At 10:26 PM Tuesday 4/22/2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
2008/4/22 Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
No.
And that settles it?
Would you prefer Yes.?
The Form Of The Question Suggests That The Answer Is Limited To
Binary Choices Maru
. . . ronn! :)
At 10:10 PM Tuesday 4/22/2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
So... did anybody, other than Dave Land, realize that Women, Fire and
Dangerous Things is the title of a book... about linguistics... and
categories?
Were we supposed to? :-\
Nick
(autographed copy on my shelf)
Autographed by who?
At 06:07 PM Tuesday 4/22/2008, Charlie Bell wrote:
It seems to me you're missing the point, which is that all number of
damaging behaviour is excused in the name of religion when it is
otherwise not tolerated. Of *course* these things aren't exclusive to
religion (as you rightly point out,
At 03:07 AM Wednesday 4/23/2008, I wrote:
At 06:07 PM Tuesday 4/22/2008, Charlie Bell wrote:
It seems to me you're missing the point, which is that all number of
damaging behaviour is excused in the name of religion when it is
otherwise not tolerated. Of *course* these things aren't exclusive to
At 09:31 PM Tuesday 4/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 4/21/08, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
Sounds like a party to me :-)
Yeah, my only problem with it is that I'm pyrophobic, myself.
(I hang out
On Apr 22, 2008, at 8:26 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
2008/4/22 Ronn! Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
No.
And that settles it?
Er... No *what*?
Know what?
I took it to be a terse answer to the question posed in the subject:
No, religion is not a threat to rationality and science.
And I
On 23 Apr 2008, at 09:07, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 06:07 PM Tuesday 4/22/2008, Charlie Bell wrote:
It seems to me you're missing the point, which is that all number of
damaging behaviour is excused in the name of religion when it is
otherwise not tolerated. Of *course* these things
On 23/04/2008, at 1:25 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
Otherwise, they would have to account for religious that
successfully teach
and encourage humility, grace, forgiveness, critical thinking and so
forth...
Who are, on the whole, in the minority. Your experience of the
religious in your liberal
I predicted a prediction...
http://www.rusi.org/publication/whitehall/ref:I480E2C638B3BC/
In the next decades, climate change will drive as significant a
change in the strategic security environment as the end of the Cold
War. If uncontrolled, climate change will have security implications
On 22/04/2008, at 7:01 PM, Wayne Eddy wrote:
- Original Message -
From: jon louis mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion brin-l@mccmedia.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:01 AM
Subject: Food Wars
Independent journalist and broadcaster Gwynne Dyer
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 4/21/08, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
Sounds like a party to me :-)
Yeah, my
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Ronn! Blankenship wrote:
At 09:31 PM Tuesday 4/22/2008, Julia Thompson wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Mauro Diotallevi wrote:
On 4/21/08, Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things
Sounds like a party to me :-)
Yeah, my only problem with
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Monday, Middle School Principal William D. White told Freshwater
to remove all religious items from his classroom by the end of
Wednesday.
Sounds like the school district is not allowing religion to be an excuse for
There are already riots and a fair bit of discontent over increasing
food prices. The drought here in Australia has reduced the world-wide
supply of rice, doubling prices in the last three month. There will be
wars being fought over food and water...
snip
sendai, i think the last part of your
On 9 Apr 2008, at 19:02, William T Goodall wrote:
The Weekly Brin-L chat is scheduled for Wednesday 3 PM
Eastern/2 PM Central time in the US, or 7 PM Greenwich time.
There's usually somebody there to talk to for at least eight
hours after the start time. If no-one is there when you arrive
The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over nine
years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set
up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established
a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat
technologies, and even casts of regulars over
At 01:37 PM Wednesday 4/23/2008, jon louis mann wrote:
i live in satan monica, california,
Paging Dr. Freud . . .
. . . ronn! :)
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i live in satan monica, california,
Paging Dr. Freud . . .
. . . ronn! :)
it used to be the people's republic of santa monica, but no longer.
i must be slipping...
. . . jon! :)
Be a better friend,
On 24/04/2008, at 3:51 AM, Nick Arnett wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Charlie Bell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Monday, Middle School Principal William D. White told Freshwater
to remove all religious items from his classroom by the end of
Wednesday.
Sounds like the school
On 24/04/2008, at 4:37 AM, jon louis mann wrote:
sendai, i think the last part of your response was truncated? i
believe people in western countries will suffer far less from food
riots because food plentiful;
Doesn't take much disruption in the supply chain to cause havoc.
compared to
Doesn't take much disruption in the supply chain to cause havoc.
Petrol in Melbourne is now $1.51 a litre (USD1.43 a litre, or about
$5.70 a gallon).
Charlie.
here in the usa, people will manage; poverty in america is wealth in
africa. it will be good for americans to learn to be thrifty.
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