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Where abouts are you in the video?

http://omg.yahoo.com/news/adam-lambert-on-amas-censored-performance-thats-discrimination/31666?nc No really!?! A lot of mainstream media sucks anyway. However it's upsetting that these kind of things still happen to homosexual males. Seriously it's 2009 and yet it's still ok by law to fire someone for being gay. I can't say I'm a big fan of Adam Lambert, because I haven't even heard of him until yesterday, so I can't even say wheither he is good or bad. I kept hearing about this and I finally decided to read it. Quite frankly if he wants to kiss another guy then good for him, I honestly have no problem with it. If any one wants to kiss anyone be it a guy kissing a girl, a girl kissing a guy, a girl kissing a girl or a guy kissing a guy that's fine with me. It's honestly none of my business, and honestly if your a grown ass adult and still not over your homophobia then you should be ashamed of yourself. http://images.cafepress.com/image/6808494_400x400.jpg

Some Calesthenics as a warm up: Resistance Band Shoulder Press: 1x12 Regular Pushups 1x31 Chin Up: 1x7 Body Weight Squat: 1x30 Hung Gar Kicking Drill: 1x14 Weight Training: Arnold Dumbell Press: 30lbs 1x8 Cable Pulldown: 100lbs 1x12 Pectoral Fly/Rear Deltoid: 90lbs 1x12 (PectoralFly); 70lbs (Rear Deltoid) 1x8 Leg Press: 190lbs 1x10 Hip Ab/Adduction: 105lbs 1x12 both Ab/Adduction Transverse Vaccum: 60seconds Ab Machine: 75lbs 1x12 Back Extension: 120lbs 1x12 Side Bends: BW 1x12 each side Plate Neck Extension/Flexion: forgot to do Dumbell Shrug: forgot to do Stretching as a cooldown Today I partook in M.A.R.C's protest against KFC. I'm pretty sure you all know what KFC does to chickens by now. If not check out this site, http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/. One of the members said that they had a moment to talk with Robert Cheeke at the Vegetarian Food Festival back at the beggining of the month. I wish I had the apportunity to meet him. Unfortunatly I couldn't make it to the festival. But at least after the protest we all went to Piece o' Pie (a vegan pizzeia). They even now offer whole wheat crust, and gluten free crust for those with allergies.

People like that have no shame and no honor, as well as very little to no inteligence.

I hope that wasn't a serious remark about Sweden.

Fred Phelps and the Westboro Bapist Church are the scum of the earth. They don't just hate gays. They also hate jews, irish, swedish and even americans. They preach anti gay messages across the country. They even refered to such things as hurricane katrina and the 9/11 attacks as "God's punishment for america's tolerance of gays." Out of all people Michael Moore put that scumbag of a preacher Fred Phelps and the tyranny of the Westboro Bapist Church in their place. I know this video is old news, but I think it's great to see scum like Fred Phelps and his followers get whats coming to them.

Not only that, but check out Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Albert Einstein, Ludwig von Beethoven, and even Socrates. Of course they are only speculated to have Aspergers.

Yea, no problem. Mine's a more high functioning autism. It makes it harder because other people can not actually see what's wrong with me because it's not as noticable.

I'm really curious to see iof anyone knows about Autism on this forum? As you may or may not know it is a complex neurological disorder of unknown cause. I have lived with Aspergers Syndrome my whole life and have not known about it until my 21st birthday. Aspergers is a mild form of Aspergers and the notion of Aspergers did not become known until 1994. I don't deny that I have it, but at the same time I don't let it keep me from doing my every day thing. Also as I mentioned to some of you before, it does not go away, and in the words iof Robert Cutler, "I want you to know we love, have emotions and even cry." Also "If you don't understand a child with autism, call someone with autism in. We live autism everyday." Basically it's not something you can't negotiate with and it's not something you can reason with neither. Sometimes it's a living hell, other times it's not. But for those of you who have been telling me to "grow a pair" and "stop using Aspergers as a crutch," you should be ashamed of yourselves. I know that if any of you, you know who you are, had Aspergers or Autism you would be crying your eyes out. It's one thing to sympathize and understand, but can you actually empathize? Meaning do you know what it's like to have sensory overload? Do you know what it's like to struggle throughout high school without naturally having knowledge of interpersonal communication like other people who are not on the spectrum? Even if any of you have children, friends, family, domestic partners, etc with autism and aspergers you still are clueless. You meet one person with autism, you meet one person with autism. And as the man says in this video says the real question is not, do you know what it's like to be the parent of a child with autism? The real question is do you know what it's like to be an autistic child: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edlGozkw6PU For those of you who don't know anything about Aspergers Syndrome here's what I feel is a great article about some basic information of Aspergers Syndrome. http://aane.org/about_asperger_syndrome/what_is_asperger_syndrome.html

