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- Sun May 05, 2024 7:48 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Up Here in Bathysphere (or wherever it is)
- Replies: 408
- Views: 33579
Up Here in Bathysphere (or wherever it is)
Good luck with it Foggy! "Sweet sorrow" seems to be the operative phrase. Even for non-believers, it works well to devise a memorial service that not only works for the living participants (giving them joy, closure, acceptance, snacks, whatever they wish) but also one that you think the ma...
- Sat May 04, 2024 3:18 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Up Here in Bathysphere (or wherever it is)
- Replies: 408
- Views: 33579
Up Here in Bathysphere (or wherever it is)
These days you can buy an applicator to insert more sawdust into a leaky cranium if you find your IQ dropping.
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:51 am
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Anthropology
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2663
Anthropology
How or why the Neanderthals and Denisovans disappeared about 40,000 years ago is the subject of speculation. Sadly, I think we were very, very mean to them, to the point where we wiped them from the face of the planet. :blackeye: Indeed. However, that hypothesis is not proven (yet?) and there are o...
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:40 am
- Forum: Religion and Politics
- Topic: Religious Threadjacks
- Replies: 673
- Views: 94872
Religious Threadjacks
With coffee and nothing better to do via ex-mormons I found myself at Baptist News Global. It has a piece by Robert P. Jones Understanding America’s overlooked religious middle . Jones' main point is that political attention is directed mainly at the religious extremes and falls to adequately consid...
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:10 am
- Forum: Religion and Politics
- Topic: Religious Threadjacks
- Replies: 673
- Views: 94872
- Sat May 04, 2024 5:08 am
- Forum: Current Politics
- Topic: George Santos (R-NY) and his imaginative (but dishonest) résumé
- Replies: 1629
- Views: 196813
George Santos (R-NY) and his imaginative (but dishonest) résumé
Interesting views, thanks all. I hadn't considered the English (? I don't know its history) pantomime tradition. Of course dames are cross-dressing and thus (arguably?) drag, but doesn't raise the same doubt in my mind, probably because it is so cartoonish. Probably Barry Humphries too. Anyway, the ...
- Sat May 04, 2024 4:40 am
- Forum: Religion and Politics
- Topic: Religious Threadjacks
- Replies: 673
- Views: 94872
Religious Threadjacks
There's a natural tendency to look at the past where the pews were full and think that the expression of doctrine in services back then was the cause of that. One of the biggest traps in logical thinking is mistaking correlation for causality, so it's pretty natural to think that if you resume Lati...
- Sat May 04, 2024 3:55 am
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: Bragg Manhattan DA charges tfg? Hush money. tfg “INDICATED!”
- Replies: 1631
- Views: 67191
Bragg Manhattan DA charges tfg? Hush money. tfg “INDICATED!”
Is that similar to Barbara Billingsley speaking jive in Airplane..... Still one of my favorite scenes in any movie, and that's all I'm going to say. Those of us without a lifetime's knowledge of US tv missed the clever disjunction of using Barbara Billingsley for that scene … and probably similar r...
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: Law and Lawsuits
- Topic: General Law and Lawsuits
- Replies: 1066
- Views: 171535
General Law and Lawsuits
C'mon, we know that Mike – our kid – is channeling his memories of discussions of Arkell v. Pressdram on the pages of Ye Olde Fogbowe, the debates that took the lad from the squalid alleys of military life and the festering pits of evolutionary biology to the bright lights and sun-soaked beaches of ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: Religion and Politics
- Topic: Religious Threadjacks
- Replies: 673
- Views: 94872
Religious Threadjacks
It's narthex. And pews. Genuine question, what is not pews? (So to speak.) Benches? Seats? I never attended lectures in hermeneutic eschatology so some major issues escape me. Chairs Ah! I thought it was a terminological question rather than object/function-related. So: stand chairs benches pews = ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: Current Politics
- Topic: Political Toons
- Replies: 6197
- Views: 869736
Political Toons
My computer has one on its mouse. Stops the mouse getting lost when the computer wipes out.
