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[jeremyp]

I like this one

You mean .. like visualize the end effect and let everything else fall into place to achieve it - muscle memory.

If that is trigonometry .. it would explain all the sportsmen with honorary maths degrees.

[Samuel]

A beautiful sentiment from Rhiannon

"What I can rely on is the ground beneath me, the sky above me, clouds, trees, stars. They are ever with me"

[Gordon]

The best one line post this year: wins by a mile - from Rhiannon to Vlad.

'Don't worry, Vlad, axe throwing isn't my thing. I'd just knit you something humiliating.'

[Gonnagle]

Dear Samuel,

"What I can rely on is the ground beneath me, the sky above me, clouds, trees, stars. They are ever with me"

Our Rhiannon is Tiffany Aching Pratchett/Discworld fans will know what I am talking about.

Gonnagle.

[Bubbles]

One of my favourites 

2: Antitheism does not own science. it merely sits on top of it like a bloated, sweaty custard tart on a hot day.

 

[Samuel]

From Udayana... HeHeHeHeHe..

"hmmm.. yes, and what is mass? Why does it bend space-time, and what the heck is space-time anyway?

Never mind... I've decided not to let it drag me down..."

[bluehillside Retd.]

Samuel,

From Udayana... HeHeHeHeHe..

"hmmm.. yes, and what is mass? Why does it bend space-time, and what the heck is space-time anyway?

Never mind... I've decided not to let it drag me down..."

So a photon checks into a hotel and the receptionist asks, "Do you have any luggage Sir?"

"No", says the photon, "I'm travelling light..."

[Nearly Sane]

From Outrider


 'A dog is so much more than lichen, Angel Falls is so much more than the Meon River, the moon is so much more than a pebble... It's not what you look at, it's how you see it.'

[Shaker]

Another from the redoubtable Outrider on the 'Proselytism' thread:

Try as hard as you like Christianity's relevance in the UK is in decline, and whilst we choose to keep some of the historical traditions for sentimental reasons you no more own Christmas because it has 'Christ' in it than Boots owns my Wellingtons.

[Shaker]

Outrider keeps them coming:

Most people try to camouflage their fallacies, but it's good to see someone so confident/guileless that they just throw themselves into it. Bravo...

[Shaker]

This is getting just a little embarrassing now:

My arguments are, indeed, based on ignorance - yours.

[Nearly Sane]

From gonzo


'My tuppence worth old friend, losing a loved one, for me it is my old Dad, I still think I have not grieved properly, I have not shed a tear, at his funeral I actually smiled, not because  I thought he was going to a better place, only that his suffering was at an end, he had a shitty last couple of years, do I have a point, maybe, only that we grieve in different ways.

On the subject of pool   and this is probably where you start to hate me, I love the game ( game  ) but only for the banter round the table, not for the perfect shot, or the perfect way someone manipulates the ball, just the sheer joy of laughing as someone pots a ball which never should have happened, me and my mates play killer, you know, three lives and then you are out, we always play for money, and there is always some arse who wants to up the stakes, me I just stand and enjoy the friendship, macho guys ( or so they think ) all thinking they are Gods gift to pool.

Sometimes it becomes serious ( well to me ) someone from another table challenges one of my mates to a game ( 50 quid maybe ) I still smile, all these macho guys posturing ( I do a bit of posturing myself, kind of lean on the pool cue and look mean   )

Anyway old son, keep playing your pool, I think the passion will return, as for your grieving, that is yours, it belongs to you, a very personal thing.

My tuppence worth, may our Lord walk every step with you, Amen.'

[Gonnagle]

Dear Forum,

Our very own Rhiannon

Thinking that we can see the big picture places us in the position of the gods, when in fact we are fools.

Maybe it is like that freewill thing, we need to pretend that we are intelligent.

Gonnagle.

[Gordon]

A great one-liner from Nearly Sane.

'(think I am past Irony, and even coppery here, at the very least think now zincy)'

[Nearly Sane]

From enki, a gentle and enlightening piece of ribbing.

