Bazza Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I don't worry about lightning' date=' I believe in Science:D[/quote'] still a belief Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings The beautiful thing about Science is that even if you don't believe in it, it still exists. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings The beautiful thing about Science is that even if you don't believe in it, it still exists. JG The same can be said for a good number of things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klytus Posted December 21, 2012 Report Share Posted December 21, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings My first memories of growing up were with my mother living with her parents right after she divorced my dad. They (the grandparents) were very Catholic, so they were always going to Church, and usually taking us (me and mom) with them. My mom was not very religious, though, so once she re-married and we moved out, that was the last I saw of Church. Then I was sent to a Catholic High School. True, mom sent me there mainly because it was a college prep school, but religion was still pretty unavoidable. For most of my life, I considered myself Christian and spiritual, but never religious. Then, in late 2008, early 2009, I had a pretty severe case of cognitive dissonance with certain important elements of Christianity, which (to me) made it impossible for me to keep calling myself Christian. I was spiritually adrift for a while, and found my way into Paganism. There is really no "label" for my Path, though I once heard someone describe me as a "solitary shamanic eclectic practitioner". In other words, I'm not part of a group or coven, and most strongly resonate with shamanism, but will still draw elements from other traditions which also resonate with me. In fact, today my wife and I are marking the Solstice by driving to the Luray Caverns to pursue personal spiritual guidance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemming Posted December 23, 2012 Report Share Posted December 23, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Nothing like mulled bourbon to warm you up on a cold night. Read that as Mulled Bacon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Read that as Mulled Bacon... Bourbon Bacon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings See? Bacon trumps both science AND religion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings See? Bacon trumps both science AND religion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SatinKitty Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Again, I want to be a happy and rich Pork Rendering Corporation CEO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John T Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Would get pretty boring drawing pigs all day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted December 24, 2012 Report Share Posted December 24, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I don't worry about lightning' date=' I believe in Science:D[/quote'] I don't worry about lighting, I believe in electricity, light bulbs and fuses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted December 25, 2012 Report Share Posted December 25, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I don't worry about lightning, I believe in Zeus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted December 25, 2012 Report Share Posted December 25, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings After some thought the only appropriate answer is: I'm not afraid of lightning, I believe in Ben Franklin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 26, 2012 Report Share Posted December 26, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I think Ben Franklin came to fear lightning at some point in his career. Or at least respect it. I don't empty my bowels at the thought of it, but I fear lightning enough to get inside when it's lightninging out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted December 26, 2012 Report Share Posted December 26, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I think Ben Franklin came to fear lightning at some point in his career. Or at least respect it. I don't empty my bowels at the thought of it, but I fear lightning enough to get inside when it's lightninging out. But Franklin figured out how to protect you and the building from lightning which also pissed off some religious types at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted December 26, 2012 Report Share Posted December 26, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings But Franklin figured out how to protect you and the building from lightning which also pissed off some religious types at the time. I've never understood that attitude. Never seen much reason to put up with it, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted December 26, 2012 Report Share Posted December 26, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I've never understood that attitude. Never seen much reason to put up with it' date=' either.[/quote'] He was working directly against the will of Zeus, which cannot be tolerated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 26, 2012 Report Share Posted December 26, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I've never understood that attitude. If science explains lightning, then the sheeple will have one less reason to fear the man in the sky. Fear of the man in the sky is the primary means of control we have over the sheeple, therefore scientists must be burned at the stake. QED. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted December 26, 2012 Report Share Posted December 26, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Again' date=' I want to be a happy and rich Pork Rendering Corporation CEO.[/quote'] You'd be living high on the hog Lucius Alexander Living high on the palindromedary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted December 26, 2012 Report Share Posted December 26, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings Again' date=' I want to be a happy and rich Pork Rendering Corporation CEO.[/quote'] You'd be living high on the hog Lucius Alexander The palindromedary experiences deja vu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings If science explains lightning' date=' then the sheeple will have one less reason to fear the man in the sky. Fear of the man in the sky is the primary means of control we have over the sheeple, therefore scientists must be burned at the stake. QED.[/quote'] Hahahah. Thanks for the laugh Old Man With Christian God avatar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted December 27, 2012 Report Share Posted December 27, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings You'd be living high on the hog I thought that was what you got when you put hallucinogens in the ham. Or barbituates in the bacon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Gillen Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings I'm so proud to be a Floridian. Manatee riding? 911 phone sex? That's weird Fla. " In 2012, Florida was a state where a lifeguard got fired for saving a life, a woman got arrested for riding a manatee and a man repeatedly used 911 as a phone sex service. Think that's weird? It gets worse and more tragic. In one of the state's most horrifying stories of the year, a man stripped a homeless man naked and attacked him in Miami, chewing off most of his face before police fatally shot him. And it wasn't the only story of its kind. In Manatee County, deputies used multiple Tasers to subdue a naked man who bit off part of another man's arm. Later in the year a man won a roach-eating contest outside a Deerfield Beach pet store and then dropped dead in front of the store when body parts of the dozens of roaches he swallowed blocked his airway. ... " And that's just the beginning. http://www.gainesville.com/article/20121227/WIRE/121229731/1034 Florida: The state that even Nevada can point to and laugh. JG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings you moved to Florida on a dare, right Log? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 28, 2012 Report Share Posted December 28, 2012 Re: Musings on Random Musings He went there for their sake. If not even Log can save them, then they are beyond saving and are best left to the inexorably rising waters of the sea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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