Things are really hard for me right now psychologically. It's like I live in a world where everyone has no soul and no emotions. Everyone is way too happy. It's like we live in the Soviet Union or some other Totalitarian society. It's like what ever happened to empathy, what ever happened to real support and what ever happened to morality. In Asatru we say the "we believe that morality does not depend on commandments, but rather arises from the dignity and honor of the noble minded man and woman." In other words you should do good because you want to do good, not because you feel you have to. Yet people don't want to do good, because they don't know how to do good. And they don't want to know how to do good, because they fear good. That's why I've been saying a lot latly that while others fear the darkness, there are those who fear the light. My anxiety is through the roof and it's not as simple as saying "just deal with it or "grow a pair." In fact to those of you who tell me these things and claim your here to support me, I have this to say, get yourself a heart. To what extent are you going to take this "survival of the fittest" attitude? Have any of you have a soul or are you just a bunch of egotistic robots? When you see someone crying you automatically assume they are weak. You call them a "baby." Now I really don't like it when people say that as a synonym for immature or being weak. I know I'm one to talk, but people who justify taking something as innocent as a baby, and making it into an offensive term, are cowards. A baby is innocent and pure. In Asatru we don't believe in the idea of orginal sin, the idea that we are neccasarily born evil. I believe that no one is born evil. The ideas of good and evil are complex. Instead of dictating what's right and what's wrong we should use our freedom, responsibility, and awareness of duty to serve the highest and best ends.

well said and +1 Well I disagree, but I respect your opinion.

I think I missed where she made fun of anyone. I interpret crazy in that context to mean "extremely." I highly doubt Charlize Theron was trying to be politically correct, when she said crazy.

Of course, but just because someone has, an offical diagnosis of OCD it doesn't make them a bad person. Charlize Theron acts like it's a bad thing to be someone with OCD. It's a struglle and a challenge yes. I know first hand living with Aspergers that it does not go away. It can be dealt with. It's a neurological disorder and the neurological system, and the brain for that matter, is not the persons soul (or "whole being" for those of you who are non religious or atheist). It is a part of the body and like any other part of the body it too has it's malfunctions and advantages, as well as disavantages, just like the liver, the intestines, the legs and etc. So when you make fun of those who struggle neurologically you might as well be making fun of those who are paraplegic. Or to be more politically correct I should say mobility impared (I hope that's right). It's simply not only an act of ignorance, but cowardness as well.

You're insulted because she said "crazy OCD" and you think using the term bimbo is acceptable? I don't see how anything she said motivates losing all respect for her. It's not a good thing to be a bimbo and further more OCD, and any other neurological behavior disorder doesn't go away, no matter who says it. It can be treated and dealt with in so that levels such as anxiety and depression aren't as bad, but they do not go away. As I said before, as someone who has Aspergers I too have obbsessive traits that can lead to high levels of anxiety and depression. I have certainly got much better at it, but it is most certainly not fun to have. By saying "I'm not crazy OCD," Charlize Theron said it in a way of a joke. Let me tell you first hand Aspergers, Autism, OCD, Parkinsons, Tourettes and any other neurological disorder are no laughing matter. Even if Charlize Theron actually has OCD she still should be ashamed of herself for saying that.

Charlize Theron was in the movie "Hancock" with Will Smith. Even if wasn't "a jab at people with OCD" she should still, like you said, "think a bit more before she speaks." The nudity doesn't bother me at all. What bothers me is the actors, actresses, models and etc who partake in the campaign. The reason being because most of them really don't give a flying fuck about the cause. They just want to claim they're doing something good because they do ego gymnastics to convince themselves they're great people when really they're douchebags.

