"Lady Pilot" wrote in message

| Thanks. Which side would you prefer? ;-)

How about I start on the one you offer and work my way around? :-)

| The temperature changes from how hot it is here, and how cold it is
| there...would be like throwing very cold meat on a hot sizzling grill!
;-D

Oh no Darlin'..... more like throwin' a hot sizzling girl on ........
never mind now!

Actually nothing here is cold..... and if it approaches that temperature we
have our ways of heating things up. There is nothing like sleeping on a
boat.... the soft motion of the vessel combined with the rhythmic lapping of
the sea..... it's paradise! Total submission to relaxation and an
understanding of the priorities in life.

CM

"Lady Pilot" wrote in message

| No, silly! Those are for my birthday in June! g

Gemini???

Say hello to the Lion!

CM

wrote in message
| I think you are more than slightly mixed up. I am against the war in Iraq.
I
| think the president of the U.S. is a toady for the oil companies, and
hasn't
| uttered a truthful word about the "war on terror", which is altogether a
big
| sham. We had Russian Nukes pointed at us for 40 years, and we didn't need
a
| "Patriot Act", or a department of homeland security or any of this other
| nonsense to deal with it.

Glad to hear that Bill..... although I have the utmost respect for my
American brothers..... this situation in Irag has me concerned. I'm having
visions of a second Vietnam. You don't need this now.

I used to enjoy travelling the USA.... I don't even bother now.... it's just
way too problematic.

CM

"Wally" wrote in message

| After studying the claims of those who have faith, I don't believe that
god
| exists. So much for their arguments.

Wally..... you make an argument for the existence of a God every time you
create art.

..... just like a thousand Gannets that dive from a hundred feet in the air
to skewer their meal. Complexity and Simplicity conjoined.....

Like the peace that slowly envelopes you at the setting of the sun...... or
the calm excitement of a sunrise.... explainable? Yes... describable?...
barely! Enjoyable... certainly!

You cannot in good conscience experience all that I have and state that
there is no higher guiding spiritual force at work!!!

Call it God, call her Gwai .... I don't care...... I feel it every day of
my life.

CM

"Wally" wrote in message

| What on earth are you slavering about? He who makes the claim has to back
it
| up.

H-m-m-m-m-mm.... consider that statement Wally

If I claim that the moon is made of green cheese, is the onus on you to
| run around trying to disprove it, or would it be valid for you to respond
| with something like, "Yeah, sure it is, Wally - prove it!"?

Wally if you believe that statement why should I interfere with your
beliefs?


If I claim that
| Captain Crunch sails a ship made of cornflakes on an ocean of milk, is the
| onus on you to painstakingly search the entire universe, draw a blank, and
| thereby disprove my assertion??

I've actually taken such a passage with Capt. Crunch, Seadog Brunhilda and
the crew on mornings while smoking a blunt of excellent BC bud.... are you
telling me I wasn't there?

|
| You say god made made the universe?
|
| Prove it!

I don't know who made it .... but he should be given a major holiday and
recognition.



| To sit here on our silly little speck of dust for a whole second, and then
| try to state categorically - to draw an "inescapable conclusion" with
regard
| to - how the universe came to exist is stupefyingly pointless. Not only do
| we know next to bugger all, we don't even know if we really *do* know next
| to bugger all!

I know bears like honey and bees will never know why....

CM

Pardon Me????? are you tying evolution to geological time lines???? What
the heck has that got to do with it??


Wow, Mooron. If you honestly don't know about this, then you can't know much.
It's well accepted that periods of geologocal instability created larges fluxes
in atmospheric conditions and effected sharp mutation ranges. That's what the
whole asteroid theory is about fer cripes sake. Meanwhile, it's also common
knowledge that we've been in a stable period and adaptation curves have been
less steep. If you live in a regulated environment, evolution/adaptation slows.
Pretty basic and the 1st thing I learned when studying the subject.

RB

Capt. Mooron wrote:

Wally..... you make an argument for the existence of a God every time
you create art.

No, I make a piece of art. The idea that creation of art is an argument for
the existence of god assumes that god has something to do with the creation
of art in the first place - it doesn't argue for his existence, it
presupposes it. I'm sorry, but I just don't think like that. I prefer to
understand it in terms of what's *given* - I engage in the creative process,
and something 'artistic' results.


...
You cannot in good conscience experience all that I have and state
that there is no higher guiding spiritual force at work!!! ...

With respect, you have no idea what I've experienced other than what I've
divulged here (and elsewhere online). I think the world/universe is a
wonderful, fabulous thing, but I prefer to not postulate an entity or force
that is 'guiding' or 'spritual' to account for it, or my experience of it.
Too worldly.


--
Wally
www.forthsailing.com
www.wally.myby.co.uk

Wally..... you make an argument for the existence of a God every time
you create art.

Creativity is how god came to be...out of the mind and imagination...and fears
of man.

RB

"Bobsprit" wrote in message

| Wow, Mooron. If you honestly don't know about this, then you can't know
much.

Bob you are talking about a subject matter well below your station ....
never mind your comprehension level.. Understand this.... GEOTECHNICAL

I have a better comprehension of geotectonic plate movement, subjunction and
geotechnical plate movement than you could fathom

| It's well accepted that periods of geological instability created larges
fluxes
| in atmospheric conditions and effected sharp mutation ranges.

WRONG!!!........ as usual..... you're inept in your comprehension of
geological ages and geological time lines.

That's what the
| whole asteroid theory is about fer cripes sake.

You have limited comprehension of particulate displacement and the meteor
theory... much like your cognitive reasoning of the existence of a "God"....


Meanwhile, it's also common

Nothing is common Knowledge Bob

| knowledge that we've been in a stable period and adaptation curves have
been
| less steep.

What type of physocobabblerap are you inferring here Bob?

If you live in a regulated environment, evolution/adaptation slows.

Please point out more obvious clues for us.... damn but you are becoming
the benchmark for idiocy!


| Pretty basic and the 1st thing I learned when studying the subject.

You didn't learn anything......


CM

"Wally" wrote in message

| I try not to be arrogant unless I'm also right.

That's simply defeatist.... be arrogant when you are wrong..... make the
buggers work for their victory! ;-D

CM