At 05:49 PM 6/9/03 -0500, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Jan wrote, in regards to the Matrix sequel:
Speaking of eye candy, anyone notice the distinct lack of hot women? Lots of
hot boys I understand, but no really sexy girls. It's all buck and no doe.
I've seen the women the bros run around with, so
At 07:05 PM 6/9/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 05:31:49PM -0500, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Not all religions. And please don't think that all people who call
themselves Christians are part of the same religion.
I could just as well say, please don't call yourself Christian
At 05:52 PM 6/9/03 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Plonkworthy?
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 16:33:26 -0500
At 04:22 PM 6/9/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote
At 05:40 PM 6/9/03 -0700, Chad Cooper wrote:
Perhaps I need to preface everything I write with (ALIKALOSBAASN).
???
-- 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 the oceans,
At 07:58 PM 6/9/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
I have a question for Erik on this thread, and nothing of his to really
quote to give me an opening without quoting a long message (and that
might be irritating):
What is your opinion of Quakers? They're a sect of Christianity, but
they espouse some
At 01:31 AM 6/10/03 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On
Behalf Of Deborah Harrell
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 11:40 PM
To: Killer Bs Discussion
Subject: Re: Plonkworthy?
--- William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip-snip
Religion is
At 11:35 PM 6/9/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Jon Gabriel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Behalf Of Deborah Harrell
William T Goodall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Religion is extremist by nature.
YAWN
stre-e-etch
curl up comfortably under the lilac bush
Heretic Lutheran Deist Maru
From this morning's mail:
quote
--- HILARIOUS Farting President Bush Doll ---
Go ahead - pull my finger.. you'll hear things like:
*(FART!) That's what I call a flatulation proclamation!
*(FART!) Hey, Sadaam - Here's a weapon of mass destruction!
Plus more! Even includes the hilarious Farts and
At 09:00 AM 6/10/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Personally, I don't like to associate myself with groups that have such
a bad history and such a large number of irrational people.
Fen, frex. ;-)
Oh, like the Disclave Flooding Incident perpetrators?
(If you haven't
At 01:34 PM 6/10/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 07:58 PM 6/9/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
I have a question for Erik on this thread, and nothing of his to really
quote to give me an opening without quoting a long message (and that
might be irritating):
What
At 06:16 AM 6/10/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 6/9/2003 10:39:00 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I remember one about a guy playing golf in Japan the day after a night
when
he visited a lady of the evening . . .
And his boss says Whadda ya mean
At 11:07 PM 6/9/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
The majority of religious people are irrational.
So are the majority of real numbers . . .
-- 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
At 05:08 PM 6/10/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 6/10/2003 1:24:31 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Then there was the person (NOT me) who came to the costume contest as the
Cosmic Turd: wearing a trash bag which he had covered on the outside
with
At 01:01 AM 6/11/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 6/10/2003 9:14:08 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Where/when did the peanut butter incident you heard about occur?
Gawd I don't know. But the story was circulating in Los Angeles at LASFAS in
1976.
And
At 12:25 AM 6/10/03 -0400, Erik Reuter asked:
Does God exist?
Yes.
(The proof is left as an exercise for the reader.)
Does Allah exist?
Does Zeus exist?
Does Odin exist?
I'm not saying that this is what I believe, or that it is the only
possibility, but could these perhaps be alternative
At 05:53 AM 6/11/03 -0400, Gary Nunn wrote:
P.S. A friend recommended (loaning me the DVD) I watch a
mini-series called The 10th Kingdom. I was sceptical at
first, but ended up really having a good time with it.
Anyone seen it?
George A
The 10th Kingdom was a great family movie, I even
At 05:47 AM 6/11/03 -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote:
Julia
What the heck are you doing at a bar at 3 - 4am?
Who said anything about bar and AM? It's a restaurant, so, well,
OK, they *do* have a bar, but you don't even need to sit there if you
want to order margaritas (and I have no idea how
At 10:32 AM 6/11/03 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Twenty (or so) Questions, was Re: Plonkworthy?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:04:49 -0500
At 12:25 AM 6/10/03 -0400
At 12:44 PM 6/11/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
Typical religious irrationality. THEY say there is, you say there is
not, but none of you have any empirical process to check your knowledge.
Their beliefs are more absurd than your beliefs? Without any empirical
tests, it is all absurd.
What
At 05:23 PM 6/11/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
There are some wild animals who could probably be
domesticated in time (frex several small South
American wildcats), and some who are part-way there
already (ferrets, mongooses).
