Dang Martin

No two loves are the same. Each loving relationship is a concoction of two separate people’s chemicals and how they interact.  I don’t think you can classify an objective depiction of love.  The most common denominators are how the love can make a person feel (mostly extreme emotions).

Best of luck with that hip replacement activity of yours!

@bellerose Whether it was scripted or not, and whether it was personalized or not, the man has at the least, set up a system to enable thoughtful reassurances to be available whenever someone contacts him.  I think it is very honorable.  I’m glad it made your day 🙂

@bellerose Come on up!  The place is wonderful.

@robert Property tax is around $10k for a place valued circa $375k. However, the towns in Vermont discount that based on income (not, apparently, on savings in the Bank) and if you’re retired, you’ll likely get an 80% discount – reducing it to around $2,000 annually. They expect you to pay quarterly, so it’s not as concerning as it initially sound…[Read more]

@robert if you elect to come to Vermont, I can help you find where you want to be 🙂

It all seems horribly inevitable and the state of the planet that we are leaving to future generations has never looked so shaky.  It’s hard to muster optimism at this stage.  The human habitat is endangered, although the planet itself will most likely recover after we are all gone.

This is at the bottom of the article:-

“Editor’s note: The publish date on this story was originally incorrectly stated as Jan. 20, 2014, due to a technical glitch. In fact, it was published on Sept. 27, 2017, after the embargo on the paper was lifted.”

I now want to know why there was an embargo on the paper.  And why.  And for three years?  Wow!

We had a King Harold in 1066 who was portrayed in the Bayoux tapestries as having been shot by an arrow through the eye.  Not a very auspicious name (although it had me in stitches)…

“Our father who art in heaven, Harold be thy name.”  It’s his bloody name, isn’t it?

I can’t unsee that, @robert.

The correct response to hitting oneself on the thumb with a hammer, is to glare at the nearest person and yell, “See what you made me do!”.

There’s “thank fuck” on one end of the extremes and “thank goodness” on the other.  “Bloody hell” now, I’d hate to lose that.

Reg, those blank pamphlets have lit a fire in my heart. I’m planning to hand them out in town – I’ve googled ‘blank pamphlets for sale’ but I’m not finding any….

The difference is that atheists don’t go a door knocking with their message, don’t take pleasure in announcing threats of hell, and so on.  An atheist doesn’t believe there’s a god.  Not many atheists are 100% certain, partly likely because of the absence of a common definition of Godhood.

@matt thank you for including the unicorns

@bellerose the point is that belief in a deity has nothing to do with the objective existence of that deity.  For example, belief in ghosts does not mean ghosts exist, other than to the believer.