Crop Circles
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Ah, but even if you don't believe in Santa, you still get presents!
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Note to self: Read the replies before replying.
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Roger Wright wrote:
there's no tangible proof that he was ever born
Actually there is much historical proof of his existence.
Jacquers wrote:
historical proof
That term has a whole world of meanings.
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After. I was in to metal for most of my teens ( and ever since )
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Nothing's Inexplicable, Merely Unexplained.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
Dalek Dave wrote:
Nothing's Inexplicable, Merely Unexplained.
I'll have to introduce you to my wife, some time.
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Second Paragraph.[^] The Netherlands has the highest average number of recorded tornadoes per area of any country (more than 20, or 0.0013 per sq mi (0.00048 per km²), annually),[citation needed] followed by the UK (around 33, or 0.00035 per sq mi (0.00013 per km²), per year),[3][4] but most are small and cause minor damage. In absolute number of events, ignoring area, the UK experiences more tornadoes than any other European country. So we are second in the world for density, and the top in europe for number.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
Dalek Dave wrote:
So we are second in the world for density, and the top in europe for number.
Wait, I thought the other day you were saying Britian is not European? ;)
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Media2r wrote:
What bothers me a little is that people believe in God, but not in Santa Claus. As far as I'm concerned there is equal proof of the existence of both.
There are presents around the tree every year. God doesn't provide such categorical proof.
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And the Gideon keeps pushing bibles as there's no tomorrow(?!). I don't consider either to be empiric evidence. //L
Media2r wrote:
And the Gideon keeps pushing bibles as there's no tomorrow(?!). I don't consider either to be empiric evidence.
Point 0: The Gideons are people. Point 1: It's Santa who puts the presents around the tree. Point 2: The fact that he does so is empirical evidence of his existence. My work here is done.
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Media2r wrote:
And the Gideon keeps pushing bibles as there's no tomorrow(?!). I don't consider either to be empiric evidence.
Point 0: The Gideons are people. Point 1: It's Santa who puts the presents around the tree. Point 2: The fact that he does so is empirical evidence of his existence. My work here is done.
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Well, I just don't like the fellow. As a child I once woke up un the middle of the night during christmas, and as I walked down the hallway I saw him in my parents bedroom. My dad wasn't there, but my mom had apparently been a good girl. Suffice it to say that milk and cookies wasn't the only things put out for santa that year. //L
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Wow - take a chill pill dady-o teh comparison was a quote - and I deliberately added the 'for example' bit. Used as an example of something that some people believe and some don't, and in an agrument actually supporting the viewpoint that it matters not what are your beleifs, but it does matter whether you teach them or not. If you think this sort of stuff should be in the back room or soap box, then I throw my hands up in despaire and suggest we stop using the lounge for anything except pun chains.
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Wow - take a chill pill dady-o teh comparison was a quote - and I deliberately added the 'for example' bit. Used as an example of something that some people believe and some don't, and in an agrument actually supporting the viewpoint that it matters not what are your beleifs, but it does matter whether you teach them or not. If you think this sort of stuff should be in the back room or soap box, then I throw my hands up in despaire and suggest we stop using the lounge for anything except pun chains.
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I had read more than just your post before I posted. I deliberately do not return fire at people who beat up my beliefs here, because I think it is not the right place for it. I'm more than willing to trade jibes or jokes on it, not here. Look at it this way - people say if you believe in private gun ownership, you are a nut, and that is non-lounge. How different is belief? And the pun chains have to get started in another room and moved here only when funny. (joke :-O )
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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Found out the other day that my son's teacher's assistant (let's call her Anne) has gone on hols for four weeks to the UK, so he has a substitute teacher for four weeks. Fair enough. The email informing us then went on to say that, if we wished to subscribe to Anne's email newsletter about crop circles, to contact her. The Wife(tm) tells me that she (Anne) is a crop circle 'fan' and believes in their healing powers, amongst other things. I was both astonished and horrified. Surely Crop circles are completely proven to be man-made? People making them have filmed themselves, and shown how it was done? How can a sane person believe in their mystical powers?? And she's teaching my Boy! The Wife(tm) did point out that it's only like being taught by someone who's Catholic (for example) - fine as long as they don't preach to the kids. But I'm still kinda concerned that someone who (IMHO) is close to being certifiable is allowed to be in charge of children! your thoughts?
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
Surely Crop circles are completely proven to be man-made?
They haven't caught me yet.... just playing with the local UFO toys from the Roswell crash... ;P ;P
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All the evidence I've seen shows that crop circles can be made by humans; nothing proves that all of them have been. It seems a pretty harmless belief to me, and one that the kids will one day be able to decide whether follow or not without anyone's help. Everybody needs to believe in something - better little green men with nothing better to do than draw pictures in cornfields than racial genocide. There are degrees of goofiness... After all, I was raised to believe in a man who supposedly rose from the dead after three days, but there's no tangible proof that he was ever born. It hasn't hurt me a bit, and I still choose to believe the myth... To quote another fictitious character, a favorite of mine, "One man's religion is another man's belly laugh." I believe I'll have another beer...
"A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"
Roger Wright wrote:
Everybody needs to believe in something - better little green men with nothing better to do than draw pictures in cornfields than racial genocide. There are degrees of goofiness...
Note to self: remember the green face-paint and get seen briefly....
Roger Wright wrote:
After all, I was raised to believe in a man who supposedly rose from the dead after three days, but there's no tangible proof that he was ever born. It hasn't hurt me a bit, and I still choose to believe the myth...
It's a pity folks don't let others believe what they choose to. As a local preacher tells their members: Buddha's bones are known and provable making him the myth and that all believers in the One who's bones cannot be found harass and attack anyone believing in the other. :sigh: Luckily we don't wear our religion on our sleeve so easily discovered. :-D
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....