"Dr. Reichs" from Bones - Ashley Jones

Gimli_The_Dwarf · 10 days

I gotcha. I didn't see the that episode until after I posted this. My apologies. Also, I just noticed the name of one of the producers of Bones - the actual show - is none other than one "Kathy Reichs." Incredible episode, by the way. Between Bones, Dexter, and Weeds, the next season needs to start already! :-)

Gimli_The_Dwarf · 16 days

I don't think this person was ever in bones . . . or at least not any type of main or returning character.

SweeneyTodd2012 · 2 months

check out r/atheism. If you can find posts that aren't the same repeated jokes and (well-made, mind you) points debunking theism and religions, you can find some inspirational material. There is a lot of conversation there, if you search enough, that can help someone in your position. The answer isn't trying to find a god or something to pray to. The answer is taking the truth that you know, and making that work. Don't change the facts and your (lack of) beliefs just to make you happy and seek comfort (by coming to a theist source for information on prayer). Instead, look for how you can make your beliefs work for you.

A lot of people on r/atheism used to be religious (and many used to subscribe to the subreddit of their religion). Accordingly, there is a lot of info geared toward those who have recently "deconverted" and are searching for some answers and ways to live happily as an atheist.

You shouldn't search for theistic or religious answers merely because you cannot accept a byproduct of atheism. Instead, find solace in your beliefs (or lack thereof). Once again, I recommend r/atheism.

rupeshjoy852 · 3 months

Heath -- but you can only use this as data for your survey if you provide the results.

I'm a law student, and this is a legal request. If I find out you used it and you don't provide us with the results, I'll sue!

Plus, I would love to know -- as I'm sure the rest of reddit would, too. So, don't use my "heath" as a data point unless you plan to provide an update to this (plus, it's basically guaranteed to be another front page post).

throwaway_159 · 3 months

I hope you get to read this. It may help. Over 650 comments so far, and I figure you have a good bit of sound advice - especially given the top comment here. With that said, I will leave you with a little something that helped me when I was in a similar position a few years ago. It was to a lesser degree, but it may still help.

"The first think you do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging."

Say this to yourself several times a day. Before you do anything -- or before you don't do anything -- anything at all, big, small, whatever, run this through your head. Ask yourself, "Will this dig myself deeper?"

Hope it helps. Best of luck.

scoobydoody · 3 months

Awesome?? That is not the word you're looking for.

Seriously, nothing about this is awesome. Go fuck yourself.

thatawkwardaccount · 3 months

This video is gold. Watch it again, and just try everything it does. Seriously, do it. Any given girl might not like everything on it, but it's almost guaranteed to introduce something that she'll like.

If nothing else, I highly recommend the technique of putting two fingers in and pressing down. "It feels like you're fucking her." Confirmed! My girlfriend absolutely loves it. Granted, it took me a little bit to get it exactly right -- She's really tight, so getting 2 fingers in deep enough takes a little bit of time to work up to. But once I realized that I had to put my fingers in deeper (Just beneath the Cervix is right) . . . well . . . game over.

Addiditionally, lifting up the hood, stretching it upward, wetting a finger, and rubbing right beneath the clit is also a great tip. My g/f can't find this place on her own -- or at least can't get the exact spot I hit -- and she basically tells me, "if you don't feel like teasing me any longer, don't stop that."

This movie is golden, and you can't watch it enough.

plzbecrazythrowaway · 3 months

Very curious about a few things. I'm not just being skeptical. I came here looking for a great story, but I couldn't make it through the first few sentences without saying: "How did this make it to the front page??"

So, with that said, I'm not being an ass, but perhaps I'm just an idiot. I'm trying to figure out the following:

1) "I had a step ladder and I could not get enough leverage to lift it up." What do you mean by "it"? You could not lift a step ladder? You could not lift the attic door? I presume you mean you couldn't reach high enough to open the attic door (which I presume is basically a squared/rectangulared section on the ceiling). So, you "put the box in my extra bedroom." What box? Do you mean your step ladder? You just put your step ladder into your extra bedroom? What significance does this have. Right off the bat, I'm extremely confused at what exactly you're talking about. Granted, you did not claim to be a literary expert, but merely a layman who has had a weird experience. So, I'll continue.

2) "I noticed 3 scuff marks on the wall." Do you mean the ceiling? Or a random wall in the room where the ceiling is? Once again, by "wall" i'm picturing an attic door that is on a wall, rather than a ceiling, which brings me back to #1, wondering what the hell the "leverage" is about. "Finger print on the door below the attic entrance." This is where nothing makes sense. What the hell is a door doing below the entrace? Shouldn't the door BE the entrance? Or, if you meant "wall below the entrance" then this means the attic is imbedded into the wall (as possibly indicated above), but then this brings about the question of leverage. Oh christ on a cracker, This is where I stopped reading (but I'm now going to continue reading because I'm curious. Maybe you'll wrap this up for me). "Dust that had dropped from the attic entrance onto the door that is where the fingerprints were." Seriously, what the fuck is a door doing BELOW an attic entrance. ISN'T THE DOOR THE ENTRANCE? Or is the entrance to the attic as soon as you walk into the building, and you're referring to the door that goes outside the building? Then, I'm asking, is the door that leads to the outside constantly open? And you're talking about dust that drops from the attic door down onto the outside door? IIIII''''MM SOOOOO CONFFFFUUUUSSEEEEDDDDDD

4) House-to-garage doorknob is loose. Couldn't have slammed it, but it was loose. Obviously, either someone's living in your attic, or you need to call Sam and Dean Winchester to get on this. Fuckin' Doorknobs. Seriously, i'm guessing that either you're a troll or this happened around the same time someone broke into your garage because they know the keypad code.

