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From: D from BC on 1 Apr 2010 21:22 In article <pgbar5tad973ruhjttv83rls0ull3cmvac(a)4ax.com>, jfields(a)austininstruments.com says... > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 15:41:49 -0700, D from BC <myrealaddress(a)comic.com> > wrote: > > >Wouldn't it make me look stupid if you were bluntly clear and posted 'I > >Larkin am an atheist' or 'I Larkin am a Christian'. > > --- > Well, the thing is: > > 1. In reality, one has nothing to do with the other. > > 2. You already look stupid, and, > > 3. Your trying to get JL to play your game of "Here are your only > choices, choose now!" makes you look stupider yet. > --- > > >Show which way I was confused. > > --- > How many ways does the wind blow? > --- > > >If you're a Christian, why not make it public. > >You're in the gang, in the club, part of the group, in the herd. > >You should easily be able to post 'I am Christian.' > >Or post 'I am a _______ Christian.' > >Where _____ is one of those 38000 Christian denominations. > >It should be easy for you to post that you're Christian because the > >majority of North America is Christian. > >This should be as easy you writing 'I am an engineer.' > >Are you going to let some stupid atheist make you shy in posting what > >religion you are in. > > --- > Oh, my... > > It seems that by being, by your own admission, a stupid atheist, you've > never pondered the difference between being spiritual and religious or > sorted out the difference between spirituality and religion. > --- > > >Perhaps there's lots of Christians on SED that would feel all warm and > >fuzzy inside after you post 'I Larkin am a Christian engineer.' > > --- > And what would be wrong with that? > > Being a Christian engineer would bind him to the Old Testament as well But do you have the balls to tell me what religion Larkin is in? -- D from BC British Columbia
From: Hammy on 1 Apr 2010 21:28 On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:22:09 -0700, D from BC <myrealaddress(a)comic.com> wrote: >But do you have the balls to tell me what religion Larkin is in? Why the obsession with what religion the man is? Did it ever occur to you it's none of your business. Your getting pretty fucked-up. Take a couple of valium and call it a night.
From: Archimedes' Lever on 1 Apr 2010 21:34 On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 04:47:01 -0700 (PDT), brent <bulegoge(a)columbus.rr.com> wrote: >often it is mechanical issues that cause the >second pass. There is that 'engineering prowess' issue I was referring to... again.
From: D from BC on 1 Apr 2010 21:42 In article <qqhar5h75vlclgnjo91v0kjdjs28fnope4(a)4ax.com>, spam(a)spam.com says... > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:22:09 -0700, D from BC <myrealaddress(a)comic.com> > wrote: > > > >But do you have the balls to tell me what religion Larkin is in? > > Why the obsession with what religion the man is? Did it ever occur to > you it's none of your business. > > Your getting pretty fucked-up. Take a couple of valium and call it a > night. Yup.. I'm just waiting for Larkin to write that his religion is none of my business.. -- D from BC British Columbia
From: Archimedes' Lever on 1 Apr 2010 21:50
On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:15:21 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 01:17:30 -0700 (PDT), Bill Sloman ><bill.sloman(a)ieee.org> wrote: > >>On Mar 31, 2:13�pm, Archimedes' Lever <OneBigLe...(a)InfiniteSeries.Org> >>wrote: >>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:38:36 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman >>> >>> <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: >>> >On Mar 31, 1:47�am, John Larkin >>> ><jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>> >> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:06:12 -0700 (PDT),Bill Sloman >>> >>> >> <bill.slo...(a)ieee.org> wrote: >>> >> >On Mar 30, 4:12�pm, John Larkin >>> >> ><jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>> >> >> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:40:43 +1100, "David L. Jones" >>> >>> >> >> <altz...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> >> >> >D from BC wrote: >>> >> >> >> mmm sseems a little quiet in SED so... >>> >> >> >> Time for another mega-troll. >>> >>> >> >> >> Are Christian beliefs in conflict with good electronics engineering? >>> >>> >> >> >There appears to be no evidence that delusion and electronics design ability >>> >> >> >are mutually exclusive. >>> >>> >> >> >Dave. >>> >>> >> >> Not as long as you're happy spinning the pcb etch four or five times, >>> >> >> and shipping a lot of bugs. To get it right the first time, you can't >>> >> >> lie to yourself about anything. >>> >>> >> >Your opinions about the way the genetic system might work did imply >>> >> >that you were deceiving yourself pretty thorooughly in that area. >>> >>> >> Genetic science is, if anything, trending in the directions I >>> >> expected. DNA and its supporting systems is indeed a very >>> >> sophisticated, nearly intelligent machine, hardly a >>> >> random-mutation+selection process. Evolution guarantees that it be so. >>> >>> >And you still don't get it. DNA doesn't know anything about itself, >>> >merely whether the phoneme it has produced is good enough to survive >>> >and reproduce. All the "sophistication" involves differernt ways of >>> >doing the random mutation process - in big gene-duplicating chunks >>> >versus single nuclear polymorphisms. >>> >>> >This is about as far from "intelligent" as one can get. >>> >>> � Nice guesses, >> >>Have your read any of the recent papers on the subject? You might try >>to plow through "Modularity" ISBN 0-226-73855-8. It was published in >>2004, but the stuff coming out in the current "Proceedings of the >>National Academy of Science" still seems to fit the same set of ideas. >> >>> but there is no conclusive proof for your claim either, >> >>Or so you'd like to think. >> >>> yet you tout it and yourself as being the only viable "observation", >> >>I do seem to know more about the subject than you or John Larkin - >>which isn't much - but if either of you took the trouble to listen >>somebody who has studied the subject at a respectable university (as >>John Larkin claims that one of his kids has done) you could get an >>even better informed opinion. > >My older daughter is a biology professor at University of the Pacific. >She has her own office (with a window!) and her own 1200 square foot >lab full of gene sequencers and stuff like that. And assistants to do >the wet stuff. I discuss this stuff with her now and then, and she is >finally starting to admit that I might not be crazy. > >She also has two kids and five motorcycles. > >John > Did SloDork ever spawn any of himself? I sure hope not. |