Mister P-Mosh

One item on the poll made me laugh and for some reason reminded me of a David Bowie song. "Let's hate The Way together, now I hate it more than ever, let's hate The Way together, now..." I despise The Way because they prey on ignorant people, but they also have a lot of members that I think are innocent, and thus I won't make blanket statements about all of it's members. However, the leadership is certainly corrupt and deluded.

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I recently had a visit from innie family, and they acted like normal people. We didn't pray before eating, I didn't notice any bible reading before breakfast, there were no attempts to witness to the wait staff when we went to restaurants, and none of the nonsense of TWI came up at all. Hopefully they are leaving TWI.

ex10, I got the invite, thanks. I have to look at my calendar but the week prior to that I believe I will be in Canada, so I might not be up for leaving the house (I'll have to sit in the shower and cry for a few days until the poutine smell washes away.) I'll let you know closer to the date. Also, what are you planning on smoking this year? Could it be... Wow, you must throw some wild parties. ;-)

Not that I've seen, but I don't eat much meat anyway. Also, the main reasons we shop there are 1) they are close, 2) they have a great organic food selection, and 3) they are cheaper than Whole Paycheck.

Last I heard from Nate (which was many years ago now)but he seriously drank TWI's kool aid. If you call him, expect him to be angry with you if he finds out you are no longer with TWI.

I usually buy my groceries at H.E. Butt. If you are intimidated by a normal grocery store, imagine going to one that is the size of an entire Walmart dedicated to food that is also named after Butts.

I used to not mind smoking too much, but since it's gone mostly out of style I forgot what it's like to be around smokers. I had a family member visiting last week that smoked, and it was so disgusting. Despite the fact that they smoked outside of my house in an open area with the wind blowing, their clothes still smelled like it and they made the whole house stink as a result. I'm going to change my air filters now and see what I can do to get the smell out of my furniture, but it was shocking to me how much it lingers. I'm glad that Houston is smoke-free with few exceptions, and I hope this habit can be driven out and be made as much history as snuff. I sympathize with those that do smoke, as I used to smoke when I was in high school, but they have to realize how much it affects everyone around them. However, it is a dangerous and selfish habit for those that choose to do it. After my visitor last week, I'm going to ban any smokers from entering my house at all, no matter how close of family they are. According to the American Lung Association: I simply don't need my daughter exposed to an unnecessary risk like that, especially one that makes both her and I cough and sneeze (my wife seems to handle it better for some reason.)

Well, it's either post at GSCafe or fall asleep at my desk at work. Also, those satellites are run by both, although supposedly the government ones are much better than what is publicly available. I've heard that they can spot things smaller than a quarter, but I don't know for sure. As for publicly available corporate satellite data, check out GeoEye for an example. Their Greenburg tornado images are pretty shocking, and can give you an indication of what the capabilities are, although not necessarily the highest resolution.

They've been known by westerners for over 100 years. We didn't have satellites capable of, for example, a resolution of 4 inches, like we do now. There were also a lot less people, less communications, etc. back then, so it wouldn't be a surprise. Also, Okapi's are about horse size, they are not mammoth creatures. Their footprints and droppings could easily be mistaken for something else. Nothing known in the arctic leaves elephant-sized footprints.

I think the white part is supposed to be maggots. I'm not sure.

Personally, I'm more of a fan of this book of the dead:

It's different though, in that willy mammoths are huge and lived in areas that humans could find. Even if humans wouldn't find the mammoths themselves, there would be evidence of them if they were still around -- droppings, recently dead remains, footprints, evidence that they've eaten plants, etc. In the case of that fish, they live in water deeper than we can easily see. There are lots of animals in the deep water that we don't know about yet, and the ones we are aware of we barely know anything about. Also with bolshevik's example of elephant species being discovered, that type of situation is also different. With some animals, we think that there is one species, until further research indicates that we should break that up into two species. It's not that the elephants were just discovered, but rather that they were re-identified.

I agree with this. It sounds like batcave works in retail, so a uniform makes sense. In fact, I thought pretty much all retail other than mom and pop shops did use something related to a uniform to help identify who works there. I remember a year or two ago this group of people staged an event where a bunch of random people showed up at Best Buy wearing khaki pants and a blue t-shirt (the Best Buy uniform) and freaked out the real employees. The fake workers ended up helping people and acting like they worked there, until they got kicked out. I couldn't find the video on youtube but it was hilarious.

Where did that nature come from? If god is perfect and knows everything, and exists outside of time, he would know what our thoughts are and must have intentionally created humans to have anger, sorrow, etc and known how they would be used and how we would suffer as a result. He also should have had the power to help us avoid the suffering, but didn't for some reason. This kind of stuff is part of the reason why I'm an atheist. It takes too much jumping through hoops to try to apply logic and justify the belief in any existence of gods and their alleged actions.

I agree with those who say that this doesn't actually solve any problems. The contaminations in food will still be there, and the system in place in China to test the food to ensure safety is still broken. But on the other hand, as an imperfect, vengeful human being, I can't help but think of how great it would be if we had this sort of thing to deal with government incompetence in this country.

