Re: Br!n: RE: New Br!n Novel?

2003-06-20 Thread Jan Coffey
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/19/2003 2:57:43 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Ditto dittoed the ditto's ditto. Did he do it diligently or dastardly? how delightfully degenerate did you deliberatly delete the l? =

james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
Religion is a fraud... http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/6119188.htm http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/06/18/jesus.box/index.html http://www.sunspot.net/news/sns-othernews-james,0,1822417.story?coll=bal-f eatures-specials 'Jesus' box ruled a forgery BY THOMAS H. MAUGH II Los Angeles

republicans Vs Science: W killing women

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/international.cfm?id=635232003 Bush 'killing women' with pro-life aid TREVOR GRUNDY THOUSANDS of African women are being condemned to death because of America’s refusal to give any aid money to health workers giving abortion advice, it was claimed last night.

biblical basis for opposing the Middle East road map

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,973445,00.html Apocalypse soon Evangelicals in the US believe there is a biblical basis for opposing the Middle East road map Giles Fraser Monday June 9, 2003 The Guardian Just as new life is being breathed into the peace process, religious

Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s881312.htm Colour vision means pheromones unnecessary Tuesday, 17 June 2003 Female Old World primates – like orangutans – use sexual displays to indicate they are ready for mating Forget about using those expensive sprays to try and attract the

Re: biblical basis for opposing the Middle East road map

2003-06-20 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:53 AM 6/20/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,973445,00.html Apocalypse soon Evangelicals in the US believe there is a biblical basis for opposing the Middle East road map IMO, what it shows is a lack of faith. A faithful viewpoint would be that

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 05:16 AM 6/20/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: Religion is a fraud... Not necessarily, but there are certainly frauds who use religion . . . -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 05:16 AM 6/20/2003 -0500 The Fool wrote: Religion is a fraud... 'Jesus' box ruled a forgery Actually, give that for many people the Jesus Box was a challenge to their faith (ie for Catholics who hold as a tenet of faith that Mary was a life-long virgin), the above headline actuall was a

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 05:16 AM 6/20/2003 -0500 The Fool wrote: Religion is a fraud... 'Jesus' box ruled a forgery Actually, give that for many people the Jesus Box was a challenge to their faith (ie for Catholics who hold as a tenet of faith that Mary was a

w aint smart enough to ride a segway

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/030612/170/4dmvj.html A picture speaks a thousand words... ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 06:44 AM 6/20/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 05:16 AM 6/20/2003 -0500 The Fool wrote: Religion is a fraud... 'Jesus' box ruled a forgery Actually, give that for many people the Jesus Box was a challenge to their faith (ie for Catholics who hold as

Re: w aint smart enough to ride a segway

2003-06-20 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 06:50 AM 6/20/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: A picture speaks a thousand words... ...Then why can't I speak ewe? Wry Bread Maru -- Ronn! :) God bless America, Land that I love! Stand beside her, and guide her Thru the night with a light from above. From the mountains, to the prairies, To

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread Steve Sloan II
The Fool wrote: Religion is a fraud... Has someone been playing that game from Office Space, called Jump to Conclusions? ;-) __ Steve Sloan . Huntsville, Alabama = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brin-L list pages

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread Julia Thompson
The Fool wrote: Religion is a fraud... Oh, and based on what Pons Fleischman did, science is a fraud. Now, there are all sorts of charlatans inventing relics to make a buck or prove a point, and some of those have to do with religion. *Those* are to be condemned to the highest order. The

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread Reggie Bautista
The Fool wrote: You say you are a christian, and yet you deny what the book says. It says in clear terms that jesus had a brother, and other siblings. You a just a hypocrite that's all. It only says that in clear terms if you don't understand the terms. There are two things that explain this

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread Richard Baker
Reggie said: 2) The word used for brother can also mean cousin. So the siblings to which the bible refers are probably a combination of cousins and half-siblings from Joseph's first wife. Wouldn't those be step-siblings, Jesus' father being God and all? Rich

