What is the population of the city you live in?

545,198

Bossier City (where I live): Population (year 2000): 56,461. Estimated population in July 2005: 60,505 (+7.2% change) Males: 27,426 (48.6%), Females: 29,035 (51.4%)

Shreveport (just over the river): Population (year 2000): 200,145. Estimated population in July 2005: 198,874 (-0.6% change) Males: 93,333 (46.6%), Females: 106,812 (53.4%)

haven't got the foggiest

My population is about 15,500 people.

I live in a village of roughly 300 people (not counting the boarding school here which also has around 300 students). The village is part of a town if maybe 2400 people.

2,241 (year 2000)

I don't live in a city. I'm not sure what it is in the nearest city. Not a lot though.

1000 to 100,000 yeah somewhere in there

Just under 500,000 people I think.

Gatineau has about 300,000 citizens. They're called Gatinois (pronounced Gati-nwa)

I think it's still something under 1,000,000, but not by much.

218,968 as of July 2005 apparently..

The population here is approximately 700,000 people.

260,283 in 2000

I believe it is 250,000 people. The city is growing much too fast.

This is as close as I can come. (Having counted everyone at our town meeting)

I see that you've used my photo as an avatar! Bad boy!

Who is that on your avatar? It isn't the same person as is on your user page.

I'm pretty sure that's Elliot from Scrubs.

Ok, I had no idea (and I still really don't. Don't watch the show!)

500,000 to 1,000,000 people

Didn't you tell me you didn't mind me using it as my avatar? If not, I'll take it off.

small and yet very odd

Fresno California has right around 478,000

3.7 million

You must reside in Anchorage?

yep

How did i know that? even though Alaska is bigger than Texas it only has 3 cities i have heard of, which is Juneau which is like 50,000 Anchorage which is like 200,000 and Kodiak which is like 2,000

The population was 1,661 at the 2000 census.

56,000.

Population
- City (2001) 490,268
- Density 438.9/kmē
- Urban 618,820
- Metro 662,401

On the low side of "1,000,000 to 20,000,000 people"

Sounds like a place i need to move to, 29 thousand women and only 27 thousand men? maybe i could find a girl down there, one who is not corrupted by California culture

That's Elliott from Scrubs. The person on my user page is me.

The population here is 1500 people and a very small town

No keep it...it is one of my best poses so far, this year. I believe that the human body is beautiful!

It is...and yours is a fine example of the female form. With that image you make Christmas tempting!!!

It was different yesterday, I guess all the SC users are prone to like medical shows. Interesting.

Well, the beauty of the human body is a subject that most artist/photographer friends (of mine) try to capture in many ways. This is one of them

I changed it today. Scrubs is funny. It's my kind of wacky humor.

Nicely done. Do you model often?

I hate it. It reminds me of the Three Stooges.

Depends on who the photographer is!

I'm driving down right now with my digital cam. What did you say your address was again???

around 65,000

60,000 in my community.

I think youre more attractive than the woman in his avatar, plus your a New Yorker which is a tip and added bonus, no need to thank me

ATTENTION: INFORMATION TO BE GIVEN AT A LATER DATE...ATTENTION: INFORMATION TO BE GIVEN AT A LATER DATE...ATTENTION: INFORMATION TO BE GIVEN AT A LATER DATE...ATTENTION: INFORMATION TO BE GIVEN AT A LATER DATE...ATTENTION: INFORMATION TO BE GIVEN AT A LATER DATE...ATTENTION.

That IS my picture on Stephane's avatar. It was done for the sake of art and not anything that I am ashamed of. I think the human body is beautiful!!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, ok I will have to take a longer look at it now, i think the human body, atleast the female body is beautiful, one reason i enjoyed strip clubs

Don't be crass, Jeremy! The body is a work of art. Everybodys body!

excuuuuuse me, i didn't find the male body that attractive, i can't stand there and look at a dudes wong and say to myself, what a masterpiece, I admit the human body is amazing, but i have a hard time with the male body

I love to look at them. (See what you are forcing me to say!!!!!)

You go right ahead and look at wongs, and i will go ahead at look at a womens chest, buttocks area( politically correct) and lower abdominal area( politically correct) their beautiful face, and the rest of the body that i admire, then were both happy, hows that for " dispute resolution", see i'm learning from my training

Oh, so there is hope? Nice!

