Post by: METALGOD8 on June 15, 2003, 08:32:00 AM
Post by: Majiktrvls on June 15, 2003, 10:07:00 AM
Ya know, I left the south, Alabama, in 95 and headed for the mountains of Utah. I do NOT miss the tornados, and violent thunderstorms of the south. I still find myself uneasy when the really dark clouds begin to move in. But, we will most likely have no rain for a couple of months. We are in our 5th year of drought, the rivers are running slow, and the lakes are drying up. WE did no have that much snow this year, usually we have several feet, and it makes for good spring run off to refill the lakes and resevoirs. Even the Great Salt Lake is at an all time low. The clouds roll up looking like they are going to dump some much needed rain, but they just keep rolling along and leave us with nothing. You can certainly do a little raindance and send it our way, we will gladly take some off of your hands!!
Post by: Froderik on June 15, 2003, 10:10:00 AM
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Post by: chinrse23 on June 15, 2003, 02:26:00 PM
Post by: Antigen on June 15, 2003, 08:37:00 PM
How could anyone not love this?
The legislature is to society as a physician is to the patient. If a physician ignored side effects of medications like today's legislators ignore the side effects of their legislation, the physician would be accused of malpractice. I accuse today's legislators (with rare exception) of legislative malpractice. Many of the ills that are so obvious in our society are a direct result of previous legislation. Their solution? More laws!
-- John A. Bennett, DO
Post by: ehm on June 15, 2003, 08:44:00 PM
Last night was the full moon, and next Saturday is the Summer Solstice. Ahhh... Summer.
All next week is supposed to be gorgious here. I'm going on a camping/canoe trip for four days on the Arkansas border, with Jonathan's entire family. ::hehehmm:: Should be fun.
Ginger, I loooovvvve the weather intro! It's a keeper!
The clouds are a nice touch...
Post by: chinrse23 on June 16, 2003, 06:58:00 AM
I also love the rain, i've been in drought before and the rain not only brings life, but for me, is quite cleansing and soothing. I love to watch things grow and spring up.
It was just a little hard yesterday when the glare of the sun and gale of the rain storm were both hitting the windshield. I looked for a rainbow, but didnt find one. :grin:
Post by: kosmonaut on June 16, 2003, 03:52:00 PM
Post by: Anonymous on June 16, 2003, 05:51:00 PM
Post by: ehm on June 16, 2003, 06:09:00 PM
Two more cents for ya. ( :grin: )
Post by: chinrse23 on June 16, 2003, 06:28:00 PM
I read somewhere that weather should actually be looked at on about a 10,000 year cycle because that is what scientists believe the cycle runs.
I had weather class in college. The same question was on every test--
What is the one thing that all people who study the weather know? The answer is that weather is unpredictable even in with the best equipment.
The college prof. actually said that if you want to know what the day is going to be like--open the door and look outside. He really did know his information.
Post by: Antigen on June 16, 2003, 10:31:00 PM
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On 2003-06-16 14:51:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Okay. Not that I'm provoking a religious discussion but Scripture says that in the "last days" the seasons will be all mixed up. Personally, I believe the freaky weather is a "sign of the times," but that's just me and my two cents. No need to attack, I simply think differently and wanted to contribute to the conversation. :grin: "
Nah, I think that rant was just an indictment against the Julian calendar. Although I'm not a professing Christian, I have always been a big fan of anyone who will call liars and thieves liars and thieves and kick them out of a temple by force (or any other way). Christ was real big on thumbing his nose at authority and encouraging others to do the same.
I don't know how the CC fundies have gotten it so mixed up in the mean time, but the whole reason why the Zealots hated Jesus was because he called himself Christ or "The Anointed One". It was that he had the audacity to put forth that you don't need a rabbi to anoint you. The annointing oil, including the essential ingredient Khana Bass or "Sweet Cane", comes from God and all God's children are entitled--even required--to partake.
In fact, Jesus made a short career of making the establishment look stupid. That's why the Romans didn't care for him any more than the Zealots.
Just one of many complaints against the Roman Empire at the time was that they criminalized the use of traditional calendars in favor of the Julian calendar. This may seem like a little thing, but it's not. You want to bust up and subjugate a culture? Take away their holy days and rites. That's one effect of changing the calendar. Another was that it became difficult to function in the agrarian societies.
"When do we plant the corn, Dad?"
"On the third full moon of... shhhh! they'll hear. On the Roman calendar, it'll be June 15th this year and a little earlier than that next year.... but, for real, it's the third full moon of ..."
In those days, that Dad could go to prison (where there were no services or civil right... or food, for that matter) just for telling his son practical info that works. It's easy to imagine a hot-headed radical rebel like Jesus preaching about how fucked up that is and saying something to the effect of "why, in another thousand years or so, we'll be having winter in July, for Christ's sake! and by that time, surely the empire will be in some deep shit.", only to be misquoted as prophesying catastrophic weather far off in the future.
Just my two pieces of silver :wink:
Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
--Friedrich Nietzsche
Post by: Antigen on June 16, 2003, 10:40:00 PM
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On 2003-06-16 15:28:00, chinrse23 wrote:
"The weather has only been measured for the last 200 years or so.