Your lawyer friend is half-right. The plan is to bring our standards down to third-world level, but not for all Americans. If you look at the wage discrepancies between the elite executives at most companies and the people that actually do the work, the gap is growing larger. I would say that we are headed towards a feudalistic robber-baron society much like we used to be. It's what the rich want. Where your neighbor friend got it all wrong is the idea of bringing everyone up. The richest people do not want that, as it would have to come from them. They have been consolidating power and money ever since the New Deal gave the American people a chance to move up and have at least some standard of living. The only thing that forced the powerful elite to give the average American anything back in those days was the threat of shutting down their businesses and threats of violence. History indicates that the unions, ex-slaves, and others were rising up back then and the nation was edging closer to another revolution. I wonder if our government is so far gone that only a similar threat would get them to restore our rights. I don't see a good solution to the problems, since it looks like most Americans' brains are asleep and will not respond until it is too late.

No, it's not the same. The different species of penguins can't breed with each other. Chinstrap Penguins are not able to breed with Emperor penguins, for example. It would be like a house cat breeding with a tiger. While Darwin's theories have been expounded upon (OotS was written in the 1800's) I haven't seen any indication that mainstream science is abandoning evolution or natural selection. Why wouldn't lakes be common? In any case, why are you asking me questions? I'm not the one believing in the Ark or a world-wide flood. I don't have to come up with rational-sounding explanations for things that appear to be myths. I wasn't talking about evolution before your post though, I don't care to rehash that because you're set in your ways and not open to changing your mind. I'm simply asking questions about the ark. If you wanted to be creative, you could have suggested that the penguins floated on top of a huge iceberg that was brought into the ark. You could even claim that the iceberg was used for supplying fresh drinking water too. I'm not even trying to disprove the ark either, I just want to see what types of answers I can get. In the end, we can't prove whether something ever existed or not if we have no evidence of it today, so this is just an exercise in conversation. I haven't tried to disprove anything, I just want to see rational, provable answers if they exist. The bible is pretty specific about the ark in many ways, but it doesn't mention the refrigeration or sewage, which seems odd.

Good point, so perhaps it is this guy, he looks pretty evil, and he runs what he calls a "shadow government":

We are baffled that ancient people built those structures because we've lost the history of how it was done. That doesn't mean that they are so complex that we should consider them supernaturally built or anything like that. They are amazing feats of science and engineering, but the reason we don't understand how they were built is because we've re-developed the solutions to the problems the ancient architects came up with, and our answers are different. Of course, to compare things like the ark to the pyramids, stonehenge, etc. is wrong because the ark is not around, nor is there any latter version of it. With most of the other things you mention we can at least see how the designs progressed over time from humble origins. There are many pyramids and they are predated by boxy buildings which are predated by mounds. The ark was supposedly such a great leap forward in technology in that it safely kept representatives of all land animals on Earth that it would have required a tremendous infrastructure. It would have been more complex than the best zoos we have today, and the society to build and maintain such a floating zoo would have not been worthy of destruction. At least, I would have expected Noah to make use of the refrigeration or boat-building techniques or something. To go back to the sewage issue, wouldn't the ark's sewer system seem like a good idea to implement in the home he builds after the flood is over?

I would think that "40 days and 40 nights" would be long enough for it to mix better, and even then, what about things like crawfish and freshwater mussels? How would things that lie on the bottom survive the flood, and even if the fresh water pooled at the bottom for them, wouldn't the pressure of enough water to flood the earth be greater than their bodies could handle? Some fish do, the majority don't. It's not as simple as people adapting to live in one place or another. It's that some fish require salt water to live and would die in fresh water, while other fish require fresh water and would die in salt water. Auks were arctic, penguins antarctic, but the auks went extinct about 400 years ago. Also, while not all penguins live in Antarctica, they do live in areas close to it. They certainly can't survive in the middle east. Also, are you saying that penguins evolved from other birds? I thought you didn't believe in evolution? There is no evidence that this is the case. Either of a global flood or of mankind existing at the time of pangea.

It's probably devil spirits clogging the tubes of the internet.

1) If Noah had two of every land animal on board, how did he care for penguins? Since the bible states that the ark landed on a mountain in the middle east, they would have required a special habitat to keep them cool like zoos have, otherwise they would have died. There is no mention in the bible of the ark having anything close to a cooling mechanism. 2) If the ark actually did have a mechanism to care for the penguins, why is there no mention of how they got back down to Antarctica? You would think that a journey as perilous and exciting as Noah spending years finding his way down to Antarctica would have been mentioned somewhere. 3) If the flood was of salt water like the ocean, why did it not kill all of the freshwater fish? Anyone who has had fish tanks know that you can't put most freshwater fish in saltwater tanks and expect them to survive, and vice versa. Did the ark also have an aquarium somewhere in it?

Will the anti-Christ display the sign of the beast?

Most of the links to my real name probably are of me. However, some @$$hole lawyer got his name at the top of Google above mine, probably by paying Google or something. I need to find a way to get back to the top spot, but at least that guy doesn't have the firstnamelastname.com domain of my real name, and I do. There used to be a guy that would hang by his nipples from chains with hooks on them, and his face actually bore a resemblance to mine, but it was definitely not me. Another bad thing is that Google has a built in spell-check thing, and since both my first and last name can be spelled multiple ways, it returns all sorts of invalid results for alternate spellings, thus diminishing my Google superiority.