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RAZD
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Message 46 of 86 (636692)
10-09-2011 7:23 PM
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10-09-2011 4:53 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
Hi GDR
There is a Limerick Shmimerick thread
Enjoy

we are limited in our ability to understand
by our ability to understand
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to share.


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Message 47 of 86 (636699)
10-09-2011 11:35 PM
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10-09-2011 7:23 PM


Limericks Forever
Thanks ZD
I had fun reading that. It got me thinking.
A whole thread in Limerick verse
To many would seem quite perverse
But a true limerick can
Like Keats or Whitman
Hide beauty which you can unearth

Cheers
Edited by GDR, : No reason given.

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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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RAZD
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Message 49 of 86 (636719)
10-10-2011 9:49 AM
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10-09-2011 11:35 PM


Re: Limericks Forever
Hi GDR,
A gem that was, I do say
too bad this effort won't pay
any wages
for sages
or poets who like to word play.
Enjoy

we are limited in our ability to understand
by our ability to understand
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to share.


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Message 50 of 86 (636727)
10-10-2011 11:10 AM
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10-10-2011 8:13 AM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
Well now that you learned there are laws
You probably found other flaws
Like limericks and sports
And in traffic court
Even nature required a first cause
Edited by GDR, : No reason given.

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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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Message 52 of 86 (636736)
10-10-2011 12:04 PM
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10-10-2011 11:19 AM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
But still there has to be cause
And this really should give you pause
Even if it is mindless
That is what is behind us
There’s still ignorance, turtles and flaws

Everybody is entitled to my opinion.

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Message 53 of 86 (636739)
10-10-2011 12:30 PM
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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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Message 54 of 86 (636742)
10-10-2011 1:36 PM
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10-10-2011 12:30 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
Entropy begins and it ends
To say otherwise is just to pretend
So we have emerged from the whole
And when the new world unfolds
We’ll have an answer and talk of it then

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Message 55 of 86 (636752)
10-10-2011 4:05 PM
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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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Message 56 of 86 (636755)
10-10-2011 4:30 PM
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Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
Believing is different than knowing
So round and round we keep going
You believe what you do
Just as I believe too
With both of our biases showing

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Message 57 of 86 (636802)
10-11-2011 5:39 AM
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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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Message 58 of 86 (636818)
10-11-2011 10:44 AM
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Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
But to start there’s just two possibilities
And intelligence has more plausibility
That a non-intelligent start
That evolved someone as smart
As yourself, just lacks credibility

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Message 59 of 86 (636837)
10-11-2011 1:06 PM
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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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Message 60 of 86 (636855)
10-11-2011 2:36 PM
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10-11-2011 1:06 PM


Re: Straggler's Strange Ideas
Now I do not reject any research
Good science I never besmirch
I’m eager to learn
What science discerns
There’s more to be learned than what’s in church
But just to say we can’t know is a cop-out
We can’t just give up the question and drop-out
We all believe something
Whether it’s God or nothing
About what’s right and wrong when we’re in doubt
You always claimed to be atheistic
A view which seemed pessimistic
My wisdom though scant
Has caused you to recant
Now as agnostic you’re less fatalistic
Edited by GDR, : No reason given.

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