Monkeysphere

What Is The Monkeysphere, by David Wong

"One death is a tragedy. One million deaths is a statistic."
-Sportacus

What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You'll see that all of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere.

"What the Hell is the Monkeysphere?"

First, picture a monkey. A monkey dressed like a little pirate, if that helps you. We'll call him Slappy.

Imagine you have Slappy as a pet. Imagine a personality for him. Maybe you and he have little pirate monkey adventures and maybe even join up to fight crime. Think how sad you'd be if Slappy died.

Now, imagine you get four more monkeys. We'll call them Tito, Bubbles, Marcel and ShitTosser. Imagine personalities for each of them now. Maybe one is aggressive, one is affectionate, one is quiet, the other just throws shit all the time. But they're all your personal monkey friends.

Now imagine a hundred monkeys.

Not so easy now, is it? So how many monkeys would you have to own before you couldn't remember their names? At what point, in your mind, do your beloved pets become just a faceless sea of monkey? Even though each one is every bit the monkey Slappy was, there's a certain point where you will no longer really care if one of them dies.

So how many monkeys would it take before you stopped caring?
That's not a rhetorical question. We actually know the number.

http://www.cracked.com/article_14990...keysphere.html

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From Russia With Hate

A very interesting mini documentary. About russia's neo-Nazi groups who are brutally attacking immigrants and spreading their hate by posting violent videos online.

The Woman Who Can Remember Everything

A woman who has baffled doctors with her ability to remember every detail of every day has broken her anonymity to speak of her condition. Jill Price, 42, can remember every part of her life since she was 14 but considers her ability a curse as she cannot switch off. She described her life as like a split-screen television, with one side showing what she is doing in the present, and the other showing the memories which she cannot hold back. Every detail about every day since 1980 - what time she got up, who she met, what she did, even what she ate - is locked in her brain and can be released to come flooding back by common triggers like songs, smells or place names. Mrs Price, a widow who is a school administrator, sometimes struggles to sleep because the vivid memories crowd her mind and stop her relaxing. Her condition is so rare that scientists had to coin a term for her condition - hyperthymestic syndrome from the Greek thymesis, for remembering, and hyper, meaning well above normal. For years she remained anonymous, referred to only by initials in scientific journals while experts at the University of California-Irvine tested her ability. Mrs Price said her memory started working overtime after her family moved to Los Angeles when she was eight and from the time she was 14, in 1980, she can remember absolutely everything. Neuroscientists say a trauma such as moving the family home can trigger major, lingering changes in the brain, especially in children who cling to memories of how their life had been. Mrs Price said: "Some memories are good and give me a warm, safe feeling.

"But I also recall every bad decision, insult and excruciating embarrassment. Over the years it has eaten me up. It has kind of paralysed me." Mrs Price was so worried by her condition that in 2000 she asked neuroscientist Professor James McGaugh, a world expert on memory, what was wrong. She wrote to him: "My memory is too strong. It's like a running movie that never stops. "Most have called it a gift. But I call it a burden. I run my entire life through my head every day and it drives me crazy!"

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Ex-Cop Sues To Get Job Back

For being too fat. I say let him stay, they could always use him as a human shield.

Greatest James Thompson Highlight Video

This Highlight made me laugh. Even though I am rooting for him in his next fight.

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Aleksander Emelianenko vs James Thompson

Maybe not the best fight for Thompson. Yet, still an exciting fight.

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Don Frye vs James Thompson

Since Kimbo vs Thompson is coming up. I thought I would post some fights with Thompson.

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Anderson Silva vs Roan Carneiro

Not the best fight in the world, but still interesting to see.

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Best MMA Highlight Ever.

Usually I would try and set up a video like this. But with this one their is no need . So Enjoy

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Bj Penn

In less then a month two of the greatest lightweight fighters in UFC history will be competing for the lw title. I for one have been looking forward to this since Bj decided to go back to the lw division. This fight has gotten me more pumped up then any other fight in the last year, even more than Liddell vs Silva. And that's saying something, for those who don't know much about mma or the UFC. This article will shed some light on who Bj Penn is, and how this fight will determine who is possibly the # one lw in the world.

Bj Penn nicked named the prodigy, for good reason. Started his mma career at the age of 22. After becoming the first non-Brazilian to win a gold medal in the black belt division of the Mundial World Championships. Penn mauled through his first three opponents. Before losing a close decision to then lw title holder Jens "Little Evil" Pulver. Bj would fight three more times before leaving the UFC. Then in 2004 Penn scored an impressive victory over Takanori Gomi, Japan's current #1 ranked lw fighter.

