From: Double-A on
On May 24, 4:27 am, bert <herbertglazie...(a)msn.com> wrote:
> On May 23, 1:50 pm, "Hagar" <hagen(a)sahm,name> wrote:
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> > "Double-A" <double...(a)hush.com> wrote in message
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> > On May 22, 6:30 am, bert <herbertglazie...(a)msn.com> wrote:
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> > > On May 21, 9:21 pm, "Hagar" <hagen(a)sahm,name> wrote:
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> > > > <UseNetO...(a)t-online.de> wrote in message
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> > > >news:j61dv59f039nel5odof00dd18l5qst9n3f(a)pasoschweiz.de...
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> > > > > On Thu, 20 May 2010 13:44:24 -0400, "HVAC" <mr.h...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > >>I have seen trees
> > > > >>completely disintegrate
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> > > > > Agent Orange?
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> > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
> > > > > Quote: Agent Orange is the code name for an herbicide and
> > > > > defoliant-contaminated with TCDD-used by the U.S. military in its
> > > > > herbicidal warfare program during the Vietnam War.
> > > > > According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4.8 million
> > > > > Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400,000
> > > > > deaths and disabilities, and 500,000 children born with birth
> > > > > defects.[1]
> > > > > From 1961 to 1971, Agent Orange was by far the most widely used of the
> > > > > so-called "Rainbow Herbicides" employed in the herbicidal warfare
> > > > > program. During the production of Agent Orange (as well as Agents
> > > > > Purple, Pink, and Green) dioxins were produced as a contaminant, which
> > > > > have caused numerous health problems for the millions of people who
> > > > > have
> > > > > been exposed. Agents Blue and White were part of the same program but
> > > > > did not contain dioxins.
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> > > > We asked the fine folks who gave the world Zyklon-B to develop something
> > > > to eradicate the gooks at the same rate Hitler's goon wasted Jews ....
> > > > that's
> > > > the best they could do, Chuckles. Hope that helps you out, you moronic
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> > > Read ball lighning came down a chimey. Maybe it was Santa and his
> > > coat was on fire. Read ball lighning bounces. Well lighning does
> > > curve and a ball is a complete curve.
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> > This all reminds me of what happens when you throw a piece of metallic
> > sodium onto water.  It fizzes for a while and moves around in circles,
> > and then it forms a fiery ball that dances on the water's surface!
> > Then that ball explodes!  Sounds like some of the description I hear
> > of ball lighting.
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> > Double-A
> >         ****************************************
> > Nah ... BeeertBrain was lighting his own farts with a Bic after a good night
> > of Bud-Light guzzling ... it just looked like his balls were lit up, because
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> Hagar  For a person with no balls and a short dipstick you should look
> in a mirror and see what I say is reality. 4 doctors told me if I stop
> drinking beer I would make it to 75 That was 7 years ago they are all
> dead and I am still drinking my Bud to wash down MSP chips.   Drinking
> Florida water is what killed them.  get the picture   TreBert


Maybe those doctors were drinking more Bud than you were! More likely
they were pickling their brains with expensive single malt scotches.
The surgeons might need a few straight shots before operating to
steady their hands! Gynecologists might need a few bracers before
facing a really smelly crotch! Doctors don't always do what they say
to do. Got to watch them!