Not mongeese?
-- Ronn! :)
God bless America,
Land that I love!
At 01:05 PM 6/11/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:04:49AM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 12:25 AM 6/10/03 -0400, Erik Reuter asked:
Does God exist?
Yes.
(The proof is left as an exercise for the reader.)
In other words, you have no evidence. That's irrational.
I
At 01:10 PM 6/11/03 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
From: Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Twenty (or so) Questions, was Re: Plonkworthy?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 11:40:41 -0500
At 10:32 AM 6/11/03
At 11:05 PM 6/11/03 -0400, David Hobby 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 sacred presence (drug experiences
At 02:25 PM 6/11/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 11:07 PM 6/9/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
The majority of religious people are irrational.
So are the majority of real numbers . . .
Ah, but all transcendental numbers are irrational.
Make of that what you
At 06:40 PM 6/11/03 +0100, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 11 Jun 2003 at 13:10, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:32:06AM -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote:
I think, although I could be wrong, that this is where Erik was
going with his question. Am I right?
Pretty much. I've notice
:49:50AM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 12:44 PM 6/11/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
Typical religious irrationality. THEY say there is, you say there is
not, but none of you have any empirical process to check your knowledge.
Their beliefs are more absurd than your beliefs? Without any
At 05:06 PM 6/12/03 +0900, G. D. Akin wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 05:53 AM 6/11/03 -0400, Gary Nunn wrote:
P.S. A friend recommended (loaning me the DVD) I watch a
mini-series called The 10th Kingdom. I was sceptical at
first, but ended up really having a good time with it.
Anyone
At 01:51 PM 6/12/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Dan Minette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hypothesis: A tentative assumption made in order to draw out
and test its
logical or empirical consequences.
Theory: A scientifically acceptable general principle or body
of principles
At 06:24 PM 6/12/03 -0500, Dan Minette wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Killer Bs Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:58 PM
Subject: Re: Where are the European hypocrites?
Dan said:
How about, over a period of years, the US
At 10:27 AM 6/13/03 +1000, Russell Chapman wrote:
Adam C. Lipscomb wrote:
Great idea! I've got a Secret Volcano Lair, can you bring the
Plutonium and the Deadly Bikini-clad Vixens?
Just so I know when I parachute/jet-ski/scuba-dive into the cavern under
your lair on my to saving the world from
This is a test . . .
E!!
This concludes this test.
___
http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
At 10:00 PM 6/12/03 -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Jan Coffey wrote:
*sigh* I know I must have made some syntactic mistake their myself but, hay,
I'm just as human as Erik.
Erik's Human?
Huh.
Doug
8^)
Let Us Oft Speak Kind Words
Text: Joseph L. Townsend
Music: Ebenezer
At 10:20 AM 6/13/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:27:17AM -0400, Kevin Tarr wrote:
my choices are to either stick my fingers in my ears and say
lalalalalalala, which would make it tough to type, or turn up the metal.
You could insert earplugs, or better yet, you can buy
At 10:27 AM 6/13/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Read it.
Read it.
Read it.
Sticks fingers in ears
Read it.
William Taylor
It should be easy to figure out
which one was Ronn's
Some list software though it's obvious now that the software in use on
this list is not
At 09:43 AM 6/13/03 -0500, Horn, John wrote:
From: Jon Gabriel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Richard Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: WHO THE FÜCK...
Jon said:
Rich, did he crosspost to Culture?
No, not this time.
Rich
Small blessings, at least.
Brin-l.com is back up,
At 05:52 PM 6/13/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
(have you ever watched daytime television in
America? I've had a bad cold for going on 48 hours now and I've been
watching -- there are an amazing number of out of touch people on these
talk shows)
If by talk shows you are referring to the Jerry
Closer than Sirius?
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_976_1.asp
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2003/0520newstar.html
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0302/0302206.pdf
-- Ronn! :)
God bless America,
Land that I love!
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light
At 10:19 PM 6/13/03 -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 10:00 PM 6/12/03 -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Jan Coffey wrote:
*sigh* I know I must have made some syntactic mistake their myself but,
hay,
I'm just as human as Erik.
Erik's Human?
Huh.