Guys' bodies can be beautiful, too. Saying so doesn't make you gay, you know...

Ok, if i'm not gay then, i think the human body is kind of interesting, i'm not gay, never have been, never will be and have absolutely NO sexual desire for men never had and never will, but it is kind of interesting

Take a guy like Brad Pitt, or Johnny Depp or George Clooney. Handsome bastards all, and Pitt especially, is quite fit. Nothing gay about saying so.

Ok i see

I live in a small village. No more than a few hundred people.

just about a million.

Toronto's at two and a half mill.
Waterloo's at eighty six thousand.

?

If you really, really, really, really pray!

> Guys' bodies can be beautiful, too. Saying so
> doesn't make you gay, you know...

I think CMT's overly critical statement indicates that there may be some internal, subconscious issues that he has yet to look at. A man is stable in his orientation when he is indifference to gay inuendo's and actually has gay friends. The ones who are terrorized by the word 'gay' still have some things to work out.
Women are a lot less critical of sexual orientation because we can feel the intimacy of bonding without our 'femininity' being threatened.

1-100,000 is a pretty broad range.

The "city" I live in has maybe 16,000 people. It wouldn't qualify as a city in the midwest. Village or town maybe.

I guess I'm toast then. I'm not big on religion and prayer. Sorry.

When I was a teenager I had the typical homophobic issues. You're not sure who or what you are when you're a teen. Over time, I was exposed to gay culture and made a few friends who are gay. I know who I am so it doesn't bother me at all.

Wow, you hate God, you've stopped yourself from procreating. Stephane, what next? Are you going to give up..................alcohol????

Well, that's pretty normal....and your country is probably not so uptight. If men run away from the g word with disgust and acrimony...then something isn't straight (pardon the pun!!!) in their head!

I don't hate god. I just don't believe in the notion of an invisible almighty thing that gets pissed off as us for doing what it equipped us to do. As for alcohol, well, I like the occasional glass of wine, but I don't fuel on it or anything.

You got it. People fear what they don't know and are afraid to face their fears (and the unknown). You seem pretty open-minded.

What is God was visible? What if God lives inside you? What if when you look in the mirror, you see God? What if this God gave you the gift of free will in exchange for an imperfect life? A balance.

Yes, but it's not something that I announce, I'm a bit subtle. We become what we fear the most if we 'don't' face our fears.

I do believe that we possess the potential to be "divine" or to get in touch with the divine within us. That, to me, is the definition of spirituality. It's the whole concept pushed by organised religion of an external god who is disappointed in mankind that I can't connect with. If He is so perfect and almighty, why would god introduce shame and deficiencies into the equation?

My guess is that man created god as a device to explain what man explain (it is god's will that there are seasons) and to remove blame from man's failing (it is god's will that Jeremy became an alcoholic). I believe that the seasons can be explained scientifically and that it is Jeremy's inner weakness that has made him an alcoholic. BTW - Jeremy is just a name I plucked out of thin air.

I agree with you on that. Speaking of facing your fears, that skydiving picture was pretty neat! When did you jump?

I do not, for one minute think that there are many people who become what they fear the most, whether they face them or not.

You are speaking about one thin definition that one sect of people believe about regarding the existance of God, Stephane. The truth is, I think we feel a bit protected if we are able to believe in some aspect of a divine being. I will give you a kinda silly example. I went to college far away from home. It was the first time that I had been away from home and I lived in a college dorm, which happened to be coed. For a week, I made sure my door was locked...bathroom doors were locked, windows locked (I was on the first floor). I would hear the boys come home late at night...pounding on the girls doors, sometimes fighting. I was only 17 and pretty enough that the boys started banging on my door. I was living in the dorms for a little over a week and there was a rape on the floor above me. I was frantic and ready to go back home...when I recieved a visit from the RA, residential attendant ,to tell me that he would be working the overnight shift. It was the first time that I had ever heard about an RA. Don't know how I missed this information upon arrival...but, I suddenly felt just a little more protected, and I would say 'hi' to him every time I came in at night. In a funny way, this is how I view God. There was still trouble from time to time in the dorm, but I felt more protected with the RA close by. In a larger, more spiritual sense, this is my conception of God. But we all have our own...and again: free will for an imperfect life.

