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What's everyone up to right now?
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 (October 14, 2017 at 12:48 am)Court Jester Wrote:(October 14, 2017 at 12:25 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: ... for now ... Something about counting chickens comes to mind. For what it's worth, I have traveled a little, and I do think that we still at this time have it much better than many others. But your boy Trump is busy mounting an assault on the principles and institutions which make us great. I suppose you'll be one of the last ones asking themselves, "what happened here?" Be careful what you wish for ... etc etc. 
I don't know.
I think he's taking a more tactical role. He's a business leader. No real leader can just drop the meat cleaver. He is making executive decisions to force things back to congress rather than to bypass congress. People don't like it, but he's pushing the governmental structure. I personally like that. Don't know what the outcome will be, but I've stood both of my kids in the corner because they couldn't get along too. 
Doing nothing of any significance. Woke up early and nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs.
![[Image: extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/zf86M5L7/extraordinarywoo-sig.jpg) 
Starting what promise to be a very long couple of days and waiting for the coffee to kick in.
Just waking up, having a chuckle at everybody's pronunciation help in the other thread, and trying to figure out if I want to go to a football game, which is something I don't normally ever do, but I don't feel like being a hermit this weekend in the face of no options for my normal activities.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
 RE: What's everyone up to right now?
October 14, 2017 at 10:40 am
(This post was last modified: October 14, 2017 at 10:41 am by SteelCurtain.)
(October 12, 2017 at 10:54 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Just had a conversation with my religious coworker about why space is cold which turned into a conversation about colloquial terms versus scientific terms, I mentioned Lawrence Krauss's A Universe from Nothing and how "Nothing" has a colloquial meaning versus a scientific meaning and that turned the conversation to science and philophy... I'd recommend checking out Anthony Magnabosco's YouTube page. His version of the Socratic method he calls 'Street Epistemology,' where he talks to randoms and just asks them challenging questions, is often very cool. https://www.youtube.com/user/magnabosco210
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
PM me your email address to join the Slack chat! I'll give you a taco(or five) if you join! --->There's an app and everything!<---  (October 14, 2017 at 10:40 am)SteelCurtain Wrote:(October 12, 2017 at 10:54 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: Just had a conversation with my religious coworker about why space is cold which turned into a conversation about colloquial terms versus scientific terms, I mentioned Lawrence Krauss's A Universe from Nothing and how "Nothing" has a colloquial meaning versus a scientific meaning and that turned the conversation to science and philophy... I've watched him for a long time and I actually just joined the Street Epistemology Facebook group.  Was planning on posting chemo photos but Flickr won't let me upload from my phone or iPad and I don't want to start up my desktop just to upload photos so they'll have to wait.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
Should've known you already had that shit on lock!
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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