Mmmm....!!! I had better not go into more detail about those lovely warm tits/teats; it might be too risque even for this board. LOL.
LOL! Whatever floats your boat, but I doubt it is too risque but for me... lets don't ok?
I will say however, that when I read messages on this board, where people write about their "coworkers" (without the hyphen), I think how appropriate that is for BBM -- because I read it as cow workers! ROFL. Of course they mean co-workers -- but these days most people in business seem to be doing away with punctuation marks as much as they can; whereas I love them for the extra dimensions of meaning which they bring to the written word, bringing it closer to the spoken word.
I do think we are loosing something important when people no longer use punctuation, or even relevant capitals. I hate reading unformated text all in small letters or all in caps.
Doug: I know just what you mean about not wanting to talk to those types of people. I am becoming much the same way as you now. In the past I often worked in service industries, so I had no choice but to make mindless small-talk with different people, many of whom were narrow-minded etc. Now that I am no longer at work, and after my depression, I find that it exacerbates my depression to be around those types of people, and I no longer want to even try to expose them to alternative views. These days, my viewpoints are probably just as fixed as theirs are, and I have no interest in even being around such people.
I sometimes feel that way, however when you cut all religious people you cut out a lot of the population. My cut is a little more open than that, I will deal with religious people who respect my religious freedom, who do not bring up religion every few minutes or who do not expound hate of anyone who is not in their camp. The people I milk for are exceptionally religious people, they have church in their home every Wednesday, and Sunday. Yet, if you was not around them for a time you would never know it. They do not put their religious views upon anyone else. Their religion is quite tight, they do not believe in TV, radio, gambling, drinking, smoking or dancing. I only know that from asking. They only marry within their religion, and they are in contact with their entire "cult" across the world. They are always having people visiting from all across the world, who look just like them. Women mostly wear denim dresses, and they never cut their hair, it is usually kept up in a bun. Women use no makeup, nor dye their hair. However, they are the warmest people you could ever meet. What do they think about homosexuality? I do not know, nor do I care as long as they keep it to themselves.
To give you an example of how extreme I am becoming, I recently obtained an e-mail address for a fellow who I felt quite close to many years ago. So I sent him a brief message (it must be about 25 years since we were last in touch). In his reply he mentioned "the people in (his) church". Just this mention put me off completely, so I never even replied to his message again; as I no longer wish to interact with any believers.
Yep, sure sounds like he is not going to keep it to himself. Sounds like his pride is tied to his standing in church, making him more likely to be a self righteous religious nut.
That is also why when I was lurking on the board, I was originally put off by all of the believers who posted their "christian" viewpoints etc.; and so I was glad when they started their own thread; which I have no intention of ever visiting.
I have visited the "christian" thread, they are totally irrational. You can ask them pointed questions and only get the usual dodges.
By contrast it was great to discover your thread here; and to receive an education on the so many things which you have written here. Just magnificent!
Thanks.
And it was reading Lola's non-confrontational, respectful, and thought-filled responses which gave me respect for her too.
I, too, have found respect for her. At least she is not judgemental, does not seem to harbor any hate, and does answer questions with her own words, instead of the usual canned responses of the radical right.
Onto a completely different topic now Doug. You write in such an informed way about scientific matters. Is that the field that you trained in, or perhaps studied in at college?
In college I majored in physics and organic chemistry, sadly in my last year I came down witn Mono and had to quit, no more funds available for me to continue.
Here in Australia, tonight I shall see the final (3rd) segment of a tv show called "The Elegant Universe", about Einstein, Newton, relativity, gravity, electro-magnetism, strong force, weak force; and string theory. Most of it is over my head, and in fact my wife reminded me that we had both seen the same series about a year ago; yet small pieces only are retained. My area is more that of the humanities. Much easier to understand and remember. Laziness probably comes into the equation somewhere too.
I doubt that laziness had anything to do with it. I am not sure that for humanities would be easier to understand and remember, we all have our strengths and weakness, mine is in understanding physics and chemistry, however I did struggle hard with calculus III.
I saw the "Elegant Universe" a couple of times, here is my thought, it is interesting, but it is not science at this point. A math equation that works does not make reality, it could be reality, but it can not be taken as reality until it can be tested and testing this is not going to be possible from what we know now. That being said, only string "theory" is in this condition, all the rest are quite well documented and quite settled. I really wish that we as a people did not have such sloppy use of our language, it is a root cause of a lot of misunderstanding. There is no string theory, there is up to five string hypotheses. The use of "theory" for hypothesis has given the religious right much power in getting their "intelligent design" hypothesis even considered, it barely qualifies for even a hypothesis.
