--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > Loved it, thanks. Backacha! > > > > > > Jesus and Vishnu on Christmas eve. > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X7x-DHKHW0 > > > > > > RESPONSE: Somebody secretly is fighting off doubts about evolution here. > > > Too worked up metabolically. Serenity, irony, quiet confidence, > > > respecting what makes it hard for some people to take the idea of > > > macroevolution as proven: much better. > > Agreed. It needed a final edit and cooler delivery to be more effective > communication. But that said, I know plenty of guys like this and it doesn't > really mean anything about the content of what he is saying. It is our > emotional reaction to to a person being too self indulgent that makes it poor > communication. He went to far into the dickish lane for me too. > > < If someone was holding out for flat earth theory, how would be treat that > person? Not like this. Brilliant as it is. Some people want macroevolution to > be true so much they become much too aggressive and abusive in their > denunciation of the persons (like John Lennon) who balked at the sweeping > claims of Darwin. This is evidence of metaphysical anxiety: You mean > macroevolution might not be true? I don't think it has been proven beyond the > right to ask question about it. Although microevolution is a no-brainer. > > There are questions within the thoery that are still being discussed. And > the understanding has advanced far beyond Darwin's initial formulation due to > the spirit of questioning. In this year's election this is gunna be a lowest > bar litmus test for me. If you understand science, you understand how the > theory of evolution is the basis for our whole understanding of biology. It > is is more than key. > > > > > As for the Christmas boast of Christ, I think Jesus prevails here. He has > > all the cards. However facetiously presented, his arguments against Krishna > > win out for me. It's a bloody good argument. Besides where does your > > irresistible love of Christmas come from, Curtis? > > Well we have to be realistic that most of what I love about Christmas is not > Christan but Druid and Mithra worship. My neurons got bribed into it pretty > early. But I still enjoy the nativity myth perhaps even more so now that I > know some of the sources it was cannibalized from historically. These are > archetypes to be enjoyed. > > > > > Me: I say it comes from the fact that it is true. God became a tiny infant. > > I would go with: God becomes every tiny infant. Jesus was really not so > unique in his time. There were other messianic guys whose philosophies were > less able to be turned into an empire builder for Constantine, but who in > their time were as popular as Jesus during his life. > > > > > If only he was around somewhere now. > > > > I'd like to hear his response to Rick's post. Smugnessabout anythingit is > > a dangerous thing. Sounds a little like an Oral Roberts prayer tent with > > the ritual denunciation of the evils of atheismalthough Oral never got > > that good of course. And didn't know the first thing about irony. Or > > beauty. Jesus, you there? > > > > Nope. > > > > But we still celebrate your birthday. Krishna, you could have done a lot > > better. What happened? > > > > Hey, Curtis. I like that you like Christmas. > > > > No neurobiological explanation there. > > Neuron bribing pure and simple! My folks took the Santa thing seriously and > we were very spoiled at Christmas. > > A purer form of Christmas spirit is the feeling I get when I hear, walking > along crunching on new snow, in my Pocono mountain hometown, the clear song > of a Chickadee through the pine trees. It is my version of a Christmas carol > and always means Joy to the World to me. > > Oh yeah, and German Lebkuchen Christmas cookies washed down with a little > Balvenie doublewood single malt. (the fist aging is in oak bourbon casks, the > second in port wine casks) Now THAT is the body and blood of Christ! RESPONSE: Ah that All Black tackling machine: CurtisDeltaBlues. I deny life is the way you apprehend it, Curtisand therefore your arguments, while marvellous and hard-hittingand charming beyond all conceiving are wrong. I have to tackle you once in a while. Because you, you don't go down, no matter how hard you are hit.
That gentle, loving, merciful heart I have felt in the past, sometimes it contracts. Please let yourself be (contingently) proven wrong by life, as I will always be willing to be proven wrong by life. I feel it is an honour to know you, Curtis. But you, in the end, have had the effect on me of "stiffening my sinews" and "summoning up my blood". Still, I can't think of anyone in the world (yeah, that's right) whose perception of something I would rather hear about than your own. But don't let that Gaga Humility [or "epistemological humility"] rust from disuse. Preacher manjust chalk it up to Canada. The bruises I have from you tackling me I look upon with pride. I hope we get to meet face to face before this death thing. Because after that, you will all be agreeing with me. Curtis to himself: Not a chance, Robbie Bobbie: My science (and my blues, and my primate whispering, and my cooking, and my writing, and my humour, and my heart) will get me though all the way to the end. After that, believe me, Robbie Boy, there won't be anything left of meor you. The best thing going: I am myself; you are yourself; and we go right to the wall. That's the only way it should be, Curtis. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LJYLT9TbRew > > > > > > > > > >