In my silly youth!

Again here, Mary, I'm not against religion per se (though some of my previous statements could be used against me on this...) If you get satisfaction in the idea of an overseer, an almighty presence that you feel protects you, then by all means believe in it and trust it. My problem is not so much with the idea of a deity, as with the humans who claim to represent the deities, and how these flawed humans warp the almighty one's messages.

My big frustration is with the contradictions of organized religions and how each one of them sees itself as the "real truth" when, in my mind, they are all saying the same thing. I believe that the values that religions promote (love each other, treat the other as you would want to be treated, respect your parents and so forth) are basically good, but that the warped messaging is what has led to countless wars and countless innocents being slaughtered over the centuries in the name of a god.

How many jumps do you have under your belt?

Well, of course this is only my opinion but supressing your fears only causes them to add up, and be more present in your everyday life (consciousness)...so manifesting them is not unusal, as they have such an active role in your cognitive mind. Coming to terms with fears help us eliminate them, being indifferent towards them and we're able to move forward. If the chicklen sits on the egg long enough, it hatches. If the chicken hates baby chicks, it would be worth while to leave the egg alone, thus, inactivating it.

Isn't being indifferent the same thing as suppressing?

Then your objection isn't with a God...it is with people. So, divorce yourself from the opinionated people, aspire to a higher level in terms of spirituality and believe what you want. I do...and feel protected. I don't listen to the fire and brimstone. I feel that my spiritual needs are being looked after and I am conscious of that. The result: I am warmer to humankind.

Too many to count...but I always have my needle with an OD of ativan in it...so if my shoot doesn't open... Bang, I'm out cold before I hit the ground. Good thinking, huh?

No, suppressing takes up a more and more concentrated space (as you push down your avoidence) in your brain, giving the subject matter more density...think of a brain tumor growing in a small space....pushing in upon itself...making it harder and much more dense. It becomes a 'real' thing...part of you. Think of a tephlon pan with subjects sifting through it and then out. This is indifference, letting things in and out, without them sticking...and soon being forgotten. Their deadly presence forgotten, not growing.

I like your take on it. God is us.

Yes, God is Us!

A-Men (like X-Men, except holier). Can we move on to another subject. Please?

Of course....so, are you in contact with your ex-wife and I think (not sure) that you have primary custody of your girls. Clue me in on that. If you do have three girls living with you, I find that odd (though not unreasonable) that they are not with their mother...since they are girls, and all.

The oldest is shared one week on/one week off. The younger two I see every other week-end. i want to change that next year, and have all of them shared.

Every week is to confusing, Stephane (I don't mean to pry) and exhausting. It's like going to hotel to hotel every week. But, if it works for you then that is a good thing. I wouldn't want that arrangement for my children....and I don't. Mine can see their father when ever they want, here or at his place...but the nights they spend hear unless he requests them to stay over, which he does and can do anytime. Not week to week, though. Their lives would just be too interrupted at this point.

Sounds like you have it pretty much together with your arrangement. The custody arrangement we have suits our daughters, but the younger two are hinting that they want to see me more often. So do I.

More often than every other week? They may want more concentrate time with you, as they may feel the week to week thing is too much. Just my opinion. I don't want to go on further as it is none of my business. How long have you been divorced? Are you and your ex friendly?

separated 2 1/2 years ago, officially divorced since July. Friendly is an overstatement; let's call it business-like. There's still a bit of bitterness on her behalf that I had the nerve to finally leave. No major battles, but the odd flare-ups occur. How are you and your ex managing?

Fine, now that we are divorced...in the summer 2006, as well. I knew it was a good idea because I was really starting to dislike the man he was (as a husband) and now I genuinely like the person he is (as a friend)...and I'm sure that he is the same person in both instances but what has changed is: how I interact with him, the role he (now) plays in my life.
I'm glad that I asked him to leave. I did that because I didn't want to risk hating him, because I would have eventually and I like him too much to hate him...if any of that makes sense.

He's a lucky man. I can't see that happening here.

Maybe you waited until you were too deep and the resentments solidified. My ex husband and I weren't bringing out the best in each other...and I didn't want to live like that.

I stuck around for my daughters. Overstayed my welcome and there was a lot of resentment on my part. I let her take up too much space in the relationship.