RE: That Day will come as a trap on all the world
October 2, 2014 at 11:37 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2014 at 11:46 am by DramaQueen.)
Laughter is the best medicine there is
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That Day will come as a trap on all the world
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I can't speak for anyone else but personally I don't laugh at people; only at their actions and their words. When you are posting about your life and hobbies, I find it charming, not risible. When you are going off on one of your Gish Gallops, that's when I start laughing. You even acknowledge it yourself, when you write about how you expect such a response. That's the Martyr Card of which I speak. I don't know about you, but if I were to say something which I knew was going to get laughed at out of proportion to its seriousness, I'd at least reconsider its validity. I would certainly make sure that my evidence was sound.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
(October 2, 2014 at 11:37 am)DramaQueen Wrote: Laughter is the best medicine there is It doesn't have quite as good a success rate as penicillin, though.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (October 2, 2014 at 3:54 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I would certainly make sure that my evidence was sound.Sound evidence. ![[Image: NeonBlueBG.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=i397.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fpp58%2Fsiknik64%2FElectro%252064%2FNeonBlueBG.jpg)
That's the one.
That's actually far more right there than our prof has produced in hundreds of posts.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
You and I agree Stimbo (a first?) on laughing at peoples ideas and words.
Anything else would be cruel, after all, none of us chose to look weird did we? You know what I mean, not talking about wearing pants falling down. (but my son says his fellow police don't mind the look- they can't run) I acknowledge that to you guys, what I say is crazy. And conversely, the stuff you post frequently has me chuckling because from where I stand- much of it is crazy. Proof? It will have to wait for the pudding to cool down. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, I heard.  (October 2, 2014 at 5:18 pm)professor Wrote: Anything else would be cruel, after all, none of us chose to look weird did we?Never heard of Jocelyn Wildenstein, I take it.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
You haven't even established that there is a pudding yet.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
No, never heard of Jocelyn.
Hardly ever watch TV, only see movies my grandkids bring over (shreck, Up, Horton hears a who...). Last big screen movie I went to was a Superman with the guy who died a few years ago. I revel in being ignorant of some things. The computer is great- I can select the things I want to brainwash myself with. Plus for someone with a near-mania of keeping busy all the time- gets me away from physical activity. So it is easy to gravitate here. Tell me, did Jocylyn make herself weird? In that case the gloves are off. |
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