Intelligent Design: Coming To A State Legislature Near You

[Sheila]

Lil Ticked wrote:

<quoted text>19? That is still a little young to have the experience to fully know that ins and outs let alone fully appreciate any technology.

Some people are "the total package." If you're smart you open that gift when it's presented and enjoy it while you can. Life is short. That joy got me through a nasty divorce. Talk about manna from heaven.

[Sheila]

shinningelectr0n wrote:

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You're waffling.

Ouch! Point taken!

[Lil Ticked]

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> Some people are "the total package." If you're smart you open that gift when it's presented and enjoy it while you can. Life is short. That joy got me through a nasty divorce. Talk about manna from heaven.

Good point and Congratulations.

[Sheila]

shinningelectr0n wrote:

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Does anyone know for sure whether he was banned from Topix or is this just an urban myth?

Ask Pokay. He was talking about it earlier this week, about Truthist and C.J. He said that Truthist was describing exactly the same anomalies on her screen that happened on mine right before she was getting deleted. Has anyone seen the 'Easygoing' character on here anymore. That one gave me the willies. He/she shows up at the oddest times. I personally don't believe in coincidences.

[Lil Ticked]

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> Ask Pokay. He was talking about it earlier this week, about Truthist and C.J. He said that Truthist was describing exactly the same anomalies on her screen that happened on mine right before she was getting deleted. Has anyone seen the 'Easygoing' character on here anymore. That one gave me the willies. He/she shows up at the oddest times. I personally don't believe in coincidences.

I have seen "registered users" that constantly change names (they must have a lot of e-mail addys by now) because they are constantly getting banned. One was/is watamoose, I think that is/was (or some variation there of) his name. Guy was/is an absolute moron.
I really dont' think that you have much to worry about on the banning thing.

[Sheila]

Lil Ticked wrote:

<quoted text>I have seen "registered users" that constantly change names (they must have a lot of e-mail addys by now) because they are constantly getting banned. One was/is watamoose, I think that is/was (or some variation there of) his name. Guy was/is an absolute moron.
I really dont' think that you have much to worry about on the banning thing.

You would not believe how many times the censor refuses to post me on a first try. I get this "be polite" in bright red letters! What?! Like I'm posting to an eighty year old virgin who might have a stroke on hearing the word 'suck?'I'm not worried so much anymore as trying to connect the dots. I have the feeling that 'science' threads are being watched more than they used to be since the collider saboteurs' arrest, actually, even before that. I know I used a 'buzzword' phrase and then 'bam' there was this stranger commenting on the collider. It was way too coincidentally creepy. Like he had always been watching.

[Lil Ticked]

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> Like he had always been watching.

Sounds like some weird internet stalker. That is kinda creepy.

[Lil Ticked]

shinningelectr0n wrote:

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I like that quote.
Avoid the decaf. Waking dreamers live in the tail-wind of reality. Drinking decaf is part of a conspiracy conjured up by a man's wife and his doctor.

Whoa, I am not that far gone. And I am sorry that your wife and doctor don't let you drink normal coffee. Just tell them that the process for making coffee decaffeinated actually makes it more harmful than regular coffee. Sot of along the lines of Fire Safe Cigarettes and toxicity as compared to regular cigarettes. When I can't have coffee I usually resort to Java Monster Coffee+Energy. http://www.monsterenergy.com/web/guest/home

[Drew Smith]

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> You would not believe how many times the censor refuses to post me on a first try. I get this "be polite" in bright red letters!

I occasionally get the red "be polite" message, and I assume it is being triggered by some word or phrase I'm using. No idea what word or phrase it is, though. Or maybe it's just randomly triggered by replying to other people. The more you reply to others, the more likely you are to see it.

[Sheila]

Drew Smith wrote:

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I occasionally get the red "be polite" message, and I assume it is being triggered by some word or phrase I'm using. No idea what word or phrase it is, though. Or maybe it's just randomly triggered by replying to other people. The more you reply to others, the more likely you are to see it.

I guess there's still a little bit of the repressed librarian lurking inside me, worried about what other people think. I have to slap her down on a regular basis. The last warning I got did have the word balls in it, so whatever.

[T Leary]

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> Too bad "Lil T's thread is still being censored, coz iffn' it warn't that tin can of yours would be needing a lube job.

LOL... those tin cans are always needing a lube. What is up with that?

LT's thread being censored? What is this world coming to? Next we will have innuendo outlawed. Then only outlaws will have innuendo.

[Lil Ticked]

T Leary wrote:

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LOL... those tin cans are always needing a lube. What is up with that?
LT's thread being censored? What is this world coming to? Next we will have innuendo outlawed. Then only outlaws will have innuendo.

Hey . you just keep it in your endo and out of mine.

[Sheila]

Lil Ticked wrote:

<quoted text>Hey . you just keep it in your endo and out of mine.

