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Straggler
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Message 34 of 86 (636636)
10-08-2011 4:56 PM
Reply to: Message 33 by GDR
10-08-2011 4:39 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
From my socks a plethora of lifeforms evolved
The onetime mystery of origins now solved
But my skin is like the bark of a tree
Because it is botox injection free
In both cases I wish I understood the chemistry involved.
Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.
Edited by Straggler, : No reason given.

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Straggler
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Message 36 of 86 (636644)
10-08-2011 6:00 PM
Reply to: Message 35 by GDR
10-08-2011 5:51 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
I would like to bring to your attention
An experiment here worth a mention
The basis of RNA
Life maybe well on it's way
Perhaps the first step in our ascension?
But if we can agree about my socks
Agree to just ignore those old rocks
There will be no need
Our minds can be freed
From the science Vs religion paradox

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Straggler
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Message 38 of 86 (636646)
10-08-2011 6:34 PM
Reply to: Message 37 by GDR
10-08-2011 6:20 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
Regarding the questions of the origins of life
It seems EvC tensions will always be rife
But if the original brew
Is just my old shoe
Maybe sock theory can end this strife?
Amino acids
Are never placid
But what if my shoe is the midwife of life?

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Straggler
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Message 40 of 86 (636649)
10-08-2011 7:04 PM
Reply to: Message 39 by GDR
10-08-2011 6:54 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
Curses to you
For thinking it through
It's back to the box
For my socks
And I'll have to abandon my shoe
It's that darn prime mover
Always an argument loser
We are perplexed
It makes me vexed
Hence I end up in the boozer
On the rhyme of life this is my last word
We've said what we've said and both been heard
Life is here
We both hold it dear
And now I thankyou for the poems you've spurred
Now it's time for me to go to bed
To rest my brain and shutoff my head
Our discussions I treasure
As ever a pleasure
And I hope I've avoided offence in anything said

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Straggler
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Posts: 10333
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Message 43 of 86 (636670)
10-09-2011 10:48 AM
Reply to: Message 42 by Chuck77
10-09-2011 3:35 AM


Re: One Flew Over The Chuckles Nest
Well credit to you for admitting when you've been a dick.
And I look forward to continuing our little rhyme-off when you're ready.

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Straggler
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Message 48 of 86 (636707)
10-10-2011 8:13 AM
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10-09-2011 4:53 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
In limerick school I did my time
There they taught me the rules of limerick rhyme
I feel like a sap
So I'll just stick to rap
And never again will I commit such a terrible crime
(Well at least not until next time)

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Straggler
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Message 51 of 86 (636730)
10-10-2011 11:19 AM
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10-10-2011 11:10 AM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
But who caused the causer I ask?
An eternal creator nothing more than a mask
Are we on top of a turtle?
To infinity the pile hurtles
And in deep ignorance we continue to bask

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Straggler
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Message 53 of 86 (636739)
10-10-2011 12:30 PM
Reply to: Message 52 by GDR
10-10-2011 12:04 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
But what if this thing called causality
Is a property only of our universality
Something just is
So why not this?
No need to invoke any mystical personality

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Straggler
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Message 55 of 86 (636752)
10-10-2011 4:05 PM
Reply to: Message 54 by GDR
10-10-2011 1:36 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
When we talk of our universe and what came prior
We will inevitably end up in a speculative quagmire
Of any particular call
The probability vanishingly small
So anyone who says they "know" is a big fat liar

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Straggler
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Message 57 of 86 (636802)
10-11-2011 5:39 AM
Reply to: Message 56 by GDR
10-10-2011 4:30 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
There are so many darn possibilities
To choose just one defies probability
God rather than not
Is to take a pot shot
That frankly smacks of anthropomorphicity

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Straggler
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Message 59 of 86 (636837)
10-11-2011 1:06 PM
Reply to: Message 58 by GDR
10-11-2011 10:44 AM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
Why must it be one or t'other
Sheer probability suggests it will be quite another
God or not
Ignores such a lot
And provides no justification for your cosmographer
To admit infinite possibilities is respectable
As a basis for agnosticism perfectly acceptable
Heads or tails
On this question just fails
And denies opportunities for research that might be delectable
So I say be agnostic completely
Accept our ignorance humbly and meekly
With no evidence in hand
We can't be so grand
To assume an intelligence quite so routinely

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Straggler
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Posts: 10333
From: London England
Joined: 09-30-2006


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Message 61 of 86 (636859)
10-11-2011 3:17 PM
Reply to: Message 60 by GDR
10-11-2011 2:36 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
If your claim is evidence free
Then I will view it atheistically
Nothing for it
Then I'll adore it
As that which was created imaginatively
Always been agnostic re where things come from
Because I don't see it as a two headed problem
I am atheistic
Though not pessimistic
I consider the answer "god" no more valid than "goblins"
God is one option oh so unlikely
When we consider all of the things that might be
Chances are tiny
That "He" is behind it
Even if the true answer lies forever beyond our mastery
(I am now struggling to get my point across in even remotely limerickal format)

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Straggler
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Posts: 10333
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Message 63 of 86 (636921)
10-12-2011 8:05 AM
Reply to: Message 62 by GDR
10-11-2011 4:14 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
Too black and white and simplistic
That between god or NOT we must pick
It’s not fifty-fifty
Those odds are too shifty
So that’s why I remain atheistic
To restrict the options to two
Is not a very sensible thing to do
There are so many
And it could be any
The options you list just too few to be true
Still thinking far too anthropomorphically
Imbuing nature with consciousness just like me
A vacuous assumption
Too full of presumption
Better to view reality more realistically
Being agnostic regarding first cause
Is a position with very few flaws
But to call it divine
Is a meaningless line
When everything known flows from natural laws

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Straggler
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Posts: 10333
From: London England
Joined: 09-30-2006


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Message 64 of 86 (636995)
10-12-2011 6:41 PM
Reply to: Message 63 by Straggler
10-12-2011 8:05 AM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
Too fucking drunk to be meaningful
Far far to gone to be reasonable
GDR better than me
This much I can see
Yet I find that barely conceivable
Many hours in the pub
Led astray by that Beelzebub
Drunk too much
Look like Screaming Lord Sutch
And now I feel the need to eat some glorious grub
It's probably just dehydration
But my hunger needs alleviation
Kebab looks nice
But I'll pay the price
And tomorrow suffer alienation.
BUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!

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Straggler
Member (Idle past 315 days)
Posts: 10333
From: London England
Joined: 09-30-2006


Message 67 of 86 (637054)
10-13-2011 6:01 AM
Reply to: Message 65 by GDR
10-12-2011 11:51 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
Your beliefs are subjective indeed
Based on the most very human of needs
I don’t know
What makes reality flow
But from superstition our minds need be freed
Question of how things exist
Deserves our most evidenced hypothesis
Humble beginnings
Has firm underpinnings
But God that just is contradicts this analysis

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