tom sarbeck

Reg, months ago I replied to a post by you in which you defined the word “debunk” to require only your opinion. The Oxford English Dictionary (and its Yankee “cousin” the Oxford New American Dictionary) defines the word very differently.

IMO, you have not debunked the EU.

Reg & Davis, it’s now April 19 and yesterday is much less important.

And PB, how warm was that Pillsbury cookie batter?

I find April 18th important, for that date I don’t drink JWBL, don’t look for fronkey fossils, don’t debunk Reg’s or Davis’ posts, and do accept my late drinking buddy Albert’s SR and GR.

Postscript, PB. The video will tell you why I don’t do alternate explanations. They tend to require a few reams of paper or an onscreen equivalent.

PB asked: Can you help us understand science better, at least in between the pot shots?

Excellent timing, PB. Get thee to http://www.thunderbolts.info without delay and on its home page you can click on a short video titled Wal Thornhill: Black Hole or Plasmoid?

If you delay you can use the strange little search box on the upper right and search on…[Read more]

Robert wrote: … a large-by-networking telescope to “see” an event horizon.

Or, a large-by-networking telescope to gather data interpreted as an event horizon, displayed on computer screens and published in popular media. Renewed funding follows.

U wrote: … It’s a bit soon to be calling it “pseudoscience.”

Eggs preceded chickens, U, and untested hypotheses precede empirical evidence.

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Davis wrote: Perhaps they brought the photo to the media to get interest in the project and perhaps find sources of funding.

Davis, without taxpayers’ wide-eyed attention, Congress won’t appropriate billions of dollars and Big Bangers will be writing perhaps good scifi or doing Lyft, Uber, and such.

Check the OED for the Greek origin of “apostate”. It means “runaway slave”.

And so, when someone tells you “Once a Catholic, always a Catholic”, you can reply “Once a Catholic, always helpless”.

I’m getting ready, Reg.

I have long felt no need for a beginning. I’m also hoarding ice cream but will need a way to keep it cold.

Infinite Simulation, as U describes it seems much like Perpetual Motion.

And BTFW, plants show no sign of being conscious?

Rather, U shows no sign that he is conscious of whether plant are conscious. I’ve read of research saying plants communicate externalia by emitting aromas/odors.

Said my mom decades ago, “Cats are sovereign monarchies with tails and self-emptying mousetraps.”

Robert wrote: It’s just the practice that has moderated. The fundamental beliefs are still there.

Is a moderate at the midpoint or an end of the “XX ———— fundie” spectrum?

My ethnic German parents demanded obedience. My Catholic dad sent me to Catholic  schools and I became a fundamentalist. At puberty, a hormone-fueled orgasm exploded my pra…[Read more]

Simon, please define “institutional reasons”.

Do institutions HAVE reasons? Do institutions think?

Simon asked “…the reasons why religion turns to the dark side,….”

Because a very few people “on the dark side” create religions. They want control, money, or access to the kind of people who need or get religion. For instance, children.

Re Carlin and idiots or maniacs: Humor often comes from within; he was projecting.

“…a desperate marriage of hope and ignorance.”

It’s comforting that no one here is ignorant.

I think it dangerous to take hope from ignorant people.