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It makes sense to me. One populates a Petri dish with a culture that.. one is *intellectually* interested in.. what is it going to do.. or.. a culture from which one anticipates a monetary return of investment.. then there is the experiment gone "wrong" where the spores, through procedural incompetence are released into the environment..

I think of colonizing in different terms.. say a Petri dish.. It's probably the same thing..

I'll accept that honor. Thank you sir.. If it were a flying squirrel, yes, I do. Sometimes on a DC-10 or something.. Never first class, always somewhere back where it's safer if they make a *mistake*

this one fits slightly. More closely resembles the moneyhands *assignment* to the UK.. gawd have mercy on them..

Phoenix rising? I think this is more appropriate..

maybe they need a few lessons.. "we don't eat our cat, mini-me.." it's the only clip I've ever seen from that movie..

Well.. I've had to apologize for bad manners before. Even if it was something I wasn't entirely aware of at the time.. I mean.. maybe what da bod needs is a "couth' lesson..

perhaps.. yeah. they tossed out the only mathematician they had that I know of... Walter. they are on their own..

Int 0 to infinity e^-x^2 dx.. too bad Latex doesn't work here, otherwise it would look "pretty".. the answer is the square root of pi over two.. mathematicians love beating around in the dark with a cane..

I am only about 70 percent geometrical in thinking.. the rest is like a blind man, beating the surrounding environment with a cane, trying to find my bearings.. Ha..don't get too close..

so.. you are.... *me*. I haven't been able to twist Rubiks' as such.. but I can twist quite a few nasty Integrals..

Ha! In a strange deranged way, I always loved that toon.. figure in a strange Squirrelish figure wearing a fish hat, with subjugated followers.. naw... You shouldn't tempt me. What the mind of (a Squirrel) can conceive..

then.. what are you? just a question.. maybe the first response off of the top of your head.. *I am*... what? who? the answer I've seen is at the worst described as a "gift".. It starts with an "m".. Heh.. there are ten kazillion others waiting to answer the same question.. I hope they get their turn..

as to the original question.. is forgiveness even possible.. I'd have to vote yes. despite the double dealings from those supposedly in charge.. no, I really don't think they can fool themselves.. they will eventually have to forgive themselves.. what's the alternative? Ha! Frog breath is like Squirrel Breath.. I mean.. it's ok and all. But there are those who want to know if the Squirrel has had its shots.. some of us were sent to participate.. some of us were sent to observe.. often it didn't make any difference through which seed we were sent..

If you figure in Christian terms, you have to figure in Jewish(?) mysticism.. The Almighty sacrificed part of Himself for creation.. and in the end in Christian terms, part of Himself for redemption.. maybe part plus part equals whole.. if everything was perfect, it would be so boring.. If all you go by is the first half.. that is.. we are God's blood.. it would be enough, wouldn't it?

Just curious.. and.. where do you think us "gentiles" came from? I know my origins.. it wasn't frog breath or anything.. I'd say more, but people think (or rightfully KNOW) I'm nuts to begin with. or am I..

I guess that's left up to us.. Hmm. Figure I must still be here for a reason or something..

Maybe they just don't have a clue. Mr(?) linder (or replacement) please put these in the suggestion box.. 1. Incorporating "union busting" corporate tactics exhibited in the nineties. Setting employee against employee, follower against follower. And giving *employees* cut rate wages, little health care or retirement packages, while wallowing in utter opulence for your own greedy selves.. 2. Turning a blind eye to loy's, and many other bigwigs bad behavior, covering and enabling ungodliness, while MY abs continued rolling into the cesspool, thinking it was somehow a godly cause.. 3. Not allowing *your* people to enjoy a *somewhat* normal life. That is, buying a home, participating in community activities with their children, integrating themselves into an at least partially godly society (that is, far more godly than a group with pimps and thugs in the top tier) 4... while sending your kids to the best educational ventures that suit them, and their talents.. at the *believer's* expense.. Yeah.. one of HA's kids went to Devries. On who's dime? I know academically he wasn't suited to a big university.. glad someone figured that out.. but still.. 5. Families you divided.. trying to figure out who the weaker(?) party was.. that is, the one who would eventually bolt from the pressure your organization was impressing.. I call that "destructive testing" by the way.. pun intended and not.. I'd say more, but these are just a few starters to put in the suggestion box.. if there still is one.. I'm at peace. The real question is, are you? but no, I'm not waiting for any response. Or refund.

fair question..

Ha! The spurits have far too much to do, to be disturbed with the likes of all that.. like they are going to abandon their plan for world domination.. or whatever.. take time out of a busy work schedule to bother a few fanatical adherents..

Heh.. the bear doesn't care. He's off looking for fresh meat. Doesn't make any difference who, or what, or when, or where.. but we don't care, do we..

Unbelievable.. or amazing. how a con artist can label a *wayward* christian as a hater of the words of Jesus.. don't you think? I dunno.. some of the kids chose to flee from "zion".. seems those who choose to hang around the fort.. inherit the curse..

and I think that's *almost* the whole point here. *they* know you for some reason or another abide by some doctrine that is convenient at *ahem* their beck and call.. very very interesting.. yeah.. you HAVE to forgive the con artist.. or do you?

heh.. yep. reminds me a lot of cramming down one's throat "forgive or be a defiler of the words of Jesus".. nasty tasting medicine.. in the end though, one HAS to let go. One way or another..

a lot of good thoughts. though.. even at the end of a life.. forgiveness from another is not a thing that I personally could mandate. Yeah, it will all burn in the end.. but still.. perhaps it is a common cold. But try some of Granny's miracle cure, an odd mixture of sulfur, molasses and herbs, and within six weeks or so you will feel like a spring chicken.. let's see who remembers that reference.. I think I like that statement the best. some individuals, the only thing one can do is to grieve with them..