The occurrence of sexual abuse and harassment (including domestic violence or crimes) among men is actually a bit higher than is thought. Unfortunately it often goes unreported because doing so would not be seen as "the manly way" to behave. which is a damn shame! As far as Peta's campaigns. I think their stupid anyhow. they tend to use people who, besides fur, don't really give a crap about the movement. Celebrities, for an example, who I'm more than sure wear silk gowns or ties and leather shoes... I consider myself a feminist (but I think it is important to fight for the rights of both genders!). But I don't really have that much against these campaigns. I think there are bigger things to fight about. you need to pick your battles, you know? I'd rather just roll my eyes at any peta campaign. Well said. I actually made a thread regarding Male domestic abuse viewtopic.php?f=25&t=18611 and the double standards between male and female sexual harrassment viewtopic.php?f=25&t=18543. I agree with you when you say "they tend to use people who, besides fur, don't really give a crap about the movement." Charlize Theron is one of those people. She has this reputation of her being this "hot" and "sexy" actress in hollywood. I'll admit she played an awesome role in "Mighty Joe Young," but when I saw her in an interview on Conan O'Brien I lost all respect for her. Conan was talking to her about how everyone sees her as the perfect woman. She said that she disagreed. She says she has this obssesive personality and in her own words she said, "I'm not crazy OCD though." As someone who has lived with Aspergers his whole life, I know what it's like to live with obssesive traits, and high levels of anxiety, that are similar to OCD. So to get back on subject of the subject of PETA and sexism. Women like Charlize Theron try to put on a mask of false pride and glory by convincing themselves they're great people when really they're ignorant bimbos. They claim that they are "doing things for a good cause," when really they could absolutly care less. That's what I think is the real problem is and not the whole thing about nudity and showing the human body. I think honestly it would work better if both genders of all different shapes and sizes participated in the campaign. That way it wouldn't seem so sexist. I know I would much rather be naked than wear fur

Did some cardio in the AM and Stretching later on. During my cardio session, I did a HIIT session by running in my neighborhood. Which involves me wearing ankle and wrist weights, while running up a big set of stairs. Unfortunatly I ran into some trouble when some chavs who were sitting on steps started to make smart ass remarks. My second time going up they were laughing when I cut threw them to go up the stairs. They started making smart ass remarks regarding how I looked in spandex using words like "faggot" and what not. I yelled out, "whatever you fucking chavs." I knew then it probably wasn't the right idea to start that with them because their was like 10 or 15 of them and 1 of me. But I wasn't going to stop, I was determinned to keep going and run by them anyways. I'm not letting a bunch chavs make me live in fear. Just to be careful I took off my headphones my last time going up the set of stairs. One of them asked me, "do you like poo?" I asked myself, "what kind of ridiculous question is that?" Then I said to them the first thing that came to my mind, and it wasn't the most mature thing. I said, "I like your mom." They were all like "OOOHHH," "YEEAAA," "What, what" and all these other goofball things. I once again yeeled out yea whatever you fucking chavs there's like 15 of you and 1 of me your real tough. One of them said, "yea keep running!" I said as a quick and not so nice response, "at least I can make it up the stairs you lazy fuck." I'm not going to doing HIIT around my neighborhood and those stairs. Although I put up with a lot, with living in South Boston, I can only take so much. I'm not letting those chavs scare me, but hopefully it won't come to anything too harsh or violent. May the gods be at my side. I also had a dentist appointment, and an appoint with my neuro psychiatrist. So that got in the way of plans today. You have to understand something about people with Aspergers. We don't like sudden changes in our regular everyday thing. When the changes occur that causes a lot of anxiety. Along with hyper sensetive hearing, smelling, touch and other senses that too can increase anxiety. Unfortunatly Aspergers/Autism does not go away. However it can be dealt with. So in order to relieve anxiety some people with Aspergers stick to a certain thing. Often times this is confused for OCD. Although some can have Aspergers/Autism and OCD they are seperate things.