But that was just the beginning for Bj in 2004 at UFC 46. Penn moved up a weight class to challenge the five-time defending welterweight champ Matt Hughes. Matt had already beat every possible contender in his weight class. So most fans favored him to win, but four minutes into the first round Matt lossed by rear naked choke. To most fans this was unbelievable, that Bj had won the welter weight title. Penn would leave the UFC to fight for K-1, for that Bj was stripped of the welter weight title.Penn filed a suit against the UFC and publicized his side of the conflict, claiming his UFC contract had already expired. Penn filed a motion to stop the UFC from awarding a new welterweight title, but that motion was denied.

Bj would fight two more times in 2004. Defeating welter weight contender Duane Ludwig and then undefeated middleweight Rodrigo Gracie. Extending his winning streak to four fights. In 2006 Penn would return to the UFC to fight GSP for the number one welterweight contender spot. Penn would lose that fight in a very close split decision. Most fans thought he lost because of his cardio, Bj was never considered to have a good gas tank. After St. Pierre, who became the UFC's top contender for the welterweight title since his win over Penn, injured himself during training, the UFC announced that Penn would replace St. Pierre in an upcoming title fight, setting up a highly anticipated rematch with Hughes for UFC 63 on September 23, 2006. In the bout, Penn controlled the first two rounds, but sustained a rib injury during the scramble to take Hughes' back in round two. He was visibly different in the third round, appearing exhausted and missing punches he was landing earlier. Hughes was able to take Penn to the mat, and in side control position rain punches on Penn's head until referee "Big" John McCarthy stopped the fight at 3:53 of the third round, making this the first time that Penn had been stopped in a fight. In an interview found on Penn's personal website, Penn stated that by round three he could hardly breathe and had no "mobility in his core." Despite his injury, he congratulated Hughes, calling him a great fighter, and said he deserved his victory.

BJ seemed broken not just physically but mentally as well. But in 2007 Penn was renewed when he was able to fight the first man to ever beat him in mma competition, Jens Pulver. He won with a rear naked choke in the second round after controlling Pulver from the mount and then taking Pulver's back.On July 7, 2007, during the post-fight press conference of UFC 73, UFC president Dana White announced that Penn would stay at lightweight to fight current UFC lightweight champion Sean Sherk. However, Sean Sherk subsequently was suspended by the California State Athletic Commission, and the status of the possible title fight was left in limbo as he pursued his appeals. With Sherk's title status still in limbo after months of hearings, the UFC scheduled Penn to fight Joe Stevenson at UFC 80 on January 19th 2008 for an interim lightweight title. The subsequent final decision by the California State Athletic Commission, which did not overturn Sherk's suspension, led to the title being stripped from Sherk and the Penn-Stevenson fight being upgraded to a full title bout, with the winner facing Sherk as their first defense.

Penn knocked Stevenson down seconds into the first round with a right uppercut, then took Stevenson down, eventually inflicting a serious cut near Stevenson's hairline later in the round. In the second round, Stevenson fought more aggressively but was still unable to threaten Penn. Penn worked to back mount and defeated him by rear naked choke at 4:02 of the second round to win the UFC Lightweight Championship. With this win, Penn became the second man (after Randy Couture) to win UFC titles in two different weight classes.

And that brings us to Bj penn vs Sean Sherk. Sherk considered the number one lightweight in the UFC. Having a 35-2-1 mma record. Only being defeated by two of the greatest welter weights of all time GSP,and Matt Hughes.And having a gas tank that could fill a diesel tank. Could very well be Bj's most toughest opponent to date. In conclusion this fight is going to be SICK so if your ever going to watch an mma fight this would be the one.

God?

Is there a God? That is truly the question of life. Why do people insist that their is no God? And others insist that their is? For years I have contenplated the very existence of a all knowing and powerful God. Yet came to the same conclusion. That with out faith, you can never truly prove in gods existence.
So for years I have considered myself Atheist. Always taking the side of evolution and science. Evolution made so much sense, in order to survive we must adapt and to adapt is to evolve. Life has been here for far longer than the bible would like us to believe.
So the bible had to be wrong and I had to be right. But for the past year or so I had been thinking. Why can't their still be a God? Who's to say he didn't create the very gene that makes us evolve from primitive apes to modern day humans. And if that is so that means we humans have far more to go until we truly understand.
Anyways this was just a thought.So Atheist just because you believe in evolution doesn't mean you can't believe in a God. And for you Creationist if their is a God wouldn't he have the power and the intelligence to have his creations evolve if they had too?