Oh, baby, nevermind the others, let me lick your poor bruised ego,and your...

[T Leary]

Lil Ticked wrote:

<quoted text>Hey . you just keep it in your endo and out of mine.

Out of sight, out of mind.

[Sheila]

T Leary wrote:

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LOL... those tin cans are always needing a lube. What is up with that?
LT's thread being censored? What is this world coming to? Next we will have innuendo outlawed. Then only outlaws will have innuendo.

Rusty old cans,tee hee. Weird happenings on here,me and LT can see each other's posts, but nobody can see us,and YET I still get personally censored. Why censor me if nobody else can see? Anyway, do you have that "outlaws" poster?

[shinningelectr0n]

Drew Smith wrote:

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I occasionally get the red "be polite" message, and I assume it is being triggered by some word or phrase I'm using. No idea what word or phrase it is, though. Or maybe it's just randomly triggered by replying to other people. The more you reply to others, the more likely you are to see it.

I, too, get the 'be polite' warnings often. I have studied my posts in the past to find those key words and phrases you mention but to no avail. I've just resigned myself to the fact that Topix webmasters are not exactly 'masters' at what they do for a living. For example, late last nite and early this morning, I was receiving responses to posts I made back in June & July. That happens, of course, but the most recent response was *IN* June & July and not on Nov 11th. I got another about 10 minutes ago. Nothing's perfect.

[T Leary]

Sheila wrote:

<quoted text> Rusty old cans,tee hee. Weird happenings on here,me and LT can see each other's posts, but nobody can see us,and YET I still get personally censored. Why censor me if nobody else can see? Anyway, do you have that "outlaws" poster?

Don't have the poster, but being an ex Austin musician I know most of the guys in the poster. Never met Willie, however, I used to party with his daughter Paula.

[Pokay1kaduB]

Chimney wrote:

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Really?
Research into natural abiogenesis is simply looking for what combination of physical conditions and processes could lead to the first self replicators.
I think the shoe is very much on the same foot because its YOU who wants to throw in supernatural or mysterious unknown forces, whether we are talking about abiogenesis or consciousness.

OK you should know by now that I am not advocating placing my ideas in a science classroom. But it does not hurt to speculate possibilities "out of class" and that's all I have been doing this whole time. And there is really no such thing as supernatural in my book, only unknown. Who's to say these processes that lead to the first replicators are not the result of some sort of "life seed" like soul or consciousness?

The mountain of evidence that consciousness is tied to the particular physical structures called neural networks? The simple fact that consciousness has NEVER been observed in any other form.

That still is not a good reason to disregard the possibility. How do we know it is even possible to observe it when not causing an effect on matter?

And let me elaborate on that because its not simply a case of finding something where we look.
Thousands of years of theorising over out of body or purely spiritual consciousness has never yielded one iota of evidence. Research into out of body or mind-at-a-distance type of phenomena has never yielded one iota of evidence. All this looking, and nothing found. Ever.
Absence of evidence IS evidence of absence when something has been searched for as thoroughly and for as long as immaterial consciousness.
Swinging back to abiogenesis, take a look at the October 17 New Scientist. Yet another case of increasingly plausible routes to abiogenesis through natural mechanisms.

"increasingly plausible" is a matter of opinion in this area until it becomes fact. I will say this much, sure there has to be a physical process or manifestation that resulted in the first lifeform/replicator IF it is true that no organized matter existed in this universe and survived the BB. But if we could have "watched" it happen who's to say it was not "directed" by some outside force? Could it have been spontaneous (not directed by outside force)? Using your terminology there is not one iota of evidence to say it wasn't directed. Believe me I hope someone settles this but until they do, don't get too confident that life just accidentally happened and existence 'just is'.

[Pokay1kaduB]

Chimney wrote:

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Granted.
But the big wows come from many little wows. And who said nature initially incorporated these things without "countless other possible nucleic acid type building blocks and impurities"? These could have existed early on, whittled away by natural selection.

Again it must have happened but was it directed? I see no way for a spontaneous process to accomplish the current result no matter what was incorporated at first. You have a bunch of building blocks. Then they combine into mish mash. There's no way to build it with infinite rolls of the dice due to natural laws of chemistry. At least none that I can see so far, and it is not wishful thinking, I simply see no way yet.

[Sheila]

shinningelectr0n wrote:

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I, too, get the 'be polite' warnings often. I have studied my posts in the past to find those key words and phrases you mention but to no avail. I've just resigned myself to the fact that Topix webmasters are not exactly 'masters' at what they do for a living. For example, late last nite and early this morning, I was receiving responses to posts I made back in June & July. That happens, of course, but the most recent response was *IN* June & July and not on Nov 11th. I got another about 10 minutes ago. Nothing's perfect.

If they're actually reading yours they're probably so confused they figure it wouldn't hurt to put a warning, just in case! ;)