OT Funeral readings

'The best place to be is here, the best time to be is now'

 

Other way round I'd have thought. Or at least an exceedingly complex
Venn diagram.

 

You're missing out of 50% of what life has to offer by concentrating
only on the rational and ignoring the spiritual, old bean.

That just looks like freaky new age nonsense to me though. But to each,
his (or her) own.

 

I can still taste food, mind.

 

Funny how they spell it differently from you then.

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ROTFL!

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And then used it to put out the burning straw.

 

"Interesting"

<consults dictionary>

I need a new dictionary. This one is broken.

 

I'd quite like to be allowed to eat either, to be honest. Although
far too much of the latter may have helped put me in this position in
the first place, if I'm honest...

 

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:28:52 +0000, Colin Irvine

Never mind that. The damage is already done.

<blink>

 

I eat marmite and dark chocolate, but I like Lindt's Ecuadorian. G&B
sometimes gives me a headache.

 

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Great Grandmother was a Wesleyan. She still enjoyed her glass of gin
every night. Also one of the biggest black-marketeers in town during
WW2.

 

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:13:26 +0000, Colin Irvine

Weird.. until someone introduced me last week, I'd never heard of
Gibran (though it appears I had read some of his work). Now he's
everywhere.

 

Except that scientific theories are, in a sense, held up to be proved
wrong. Religion doesn't quite work that way.

Geocentrics, they think the universe revolves around them...

 

R'lyeh?

 

Bad example - this was propaganda, deliberate misdirection. I assume
mainstream religions don't deliberately lie to their congregations. Also,
it's a statement that is susceptible to testing, and can be proven to be
false. The fact that it's still around is down to a sort of inertia. Not
everyone understands science, but it's there and can be explained to anyone
who's interested. If you disagree, they'll ask you why, not burn you at the
stake as a heretic. I'm a big fan of Karl Popper and falsifiability -
anything in the physical, natural world can be tested, and any theories and
suppositions can be tested. Nothing in the religious or supernatural world
can be tested in this way, and there are places where the attempt would get
you into difficulties. Only in the last couple of centuries has science and
the scientific method freed itself from the hegemony of religion, and
religion is on the offensive again.

Basically, with science, you can go out and tap things with a hammer and see
what they're made of, and anyone can keep asking "Why?" and "How does this
work?". They'll either get an answer, or they'll get "We don't know yet."
With religion, it comes down to "Why?" "Because."

 

I like Green & Blacks chocolate but I also like Dairy Milk so does
that make me a pretentious chav?