I have to agree with you to some degree. For starters I don't like how some PETA members say, "you can't name your team "The Tigers" because it's offensive towards tigers." Whenever I hear those kind of ridiculous comments, I always keep in mind songs like "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor, or "Huginn (thought) and Muninn (memory)," the two ravens from Asatru/Norse Mythology. So therefore it's a way of honoring them like saying, your as "strong as an ox" or "your as nimble as a cat." What sucks is when people say, "your an animal, you belong in a zoo," or the ever popular "your as dumb as a turkey." In regards to feminism, since I'm a guy who's also vegan, I can't say too many negative things about feminism. Do I believe women are mistreated in our society? Yes, I would hope everyone hear would believe that, however men are mistreated just as much. Still two wrongs don't make a right, but what I don't like is when people become too politically correct about things. Especially in the article where it showed the billboard, "Save the whales. Lose the Blubber, go vegetarian." I know that's something that's really controversal, but people need to stop being such wimps. Although those who are overweight/obese are what we call "fat," and as someone who was once overweight, I know first hand how hard it is to loose weight and keep it off for that matter. When it comes to weight loss/reducing body fat, it's more complex than simply eating less and exercising more. However some people go too far with glorifying being overweight/obese. I hope someone understands what I mean by that?

I briefly skimmed threw this article and found it....well interesting. The reason I read this is because my friend is a feminist herself, and we had an interesting conversation with each other about feminists and animal rights. http://www.feministing.com/cgi-bin/movabletype/mt-search.fcgi?search=PETA&IncludeBlogs=2&limit=20

Some Calesthenics as a warm up: Handstand Push Up 1x6 Regular Pushups 1x30 BodyWeight Row 1x10 Isometric Hung Gar Stance: 2 minutes Hung Gar Kicking Drill: 1x14 Weight Training: Arnold Dumbell Press: 30lbs 1x8 Cable Pulldown: 100lbs 1x12 Pectoral Fly/Rear Deltoid: 90lbs 1x12 (PectoralFly); 70lbs (Rear Deltoid) 1x6 Leg Press: 190lbs 1x10 Hip Ab/Adduction: 105lbs 1x12 both Ab/Adduction Transverse Vaccum: 60seconds Ab Machine: 75lbs 1x12 Back Extension: 115lbs 1x12 Side Bends: BW 1x12 each side Plate Neck Extension/Flexion: 10lbs 1x12 Stretching as a cooldown

Cardio in the AM and some parkour/martial arts practice. Yea today I tried doing some parkour practice after stretching in the gym. I signed out to go for a run at the front desk at the gym (from which I ussually go do some parkour at the playground near my gym) However this time it was packed with kids. I thought that their wouldn't be any kids there with their parents. However that was a mistake on my part so after attempting to do some parkour practice I decided to stop. The reason being simply because I did not want to attract any unwanted attention by the parents and what not who were with their kids. Heaven for bid anything happened to those kids after "reenacting my behavior," or some other ridiculous reason, I'd be held responsible. So what I did was went back to the gym and did some minor plyometric type training, along with hitting the bag and practicing some kicks and soft chi actions. It was hard for me to focus after what happened yesterday during class. I was so angry and clouded with anger that I almost made my fists bleed. Somewhere along the line while hitting the bag o out of control I realized one important thing about Hung Gar. You see Hung Gar is often refered to as "Tiger Crane." Hard as a tiger soft as a crane. Sort of like a ying and yang view of it. Anyways I was at that moment focussing too much on the tiger and not enough on the crane. It is important to have both. At that moment I relaxed my shoulders and continued punching and punching and punching. My knuckles were beat red. I only wish I had brought my hand wrap if I was going to be hitting that hard. Although we learn about conditioning in Hung Gar, we must do it in control. I sat down with my legs crossed on the floor while trying to maintain good posture, and then an important truth came to me. I was thinking too much of what that dumb bimbo said in school. I was thinking and acting no better than she was. I that attempted to do some soft chi exercises afterwards with some success to cool me down. After showering and meeting with my friend Shoe, to discuss a spoken word offering I would be giving at a World AIDS day vigil, I realized to humble myself. Although it was terrible what happened with that ignorant bimbo, I can't let it get to me too much. Although it's important to stand my ground and face my problems head on. I have to do it in a way that doesn't allow me to loose myself, my courage and my honor. As someone who is Asatru we have a saying, "we don't need salvation, all we need is the freedom to face our destiny with courage and honor." Also just like the Japanese proverb states, "fall down 7 times, stand up 8." Although you strive to win, it doesn't mean you'll win everytime. When you do loose, it doesn't mean you should give up. It means you should carry on despite all the chaos and all the sadness. I had a long philosophical and somewhat political conversation with my friend Shoe. I really honor him, because he works hard not only as an artist, but as a Super of an entire building. "Wheither we fear we do too much or not enough, we keep trying." -Superman and Captian America, JLA/Avengers

