Re: Godliness
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Russell Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm - that would be Stones of Significance by our esteemed Dr Brin... Sorry for straying on-topic maru How DARE you! :-) -- Mauro Diotallevi Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Don't drink and derive. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Cleanliness
I couldn't help myself, too many messages titled Godliness. :) Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
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RE: Cleanliness
Julia wrote I couldn't help myself, too many messages titled Godliness. :) I have a general question (I do know the answer :-) ). Who first said 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness' and why? Dan M. mail2web.com - Microsoft® Exchange solutions from a leading provider - http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I'm probably not terribly creepy otherwise. Unless women in Utilikilts creeps you out.) Original or Leather? (Somehow I don't see you in Spartan or Tuxedo.) -- Mauro Diotallevi Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Don't drink and derive. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Godliness
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jon wrote: I prefer a mundane god, myself, or perhaps a species evolving to the point of singularity and modifying its own genetic structure to self uplift in order to become transcendent. Jon M. Just a stranger on the Bus? Just a slob like one of us? Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I'm probably not terribly creepy otherwise. Unless women in Utilikilts creeps you out.) Original or Leather? (Somehow I don't see you in Spartan or Tuxedo.) Jean Cut and Workman, actually. (Blue denim and black, respectively.) I don't think the Mocker would work on me, either. I want to get another blue denim Jean Cut and a black Survival. Julia ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Cleanliness
On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julia wrote I couldn't help myself, too many messages titled Godliness. :) I have a general question (I do know the answer :-) ). Who first said 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness' and why? Are you referring to Wesley, or one of the ancient Babylonian and Hebrew texts in which the idea seems to have originated? Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Per capita cost/value of infrastructure?
On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3jane.net wrote: (I'm probably not terribly creepy otherwise. Unless women in Utilikilts creeps you out.) Original or Leather? (Somehow I don't see you in Spartan or Tuxedo.) From the Leather page: Why are you even here? The Leather is too much Utilikilt for you. Heck it’s too much Utilikilt for men who are twice or perhaps even three times the man you are. The Leather is the warmest, heaviest, most expensive, most amazingly badass, most go-to-a-bar-and-have-women-ask-to-touch-your-Utilikilt garment we offer. This baby isn’t for the meek. The Leather is for real men. Big men. Men who aren’t afraid to wear large swaths of cow around their waists. Men who take secret pleasure in making vegans and bovine activists cry. ... We had to redesign our whole pleating system to get it to work with this gorgeous material. The results? This Utilikilt is undoubtedly better hung than you are. They seem to have a great sense of humo(u)r about themselves. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Cleanliness
Original Message: - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:03:21 -0800 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Cleanliness On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julia wrote I couldn't help myself, too many messages titled Godliness. :) I have a general question (I do know the answer :-) ). Who first said 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness' and why? Are you referring to Wesley, or one of the ancient Babylonian and Hebrew texts in which the idea seems to have originated? Wesley Dan M. mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Cleanliness
On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message: - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:03:21 -0800 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Cleanliness On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julia wrote I couldn't help myself, too many messages titled Godliness. :) I have a general question (I do know the answer :-) ). Who first said 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness' and why? Are you referring to Wesley, or one of the ancient Babylonian and Hebrew texts in which the idea seems to have originated? Wesley Are you now, or have you ever been, a Methodist? Or are you just much better-read in 18th-century theologians than most? Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Godliness
On Feb 27, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Mauro Diotallevi wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Russell Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm - that would be Stones of Significance by our esteemed Dr Brin... Sorry for straying on-topic maru How DARE you! :-) Yeah. Next time change the subject line, okay? Sheesh! -- \/\/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Cleanliness
Original Message: - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:56:27 -0800 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Cleanliness On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message: - From: Dave Land [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:03:21 -0800 To: brin-l@mccmedia.com Subject: Re: Cleanliness On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:06 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julia wrote I couldn't help myself, too many messages titled Godliness. :) I have a general question (I do know the answer :-) ). Who first said 'Cleanliness is next to Godliness' and why? Are you referring to Wesley, or one of the ancient Babylonian and Hebrew texts in which the idea seems to have originated? Wesley Are you now, or have you ever been, a Methodist? No, but my wife use to be one Or are you just much better-read in 18th-century theologians than most? Well, I'm fairly well read in theologians. My wife is in seminary, and I spend three days a week up there. With my philosophy background, Catholic university training, theology usually comes pretty easy. But, that statement wasn't really theological. It was a social work statement. At that time, the importance of hygine to health was becoming well established. He was promoting cleanliness for health to coal miners and other poor workers with that statement. Dan M. Dave ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
On Godliness
So how would you define your atheism? You phrase it like it's a belief. It's not. I spent a long time exploring my Christianity, and in the end found it empty. So I stopped believing. I do not believe in gods, ghosts, telepathy, bigfoot, bunyips or the loch ness monster. I think it likely on balance of evidence that all gods are human constructs (why else do they all act so much like people...). Maybe there's a creator or supreme being, but if there is it's truly beyond the petty super-humans of our myths. It makes no difference to me, anyway. Personally, it is my belief that there is no such being in the universe that is omnipotent, infinite, eternal and who created man in his image. Jon - Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