5) Loud noises upstairs. "SLOWLY" found a knife. Oh, way to be fuckign dramatic, you shithead. 1 of 3 scenarios is possible. 1) you're a troll trying to make shit up to get front page - congrats; 2) you actually did this because you actually believe in the supernatural - ergo, you're a dumbass; or 3) you're such a fucking fucktard that you don't believe in the supernatural, but you believe something either went upstairs when you were home, or something breaks into your home for the sole purpose of staying upstairs (which isn't in your attic now, is it? or did you mean your attic this time? You differentiated between "upstairs" and "attic" so now I'm confused -- I thought you couldn' get into your attic, so did you mean you went up to your attic, or you went upstairs (where shit was fallen down). Does this thing live in your attic and periodically go into your bedroom upstairs where your boxes and shit are? You're a fucking idiot.

I didn't lok at your pictures until After I wrote everything I've written above. And now I want to make fun of you even more. What the fuck are you talking about?

Either you made shit up, or someone tried and did break into your home.

This is the shittiest thing I've seen hit front page since I've been on reddit, and that includes Woody Harrelson's AMA (at least I know not to watch his shitty movie now).

MYGODWHATHAVEIDONE · 3 months

As someone born in the 80's: Sees birth date - 1991. Starts doing math.

Grievous-Angel · 3 months

This is ridiculous until you realize that your volume's on mute. Then it's even more-so.

thatsagoodpunchline · 3 months

And that's when I killed that homeless guy.

iamwoodyharrelson · 3 months

Did you know that you will gain more approval on reddit (and more profit as a result) if you answer some ridiculous questions and be cool about this AMA, rather than pluging your movie on reddit like you're on the Tonight Show?

Louis C.K. gained much respect on here by basically giving away his shit for free, by answering ridiculous questions with ridiculous answers, by veering away from the "this is a plug for my money-maker" mindset, and by being generally fucking cool with his fans.

You have two choices on here. Gain a million fans or lose a million fans. There aren't a lot of people who are thinking, "oh, anything Woody Harrelson does, I'm a fan!" Most people, I imagine, are like me. Take-you or leave-you.

Had you been awesome in this AMA, (for example, responded to the top question with something funny, witty, or entertaining), and answered questions that aren't for the sole purpose of promoting your upcoming movie, I and many others would pay for your movie. Bbut instead, I'm going to download it for free when it comes out.

Are there any Bruce Campbell or Zach Braff movies coming out? I'll watch either of those reddit heroes. I will enjoy your movie for free, though.

iamwoodyharrelson · 3 months

Just watched the first episode where he was introduced. I am 5 minutes into the next episode. Seriously. I paused the episode to read this AMA, and I just saw this comment. Perfect.

lawnessd · 3 months

Sure, I can buy this. But I guess this will make me rephrase my point to clarify what I originally meant and what I still mean. talking to god (or believing you're talking to god) cannot affect anything that cannot be explained by any other reason.

I can also say that nothing has ever happened that cannot be explained by anything other than a deity. However this digresses from my main reason why I raised this issue: that there's no point in praying (talking to god).

lawnessd · 3 months

I'm with you on everything you said except "many of the same benefits . . . " Is there a difference? Besides the common illusion that many people believe prayer can be effective (which, if nothing else, dilutes the benefits of the ritual), why not meditate instead of convincing yourself that you're doing that because you're talking to god?

lawnessd · 3 months

Thanks. I wasn't sure what type of reaction I would get from this side of it. But apparently not the worst. Thanks!

lawnessd · 3 months

This seems like a fairly liegitimate assessment. I think there are other contributions as well. Well, there are many many many reasons people pray and/or believe prayer works. But I think one of the big reasons that supplements the reasons you mentioned here -- encouraging people to continue the rituals that were past on from religion to religion -- is that prayer makes a person feel better. It's self-medication, comparable to Buddhist (or other non-theistic meditation.

lawnessd · 3 months

My point still stands, then, that prayer is ineffective.

lawnessd · 3 months

People have prayed for starving children in Africa, but apparently those children are just inherently bad, then. Damn. What can I do to get god to not make the sun so hot there, to grow some more rice there, and for the government to quit being so oppressive and careless about their people. Children die without a chance and without "sin (or something)" so why do they -- the children who were born into a situation out of their control, who know nothing about the christian god -- why do they not have a chance?

