Alex0424

I've spent the past hour wandering around Baltimore looking in several convenience stores, pharmacies, and corner stores looking for lighter fluid. I'm quite frustrated and if anyone in the Baltimore knows a tobacco shop, corner store, or whatever that sells it, PLEASE I would love to know. I'm living in the Mt. Vernon area very near the Wash. Monument, so places within short walking distances are preferable as I don't have a car.

If everything had a specific point in which it was created, be it the universe in the big bang, birth from the moment the sperm entered the egg, etc, does that not prove that there MUST be an end to the universe as there is with a life to the end of death?

So my question is if the end has already been decided, is there a point to the time between the beginning and end?

And also if the end is already determined, how can free will exist or is it just an illusion that we have free will and in fact our actions are following a predicted line to our eventual end or are our actions irrelevant and no matter what we choose we will still have the same ultimate outcome?

Please fa chrissake, don't blab on about your conclusive and indisputable evidence of a god or other deities because a MAN wrote a book.

Anyone ever notice that NBC will ignore great games in the NHL to instead watch Cindy Crosby whine for 2 1/2 hours? Was anybody a little confused when they marketed the Devils vs. Rangers game on Feb. 9th as a battle for 1st place when the Rangers were 6-8 points back at that point if I remember correctly? Anyways, I brought this up because they're airing a Flyers vs. Penguins game on the 22nd instead of the top two teams in the EC playing. I mean how many times can you play the same matchups over and over again.

HEY NBC, IT GETS BORING.

It seems like no matter what I do I can never make any friends. I like to think I'm friendly and easy to talk to and It's not that I have a hard time talking to people or anything, there's lots of people I talk to at work, but they're not really people I'd consider friends. Even when I was in high school, there would be people I'd talk to as if they were friends, but there was no one I ever hung out with or go out to do anything with. Other than occasionally playing Frisbee with a bunch of people I know the only person I've hung out in the past 3 years is my ex-girlfriend. Now that she my ex, I don't have anyone and I feel completely alone. I just get really nervous whenever I talk to anyone that I know outside of a face to face conversation, I feel like if I call or text them that I'll just be bothering them. I even get nervous talking to this one girl that I've been friends with for almost 8 years and is one of the two people that knows anything about me. I feel like if I try to contact her that she'll probably just ignore me or I'll really be bothering her by talking to her. I got up the nerve to invite her to come see a hockey game with me and she accepted. I was so excited to be able to finally do something with someone other than my girlfriend. Don't get me wrong, I loved seeing my girlfriend all the time and doing everything with her, but I felt I needed to do something without her for once. It didn't matter anyways because I still ended up feeling like she must have only gone out of pity for me. It makes me feel really lonely because the only person I ever felt comfortable talking to on a daily basis and I thought always wanted to see me was my ex and she ended up leaving me for a guy who's 8 years older, has 2 kids, and is a drug addict. I was always fine with the fact that I had no friends or anything because she was my best friend and would always comfort me when I needed it, but now after losing her, when I'm hurting the most, I have absolutely no one. It makes me feel pathetic when I look at my phone and the only calls or texts are from my ex or my parents. I'm not a jerk and I try my best to be a nice person to everyone. So I guess my question is, why am I such a loser?

I dated my girlfriend for over three years (we're both 18) and I recently found out she had lied to her entire family telling them that she had left me at the end of June because I was doing drugs, then she started living some other guy(who's 26, has two kids, and ironically is a drug addict). All of this was done while telling me she had been kicked out of her house and was living at her girlfriend's house. I'm not sure what provoked this, but she had hinted at the beginning of summer that she wanted to me to be more serious and show that I was committed to her, which I responded to with a fairly typical guy response that didn't actually say anything solid.

Anyways, I thought about what she had said to me over the summer and I was waiting to talk to her about it. I had even made plans to take her down the shore for her birthday in October and I was going to surprise her with a real nice promise ring that I had always told her I refused to buy her. I feel like an idiot having been waiting to tell her these things and then finding out she'd been with another guy for months.

I know if she stays with this guy, she'll end up doing drugs with him all the time and probably stop going to school. She already started doing drugs with him, lost her job, therefore she has no money for food, and has missed almost a week of school already. She wasn't just my girlfriend, but my best friend too and I love her more than anything. I always promised her I'd be there to take care of her when she needed it and since I found out about all this I've driven her to school a few times and given her some money to get groceries, but every time I see her she makes it seem like she wants to get back together, then she'll blow me off when we're supposed to hang out the next day. Yet I still feel I should do more help her to get her head on straight and realize that this is not a good situation for her. I can't make any sense of what she does or says, what should I do?

Sorry for the lengthiness, it's kinda hard to sum this up in a few sentences.

What would be the fastest car I could get with about $5000? I'd prefer to avoid anything manufactured BMW or GM and its subsidiaries. And don't even mention Honda or Toyota, they don't make fast cars aside from the Supra, and NSX, and I cannot afford either.

I have an old Nikon Lens. It's an Nikkor-H, 50mm, Manual focus, 1:2 zoom lens. I believe it was made between '64 and '73, how much is it worth?