Doug
8^)
Let Us Oft Speak
At 11:00 PM 6/13/03 -0700, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Doug Pensinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can you cite a reference on that? I know that there
is a liberal
contingent that is pro Palestinian (and a
conservative one that is
anti-Israel), but I think that Americans in general
are very
At 09:30 PM 6/14/03 +0100, William T Goodall wrote:
On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 07:14 pm, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
I suspect a major reason that US conservatives back Israel is that a
major component of US conservatives is the so-called Christian Right
who are generally fairly fundamentalist
At 09:59 PM 6/13/03 -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Wow, we must either be on different lists, or one of us isn't very
perceptive. Of the politically vocal Americans on the list*, I count
yourself, Georgis, Tarr, Cofey, Agretto and Cooper as well right of
center. Several others such as
At 09:03 PM 6/14/03 -0700, Doug Pensinger wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
_
¹Or is that right wing-nut?
Righteous wing-nut, maybe?
Doug
Just kidding, just kidding, don't start whistling.
8^)
I can't whistle and laugh at the same time . . .
;-)
-- Ronn! :)
God bless America,
Land
At 12:14 AM 6/15/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 11:01:24PM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
Huh? I guess I don't know my Freud very well . . .
The generally accepted spelling is Israeli, not Isra-LIE
OK. I realized it was misspelled: I just wasn't looking for a double
At 01:08 PM 6/15/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
You still don't get that form jeroen (and other's) perspecitve what was done
to him did appear to be abusive.
Did you read the copies of his messages I sent you off-list? Do I need to
send you copies of the rest of the messages he sent to the list
A man goes into a petshop and asks for the price of a parrot.
That one can program in C++ - it's $500, says the shop-owner.
The man then asks about the next parrot to be told that this one costs
$1,000 because it can do everything the other parrot can do plus it knows
how to use the UNIX
At 03:43 PM 6/15/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 01:08 PM 6/15/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
You still don't get that form jeroen (and other's) perspecitve what was
done to him did appear to be abusive.
[Ronn!:]
Did you read the copies of his
At 12:13 AM 6/17/03 +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote:
Erik Reuter wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 10:26:56PM +1000, Ray Ludenia wrote:
Suggestion to Nick: Set up a filter that automatically rejects any
message with that particular keyword in it. Probably reduce list
traffic by half,
Nick, I am
At 08:53 AM 6/17/03 -0700, Nick Arnett wrote:
Listfolk,
Some of you have been getting list mail, quite a few others haven't been.
This is due to a very odd server problem, in which it can look up domain
names, but fails to identify the MX record (the one that tells it which
server is supposed to
At 02:02 PM 6/17/03 -0500, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Kevin wrote:
So would this be an arch or beam construction?
Nick replied:
Beam -- we'll use directional antennas.
If you were careful enough in how you set up a phased array of antennas
(antennae?) you could probably make it so that only people
At 07:02 PM 6/17/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 6/17/2003 3:15:14 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Too bad its not D20 compatable :P
don't even start, mister!
Next you will be wanting an uplift card gameactualy?
You mean playing
showering . . .
And My Students Have Already Asked If We Will Ever Get To Go Outside This
Semester Maru
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn Blankenship
Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL
Disclaimer: Unless specifically stated otherwise, any opinions contained
more carefully):
Have the Five Galaxies ever been identified?
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn Blankenship
Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL
Disclaimer: Unless specifically stated otherwise, any opinions contained
herein are the personal opinions of the author
At 01:23 AM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If five or six years, then C'mell (tentative name) becomes the second born
What if she gets lost? Does someone have to write a ballad?
-- Ronn! :)
God bless America,
Land that I love!
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a
At 08:16 AM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 6/18/2003 4:39:58 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 01:23 AM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If five or six years, then C'mell (tentative name) becomes the second
born
What if she gets
the list so as
to avoid getting 'caught' by future astronomical discoveries.
Yes, they were identified in name of book, which you obviously need to
go back and read more carefully.
Yes, and here are their numbers in a standard astronomical catalog . . .
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn Blankenship
Instructor
At 07:31 PM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mr. Bush gets bucked...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/030612/170/4dnhg.html
Umm, I thought it was supposed to have a gyroscopic stabilization system so
you couldn't fall off it?
-- Ronn! :)
God bless America,
Land that I
At 11:15 PM 6/18/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 07:31 PM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mr. Bush gets bucked...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/030612/170/4dnhg.html
Umm, I thought it was supposed to have a gyroscopic
[The first two articles are spoofs -- I hope! --DBM]
---
From: [deleted per request]
To: 'Declan McCullagh' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: REMOVEEMAIL: Hatch goes even more nuts!! When's he up for
reelection???
