Couldn't stand it...looked up the answer.  I would not have expected that...but it makes perfect sense.

I just don't understand how this was illegal....was he doing it in the public view?  Was the bike considered a minor?  Did the bike not offer consent to the act, or something?  Were the cleaners underage males he specifically called over to watch him, but decided not to answer the door?  How is this much worse than if they just walked in him masturbating?

Well, at least he will live on as a legend...

copycat chick (nobody even fucking knows her name)

Yeah, I always forget it too....I think it might be Monica, but I'm not sure...

This doesn't really bug me, as I'm not the one who was raped, so yeah.

If only we took that same stance on everything.  "Well, the Holocaust was bad and all, but I wasn't killed in it, so, why do I care?"

A world callously indifferent to one another's pain.  I've dreamed of that world for so long....

Wow...just...just wow....
Terrible and wrong on so many different levels....

Btw, scientificly the powers of Claire and Adam don't seem logical. A human ages because cells are being damaged and because of copieng mistakes while the cells devide. Rapidly deviding cells for regeneration should actually kill them faster :p. This was done right in Naruto though.

This is true.  I think that is why they brought up the remark of thinking that Adam "only had one power" (or something to that effect), implying that they were wrong to think that regeneration was his only ability, and his ability to live this long was somehow related to the regeneration, but was not entirely due to it (like Parkman being able to read thoughts and also implant them; same basic concept, two different functions).  I'm hoping that his effective immortality was an extension of regeneration, rather than a byproduct.  But, who knows....

By the way, did it catch anyone else's attention that Kaito told Hiro "we have the powers of gods?"

Actually, it didn't catch my eye, strangely....I just assumed that he was referring to himself and Hiro (implying that he had a power, which he most likely does).

Claire's birth mother is Meredith Gordon.  And she's blonde.  (She also kind of resembles Elle....but I think that's just my hair bigotry acting up...)

As for Matt...he successfully carried through with his first mind rape!  They...they just grow up so fast...

Really...I want to know Angela Petrelli's backstory soooo much now....even without exhibiting a power, she has proven to be one of the more intriguing (and sometimes disturbing) characters...mostly just due to the fact that she basically knows everything about everyone.

theres nothing they can do about it except Flame me, Troll me, Lecture me, Ban me, Hack me, Find my address and kill me, Scream at me, Poison me, Make a Chuck Norris reference at me, Point out the obvious to me by saying what I just said was stupid as hell and made no real impact on anything, spam me with question marks, Annoy the crap out of me, quote someone and use it against me, call me a spammer then flood my email box with pictures of nerds calling me a nOOb or stOOpid nOObs

I call dibs on poisoning....

That's a stupid way of how DL died... Biggest bullshit ever!

I'm with you on that one.  The entire murder scene just felt unnaturally slow, contrived, and unrealistic (it took way too much time for him to shoot to explain DL not phasing through the bullet by being surprised...yet, apparently, he was).  I also think that it was completely absurd that the guy in the club decided to kill DL over their short little scuffle (especially since he should have been terrified of him...given that his hand went through him when he attacked him...) and that Niki just bloody stood there the entire time!  And it didn't look like some kind of slow motion, horrified, paralyzed with fear, battling her own inner demons stillness...it was surprise dragged out to a completely irrational level...

It's just....come on!  They could have just spared the ridiculous death scenario and had DL die from the wounds he received from Linderman, rather than from some random guy who gets really pissed when he is denied an opportunity to get laid....it's just wrong....

Well I guess that answered the question of why Adams not dead yet, but it will be interesting to see how (if?) he'll die.

I think that the way to kill to a regenerating hero was hinted at when Claire originally had to have the pipe removed from the back of her head before she could regenerate the wound (I believe it involved some kid that tried to rape her, or something...), and the fact that (unless I am misremembering something) Adam was coaxing Hiro to chop his head off while they were fighting (which Hiro refused to do).  My guess is that if the brain is not able to communicate with the rest of the body, regeneration is impossible, and they die (dying, most likely, due to lack of brain function).

The thing that I find bizarre about this, is that actual pedophiles (those who actually above the age of 18), who do not confess to their crimes, and who do such terrible things (save the beatings, I assume) on many different occasions, don't get nearly as much time as a single (albeit extreme) offense on the part of a 13 year old.  He gets 60 years in jail for one particularly vicious crime, perpertrated as a minor, and other, full grown adults who do similar things, to a lesser degree but on different occasions, can wind up with less than 10 years in jail (in fact, sometimes it is less than 2 years).  It's just a little extreme of a punishment.  Then again, let the punishment fit the crime, I suppose...

