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The good news is, he's not an atheist anymore - after he died he came face-to-face with his Creator. Gee, I wonder how he feels now, knowing that his whole life was based on a fallacy.
Cepeda is one of the all-time great Puerto Rican baseball players. He was toward the end of his career by the time I started paying attention to baseball, but I remember being aware of him.
The article doesn't mention him, but Roberto Clemente was another great Puerto Rican baseball star. He and Orlando Cepeda started in the major leagues around the same time. Tragically Clemente was killed in a plane crash on an aid mission in 1972.
Anyone that knows anything about blues or rock should know about John Mayall. He is instrumental in what music is these days. He nurtured and mentored so many musiicians it is impossible to keep track. Without John Mayall we would not have many of the musicians we listen to today. John Mayall, Legendary Pioneer of British Blues, Dies at 90
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up, why would you have to lie?
Roberto Clemente is still widely revered in Puerto Rico. He is one of those people that I will always remember where I was when I heard he died. In the Puerto Rican culture New Years Eve is a huge celebration. Christmas was too holy a day to have parties so New Years Eve took that place. I was 10 years old in 1972. Every New Years Eve we would go to my grandparents apartment in NYC. During the evening news started to filter in that Clemente had died. The NYE celebration took on the air of a funeral march. I have memories of looking out my grandparents bedroom window onto Amsterdam Avenue as people walked by wailing and cryng. Some people shouting the latest news so the neighborhood would know.
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence. -Christopher Hitchens
Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts
"God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
If your viewpoint has merits and facts to back it up, why would you have to lie?
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that it has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --Percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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If you are going to argue that evolution is false because it resembles your own beliefs then perhaps you should rethink your argument. - - Taq
Re: James Earl Jones (January 17, 1931 – September 9, 2024)
My wife and I were just talking about this last night. My first boss became a good friend, attended my wedding, but over the years we lost touch. I periodically try to find him, with no success. His wife's sister, Celia Hart (stage name), was married to James Earl Jones. They'd have dinner with them occasionally, but I never met him myself.
Anyway, I kept thinking I should contact Celia, she would know where they are, but then she died. So then I kept thinking I should contact James Earl Jones, but now he's gone, too.
James Earl Jones, a great actor who if I'd been pushy enough I probably could have met.
Kris Kristofferson, a singer-songwriter whose trove of country-pop hits such as “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Help Me Make It Through the Night” pushed him to the forefront of American popular composers and whose gritty-voiced, easygoing sex appeal propelled him to starring roles in Hollywood, died Sept. 28 at his home in Maui. He was 88.
I'll never forget him comforting Sinead O'Connor at the Bob Bash.
"I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside." Death to #TzarVladimirtheCondemned! Enjoy every sandwich!
I didn't see him in any movies except a little-remembered TV mini-series called Amerika that aired in 1987. He was pretty good, if I recall. Me and Bobby McGee sung by Janis Joplin is one of my favorite songs.
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