Hahahahah Ash you paint quite the picture with your words, I'll admit to a certain jealousy for that skill!
On Friday, 26 October 2012 03:45:52 UTC+1, Ash wrote: > > 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." > >>>> -- > >>> -- > >>> ( > >>> ) > >>> |_D Allan > >>> > >>> Life is for moral, ethical and truthful living. > >>> > >>> I am a Natural Airgunner - > >>> > >>> Full of Hot Air & Ready To Expel It Quickly. > > > > > > --