I believe that the Haitian's power suppression effect relates to his ability to remove memories (in that it is based on a mental level), and that he is only able to prevent people from using abilities that require conscious effort or thought.  Since regeneration, although linked to the brain, does not actually require any conscious effort on the part of the user, it can't be suppressed mentally.

4,280 grains of rice donated...and I am tired...

Seriously, it's coming out that soon!  I haven't heard anything about it...and all this time I was assuming that it would be coming out after SSBB...well, I guess I've got to add another Mario game to my collection (I admit it, I'm a slave to the machine...)

Seeing as how Adam's power is simply celluar regeneration in himself, it would make more sense if he was able to extend this power in order to produce extraneous body parts rather than being induce regeneration in others (although Bob did say that Linderman, the only actual "healer" we've seen was his "disciple", so if you wanted to take a loose interpretation of that, I assume that it is possible...). 
If Adam has a power like Peter's, that means he would have needed to come in contact with someone else with cellular regeneration, which is possible, but more complicated than just assuming that regenerative ability is his only power. In addition, he most likely would have demonstrated some time control abilities during the time that Hiro spent with him.

(I thought that Maurie's power was supposed to be pretty much identical to Matt's, just brought up to a higher level...)

I was gravely misled....yet I should have seen it coming...

Welcome!

Life has no inherent meaning; death is going to happen; resources dwindle while population rises, and even bloodshed does not slow down the population boom.  Yes.  You are right.  We are powerless.  Does that really matter?  Sometimes, the only way you can function in this world is by trying to ignore the implications, the bigger picture, and focus solely on the little things that bring us comfort.  That is how we live, how we function, and how we find meaning overall.  Worry as much as you like, but, inevitably, short-sightedness is the natural mode of thought for human beings. 

You probably can beat them if (unlike me) you don't get dizzied by Bible verses, and you look up a few of the more basic arguments.  Aside from that, all you need to do is have a basic understanding of logic, arm yourself with a few counterarguments and counterexamples to the more popular gems (like the legendary Pascal's Wager....) and you'll be fine.  (You could go here: http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/;_ylt=AqxpwmrMbONDnhEgt3PVipvd7BR.;_ylv=3?link=list&sid=396545163.  It's basically a question and answer format battleground between Atheists and Christians, with the occassional reference to Muslims, Pagans, and Jews.  Though it may be hard to get any good info....)

Also, I have to say,  "The end is nigh, sinner!  I saw it in a dream because I'm a lol prophet!" is the best response to one of those crazies I have ever heard! (or, rather, seen...).  Anyway, I love your site (might bookmark it for further reading), and hope that you delicately tear those religious ladies a new one!  (Beware though...old ladies can be vicious...I don't need to go through Catholic school to know that!)

Well, here are a few topics: Who Created God?
 Creationism v. Evolution
moral subjectivity v. sin
the idea of free will and an omniscient God
 reconciling monotheism with the Trinity
 child discipline: Biblical vs. behavioral perspectives
 nature of the soul and of Heaven (i.e. what do you get as rewards in Heaven, and why do many claim that the rewards are physical in nature)
 infinte punishment for finite sin
 how Satan can rival God's power
 the role of Christianity in legislation today
 indoctrination of children in religion
 concepts of physical demons and the Devil (exorcisms used on the mentally ill....)
 religion v. science (recently learned that some Christians actually are religiously opposed to vaccinations!)
"miracles" (whether miracles are actual divine intervention, or simply improbable occurences misattributed to a god)
God of the gaps (why we use God to explain the unknown)
No historical Jesus
Relationship between the divine and the hallucinogenic
Justifying unfairness and death with an afterlife (and how this devalues life)
God in the image of man (and how this affects treatment of animals)
Misogyny in the Bible; Homophobia, Racism, and Crusades justified by the Bible
How claiming a True Faith affects treatment of others and justifies ignorance
Key to salvation: faith or virtue?
And, of course, killing in the name of God.

It's Aldous, not Aldus, Huxley...I'm fairly certain that Climbtree was joking....and I believe that Dangerousned has given to us the most convincing evidence so far!

Also:  Dumbledore is gay?  Even my fictional role models fail me!