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:20:49 -0400
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416
I know Mafiosi are traditionally Catholic, but I didn't realize that the
church was taking lessons from them in problem-solving:
From CNN:
An alleged victim of the clergy sexual abuse scandal in the Boston
archdiocese was in critical condition late Wednesday after being pulled out
of the
From: Joke A Day (June 19, 2003)
Joke A Day
Making Fun Of Morons Since 1863
Joke A Day, Inc. http://www.jokeaday.com
To join our list: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Brotha Vic dropped me a line to tell me
At 02:40 PM 6/19/03 -0400, Bryon Daly wrote:
I just got this (presumably) spam message today. I've never seen
anything quite like it:
---
Subject: Dimensional Warp Generator Needed
Greetings,
We need a vendor who can offer immediate supply.
I'm
At 10:29 AM 6/19/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, Hoon do not get permanent names until their
leg fur turns white.
At most, I thought we could have fun with the
lines:
Keep a watch on C'mell. Don't let her become her
namesake.
...and give pitty to the
At 08:16 AM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 6/18/2003 4:39:58 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 01:23 AM 6/18/03 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If five or six years, then C'mell (tentative name) becomes the second
born
What if she gets
At 01:01 PM 6/19/03 -0500, Steve Sloan II wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Ballad of Lost C'mell by Cordwainer Smith.
C'mell, being a cat human and a girlie-girl, wasn't
supposed to fall in love with a human.
SNIP
Totally opposite from today's viewpoint. For Cordwainer
Smith, if you
At 01:02 PM 6/19/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
Another theory on why we're the hairless apes:
http://my.webmd.com/content/Article/66/79781.htm?printing=true
Their research obviously overlooked the blind date I had last weekend . . .
I Suspect She Was Indeed An Ape Of Some Sort, Particularly
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
At 12:04 PM 6/21/03 -0400, John D. Giorgis wrote:
[snip]
There is a huge difference between worship and prayer. Prayer is simply a
method of communication. Worship is a type of communication.
For example, Catholics believe in life-everlasting after death in heaven.
Given that most Christians
At 11:31 AM 6/21/03 -0500, Robert Seeberger wrote:
One might note that Mary sightings are most frequent in Hispanic countries
or in areas with strong catholic traditions.
How many Mary sightings do you hear about in China or India?
One explanation is that when God deals with people, he does so
At 10:59 PM 6/21/03 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
How does one express a definite integral in ASCII?
If you need to express it in an e-mail message, and you are limited to
plain text and have no way of knowing what settings the intended recipient
may have or what fonts may be installed on
At 05:44 AM 6/22/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:00:30AM -0500, The Fool wrote:
From: Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How does one express a definite integral in ASCII?
How about:
/1
| f(x) dx
/0
What if f(x) is (x - 1/2)^-2?
Terminal:
ô
õ
³
At 06:31 AM 6/22/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 05:18:20AM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
What if f(x) is (x - 1/2)^-2?
/1
| (x - 1/2)^-2 dx
/0
or
/ 1
/ 1
| dx
| 2
/( x - 1/2 )
/ 0
which has a singularity at x = 1/2
At 07:15 AM 6/22/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 05:55:33AM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
which has a singularity at x = 1/2 . . .
There are an infinite number of ways of interpolating that
statement. I'm afraid your humor does not differentiate you from the
limited number
At 12:29 PM 6/22/03 -0400, John D. Giorgis wrote:
At 06:58 PM 6/21/2003 -0500 Robert Seeberger wrote:
My father is dead and I talk to him in my prayers. Does this mean that I
accord my father the same status as God?
I pray to the saints for intercession. Does this make them gods?
Doctrine says no,
At 12:55 PM 6/22/03 -0500, Reggie Bautista wrote:
Ronn! wrote:
One question which might be asked here is why does anyone need someone
else to pray for them? IOW, why is it necessary for a Catholic to pray
to Mary and ask her to pray to God for them? Why cannot reason that
person pray directly
At 12:36 PM 6/22/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
Atheists tend to be a rather logical lot (whether you agree with their logic
is another matter) and when they perceive a religious person (especial one
who is an intellectual or a scientist) having such illogical beliefs it can
get quite annoying.
To
At 07:07 PM 6/22/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 06:02:27PM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
To which I have to respond that if anyone had witnessed and
experienced what I have witnessed and experienced, the only logical
result would be to believe.
