tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post6960556659350449506..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: A Stranger on My Own Home PlanetGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-69208068721693973192014-08-26T09:30:21.314-07:002014-08-26T09:30:21.314-07:00Or like the economist who says, "sure, it wor...Or like the economist who says, "sure, it works in reality. But will it work in theory?"Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6510848489601472662014-08-26T09:22:23.332-07:002014-08-26T09:22:23.332-07:00Rick's remark reminds me of an engineer friend...Rick's remark reminds me of an engineer friend of mine who happened to be Chinese and who was frequently heard to say, "Looks good. Doesn't work."mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-7647108031105443212014-08-25T19:34:11.285-07:002014-08-25T19:34:11.285-07:00Doncha mean strange planets?
On the one hand we h...Doncha mean strange <i>planets</i>?<br /><br />On the one hand we has this planet:<br /><br />“It’s often thought that modern animal groups arose fully formed during the Cambrian explosion. But evolution is a gradual process,” said Martin Smith of Cambridge."<br /><br />From this I learned it is gradual except when it wasn't. And on the other planet we has:<br /><br />"The Tadpole Shrimp is 200 million years old."<br /><br />Ok, you convinced me. That's pretty gradual. What's Cambrian explosion mean again?Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13720790978632771716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-72612841740420055092014-08-25T16:51:24.262-07:002014-08-25T16:51:24.262-07:00"On that same fortuitous page we read that &q..."On that same fortuitous page we read that "All things grow more paradoxical as we approach the central truth." I know exactly what GK means, but again, mere paradox can be employed in the defense of mystification. In contrast, orthoparadoxy combines the utmost in clarity with the last weird in mystery: wonder and welcome, fascination and comfort, weirdness and security, strangers in our own hometown."<br /><br />Mysterious clarity and clarified mystery. <br />Nothin' like a good clarimystery, USS Ben USN (Ret)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07492369604790651538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-56630567543654881872014-08-25T15:29:32.519-07:002014-08-25T15:29:32.519-07:00Omni anything and dumb luck would be something.
M...Omni anything and dumb luck would be something.<br /><br />Maybe just lack of timing is something after all.nealnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-8898069927376475142014-08-25T13:32:56.954-07:002014-08-25T13:32:56.954-07:00Yes, they do. To paraphrase Sippican, five years i...Yes, they do. To paraphrase <a href="http://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-bad-workman-quarrels-with-his-tools.html" rel="nofollow">Sippican,</a> five years is a century in internet years. But twenty years is more like a millenium. On the plus side, on the internet anything can be resurrected; looks like those games are available for download.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-14176497701389900002014-08-25T13:10:42.678-07:002014-08-25T13:10:42.678-07:00Those little tadpole shrimp from the video reminde...Those little tadpole shrimp from the video reminded me of trilobites. And that reminded me of Trilobyte Studios, well-known video game company in the heyday of PC, full-motion video <i>(please insert disc 3),</i> and their puzzle-filled horror games, <i>7th Guest</i> and <i>The 11th Hour.</i><br /><br />Said company was eventually a victim of its own excesses, with subsequent games selling miserably; other companies surpassed them in the CD-ROM and FMV segment they helped create. Fossils form much more quickly in the digital age.nightflyhttp://nightflyblog.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-12350144504486895942014-08-25T11:46:19.806-07:002014-08-25T11:46:19.806-07:00"Because if God knows exactly how everything ..."Because if God knows exactly how everything is going to play out, then there is no contingency: all is necessity, right down to the most infinitesimal decimal. This post, for example, was written before the foundation of the world. Which I would suggest is abject mystification, or in other words, grandiose cosmic bullshit."<br /><br />Bingo! You'd think it would be soph-explanatory... butt....Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-80270533253006806872014-08-25T11:44:18.061-07:002014-08-25T11:44:18.061-07:00Anonymous said "The last thread, I think they...Anonymous said "The last thread, I think they saw where I was headed and bailed on me"<br /><br />No one bailed on you, you failed to get off the ground or to follow along with either your questions or the replies given. <br /><br />"I’d school myself on the opinions here but..."<br /><br />If you want to be taken as being other than a troll, get a name. Doesn't have to be a real one, you can type it in manually, just pick one to identify yourself by.<br /><br />"...should we discuss legislation (or not) of the A-word?"<br /><br />Might want to figure out what life (pick one of your flavors) is, and what business legislation has with it, before throwing darts in the dark to determine what one should do to the other.<br /><br />Just a suggestion.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-16202389879863724332014-08-25T11:43:16.004-07:002014-08-25T11:43:16.004-07:00Friendship, affection, romance, charity - the four...Friendship, affection, romance, charity - the four well known "types" of love. Love is given and I think often times it is the only way we think of love. But it is also received, and as such it allows someone else to give love. That's part of the deal - allowing yourself to be loved.EbonyRaptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02483546359869912858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-75375491952924671352014-08-25T11:41:47.928-07:002014-08-25T11:41:47.928-07:00I don't mean that IQ remark as a knock. Even ...I don't mean that IQ remark as a knock. Even if you are not a spiritual or intellectual athlete, God loves you and wants to deliver you. God has to communicate to Himself to everybody from Einstein to Biden.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41406907136790954292014-08-25T11:37:53.577-07:002014-08-25T11:37:53.577-07:00What I don't quite get is how people in the Ju...<i>What I don't quite get is how people in the Judeo-Christian stream would go for this conception, for revelation reveals some rather astonishing facts about God.</i><br /><br />I don't know. My discussions seem to indicate that my fellow funkamentalists preach it more than believe it. We like to say "GOD IS IN CONTROL!" as though it is all set in concrete, but I think we understand it is more complicated than that. It's just hard for people with an IQ of 85 to express.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-6134261069349287542014-08-25T11:24:27.953-07:002014-08-25T11:24:27.953-07:00Adiafora?Adiafora?EbonyRaptorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02483546359869912858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-43234143225932118822014-08-25T10:19:22.253-07:002014-08-25T10:19:22.253-07:00Can love ever be static?
My boy has recently gain...<i>Can love ever be static?</i><br /><br />My boy has recently gained an awareness of what the word "love" means. Now, many times a day, he'll spontaneously tell us, and often he almost sounds surprised, as though the emotion has suddenly welled up and <i>must</i> be expressed. Not static; more like being keyed in to the heartbeat of the cosmos.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-51914263204966227192014-08-25T09:47:16.928-07:002014-08-25T09:47:16.928-07:00Maybe to us God is three, but to him only one, bec...Maybe to us God is three, but to him only one, because of the physical laws he’s laid out? Spiritual relativity. Or dimensional relativity, or something really elegant to him but mysterious to us... Of course, can’t be scientifically proven or disproven. At least til my Spirit-O-Meter device is perfected. I heard the Vatican's got good people on it.<br /><br />The last thread, I think they saw where I was headed and bailed on me. If spirit life begins at birth (to us), or never came to exist (to them), should we discuss legislation (or not) of the A-word? I’d school myself on the opinions here but I’m limited to google searches.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-70811060417649626642014-08-25T09:39:23.909-07:002014-08-25T09:39:23.909-07:00Strange planet you got there.<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/hallucigenia-revealed-the-most-surreal-creature-from-strangest-period-in-history-of-life-on-earth-9674546.html" rel="nofollow">Strange planet</a> you got there.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.com