouldn't be like that. We feel the same kind of jealousy and just want to protect the relationship we charish the most. No be it that there are extremes out there so I am not refering to them.

I think that everyone feels stress. Although throughout your life you will feel it more so than others. It all depends on how you deal with it. If you get all stressed and uptight about something than it is going to take a huge toll on you. But if you just try to take things one at a time then it isn't as bad. I am a big picture person and spent much of my life stressed over things that I could not change or control. Then I learned to just take things apart and work on one little piece at a time. You feel much more in control and confident and things don't seem so bad.

To me this all sounds kind of scary. I refuse to watch fansubs which in some instances leaves me out of a lot so I depend of the US anime companies to pull through and deliver legal copyrighted DVDs. I am shocked that Newtype is going out but the magazine is really really expensive so a cheaper version might be better. Newtype has such great detail, pictures, and extras so I am just hoping that those qualities will carry over to the next mag. I wonder if someone will take over Geneon's distributions or if the anime that they have liscensed will no longer be sold?

Everyone deserves to be with someone even if they have a child with someone else. I don't see why it would be a problem. But you have to realize that you are taking on not just this guy but you will have to be a good female role model to his child. I am not saying that you will have to be their mom, but you have to remember that they might to start to look at you that way and are you ready for that. Is this guy still involved with the mother of the child? If he is then you should stay clear till everything is completely over with him.
Well good luck and just remember to think over things carefully before jumping in!

I understand what you are saying but there could be things in your life that really are making a difference. You don't have to be out saving the world to make a difference. Just making someone you know smile in a days time makes a difference and sometimes a bigger difference than you could ever imagine. For me one little email from an old friend completely changed my life for the better. Sitting at home playing games is fun and it can be a great way to escape and relax but if you don't put yourself out there around others then you are just in your own little world and you start to feel like there is not purpose. Everyone's purpose lays in the hand of someone else. Just think of all the people you could be making a difference to. My childhood doctor, who I cared about very much and saved my life many times, said that when you do something good for someone else it not only helps them but it also helps you earn "tickets into heaven". This was the response that he gave me after I asked him why he helped me so many times. He had just paid for a scholarship for me to go to a private school. He was such a wise man and because of him I met some of the greatest people in my life. I will wrap it up now. Every once and a while get yourself out of that computer chair and go earn some tickets to heaven! :-)

Well, I would have to choose my eyes since I have an eye disease that is causing me to go blind. Not even new eyes would stop it though. If you are looking for a more shallow response then I would have to say body type. I am really short and my family refers to our shape as stumpy. It sucks. I want to be one of those naturally thin average height girls. I have a friend who has the perfect body and the coolest cat looking eyes ever. I wish we could switch.

I think that you totally can be best friends with a guy and still just me friends. But if you find that there is one guy that you trust with everything and you feel you can be totally open with them. Then you notice that you start to think about him more and more you are probably falling in love. Many successful relationships started out with just being good friends. The only hard part is finding out if that person feels for you more than a friend. It is always pretty messy and confusing but you will know if you want to be more than friends with a friend.

My first kiss was when I was 13 on Easter. My family went camping with my boyfriends family and it was freezing. Me and a bunch of other kids were out in the woods and we were playing truth or dared and my boyfriends cousin dared him to kiss me. It wasn't how I would have wanted it with all those other people watching but I am remember feeling so nervous I was going to get sick. Thankfully I didn't and everything worked out well. On the last day of our vacation he told me that his family were moving to North Carolina and I wouldn't see him again. It sucked.

Thats easy! ANIME!

I would have to say that my favorite thing to wear are comfy clothes or PJs. Of course I don't like people seeing me like that. I would say that my sense of style is casual with a flare of color. I love wearing bright colors.

I would have to say it was Baka the word for stupid. I learned from watching Ikkitousen in Japanese and they say that would like a million times.

Having experienced an abnormally large amount of both kinds of pain in my life I would have to say emotional pain is worse. Physical pain is temporary where as emotional pain you will carry around with you your entire life and the pain doesn't get that much better as time passes. You can still experience the same amount of pain that you felt the day the emotional pain happened.

It has always been easy for me to forget things but when it bites me in the ass is when I sleep. Everything that I don't want to think about while I am awake comes out in twisted ways in my dreams.