Re: New trigonometry is a sign of the times

Ron quoted: > "Generations of students have struggled with classical trigonometry > because the framework is wrong," says Wildberger, whose book is titled > Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry (Wild > Egg books). I have to admit that when I saw the subject line of this

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

Dan, et al, OK, I wrote the whole message below, then realized that I'm getting way too much into argumentation and not nearly enough into being simple and clear. So go ahead and read and tear apart the message that begins with "Dan Wrote:", but consider this my reply: The main thing that promte

Re: Abortion Cost-Benefit Analysis

On Apr 24, 2005, at 6:50 PM, JDG wrote: To question at hand is whether it is moral to kill a [group of cells] after conception. There are two possible arguments in favor of this: 1) The [group of cells] is not human life. 2) It is acceptable to kill some human lives Do we care about birth

Re: Real cost of living (was Social Security reform)

On Apr 24, 2005, at 4:29 PM, JDG wrote: At 03:01 PM 2/19/2005 -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote: I understand that and have been supportive of many of the reforms you and others have mentioned. John's statement made it sound as if people receiving SS are living completely off of the largess of the wor

Re: Rhetorical Questions RE: Removing Dictators Re: Peaceful change L3

On Apr 24, 2005, at 4:03 PM, JDG wrote: > Now that we've let the DPRK gain nuclear weapons, Assuming, that is, that the US rules the world, and therefore is in a position to "let" or "not let" nations like the DPRK gain nuclear weapons. Perhaps we might consider other nations as adults, instead o

Re: Peaceful change

Dan, > In short, he has drawn a line between dictators, > terrorists and their cronies and everyone else. A line he erases by saying "You are either with us or with the terrorists." I don't see the line, Dan. Rather than "dictators, terrorists and their cronies," he named whole countries the "Axi

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

On Apr 7, 2005, at 10:10 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: > On Apr 7, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: >> At 08:59 PM Thursday 4/7/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: >>> though there's some wiggle room there -- IIRC the original text had it >>> as "behold, a young woman shall conceive". >> Which is co

Re: The Other Christianity L3

On Apr 7, 2005, at 6:59 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: > Not really. Virgin conception is impossible, though there's some wiggle > room there -- IIRC the original text had it as "behold, a young woman > shall conceive". Bishop John Shelby Spong, "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism": When I b

Re: Woobs (was: Tits (a womans perspective))

On Apr 6, 2005, at 7:32 PM, Robert Seeberger wrote: > Julia Thompson wrote: >> Robert Seeberger wrote: >>> Damon Agretto wrote: >>> > http://www.nice-tits.org/ I feel cheated... >>> >>> You were. >>> >>> There were not nearly enough pictures of tits on that site. >> >> Did you check

Re: The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

> --- Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've been hearing a lot about Jim Wallis lately. >> Aside from trying to get back issues of Sojourners >> (which I am not going to attempt this year), what >> would you suggest of his? > > I've seen him on TV and found him to be a stunningly > unim

The Other Christianity (was Re: Babble theory, and comments)

On Apr 4, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: > This is one of the problems with most of the modern interpretations of > the Gospels. Where Iasus was being metaphorical, he is taken literally; > and where he was being literal, he is taken metaphorically. I attended a seminar by Marcus Borg (

Re: Amazing-but-True Facts

On Mar 31, 2005, at 10:18 PM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote: > == >A M A Z I N G - B U T - T R U EF A C T S > == They'd be more amazing if they were, in fact, t

Re: I think it's a parody

Robert G. Seeberger wrote: > http://www.udargo.com/burton/Tsunami/ You really think so? Do you mean that Fox really doesn't have Jimmy Stewart as a reporter? The sad thing is tha they didn't go all that far from the truth. I especially love the ticker, but it's also almost too true: Economy do

Re: Real cost of living (was Social Security reform)

Folks, > How is that a problem? It looks like a step in the right direction to > me. The current Medicare all-you-can-eat system is the real problem. > When so many things are free, there is much less incentive to be thrifty > in one's medical consumption. Don't shoot me, but I'm going to say "Am

Re: What Social Security (and Its "Reform") Say About America

JDG wrote .. > At 05:01 PM 2/14/2005 -0800, Dave Land wrote: > > >Social Security reflects a certain view of America: a place where > >people are willing to sacrifice a little to ensure that seniors > >wouldn't have to suffer the privations that the depression wrought on > >so many of their fell

RE: What Social Security (and Its "Reform") Say About America

Folks, Before someone else noticed it and told me to "pay attention," I thought I'd correct an error in my last message on this thread: The transition costs to create private accounts won't be $2B. Of course, nobody knows exactly, but the number should have been $200B. And not a penny of it in

Re: NY Times

David Hobby wrote: >>Here's the page on bugmenot.com that lists all of the registrations that >>folks (here and elsewhere) have created to bypass the ridiculous forced >>registration for the Gray Lady: > > Cute, but the Brin List one was easier to remember! Evidently n