- Fri May 03, 2024 11:34 am
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: #Brunson v. Adams - MAGAts Version of Birthers Hopium / ReVote2017 SCOTUS Case
- Replies: 528
- Views: 31521
#Brunson v. Adams - MAGAts Version of Birthers Hopium / ReVote2017 SCOTUS Case
Wow! Shows how out of touch I am (or was!).
Thanks for the correction.
Thanks for the correction.
- Fri May 03, 2024 5:52 am
- Forum: COVID-19 and its several variants
- Topic: Long Haul Covid
- Replies: 92
- Views: 8679
Long Haul Covid
There have recently been suggestions that latent herpes viruses might also be a factor in some forms of dementia. I can't remember the details offhand but I think the virus sticks around nerves and the immune system forms proteins to protect the nerves, and those proteins can accumulate in plaques, ...
- Fri May 03, 2024 5:33 am
- Forum: Foreign Countries and Culture
- Topic: UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland
- Replies: 1074
- Views: 91496
UK - England, Wales, N.Ireland, Scotland
:rotflmao: Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID :snippity: Johnson has (I think) largely dropped out of current news so he will be happy to get the publicity. He doesn't feel the shame or embarrassment that a non-sociopathic person would in that ironic s...
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:17 am
- Forum: Religion and Politics
- Topic: Religious Threadjacks
- Replies: 673
- Views: 94872
- Fri May 03, 2024 4:11 am
- Forum: Current Politics
- Topic: Sharon Rondeau's The Post & Email - Sharon Bess Hanjian Wirth Rondeau Rated F "Questionable Source"
- Replies: 464
- Views: 71533
- Fri May 03, 2024 3:16 am
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: #Brunson v. Adams - MAGAts Version of Birthers Hopium / ReVote2017 SCOTUS Case
- Replies: 528
- Views: 31521
#Brunson v. Adams - MAGAts Version of Birthers Hopium / ReVote2017 SCOTUS Case
I was thinking "I don't remember what this case claims to be about." On the basis that others might be thinking the same, here's a extracts from a reality-based Salt Lake Tribune piece quoted in an earlier post by Luke : The suit, which leans on baseless claims of fraud in the 2020 electio...
- Thu May 02, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: Religion and Politics
- Topic: Religious Threadjacks
- Replies: 673
- Views: 94872
- Thu May 02, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: Crazy Trumpers
- Replies: 860
- Views: 235183
- Thu May 02, 2024 7:07 pm
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Anthropology
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2663
Anthropology
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/neanderthal-woman-face-reconstructed-iraq-scientists-cave-rcna150344 LONDON — She looks pretty good for 75,000 years old. :snippity: Given the similarities with humans, “it’s perhaps easier to see how interbreeding occurred between our species,” she added, “to the...
- Thu May 02, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: The Big Lie & Aftermath of The Former Guy
- Topic: Bragg Manhattan DA charges tfg? Hush money. tfg “INDICATED!”
- Replies: 1631
- Views: 67191
- Thu May 02, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: Religion and Politics
- Topic: Religious Threadjacks
- Replies: 673
- Views: 94872
Religious Threadjacks
Yeah, but they all say that. :confuzzled: No. Not all have that amalgam of tolerance but complete denial. Plenty of sects have condemned other sects as unchristian or heretical over the centuries and now. Plenty. Getting excited and arguing bitterly about whether the wafer transubstantiates or cons...
- Thu May 02, 2024 12:07 pm
- Forum: Religion and Politics
- Topic: Religious Threadjacks
- Replies: 673
- Views: 94872
Religious Threadjacks
My Russian Orthodox cleric smiled through his big white beard and agreed when I told him my understanding of the Orthodox sects' view of other sects is "We respect other denominations' interpretations and practices. But they are all wrong."
- Wed May 01, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Current Politics
- Topic: Political Toons
- Replies: 6197
- Views: 869736
Political Toons
They're not changing my gender!raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 3:20 pm Well, and some frogs can change genders. So there's that.
- Wed May 01, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Religion and Politics
- Topic: Religious Threadjacks
- Replies: 673
- Views: 94872