Imagine good ole fashioned Big Man tribalism in a game where the rules
can change play-by-play, under the currency of prestige, distributed
according to skill. It can get nasty, even pelting chips at eachother,
but there's nothing like seeing the grin melt from the opponent as you
make the deposit in his front yard, and the others come over for a sniff
and call it 'good'- after the momentary interlude, we all go back to
chasing squirrels and other pleasures (the chase cannot be defined).
^my subtitle to the portrait of dogs playing poker
-the egregious one (for tonight anyway)
ps. Charmed.. with respect and admiration many times here. :)
On 10/22/2012 5:56 PM, William L Houts wrote:
Honestly, Allen, I'm not preoccupied with aliens and don't think of them
at all, really, until I get near a forum like this one. In the '90's,
though, I'll confess that I listened to the Art Bell show and enjoyed
it. I used to be very interested in all of that X Factor kind of thing
--the secrets of the pyramids,dire prophecies, Atlantis, the whole lot.
Since taking up the path of novel writing, though (wrote one, which is a
delightful train wreck, and my current one, which is going to be my
debut novel, I have no doubt-- I'm more concerned with getting nouns and
verbs to agree. I'll try to keep up in the future, though I have to
admit that the conversations I've seen here so far seem way out of my
ball park --and I've always been thought of as your smarter kind of guy,
Art Bell notwithstanding. Guess I should wait for subjects which I, or
anyone, knows about.
--Bill
On 22 Oct, 07:10, Allan H <[email protected]> wrote:
lol Bill me thinks you are preoccupied with aliens...
Of course there are "other" species the universe is to large for it
not to occur..
it is more of a question of what type of space drive have they
developed.. or have the figured out how to grasp the very fabric of
space and pull space toward themselves.. or how to travel immense
distances.. fortunately we have not.
Allan
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:03 AM, William L Houts <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey, Illuminated Friends,
I'm thinking I may have already asked this question in essence, but I'm
rolling it out again. It seems that I'm the high woo woo guy in this
crowd,
though I freely admit that everyone entertains my high woo woo ideas
with
all seriousness and courtesy.
So this is the thing: does the final game boil down to just humans
and God
--whatever who / that is-- or do you suppose that we share this huge
universe --a universe positively dripping with poisonous gamma
rays-- with
alien others? For my own part, I'm thinking that the cosmos has
cooked up
numerous quasi-crustacean species on at least hundreds of thousands of
worlds in our galaxy alone, with an additional several hundred sentient
species for good measure. Most human beings, it seems to me, are
basically
good as long as they're getting their basic animal requirements met,
so I
also think that a few intelligent anthropoids have survived long
enough to
have become space-faring peoples. It is beyond me, though, why any such
people would find us very interesting at this point in our history.
Another
thousand years, should we make it that long, though, and I think
that the
"Alien Love Fest" sequence from the end of "Close Encounters of the
Third
Kind" will have become reality.
--Mad William
--
"I just flew in from the Land of the Dead
and boy are my arms tired."
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|_D Allan
Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living.
I am a Natural Airgunner -
Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly.
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