OGIS (05-16-2016)
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Wearing a mask with your nose sticking out is like wearing a condom on your testicles.
When out walking, look out for PROBlems. You know: maskless Plague Rats On Bicycles who blow past you without giving you time to get out of the way.
Ah, CONServatives, the Masters of Projection (MOPs). With CONServatives, every accusation is a confession. Weird, that.
............Oh, what fresh hell is this?
,,,........¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯
....... Not my circus, not my monkeys
Wearing a mask with your nose sticking out is like wearing a condom on your testicles.
When out walking, look out for PROBlems. You know: maskless Plague Rats On Bicycles who blow past you without giving you time to get out of the way.
Ah, CONServatives, the Masters of Projection (MOPs). With CONServatives, every accusation is a confession. Weird, that.
............Oh, what fresh hell is this?
,,,........¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯
....... Not my circus, not my monkeys
And what created THAT universe?
My brain insists that there must be a cause for every effect. (My wife, more easygoing, just says that the universe, in some form or other, always was and always will be.)
And this is the hangup for the two main metaphysics:
- God created the universe! Then who created God?
- The Universe came from a underlying Universe! Then where did IT come from?
I see no way around that logic. One cannot have their cake and eat it too; if one accepts one of the exclamatory sentences above, then one must also accept the related question that follows.
Perhaps this is because my brain uses logic constrained by the three dimensions of which it is aware, and the actual universe is the string theory multiverse with 11 or 12 dimensions. Perhaps, in 11 or 12 dimensions cause and effect work differently.
So until we can actually PROVE string theory with concepts not built on a house of cards, my wife's view wins by default. The universe is eternal and has no cause. And that's just the way it is.
Wearing a mask with your nose sticking out is like wearing a condom on your testicles.
When out walking, look out for PROBlems. You know: maskless Plague Rats On Bicycles who blow past you without giving you time to get out of the way.
Ah, CONServatives, the Masters of Projection (MOPs). With CONServatives, every accusation is a confession. Weird, that.
............Oh, what fresh hell is this?
,,,........¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯
....... Not my circus, not my monkeys
Amazon has a bunch. but also negative ones.
http://www.amazon.com/Long-Earth-Ter...the+long+earth
The concept is fascinating and is probably the only thing of Pratchett's in the book: there are billions of parallel Earth's literally just a step away... if you have this little handheld gizmo a guy invented and which no one can figure out how it works. Also works for anything you are in contact with, like a horse, whatever you are carrying, and things like zeppelins. And ALL of those Earth (with occasional somewhat alien exceptions years of steps away) are uninhabited by humans.
The are a bit uneven, and sometimes a bit slow, and the first book is, IMO, the best one. It's almost pure Baxter.
The story I heard was that Pratchett had come up with the idea years ago, but didn't know how to tackle it. As his Alzheimer's worsened, it appears that friends and possibly even the farking Queen of England (he WAS knighted, you know) decided that he needed a literary minder and essentially dragooned a very willing Steve Baxter to help out. Baxter was the actual creative brain behind the books.
Very sad.
Wearing a mask with your nose sticking out is like wearing a condom on your testicles.
When out walking, look out for PROBlems. You know: maskless Plague Rats On Bicycles who blow past you without giving you time to get out of the way.
Ah, CONServatives, the Masters of Projection (MOPs). With CONServatives, every accusation is a confession. Weird, that.
............Oh, what fresh hell is this?
,,,........¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯
....... Not my circus, not my monkeys
Time only exists in the present. There is no time out there waiting for us to reach it. It has no extension, so it can't be a dimension. It's as if, in going from New York to Boston, Boston didn't exist until you got there; in fact, if it is like time, each inch of the highway didn't either.
On the outside, trickling down on the Insiders
We won't live free until the Democrats, and their voters, live in fear.