SCOUTED: Good genes count, but not only factor in high IQ

2003-06-20 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
Good genes count, but not only factor in high IQ SHARON BEGLEY, The Wall Street Journal Friday, June 20, 2003 ©2003 Associated Press URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/06/20/financial0857EDT0029.DTL (06-20) 05:57 PDT (AP) -- For a trait so highly heritable,

Brin: public domain petition

2003-06-20 Thread d.brin
I would like to spread the word about a valuable effort being waged to help ease some of the damage done by the Immortal Mouse Law... that's the Sonny Bono Copyright Act that was specifically designed to keep Mickey out of the public domain by stretching copyrights LNG after the

Re: Brin: public domain petition

2003-06-20 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/20/2003 11:24:04 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/eldred/petition.html My comment: Hope for all abandoned (works) who enter here. Now to our good Dr. Brin: I do not have the time to read all 13,875 comments... Do

Scouted: Didn't get the job? Blame the web.

2003-06-20 Thread Jon Gabriel
As our society (and list) deals with transparency issues From: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNewsstoryID=2961621 'Bitch Boss' Remark No Way to Win a Job Fri June 20, 2003 08:23 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - One called her boss a bitch from hell while another admitted

Scouted: Chrissy Caviar

2003-06-20 Thread Jon Gabriel
Okee Dokee. Can't even begin to fathom the logic behind this one: http://www.chrissycaviar.com/ccaviar/ A woman who is creating 'caviar art' using her own eggs. Click on the General Information link at the bottom of the page for more info. Jon

Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread Jan Coffey
--- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s881312.htm Colour vision means pheromones unnecessary Tuesday, 17 June 2003 Female Old World primates – like orangutans – use sexual displays to indicate they are ready for mating Forget about

Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 02:23 PM 6/20/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote: --- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s881312.htm Colour vision means pheromones unnecessary Tuesday, 17 June 2003 Female Old World primates ­ like orangutans ­ use sexual displays to indicate they

Re: Brin: public domain petition

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: d.brin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to spread the word about a valuable effort being waged to help ease some of the damage done by the Immortal Mouse Law... that's the Sonny Bono Copyright Act that was specifically designed to keep Mickey out of the public domain by stretching

Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: Jan Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s881312.htm Colour vision means pheromones unnecessary Tuesday, 17 June 2003 Female Old World primates – like orangutans – use sexual displays to indicate

Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: --- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s881312.htm Colour vision means pheromones unnecessary Tuesday, 17 June 2003 snipped much Simply becouse one sense is more importatnt

Re: Twenty (or so) Questions, was Re: Plonkworthy?

2003-06-20 Thread Deborah Harrell
I meant to respond to this before... --- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julia Thompson wrote: Deborah Harrell wrote: How many here who consider themselves religious, spiritual, or otherwise somehow connected to the Divine have had that feeling of universal connectedness or

Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: Deborah Harrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Coffey wrote: --- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s881312.htm Colour vision means pheromones unnecessary Tuesday, 17 June 2003 snipped

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: Religion is a fraud... Oh, and based on what Pons Fleischman did, science is a fraud. Now, there are all sorts of charlatans inventing relics to make a buck or prove a point, and some of those have to do with religion.

Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread Reggie Bautista
Jan Coffey wrote: How can you call an organ which does exist vistigual without showing why you know it doesn't function. Especialy when there is so much anicdotal evidecde to the contrary. The Fool replied: Because of exhaustive testing by the scientific community? Because they've found that

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Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jan Coffey wrote: How can you call an organ which does exist vistigual without showing why you know it doesn't function. Especialy when there is so much anicdotal evidecde to the contrary. The Fool replied: Because of exhaustive testing by

Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread Reggie Bautista
The Fool wrote: See above. Looking above, I see that you posted an article which stated that the vomeronasal organ was vestigial in humans and that humans have no or very little ability to detect pheromones. Jan said that this was incorrect. I posted an article showing that a recent study

Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: See above. Looking above, I see that you posted an article which stated that the What I said was that the article for which you specifically quoted was one that was posted to brin-L __by me__ originally quite some time ago, and that

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 6:44 AM Subject: Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists You a just a hypocrite that's all. Think you could have come up with a more obnoxious way to phrase

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] You a just a hypocrite that's all. Think you could have come up with a more obnoxious way to phrase that Fool? Consider this a complaint. You don't have to like anyone here, and no one is forcing you

Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread Reggie Bautista
The Fool wrote: The article which I posted contained NO incorrect information. So your article on a study which says humans have little or no ability to detect pheromones is better than my article on a study which contradicts that, because in your scientifically informed opinion, the results

Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Fool wrote: The article which I posted contained NO incorrect information. So your article on a study which says humans have little or no ability to Which is an abstract of an article by a respected scientist who is published this very week in

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 06:44 AM 6/20/2003 -0500 The Fool wrote: You say you are a christian, and yet you deny what the book says. It says in clear terms that jesus had a brother, and other siblings. You a just a hypocrite that's all. Catholics are not biblical literalists. You a just a bad typer, that's all. :)

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 07:39 PM 6/20/2003 -0500 The Fool wrote: If JDG is going to make smart ass remarks then I am going to criticize him. You mean, like, religion is a fraud? Just wondering.. JDG ___ John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL

Re: the fool aint smart enough capitalize Re: gratuitous insult deleted

2003-06-20 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 06:50 AM 6/20/2003 -0500 The Fool wrote: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/030612/170/4dmvj.html A picture speaks a thousand words... Uhhh Dean beat you to it by posting this two days ago: At 07:31 PM 6/18/2003 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Bush gets bucked...

Re: the fool aint smart enough capitalize Re: gratuitousinsultdeleted

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: John D. Giorgis [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 06:50 AM 6/20/2003 -0500 The Fool wrote: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/030612/170/4dmvj.html A picture speaks a thousand words... Uhhh Dean beat you to it by posting this two days ago: My computer was broken for more than a

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 7:39 PM Subject: Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] You a just a

Re: Br!n: public domain petition

2003-06-20 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 6/20/2003 3:18:58 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I beat you to it by posting this two weeks ago. And I did not look at it until our good Dr. Brin posted it. Funny that. W.T. ___

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool You a just a hypocrite that's all. Think you could have come up with a more obnoxious way to phrase that Fool? Consider this a

Re: the fool aint smart enough capitalize Re: gratuitousinsultdeleted

2003-06-20 Thread Julia Thompson
I'm just going to take this opportunity to point out to BOTH of you that ain't has an apostrophe, which both of you had neglected to include in your subject line, so you're BOTH guilty of bad spelling/punctuation. So THERE! :P Julia ___

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:04 PM Subject: Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists I said: And I said nothing about criticism. Its namecalling I object to. I have no objection in

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] I said: And I said nothing about criticism. Its namecalling I object to. I have no objection in any way to you or anyone else jumping into the fray. But if you feel obligated to insult someone, do

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 10:31 PM Subject: Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] I said: And I

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread The Fool
From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool I said: And I said nothing about criticism. Its namecalling I object to. I have no objection in any way to you or anyone else jumping into

Re: james ossuary a fake - scientists

2003-06-20 Thread Ronn!Blankenship
At 10:57 PM 6/20/03 -0500, The Fool wrote: From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool From: Robert Seeberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: The Fool I said: And I said nothing about criticism. Its namecalling I object to. I have no objection in any way

Re: Colour vision and pheromones

2003-06-20 Thread Jan Coffey
--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 02:23 PM 6/20/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote: --- The Fool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s881312.htm Colour vision means pheromones unnecessary Tuesday, 17 June 2003 Female Old World