Intelligent Design: Coming To A State Legislature Near You

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> Thank you, tin man!

T Leary wrote:

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No problem my friend. You rock! I'm so glad you were not kicked off Topix, it just would not be the same.

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> Too bad "Lil T's thread is still being censored, coz iffn' it warn't that tin can of yours would be needing a lube job.

shinningelectr0n wrote:

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Why do your avatars keep changing? You seem to be in Flux not Neenah, WI.

Sheila wrote:

I hope that for you, too, Shinning.

shinningelectr0n wrote:

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Weird often stems from a piece being missing. Find the piece and weird disappears. All of reality consists of events in the sense that stasis doesn't exist. I dare you, double dare you, triple dare you to show me stasis in the macroscopic cosmos. This is why we have clocks and calendars to measure events with. Stasis, in a figurative sense, may have existed before the Big Bang but not afterwards.
Each life form's presence can be viewed as an event. On the macroscopic level, no events occur as simple on/off occurrences. From solar sunspot cycles to supernovae to earthquakes to orbital velocities, there is an emergence, progression to maximum and then a retreat to a minimum. Sure, there is a huge contextual element involved here but true nonetheless. Life forms can also be viewed as emerging and retreating events with maximums between. Literature has long portrayed this as Life being a 'blink of an eye', "candle flame extinguished','a terminated song' or, as in my case, a flatulent dust devil dissipated. I trust that my minimum still lies over the horizon.

been there9 wrote:

I do miss Cousin Jethro, hope he is home watching a doc that I just watched called "American Drug Wars". I would like to think that I cheer on truth and justice more than any ideology, person, politic. It comes from all different sorts of sources and finds a voice in the most unexpected places sometimes. Why I don't attach "too" much to any collective thought. I need to be free to cosmic "updates" , ya know?

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> Wait, hold on! Are you accusing me of a stunted mental process? No imagination? I believe somebody,(Lil Ticked)just might disagree with that diagnosis! And Bob, Noodly, D.S., D.A., T. Leary, BT9, and anybody else whose been on here more than a couple of days. As Bugs Bunny once said, "He don't know me very well, do he?"

shinningelectr0n wrote:

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I am not trying on nor exhibiting different faces but facets. I am an undulating gemstone looking for a setting.

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> Excuse me, I thought you were like, a teenager, just finding Dune,as it is an old book. As I said, good story, dragged out way too long. You know the longer the novel the more the author tends to be paid.

Lil Ticked wrote:

<quoted text>Change is good.

Lil Ticked wrote:

<quoted text>OK, I think that you just answered your question as to why I am constantly changing my avatar. I embrace the fluxuations in everything. For a person to try and force their enviroment and/or self into a constant state of being is an exercise in futility.
I do not force change I just accept it.
:)

shinningelectr0n wrote:

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I am not trying on nor exhibiting different faces but facets. I am an undulating gemstone looking for a setting.

shinningelectr0n wrote:

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Sounds like fatalism or determinism. Even the most light-hearted ad-hoc philosophical colloquialisms states "Row, Row, Row your boat gently down the stream ... Life is but a dream ...".
At the very least, it exhorts us to row, to engage a current, to aim the darned boat ... to DO something.
A leaf floating down a stream is just destined for composting inside some seaside swamp.

shinningelectr0n wrote:

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Sounds like fatalism or determinism. Even the most light-hearted ad-hoc philosophical colloquialisms states "Row, Row, Row your boat gently down the stream ... Life is but a dream ...".
At the very least, it exhorts us to row, to engage a current, to aim the darned boat ... to DO something.
A leaf floating down a stream is just destined for composting inside some seaside swamp.

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> I was talking about your minimum, you geek.

Lil Ticked wrote:

<quoted text>Candles tend to run out of fuel. Water is always thee is just changes form. What can I say ?
men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence
I think I need another cup of coffee...

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> You're waffling.

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Borg3of7 wrote:

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Actually I've had many years to accomplish that small amount of reading. A lack of imagination will cause things to seem "tedious"....when in fact they are insightful and thought provoking. The 'younger' lazier generation can't be expected to dedicate time to such an endeavor. They are way to busy running off have cocked and only partially informed!

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Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> Wait, hold on! Are you accusing me of a stunted mental process? No imagination? I believe somebody,(Lil Ticked)just might disagree with that diagnosis! And Bob, Noodly, D.S., D.A., T. Leary, BT9, and anybody else whose been on here more than a couple of days. As Bugs Bunny once said, "He don't know me very well, do he?"