carlosdanger | They're called Muslims, not Islamist, and they hadn't captured Jerusalem from the Christians. Firstly, the Muslims weren't one nation, and calling them that is like saying that the Christians were one nation. Egypt held Jerusalem at the time, but the crusaders also had to make their way through the Muslim Turkey. Secondly, Jerusalem had always been a Muslim city in the part of the world where Islam was "founded". Christianity only sprouted from somewhere around Jerusalem as nothing more than a cult.
The church did have protection of pilgrims in mind, but equally as important was the eradication of the Muslims in the area, and the annexation of the Holy City into the Catholic church.

The crusades were almost purely religious. That's why they're called crusades. Just in case some of you don't know what the word means, in Norwegian they're called Korstog, which literally translates to Cross (as in the Holy Cross) Train, or a Train of Crosses. The crusaders fought under a red cross on a white field, the same symbol that is now the flag of England (England was at the time represented by three golden lions on a red field).
Sure the kings were partly in it for the money, but with so much money involved who wouldn't? There were only Catholic Christian countries involved, and the crusades were called upon by the Pope, for one reason: To take (not retake) the Holy City from the infidel Muslims. Millions of completely innocent people were killed by the crusaders just because they were Muslims.

I don't know if I've been misinformed on this, but I thought there was still a death penalty in many American states, one that was still defended by mostly fundamentalist evangelical Christian conservatives. The same people who defend the death penalty also oppose abortion, and support some kind of army. An army always means killing people. There is nothing an army does that doesn't in some way involve killing other people. The army is one of the only things in the entire history of the world that is made with nothing but killing other people in mind. And yet the same people who support the army oppose abortion, claiming that it's because abortion is the same as killing babies.
In other words, they oppose the removal of one so far unborn embryo, no matter the circumstances, while the army, the guns, and the death penalty they support kill thousands of people every day.

Two things: People didn't migrate through the entire Roman Empire from Germany to the Middle East, and people in the Middle East have always looked the way the do today.

It's going to be rather true soon. I've looked up dick in Chinese as well, and I'm just waiting for Wednesday (no school Monday and Tuesday next week) so I can draw it in someone's arm. *Insert evil laugh here*

Including the best one so far

I might have misunderstood your comment. Did you mean that the books you have read about Pluto still counts it as a planet? If this is the case then I'm truly sorry for my previous and rude comment.

I guess every single micro-planet in the Keupler belt is a planet in your books as well?

If he started talking with you, and not the other way around, chances are he doesn't think you're being awkward. He might even believe he's the awkward one.
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Now, about tomorrow. That mouse is a great ice-breaker. Think about what you can say about it, and just mention it when he arrives at the party. It might not seem like it (it's hard to notice them sometimes), but the mouse is an inside-joke between the two of you, and however stupid it might seem it's still an inside-joke. I have this thing with a friend of mine, that started in a maths class. It's just so incredibly stupid (infinity times three), but we laugh every single time someone even vaguely hints at it. This mouse, though maybe not associated with as much fun as our nerdy humour, it's still something you have in common, and that's really important when trying to gain new friends. Take it from me, the guy who went from having three friends in junior high to more than thirty good friends in senior high.

Well, there's some truth in what guest is saying, but it doesn't have anything to do with running out of things to say. A pause in the conversation doesn't have to be awkward, and friends can walk together without saying a thing to each other. Just don't think about it as an awkward silence.
I've gained a lot of friends (ten times as much, in fact) since senior high started last year, and though it's still really hard for me to be with friends without talking to them, I try not to think about it as an awkward silence, and things are a lot better than they were in junior high.
Just don't think too much about awkwardness. Think inistead about how you'd feel if the other person was doing what you're doing. If you wouldn't feel awkward, chances are the other person wouldn't feel awkward either.

I don't know if you can tell by the number of downvotes you got, but the amount of hair a girl has on her body doesn't determine how beautiful she is.

#soccerch1ck If you hug a guy and his arm hair is sweaty, he probably doesn't shower more than maybe once a week. I've never had sweaty/greasy hair other than on the top of my head, and that's gotten a lot better now that I shower every day.
Hair should never be sweaty/greasy (the hair on your head is a little more tolerable, but it's still gross). If it is, the person in question doesn't shower enough, and probably has more problems related to hygiene than simple sweat/grease.

Forgot to make an account...

Now I do

Sorry, forgot that I didn't have an account...

Which guest are you? I guess you're the last one to comment, seeing as how you used the word sorry, and the little dick head doesn't seem like someone who'd bother to make a user here.
I'm new too, btw. Hi, people of FS ^^

No. No they don't. Some deserve a backhand to the face, but no one deserves to be killed. I'm just as angry with these people as you are, but they still don't deserve to be killed.