I think that's silly, Gonners. (silly, a word originally meaning worthy or blessed)

I think Christmas has a myriad of subtly different meanings to those who celebrate it.(myriad, a word originally meaning exactly 10000)

You seem a regular kind of guy though. (guy, originally meaning an eponymus Guy Fawkws or, from that, a frightful figure)

I shall be partaking in the usual Christmas celebrations(Christmas, a word originally meaning Christ's Mass) without any thought of the birth of Jesus whatsoever. Indeed I, no doubt like many others, will be taking my fill of meat and drink at this time. (meat, a word which originally meant any solid food)

I think that the Christian importance given to the word 'Christmas' is gradually fizzling out, at least in this country. (fizzle, a word which originally meant quiet flatulence).

Cheers 

[Gonnagle]

Dear Bashers,

I'm beginning to have second thoughts about visiting Scotland now.

Ah! but as a Christian, me and you will walk up the High St, bit of a climb, a small pilgrimage to visit our wonderful Cathedral, we will visit St Mungo's tomb, we will walk on, wait for it.................. the same stones that Wallace and The Bruce walked on, where maybe in quiet whispers, Bruce and Wallace talked to the Bishop of Glasgow of Freedom, or rather, FREEEDOOOM.

Gonnagle.

[Gordon]

Another gem from Outrider (from the Donald Trump thread)..

Words can only hurt you if you let them, but silence leads to ignorance, and ignorance can hurt any number of people.

[SweetPea]

From Sriram (on the theory of theories thread)

The only problem presently is in regarding current methodologies and techniques as irreplaceable and unquestionable. That makes science  as dogmatic as other beliefs and prevents fresh knowledge from beyond our normal sensory perceptions.

[Shaker]

A zinger from Most Excellent and Munificent Supreme Leader hisself:

Hope the weather stays calm for you, Vlad, as you drift helplessly upon the Ocean of Fallacies without sail, oar or rudder to help you.

[Aruntraveller]

If you think (just to concentrate on a few items from the 20th century alone, otherwise the list would be unmanageable) Passchendaele, the Holodomor (look it up if necessary), the Second World War including special guest star the Holocaust, Balkan ethnic cleansing nee Yugoslavia and Rwanda are examples of your god "dealing with" evil then I personally wouldn't have him running a whelk stall.

Shaker in form on the 'Searching for God' thread.

[Gordon]

Some excellent stuff from Torridon (addressed to Alan Burns, in the Searching for God thread)).

Fear is one of the primary emotions that all animals have; if you say 'boo' to a goose and then you say 'boo', to a lawyer you will induce a feeling of fear in both your victims, and there is no particular reason to think that the feeling of fear is qualitatively or fundamentally different. Lawyers and geese share a common ancestry which is why we share the six or seven primary emotions with all other vertebrates. It is not coincidence. I agree the goose's reaction may be predictable, I agree the goose does not have free agency; but on your part, you ought to understand that the goose does have internal mental states; it has feelings, inner experience, emotions, just like us, and if you can see that then you are half way there to seeing that the hard problem of consciousness is not some inexplicable magic unique to humans, but rather conscious experience is pretty ubiquitous throughout the animal kingdom. The testimony of every bat, every lobster, every haddock, every goose and even every lawyer (yes even lawyers), is that inner mental states are the same thing as neural activity, just understood and experienced from a different perspective. Mental states are what neural activity feels like.

[Nearly Sane]

From Hope, I love this sort of powerful reminiscing:

'Slight tangent here: one of my godfathers, and our family doctor, had a really old-fashioned disabled vehicle that had belonged to his mother (this was in the 1960/70s).  It was an elongated 3-wheeler and the driver was meant to pedal it whilst reclining on the seat, with their legs out in front of their body.  I can remember driving it from his house/surgery to ours - a distance of about half-a-mile - via two of Oxford's busiest roads when I was about 14.  'Hairy' doesn't do the trip justice.  Cars were racing past me, and trying to steer it into the middle of the road to turn right was not easy!!'

[Nearly Sane]

From Sassy

If Christ can walk on water why can't a priest use a hoverboard?

[Nearly Sane]

From Trentvoyager talking about Vlad

Fuck me, you could probably knit conspiracy theories out of diarrhoea.

[Nearly Sane]

This isn't a best bit, but it's too disgusting to be ever cleared away and allow Hope's hatred to be erased.

Except that the so-called 'equality' of gay marriage is a mirage that some people, gay and straight, are happy to swallow.  If you and others are happy to go along with that, that means that real marriage can survive unharmed.