Luckily I got some Parkour practice in today. Unfortunatly I had a lousy day at school. You see it all started on wensday: A women who's in my "Health & Fitness Apraisal" and "Muscular & Cardiovascular Fitness" said an offensive word while I was in the same room as her. For some reason this woman likes to think that it's ok to use the word "retarded" is a synonym for stupid, while talking to another person. As someone who lives with a mild form of Aspergers I was greatly offended I even spoke out and mentioned how disrespectful it was to her and she said she was sorry. However she was only saying sorry to get me to shut up. In other words she didn't even mean she sorry. I even asked her if I brought in something about Aspergers would she read it. I already told her I would bring in an article about HIIT so when I gave her the article about HIIT, I also gave her an article about Aspergers and an article written by a friend of mine named Robert Cutler. Robert lives with a more severe case of autism himself. He uses facilitated communication to communicate. He wrote an article called "Taking Charge of My Life." http://www.mnip-net.org/ddlead.nsf/d0124d90f77b83c9852569a7005c7c68/1ca94b71e364e379852569b3007645aa!OpenDocument When giving her these articles I said hopefully you'll learn something from this. And I tried to explain Robert Cutlers article. However she tried to excuse her actions by saying something along the lines of, "I ment it as a figure of speach, not in any derogatory way" and "I understand I have a sister with down syndrome." I said to her the real question is do you know what it's like to live with Down Syndrome or Aspergers Syndrome. I even told her if you want to know about Aspergers you should ask someone with it. We live with it everyday. Even though she said she was sorry, she still tried to excuse her actions. I also asked her how she would feel if I said "cunt" or "bitch?" She said that "well I can say it on my own time," and "as long as you wern't calling me a cunt or bitch its fine"...................I don't know what planet you're living on, but where I come from we respect people's differences and challenges. I sat down after saying watch what you say. She said to some of her other friends "I feel I'm being harrassed," "I'm greatly annoyed," and even worse she said to me, "you know what I don't want to read this 'cause you offended me." The "R" word is a very derogatory term no matter who says it and no matter how it's used. I find it very hypocritical when I turn on the TV and words like Fuck and Shit are a lot of times censored. However words like "retarded," "gay" and even "nigger" are allowed to be uncensored. I'll admit I'm not the most politically correct person, but depending on how you use it, words like "fuck," "shit" and even "piss" don't target specific groups of people. Words like the "R" word, the "N" word and even the "B" word do. John McGinley, the actor who plays Dr. Cox on Scubs has a son with down syndrome and said it best in this interview at 3:02-3:31: That women in my class brings only shame upon herself. I know if she was mentally or neurologically challenged she would be crying her eyes out. As mentioned before Aspergers does not go away, however it can be mangaged. It's because of this that I have learned time and time again that life is a battlefield. We fight a battle everyday wheither it's against 100 men at arms or keeping your inner peace. It's not about picking and choosing your battles, it's about rising up through all that dispear and chaos while refusing to back down. In order to change people for the better you must be unchangeable yourself or else you'll become corrupt and bring about your own destruction. http://www.tattoosymbol.com/images/symbols/thors-hammer-big.jpg

Some Calesthenics as a warm up: Arnold Dumbell Press: 30lbs 1x7 Cable Pulldown: 100lbs 1x12 Pectoral Fly/Rear Deltoid: 90lbs 1x12 (PectoralFly); 67.5lbs (Rear Deltoid) 1x6 Leg Press: 190lbs 1x8 Hip Ab/Adduction: 105lbs 1x12 both Ab/Adduction Transverse Vaccum: 60seconds Ab Machine: 70lbs 1x12 Back Extension: 115lbs 1x12 Side bends: BW 1x12 each side Plate Neck Extension/Flexion: 10lbs 1x12 Stretching as a cooldown

What exactly do you mean by UV filters?

I mentioned something earlier about light therapy and how it could help seasonal affective disorder. I was considering purchasing a 10,000 lux light box. However I still have one question to ask. Do these light boxes produce UV radiaton? And when I use them should I put something with a minimum of SPF 15 on?