Reg the Fronkey Farmer

Enco, yes. The local library is here is all of that. You get a good whiff of urine as you approach gateway to literary wonders. Those who have just about given up on life have all but moved in.

I also practically lived in the library at my university when I was working on my grad degree. Thankfully I did have a home to go to when I left.

Should…[Read more]

Robert,

Aw, Gramps Bradbury! You can read probably all of those books and more on The Guttenberg Project or The Internet Archive without a library, a place where you don’t want to live because nowadays, everyone else lives there and brings their worst ways.

The last times I went to a library, it had loud, noisy kids who chased each other in the…[Read more]

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

And nodding by the fire, take down this book,

And slowly read, and dream of the soft look

Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,

And loved your beauty with love false or true,

But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of…[Read more]

Conservatism in older age may reflect disillusionment. Idk.

Have not read Bradbury since i was 12 or 13. Might be a good idea to order a few books and get reacquainted. If i come back and remember my prior life i may take his advice on how to become a writer.

jakelafort wrote:
Enjoyed listening to Ray Bradbury, ha?

That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries…[Read more]

Enjoyed listening to Ray Bradbury, ha?

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
@Enco – I make a point of telling Science deniers where all the information they need can be discovered 🙂

Reminds me of something one of my favorite authors would say.

@Enco – I make a point of telling Science deniers where all the information they need  can be discovered 🙂

Reg,

Abiogenesis is the study of how life might have originated from non-living matter, while evolution deals with how existing life changes over time through mechanisms like natural selection and genetic drift.

They’re distinct domains: evolution presupposes life already exists. The fact that we don’t yet fully understand how life began doe…

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Abiogenesis is the study of how life might have originated from non-living matter, while evolution deals with how existing life changes over time through mechanisms like natural selection and genetic drift.

They’re distinct domains: evolution presupposes life already exists. The fact that we don’t yet fully understand how life began doesn’t und…[Read more]

Yes, the god of the gaps steps in when they bring out the arguments from complexity, incredulity, and ignorance.

It tells us something, that the domicile of the gods went from the top of the mountain, then up into the clouds, them out into space and then finally some unknown supernatural realm.

Fellow Unbelievers,

Dress it up in a lab coat but it is still a plain old god-of-the-gaps argument.

What is James Tour’s hang-up about Abiogenesis?

Anybody who has taken Jr. High biology and chemistry (at least from my day) knows that living things have Oxygen, Hydrogen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphurous, and Sulfur, all of which are nonliving…[Read more]

Yes, If I were starting over, I would upload my genome to a server and get it to start running scenario based tests on it. That would give it time to run millions of tests to find the optimum “CTAG” string to make the best new parts.

Yes, “keep your government hands off my Medicare. Don’t you even think about socializing it”!

Reg,

That ballad only addresses superficial age spackling, not the prospect of replacing worn parts with your own personal stem cell-cloned “body shop.”

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
A Sonnet for the Smokin’ Truth of April’s End —In Memory of the Pope, 4/20 On four-twenty, ‘neath Rome’s eternal dome, A holy puff drifted through sacred air. The Vatican clock struck “Whoa, bro” with a groan— As incense mixed with something… dank and rare. JD approached, with scripture in his coat, Hillbilly psalms…

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Reg,

Is there any validity to life extension technology?

The Ballad of Bio-Lies and Wrinkle Wars
(With apologies to your wallet and your face)

In jars of glow and tubes of youth, they sell us hope—or so, in truth,
With “hydra-quench” and “nano-peptides,”
They promise time will let us slide.

There’s “dermo-lift” and “chrono-repair,…[Read more]

A Sonnet for the Smokin’ Truth of April’s End
—In Memory of the Pope, 4/20

On four-twenty, ‘neath Rome’s eternal dome,
A holy puff drifted through sacred air.
The Vatican clock struck “Whoa, bro” with a groan—
As incense mixed with something… dank and rare.

JD approached, with scripture in his coat,
Hillbilly psalms and MAGA beads in hand.…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

You think the doctrine of Papal Infallability would end if an especially deranged Trump Pope were to procaim that a Pope cannot die as long as he holds his position?

Robert,

Hey, Pope Francis was from “The Global South,” so any racist or tribalist sensitivities he has are all right with the Woke Globalist crowd.

Which gives a new sinister meaning to “The South’s Gonna Do It Again.”

Mike had to pull Tom Servo to the side during the commercial break and do some…[Read more]