???? Here's an almanac from the 15th century.
It goes back a whole lot further than that! People have been studying and recording the weather for as long as people have been studying and recording. Why, just look at this thread. Weather is what people talk about when we run out of things to talk about.
Don't believe everything your professor tells you!
Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.
-- Scrope Davies: Letter to Thomas Raikes, May 25, 1835.
Post by: METALGOD8 on June 16, 2003, 11:15:00 PM
Don't believe everything your professor tells you!
Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.
-- Scrope Davies: Letter to Thomas Raikes, May 25, 1835.
Yes Ginger, a mind is a terrible sight sometimes. I had started this thread due to significant concerns about our well being here with respect to Mother Nature. It's not everyday that people should endure a damn thunderstorm 3 times, one day it was 5, and never have any more than 4 or 5 hours of full sun in a week. It's like some kind of curse or something. The contractors in this area are all out of money now. AWWW, :smokin:
Post by: Anonymous on June 16, 2003, 11:48:00 PM
Post by: ClayL on June 17, 2003, 01:31:00 AM
On a separate note, I am growing tired of this monsoon. It has cause a sink-hole on my property where an old well used to be. Dang thing has been filled in and doing fine for about 20 yrs.
CL
Post by: Froderik on June 17, 2003, 08:31:00 AM
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Post by: Antigen on June 17, 2003, 09:56:00 AM
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On 2003-06-16 20:15:00, METALGOD8 wrote:
I am sure there are those of us out here in Fornitsland that don't have much to say, but I aint one of them. That's not why I started this thread.
MG8
Sorry MG. I did't mean anything by it. And the quote was random.
If there's a worse idea going than locking people up for drug use, it's probably locking them up in close proximity to some tyranical altruist who wants to 'help' them with a problem that probably doesn't exist
-- Ginger Warbis
having had about all the help I can stand!
Post by: kel78 on June 17, 2003, 08:13:00 PM
And, I just had to say that Ginger rocks ALL for what she said about the table turning over episode, and how Jesus pretty much was a thorn in the side of the "experts" and "scholars".
And, as Mark Lowry says, you have to love a guy whose first miracle was keeping a party going...
Post by: Tampa survivor on June 17, 2003, 09:45:00 PM
Tree frogs have taken over...those guys don't need an ark. My yard had 2-6 inch long flying frogs bouncing about. Those footpads are rather odd to feel on your forehead as you go out the door at 6am with no coffee onboard yet!!
The cane toads are on the move. When a toad the size of a dinner plate is eating outta the Golden retriever's bowl, and running the dog off to do it, higher ground starts looking good. Higher ground in Virginia or Wisconsin...
Bill
Post by: METALGOD8 on June 18, 2003, 03:33:00 AM
Post by: LeighBright on June 18, 2003, 07:35:00 PM
Jesus was a rebel. It's true! And I like to think that had they been around in those days - Jesus would have owned a Harley.
After all, as noted earlier, something has to be said for a guy whose first miracle was providing the best wine anyone had ever tasted, who hung out with a an ex-hooker, a bunch of ruffians, skeptics, and other "sinners" - a guy who literally flipped out on the vendors in the Temple and got away with it, who snubbed His nose at the laws of the day, and was a homeless drifter who attracted attention every where He went.
Yep, there's no doubt about it. Jesus was a biker without a ride. :cool:
That's my two drachma.
Post by: Tampa survivor on June 18, 2003, 10:37:00 PM
I think he woulda had a Springer Softail.
Or maybe a ratty old sportster in keeping with the whole humble gimmick.
Nah, if I could do miracles, My bike would have ALL the chrome and gizmos!!
Bill
Post by: Anonymous on June 18, 2003, 10:38:00 PM
Im gettin a visual here guys
Post by: METALGOD8 on June 19, 2003, 12:33:00 AM
Post by: ClayL on June 19, 2003, 10:47:00 AM
CL
Post by: Antigen on June 19, 2003, 11:08:00 AM
You're right, though. The desciples wrote the gospels years after the facts and they don't even jive with each other in the particulars.
The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers, like stones, at the heads of those who have not yet asked the questions.
Paul Tillich
Post by: mithygato on June 19, 2003, 09:51:00 PM
Good posts, I always enjoy reading your stuff.
Sounds like you were (are) a fighter like me!
". . . Western society has become increasingly decadent. People have come to lead lives largely devoid of joy or gradeur. They are inslaved by a morality that says "no" to life and to all that affirms it. They have become part of a herd, part of a mass that is only too wiling to do what it is told. The herd animal, he held, is cowardly, reactionary, fearful, desultory, and vengeful. The mediocrity of Western civilization, he believed, was a reflection of these qualities. Nietzsche was under no illusions about the fate of the mass of mankind: only the rare and isolated individual is likely to escape a trivial life and pathetic fate, he maintained."
-Friedich Wilhelm Nietzche (1844-1900)
M.I.A
Straight Richardson 88/89
David
::nod::
Post by: Antigen on June 19, 2003, 10:03:00 PM
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Aristotle
Post by: METALGOD8 on June 25, 2003, 06:58:00 PM