Double-A



From: hanson on
..... ahahahaha... AHAHAHAHA... ahahahahaha...
>
"Mitchell Jones" <mjones(a)21cenlogic.com> wrote:
> [snip]
O Mighty Hanson! :-)
>
hanson wrote:
.... hahahahahaha... AHAHAHAHA... I have been called many
things, but "O Mighty Hanson!" gets top billing and I will bestow
onto you for that epic and memorable Honorization at least as
many "attaboys" as there are the numbers of years that you have
been here on earth.
==== You are a truly good man and a wise one at that. ====
See what some elegant apple-polishing gets you.......
It beats arguing any and all times.... ahahahaha..
>
So, in the interest of science, let me repeat for your benefit:
>
All the arguing and/or reasoning that occurs when the anthropic
element or the Self is involved will lead to spiraling and sooner
or later to circular "reasoning"... which is where Kant & all
heuristic thinkers end up.
>
The subject line, Ball Lightning, is ironic but on the mark. It
takes Balls to get to the Light. It is not easy to let go of the Id,
the Self and the Ego and make the jump to discuss the issue
from a purely chemical and physical aspect.
>
It's like in medicine, for treating maladies, where/when only the
obvious and manifest Symptoms are treated... to no avail...but
insight and remedy came only when the situation was addressed
at the chemical/physical level of the DNA...
>
The same MO holds for the problem of treating the issue/malady
of reality... which is always ending up with ** Mental Mugging**
unless you go into the EM/chemistry "therapy" of the DNA or
Protein folding to solve the problem of ** What is reality**, cuz
[][][] Consider that ALL our experiences and interactions with
[][][] our environment are nothing but ELECTRO MAGNETIC
[][][] phenomena, (barring gravity that keeps us on the ground)
--
...."mighty Hanson" will leave the building now. .... But truly,
Thanks for he laughs, Mitch... ... ahahahaha... ahahahanson

From: Peter Fairbrother on
It was about 3 am, on a dark and stormy night, west of Bantry and the
Gaeltacht, and I'd managed to get a lift for the first couple of miles
home from the shebeen. I can't remember how I got there on that
particular occasion, it could have been by horse-and-cart or by helicopter.

It wasn't cold though, and with only three and a half miles to go the
storm didn't seem to matter as I was eighteen and far drunker than any
average mixed herd of Lords and skunks might altogether normally be -
this wasn't your average shebeen, it was the one where the boyos who
made the poteen went to compare and sell their products to the owners of
the other shebeens, and where I occasionally did a small sideline in the
finer single-malt Scotch whiskies.

Passing yet another field up on the left, sloping down to the road, I
noticed that it was alight with fairy fire. I'm told that that is
something which is accepted by science, it has a scientific explanation,
and therefore it has nothing to do with the little people at all.

But what do scientists know? Science, of course ...

Anyway, BANG! the loightening struck somewhere near the top end of the
field, and the fairy lights went crazy. They were jiggering and zinging
about everywhere, and it certainly looked to me as if a ball - though
maybe I'd call it a patch rather than a ball - of light moved about,
zig-zagging down the hill until it went out.

I don't know if it made any noises, I was deafened by the thunder.




-- Peter Fairbrother

From: HVAC on

"bert" <herbertglazier79(a)msn.com> wrote in message
news:824a0864-ada6-4662-9b9d-5ad66c2b9d87(a)s41g2000vba.googlegroups.com...
Florida the lighning capital of the world has this to say. Ball
lighning is harder to see than a flying saucer. It fits with all sci-
fiction, TreBert
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You saw a flying saucer?


From: Mitchell Jones on
In article <htf1k6$gkq$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
"hanson" <hanson(a)quick.net> wrote:

> .... ahahahaha... AHAHAHAHA... ahahahahaha...
> >
> "Mitchell Jones" <mjones(a)21cenlogic.com> wrote:
> > [snip]
> O Mighty Hanson! :-)
> >
> hanson wrote:
> ... hahahahahaha... AHAHAHAHA... I have been called many
> things, but "O Mighty Hanson!" gets top billing and I will bestow
> onto you for that epic and memorable Honorization at least as
> many "attaboys" as there are the numbers of years that you have
> been here on earth.
> ==== You are a truly good man and a wise one at that. ====
> See what some elegant apple-polishing gets you.......
> It beats arguing any and all times.... ahahahaha..
> >
> So, in the interest of science, let me repeat for your benefit:
> >
> All the arguing and/or reasoning that occurs when the anthropic
> element or the Self is involved will lead to spiraling and sooner
> or later to circular "reasoning"... which is where Kant & all
> heuristic thinkers end up.

***{Understanding the foundations of knowledge is difficult, but it is
also important. The foundation, after all, is the base on which
everything else rests. Hence if it is unsound, the entire structure is
unsound.

