What, you still harbor some kind of residual elitist sentiment against fair treatment of the masses, Marie Antoinette? Have you no heart or dark chocolate or head?
Besides, you're not our first. Joe Romm was, if memory still serves us, followed later by an overwhelming onrush of standup one-liners & Anons causing frequent overloads & outages.
However, you are the most verbal.
So what something special would someone so verbally here think appropriate from someone so overtly, never mind imperiously, running things?
Just remember, Paul K was already in line ahead of you.
"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life." ~ Aristotle
Moments of Epiphany
"What a book a Devil's Chaplain might write on the climsy, wasteful, blundering low and horribly cruel works of nature." ~Charles Darwin, Letter to Hooker, 1856
"To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact." ~Charles Darwin
"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by chldren." ~Charles Darwin
"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science wasd justified. ~E. O. Wilson
"Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals." ~E. O. Wilson
"It is said that men may not be the dreams of the God, but that the Gods are the dreams of men." ~Carl Sagan
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." ~Carl Sagan
"Nothing physical which sense-experience sets before our eyes, or which necessary demonstrations prove to us, ought to be called into question (much less condemned) upon the testimony of biblical passages." ~Galileo Galilei
"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence." ~Richard Dawkins
"All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God." ~Stephen Hawking
"I do not believe that any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States." ~Thomas Alva Edison
"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." ~Albert Einstein
"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him." ~Arthur C. Clarke
"Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." ~Thomas Jefferson
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise." ~James Madison
"Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it." ~John Adams
"My earlier views of the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years." ~Abraham Lincoln
"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." ~Benjamin Franklin
"Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause." ~George Washington
"I hold thatin this country there must be complete severance of church and state." ~Theodore Roosevelt
"Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life." ~Aristotle
"It is said that men may not be the dreams of the Gods, but that the Gods are the dreams of men." ~ Carl Sagan
Heeeellloooo????? Anyone home?
ReplyDeleteCareful gabriellyn,
ReplyDeleteThere've been recent reports of a Chicago-style comic lurking about looking for content-free one-liners.
Make sure you at least get some closing credit.
OMG. He lives!
ReplyDeleteNow, now, we'll have no taking the Lord's name in vain in these corridors of science.
ReplyDeleteThe Lord Gosh? Must be a minor god.
ReplyDeleteHumor often comes from the illusion of content.
ReplyDeleteMy new thing is bottom up deployment starting, for me, at a high school in Chicago.
The pitch - buying a real piece of energy transformation.
Illusion of content - what a beautiful phrase and so apropos.
ReplyDeleteMy little sister loves Chicago. Too cold for me. Good luck!
"Humor often comes from the illusion of content."
ReplyDeleteWe know, we've seen your show.
That was a joke.
Wow, Paul - you have been doing stand up for really really long time. That was a nice write up in "The Chicago Tribune".
ReplyDeleteIt's not all glamor. This week, I'm at an Elk's club and a plumbing association.
ReplyDeleteTrying to keep it clean for the plumbers won't be easy.
ReplyDeleteI think this must be a record for highest number of comments on this blog.
ReplyDeleteShattered would be an understatement.
ReplyDeleteAren't you thrilled I wandered over then?
ReplyDeleteEverybody's welcome here. Why should anybody expect to be treated any different?
ReplyDeleteAh, you lost me there. Treated differently than the vast multitudes that are burning up the servers to post here?
ReplyDeleteWhat, you still harbor some kind of residual elitist sentiment against fair treatment of the masses, Marie Antoinette? Have you no heart or dark chocolate or head?
ReplyDeleteBesides, you're not our first. Joe Romm was, if memory still serves us, followed later by an overwhelming onrush of standup one-liners & Anons causing frequent overloads & outages.
However, you are the most verbal.
So what something special would someone so verbally here think appropriate from someone so overtly, never mind imperiously, running things?
Just remember, Paul K was already in line ahead of you.
Sometimes your wording is beyond beautiful. Pure art.
ReplyDeleteBut again I ask, what masses? It doesn't do you any good to exaggerate - the evidence, in this case, is quite clear.
Too bad I detest "gabby" even though clearly I can be quite garrulous.
As far as what would be appropriate from the overlord? I will have to think upon that.
re: "even though clearly I can be quite garrulous."
ReplyDeleteDon't be so kind to yourself.
re: "I will have to think upon that."
Just be sure it's within our earthly power to grant. We're not catholic priests here, ya know.
And remember all the less-garrulous masses out there lurking.
Hahahaha - yeah, all the ones burning up the servers, right? But I see your point.
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