OT Funeral readings

Discussion in 'UK Motorcycles' started by Lady Nina, Feb 27, 2008.

  1. Lady Nina

    Lady Nina Guest

    'The best place to be is here, the best time to be is now'
     
    Lady Nina, Feb 27, 2008
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  2. Lady Nina

    Lady Nina Guest

    Other way round I'd have thought. Or at least an exceedingly complex
    Venn diagram.
     
    Lady Nina, Feb 27, 2008
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  3. 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.
     
    Slower Than You, Feb 27, 2008
  4. Lady Nina

    platypus Guest

    I can still taste food, mind.
     
    platypus, Feb 27, 2008
  5. Lady Nina

    Ace Guest

    Funny how they spell it differently from you then.

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    Ace, Feb 27, 2008
  6. Lady Nina

    Ace Guest

     
    Ace, Feb 27, 2008
  7. Lady Nina

    Ace Guest

    ROTFL!

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    Ace, Feb 27, 2008
  8. Lady Nina

    platypus Guest

    And then used it to put out the burning straw.
     
    platypus, Feb 27, 2008
  9. Lady Nina

    DR Guest

    "Interesting"

    <consults dictionary>

    I need a new dictionary. This one is broken.
     
    DR, Feb 27, 2008
  10. Lady Nina

    DR Guest

    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...
     
    DR, Feb 27, 2008
  11. Lady Nina

    Snowleopard Guest

    On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:28:52 +0000, Colin Irvine
    Never mind that. The damage is already done.

    <blink>
     
    Snowleopard, Feb 27, 2008
  12. Lady Nina

    Snowleopard Guest

    I eat marmite and dark chocolate, but I like Lindt's Ecuadorian. G&B
    sometimes gives me a headache.
     
    Snowleopard, Feb 27, 2008
  13. Lady Nina

    DR Guest

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    DR, Feb 27, 2008
  14. Lady Nina

    DR Guest

    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.
     
    DR, Feb 27, 2008
  15. Lady Nina

    Snowleopard Guest

    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.
     
    Snowleopard, Feb 27, 2008
  16. Lady Nina

    DR Guest

    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...
     
    DR, Feb 27, 2008
  17. Lady Nina

    DR Guest

    R'lyeh?
     
    DR, Feb 27, 2008
  18. Lady Nina

    darsy Guest

     
    darsy, Feb 27, 2008
  19. Lady Nina

    platypus Guest

    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."
     
    platypus, Feb 27, 2008
  20. Lady Nina

    Andy Bonwick Guest

    I like Green & Blacks chocolate but I also like Dairy Milk so does
    that make me a pretentious chav?
     
    Andy Bonwick, Feb 27, 2008
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