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  1. “The “God of the gaps” approach is quite useful in that it at least poses a possibility rather than a humorless void, which is apparently your choice.
    Lighten up, read Steppenwolf, Hesse had it right. Harry Haller’s problem was that he couldn’t see the humor in it all.
    Trade in your peer reviewed journal for a Mad magazine once in a while.”

    Jeez- I love this stuff! I feel like an observer at a really exciting tennis match and my head keeps going from side to side- ditto- the ball’s in your court. 🙂 (science is sexy!)

  2. “Anyone want in?”

    Lech, I told you yesterday to sign me up, I’m BORED. But I think “Made in Occupied Iraq” will be more valuable. You ever see what stuff marked “Made in Occupied Japan” or “Made in Germany U.S. Zone” goes for?

  3. Ok…I had to hit play on the song so I could dance away to it again. Thank you for that! Whoo! Allrighty…I’m off to get some sausage (No, Dave, not *that* kind of sausage!). Later peeps!

  4. For those not venturing over to the HOTD, QOTD, DIBS:

    “It seems the two fags are confused today. One can’t get his stories straight and the other needs to walk the streets more often.”

  5. dittoburg,

    if you think that microvoltage is not needed in the cloning process, you obviously haven’t read the literature. enough said.

    as far as my “god of the gaps” approach, you are taking me far too literally as usual. I have a playful and sometimes poetic approach to many larger questions in life which is sometimes interpreted as literal by folks like yourself who simply want to discredit a curious mind. When I mentioned “God is in the details” in a previous discussion we had regarding subatomic theory. I was playing on several themes at once, first the well known quote that “God is in the details”, refers to the fact that what we human’s have always ascribed to unknown forces and unknowable subtleties a godlike power, many times making these very concerns into gods like Apollo or Poseidon. As a modern allegory, the ideas being worked out in particle physics point towards a probabilistic universe in which anything is indeed possible, where our typical reality and it’s laws no longer exist. Hence my statement that “God can be found in those gaps”.
    The “God of the gaps” approach is quite useful in that it at least poses a possibility rather than a humorless void, which is apparently your choice.
    Lighten up, read Steppenwolf, Hesse had it right. Harry Haller’s problem was that he couldn’t see the humor in it all.
    Trade in your peer reviewed journal for a Mad magazine once in a while.

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