Strega

@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.

@bellerose I know you were joking, you just happened to enable me to make that point 🙂

Reg, if any of those Fronkeys reject the fish that those dolphins sent over, you could always give  them to the Catholics on Fridays.  I suspect ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ would also be willing to help, an unusual characteristic for such a cat.

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@bellerose I have to go out, I’m interested in continuing, but won’t be able to reply til later on 🙂

No @bellerose I am not asking you to define.  And yes, honestly, I could actually define myself. I probably would have struggled to do so when I was a lot younger, but I am certain, given sufficient ink and paper, I could define myself pretty well.

If you refer back to my earlier post, I accepted a force majeure unknown to humans, for the sake…[Read more]

@bellerose Actually I think I could describe myself sufficiently that if I were meeting someone I’d never met or seen before, they’d be able to recognize me.   As far as further definition goes, there are many add-ons I could provide, but all of them would be attached to my physical description to start with.  There’s a starting point.

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I read this statement.  The author is saying that we should not be restricting our imaginations by focusing on what does or doesn’t physically exist at present.  He/she thinks it’s possible to envisage the entire human race perishing from some force nobody comprehends.

I disagree. If humanity were to be extinguished, I’m afraid it would have to b…[Read more]