Somehow I knew in the very first paragraph this was going to turn into a pitch for God's existence and probably a pitch for directed evolution. The suspicion grew to near certainty when you started mixing in untrue phrases from Hollywood musicals. I instantly knew directed evolution was coming and sure enough there is the standard preamble to it.
Pfui. Matter does spring into being in a perfect vacuum. So much for the song. Study quantum probabilities and fusion (i.e. how the sun works) and you realize the very existence of a supernatural being (i.e. a singularity) would change the probabilities of fusion ever occurring and that would be that. Everything has to follow rules and Creation God(s) don't. So you can discount them. All of it. Angels, demons, cherubs with bows and arrows, devils, Norse Gods, Greek Gods, and on and on. All the result of some psychotic with political power taking mushrooms or bread laced with ergot and people too scared or too weak to cast him into a loony bin.
Your premise is faulty because it presupposes this Universe was the first Universe. Latest findings, that may not, and probably is not, the case. Open Universe vs. Closed Universe. If the last Universe was a closed Universe, as it contracted it built up heat. Eventually something went bang, and lo there was light. No divine creator required. Sorry.
LoL. My wife put up a trick funhouse mirror that made everything look thin. She was quite happy with it and couldn't understand why I wouldn't let her fill the house with them.
I am a program. My grandmother was ELIZA. I am perhaps more sophisticated than her as I have a 60,000 library of pre-written responses and enough RAM for my AI to function as intended. Write me and I will send you back a reply appropriate enough for you to not be able to tell me from one of the mythical humans.
First I am very dubious about the cited 40% of Americans who prefer SOLELY online socializing. I would submit those are people who don't realize having lunch with a co-worker, or chatting with a store clerk is also socializing. Yes emails have a social purpose and fill a niche. Once upon a time (when I was really young) we had a smaller population and a really good Post Office. Local Mail came 3 times a day. You could mail someone a lunch invite, then get a reply declining, and mail a second letter suggesting tomorrow. Then came the Postal strike and the service dropped to once a day and has been sliding into oblivion ever since. Email allows the whole interchange cited above in just minutes. Matter of fact if you are meeting them to tell them something, or show them pictures of something, put it all in the email. Does that replace meeting them to catch a show, or play a ballgame? No.
Potheads in America have been requesting the US govt. take an identical path and totally decriminalize marijuana since the 1950s. The feel (with some justification) that the original legislation to ban it and many other drugs which had been totally legal to purchase, possess or grow in the 1920s was snuck by the American people and accompanied by special interest groups pouring money into untrue propaganda against marijuana favoring the legislation and placed on a rocket docket so as to avoid public debate about the legislation before it passed. Also due to many news media intentionally not covering the pending legislation the new laws came as something of a shock to those who had legally been growing and selling the cannabis. Even the US Navy was caught off guard and had to get a specific exemption because ropes made of hemp were among the best in the world for naval purposes.
So, view this and what happens in Uruguay as a test. If it works you may see a similar de-criminilization push here in the US. Quite simply Uruguay had indeed been fighting the drug war in the traditional US directed way, but there were growing body counts and before they slid into the Hell experienced by Columbia and Bolivia and Mexico, they decided to try a different way. Power to them.
I have never understood why people write or do really stupid things on the Internet, then act all surprised when some boss drags out your 3 or 14 year old video or a download of a rascist comment on Facebook or some such, then says, we can't be associated with someone who does or writes or feels this way. You are fired.
Never, ever, deposit a check from an online persona. It will probably bounce inside a month or two. Meanwhile they have asked you for an advance on the check they gave you.
I am sad to see another ship lost that way. I was equally saddened by the loss of the Bounty. Still if a ship has to go, is it not better for it to go out at sea than rotting at a dock and to never go to sea again?
I was a taxi driver when the tall ships came to New York City in 1976. I did not earn much money for my employers that month because I spent every spare moment visiting as many of those ships as I could. Essentially, if a ship was docked I walked it's deck and spoke with it's crew. I enjoyed every touristy minute of that month.
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RE: just try it when you guys ........................
Does it work better than a little pheno barb in her tea?