Sleaze, *Knee jerk response:* If you weren't so enamored in your own knowledge, I think you would learn more.
*30 second later response:* I think everyone is tired of your unnecessary and constant religious jabs in your e-mails. Apart from being irrelevant, unreasoned, and over-simplified to the point of absurdity, it's annoying. Some may choose to ignore it to "keep the peace" but I don't welcome this antagonism in my personal e-mail. As such, please find another venue to vent your bitterness. If you can't abide by the rules of CaveTex, as you have proven for the nth time, and those tasked at enforcing those rules don't boot you, then I'll leave. If I'm forced with the later option, CaveTex will maintain it's status quo, and yet another young caver will be convinced this isn't the group for them. I think the average age would jump ~10 years. I trust that this is not in the interest of the group and legitimately hope you can finally overcome this personal challenge for its sake. Cheers, -B PS. Don't write me personal and condescending e-mails that you're trying to enlighten me or anyone else- you're not interested in exchanging philosophical ideas, logic or weighing concepts on their own merit. The self-righteous, blind parroting of other peoples ideas is in abundance, unfortunately. On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:26 PM, <bmorgan...@aol.com> wrote: > ** > Here in Florida everyone believes that every single sinkhole pond is a > "spring fed lake". If you don't believe me just ask a realtor! If you > mention the fact that the water is just sitting there rather than flowing > the happy homeowner (whose lot size grows ever larger as the lake recedes) > will explain that there must be a hole in the bottom of the lake otherwise > how does the water squirt up to fill the lake basin? These are the same > folks who believe that if you dig a hole in the backyard water will rush up > to fill it, this despite the fact that their well is 200 feet deep. (This is > the same as the creationist argument for design. If the bucket gets filled > with water there has to be a faucet, right?) > > None of these folks believe that their ever receding lakes are in any way > affected by anthropogenic climate change, drainage ditches, golf course > irrigation, or that the green slime coming out of what used to be a spring > has anything to do with their septic tank. It is all magic. I just heard on > NPR that a researcher recently determined that no one would drink perfectly > sterile reclaimed water because it had once touched a turd, but they are > happy to drink the polluted aquifer because it is "natural". Therefore it is > best to dispose of perfectly clean reclaimed water by dumping it into the > river then pump it back out again after it has been "purified" by running > past the town just upstream. And to think that they came to all these > conclusions without me even having to put LSD in the public water supply! > > But not everybody is that dumb. I once had an in depth conversation with a > very intelligent Mayan Indian in Belize who after a shot of rum and a pull > on a spliff got downright philosophical. He explained that everybody knew > that water simply came out of the ground, presumably due to the intercession > of Oztotl, but he had a different idea. He said, "Maybe it has something to > do with rain?" > > Sleaze > -- Brian Riordan 979-218-8009 (Mobile) riordan.br...@gmail.com
