whats the difference between reply and reply to all?..anyway... i browsed richard dawkins 'the god delusion' for a paper... in that he gives a case for Aliens being Gods.. i mean why cant they.. from our limited understanding..whats the difference..?
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Lee Douglas <[email protected]>wrote: > Hahahah in my experience even the best of Queens can be a little prissy at > times. > > > On Thursday, 25 October 2012 07:03:26 UTC+1, William L. Houts William L. > Houts Lukaeon William L. Houts wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> OH, I agree with you about that. And it's basically the point I was >> trying to make to my irascible friend, Matthew. I don't think you solve >> your most difficult energy problems and go on to be a galactic terrorist. >> Terrorism is largely a strategy of the weak. And if you've mastered >> warp drive, then you probably have all kinds of toys available to you, >> including zero point energy or some equivalent. >> >> I just finished reading Matt's latest post on Facebook. He sang a >> waspish little aria about how I didn't understand reality and that he >> wasn't enjoying this conversation at ALL, and that he was hereby closing >> down his side of the argument. Matt really can be a pissy little queen >> sometimes. >> >> >> --Bill >> >> On 10/24/2012 10:01 AM, archytas wrote: >> > I find it hard to think technologically advanced beings would be >> > bastards Bill. The so-called trade of imperialism was actually >> > depraved - with concentration camps, limb-severing and so on. Queens >> > have to have their dramas mate! The aliens could be as bad as we have >> > been. It would be good to explore good aliens and what such a good >> > life might be. We could not, in current biological form, share it. >> > They might leave us with the means to change so we could. I'd choose >> > Damon Laplace's route in genetic change to travel the stars rather >> > than live a normal life span in an agrarian collective - but I'd >> > choose that over my current life in 'the economy'. >> > >> > In my least favourite episode of Voyager, Janeway refuses to drop her >> > knickers for the technology that will get her crew home. There could >> > be reasons for carrying a few casual queens in our crew! The quirks >> > thrown up in evolution usually have their uses. >> > >> > I think the chimps and dolphins ponder the human questions Lee. Many >> > animals, including chimps and scrub jays seem to hold 'funerals'. >> > Some clams live 500 years (off Iceland) without our angst. My ideal >> > aliens will have a rational hatred of soap opera. >> > >> > On 24 Oct, 16:23, Lee Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think that Human history shows that it is very hard to break out of >> >> 'modes of thought' that eon, geography and culture instill into us. >> How >> >> hard then to reason as a non Earthling would? I think the only viable >> >> answer to your question is to say, I don't know. >> >> >> >> Perhaps if we could get into the psyches of some of the other >> creatures >> >> that we share this planet with, we may find, or not, some >> similarities. It >> >> is an interesting question to ponder though. Does having >> >> a consciousness at a level sufficient enough to >> >> claim intelligence, inevitably lead to the asking of similar >> questions? >> >> Elephants, who I do belive to show a certain standard of >> >> emotional understanding and intelligence, do they ask 'Life! What's it >> all >> >> about?' >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 12:19:42 UTC+1, William L. Houts William >> L. >> >> Houts Lukaeon William L. Houts wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> All right, I just wanted to run this by you guys. I know it seems >> I'm >> >>> always rattlling on about aliens, but they're really a stand in for, >> >>> well, for a lot of things. Anyway, I've been on Facebook and >> recently >> >>> made a status report commenting on the conversation we had going on >> here >> >>> about hypothetical aliens and what they might or might not want from >> >>> us. And I was making the point that I made here: that said aliens >> will >> >>> turn out to be just as befuddled by it all as we are, and are >> probably >> >>> in no position to give us the goods on life's mysteries, or even make >> a >> >>> good cocktail. >> >>> Now, my friend Matt, who is very smart but also very bitchy, put >> forth >> >>> Professor Hawking's notion: that we'd better keep our heads down >> low, >> >>> because history tells us that when a more technologically advanced >> >>> species meets a less developed one, the results are usually horrible >> for >> >>> the latter. I replied that yes, this does seem to be the pattern in >> >>> Earth history. But, I went on, races which manage to break the >> >>> lightspeed barrier are going to have better things to do than enslave >> 7 >> >>> billion people, or even mistreat them very much. Their energy >> problems, >> >>> I said more or less, will have been solved to such an extent that >> they >> >>> won't have to vampirize us. Matt made it clear that he thought I was >> >>> being terrifically naive. >> >>> Now, Mat is quickly becoming a sour old queen, but I want to know: >> with >> >>> whom would you agree? Or is there a third answer which I haven't >> >>> proposed here? >> >>> --Bill >> >>> -- >> >>> "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead >> >>> and boy are my arms tired." >> >> >> -- >> "I just flew in from the Land of the Dead >> and boy are my arms tired." >> >> -- > > > > -- EverComing --