lawnessd · 3 months

So do you agree that my suggested final prayer is legitimate? Doesn't it seem better to ignore the prayer nonsense and just do good things? I guess my main point is, why do Christians not just consider this meditation, like Buddhists. If it has no affect on anything else, then just call it meditation, rather than some communication that's not actually occurring. After all, God knows what you'll pray for before YOU do, right? So, knowing this, you can skip that process and either a) Not do the ritual at all, or b) do the ritual, but do it more effectively, knowing that it's not prayer or talking to god --- (because he knows what you're already going to say, and you know he knows, and he knows you know he knows . . . etc., so he knows your intent) --- but look at it as self-meditation to make yourself a calmer, better, more productive person (like Buddhists do).

lawnessd · 3 months

So, god has no opinion about certain things, for whatever reason. Sounds legit to me. He's a busy guy and has greater, more elaborate plans that aren't affected by a football game. Fair enough.

So, we go to options c or d, under #4. Well, I would like to combine c and d, and say that there are certain things that god does not have a will for, and it's left up to humans. Accordingly, how does god rule on the outcome. 1) prayer works 2) prayer doesn't work

1) is it the number of people praying? the denomination? the version of the bible they read? What if it's 5 Jews (one's orthodox), 8 Protestants (3 non-denominations, 3 baptist, and 2 Presbyterian), 5 Catholic (one fondles little boys), and 4 atheists (and they're all straight). VERSUS 10 catholics (7 non-practicing), 5 Protestants (but three live with their girlfriends), and 6 atheists (4 are gay).

Then my question is this: Does any of this have any effect whatsoever on the outcome? What if every member (except the atheists) pray. Does team #1 win because they have more? Or does the one catholic priest who touches little boys lead them to their loss.

OR, does it not matter if anybody prays because it's going to be up to the skill of their players (Brady beating Tebow).

And does it depend on the education, quality, sobriety, effort, intellect, and effort of a surgeon, -- regarding whether someone survives an open heart surgery?

When is prayer effective? And what if there are competing prayers?

lawnessd · 3 months

Well, despite that it's the old testament, I'll bite anyway, saying that God's will was to destroy Sodom. God destroyed Sodom. Abraham pleaded with God and asked that the city be spared. He did not. God's will the entire time was to destroy Sodom. He knew what Abraham would ask. He knew they couldn't find 50, 40, 30, 20, or 10 people who were righteous. Accordingly, he knew the result would be to destroy Sodom. God's will: 1 Abraham's prayer: 0 prayer is ineffective.

As for your second point: Ask with good motives, and you shall receive. People ask with good motives for starvation to cease in Africa, for peace to erupt across nations, for children to be cured of cancer. "Are you submitting to God's will or your own?" This is my question. If my prayer always coincides with god's will, then what's the point of praying? (See my suggested prayer at the end, as the be-all, end-all of one's prayer).

lawnessd · 3 months

Right, this is what I'm saying. "Thanks for all the fish" so to speak. But why waste our time and energy. It's not about our time or energy, with god, but it's about our intent. And I can't think of a better intent than to personally know that you're doing god's will by doing productive things, rather than go to church to listen to some guy talk about how he interprets the bible. After all, there's very little certainty any person can have, when asserting that his/her pastor, priest, or minister that his/her interpretation is correct. Jesus didn't want us to go to a ritualistic building to compare dresses every sunday. He wanted us to be good to one another.

Naturally, being good to one another is something that one could argue church helps you do. But, how much better of a person are you now than you were [x number] of years ago when you started going to church? And has that actually accomplished anything?

The most reasonable conclusion is that prayer is as you (and David) said. Which leads me to believe that my suggested prayer is a pretty decent model for one, as well. Forget prayer, forget church, forget rituals, forget grape juice and crackers, forget the fish, forget homosexual bigotry, forget anti-abortion arguments, forget etc., etc., etc. "Greet one another with a holy kiss," and do some decent things. "Shit" and "Fuck" aren't bad words because they can be used in a funny context, which gives humor, laughter, and happiness to others. And the expensive perfumes, dresses, and jewelry worn does not exemplify anything jesus stood for.

So, I digressed a little, but it goes back to the purpose behind it all, and I just wonder why people go to church, why people pray, why people convince themselves they're doing good deeds and helping, when they're not affecting anything.

"I'll pray for you," my mother said when I went in for surgery." "I'm praying for you," my mother said when I went in for the second surgery, after the doctor butchered the first. "I'll pray for you," my mother said when I went in for knee surgeries 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 on my knees. "I'll pray for you," my mother says around exam time.

If I believed a benevolent deity existed, to whom people could speak and from whom people could get results, I would ask him to ignore the prayers of those who pray for me because only the opposite seems to result.

Okay, so I threw in another distasteful perception, but my point still stands. Why do believers continually interpret the Bible in a way that satisfies them, rather than interpret Jesus' word in the manner it should be interpreted. Christians and other theists should realize that making one's self feel better or more hopeful by praying is probably inconsistent with the religion that person si trying to follow.

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