Of course
At 07:37 PM 6/22/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 06:28:11PM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
those events, you have nothing but my word on them. If you wish to
find out whether or not I am telling the truth on this matter, you
will have to find out on your own.
Nonsense
At 11:21 PM 6/22/03 -0400, David Hobby wrote:
...
How dare you say Neanderthal!
That's Neandertal.
Greg Bear spells it Neandertal.
Robert J. Sawyer spells it Neanderthal.
Tal is German for valley. It used to be spelled Thal,
and that's preserved in some place names. So
At 07:26 AM 6/23/03 +0100, Andrew Crystall wrote:
So my landlady wants her work PC fixed, and I want to leave some
stuff in her basement this summer and pick it up in late september.
So I spent the best part of a day and a half fixing little faults,
and the thing is STILL crashing, it gets file
At 12:36 AM 6/23/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
--- David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
How dare you say Neanderthal!
That's Neandertal.
Greg Bear spells it Neandertal.
Robert J. Sawyer spells it Neanderthal.
Tal is German for valley. It used to be spelled
At 06:15 AM 6/23/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:06:42AM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
A possible experimental protocol which suggests itself, then: after
an occasion when I think I have received such knowledge again, I'll
e-mail you and then you'll fly out here
At 12:33 AM 6/23/03 -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
--- Ronn!Blankenship [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 07:07 PM 6/22/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 06:02:27PM -0500, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
To which I have to respond that if anyone had witnessed and
experienced what I have
At 09:04 AM 6/23/03 -0700, Chad Cooper wrote:
Athiests view the world as a not-so-nice place _because_ of religion. I
personally do not agree with most Christian values.
When I think of Christian values, I think of such things as honesty,
charity, love for your fellow humans, not stealing,
At 09:12 AM 6/23/03 -0700, Nick Arnett wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Jon Gabriel
...
It's GREEN!?! What have you been feeding this kid, ALGAE?!?
~Robin Williams on this topic
Having recently had the displeasure of seeing the
At 03:15 PM 6/23/03 -0400, Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
It's like L'Hospital, the French mathematician. Current
texts spell his name using the o with a hat over it instead of
an os. This is certainly easier on the students, since one
does not say the s.
Ronn! wrote :
At 03:55 PM 6/23/03 -0400, Jean-Louis Couturier wrote:
At 07:31 2003-06-23 -0700, Nick wrote:
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Reggie Bautista
...
rob wrote:
Mary and the other saints are a lot like union stewards. They can get
things
At 09:52 PM 6/23/03 -0500, The Fool wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3013146.stm
Space impact 'saved Christianity'
By Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor
Did a meteor over central Italy in AD 312 change the course of Roman and
Christian history?
About the size of a
At 10:34 PM 6/23/03 -0500, The Fool wrote:
From: David Hobby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Fool wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3013146.stm
First comment. Note the subject line, Fool. They have the
spam-filters turned up pretty high where I work, but ALL of these
posts of
At 08:44 PM 6/23/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
I forgot to include the URL for transubstantiation, so
here it is:
http://www.carm.org/dictionary/dic_t.htm#Transubstantiation
I'm afraid to click on it . . .
-- Ronn! :)
God bless America,
Land that I love!
Stand beside her, and guide her
At 11:04 AM 6/24/03 -0400, Erik Reuter wrote:
The whole stock/hemline joke has been around for a long, long time. I'd
guess it is at least 20 years old.
Heck, it was older than that 20 years ago.
-- Ronn! :)
God bless America,
Land that I love!
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night
At 10:44 AM 6/24/03 -0700, Chad Cooper wrote:
When I think of Christian values, I think of such things as
honesty,
charity, love for your fellow humans, not stealing, not
murdering, not
committing adultery (which by definition involves someone who
is married to
another and therefore damages
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Search for Life in the Universe I
Date Monday, June 23 @ 00:01:13
Topic Extrasolar Life
In this two-part essay, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse
Tyson, reflects on the scientific and cultural implications of finding life
[Part II of Monday's article]
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Search for Life in the Universe II
Date Wednesday, June 25 @ 00:05:28
Topic Extrasolar Life
In this two-part essay, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Neil deGrasse
Tyson, reflects on the scientific and cultural implications of finding life
elsewhere in
At 12:01 PM 6/25/03 -0700, Deborah Harrell wrote:
--- Reggie Bautista [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
On the other hand... I have a tee shirt that has a
picture of Stonehenge and
says, Orthodox Druid on it. I like the shirt
because it's a joke -- there
is no such thing as orthodoxy among
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