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lately, BF2

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Didn't feel right to me, do I gave it away

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Iceman wrote:Cool! I was born in Harris hospital. We lived in Western Hills (next to White Settlement and Carswell AFB).

http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=32 ... +Rd,+76116

Freaky, dude. I grew up about a half mile south of you.

http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=37 ... lvd,+76116

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Iceman wrote:in the 60's . . . Tarrant County Texas (Arlington/Fort Worth).

I lived in Ft. Worth (Benbrook) in the 60's, but I didn't demonstrate or anything. Small world.

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Kilarin wrote:Athiest

Is this a superlative unbeliever?

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What do caps leak?

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dial up for me. no high speed available here. I'm on the wrong side of the digital divide. OH, the humanity.

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nice pic, Iceman. Did you score some rogaine?

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I don't think ID is that much more far-fetched than SETI. If you're interested in the historical side of the controversy, proto forms of ID date back at least to Anaxagoras, a 5th cent BC philosopher in Athens. His ideas were incorporated by Plato and Aristotle into their systems. The atomists took ...

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Really? Cause then there would be no impetus to explain these things... I was referring to the inexplicable (to use your term). I believe that, due to human finitude, there are at least theoretical, if not practical, limits to our ability to explain things. Possible examples are things like why is ...

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the concept of attributing the inexplecable to a higher being, This is often referred to as an appeal to the "God of the gaps". However, those committed to science do something analogous. When confronted with something that cannot be explained, instead of invoking the supernatural, they c...

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The proponent of ID doesn't have to claim that much, Cuda, just that some things are designed.

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I think the biggest problem in this discussion is the term 'torture' because it's such an emotionally charged word and there seems to be gray areas in the concept. Rather than frame the issue as "Are you for or against torture?", I think it would be more fruitful to ask what interrogation ...

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Birdseye wrote:You're

X2

Sony should stick to just making tv's

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I'd be happy to have even a source citation.

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Edit: remember, every law allowing something will get abused/exploited. Basic human treat. I think you are quite right. The laws that provide for our freedoms are abused/exploited by terrorists. That's the fundamental problem. The choice we now face, as Merlin mentions, is deciding between the less...

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I've always liked that song.

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will_kill wrote:. . . With Muslim's being in the same situation (in France) the riots can be compared to a drowning individual crying out for a savior.

If that is true, then I wish them success.

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they screwed it up terribly when this started escalating into rioting. I hope they don't start using suicide bombers. I hope they do but decide to test the bombs privately before trying them in public.... An unconsciously prophetic utterance, Will: MALANG, Indonesia (AP) - One of Southeast Asia's m...

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did you read the snopes article, mobius?

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Duper wrote:ya know Lothar, that's all kinda puzzling considering that a couple of France's "bed partners" are Muslem nations.

I guess snubbing the US is not enough to secure Muslim loyalty.

I hear that arson is down now. Maybe they're running out of cars to burn.

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surprised you didn't mentioned the wishbone.

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on the issue of secular wars, i'm not entirely convinced nationalism ISN'T a religion. The more i look into these things the harder and harder i'm finding it to define a line in the sand between beliefs, ideologys and religions. I think you're on to something. There was a theologian named Paul Till...

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iten wrote: they screwed it up terribly when this started escalating into rioting.

I hope they don't start using suicide bombers.

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[Religion] serves no purpose but misery. Look at what it has done over the ages and tell me otherwise. OK, I'll try. I'd say that if you add up all the crusades, inquisitions, witch trials, etc., the total misery would seem negligible compared to the misery attributable to the secular totalitarian ...

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Reminds me of the joke whose punchline is, "because air is free"

btw, I think those bubble things in aquariums cause air/oxygen to be dissolved in water. This is what the fish gills extract.

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I've never really understood how NZ money compares to USD's

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Mobius is not British -- unless GB still owns NZ.

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The term WMD is being used equivocally. Use of WMD's (in the sense of dirty bombs, etc) is considered immoral. But in this context, the term is being applied to a mine. Does the mere application of the term WMD mean the use of mines inherits the all the properties of the use of dirty bombs? You can ...

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All this talk of relative population growth sure sounds Darwinian. Whoever's best at gettin' busy, wins. And with welfare, you can even do it on somebody else's dime (or euro, etc.)

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I had no impression at all that Europe is in decline :? Explain that one to me, and who wrote that garb? France has got it's own problems, but that's its own fault. I've heard that birthrates are down, meaning that eventually, immigrants will be in the majority. The problems in France can spread (a...

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Don't be surprised if you get a complaint from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Furniture.

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In a similar vein: After Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, journalist Philippe Grangereau wrote in the French newspaper Liberation that the hurricane "has revealed America's weaknesses: its racial divisions, the poverty of those left behind by its society, and especially its president's ...

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woodchip wrote:Can we not say athiests are weapons of "Mass" destruction?

or perhaps cyclotrons?

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I'm not that bothered by TB's lack of commentary. (I'm far more interested in my own opinions than his

) I worry more about the quality and reliability of these news clips. After all, anybody can put anything on the net.

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LOL
nice pic!

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I have a book called Time's Arrow, by Huw Price (U of Sydney). In an epigraph he quotes Marx which sums it all up:

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

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roid wrote:and yet in the terrifying face of adhominem, the facts in the article still stand completely unerred.
Brilliant!

After thinking about it, I may have gone too far in joking about your post. Sorry.

I still think they write like a high school debate club, though.

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shrewd observation, Genghis

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From an AP article: "Dozens of residents and community leaders were stepping in to defuse tensions, with some walking between rioters and police to urge youths to back down."

Maybe the situation is not entirely hopeless.

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