Since I was a child, I learned of Native American legend that they are led by spirit guides, eagles, and bears, and great cats,, and such. I decided then and there that the frog was my spirit guide. because my voice is deep ands resonant, I choose the American Bullfrog. It was entirely coincidental, given my American heritage, that I am of French ancestry, and that the Yanks in WWII called the French soldiers "frogs."
yeah, that's because I am on his right side. even on his right hand. He's particular to frogs, you know. He gave them the widest vocal expression of any creature on Earth. Fact.
I'll buy that. Free will must be acted upon, otherwise, it's just a parade.
ay, there's the rub.
Nah, very different argument styles.
Just wait. He'll enter the stage in a few scenes. See how he argues, then. Zut aloes, he may even claim. he's French
very young at heart, am I.
and, in color:
yeah, holding me in his hand. He wears a hat when he's working, a Humphry Bogart style fedora.
Well, one thing's for sure, Now that I've published this nonsense, the bloody title in the post set-up is too #@%#$#$@#% small to read for 76-year-old eyes!! Come on!
You can do spells without invoking a deity at all.
Yes. But you prompt me to peruse my Egyptuan Book of the Dead, a.k.a. Spells for the Coming Forth by Day [the original title Ani, the scribe, who collected the spells together in the first place ion antiquity].
Hazel is a tree? I thought she was a bottled witch.
Would anyone believe it if I said I am playing grayparrot's part in this theater?
Your source's Summary: "Even sharks’ famous tooth-regrowing ability may not save them from ocean acidification. Researchers found that future acidic waters cause shark teeth to corrode, crack, and weaken, threatening their effectiveness as hunting weapons and highlighting hidden dangers for ocean ecosystems."
I see issues:
Is naming quarks something like an Adam complex?
Why should I reply to a post you say is offensive? Nope. Stop the petulance.
And? did I say we're perfect? Nope, never did. We make plenty of mistakes. Let's try to limit them.
The scope of the federal government has clearly expanded, exponentially
And you accept that? TYou want still more government, rather than people controlling themselves. Again, Marxist, thorough and thorough. Sorry, no.
Me: Solvong problems is mostly the people's business anyway
You: Yes, and government is the means by which we do so.
Nope. As I said, gov't's expertise is very limited in scope. That's basically whys we have a Constituti0on in the first place: to advise the govc't to keep hands to themselves.
When a product is is being misused and that misuse is causing harm, we ban or regulate the usage of that product.
When product that is not intended to be a potentially lethal weapon in the first place, sure. Where products that ended up being a choking habit for very young children who would put then in their mouths, sure, you're right, but that is not a universal application. And we have discovered drugs that cause injury and death and they were taken off the market, yes. But again, there intent was not to harm of kill. A gun is, yet tree great majorotry of people who use them know to handle and use them with caution, and yet you're going to take their 2A right away for a the mismanagement of a few? Shall we delete the 4A, or 5A so that they are banned for all to use? Hell, take the 1A, too. RThat's where you're going, my friend.
Limiting possession of gun
Show me how. Show me credible evidence by by a credible source.
The point of the spoon is that when you ban guns, might as well ban spoons, as well, because sooner or later, your penchent to ban will need to go there. I'm saying it's the wrong approach. The approach is that legislating human behavior and thinking you have solved the problem by a ban with even 30% success, is as short-sighted as you think I am. That's democracy for you. If is was easy, everyone would do it. It's the toughest government style there is, but also the best.
But rather than make the philosophy shine, which it should, the interrupts make it sound like the diver is doing the Mariana Trench just off Guam, 11,000m. I know you're not an deeply experienced writer, I'm just passing on a friendly critique to help make the story better. If you are aware of the limitations, use them to your advantage; don't ignore them. Yes, that's a challenge, but why not meet it head-on?
Government's job is whatever we decide it is
And we decided that, and it has not changed, some 240 years ago.
you are entitled to that belief.
I am. Solvong problems is mostly the people's business anyway. Givernment [and I mean give to themselves] ought to butt out of everything but what they're permitted to do constitutionally, and leave the rest to us, because they know next to nothing, anyway, but power breaking, Enough of that.
I suspect you wouldn't hand that gun to your toddler
Siome tools are strictly for adults and belong in a safe. I know the difference; keep wondering.
Amd if you cannot say some words with straight face regardless what you think of them, it's poker time!
the whole world will need to learn
I want to see the day you achieve the collection of 8B people together who all think alike. That's Marxist nonsense, by the way, but whatever floats your boat.
No 'spirit' particles have been discovered by quantum tests, which would point to no afterlife existing.
That merely implies that the wrong tools are being used to detect the nature of some things, like looking through the porthole of an airline at 35,000 feet and seeing the curvature of Earth, and thinking the glass is warped because everyone knows the Earth is flat. Oh, and, yeah, the glass only warps at altitude because on the ground, everything looks flat that is flat, and round that is round.
When one sees something they have never seen before, most often the description is accomplished by comparisons to things they have seen, just like attempting to translate words from once language to another. That would be fairly easy to do if every language had the same lexicon; a word-for-word match. But, they do not. There are languages more efficient, and less space consuming by the characters used, than other languages, not to mention a grater lexicon [word list, such as a dictionary], than other languages. Net result: translation is is a best-as-can-be-done proposition with lots of interrupts. Example, In Greek, there area seven sewparatre words to say "love" in English. English must use3 add adjectives and adverbs [love is a noun and a verbs] to say what Greek says in a single word. In Ezekiel's case, he did the best he could with things seen he did not understand, and that was an experience shared by many biblically, and also in the Quran, the Torah, the Tripitaka, the Veda's, etc.
Good story, relative to philosophy, but I suspect this is also fiction, and fiction has a major quirk: suspension of disbelief; i.e., making the story plausible when dealing with facts that may make the story unbelievable. Fiction wants to be believed, or the reader may lose interest, because fiction is, well, not truth. The trick is being able to blur the line between fiction and reality such that the story remains believable.
So, I am a recreational scuba diver, but I have never been deeper than about 40 meters [130 ft].Such people represent about 2% of the world population, so, not that common of an activity. That plays in your favor, suspension-of-disbelief-wise. Most enthusiasts have a single, 80 cru. ft tank, [3,000 psi] which, at 10m [33 ft] will last about an hour. And the standard wetsuit will only endure the effects of pressure to a little beyond that 40m before other protection is needed, so, going "miles down" suspends disbelief. The average depth of the oceans to a floor is about 3,700m [12,000 ft]. Granted, these are factors that, given the small percentage of divers in the world, again, work in your favor, but, there are guys like me who will not be held with rapt attention to the story.
Then, there are necessary decompression stops on the way back up - necessary about every 20m [65 feet] to prevent the bends [O2 bubbles rising out of suspension in the blood, which is fatal without such stops]. For example, once at about 25m [82 ft] I decided to see if I could rise to the surface, making one decompression stop on the way [one should always have a depth gage] on a single breath, constantrly exhaling all the way up. Such is necessary, even with the stop, to prevent O2 bubbles resulting in the bends. I succeeded, though belng a dangerous matter. It was a thrill to realize it could be done.
The Reagan admin shutdown all fed-controlled mental institutions, expecting States to pick up the tab, as this issue is not appropriately a federal issue in the first place. States never picked it up. A lot of poor reading and comprehension of constitutional separation of powers which most people, I observe, only use that term with regard to the fed gov't. Nope, States have governments, too, and they have their set of obligations, and the feds have theirs. We're all confused on which are whose. Too much hooch, I think, is too blame.
On your time zone. Mine is on mine, and so on...