Since you imply that my reasoning is circular, please identify the
circularity in the following:

(1) The question to be answered is whether the principle of
continuity--that no thing may come into existence out of nothing or
vanish into nothing--is true.

(2) The possible answers to that question are two: it is either true, or
it is false.

(3) Doubt is a state of mind. Hence the claim to doubt that one has a
mind is a contradiction in terms. Hence the existence of one's mind is a
self-evident fact. But the mind is more than consciousness: it is that
which, by receiving sensations, IS conscious, and by sourcing
sensations, acts. If, however, we assume that the principle of
continuity is false, we must doubt that anything exists to receive
sensations: they may be simply vanishing into nothing; and we must doubt
that anything exists to act as a source of sensations: they may be
simply leaping into existence out of nothing. To say, therefore, that
the principle of continuity is false, or even that it may be false, is
to say that we doubt the existence of anything outside of the field of
consciousness, including the existence of the mind. But that is a
contradiction: we cannot doubt the existence of the mind, because doubt
is a state of mind. Therefore we can eliminate the possibility that the
principle of continuity is false from our consideration, and, when we do
so, we find that only one possibility remains: that the principle of
continuity is true.

(4) Since only one possibility remains, we must accept it as the truth,
until and unless we find an error in steps (1) through (3) above.

If an error exists in the above reasoning, whether involving circularity
or not, what is it?

--Mitchell Jones}***

> The subject line, Ball Lightning, is ironic but on the mark. It
> takes Balls to get to the Light. It is not easy to let go of the Id,
> the Self and the Ego and make the jump to discuss the issue
> from a purely chemical and physical aspect.

***{I can see why you are concerned by possible circularity, since the
above statement demonstrates that you are enmeshed in its coils
yourself. Thought may very well be an electrochemical reaction in the
physical brain, but attempts to use physics and chemistry to answer
fundamental philosophical questions such as whether the mind exists or
whether the physical world exists are inescapably circular. All of the
knowledge acquired by science is based on the presumption that the
external world exists, that scientists exist, that experimental
apparatus exists, and so on. Hence if there is a basis for believing in
the existence of any of those things, it cannot lie in science, and the
notion that it does is as crudely circular as anything can ever be. You
can't decide whether the external world exists by doing an experiment or
by analyzing experimental results, because if the external world does
not exist, then science, experiments, and experimental results do not
exist either. --MJ}***

> It's like in medicine, for treating maladies, where/when only the
> obvious and manifest Symptoms are treated... to no avail...but
> insight and remedy came only when the situation was addressed
> at the chemical/physical level of the DNA...

***{If the external world does not exist, DNA does not exist. Hence any
attempted proof of the existence of the external world that makes
reference to DNA, or to science, or to experimental results, etc., would
be circular. You would be assuming that which is to be proven. --MJ}***

> The same MO holds for the problem of treating the issue/malady
> of reality... which is always ending up with ** Mental Mugging**
> unless you go into the EM/chemistry "therapy" of the DNA or
> Protein folding to solve the problem of ** What is reality**

***{The question "Does an external world--a world outside of the
mind--exist?" must be answered before we can do science. Only if that
question has been answered in the affirmative, can we then proceed to
investigate the nature of the world. The gathering of empirical
knowledge, hence science, is based on the presumed existence of a world
outside the mind. But the existence of a world outside the mind is based
on the epistemological validity of the principle of continuity, which
can only be demonstrated by philosophical reasoning of the sort that I
have sketched out for you above. --MJ}***

>, cuz
> [][][] Consider that ALL our experiences and interactions with
> [][][] our environment are nothing but ELECTRO MAGNETIC
> [][][] phenomena, (barring gravity that keeps us on the ground)

***{All the phenomena of science are presumed manifestations of an
external world, a world outside the mind. They all assume the existence
of that world, and, as a result, any attempt to use them to prove the
existence of that world is inescapably circular. --MJ}***

> --
> ..."mighty Hanson" will leave the building now. .... But truly,
> Thanks for he laughs, Mitch... ... ahahahaha... ahahahanson

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If I seem to be ignoring you, consider the possibility
that you are in my killfile. --MJ